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Beyer
:''See also Bayer (surname) and buyer.'' Beyer is mostly a German family name, occurring most commonly in German-speaking countries. It can be either habitational (derived from ''Bayer'', which is the male German language demonym for Bavaria) or occupational (derived from the archaic German verb ''beiern'', "to ring (a bell)", thus referring to individuals tasked with ringing church bells). Variants of the surname include Beier, Bayer and Baier. Most inventions and institutions listed here with the name Beyer were named after an inventor or founder or supporter with the name Beyer. People named Beyer * Absalon Pederssøn Beyer (died 1575), Norwegian clergyman * Adam Beyer (born 1976), Swedish techno producer and DJ * Albert Beyer (1859–1929), United States Navy coxswain * Alexander Beyer (born 1973), German actor * Andrew Beyer, American expert on horse race betting who designed the Beyer Speed Figure * Barbara Petzold-Beyer, former East German cross-country skier * Bero B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Beyer
Charles Frederick Beyer (an anglicised form of his original German name Carl Friedrich Beyer) (14 May 1813 – 2 June 1876) was a celebrated German-British locomotive designer and builder, and co-founder of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers. He was the co-founder and head engineer of Beyer, Peacock and Company in Gorton, Manchester.Hills, R. L. and Patrick, D. (1982). ''Beyer, Peacock: Locomotive Builders to the World''. Glossop: Transport Publishing Co. . A philanthropist and deeply religious, he founded three parish churches (and associated schools) in Gorton, was a governor of The Manchester Grammar School, and remains the single biggest donor to what is today the University of Manchester. He is buried in the graveyard of Llantysilio Church, Llantysilio, Llangollen, Denbighshire North Wales. Llantysilio Church is within the grounds of his former 700 acre Llantysilio Hall estate. His mansion house, built 1872–1874, is nearby. Early life and career Germany Beyer wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Georgina Beyer
Georgina Beyer (born November 1957) is a New Zealand politician and former Labour Party Member of Parliament. In 1995 she was elected mayor of Carterton, making her the world's first openly transgender mayor. In 2005 she became the world's first openly transgender Member of Parliament. She is also among a very small number of former sex workers to hold political office. Early life Born in 1957 at Wellington Hospital to Noeline (née Tamati) and Jack Bertrand and assigned male at birth, she was named after her maternal grandfather, Lieutenant Colonel George Bertrand, who was second in command in the Māori Battalion. Her parents were living in Hataitai at the time of her birth. She is of European and Māori (Te Āti Awa, Ngāti Mutunga, Ngāti Raukawa, and Ngāti Porou) descent. Her mother had a second child, Karen, to her first husband in December 1958. Karen was placed for adoption and few in the family knew that her mother had been pregnant a second time. Beyer was sent to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Don Beyer
Donald Sternoff Beyer Jr. (; born June 20, 1950) is an American businessman, diplomat, and politician serving as the U.S. representative for since 2015. A member of the Democratic Party, his district is in the heart of Northern Virginia and includes Alexandria, Falls Church, and Arlington. Beyer has owned automobile dealerships in Virginia and has a long record of involvement in community and philanthropic work. From 1990 to 1998 he served as the 36th lieutenant governor of Virginia during the gubernatorial administrations of Doug Wilder (1990–1994) and George Allen (1994–1998). His party's nominee for governor of Virginia in 1997, he lost to Republican Jim Gilmore, who was then the Attorney General of Virginia. From 2009 to 2013, he served as United States Ambassador to Switzerland and Liechtenstein under President Barack Obama. In 2014, Beyer announced his candidacy for the U.S. House of Representatives seat for held by the retiring Jim Moran. Beyer won the 12-candid ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beyer Speed Figure
