Mayr is a German surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Andrea Mayr (born 1979), Austrian female long-distance runner *

Ernst Mayr Ernst Walter Mayr (; 5 July 1904 – 3 February 2005) was one of the 20th century's leading evolutionary biologists. He was also a renowned Taxonomy (biology), taxonomist, tropical explorer, ornithologist, Philosophy of biology, philosopher o ...

(1904–2005), German American evolutionary biologist * Georg Mayr (1564–1623), Bavarian Jesuit priest and Hebrew grammarian *

Gustav Mayr Gustav L. Mayr (12 October 1830 – 14 July 1908) was an Austrian entomologist and professor in Budapest and Vienna. He specialised in Hymenoptera, being particularly known for his studies of ants.Hans Mayr (canoeist) Hans Peter Mayr (born 27 November 1944) is an Austrian sprint canoer who competed in the late 1970s and early 1980s. He was eliminated in the semifinals of the K-2 1000 m event at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal. Four years later in Moscow ...

(born 1944), Austrian sprint canoer *

Hans Mayr (trade unionist) Hans Mayr (13 December 1921 – 3 August 2009) was a German trades unionist and politician (SPD). Respected for his negotiating flair, he served between 1983 and 1986 as president of West Germany's IG Metall (union). Life Hans Meyer was bor ...

(1921–2009), German trades unionist and politician * Hans Mayr, founder of the shoemaking company Ed Meier, Munich * Heinz Mayr (born 1935), German racewalker *

Karl Mayr Captain Karl Mayr (5 January 1883 – 9 February 1945) was a German General Staff officer and Adolf Hitler's immediate superior in an army Intelligence Division in the Reichswehr, 1919–1920. Mayr was particularly known as the man who intro ...

(1883–1945), German politician and officer *

Michael Mayr Michael Mayr (10 April 1864 – 21 May 1922) was an Austrian politician, who served as Chancellor of Austria in the First Austrian Republic from July 1920 to June 1921. He was a member of the Christian Social Party, and by profession a historian ...

(1864–1922), Austrian historian, politician and Bundeskanzler (1920/21) * Rupert Ignaz Mayr (1646–1712), German composer *

Simon Mayr Johann(es) Simon Mayr (also spelled Majer, Mayer, Maier), also known in Italian as Giovanni Simone Mayr or Simone Mayr (14 June 1763 – 2 December 1845), was a German composer. His music reflects the transition from the Classical to the ...

(1763–1845), German composer *

Simon Marius Simon Marius ( latinized form of Simon Mayr; 10 January 1573 – 5 January 1625) was a German astronomer. He was born in Gunzenhausen, near Nuremberg, but spent most of his life in the city of Ansbach. He is most known for being among the first ...

(1573–1624), Simon Mayr in German, German astronomer * Stephanie Mayr (born 1965), German curler

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