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- Adolf MayerAdolf MayerAdolf Eduard Mayer was a German agricultural chemist whose work on tobacco mosaic disease played an important role in the discovery of tobacco mosaic virus and viruses in general....
(1843–1942), a German-Dutch virologist - Albrecht MayerAlbrecht MayerAlbrecht Mayer is a German classical oboist.-Biography:Mayer sang as a child in the Cathedral Choir in Bamberg. He was a student of Gerhard Scheuer, Georg Meerwein, Maurice Bourgue and Ingo Goritzki, and began his professional career as principal oboist for the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra in 1990...
(born 1965), a German classical oboist - Alfred G. MayerAlfred G. MayerAlfred G. Mayer was an American cnidariologist and entomologist.-Species named after Mayer:* Ectopleura mayeri Petersen, 1990...
(1868–1922), an American cnidariologist and entomologist - Arno J. MayerArno J. MayerArno Joseph Mayer is a United States Marxist historian originally from Luxembourg, who specializes in modern Europe, diplomatic history, and the Holocaust, and is currently Dayton-Stockton Professor of History, Emeritus, at Princeton University.-Early life and academic career:Mayer was born into a...
(born 1926), a Luxembourgian-American historian - Auguste Étienne François MayerAuguste Étienne François MayerAuguste Étienne François Mayer was a French painter.He was specialised in naval motives. He participated on several Arctic expeditions, thus reflected in his collection of artwork.Mayer taught drawing at the École Navale....
(1805–1890), French naval painter - Ben MayerBen MayerBen Mayer was an amateur astronomer perhaps best known for the invention of the Projection Blink Comparator . This low-cost version of a tool used by professional astronomers allowed amateurs to contribute to some phases of serious research.Mayer was the first ever to photograph a nova in its...
(died 2000), American amateur astronomer - Bernadette MayerBernadette MayerBernadette Mayer is a poet and prose writer. In 1967 she received a BA from New School for Social Research. She has since edited the journal 0 TO 9 with Vito Acconci and the United Artists Press with Lewis Warsh...
(born 1945), American poet and author - Bob MayerBob MayerRobert "Bob" Mayer is an author, writing instructor, and former Green Beret. He has written over 30 titles under his name and his four pen names . Mayer has applied the principles from his training in the special forces to his career as a writer and as a writing instructor...
(born 1959), American author and Green Beret - Christian Gustav Adolph MayerChristian Gustav Adolph MayerChristian Gustav Adolph Mayer was a German mathematician.Mayer was born on February 15, 1839 in Leipzig, Germany. His father was a businessman from Leipzig. He studied at the University of Leipzig, University of Göttingen, University of Heidelberg and University of Königsberg...
(1839–1907), German mathematician - Carl MayerCarl MayerCarl Mayer was an Austrian screenplay writer who wrote or co-wrote the screenplays to The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari , The Haunted Castle , Der Letzte Mann , Tartuffe , Sunrise and 4 Devils , the last five being films directed by F. W...
(1894–1944), Austrian-German screenwriter - Charles MayerCharles MayerCharles James Mayer, PC is a Canadian businessman and former federal Minister of Agriculture. He is Chairman of the Board of agricultural chemical manufacturer Agronix and is also chair of the Manitoba Crop Insurance Corporation....
(born 1936), former Canadian Minister of Agriculture - Christa MayerChrista MayerChrista Mayer is a German operatic mezzo-soprano. She is particularly known for her portrayal of Erda in Richard Wagner's Ring Cycle; a role which she has performed several times at the Bayreuth Festival and recorded on the BBC Legends Record Label....
, German mezzo-soprano - Christian Mayer (1719–1783), Czech astronomer
- Christian Mayer (skier)Christian Mayer (skier)Christian Mayer is an Austrian former alpine skier.-World cup victories:-External links:* * - Results - Christian Mayer...
(born 1972), Austrian skier - Christopher Mayer (American actor) (1954-2011), American actor
- Christopher Mayer (Australian actor) (born 1961), Australian actor
- Daisy von Scherler MayerDaisy von Scherler MayerDaisy von Scherler Mayer, sometimes credited as Daisy Mayer is an American film and television director.-Biography:...
