Mayer (name)
Mayer is a common German surname and less frequent as a given name. Notable people with the name include:
Surname
Mayer
- Adolf Mayer, a German-Dutch virologist
- Albrecht Mayer, German classical oboist
- Alfred G. Mayer, German-American cnidariologist and entomologist
- Alfred M. Mayer, American physicist
- Andreas Mayer (politician), German politician
- Arno J. Mayer, Luxembourgish historian
- Arthur Mayer, film producer and distributor who worked with Joseph Burstyn
- Auguste Étienne François Mayer, French naval painter
- Ben Mayer, amateur astronomer
- Bernadette Mayer, American poet and author
- Bianca Mayer, German musician and singer
- Brantz Mayer, American writer
- Carl Mayer, Austrian-German screenwriter
- Charles Mayer (disambiguation)
- Christa Mayer, German mezzo-soprano
- Christa C. Mayer Thurman, German-born American curator, art historian
- Christian Mayer (astronomer), Czech astronomer
- Christian Mayer (skier), Austrian skier
- Christian Mayer (Wisconsin politician), American politician
- Christian Gustav Adolph Mayer, German mathematician
- Christopher Mayer (American actor), American actor
- Constant Mayer, French-born American painter
- Daisy von Scherler Mayer, American film director
- Daniel Mayer, French politician
- Daniel Mayer (impresario), German-born English agent and mayor
- David R. Mayer, American politician
- Delia Mayer, Swiss actress and singer
- Eckehard Mayer, German classical composer and author
- Edelmiro Mayer, Argentine soldier and statesman
- Edwin Justus Mayer, American screenwriter
- Elizabeth Mayer, German-American translator and writer
- Else Mayer, German nun and women's liberation activist
- Emilie Mayer German composer of Romantic music
- Erskine Mayer, American major league baseball player
- Florian Mayer, German tennis player
- Francis Blackwell Mayer, United States painter
- Frank Mayer, American football player
- Fred Mayer (photographer), Swiss photographer
- Fred Shaw Mayer, Australian zoological collector and aviculturist
- Frederick Mayer, German educational scientist
- Frederick Mayer (spy), American spy during World War II
- Gene Mayer, American former tennis player
- Gerhard Mayer, Austrian discus thrower
- Gustav Mayer, German journalist and historian
- Hans Ferdinand Mayer, German mathematician and physicist, and author of the Oslo Report
- Hans-Karl Mayer, German Luftwaffe military aviator
- Hans-Peter Mayer, German politician
- Helen Mayer, Australian politician
- Helene Mayer, German and American Olympic champion foil fencer
- Henry "Hy" Mayer, German-American animator
- Hugo Mayer (politician, born 1899), German politician
- Irene Mayer Selznick, American theatrical producer, daughter of Louis B. Mayer
- Jacob Erskine Mayer, American baseball player
- Jacquelyn Mayer, American beauty contest winner and motivational speaker
- Jane Mayer, American investigative journalist
- Jaromír Mayer, Czech singer
- Jean Mayer, French-American nutritionist, president of Tufts University
- Jean-François Mayer, Swiss historian of religions
- Jim Mayer (ice hockey), Canadian ice hockey player
- Jim Mayer (musician), American musician
- Joanna Isabel Mayer, American mathematician and educator
- Johann Friedrich Mayer (agriculturist), German agriculturist
- Johann Friedrich Mayer (theologian), German theologian
- Johann Tobias Mayer, German physicist
- John Mayer, American singer and songwriter
- John Mayer (composer), Indian composer
- John D. Mayer, American psychologist
- Jojo Mayer, Swiss drummer
- Jorge Mayer, Argentine priest, Archbishop of Bahía Blanca
- José Mayer, Brazilian actor
- Joseph Edward Mayer, American scientist, married to Maria Goeppert Mayer
- Karl Ulrich Mayer, German sociologist
- Karla Mayer, guard at three Nazi death camps
- Karoly Mayer, Hungarian footballer
- Klaus Mayer, German Roman-catholic priest and author
- Lauren Etame Mayer, Cameroonian footballer
- Leonardo Mayer, Argentine tennis player
- Leopold Mayer, German swimmer
- Levy Mayer, American lawyer
- Lippman Mayer, German-American rabbi
- Louis B. Mayer, MGM studio mogul
- Lucas Mayer (disambiguation), several people
- Marcel Mayer, a French sculptor, painter and engraver
- Maria Goeppert Mayer, née Göppert, German-American physicist
- Marissa Mayer, CEO of Yahoo!
