Beer (disambiguation)
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Places

  • Beer, Devon
    Beer, Devon
    The village of Beer is in south-east Devon, England, on Lyme Bay.- Location :The village of Beer is situated on the 95-mile long Jurassic Coast, England's first natural World Heritage Site and its picturesque cliffs, including Beer Head, form part of the South West Coast Path.Beer lies about two...

    , coastal town in Devon, England
  • Beer, Somerset, hamlet in the parish of Aller, Somerset, England

In Biblical and other Hebrew placenames, the component "Beer-" is Hebrew
Hebrew language
Hebrew is a Semitic language of the Afroasiatic language family. Culturally, is it considered by Jews and other religious groups as the language of the Jewish people, though other Jewish languages had originated among diaspora Jews, and the Hebrew language is also used by non-Jewish groups, such...

 באר = "water well
Water well
A water well is an excavation or structure created in the ground by digging, driving, boring or drilling to access groundwater in underground aquifers. The well water is drawn by an electric submersible pump, a trash pump, a vertical turbine pump, a handpump or a mechanical pump...

". On its own, it is the name of the place Beer mentioned in .

Science

  • Beer–Lambert law (named for August Beer), an equation describing the absorption of light
  • Beer (lunar crater)
    Beer (lunar crater)
    Beer is a relatively small lunar impact crater located on the Mare Imbrium, to the east of the crater Timocharis. Just to the northwest is the matching twin Feuillée....

     (named for Wilhelm Beer), lunar crater
  • Beer (Martian crater)
    Beer (Martian crater)
    Beer is a crater on Mars named in honor of the German astronomer Wilhelm Beer. It is located at 14.4°S 351.8°E .Beer and collaborator Johann Heinrich Mädler produced the first reasonably good maps of Mars in the early 1830s. When doing so, they selected a particular feature for the prime meridian...

     (also named for Wilhelm Beer), Martian crater

Culture

  • "Beer" (Blackadder)
    Beer (Blackadder)
    "Beer" is the fifth episode of the BBC sitcom Blackadder II, the second series of Blackadder, which was set in Elizabethan England from 1558 to 1603. In the episode, an embarrassing incident with a turnip, an ostrich feather and a fanatically Puritan aunt leads to a right royal to-do in the...

    , episode of the British sitcom Blackadder II
  • Beer (film)
    Beer (film)
    Beer, also known as The Selling of America, is a 1985 comedy film produced by Orion Pictures that satirizes the advertising industry, specifically the TV commercial industry.-Plot:...

    , 1985 film starring Loretta Swit and Rip Torn
  • "Beer", song by the third wave ska band Reel Big Fish
    Reel Big Fish
    Reel Big Fish is an American ska punk band from Huntington Beach, California, best known for the 1997 hit "Sell Out". The band gained mainstream recognition in the mid-to-late 1990s, during the third wave of ska with the release of the gold certified album Turn the Radio Off. Soon after, the band...

  • "Beer!" (Psychostick song), song by metal band Psychostick
  • Beer (magazine), publication from the Campaign for Real Ale
  • Beer, 1999 novel by Chris Walter
    Chris Walter (author)
    Chris Walter is a Canadian urban novelist and founder of the independent publishing company, Gofuckyerself Press -Biography:...


People

Beer is also the surname of the following people:
  • Alan Beer
    Alan Beer
    Alan Beer is a Alan Beer is a Alan Beer is a [[Welsh people|Welsh]-born] former [[association football|footballer]] who played as a [[Forward |forward]] in the [[Football League]] during the 1970s, most notably with [[Exeter City]].He started his career with home-town [[West End F.C.]], before...

     (born 1950), Welsh footballer
  • Alexander Beer
    Alexander Beer
    Alexander Beer was a German architect.Beer was born in Hammerstein , West Prussia. He studied in Berlin and Darmstadt. His first employment was in Mainz, where he restored and refurbished government buildings for the state of Hesse...

     (1873–1944), architect
  • Alice Beer
    Alice Beer
    Alice Beer is an English television presenter, and was educated at the North London Collegiate School, a girls' independent school in Edgware, Middlesex.-Career:...

     (born 1 May 1965) a British television presenter
  • Angelika Beer
    Angelika Beer
    Angelika Beer is a German politician.2004 to 2009 she was a Member of the European Parliament for Alliance '90/The Greens, part of the European Greens...

     (born 1957), German politician (Alliance '90/The Greens)
  • Anthony Stafford Beer
    Anthony Stafford Beer
    Anthony Stafford Beer was a British theorist, consultant and professor at the Manchester Business School. He is best known for his work in the fields of operational research and management cybernetics.- Biography :...

     (1926–2002), British theorist in operational research, founder of management cybernetics
  • August Beer
    August Beer
    August Beer was a German physicist and mathematician. Beer was born in Trier, where he studied mathematics and natural sciences. He worked for Julius Plücker in Bonn afterwards, where he earned a Ph.D. in 1848 and became a lecturer in 1850. In 1854, Beer published his book Einleitung in die höhere...

