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* Meier, Annemarie Sylvia, German chess master * Meier, Armin, Swiss cyclist * Meier, Armin (actor), German actor * Meier, Barbara, German model, most known for winning the third cycle of ''Germany's Next Topmodel'' * Meier, Bernd, German football goalkeeper * Meier, Bertram (born 1960), German Roman-Catholic bishop * Meier, Billy, UFO contactee * Meier, Carl A., Swiss psychiatrist and Jungian Psychologist * Meier, Karl, Swiss chef * Meier, Carson (born 1995), American football player * Meier, Christian, several people of this name * Meier, Dieter, a Swiss-Indian musician * Meier, Deborah, founder of the modern small schools movement * Meier, Dutch, American baseball player * Meière, Hildreth (1892–1961), American artist * Meier, John, German philologist and ethnographer * Meier, John, Australian politician * Meier, John H. former business associate of Howard Hughes, involved in Watergate * Meier, John P., Catholic priest and Bible historian * Meier, Julius L., businessman and Governor of Oregon * Meier, Katja, justice minister of Saxony * Meier, Kenneth J., American professor of political science * Meier, Paul, medical statistician *
Ronald Meier Megan Taylor Meier (November 6, 1992 – October 17, 2006) was an American teenager who died by suicide by hanging herself three weeks before her 14th birthday. A year later, Meier's parents prompted an investigation into the matter and her su ...
, American professor of technology management * Meier, Megan, notable teenage victim of cyberbullying * Meier, Myka, American-British etiquette writer * Meier, Naomi, All-American Girls Professional Baseball League player * Meier, Richard, American architect * Meier, Richard L., American urban theorist * Meier, Rob, American football defensive tackle/defensive end for the Jacksonville Jaguars * Meier, Rudolf, Swiss Olympic boxer * Meier, Sarah, Swiss figure skater * Meier, Sid, computer game programmer and designer * Meier, Silvio (1965–1992), East German activist killed by neo-Nazis * Meier, Timo, Swiss ice hockey player * Meier, Urs, retired Swiss football referee * Meier, Waltraud, German mezzo soprano * Meier, Wes, American football coach


Places

* Meiers Corners, a neighborhood in Staten Island, New York City, New York, United States *
Méier Méier is a middle class and upper middle class neighborhood in the North Zone of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The neighborhood is the historic center of the "''Área dos Engenhos''", or "Mill Area", which today is known as ''Grande Méier'' (Great M ...
, a neighbourhood in Rio de Janeiro,
Brazil Brazil ( pt, Brasil; ), officially the Federative Republic of Brazil (Portuguese: ), is the largest country in both South America and Latin America. At and with over 217 million people, Brazil is the world's fifth-largest country by area ...


Other uses

* A historical kind of
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in parts of the
Low Countries The term Low Countries, also known as the Low Lands ( nl, de Lage Landen, french: les Pays-Bas, lb, déi Niddereg Lännereien) and historically called the Netherlands ( nl, de Nederlanden), Flanders, or Belgica, is a coastal lowland region in N ...
* Sid Meier's Alien Crossfire, a computer game *
Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri ''Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri'' is a 4X video game, considered a spiritual sequel to the ''Civilization'' series. Set in a science fiction depiction of the 22nd century, the game begins as seven competing ideological factions land on the planet ...
, a computer game * Sid Meier's Gettysburg, a computer game *
Sid Meier's Pirates! ''Sid Meier's Pirates!'' is a video game created by Sid Meier for the Commodore 64 and published by MicroProse in 1987. It was the first game to include the name "Sid Meier" in its title as an effort by MicroProse to attract fans of Meier's ear ...
, a computer game *
Sid Meier's SimGolf ''Sid Meier's SimGolf'' is a video game developed by Firaxis and published by Electronic Arts in 2002. Players must successfully design golf courses and play them with their default professional golfer Gary Golf. Played in a near- isometric dim ...
, a computer game *
Meier & Frank Meier & Frank was a prominent chain of department stores founded in Portland, Oregon, and later bought by The May Department Stores Company. Meier & Frank operated in the Pacific Northwest from 1857 to 2006. History Summary Meier & Frank was f ...
, a former department store chain *
Meier & Frank Building The Meier & Frank Building is a fifteen-story, glazed terra cotta building located in downtown Portland, Oregon, across from the northeast corner of Pioneer Courthouse Square. The building is the former flagship store and headquarters building ...
, a historic commercial building associated with Meier & Frank department stores


See also

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Meyer (surname) The surname Meyer is an English, Dutch, German, and Jewish surname. With its numerous variants (Myer, Meyr, Meier, Meijer, Mayer, Maier, Mayr, Mair etc., though not all instances of these names are necessarily cognate), it is the most common ...
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Mayer (disambiguation) Mayer may refer to: *Mayer (name) Places * C. Mayer (crater), named after Christian Mayer * Mayer, Syria * Mayer, Arizona, United States * Mayer, Minnesota, United States * Mayersville, Mississippi, United States * Mayerthorpe, Alberta, Canada ...
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Mayr Mayr is a German surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Andrea Mayr (born 1979), Austrian female long-distance runner * Ernst Mayr (1904–2005), German American evolutionary biologist * Georg Mayr (1564–1623), Bavarian Jesuit pri ...
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Meyr (disambiguation) Meyr may refer to: *Meyr (surname) Meyr is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Melchior Meyr, German poet, novelist and philosopher * Wilhelm Meyr, Jesuit missionary, died at sea in 1699 or 1700 during a voyage with Johann Ernst ...
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Meyer (disambiguation) Meyer may refer to: People *Meyer (surname), listing people so named *Meyer (name), a list of people and fictional characters with the name Companies * Meyer Burger, a Swiss mechanical engineering company * Meyer Corporation * Meyer Sound Labor ...
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Meir Meir ( he, מֵאִיר) is a Jewish male given name and an occasional surname. It means "one who shines". It is often Germanized as Maier, Mayer, Mayr, Meier, Meyer, Meijer, Italianized as Miagro, or Anglicized as Mayer, Meyer, or Myer.Alfre ...
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Myers Myers as a surname has several possible origins, e.g. Old French ("physician"), Old English ("mayor"), and Old Norse ("marsh"). People *Abram F. Myers (born 1889), chair of the Federal Trade Commission and later general counsel and board chai ...
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Lemaire Lemaire (or LeMaire or Le Maire) is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Adrien Lemaire (1852–1902), French botanist * Alfred Jean Baptiste Lemaire, French military musician * Axelle Lemaire, (born 1974), French politician * Bern ...
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German family name etymology Personal names in German-speaking Europe consist of one or several given names (''Vorname'', plural ''Vornamen'') and a surname (''Nachname, Familienname''). The ''Vorname'' is usually gender-specific. A name is usually cited in the " Western or ...
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