Meyer (name)

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Meyer is a masculine given name. Notable people with the name include:

* Meyer (footballer), Meyer Carlos de Camargo, Júnior (born 1980), Brazilian football player
* Meyer Alterman (1891–1967), New York assemblyman
* Meyer R. Bimberg (died 1908), American businessman
* Meyer Cardin (1907–2005), American jurist and politician
* Meyer Cohen, known as Mickey Cohen (1913–1976), American gangster, boxer and entrepreneur
* Meyer Dolinsky (1923–1984), American screenwriter
* Meyer Fortes (1906–1983), South African-born anthropologist
* Meyer Fürth, German teacher and writer
* Meyer Guggenheim (1828–1905), American businessman
* Meyer Habib (born 1961), Tunisian-Jewish French-Israeli politician
* Meyer Justin Herman (1909–1971), American public administrator, active in San Francisco
* Meyer Lansky (1902–1983), American gangster
* Meyer Levin (1905–1981), American novelist
* Meyer Levin (military) (1916–1943), American aviator
* Meyer London (1871–1926), American politician
* Meyer Lutz (1829–1903), German-born British composer and conductor
* Meyer Francis Nimkoff (1904–1965), American sociologist
* Meyer Rosenbaum (I) (1852–1908), Kretchnifer Rebbe
* Meyer Rosenbaum (II) (1910–death year unknown), self-proclaimed Chief Rabbi of Cuba
* Meyer Rubin (1924–2020), American geologist
* Meyer Schapiro (1904–1996), Lithuanian-born American art historian
* Meyer Shapiro, multiple people
* Meyer Wolf Weisgal (1894–1977), American journalist, publisher, and playwright
* Meyer Wolfe (1897–1985), American sculptor.
* Meyer Zayder (died 1930), Soviet military figure

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## Fictional characters

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* Meyer Wolfsheim, from The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
* Meyer Meyer, from the 87th Precinct series by Ed McBain
* Meyer Landsman, from The Yiddish Policemen's Union by Michael Chabon

## See also

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* Meyer (surname), list of people with the surname version
* Meyer, disambiguation pager