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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 designer of Beyer Speed Figure * Barbara Petzold-Beyer (born Petzold, 1955), East German cross-country skier * Bero Beyer, Dutch film pr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grace Beyer
Grace Beyer is an American former women's college basketball player. While playing for the UHSP Eutectics she established the all-time women's NAIA scoring record as well as the women's four-year college scoring record. She was a three-time NAIA & WBCA All-American, NAIA Academic All-American of the Year, 3-time first team Academic All-America, 3-time Women's Basketball NAIA Academic All-America of the year, five-time All-American Midwest Conference (4-time first team), 3-time AMC Player of the Year, and AMC Freshman of the Year. She led the NAIA in scoring 4 times. She played high school basketball for Mukwonago High School in Mukwonago, Wisconsin, leading the school to the final four of the state tournament all 4 years including 3 consecutive runnerup finishes. Beyer holds the UHSP career, season, and single-game records for points, field goals, free throws and assists. She has recorded the only triple-doubles in school history. Early life Beyer is one of three children ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bayer (surname)
Bayer is a surname with various origins. It occurs most commonly in German-speaking countries, where it can be either habitational (''Bayer'' being 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 Baier, Beyer and Beier. In the English-speaking world, the surname comes from the ancient kingdom of Bernicia, in what is now southeastern Scotland and North East England. It is derived from the place name Byers (other), Byers, which in turn comes from the Old English language, Old English ''byre'', meaning cattle-shed. Related names include Byers, Byres, Byer, Buyers and Byris. at HouseOfNames.com People with this surname |
Dick Beyer
Richard John "Dick" Beyer (July 11, 1930 – March 7, 2019) was an American professional wrestler 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. Beyer was a member of the wrestling team and also served as an assistant to Ben Schwartzwald ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lisa Beyer
Lisa Beyer is vice president of communications at the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative (IAVI). Prior to joining IAVI, Beyer was assistant managing editor at ''Time'' magazine until early 2007. Career Beyer began her career as an editor for the Daily Texan while also working part-time for the Austin American-Statesman. She began working for ''TIME'' magazine as a staff writer in 1988. Beyer served as ''Time'' bureau chief in Jerusalem for much of the time between the two Persian Gulf Wars. During her time here she interviewed Yasser Arafat, Yitzhak Rabin, Benjamin Netanyahu, and Ehud Barak. In 2000, she left Jerusalem to begin working in New York City as a Senior Editor for ''TIME'' magazine. Awards and honors In 1983, Beyer was awarded a Henry Luce Scholarship where she was able to travel to Hong Kong working for ''Asiaweek'' as a staff writer. Personal A native of Lafayette Parish, Louisiana, Beyer has also lived in Austin, Texas, Hong Kong, Singapore and now resides in ... [...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 was 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 ... [...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. Her mother is artist Polly Kahle and she 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 i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jan Beyer Schmidt-Sørensen
Jan Beyer Schmidt-Sørensen (January 17, 1958) is a Danish economist and former Director of Business Development at Aarhus Municipality. . Retrieved 8. January 2018 Biography Jan Beyer Schmidt-Sørensen was born January 17, 1958, in . He grown up in Hadsund and , and in 1976 he graduated from Hasseris High School in Aalborg. Afterwards he studied |
Helga Beyer
Helga Beyer (4 May 1920 – 1941) was a German resistance fighter. Biography Beyer was born in Breslau. She had a sister Ursula who survived the Second World War and later had family in America. Her Jewish father ran a small, thriving lamp factory in Breslau. At the age of 13, Helga Beyer was already a member of the Communist Party of Germany (KPO). She was also active in the (Comrades-in-Charge). She worked as a courier in the German-Czech border region, delivering valuable information about the SPD's exiled executive committee to Breslau. She also supported families in hiding and arrested friends by collecting donations. She also wrote poems against National Socialism. On 28 January 1938, she was arrested and sentenced to three and a half years in prison in a high treason trial. She was subsequently imprisoned in the Ravensbrück concentration camp Ravensbrück () was a Nazi concentration camp exclusively for women from 1939 to 1945, located in northern Germany, north o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Georgina Beyer
Georgina Beyer (November 1957 – 6 March 2023) was a New Zealand Labour Party politician who represented Wairarapa in the Parliament of New Zealand from 1999 to 2005, after serving as mayor of Carterton from 1995 to 1999. Beyer was the world's first openly transgender mayor, and the world's first openly transgender member of parliament. As a member of the Labour Party Beyer supported progressive policies including prostitution law reform, civil unions, anti-discrimination laws, and the promotion of Māori rights. She resigned in 2007, and, in 2014, unsuccessfully stood for election on behalf of the Mana Party. 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 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 was of European and Māori (Te Āti Awa, Ngāti Mut ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Friedrich Bayer
Friedrich Bayer (born Friedrich Beyer, 6 June 1825 in Barmen now Wuppertal – 6 May 1880 in Würzburg) was the founder of what would become Bayer, a German chemical and pharmaceutical company. He founded the dyestuff factory ''Friedrich Bayer'' along with Johann Friedrich Weskott in 1863 in Elberfeld Elberfeld is a municipal subdivision of the Germany, German city of Wuppertal; it was an independent town until 1929. History The first official mentioning of the geographic area on the banks of today's Wupper River as "''elverfelde''" was ..., a flourishing city in the early industrialised region of the ''Wuppertal'' or Wupper Valley. Friedrich Bayer changed the spelling of his surname from Beyer in his early twenties, due to the publicity gained by a fraudulent merchant from Leipzig bearing the same name. Friedrich Beyer from Barmen feared that the bad reputation of his namesake could damage his business and consequently changed his surname to Bayer. References Ext ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Franz Beyer (musicologist)
Franz Beyer (26 February 1922, in Weingarten – 29 June 2018, in Munich) was a German musicologist, who is best known for his revising and restoration of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's music, in particular his unfinished Requiem, KV 626, which he restored in the early 1970s. In 1962 he became professor for viola and chamber music at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater München. His revision of the Requiem was in keeping with Mozart's actual musical style, not his own interpretation of the work. He has also revised and/or edited works of other composers. He has also played in the Collegium Aureum as a violist, and collaborated with the Melos Quartet as additional violist when performing Mozart's string quintet A string quintet is a musical composition for five string players. As an extension to the string quartet (two violins, a viola, and a cello), a string quintet includes a fifth string instrument, usually a second viola (a so-called "viola quintet ...s. Awards * 6 A ... [...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 (film studio), DEFA and directed films that dealt mostly with the Nazi Germany, Nazi era and contemporary East Germany. His film ''Trace of Stones'' was banned for 20 years in 1966 by the ruling Socialist Unity Party of Germany, SED. His 1975 film ''Jacob the Liar (1975 film), Jacob the Liar'' was the only East German film ever nominated for an Academy Award. After the Berlin Wall#The Fall, 1989, 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 f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
