Talk:Beer (disambiguation)

Beer as family name

1. Angelika Beer (born 1957), German politician (Alliance '90/The Greens)
2. August Beer (1825–1863), German mathematician, chemist and physicist
3. Giacomo Meyerbeer (born Yaakov Liebmann Beer), German composer, brother of Wilhelm Beer and writer Michael Beer
4. Joseph Beer (1908–1987), operetta composer
5. Joseph Beer (clarinetist) (1744–1811)
6. Klaus Beer, German track & field athlete
7. Michael Beer (poet) (1800–1833), German poet
8. Oliver Beer, German footballer
9. Richard Beer-Hofmann (1866–1945), Austrian writer
10. Wilhelm Beer (1797–1850), German banker and astronomer

It should be noted that Beer as a German family name has nothing to do with beer (German Bier).

The name Beer could either be linked with «Beere» (berry) or rather with «Bär» (or Baer, this is bear). The -ee- is pronounced as a long [e:] like /e/ in men. --Schwab7000 (talk) 13:46, 27 December 2012 (UTC)