Dwyer (name)
Dwyer is an Irish surname which is a slightly anglicised variation of O'Dwyer. It is said that people with the surname Dwyer and who come from Ireland all come from the same clan.
Surname
Arts and entertainment
- Alice Dwyer, German actress
- Allys Dwyer, American actress and educator
- Audrey Dwyer, Canadian actor and playwright
- Benjamin Dwyer, Irish classical guitarist and composer
- Bil Dwyer, American cartoonist and humorist
- Bil Dwyer, American comedian and game-show host
- Doriot Anthony Dwyer, American flautist
- Finbarr Dwyer, Irish Irish accordion player and composer
- Hilary Dwyer, English actress
- Jim Dwyer (journalist), American journalist
- John Dwyer (musician), American musician
- John M. Dwyer, American set decorator
- Karyn Dwyer, Canadian actress
- Kieron Dwyer, American comic book artist and penciller
- Leslie Dwyer, English actor
- Marc Dwyer, Australian radio presenter and actor
- Michael Dwyer (journalist), Irish journalist and film critic
- Mary Alice Dwyer-Dobbin, American television producer
- PK Dwyer, American musician
- Penny Dwyer, British comedy writer and performer
- Phil Dwyer (musician), Canadian musician
- Terri Dwyer, English actress
- Virginia Dwyer, American actress
Military
- John Dwyer (soldier), Australian recipient of the Victoria Cross
- Edward Dwyer, English recipient of the Victoria Cross
- Joseph Patrick Dwyer, American soldier
- Michael Dwyer, Irish soldier and insurgent
- Ross T. Dwyer, American general
Politics
- Bernard J. Dwyer, American politician
- Don H. Dwyer Jr., American politician
- Florence P. Dwyer, American politician
- James Dwyer (politician), Irish politician
- James J. Dwyer, American politician
- Jeremy Dwyer, Mayor of Hastings, New Zealand
- Kate Dwyer, Australian educator, suffragist, and labour activist
- John Dwyer (Australian judge), Australian politician
- Michael Dwyer (Canadian politician), Canadian politician
- Philip Dwyer, Irish far-right anti-immigration activist
- R. Budd Dwyer, American politician
- Séamus Dwyer, Irish politician
- Ubi Dwyer, Irish anarchist
- Walter Dwyer, Australian politician and judge
- William Dwyer (Irish politician), Irish politician
Science and academia
- Angela Dwyer, Australian social scientist and academic
- Dominic Dwyer, Australian microbiologist and clinical professor of medicine
- Francis Patrick Dwyer, Australian chemist
- John Dwyer (medicine), Australian professor of medicine and public health advocate
- Joseph Dwyer (physicist), American physicist
- Peter Dwyer, Australian anthropologist
- Rocky Dwyer, Canadian business scholar
- William Gerard Dwyer, American mathematician
Sport
- Alan Dwyer, English association footballer
- Anthony Dwyer, Australian rules footballer
- Bernard Dwyer, English rugby league footballer
- Bob Dwyer, Australian rugby union coach
- Bridget Dwyer, American golfer
- Chappie Dwyer, Australian cricketer
- Chris Dwyer, American baseball player
- Dom Dwyer, English-born American association football player
- E. B. Dwyer, Australian cricketer
- Frank P. Dwyer American sportscaster
- Frank Dwyer, American baseball player
- Gordie Dwyer, Canadian ice hockey player
- Jack Dwyer, American football player
- Jamie Dwyer, Australian field hockey player
- Jim Dwyer (baseball), American baseball player
- John Dwyer (baseball), American baseball player
- John Dwyer (field hockey), Australian field hockey player
- Jonathan Dwyer, American football player
- Larry Dwyer, Australian rugby union player
- Laurie Dwyer, Australian rules footballer
- Mark Dwyer, Australian rules footballer
- Martin Dwyer, English jockey
- Matthew Dwyer, Irish cricketer
- Michael F. Dwyer, American racehorse owner
- Mick Dwyer, Australian rules footballer
- Mike Dwyer (ice hockey), Canadian ice hockey player
- Nate Dwyer, American football player
- Noel Dwyer, Irish footballer
- Pat Dwyer (hurler), Irish hurler
- Patrick Dwyer (sprinter), Australian sprinter
- Patrick Dwyer (ice hockey), American ice hockey player
- Phil Dwyer, Welsh footballer
- Philip J. Dwyer, American racehorse owner
- Simon Dwyer, Australian rugby league footballer
- Tommy Dwyer (hurler), Irish hurler
- Wayne Dwyer, New Zealand rugby league player
Other fields
- Bill Dwyer (mobster), American gangster and bootlegger
- Dermod Dwyer, Irish chief executive
- George Dwyer, English Roman Catholic archbishop
- Sir Joe Dwyer, British civil engineer and businessman
- Kevin Dwyer (disambiguation), multiple people
- Michael Martin Dwyer, Irish security guard
- Michael Middleton Dwyer, American architect
- Robert Joseph Dwyer, American Roman Catholic archbishop
- William Lee Dwyer, American judge
Hyphenated
- Mary Alice Dwyer-Dobbin, American television producer
- Edmund Dwyer-Gray, Australian politician