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 leader". In Turkish, the name may come from boy-er, boy meaning "size" or "stature" and "er" meaning "man" or "soldier."

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
• Erica Boyer (born 1956), American actress
• Ernest L. Boyer, American educator
• Ethaan Boyer (born 1977) This American artist is the creator of the online comic fishbulb and co-founder of Atomic Picnic.
• Herbert Boyer (born 1936), biochemist
• Jacques Boyer (born 1955) American cyclist
• Jacqueline Boyer (born 1941), French singer
• Jay Boyer (born 1947), American playwright
• Jean Boyer, French director and author
• 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, Canadian merchant
• 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 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.
• Jordan Boyer (artist), an American person.

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

• Boyer-Moore string search algorithm
• Boyer Gallery

See also

• Boier
• Bauer

Notes

1. ↑ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boii
2. ↑ http://www.ancestry.com.au/facts/Boyer-places-origin.ashx -- origins of Bayer
3. ↑ http://www.ancestry.com.au/facts/Boyer-places-origin.ashx -- English variant