Meyer (name)

Meyer is a masculine given name. Notable people with the name include:

• Meyer (footballer), Meyer Carlos de Camargo, Júnior (born 1980), Brazilian football player
• Meyer Alterman (1891–1967), New York assemblyman
• Meyer R. Bimberg (died 1908), American businessman
• Meyer Cardin (1907–2005), American jurist and politician
• Meyer Cohen, known as Mickey Cohen (1913–1976), American gangster, boxer and entrepreneur
• Meyer Dolinsky (1923–1984), American screenwriter
• Meyer Fortes (1906–1983), South African-born anthropologist
• Meyer Fürth, German teacher and writer
• Meyer Guggenheim (1828–1905), American businessman
• Meyer Habib (born 1961), Tunisian-Jewish French-Israeli politician
• Meyer Justin Herman (1909–1971), American public administrator, active in San Francisco
• Meyer Lansky (1902–1983), American gangster
• Meyer Levin (1905–1981), American novelist
• Meyer Levin (military) (1916–1943), American aviator
• Meyer London (1871–1926), American politician
• Meyer Lutz (1829–1903), German-born British composer and conductor
• Meyer Francis Nimkoff (1904–1965), American sociologist
• Meyer Rosenbaum (I) (1852–1908), Kretchnifer Rebbe
• Meyer Rosenbaum (II) (1910–death year unknown), self-proclaimed Chief Rabbi of Cuba
• Meyer Rubin (1924–2020), American geologist
• Meyer Schapiro (1904–1996), Lithuanian-born American art historian
• Meyer Shapiro, multiple people
• Meyer Wolf Weisgal (1894–1977), American journalist, publisher, and playwright
• Meyer Wolfe (1897–1985), American sculptor.
• Meyer Zayder (died 1930), Soviet military figure

Fictional characters

• Meyer Wolfsheim, from The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
• Meyer Meyer, from the 87th Precinct series by Ed McBain
• Meyer Landsman, from The Yiddish Policemen's Union by Michael Chabon

See also

• Meyer (surname), list of people with the surname version
• Meyer, disambiguation pager