Boyer is a surname which is derived from the Boii, a Celtic tribe that migrated from ancient Bohemia (home of the Boii) [1] to many regions surrounding the Alps [2]. Boyers in England may come from bowyer, meaning "bow maker" or "bow seller." [3] In French, the surname may mean "ox guard" or "ox leader". In Turkish, the name may come from boy-er, boy meaning "size" or "stature" and "er" meaning "man" or "soldier." It can also be a corruption or deliberate alteration of several German names.
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People
- Abel Boyer (1667-1729), French/English Lexicographer and journalist
- Alexis de Boyer, French surgeon
- Angélique Boyer (born 1988), French-Mexican actress
- Bill Boyer Jr., entrepreneurial former baggage handler who now owns Mokulele Airlines
- Carl Benjamin Boyer, historian of mathematics
- Charles Boyer, French-American actor
- Claudette Boyer (born 1938), Canadian politician
- Clete Boyer (1937-2007), American baseball player
- Edie Boyer (born 1966), American discus thrower
- Erica Boyer (born 1956), American actress
- Ernest L. Boyer, American educator
- Herbert Boyer (born 1936), biochemist
- Jacques Boyer (born 1955) American cyclist
- Jacqueline Boyer (born 1941), French singer
- Jean Boyer (director), French director and author
- Jean Boyer (politician), French politician
- Jean Pierre Boyer, Haitian politician
- Joseph Boyer (1848–1930), a Canadian-American inventor and computer industrialist,
- Katy Boyer, American actress
- Ken Boyer, (1931-1982) American baseball player
- Louis Boyer, French astronomer
- Lucienne Boyer, French singer
- Michael Boyer (born 1960), American actor and showman
- Pascal Boyer, anthropologist
- Patrick Boyer (born 1945), Canadian politician
- Paul D. Boyer (born 1918), American biochemist
- Phil Boyer (born 1949) English footballer
- Richard Boyer (disambiguation)
- Rick Boyer, (b. 1943) Edgar award-winning mystery writer
- Richard O. Boyer, American journalist
- Robert Stephen Boyer, currently a professor of computer science, mathematics, and philosophy at The University of Texas at Austin.
- Robert Hamilton Boyer, a 33-year-old visiting professor shot and killed in Charles Whitman's shooting spree at The University of Texas at Austin in 1966.
- Robert Boyer (artist), a Canadian artist of aboriginal heritage.
- Woodrow A Boyer (Writer, Broadcaster, Life-Sciences Explorer) (born 1959) Researcher / survivor of Stevens-Johnson Syndrome and Toxic Epidermal Necrolysis. Paranormal Explorer and Anthropologist.
Places
Boyer is the name of several places:
- Boyer, Loire, in the Loire département of France
- Boyer, Saône-et-Loire, in the Saône-et-Loire département of France
- Boyer, Tasmania, in Australia
- Boyer, Nevada, in United States
Other uses
See also
Notes
- ^ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boii
- ^ http://www.ancestry.com.au/facts/Boyer-places-origin.ashx -- origins of Bayer
- ^ http://www.ancestry.com.au/facts/Boyer-places-origin.ashx -- English variant
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