The Beyer Speed Figure is a system for rating the performance of Thoroughbred racehorses in North America designed in the early 1970s by Andrew Beyer, the syndicated horse racing columnist for The Washington Post. First published in book form in 1975, the Daily Racing Form began incorporating Beyer Speed Figures in a horse's past performances in 1992 and the system now assigns a Beyer number for each horse race. On the Beyer scale, the top stakes horses in the United States and Canada typically earn numbers in the 100s, while extremely strong performances can rate in the 120s. In Europe, Timeform has a similar rating scale that yields a number, but with a different value. The popular rule of thumb for a rough equivalent of the Timeform score is to deduct 12-14 points to achieve the Beyer figure. For American Quarter Horse racing, the Speed index rating system is used. The Beyer Speed Figure is calculated by looking at the final time and distance of the race, adjusted by the track ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frank Beyer
Frank Paul Beyer (; 26 May 1932 – 1 October 2006) was a German film director. In East Germany he was one of the most important film directors, working for the state film monopoly DEFA and directed films that dealt mostly with the Nazi era and contemporary East Germany. His film ''Trace of Stones'' was banned for 20 years in 1966 by the ruling SED. His 1975 film '' Jacob the Liar'' was the only East German film ever nominated for an Academy Award. After the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 until his death he mostly directed television films. Biography Early life and career Frank Beyer was born as Frank Paul Beyer in Nobitz in Thuringia, Germany, to Paul Beyer, a clerk, and Charlotte Beyer, a sales clerk. He had a brother, Hermann Beyer (born 30 May 1943) who should have become a successful actor. After the Machtergreifung of the Nazi Party in 1933 his father, a social democrat lost his job and was unemployed for several years. In 1942 he was drafted for military service and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dick Beyer
Richard John Beyer (July 11, 1930 – March 7, 2019) was an American professional wrestler who is best known by his ring names, The Destroyer and Doctor X. Among other places, he worked extensively in Japan and in 2017 he was awarded one of the country's highest honors, the Order of the Rising Sun. Early life As an athlete at Syracuse University, Beyer was a member of the varsity football and wrestling teams. He played in the 1953 Orange Bowl for Syracuse. He graduated with a master's degree in education and was a member of the Fraternity of Phi Gamma Delta's Syracuse Chapter, as well as an Eagle Scout in the Boy Scouts of America. He was a schoolteacher and swim coach in New York until he began his wrestling career. Beyer worked the first seven years of his mat career near his Western New York home, due in large part to his coaching job and commitment to the U.S. Army Reserve. Professional wrestling career Worldwide Wrestling Associates Beyer began as a babyface wrestler in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Colin Beyer
Colin Andrew Nielsen Beyer (10 September 1938 – 21 August 2015) was a New Zealand lawyer. He was a partner and then consultant with Simpson Grierson in Wellington. Also prominent businessman with many governance positions, Beyer was a securities commissioner on the Securities Commission of New Zealand from 2001 until 2010. He was the stepfather of former Member of Parliament Georgina Beyer. Early life Of Danish descent, Beyer was born in Wellington on 10 September 1938 to Knud Johan Nielsen and Carla Emilie (née Pallesen) Beyer. His father worked on the wharves in Wellington and his mother worked for the Education Department. Together with his younger brother Trevor and his sister Olga, they lived in Island Bay. Both brothers attended Wellington College. Professional career Beyer was educated at Victoria University of Wellington. He graduated with an LLB and was admitted to the bar in 1962. His specialities are corporate law and mining law. He was a partner with Simpson Grie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beyers Naudé
Christiaan Frederick Beyers Naudé (10 May 1915 – 7 September 2004) was a South African Afrikaner Calvinist Dominee, theologian and the leading Afrikaner anti-apartheid activist. He was known simply as Beyers Naudé, or more colloquially, ''Oom Bey'' (Afrikaans for "Uncle Bey"). Early life and education One of eight children, Beyers Naudé was born to Jozua François Naudé and Adriana Johanna Naudé (née) van Huyssteen in Roodepoort, Transvaal (now Gauteng). The progenitor of the Naudé name was a French Huguenot refugee named Jacques Naudé who arrived in the Cape in 1718.. The Naudé surname is one of numerous French surnames that retained their original spelling in South Africa. Beyers Naudé was named after General Christiaan Frederick Beyers, under whom his father had served as a soldier and unofficial military chaplain during the second Anglo-Boer War."Beyers Naudé." African National Congress. Jozua Naudé, an Afrikaner Calvinist minister,or "Dominee", "was con ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jinny Beyer
