Baer

For other uses, see BAER (disambiguation).

Look up Baer, baer, or bær in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.

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

## Baer

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* 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 (1929–2025), 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 (1938–2024), 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

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* 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

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

Surname list

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Family names derived from the word "bear"

Germanic|

* North Germanic: Bjorn, Bjornson/Björnsson
* West Germanic: Baer, Bähr, Bär, Bear, Beer, Beers, Behr, De Beer, Berson

Romance|

* Orso, Orsi, Orsino, Orsini, Ourso
* Urso, D'Urso, Ursu

Slavic|

* Slavic: Medved, Medvedchuk, Medvedev, Medvedenko, Medvedko, Medvedyk, Niedźwiedź, Nedvěd, Vedmid

Other|

* Baltic: Lācis
* Basque: Hartz
* Chinese: Xiong
* Estonian: Karu
* Finnish: Karhu, Karhunen
* Hungarian (borrowed from Slavic): Medve, Medveczky

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