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Fatima Meer Fatima Meer (12 August 1928 – 12 March 2010) was a South African writer, academic, screenwriter, and prominent anti-apartheid activist. Early life Fatima Meer was born in the Grey Streets of Durban, South Africa, into a middle-class family ...

(1928–2010), South African writer and anti-apartheid activist *

Johnny Vander Meer John Samuel Vander Meer (November 2, 1914 – October 6, 1997) was an American professional baseball player. He played in Major League Baseball as a left-handed pitcher, most prominently as a member of the Cincinnati Reds where he became the only ...

(1914–1997), American baseball pitcher, famed for pitching two consecutive no-hitters *

Mark Meer Mark Meer is a Canadian actor, writer and improvisor, based in Edmonton, Alberta. He is known for his role in the ''Mass Effect'' trilogy, in which he stars as the voice of the player character, Commander Shepard. His voice is featured in a numbe ...

, Canadian actor and writer *, South African journalist and newspaper editor of ''The Indian Views'' *

Simon van der Meer Simon van der Meer (24 November 19254 March 2011) was a Dutch Accelerator physics, particle accelerator physicist who shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1984 with Carlo Rubbia for contributions to the CERN project which led to the discovery o ...

(1925–2011), Dutch accelerator physicist *

Mir Taqi Mir Mir Muhammad Taqi (February 1723 – 20 September 1810), known as Mir Taqi Mir (also spelled Meer Taqi Meer), was an Urdu poet of the 18th century Mughal era in the Subcontinent and one of the pioneers who gave shape to the Urdu language it ...

(1722–1810), Urdu poet *

Mir (band) Mir is a Canadian alternative rock and pop music group founded in 1996 and based in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Asif Illyas is the band's lead vocalist, guitarist and pianist. His brother Shehab Illyas is the bassist and vocalist, and Adam Dowling i ...

, Canadian rock band, pronounced "meer" *

Meer Campbell This is a list of fictional characters featured in the Cosmic Era (CE) timeline of the Gundam anime metaseries. These characters appear in the ''Mobile Suit Gundam SEED'' and ''Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Destiny'' anime television series, as well a ...

, fictional character from the anime series ''Mobile Suit Gundam SEED'' * Meer, character in the Deverry Cycle book series

Places

Meer, Antwerp Meer is a village in the Belgian municipality of Hoogstraten in the province of Antwerp. As of 2021, it has 3,542 inhabitants. History The village was first mentioned around 1200 as Mera, Mere. It used to be part of the Land of Breda. In 1278, ...

, Belgium * Meer, Belgian Limburg, Belgium * Meer, Flemish Brabant, Belgium * Meer, North Brabant in the Netherlands *

Meer, Overijssel Meer ɪːris a hamlet in the Dutch province of Overijssel. It is located in the municipality of Twenterand, about 2 km west of the town of Den Ham.''ANWB Topografische Atlas Nederland'', Topografische Dienst and ANWB, 2005. Meer is a statist ...

in the Netherlands * Meer, Beytüşşebap, village in Turkey * Alternatively, "meer" is the Dutch word for "

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Markermeer The Markermeer () is a lake in the central Netherlands in between North Holland, Flevoland, and its smaller and larger neighbors, the IJmeer and IJsselmeer. A shallow lake at 3 to 5 m in depth, matching the reclaimed land to its west, ...

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