Meyer (name)
male given 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.
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