(born 1965), American film director - Daniel MayerDaniel MayerDaniel William Mayer was a member of the French Section of the Workers' International , a socialist party in France, president of the Ligue des droits de l'homme from 1958 to 1975. He founded the Comité d'Action Socialiste in 1941 and was a member of the Brutus Network, a Resistant Socialist group...
(1909–1996), French politician - Edwin Justus MayerEdwin Justus MayerEdwin Justus Mayer was an American screenwriter. He wrote or co-wrote the screenplays for 47 films between 1927 and 1958....
(1896–1960), American screenwriter - Elizabeth MayerElizabeth MayerElizabeth Mayer was a German-born American translator and editor, closely associated with W. H. Auden, Benjamin Britten, Peter Pears, and other writers and musicians. In the 1940s her homes in Long Island and New York served as an artistic salon for many émigré writers.Elizabeth Mayer was born in...
(1884–1970), German-American translator and writer - Else MayerElse MayerElse Mayer was a German nun and women's liberation activist during the period of the First-wave feminism. She was one of the pioneers of the German Women's Liberation Movement....
(1891–1962), German nun and women's liberation activist - Erskine MayerErskine MayerJacob Erskine Mayer was an American baseball player who played for three different Major League Baseball teams during the 1910s...
(1887–1957), American major league baseball player - Florian MayerFlorian MayerFlorian Mayer is a German professional tennis player. He plays on both the ATP Tour and the Challenger Tour. He has won nine Challenger events, which has helped him stay in the top 50 on the rankings....
(born 1983), German tennis player - Fred Shaw MayerFred Shaw MayerFrederick William Shaw Mayer MBE , also well known as "Masta Pisin" or the "Bird Man" in New Guinea, was an Australian ornithologist, aviculturist and zoological collector...
(1899–1989), Australian zoological collector and aviculturist - Frederick MayerFrederick MayerFrederick Mayer was an educational scientist and philosopher of the University of Redlands, California and one of the leading creativity experts. One of his most important aims was a global humanism. Until the very last days of his life he was active as an author...
(1921–2006), German educational scientist - Frederick MayerFrederick Mayer (spy)Frederick "Fred" Mayer is a German-born Jewish American who was a OSS agent for the United States during World War II. He negotiated the surrender of the German Army in Innsbruck, Austria in 1945.-Background:...
(born 1921), American spy during World War II - Gene MayerGene MayerGene Mayer is a former tennis player from the United States who won fourteen singles titles during his career.Mayer was born in Flushing, Queens, New York. He grew up in Wayne, New Jersey, and played tennis at Wayne Valley High School, where he went unbeaten in his two years on the tennis team...
(born 1956), American former tennis player - Gerhard MayerGerhard MayerGerhard Mayer is a male discus thrower from Austria.He represented his native country at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, where he ended up in 18th place in the overall-rankings. Mayer is best known for winning the gold medal in the men's discus event at the 2007 Summer Universiade in Bangkok,...
(born 1980), Austrian discus thrower - Hans Ferdinand MayerHans Ferdinand MayerHans Ferdinand Mayer was a German mathematician and physicist and perhaps most notable for the Oslo Report which revealed German technological secrets to the British Government shortly after the start of World War II.-Biography:Hans Ferdinand Mayer studied mathematics, physics and astronomy at...
(1895–1980), German mathematician and physicist, and author of the Oslo ReportOslo reportThe Oslo Report was one of the most spectacular leaks in the history of military intelligence. Written by German mathematician and physicist Hans Ferdinand Mayer on November 1 and 2, 1939 during a business trip to Oslo, Norway, it described several German weapons systems, current and future.Mayer... - Hans-Peter MayerHans-Peter MayerHans-Peter Mayer is a German politician and Member of the European Parliament for Lower Saxony with the conservative Christian-Democratic Union, part of the European People's Party and sits on the European Parliament's Committee on Legal Affairs and is a member of the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary...
