List of Famous people with last name Mayer

Christian Mayer is an Austrian former alpine skier. He won the Alpine Ski World Cup Giant Slalom title in 1993/94.

Maria Goeppert Mayer was a German-born American theoretical physicist, and Nobel laureate in Physics for proposing the nuclear shell model of the atomic nucleus. She was the second woman to win a Nobel Prize in physics, the first being Marie Curie. In 1986, the Maria Goeppert-Mayer Award for early-career women physicists was established in her honor.

Louis Burt Mayer was a Canadian-American film producer and co-founder of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studios (MGM) in 1924. Under Mayer's management, MGM became the film industry's most prestigious movie studio, accumulating the largest concentration of leading writers, directors, and stars in Hollywood.

Florian Mayer is a German retired professional tennis player.

Nonna Mayer is a French political scientist.

Sergé "Jojo" Mayer is a Swiss virtuoso drummer born in Zürich and currently residing in New York City.

Rupert Mayer, S.J. was a German Jesuit priest and a leading figure of the Catholic resistance to Nazism in Munich. In 1987, he was beatified by Pope John Paul II.

Helene Julie Mayer was a German-born fencer who won the gold medal at the 1928 Olympics in Amsterdam, and the silver medal at the 1936 Olympics in Berlin. She competed for Nazi Germany in Berlin, despite having been forced to leave Germany in 1935 and resettle in the United States because she was Jewish. She was studying in an American University and later returned to Germany in 1952 where she died of breast cancer.

Joseph Gilles Camille "Gil" Mayer was a Canadian professional ice hockey goaltender. Mayer stood 5'6" tall, and weighed 128 lbs, which earned him the nickname "The Needle." During his time with the Cleveland Barons, Mayer became the first AHL goaltender to wear a mask.

Constance Mayer was a French painter of portraits, allegorical subjects, miniatures and genre works. She had "a brilliant but bitter career."