Mayr is a German surname. Notable people with the surname include: *

Andrea Mayr Andrea Mayr (born 15 October 1979) is a female long-distance runner from Austria. She also competes in mountain running, cycling and ski mountaineering. She set her personal best (2:30:43) in the women's marathon on 19 April 2009, winning the Vie ...

(born 1979), Austrian female long-distance runner *

Ernst Mayr Ernst Walter Mayr ( ; ; 5 July 1904 – 3 February 2005) was a German-American evolutionary biologist. He was also a renowned Taxonomy (biology), taxonomist, tropical explorer, ornithologist, Philosophy of biology, philosopher of biology, and ...

(1904–2005), German American evolutionary biologist * Franz Xaver Mayr (1875–1965), Austrian gastroenterologist, invented the Mayr-Kur * Georg Mayr (1564–1623), Bavarian Jesuit priest and Hebrew grammarian *

Gunter Mayr Gunter Mayr (born 25 January 1972) is an Austrian economist who served as interim minister of finance from November 2024 to March 2025. Early life and career Mayr was born in Innsbruck in 1972, and graduated from the University of Innsbruck wit ...

(born 1972), Austrian economist *

Gustav Mayr Gustav L. Mayr (12 October 1830 – 14 July 1908) was an Austrian Entomology, entomologist and professor in Budapest and Vienna. He specialised in Hymenoptera, being particularly known for his studies of ants.Hans Mayr (canoeist) (born 1944), Austrian sprint canoer *

Hans Mayr (trade unionist) Hans Mayr (13 December 1921 – 3 August 2009) was a German trades unionist and politician ( SPD). Respected for his negotiating flair, he served between 1983 and 1986 as president of West Germany's IG Metall (union). Life Hans Meyer was bo ...

(1921–2009), German trades unionist and politician * Hans Mayr, founder of the shoemaking company Ed Meier, Munich *

Heinrich Mayr Heinrich Mayr (29 October 1854 – 24 January 1911) was a German forest scientist, dendrologist and university professor whose research and teaching shaped forest botany in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. His standard botani ...

(1854–1911), German botanist * Heinz Mayr (born 1935), German racewalker *

Karl Mayr Captain Karl Mayr (5 January 1883 – 9 February 1945) was a German General Staff officer and Adolf Hitler's immediate superior in an Army Intelligence Division in the ''Reichswehr'', 1919–1920. Mayr was particularly known as the man who i ...

(1883–1945), German politician and officer *

Michael Mayr Michael Mayr (10 April 1864 – 21 May 1922) was an Austrian politician, who served as Chancellor of Austria in the First Austrian Republic from July 1920 to June 1921. He was a member of the Christian Social Party, and by profession a historian ...

(1864–1922), Austrian historian, politician and Bundeskanzler (1920/21) *

Otto Mayr Otto Mayr (2 November 1930 – 10 February 2025) was a German mechanical engineer, historian of technology, curator, author and director of the National Museum of History and Technology in Washington D.C. and the Deutsches Museum in Munich. He wa ...

(1930–2025), German mechanical engineer and technology historian *

Rupert Ignaz Mayr Rupert Ignaz Mayr (1646 in Schärding – 7 February 1712 in Freising) was a German violinist, composer and Kapellmeister in Munich at the court of Maximilian II Emanuel, Elector of Bavaria Maximilian II (11 July 1662 – 26 February 1726), al ...

(1646–1712), German composer *

Simon Mayr Johann(es) Simon Mayr (also spelled Majer, Mayer, Maier), also known in Italian as Giovanni Simone Mayr or Simone Mayr (14 June 1763 – 2 December 1845), was a German composer. His music reflects the transition from the Classical to the R ...

(1763–1845), German composer * Simon Marius (1573–1624), Simon Mayr in German, German astronomer *

Stephanie Mayr Stephanie Mayr (born 21 January 1965) is a former German curler. She is a 1992 Winter Olympics The 1992 Winter Olympics, officially known as the XVI Olympic Winter Games () and commonly known as Albertville '92 (Franco-Provençal, Arpitan ...

(born 1965), German curler

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