Talk:Beer (disambiguation)

Beer as family name
It should be noted that Beer as a German family name has nothing to do with beer (German Bier).
 * 1) Angelika Beer (born 1957), German politician (Alliance '90/The Greens)
 * 2) August Beer (1825–1863), German mathematician, chemist and physicist
 * 3) Giacomo Meyerbeer (born Yaakov Liebmann Beer), German composer, brother of Wilhelm Beer and writer Michael Beer
 * 4) Joseph Beer (1908–1987), operetta composer
 * 5) Joseph Beer (clarinetist) (1744–1811)
 * 6) Klaus Beer, German track & field athlete
 * 7) Michael Beer (poet) (1800–1833), German poet
 * 8) Oliver Beer, German footballer
 * 9) Richard Beer-Hofmann (1866–1945), Austrian writer
 * 10) Wilhelm Beer (1797–1850), German banker and astronomer

The name Beer could either be linked with «Beere» (berry) or rather with «Bär» (or Baer, this is bear). The -ee- is pronounced as a long [e:] like /e/ in men. --Schwab7000 (talk) 13:46, 27 December 2012 (UTC)