Beyer

See also Bayer and buyer.

Beyer is mostly a German family name. Most inventions and institutions listed here with the name Beyer were named after an inventor or founder or supporter with the name Beyer.

People named Beyer

• Absalon Pederssøn Beyer, Norwegian clergyman
• Adam Beyer, Swedish techno producer and DJ
• Albert Beyer was a United States Navy coxswain.
• Alexander Beyer, German actor
• Andrew Beyer, American expert on horse race betting who designed the Beyer Speed Figure
• Barbara Petzold-Beyer, former East German cross-country skier
• Bero Beyer, Dutch film producer
• Beyers Naudé, an Afrikaner-South African cleric, theologian and anti-apartheid activist
• Brad Beyer is an American actor
• Brett Beyer, international sailing coach
• Charles Beyer, British locomotive engineer
• Clara Beyers, actress
• Colin Beyer, lawyer and businessman
• Dick Beyer, retired professional wrestler best known as The Destroyer or Doctor X
• Don Beyer, US Ambassador to Switzerland
• Eugen Beyer, 19th-century German army officer
• Ferdinand Beyer, German composer
• Frank Beyer, German film director
• Franz Beyer, German musicologist
• Georgina Beyer, the world's first openly transsexual Member of Parliament
• H. Otley Beyer, American anthropologist
• Jan Beyer Schmidt-Sørensen, Danish economist and Director of Business Development at Aarhus Municipality
• John Beyer, director of mediawatch-uk
• Kathleen Beyer (1892–1968), British botanist
• Lieutenant-General Leonard Beyers (1894–1959) was a South African military commander.
• Lisa Beyer is a United States journalist
• Mark Beyer (comics), a comic artist
• Markus Beyer, German boxer
• Olaf Beyer, Olympic champion
• Ralph Beyer, German letter-cutter and sculptor
• Richard Beyer, American sculptor
• Robert D. Beyer, American investor and executive
• Robert T. Beyer, American physicist
• Tanya Beyer, American model and actress
• Troy Beyer, American film director and screenwriter and actress
• Udo Beyer, former German track and field athlete who represented East Germany in the shot put
• Uwe Beyer, Olympic contestant
• William F Beyer, World Traveler and (N2WB per QRZ.COM) American Ham Radio Dxpeditioner and World Class DX'er.
• David Beyer, Real Estate investor and Mgmt. In Fortune 10 company.

Companies and institutions named with Beyer

• beyerdynamic GmbH & Co. KG, German audio equipment manufacturer.
• The Beyer method for quinolines is an organic chemical reaction.
• Beyer-Garratt is a type of steam locomotive that is articulated in three parts.
• Beyer-Peacock was an engineering firm.
• The Beyer Speed Figure is a system for rating the performance of Thoroughbred racehorses.
• The Beyer Stadium was in Illinois and was demolished in the early 1990s
• The Fred C. Beyer High School is in the Modesto City Schools District of Modesto, California.

Other

• The Beyer Chair of Applied Mathematics, an endowed professorial position at the University of Manchester