Baer

Baer (or Bär, from bear) or Van Baer is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

Baer

 * Alan Baer, American tuba player
 * Arthur "Bugs" Baer (1886–1969), American journalist and humorist
 * Buddy Baer (1915–1986), American boxer
 * Byron Baer (1929–2007), American politician
 * Carl Baer (1918–1996), American basketball player
 * Clara Gregory Baer (1863–1938), American inventor of netball, Newcomb ball and author of first rules of women's basketball
 * Dale Baer (1950–2021), American character animator
 * Donald M. Baer (1931–2002), American developmental psychologist
 * Eric Baer (born 1932), American polymer researcher
 * George A. Baer (1903–1994), German/Swiss/American bookbinder
 * George Baer Jr. (1763–1834), American politician
 * George Frederick Baer (1842–1914), American lawyer and executive
 * Harold Baer Jr. (1933–2014), American judge
 * Jack Baer (1914–2002), American college baseball coach
 * Jack Baer (art dealer) (1924–2016), British art dealer
 * Jo Baer (born 1929), American painter associated with minimalist art
 * John Baer (actor) (1923–2006), American actor, Terry and the Pirates
 * John Baer (journalist), American journalist, Philadelphia Daily News
 * John Metz Baer, American educational psychologist
 * John Miller Baer (1886–1970), American congressman from North Dakota
 * John Willis Baer (1861–1931), American Presbyterian leader and college president
 * Julius Baer (1857–1922), Swiss banker
 * Karl Ernst von Baer (1792–1876), Estonian biologist
 * Karl M. Baer (1885–1956), German-Israeli author and activist, first recorded person to undergo transgender sex reassignment surgery
 * Kent Baer (born 1951), American football coach
 * Larry Baer (born 1957), President and chief executive officer of the San Francisco Giants
 * Les Baer, founder of Les Baer Custom, Inc
 * Libbie C. Riley Baer (1849–1929), American poet
 * Max Baer (boxer) (1909–1959), American boxer
 * Max Baer Jr. (born 1937), American actor and director
 * Meridith Baer (born 1947), businesswoman, actress, and screenwriter
 * Nicolai Reymers Baer (c. 1550–c. 1600), aka Ursus, German mathematician
 * Susanne Baer (born 1964), German judge and legal scholar
 * Parley Baer (1914–2002), American actor
 * Paul Frank Baer (1894–1930), American fighter pilot
 * Ralph H. Baer (1922–2014), American inventor
 * Reinhold Baer (1902–1979), German mathematician
 * Richard Baer (1911–1963), German Nazi SS concentration camp commandant
 * Richard Baer (screenwriter) (1928–2008), American screenwriter
 * Robert Baer (born 1952), American CIA officer and writer
 * Steve Baer (born 1938), American inventor
 * Thomas M. Baer, American physicist
 * Will Christopher Baer (born 1966), American writer
 * William Jacob Baer (1860–1941), American painter
 * Vladimir Baer (1853–1905), Russian captain
 * Yitzhak Baer (1888–1980), German-born Israeli historian

Van Baer

 * Van Baer (family), Middle Age noble family from the Dutch province of Gelderland
 * Frederik Johan van Baer (1645–1713), Dutch officer in the military service of William III of Orange
 * Stanny van Baer (born 1942), Dutch model and beauty queen, Miss International 1961