Meyer is a masculine given name. People with the name include: *

Meyer (footballer) Meyer Carlos de Camargo, Júnior (born 29 January 1980 in São Paulo), known as just Meyer, is a Brazilian football player. He currently plays for South Melbourne FC. Football career He left Brazil for Al-Nasr (Salalah) of Oman in January 2003 ...

, Meyer Carlos de Camargo, Júnior (born 1980), Brazilian football player *

Meyer Alterman Meyer Alterman (March 28, 1891 – December 30, 1967) was an American lawyer and politician from New York. Life He was born on March 28, 1891, in New York City. He attended Public School No. 39 and DeWitt Clinton High School. He was admitted to th ...

(1891–1967), New York assemblyman *

Meyer R. Bimberg Meyer R. Bimberg (died March 25, 1908) was a successful seller of campaign buttons and a theatre builder. Known as "Bim the Button Man" after the 1896 Republican National Convention, he made his fortune selling campaign buttons and built five theatr ...

(died 1908), American businessman *

Meyer Cardin Meyer Melvin Cardin (July 14, 1907 – July 12, 2005) was an American jurist and politician who served as an associate judge on the Supreme Bench of Baltimore City. He served one term in the Maryland General Assembly and was a member of the Car ...

(1907–2005), American jurist and politician * Meyer Cohen, known as

Mickey Cohen Meyer Harris "Mickey" Cohen (September 4, 1913 – July 29, 1976) was an American gangster, boxer and entrepreneur based in Los Angeles during the mid-20th century. Early life Mickey Cohen was born on September 4, 1913, in New York City to Je ...

(1913–1976), American gangster, boxer and entrepreneur *

Meyer Dolinsky Meyer Dolinsky (October 13, 1923 in Chicago, Illinois – February 29, 1984 in Los Angeles, California), aka Mike Dolinsky (sometimes credited as "Michael Adams" or "Mike Adams"), was an American screenwriter. Before transitioning to the screen, ...

(1923–1984), American screenwriter *

Meyer Fortes Meyer Fortes FBA FRAI (25 April 1906 – 27 January 1983) was a South African-born anthropologist, best known for his work among the Tallensi and Ashanti in Ghana. Originally trained in psychology, Fortes employed the notion of the "person" ...

(1906–1983), South African-born anthropologist *

Meyer Fürth Meyer Elkan Fürth () was a German writer and teacher, who belonged to the school of the Me'assefim. He annotated a mathematical work by Abraham Joseph Menz that had appeared in Berlin in 1775, and wrote a number of Hebrew and German works. Publi ...

, German teacher and writer *

Meyer Guggenheim Meyer Guggenheim ( , ; February 1, 1828 – March 15, 1905) was the patriarch of what became known as the Guggenheim family in the United States, which became one of the world's wealthiest families during the 19th century, and remained so during t ...

(1828–1905), American businessman *

Meyer Habib Meyer Habib ( he, מאיר חביב) (born 28 April 1961) is a History of the Jews in Tunisia, Tunisian-Jewish French-Israeli politician of the Union of Democrats and Independents (UDI) who has been serving as a member of the National Assembly ...

(born 1961), Tunisian-Jewish French-Israeli politician * Meyer Justin Herman (1909–1971), American public administrator, active in San Francisco *

Meyer Lansky Meyer Lansky (born Maier Suchowljansky; July 4, 1902 – January 15, 1983), known as the "Mob's Accountant", was an American organized crime figure who, along with his associate Lucky Luciano, Charles "Lucky" Luciano, was instrumental in the deve ...

(1902–1983), American gangster *

Meyer Levin Meyer Levin (October 7, 1905 – July 9, 1981) was an American novelist. Perhaps best known for his work on the Leopold and Loeb case, Levin worked as a journalist (for the ''Chicago Daily News'' and, from 1933–1939, as an editor for ''Esquire ...

(1905–1981), American novelist *

Meyer Levin (military) Meyer (Mike) Levin (June 5, 1916 - January 7, 1943) was a World War II B-17 Flying Fortress bombardier, pilot, and war hero. Three days after the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor, he flew on a mission with pilot Colin Kelly against the Japanese ...

(1916–1943), American aviator *

Meyer London Meyer London (December 29, 1871 – June 6, 1926) was an American politician from New York City. He represented the Lower East Side of Manhattan and was one of only two members of the Socialist Party of America elected to the United States Congre ...

(1871–1926), American politician *

Meyer Lutz Wilhelm Meyer Lutz (19 May 1829 – 31 January 1903) was a German-born British composer and conductor who is best known for light music, musical theatre and Victorian burlesque, burlesques of well-known works. Emigrating to the UK at the age of ...

(1829–1903), German-born British composer and conductor *

Meyer Francis Nimkoff Meyer Francis Nimkoff (1904-1965) was an American sociologist and professor at Boston University Boston University (BU) is a private research university in Boston, Massachusetts. The university is nonsectarian, but has a historical affilia ...

(1904–1965), American sociologist *

Meyer Rosenbaum (I) Grand Rebbe Meyer Rosenbaum (1852–1908), Kretchnifer Rebbe, was the son of Rabbi Mordechai of Nadvorna (1824–1894). His scholarly work is called "Razah DeUvdah." He was the only person whom his father authorized to issue ''kameyos'' (writt ...

(1852–1908), Kretchnifer Rebbe * Meyer Rosenbaum (II) (1910–death year unknown), self-proclaimed Chief Rabbi of Cuba *

Meyer Rubin Meyer Rubin (February 17, 1924 – May 2, 2020) was an American geologist known for his radiocarbon dating work with the United States Geological Survey. Early career After graduating from Englewood High School, South Side, Chicago, in 1941, ...

(1924–2020), American geologist *

Meyer Schapiro Meyer Schapiro (23 September 1904 – 3 March 1996) was a Lithuanian-born American art historian known for developing new art historical methodologies that incorporated an interdisciplinary approach to the study of works of art. An expert on earl ...

(1904–1996), Lithuanian-born American art historian * Meyer Shapiro, multiple people * Meyer Wolf Weisgal (1894–1977), American journalist, publisher, and playwright *

Meyer Wolfe Meyer (Mike) Wolfe (1897-1985), also known as Meyer R. Wolfe, was an American sculptor. His best work is representative of a school of regional realism that arose in the 1930s as a response to European Modernism. Wolfe was born in Louisville, Ken ...

(1897–1985), American sculptor. *

Meyer Zayder Meyer Zayder (russian: Мейер Зайдер; died 1930; also written Meyer Seider) was a Russian known for shooting Soviet general Grigory Kotovsky on 6 August 1925. Biography Little is known about Zayder's life before the October Revolu ...

(died 1930), Soviet military figure

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*Meyer Wolfsheim, from ''

The Great Gatsby ''The Great Gatsby'' is a 1925 novel by American writer F. Scott Fitzgerald. Set in the Jazz Age on Long Island, near New York City, the novel depicts first-person narrator Nick Carraway's interactions with mysterious millionaire Jay Gatsb ...

'' by F. Scott Fitzgerald *Meyer Meyer, from the ''

87th Precinct The 87th Precinct is a series of police procedural novels and stories by American author Ed McBain (a writing pseudonym of Evan Hunter). McBain's 87th Precinct works have been adapted, sometimes loosely, into movies and television on several occa ...

'' series by Ed McBain

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