Homer (name)
Homer is both a masculine given name and a surname. The ancient Greek poet Homer and cartoon character Homer Simpson are particularly prominent holders of the name.
Other notable Homers include:
Given name
- Homer Burton Adkins, American chemist
- Homer Martin Adkins, Governor of Arkansas
- Homer D. Angell, American politician
- Homer Banks, African-American songwriter, singer and record producer
- Homer G. Barber, American politician
- Homer Brightman, American screenwriter
- Homer M. Butler, American newspaper editor and politician
- Homer E. Capehart, American businessman and politician, longtime US senator from Indiana
- Homer M. Carr American politician
- Homer Stille Cummings, United States Attorney General
- Homer Davenport, American political cartoonist, writer and horse breeder
- Homer Davis, Jamaican politician
- Homer B. Dibell, Minnesota Supreme Court justice
- Homer E. A. Dick, American politician
- Homer Emens, American scenic designer
- Homer L. Ferguson, American author and businessman
- Homer S. Ferguson, US Senator from Michigan
- Homer Gilbert, aka Knuckles Boyle, American football player
- Homer A. Glore, American medical doctor and politician
- Homer Griffith, American football player
- Homer Hickam, American author and NASA engineer whose autobiography was the basis of the 1999 film October Sky
- Homer A. Holt, American lawyer and politician, Governor of West Virginia
- Homer Hulbert, American missionary, journalist and political activist
- Homer A. Jack, American clergyman, pacifist and social activist
- Homer Jacobson, American retired chemistry professor
- Homer Jones (American football), American former football player
- Homer Jones (economist), American economist
- Homer Jones (politician), American politician
- Homer Eaton Keyes, American author and professor
- Homer Ledford, instrument maker and bluegrass musician
- Homer L. Lyon, American politician
- Homer Martin (labor leader), American trade unionist and socialist
- Homer C. Martin, American college football head coach
- Homer Dodge Martin, American artist
- Homer Mensch, classical bassist
- Homer V. M. Miller, US senator from Georgia
- Homer Neal, American particle physicist and professor
- Homer Nelson (Wisconsin politician), American politician
- Homer Augustus Nelson, American politician and Civil War colonel
- Homer Plessy, African-American anti-segregationist activist, plaintiff in the United States Supreme Court case Plessy v. Ferguson
- Homer Rice, American football player and coach
- Homer Elihu Royce, American lawyer, politician and jurist
- Homer Se, former Philippine Basketball Association player
- Homer L. Shantz, American botanist and President of the University of Arizona
- Homer Smith, American physiologist and advocate for science
- Homer Smith (American football), American college football player and head coach
- Homer Sprague, American military officer, author and educator
- Homer Sykes, Canadian-born British photographer
- Homer Tate, American artist
- Homer L. Thomas, American art historian and archaeologist
- Homer Thompson, Canadian archaeologist
- Homer Thompson (baseball), American Major League Baseball catcher for one game
- Homer Watson, Canadian landscape painter
- Homer B. Woods, justice of the Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia
Surname
Fictional characters
- Homer Simpson, in the animated TV series The Simpsons.
- Homer Simpson, in the 1939 novel The Day of the Locust and its 1975 film adaptation.
- Homer Price, in Homer Price and Centerburg Tales, children's books by Robert McCloskey.
- Homer, a stage name/character in the American country music comedy duo Homer and Jethro.
- Homer Wells, protagonist of John Irving's novel The Cider House Rules.
- Homer, sidekick of Snidely Whiplash.
- Homer, in the comic strip Non Sequitur.
- Homer Adlawan, a character from the Filipino action drama series FPJ's Ang Probinsyano.
- Homer Parrish, a character in the film The Best Years of Our Lives.
- Homer Pigeon, a cartoon character.
- Homer Roberts, in Netflix's The OA.
- Homer Yannos, a character from John Marsden's novel Tomorrow, When the War Began.
- Homer D. Poe, the mascot of The Home Depot.
- Homer Zuckerman, a character in E. B. White's children's novel Charlotte's Web.