- Martin Mayer, American nonfiction author
- Matías Mayer, Argentine footballer
- Matthias Mayer, Austrian retired alpine skier
- Mercer Mayer, American children's book author and illustrator
- Michael Mayer (disambiguation), multiple people
- Mónica Mayer, Mexican artist, activist and art critic
- Nathaniel Mayer, American rhythm-and-blues singer
- Norman Mayer, American anti-nuclear activist
- Oscar F. Mayer, founder of the Oscar Mayer Company
- Paul Augustin Mayer OSB, German cardinal
- Paul Avila Mayer, American television writer and producer
- Peter Mayer, American publisher
- Philip Frederick Mayer, United States Lutheran clergyman
- René Mayer, French politician
- Richard J. Mayer, American engineer
- Robert Mayer (disambiguation), several people
- Rupert Mayer, Jesuit priest and Nazi resistance figure
- Sandy Mayer, American former tennis player
- Sarah Mayer, British judoka
- Scott Mayer (bishop), American bishop
- Scott Mayer (racing driver), American race car driver
- Selma Mayer, "Schwester Selma", German-Jewish nurse
- Sergio Mayer Mexican actor and singer
- Sheldon Mayer, American cartoonist and editor
- Siegmund Mayer, German physiologist
- Sina Mayer, German sprinter
- Stepanka Mayer, Czech and German chess player
- Stephan Mayer, German politician
- Stephen F. Mayer, American politician
- Teddy Mayer, American racecar driver and brother of Timmy
- Theresa Mayer, American nanotechnologist and academic administrator
- Thomas Mayer (American economist), Neo-Keynesian economist
- Thomas Mayer (German economist), Deutsche Bank executive
- Tim Mayer, son of Teddy and racecar executive
- Timmy Mayer, American racecar driver
- Tobias Mayer, German astronomer
- Victor Mayer, German jeweler
- Victoria Mayer, Argentine volleyball player
- Walther Mayer, Austrian mathematician
- Wilhelm Mayer (composer), Bohemian-Austrian musician
- Wilhelm Mayer (fighter pilot), German Luftwaffe ace
- William Mayer (composer), American composer
- William Daniel Mayer, American politician
- Youngmi Mayer, American comedian
Modified surname
; de Mayer- Nicholas De Mayer, ninth mayor of New York City
- Julius Robert von Mayer, German physician and physicist who made significant contributions to early thermodynamics
Variation on surname
- Mike-Mayer
- Maria Goeppert-Mayer, German-American physicist, married to Joseph Edward Mayer
- Heidrun Mohr-Mayer, German jeweler
- Herbert Mohr-Mayer, German jeweler
Given or middle name
A first or second Hebrew name, an alternative spelling of Meir:- Hermann Mayer Salomon Goldschmidt
- Mayer Lambert, French orientalist
- Mayer Messing, German-American rabbi
- Mayer Amschel Rothschild family
- * Baron Mayer Amschel de Rothschild
- *Carl Mayer von Rothschild, founder of the Rothschild banking family of Naples
- *David Mayer de Rothschild
- *James Mayer Rothschild, founder of the Rothschild banking family of France
- *Mayer Alphonse James Rothschild
- *Mayer Amschel Rothschild
- *Nathan Mayer Rothschild, founder of the Rothschild banking family of England
- *Nathan Mayer Rothschild, 1st Baron Rothschild
- *Salomon Mayer von Rothschild, founder of the Rothschild banking family of Austria
- Isaac Mayer Wise
- Mayer Hawthorne, stage name of American rap singer