(born 1944), German politician - Helen MayerHelen MayerHelen Mayer was an Australian politician. Born in Kaniva, Victoria, she was educated at Swinburne Institute of Technology in Melbourne and then Toorak Teachers' College, after which she became a teacher. In 1983, she was elected to the Australian House of Representatives as the Labor member for...
(1932–2008), Australian politician - Helene MayerHelene MayerHelene Mayer was a world champion Olympic fencer who competed for Nazi Germany in the 1936 Summer Olympics, despite having been forced to leave Germany and resettle in the United States because she was of Jewish family background.She was Jewish, and was born in Offenbach am Main.-Fencing...
(1910–53), German and American Olympic champion foil fencer - Henry "Hy" MayerHenry "Hy" MayerHenry "Hy" Mayer was a German-American cartoonist and animator. He created the "Travelaughs" series, released through Universal Studios from 1913 to 1920, and the "Such Is Life" series, with titles as Such Is Life at a County Fair and Such Is Life in Munich , released by Film Booking Offices of...
(c. 1868-1954), German-American animator - Jacquelyn MayerJacquelyn MayerJacquelyn Jeanne "Jackie" Mayer is a former Miss Ohio 1962 and Miss America 1963 and currently travels the United States as a motivational speaker, noted for her recovery from a near-fatal stroke suffered at age 28....
(born 1942), American beauty contest winner and motivational speaker - Jane MayerJane MayerJane Mayer is an American investigative journalist who has been a staff writer for The New Yorker magazine since 1995...
(born 1955), American investigative journalist - Jean MayerJean MayerJean Mayer was a renowned French-American nutritionist and the tenth president of Tufts University from 1976 to 1992...
(1920–1993), French-American nutritionist and tenth president of Tufts University - Jean-François MayerJean-François MayerJean-Francois Mayer is a religious historian, translator in Switzerland, and Director of the Institute Religioscope.He has a doctorate degree in History at the Jean Moulin University Lyon 3 ....
(born 1957), Swiss historian of religions - Johann Tobias MayerJohann Tobias MayerJohann Tobias Mayer was a German physicist. He was mainly well known for his mathematics and natural science textbooks. Anfangsgründe der Naturlehre zum Behuf der Vorlesungen über die Experimental-Physik, an 1801 physics text, was the most influential of its time in the German-speaking countries...
(1752–1830), German physicist - John MayerJohn MayerJohn Clayton Mayer is an American pop rock and blues rock musician, singer-songwriter, recording artist, and music producer. Born in Bridgeport, Connecticut and raised in Fairfield, Connecticut, he attended Berklee College of Music in Boston. He moved to Atlanta in 1997, where he refined his...
(born 1977), American singer and songwriter - John Mayer (composer)John Mayer (composer)John Mayer was an Indian composer known primarily for his fusions of jazz with Indian music...
(1930–2004), Indian composer - John D. MayerJohn D. MayerJohn D. Mayer is a psychologist at the University of New Hampshire.He is a personality psychologist. He co-developed a popular model of emotional intelligence with Dr. Peter Salovey...
, American psychologist - Jojo MayerJojo MayerJojo Mayer is a highly acclaimed Swiss drummer born in Zurich and currently resides in New York City.Mayer is the son of a touring musician and began his career as a drummer at an early age, receiving his first drum set at the age of two...
(born 1963), Swiss drummer - Jorge MayerJorge MayerJorge Mayer was the Roman Catholic Archbishop of the Archdiocese of Bahía Blanca, Argentina from 1972 to 1991....
(1915–2010), Archbishop of Bahía Blanca, Argentina - Joseph Edward MayerJoseph Edward MayerJoseph Edward Mayer was a chemist who discovered the Mayer expansion in statistical field theory....
(1904–1983), American chemist and physicist, married to Maria Goeppert Mayer - Karla MayerKarla MayerKarla Mayer, born Karla Woellert , was a guard at three Nazi death camps during the Second World War. She was born in Friedland, Germany....
(born 1918), guard at three Nazi death camps - Lauren Etame MayerLauren Etame MayerLaureano Bisan-Etame Mayer , commonly known as Lauren, is a retired Cameroonian footballer of Equatoguinean origin, who formerly played for the Cameroonian national team.-Early career:...
