Homer (name)

Homer is both a masculine given name and a surname. The ancient Greek poet Homer is perhaps the best known person of this name.

Other notable people with the name include:

Given name

• Homer M. Butler (1904-1982), American newspaper editor and politician
• Homer Stille Cummings (1870–1956), United States Attorney General
• Homer Davenport (1867–1912), American political cartoonist
• Homer E. A. Dick (1884–1942), New York state senator
• Homer Gilbert aka Knuckles Boyle (1909–1943), American football player
• Homer Hickam (born 1943), aerospace engineer whose youth was depicted in the 1999 film October Sky
• Homer Jacobson, scientist
• Homer Ledford (1927–2006), instrument maker and bluegrass musician
• Homer Mensch (1914–2005), classical bassist
• Homer Plessy (1862–1925), African-American activist
• Homer Rice (born 1927), American football player and coach
• Homer Se (born 1977), PBA player of the Air21 Express
• Homer Sykes (born 1949), Canadian-born British photographer
• Homer Thompson (baseball) (1891–1957), American baseball catcher
• Homer Thompson (1906–2000), Canadian classical archaeologist
• Homer Watson (1855–1936), Canadian landscape painter from Waterloo, Ontario

Surname

• Mark Homer, British actor
• Mark S. Homer (born 1962), American politician
• Sidney Homer (1864–1953), American composer of "A Plantation Ditty"
• Winslow Homer (1836–1910), American painter

Fictional characters

• Homer Simpson, in the television 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 Wells, protagonist of John Irving's novel The Cider House Rules
• Homer, sidekick of Snidely Whiplash
• Homer, in the comic strip Non Sequitur
• Homer Pigeon, a cartoon character