Beer (surname)

Beer is a surname. Notable people with this surname include the following:

• Alan Beer (born 1950), Welsh footballer
• Alexander Beer (1873–1944), German architect
• Alice Beer (born 1965), English television presenter
• Angelika Beer (born 1957), German politician (Alliance '90/The Greens)
• Anthony Stafford Beer (1926–2002), English theorist in operational research, founder of management cybernetics
• Arthur Beer (1900–1980), German astronomer
• August Beer (1825–1863), German mathematician, chemist and physicist
• Carol Beer, a fictional character from British comedy show Little Britain, portrayed by David Walliams
• Charles Beer (born 1941), Canadian politician
• Ferdinand P. Beer (1915–2003), French mechanical engineer and university professor
• Sir Gavin Rylands de Beer (1899–1972), English evolutionary embryologist
• Georg Joseph Beer (1763–1821), Austrian physician, founder of the research center of ophthalmology
• George Louis Beer (1872–1920), American historian
• Giacomo Meyerbeer (born Yaakov Liebmann Beer) (1791–1864), German composer, brother of Wilhelm Beer and writer Michael Beer
• Gillian Beer (born 1935), English literary critic
• Jannie de Beer (born 1971), South Africa rugby player
• Jens Henrik Beer (1799–1881), Norwegian businessperson, farmer and politician
• Joseph Beer (1908–1987), operetta composer
• Joseph Beer (clarinetist) (1744–1811)
• Klaus Beer (born 1942), German track & field athlete
• Max Josef Beer (1851–1908), Austrian composer
• Michael Beer (cricketer) (born 1984), Australian cricketer
• Michael Beer (poet) (1800–1833), German poet
• Oliver Beer (born 1979), German footballer
• Randall Beer, American computer scientist
• Richard Beer-Hofmann (1866–1945), Austrian writer
• Seth Beer, baseball player
• Wilhelm Beer (1797–1850), German banker and astronomer
• Will Beer (born 1988), English cricketer

See also

• Beers (surname)