(born 1977), Cameroonian footballer - Leonardo MayerLeonardo MayerLeonardo Martin Mayer is an Argentine professional tennis player.Mayer achieved a singles career high of world no. 51 on June 7, 2010. His career high in doubles was world no. 94 on March 1, 2010.http://www.itftennis.com/mens/players/player.asp?player=100049039 He is coached by Emiliano Redondi...
(born 1987), Argentine tennis player - Louis B. MayerLouis B. MayerLouis Burt Mayer born Lazar Meir was an American film producer. He is generally cited as the creator of the "star system" within Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in its golden years. Known always as Louis B...
(1884–1957), MGM studio mogul - Marissa MayerMarissa MayerMarissa Ann Mayer is Vice President of Location and Local Services at the search engine company Google. She has become one of the public faces of Google, providing a number of press interviews and appearing at events frequently to speak on behalf of the company.-Education and career :After...
(born 1975), executive at Google - Martin MayerMartin MayerMartin Prager Mayer is the writer of 35 non-fiction books, including Madison Avenue, U.S.A. , The Schools , The Lawyers , About Television , The Bankers , The Builders , Risky Business: The Collapse of Lloyd's of London , The Bankers: The Next Generation , The Fed...
(born 1928), American nonfiction author - Mercer MayerMercer MayerMercer Mayer is an American children's book writer and illustrator. He has published over 300 books using a wide range of illustrative styles...
(born 1943), American children's book author and illustrator - Michael Mayer (volleyball)Michael Mayer (volleyball)Michael Mayer is a volleyball player from Germany, who played for the Men's National Team in the 2000s...
(born 1980), German volleyball player - Nathaniel MayerNathaniel MayerNathaniel Mayer was a rhythm & blues singer who started his career in the early 1960s at Fortune Records in Detroit...
(1944–2008), American rhythm-and-blues singer - Norman MayerNorman MayerNorman David Mayer was an American anti-nuclear weapons activist who was shot and killed by the United States Park Police after threatening to blow up the Washington Monument.-Early life:...
(1916–1982), American anti-nuclear activist - Paul Avila MayerPaul Avila MayerPaul Avila Mayer was an American television writer and producer. His father was the late screen writer Edwin Justus Mayer, and his daughter is director Daisy von Scherler Mayer.-Positions held:...
(c. 1933-2009), American television writer and producer - Paul Mayer OSB (1911–2010), German cardinal
- Peter MayerPeter MayerPeter M. Mayer is an American independent publisher who is president of The Overlook Press/Peter Mayer Publishers, Inc., a Woodstock, New York - based publishing company he founded with his father in 1971. At the time of Overlook’s founding, Mayer was head of Avon Books, a large New York - based...
(born 1936), American publisher - René MayerRené MayerRené Mayer was a French Radical politician of the Fourth Republic who served briefly as Prime Minister during 1953. He led the Mayer Authority from 1955 to 1958.-Mayer's Ministry, 8 January – 28 June 1953:*René Mayer – President of the Council...
(1895–1972), French politician - Richard J. MayerRichard J. MayerRichard J. Mayer is an American engineer, President of Knowledge Based Systems, Inc., known as lead engineer and principal investigator on the projects of developing part of the IDEF family of modeling languages in the field of software and systems engineering.Mayer received a PhD and worked for...
(born 1939), American engineer - Robert Mayer (philanthropist) (1879–1985), German-Jewish philanthropist and businessman
- Robert Mayer (Missouri)Robert Mayer (Missouri)Robert Mayer is a U.S. attorney who has also worked as a farmer, broadcaster, and industrial engineering technician. He is also currently a Republican member of the Missouri State Senate...
(born 1957), American politician - Robert Mayer (ice hockey)Robert Mayer (ice hockey)Robert Mayer is a Czech professional ice hockey goaltender who is currently playing for the Hamilton Bulldogs in the American Hockey League. He signed a three-year entry-level contract by the Montreal Canadiens in 2008-External links:...
(born 1989), Czech ice hockey goaltender - Rupert MayerRupert MayerRupert Mayer was a Jesuit priest and a leading figure of the Catholic Widerstand in the Third Reich in Munich. In 1987 he was beatified by Pope John Paul II.-Life:...