     (1825–1863), German mathematician, chemist and physicist
  • Carol Beer
    Carol Beer
    Carol Beer is a character in the TV and radio series Little Britain, in which she worked firstly as a bank clerk then as a travel agent and now works as a Receptionist at St John's Hospital in Pennsylvania...

    , fictional character from British comedy show Little Britain, portrayed by David Walliams
  • Charles Beer
    Charles Beer
    John Charles McWaters Beer is a former Canadian politician...

     (born 1941), Canadian politician
  • Ferdinand P. Beer
    Ferdinand P. Beer
    Ferdinand Pierre Beer was a French mechanical engineer and university professor. He spent most of his career as a member of the faculty at Lehigh University, where he served as the chairman of the mechanics and mechanical engineering departments...

     (1915–2003), a French mechanical engineer and university professor
  • Sir Gavin Rylands de Beer
    Gavin de Beer
    Sir Gavin Rylands de Beer FRS was a British evolutionary embryologist. He was Director of the British Museum , President of the Linnean Society, and received the Royal Society's Darwin Medal for his studies on evolution.-Biography:...

     (1899–1972) English evolutionary embryologist
  • Georg Joseph Beer
    Georg Joseph Beer
    Georg Joseph Beer was an Austrian ophthalmologist . He is credited with introducing a flap operation for treatment of cataracts , as well as popularizing the instrument used to perform the surgery .-Career:Initially a theology student, in 1786 he earned his medical doctorate in Vienna...

     (1763–1821), Austrian physician, founder of the research center of ophthalmology
  • George Louis Beer
    George Louis Beer
    George Louis Beer was an American historian.Born in Staten Island, New York, he achieved success in the tobacco business. He studied at Columbia University and lectured on European History there from 1893 to 1897. After retiring from business, he wrote three books on the British-American...

    , American historian
  • Giacomo Meyerbeer
    Giacomo Meyerbeer
    Giacomo Meyerbeer was a noted German opera composer, and the first great exponent of "grand opera." At his peak in the 1830s and 1840s, he was the most famous and successful composer of opera in Europe, yet he is rarely performed today.-Early years:He was born to a Jewish family in Tasdorf , near...

     (born Yaakov Liebmann Beer), German composer, brother of Wilhelm Beer and writer Michael Beer
  • Gillian Beer
    Gillian Beer
    Dame Gillian Beer, DBE , King Edward VII Professor of English Literature and President, Clare Hall, University of Cambridge, is a British literary critic and academic.-Career:...

    , British literary critic
  • Jannie de Beer
    Jannie de Beer
    Jan Hendrik de Beer , nicknamed Jannie, is a South African former rugby union player. He played flyhalf for the South African national team, the Springboks. In all he represented the Springboks in 13 tests, scoring 183 points. He stands 1.82 meters tall, and weighs 87 kilograms...

    , South Africa rugby player
  • Joseph Beer
    Joseph Beer
    Joseph Beer was a composer, mainly of operettas, singspiele, and operas.Joseph Beer had early success in 1930s Vienna and Europe. Because of his convictions and of his origins he had to flee from Nazi invasion. Beer lived in a conflictually withdrawn position from the musical scene after the end...

     (1908–1987), operetta composer
  • Joseph Beer (clarinetist)
    Joseph Beer (clarinetist)
    Joseph Beer was one of the first internationally famous clarinet virtuousos, with connections to many major composers of the era....

     (1744–1811)
  • Klaus Beer
    Klaus Beer
    Klaus Beer is a former track and field athlete active in the 1960s for East Germany.Beer was born in Liegnitz , Province of Lower Silesia....

    , German track & field athlete
  • Oliver Beer
    Oliver Beer
    -External links:...

    , German footballer
  • Randall Beer
    Randall Beer
    Randall D. Beer is a professor of cognitive science, computer science, and informatics at Indiana University. He was previously at Case Western Reserve University. His primary research interest is in understanding how coordinated behavior arises from the neurodynamics of an animal's nervous...

    , computer scientist
  • Richard Beer-Hofmann
    Richard Beer-Hofmann
    Richard Beer-Hofmann was an Austrian dramatist and poet.After the early death of his mother, Beer-Hofmann was raised by his aunt's family in Brno and Vienna. In the 1880s he studied law in Vienna, receiving his doctorate in 1890...

     (1866–1945), Austrian writer
  • Wilhelm Beer (1797–1850), German banker and astronomer
  • William Beer
    William Beer
    William Andrew Thomas Beer is an English cricketer. Primarily a leg break bowler, he currently plays for Sussex County Cricket Club and Horsham....

     English cricketer

Other

  • Beer, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, a Union council in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan.
  • The Brewer's Employment and Excise Relief Act (BEER Act) of 2011
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