List of Famous people with last name Mayer

Yannick Mayer is a German cyclist, who currently competes for German amateur teams Veloclub Ratisbona Regensburg in road cycling and SW SR in cyclo-cross.

Stephan Ernst Johann Mayer is a German politician. He is a member of the Christian Social Union (CSU). Since 2002 he has been a member of the German Bundestag and spokesman for Home Affairs of the CDU/CSU parliamentary group, and member of the executive board of the CDU/CSU parliamentary group in the Bundestag.

Karl Ulrich Mayer is a German sociologist. He is Director Emeritus of the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin, Germany, as well as the Stanley B. Resor Professor Emeritus of Sociology and Professor at the Institution for Social and Policy Studies at Yale University. He was president of the Leibniz Association from 2010 to 2014 and chaired the Department of Sociology at Yale from 2005 to 2010. He was director of the Max Planck Institute for Human Development from 1983 to 2005, and was the founding editor of the European Sociological Review from 1985 to 1990.

Oscar Ferdinand Mayer was a German American who founded the processed-meat firm Oscar Mayer that bears his name.

Edward Everett Mayer was an American motor racing entrepreneur who was successful in several categories of racing, including Formula One and IndyCars.

Daniel Raphaël Mayer was a member of the French Section of the Workers' International (SFIO), a socialist party in France, president of the Ligue des droits de l'homme from 1958 to 1975. He founded the Comité d'Action Socialiste in 1941 and was a member of the Brutus Network, a Resistant Socialist group. Mayer also supported the Libération-sud resistance movement headed by Emmanuel d'Astier de la Vigerie.

Johann Tobias Mayer was a German physicist. He was mainly well known for his mathematics and natural science textbooks. Anfangsgründe der Naturlehre zum Behuf der Vorlesungen über die Experimental-Physik, an 1801 physics text, was the most influential of its time in the German-speaking countries. Mayer's research in experimental physics and astronomy appeared in Annalen der Physik. He is not to be confused with his famous father, the astronomer Tobias Mayer.