(1876–1945), Jesuit priest and leading figure of the Catholic Nazi resistance - Sandy MayerSandy MayerAlexander "Sandy" Mayer is a former tennis player from the United States, who won ten titles in singles and twenty-four titles in doubles during his professional career. He was part of the winning tennis squad at Stanford University in 1973....
(born 1952), American former tennis player - Scott Mayer (driver)Scott Mayer (driver)Scott Mayer is a former driver in the Indy Racing League IndyCar Series. He participated in the first three races of the 2003 IndyCar Series season for PDM Racing and crashed in all three races. He then failed to complete rookie orientation for the Indy 500. He entered the 2005 Indianapolis 500...
(born 1964), race car driver - Sheldon MayerSheldon MayerSheldon Mayer was an American comic book writer, artist and editor. One of the earliest employees of Major Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson's National Allied Publications, Mayer produced almost all of his comics work for the company that would become known as DC Comics.He is credited with rescuing the...
(1917–1991), American cartoonist and editor - Siegmund MayerSiegmund MayerSiegmund Mayer was a German physiologist and histologist.Mayer was born in Bechtheim in Rhenish Hesse. He studied at the Universities of Heidelberg, Giessen and Tübingen, where in 1865 he obtained his doctorate...
(1842–1910), German physiologist - Teddy MayerTeddy MayerEdward Everett "Teddy" Mayer was an American motor racing entrepreneur who was successful in several categories of racing, including Formula One and IndyCars....
(1935–2009), American racecar driver and brother of Timmy - Tim MayerTim MayerTim Mayer is the Chief Operating Officer of International Motor Sports Association and the American Le Mans Series , a Vice President of the ACCUS and the United States' alternate delegate to the FIA.-Early life:The son of American motor racing identity Teddy Mayer and Sarah Mayer , Mayer was...
(born 1966), son of Teddy and racecar executive - Timmy MayerTimmy MayerTimothy Mayer , was a racecar driver from Dalton, Pennsylvania in the United States. He participated in one World Championship Formula One Grand Prix, on October 7, 1962. He retired with ignition failure and scored no championship points.Mayer's older brother Teddy was one of the founders of the...
(1938–1964), American racecar driver - Tobias MayerTobias MayerTobias Mayer was a German astronomer famous for his studies of the Moon.He was born at Marbach, in Württemberg, and brought up at Esslingen in poor circumstances. A self-taught mathematician, he had already published two original geometrical works when, in 1746, he entered J.B. Homann's...
(1723–1762), German astronomer - Victor MayerVictor MayerVictor Mayer founded the jewellery manufacture in Pforzheim in 1890. In the time of Jugendstil / Art Nouveau, the company created pieces based on the designs of well-known artists such as the jewellery designer Professor Georg Kleemann or Anton Krautheimer of the Munich Secession...
(1857–1946), German jeweler - Walther MayerWalther MayerWalter Mayer was an Austrian mathematician, born 1887 in Graz, Austria.Mayer, who was Jewish, studied at the Federal Institute of Technology in Zürich and the University of Paris before receiving his doctorate in 1912 from the University of Vienna...
(1887–1948), Austrian mathematician - William MayerWilliam MayerWilliam Mayer , is an American composer.Mayer entered Yale University in 1944, but his college years were interrupted by military service...
(born 1925), American composer - William Daniel MayerWilliam Daniel MayerWilliam Daniel Mayer , was a member of the Maryland House of Delegates for District 28, which covers Charles County, MD.-Background:...
(born 1940), American politician
- Nicholas De MayerNicholas De MayerNicholaes DeMeyer was the ninth mayor of New York, in the English colony of New York. He held office from 1676 to 1677....
(c. 1631-1695), ninth mayor of New York CityNew York CityNew York is the most populous city in the United States and the center of the New York Metropolitan Area, one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world. New York exerts a significant impact upon global commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and... - Maria Goeppert-Mayer (1906–1972), German-American physicist, married to Joseph Edward MayerJoseph Edward MayerJoseph Edward Mayer was a chemist who discovered the Mayer expansion in statistical field theory....
