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'''Boyer''' is a [[French language|French]], English, German and even Turkish last name. Boyer in English comes from [[bowyer]], meaning "bow maker" or "bow seller." In French, it means "ox leader", the one leading the ox while plowing. In Turkish, it comes from boy-er, boy meaning "size" or "stature" and "er" meaning "man" or "soldier."
==People==
*[[Alexis de Boyer]], French surgeon
*[[Angelique Boyer]] (born 1988), Mexican actress
*[[Bill Boyer Jr.]], entreprenurial 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]] (born 1937), 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]], baseball player
*[[Louis Boyer (merchant)|Louis Boyer]], Canadian merchant
*[[Louis Boyer (astronomer)|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 S. Boyer|Robert Stephen Boyer]], currently a professor of computer science, mathematics, and philosophy at The University of Texas at Austin.
*[[List of Charles Whitman's victims|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.
==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]]
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