Mayer (name)

Mayer is a common German surname and less frequent as a given name. Notable people with the name include:

Mayer

 * Adolf Mayer (1843–1942), a German-Dutch virologist
 * Albrecht Mayer (born 1965), German classical oboist
 * Alfred G. Mayer (1868–1922), German-American cnidariologist and entomologist
 * Alfred M. Mayer (1836–1897), American physicist
 * Arno J. Mayer (1926–2023), Luxembourgish historian
 * Arthur Mayer (1886–1981), film producer and distributor who worked with Joseph Burstyn
 * Auguste Étienne François Mayer (1805–1890), French naval painter
 * Ben Mayer (1925–2000), amateur astronomer
 * Bernadette Mayer (1945–2022), American poet and author
 * Brantz Mayer (1809–1879), American writer
 * Carl Mayer (1894–1944), Austrian-German screenwriter
 * Charles Mayer (disambiguation)
 * Christa Mayer, German mezzo-soprano
 * Christa C. Mayer Thurman (born 1934), German-born American curator, art historian
 * Christian Mayer (astronomer) (1719–1783), Czech astronomer
 * Christian Mayer (skier) (born 1972), Austrian skier
 * Christian Mayer (Wisconsin politician) (1827–1910), American politician
 * Christian Gustav Adolph Mayer (1839–1907), German mathematician
 * Christopher Mayer (American actor) (1954–2011), American actor
 * Constant Mayer (1829–1911), French-born American painter
 * Daisy von Scherler Mayer (born 1965), American film director
 * Daniel Mayer (1909–1996), French politician
 * Daniel Mayer (impresario) (1856–1928), German-born English agent and mayor
 * David R. Mayer (born 1967), American politician
 * Delia Mayer (born 1967), Swiss actress and singer
 * Eckehard Mayer (born 1946), German classical composer and author
 * Edelmiro Mayer (1834–1897), Argentine soldier and statesman
 * Edwin Justus Mayer (1896–1960), American screenwriter
 * Elizabeth Mayer (1884–1970), German-American translator and writer
 * Else Mayer (1891–1962), German nun and women's liberation activist
 * Emilie Mayer (1812–1883) German composer of Romantic music
 * Erskine Mayer (1887–1957), American major league baseball player
 * Florian Mayer (born 1983), German tennis player
 * Francis Blackwell Mayer (1827–1899), United States painter
 * Frank Mayer (1902–1960), American football player
 * Fred Mayer (photographer) (1933–2021), Swiss photographer
 * Fred Shaw Mayer (1899–1989), Australian zoological collector and aviculturist
 * Frederick Mayer (1921–2006), German educational scientist
 * Frederick Mayer (spy) (1921–2016), American spy during World War II
 * Gene Mayer (born 1956), American former tennis player
 * Gerhard Mayer (born 1980), Austrian discus thrower
 * Gustav Mayer (1871–1948), German journalist and historian
 * Hans Ferdinand Mayer (1895–1980), German mathematician and physicist, and author of the Oslo Report
 * Hans-Peter Mayer (born 1944), German politician
 * Helen Mayer (1932–2008), Australian politician
 * Helene Mayer (1910–53), German and American Olympic champion foil fencer
 * Henry "Hy" Mayer (1868–1954), German-American animator
 * Irene Mayer Selznick (1907–1990), born Irene Gladys Mayer, American theatrical producer and daughter of MGM studio founder Louis B. Mayer
 * Jacob Erskine Mayer (1889–1957), American baseball player
 * Jacquelyn Mayer (born 1942), American beauty contest winner and motivational speaker
 * Jane Mayer (born 1955), American investigative journalist
 * Jaromír Mayer, Czech singer Jaromír Mayer
 * Jean Mayer (1920–1993), French-American nutritionist and tenth president of Tufts University
 * Jean-François Mayer (born 1957), Swiss historian of religions
 * Jim Mayer (ice hockey) (born 1954), Canadian ice hockey player
 * Jim Mayer (musician), American musician
 * Joanna Isabel Mayer (1904–1991), American mathematician and educator
 * Johann Friedrich Mayer (agriculturist) (1719–1798), German agriculturist
 * Johann Friedrich Mayer (theologian) (1650–1712), German theologian
 * Johann Tobias Mayer (1752–1830), German physicist
 * John Mayer (born 1977), American singer and songwriter
 * John Mayer (composer) (1930–2004), Indian composer
 * John D. Mayer, American psychologist
 * Jojo Mayer (born 1963), Swiss drummer
 * Jorge Mayer (1915–2010), Argentine priest, Archbishop of Bahía Blanca
 * José Mayer, Brazilian actor
 * Joseph Edward Mayer (1904–1983), American chemist and physicist, married to Maria Goeppert-Mayer
 * Karl Ulrich Mayer (born 1945), German sociologist
 * Karla Mayer (born 1918, disappeared 1944), guard at three Nazi death camps
 * Karoly Mayer (1908–2000), Hungarian footballer
 * Klaus Mayer (1923-2022), German Roman-catholic priest and author
 * Lauren Etame Mayer (born 1977), Cameroonian footballer
 * Leonardo Mayer (born 1987), Argentine tennis player
 * Leopold Mayer (died 1914), German swimmer
 * Levy Mayer (1858–1922), American lawyer
 * Louis B. Mayer (1884–1957), MGM studio mogul
 * Lucas Mayer (disambiguation), several people
 * Marcel Mayer, a French artist whose work includes sculpture, painting and engraving
 * Marissa Mayer (born 1975), CEO of Yahoo!
 * Martin Mayer (1928–2019), American nonfiction author
 * Matías Mayer (born 1996), Argentine footballer
 * Matthias Mayer (born 1990), Austrian retired alpine skier
 * Mercer Mayer (born 1943), American children's book author and illustrator
 * Michael Mayer (disambiguation), multiple people
 * Mónica Mayer (born 1954), Mexican artist, activist and art critic
 * Nathaniel Mayer (1944–2008), American rhythm-and-blues singer
 * Norman Mayer (1916–1982), American anti-nuclear activist
 * Oscar F. Mayer (1859–1955), founder of the Oscar Mayer Company
 * Paul Augustin Mayer OSB (1911–2010), German cardinal
 * Paul Avila Mayer (1928–2009), American television writer and producer
 * Peter Mayer (1936–2018), American publisher
 * Philip Frederick Mayer (1781–1858), United States Lutheran clergyman
 * René Mayer (1895–1972), French politician
 * Richard J. Mayer (born 1952), American engineer
 * Robert Mayer (disambiguation), several people
 * Rupert Mayer (1876–1945), Jesuit priest and leading figure of the Catholic Nazi resistance
 * Sandy Mayer (born 1952), American former tennis player
 * Sarah Mayer (1896–1957), British judoka
 * Scott Mayer (bishop) (born 1955), American bishop
 * Scott Mayer (racing driver) (born 1964), American race car driver
 * Selma Mayer (1884–1984), known as Schwester Selma, German-Jewish head nurse at the original Shaare Zedek Hospital, Jerusalem
 * Sergio Mayer (born 1966) Mexican actor and singer
 * Sheldon Mayer (1917–1991), American cartoonist and editor
 * Siegmund Mayer (1842–1910), German physiologist
 * Stepanka Mayer (born 1949), Czech and German chess player
 * Stephan Mayer (born 1973), German politician
 * Stephen F. Mayer (1854–1935), American politician
 * Teddy Mayer (1935–2009), American racecar driver and brother of Timmy
 * Thomas Mayer (American economist) (1927–2015), Neo-Keynesian economist
 * Thomas Mayer (German economist) (born 1954), Deutsche Bank executive
 * Tim Mayer (born 1966), son of Teddy and racecar executive
 * Timmy Mayer (1938–1964), American racecar driver
 * Tobias Mayer (1723–1762), German astronomer
 * Victor Mayer (1857–1946), German jeweler
 * Victoria Mayer (born 2001), Argentine volleyball player
 * Walther Mayer (1887–1948), Austrian mathematician
 * Wilhelm Mayer (composer) (1831–1898), Bohemian-Austrian composer and teacher
 * Wilhelm Mayer (fighter pilot) (1917–1945), German Luftwaffe ace
 * William Mayer (composer) (1925-2017), American composer
 * William Daniel Mayer (born 1940), American politician
 * Youngmi Mayer, American comedian

