Myer (name)

Myer is both a surname and a given name. Notable people with the name include:

Surname:

  • Albert J. Myer (1828–1880), American Army officer and surgeon considered the father of the Army Signal Corps and the US Weather Bureau
  • Buddy Myer (1904–1974), All Star major league baseball second baseman
  • Horatio Myer (1850–1916), British businessman and Member of Parliament
  • Ken Myer (1921–1992), American-born Australian philanthropist and businessman
  • Luke Myer (born 1995), British politician
  • Sidney Myer (1878–1934), businessman who co-founded the Australian department store chain; father of Ken Myer
  • Val Myer (1883–1959), British architect and portrait painter

Given name:

  • Myer Fredman (1932–2014), British-Australian conductor
  • Myer Galpern (1903–1993), British Labour Party politician
  • Myer Horowitz (1932–2022) Canadian academic and former president of the University of Alberta
  • Myer Lyon (c. 1750 – 1797), tenor opera singer in London and Dublin
  • Myer Prinstein (1878–1924), American long jump and triple jump Olympic champion
  • Myer Rosenblum (1907–2002), Australian rugby union player and lawyer
  • Myer Skoog (1926–2019), American retired National Basketball Association player
  • Myer Strouse (1825–1878), Democratic member of the US House of Representatives from Pennsylvania
  • Prince Myer, the player character in the video game Deadly Towers