Packer (surname)
Packer is a surname. Notable people with this surname include:
Business
- Asa Packer, American businessman and founder of Lehigh University
- Frank Packer, Australian media proprietor
- James Packer, Australian businessman and investor
- Kerry Packer, Australian media magnate
- R. C. Packer, Australian businessman
Entertainment
Acting
- David Packer (actor), American actor
- Doris Packer, American actress
- John Hayman Packer, English actor
- Suzanne Packer, Welsh actress
- Tina Packer, British stage director and actress
Music
- Charles Sandys Packer, Australian composer
- Erica Packer, Australian singer and model
- Frederick Augustus Packer, Australian composer
- Ruth Packer, English opera singer
Other
- Fred L. Packer, American illustrator and cartoonist
- Wes Packer, Welsh comedian
- Will Packer, American film producer
Military
- Albert G. Packer, American brigadier general, state senator, and Adjutant-General of Mississippi
- Herbert Annesley Packer, British naval officer
- William Packer (Major-General), English soldier, preacher and politician
Politics
- Clyde Packer, Australian businessman and politician
- Horace B. Packer, American politician from Pennsylvania
- John B. Packer, American politician from Pennsylvania
- Kelley Packer, American politician from Idaho
- Richard Packer (politician), New Zealand politician
- Robert Packer (politician, died 1682), English politician
- Robert Packer (died 1731), British politician
- Winchcomb Packer, British politician
- William F. Packer, American politician from Pennsylvania
Religion
- Boyd K. Packer, American religious leader and educator
- J. I. Packer, British-born Canadian theologian
- John Packer, British Anglican bishop
Sports
Association football (soccer)
- Andrew Packer, Australian footballer
- Dick Packer, American soccer player
- Douglas Packer, Brazilian footballer
- Gabi Packer, Israeli footballer
- Mick Packer, English footballer
Cricket
- Charles Packer, Barbadian cricketer
- Edward Packer, Barbadian cricketer
- James Packer (cricketer), Barbadian cricketer
Rugby
- Harry Packer, Wales international rugby union player
- Lucy Packer, Anglo-Welsh rugby union player
- Marlie Packer, British rugby union player
- Russell Packer, New Zealand rugby league player
Other
- Ann Packer, English sprinter, hurdler and long jumper
- Anya Packer, American ice hockey player
- Billy Packer, American college basketball commentator
- Brian Packer, British boxer
- Chris Packer, Australian sport sailor
- Donald Packer, Canadian water polo player
- Madison Packer, American ice hockey player
- Walter Packer, American gridiron football player
Writing
- Ann Packer (author), American novelist
- George Packer, American journalist and novelist
- Joy Packer, South African author
- Juliet Law Packer, American television writer
- Mez Packer, English novelist
- Mike Packer, English dramatist, actor and poet
- Nancy Huddleston Packer, American writer of short fiction and memoir
- Vin Packer, pseudonym of the American author Marijane Meaker
- ZZ Packer, American author
Other
- Alferd Packer, American prospector and confessed cannibal
- Craig Packer, American biologist
- David Packer (artist), American and English artist
- Earl L. Packer, American diplomat
- Graynella Packer, American author and attorney, and early radiotelegraph operator
- Greg Packer, American highway maintenance worker known for being quoted as a "man on the street" in periodicals and television broadcasts
- Gretel Packer, Australian billionaire investor and philanthropist
- Herbert L. Packer, American legal scholar and criminologist
- Jane Packer, British florist
- Jennifer Packer, American painter and educator
- Kenneth John Packer, British nuclear magnetic resonance scientist
- Milton Packer, American cardiologist
- Nicki Packer, Australian college professor and researcher
- Phil Packer, British charity activist
- Philip Packer, English barrister and architect
- Richard Packer (civil servant), British civil servant
- Roslyn Packer, Australian philanthropist
- Sue Packer, Australian paediatrician and advocate for the rights of children
- Toni Packer, German-American Buddhist educator
- Trevor Packer, American academic