Dummer (surname)

Dummer is a surname of Old English origin. It means those from Dummer, Hampshire.

Notables with this name include

 * Edmund Dummer, several people
 * Elias Dummer (born 1983), Canadian musician
 * Ethel Sturges Dummer (1866–1954), American writer
 * Geoffrey Dummer (1909–2002), British electronics author and consultant
 * George Dummer (1782-1853), American businessman
 * Jeremiah Dummer (silversmith) (1643–1718), American silversmith
 * Jeremiah Dummer (1681–1739), important colonial figure in New England who helped establish Yale College
 * Phineas C. Dummer (1787–1875), sixth mayor of Jersey City, New Jersey, United States
 * Richard Dummer (1589–1679), early settler in New England
 * Richard Arnold Dümmer (1887–1922), South African botanist
 * Shubael Dummer (1636–1692), early settler in New England murdered in Candlemas Massacre at York, Maine in 1692
 * Thomas Lee Dummer (1712–1765), English Member of Parliament for Southampton (1737–1741) and Newport (Isle of Wight) (1747–1765)
 * Thomas Dummer (1739–1781), English Member of Parliament for Newport (Isle of Wight) (1765–1768), Yarmouth (1769–1774), Downton (1774), Wendover (1775–1780) and Lymington (1780–1781); son of Thomas Lee Dummer
 * William Dummer, several people