- Heidrun Mohr-MayerHeidrun Mohr-MayerThe German jeweller and philanthropist Heidrun Mohr-Mayer was born Heidrun Steffen in the former German Hanseatic City of Gdańsk, Poland. Mohr-Mayer was a CEO of the jewelry company Fabergé workmaster Victor Mayer from 1996 to 2001 and is a co-founder and supporter of several cultural...
(born 1942), German jeweler - Herbert Mohr-MayerHerbert Mohr-MayerHerbert Mohr-Mayer is a German jeweller who was president of Victor Mayer Co. from 1965 to 2005. He continued the legacy of the Russian jeweller Peter Carl Fabergé....
(born 1933), German jeweler - Julius Robert von MayerJulius Robert von MayerJulius Robert von Mayer was a German physician and physicist and one of the founders of thermodynamics...
(1814–1878), a German physician and physicist - Irene Mayer SelznickIrene Mayer SelznickIrene Mayer Selznick was an American theatrical producer.Born Irene Gladys Mayer in Brooklyn, New York, she was the daughter of future MGM studio mogul, Louis B. Mayer and his first wife, Margaret Shenberg....
(1907–1990), born Irene Gladys Mayer, an American theatrical producer and daughter of MGM studio founder Louis B. MayerLouis B. MayerLouis Burt Mayer born Lazar Meir was an American film producer. He is generally cited as the creator of the "star system" within Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in its golden years. Known always as Louis B...
Given names
A first or second Hebrew name, an alternative spelling of MeirMeir (name)
Meir is a Jewish masculine given name, and an occasional surname. There are variants and alternate spellings. People with the name include:- Given name :* Rabbi Meir, Jewish sage who lived in the time of the Talmud...
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- Hermann Mayer Salomon GoldschmidtHermann Mayer Salomon GoldschmidtHermann Mayer Salomon Goldschmidt was a German-French astronomer and painter who spent much of his life in France. He started out as a painter, but after attending a lecture by the famous French astronomer Urbain Le Verrier turned to astronomy...
- Mayer Amschel Rothschild family
- Baron Mayer Amschel de RothschildMayer Amschel de RothschildMayer Amschel de Rothschild of the English branch of the Rothschild family was the fourth and youngest son of Nathan Mayer Rothschild . He was named Mayer Amschel Rothschild, for his grandfather, the patriarch of the Rothschild family.-Life:Known to his family as "Muffy", he was born in New Court,...
- Carl Mayer von RothschildCarl Mayer von RothschildCarl Mayer von Rothschild was a German-born banker in the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies and the founder of the Rothschild banking family of Naples....
, founder of Rothschild banking family of NaplesRothschild banking family of NaplesThe Rothschild banking family of Naples was founded by Calmann Mayer von Rothschild who was sent to the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies from Frankfurt am Main, Germany in 1821 by his father, Mayer Amschel Rothschild... - James Mayer Rothschild, founder of Rothschild banking family of FranceRothschild banking family of FranceThe Rothschild banking family of France was founded in 1812 in Paris by James Mayer Rothschild . James was sent there from his home in Frankfurt, Germany by his father, Mayer Amschel Rothschild...
- Mayer Alphonse James Rothschild
- Mayer Amschel RothschildMayer Amschel RothschildMayer Amschel Rothschild was the founder of the Rothschild family international banking dynasty that became the most successful business family in history. In 2005, he was ranked 7th on the Forbes magazine list of "The Twenty Most Influential Businessmen Of All Time"...
- Nathan Mayer RothschildNathan Mayer RothschildNathan Mayer, Freiherr von Rothschild , known as Nathan Mayer Rothschild, was a London financier and one of the founders of the international Rothschild family banking dynasty...
, founder of Rothschild banking family of EnglandRothschild banking family of EnglandThe Rothschild banking family of England was founded in 1798 by Nathan Mayer von Rothschild who first settled in Manchester but then moved to London. Nathan was sent there from his home in Frankfurt by his father, Mayer Amschel Rothschild... - Nathan Mayer Rothschild, 1st Baron Rothschild
- Salomon Mayer von RothschildSalomon Mayer von RothschildSalomon Mayer von Rothschild was a German-born banker in the Austrian Empire and the founder of the Viennese branch of the prominent Mayer Amschel Rothschild family....
