Baer

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Baer (or Bär, from German: bear) or Van Baer is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

Baer[edit]

• Alan Baer, American tuba player
• Arthur "Bugs" Baer (1886–1969), American journalist and humorist
• Buddy Baer (1915–1986), American boxer
• Byron Baer (1929–2007), American politician
• Carl Baer (1918–1996), American basketball player
• Clara Gregory Baer (1863–1938), American inventor of netball, Newcomb ball and author of first rules of women's basketball
• Dale Baer (1950–2021), American character animator
• Donald M. Baer (1931–2002), American developmental psychologist
• Eric Baer (born 1932), American polymer researcher
• George A. Baer (1903–1994), German/Swiss/American bookbinder
• George Baer Jr. (1763–1834), American politician
• George Frederick Baer (1842–1914), American lawyer and executive
• Harold Baer Jr. (1933–2014), American judge
• Jack Baer (1914–2002), American college baseball coach
• Jack Baer (art dealer) (1924–2016), British art dealer
• Jo Baer (born 1929), American painter associated with minimalist art
• John Baer (actor) (1923–2006), American actor, Terry and the Pirates
• John Baer (journalist), American journalist, Philadelphia Daily News
• John Metz Baer, American educational psychologist
• John Miller Baer (1886–1970), American congressman from North Dakota
• John Willis Baer (1861–1931), American Presbyterian leader and college president
• Julius Baer (1857–1922), Swiss banker
• Karl Ernst von Baer (1792–1876), Estonian biologist
• Karl M. Baer (1885–1956), German-Israeli author and activist, first recorded person to undergo transgender sex reassignment surgery
• Kent Baer (born 1951), American football coach
• Larry Baer (born 1957), President and chief executive officer of the San Francisco Giants
• Les Baer, founder of Les Baer Custom, Inc
• Libbie C. Riley Baer (1849–1929), American poet
• Max Baer (boxer) (1909–1959), American boxer
• Max Baer Jr. (born 1937), American actor and director
• Meridith Baer (born 1947), businesswoman, actress, and screenwriter
• Nicolai Reymers Baer (c. 1550–c. 1600), aka Ursus, German mathematician
• Susanne Baer (born 1964), German judge and legal scholar
• Parley Baer (1914–2002), American actor
• Paul Frank Baer (1894–1930), American fighter pilot
• Ralph H. Baer (1922–2014), American inventor
• Reinhold Baer (1902–1979), German mathematician
• Richard Baer (1911–1963), German Nazi SS concentration camp commandant
• Richard Baer (screenwriter) (1928–2008), American screenwriter
• Robert Baer (born 1952), American CIA officer and writer
• Steve Baer (born 1938), American inventor
• Thomas M. Baer, American physicist
• Will Christopher Baer (born 1966), American writer
• William Jacob Baer (1860–1941), American painter
• Vladimir Baer (1853–1905), Russian captain
• Yitzhak Baer (1888–1980), German-born Israeli historian

Van Baer[edit]

• Van Baer (family), Middle Age noble family from the Dutch province of Gelderland
• Frederik Johan van Baer (1645–1713), Dutch officer in the military service of William III of Orange
• Stanny van Baer (born 1942), Dutch model and beauty queen, Miss International 1961

See also[edit]

• Bahr (surname)
• Bähr, Bähr
• Bär
• Baire
• Bare (disambiguation)

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