Modified surname

 * de Mayer
 * Nicholas De Mayer (c. 1631–1695), ninth mayor of New York City


 * von Mayer
 * Julius Robert von Mayer (1814–1878), German physician and physicist who made significant contributions to early thermodynamics

Variation on surname

 * Mike-Mayer (surname)
 * Maria Goeppert-Mayer (1906–1972), German-American physicist, married to Joseph Edward Mayer
 * Heidrun Mohr-Mayer (1941–2014), German jeweler
 * Herbert Mohr-Mayer (born 1933), German jeweler

Given or middle name
A first or second Hebrew name, an alternative spelling of Meir:


 * Hermann Mayer Salomon Goldschmidt
 * Mayer Lambert (1863–1930), French orientalist
 * Mayer Amschel Rothschild family
 * Baron Mayer Amschel de Rothschild
 * Carl Mayer von Rothschild, founder of the Rothschild banking family of Naples
 * David Mayer de Rothschild
 * James Mayer Rothschild, founder of the Rothschild banking family of France
 * Mayer Alphonse James Rothschild
 * Mayer Amschel Rothschild
 * Nathan Mayer Rothschild, founder of the Rothschild banking family of England
 * Nathan Mayer Rothschild, 1st Baron Rothschild
 * Salomon Mayer von Rothschild, founder of the Rothschild banking family of Austria
 * Isaac Mayer Wise
 * Mayer Hawthorne (born 1979), stage name of American rap singer