, founder of Rothschild banking family of AustriaRothschild banking family of AustriaThe Rothschild banking family of Austria was founded by Salomon Mayer von Rothschild in 1820 in Vienna in what was then the Austrian Empire.-History:...
- Baron Mayer Amschel de Rothschild
- Isaac Mayer WiseIsaac Mayer WiseIsaac Mayer Wise , was an American Reform rabbi, editor, and author.-Early life:...
Places
- C. Mayer (crater)C. Mayer (crater)C. Mayer is a lunar impact crater that is located at the northern edge of the Mare Frigoris, due north of the prominent crater Aristoteles. Also to the south, but only a third as distant, is the smaller crater Sheepshanks. Due east of C. Mayer is the flooded crater Kane.C. Mayer is a relatively...
, named after Christian Mayer - Mayer, ArizonaMayer, ArizonaMayer is a census-designated place in Yavapai County, Arizona, United States. The population was 1,408 at the 2000 census. Mayer includes three sites listed on the National Register of Historic Places: Mayer Apartments, Mayer Business Block, and Mayer Red Brick Schoolhouse.The 1993-1994 CBS...
, United States - Mayer, MinnesotaMayer, MinnesotaMayer is a city in Carver County, Minnesota, along the South Fork of the Crow River. The population was 1,749 at the 2010 census.-Geography:...
, United States - Mayersville, MississippiMayersville, MississippiMayersville is a town in Issaquena County, Mississippi, United States. The population was 795 at the 2000 census. The town was named for David Mayer, on whose plantation the town was built. It is the county seat of Issaquena County. One of its more famous natives is Unita Blackwell, Mississippi's...
, United States - Mayerthorpe, AlbertaMayerthorpe, AlbertaMayerthorpe is a town in the census division 13, central Alberta, Canada. It is located at the intersection of Highway 43 and Cowboy Trail , north-west from Edmonton.-History:...
, Canada - T. Mayer (crater)T. Mayer (crater)T. Mayer, or Tobias Mayer, is a lunar crater that is located at the western end of the Montes Carpatus mountain range along the southern edge of Mare Imbrium. To the west is the Oceanus Procellarum, and to the south is Mare Insularum...
, named after Tobias MayerTobias MayerTobias Mayer was a German astronomer famous for his studies of the Moon.He was born at Marbach, in Württemberg, and brought up at Esslingen in poor circumstances. A self-taught mathematician, he had already published two original geometrical works when, in 1746, he entered J.B. Homann's... - L. A. Mayer Institute for Islamic ArtL. A. Mayer Institute for Islamic ArtThe L.A. Mayer Institute for Islamic Art is a museum in Jerusalem, Israel, established in 1974. It is located in Katamon, down the road from the Jerusalem Theater...
Companies
- Mayer BrownMayer BrownMayer Brown is an international law firm head-quartered in Chicago which specializes in commercial transactions and litigation. The firm employs more than 1,600 lawyers, including approximately 875 in the Americas, 425 in Europe and 300 in Asia....
, an international law firm - Mayers Murray & PhillipMayers Murray & PhillipMayers, Murray & Phillip was an architecture firm in New York city and the successor firm to Goodhue Associates, after Bertram Goodhue's unexpected death in 1924. The principals were Francis L.S...
, an architectural firm - Metro-Goldwyn-MayerMetro-Goldwyn-MayerMetro-Goldwyn-Mayer Inc. is an American media company, involved primarily in the production and distribution of films and television programs. MGM was founded in 1924 when the entertainment entrepreneur Marcus Loew gained control of Metro Pictures, Goldwyn Pictures Corporation and Louis B. Mayer...
, a motion picture production company - Oscar MayerOscar MayerOscar Mayer is an American meat and cold cut production company, owned by Kraft Foods, known for its hot dogs, bologna, bacon and Lunchables products.-History:...