Geraldine Elizabeth Kahle Beyer (born July 27, 1941) is an American quilt designer, quilter, author, teacher and lecturer. Considered by the quilting industry and the publishing media to be of the first designers to form a fabric collection suited to the needs of quilters, she began her career in India after she had run out of yarn. Beyer's works have won awards in the print media, and she has written about the history of quilting and her techniques. She has designed collections for fabric companies, and has taught and lectured on the subject domestically and internationally. Beyer was inducted into the Quilters Hall of Fame in 1984. Early life Beyer was born in Denver, Colorado on July 27, 1941, to artist Polly Kahle and has three sisters. The family later moved to California, and she was taught knitting and sewing by her mother from an early age. Beyer graduated from the University of the Pacific in Stockton with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Speech and French in 1962, and ea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kirsten Beyer
Kirsten Beyer is an American science fiction writer, known for her novels based on the '' Star Trek: Voyager'' television series. She is a staff writer for '' Star Trek: Discovery'', and co-creator and executive producer of '' Star Trek: Picard''. She has also written for the Buffyverse. Career Little is known of Beyer's career prior to her involvement with the ''Star Trek'' franchise. She briefly worked as an actress and dancer for stage productions in the Los Angeles-area until the mid-1990s. After corresponding with ''Star Trek: Voyager'' executive producer Jeri Taylor and expressing an interest in writing for the series, Beyer was invited to pitch for the series. Beyer had previously submitted two spec scripts which were both rejected. She later pitched stories from ''Voyager'' season five onward, but none were produced. In 2004, Beyer was encouraged to send a query package to Pocket Books by her writing partner, Heather Jarman. Her query was accepted, and development o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mark Beyer (comics)
Mark Beyer (born October 8, 1950) is a self-taught American artist and former cartoonist. His comics were known for their bleak story lines, often featuring death, disfigurement, depression, and humiliation, which contrasted with his self-taught, geometric drawing style. Most of his stories were about the adventures of a codependent yet resentful couple named Amy and Jordan. Beyer made one final comic strip for the summer 2012 issue of the British magazine ''ArtReview''. Biography Beyer is originally from Allentown, Pennsylvania in the Lehigh Valley region of eastern Pennsylvania. He is a self-taught, outsider artist whose work has appeared in ''Raw Vision'' magazine. Beyer's work was prominently featured in all but two issues (#3 and 4) of ''Raw'' magazine. He has also been published in ''New York Press'' and ''New Musical Express''. Beyer also had a recurring animated short series on MTV's ''Liquid Television'' (''The Adventures of Thomas and Nardo''); and a 1995 movie by Greg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brad Beyer
Brad Beyer (born September 20, 1973) is an American actor. He may be best-known for his role in the CBS series '' Jericho'', playing Stanley Richmond. Early and personal life Beyer was born in Waukesha, Wisconsin, where he graduated from Catholic Memorial High School (Class of 1991). He briefly attended the University of Minnesota before heading for Los Angeles. Beyer currently resides in Los Angeles. Career Beyer was cast on the pilot of ABC's ''Roman's Empire'' opposite Kelsey Grammer. The pilot did not move forward but it did help Beyer to be cast in his next role on '' GCB'', playing Zack Peacham. His film roles include the films ''Mr. Woodcock'', ''Sorority Boys'', ''Trick'', '' The General's Daughter'', and ''Crazy in Alabama''. Beyer had a role in the 2013 movie '' 42'' as Major League Baseball player Kirby Higbe. Theatrical roles include ''The Chili Queen'', ''Lighting Up the Two Year Old'' (for The Actors Studio), and ''Wonderland'' (at The American Place Theat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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