, a meat company - Victor MayerVictor MayerVictor Mayer founded the jewellery manufacture in Pforzheim in 1890. In the time of Jugendstil / Art Nouveau, the company created pieces based on the designs of well-known artists such as the jewellery designer Professor Georg Kleemann or Anton Krautheimer of the Munich Secession...
, a German Jewellery Manufacture
Other
- Mayer AuthorityMayer AuthorityThe Mayer Authority was the second High Authority of the European Coal and Steel Community , between 1955 and 1958. Its president was René Mayer of France....
, European consortium (1955–1958) led by René MayerRené MayerRené Mayer was a French Radical politician of the Fourth Republic who served briefly as Prime Minister during 1953. He led the Mayer Authority from 1955 to 1958.-Mayer's Ministry, 8 January – 28 June 1953:*René Mayer – President of the Council... - Mayer expansionCluster expansionIn statistical mechanics, the cluster expansion is a power series expansion of the partition function of a statistical field theory around a model that is a union of non-interacting 0-dimensional field theories. Cluster expansions originated in the work of...
- Mayer's Relation
- Mayer f-functionMayer f-functionThe Mayer f-function is an auxiliary function that often appears in the series expansion of thermodynamic quantities related to classical many-particle systems.Donald Allan McQuarrie, Statistical Mechanics , page 228-Definition:...
- Mayer-Norton theoremNorton's theoremNorton's theorem for linear electrical networks, known in Europe as the Mayer–Norton theorem, states that any collection of voltage sources, current sources, and resistors with two terminals is electrically equivalent to an ideal current source, I, in parallel with a single resistor, R...
- Mayer-Vietoris sequenceMayer-Vietoris sequenceIn mathematics, particularly algebraic topology and homology theory, the Mayer–Vietoris sequence is an algebraic tool to help compute algebraic invariants of topological spaces, known as their homology and cohomology groups. The result is due to two Austrian mathematicians, Walther Mayer and...
See also
- German family name etymologyGerman family name etymologyGerman family names were introduced during the late Middle Ages in the German language area. Usually, such family names are derived from nicknames. In etymology, they are generally classified into four groups, based on the origin of a nickname: given names, job designations, bodily attributes, and...
- List of Jewish surnames
Similar names
- MaierMaierMaier is a surname, and may refer to:* Bernhard Maier* Jacob Maier, American radio announcer and the host of Jake in the Morning on KSKK 94.7 FM.* Jeanette Maier, associate to David Vitter.* Jeffrey Maier* Johann Maier von Eck* Henry W...
- MairMairMair may refer to:* in the German language and Yiddish language, deriving from Latin maior*Mair is also a Welsh given name meaning Mary.People with the surname Mair in German context:*Paulus Hector Mair , an Augsburg civil servant...
- MayrMayrMayr in a German surname which may refer to:* Ernst Walter Mayr , German American evolutionary biologist* Gustav Mayr , Austrian entomologist * Simon Marius , German astronomer...
- MeierMeier- People :* Meier, Carl A., a Swiss psychiatrist, Jungian Psychologist* Meier, Barbara, German model, most known for winning the third cycle of Germany's Next Topmodel* Meier, Bernd, German football goalkeeper* Meier, Billy, UFO contactee...
- Meir (disambiguation)
- Meyer (disambiguation)
- Meyers
- Meyerson (disambiguation)
- MeyrMeyrMeyr is a surname, and may refer to:* Melchior Meyr, German poet, novelist and philosopher* Wilhelm Meyr, Jesuit missionary, died at sea in 1699 or 1700 during a voyage with Johann Ernst Hanxleden to the Middle East and Asia- See also :...
- Myer (disambiguation)Myer (disambiguation)Myer is a department store that operates Australia-wideMyer may refer to:* Myer Centre, Adelaide, a building in Adelaide* Myer Centre, Brisbane, a Shopping centre in Brisbane* Fort Myer, a U.S...
- MyersMyersMyers is an English origin and German origin surname. The English surname is an early medieval patronymic meaning "son of Mayer", an occupational name for a mayor. The English surname may also have evolved from "physician" , or "marsh" . The first English public record of the surname was in 1212...
- Myerson (disambiguation)
- Von Meyer (disambiguation)
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