Thayer 1308528 217590743 2008-06-06T18:44:22Z Ken Gallager 1175300 /* Places */ remove non-articles Originally a surname, '''Thayer''' may refer to: {{TOCright}} ==Education== * [[Thayer Academy]] in Braintree, Massachusetts * Thayer Central High School, [[Hebron, Nebraska]] * [[Thayer Hall]], a Harvard University dormitory * Thayer High School in [[Winchester, New Hampshire]] * [[Thayer School of Engineering]], Dartmouth College ==People== ===Given name=== * [[Raymond Thayer Birge]] (1887-1980), physicist * [[Thayer David]] (1927-1978), film and TV actor * Rear-Admiral [[Alfred Thayer Mahan]] (1840-1914), US Navy ===Surname=== * [[Abbott Handerson Thayer]] (1849-1921), American artist * [[Alexander Wheelock Thayer]] (1817-1897), author of ''The life of Ludwig van Beethoven'', a standard biography, and other music biographies * [[Brynn Thayer]] (b. 1949), American actress * Edwin Pope Thayer, [[List of Secretaries of the U.S. Senate|Secretary of the U.S. Senate]] from 1925-1933 * David Thayer (b. 1949), birth name of [[Teddy Harvia]], cartoonist * [[Douglas Thayer]], American writer * [[Eli Thayer]] (1819-1899), Kansas politician * [[Ernest Thayer]] (1863-1940), American poet, author of "Casey at the Bat" * [[Harry Bates Thayer]] * [[Helen Thayer]] * [[James Thayer]] (b. 1949), thriller writer * [[James Bradley Thayer]] (1831-1902), American legal writer and educationist * [[John Thayer]]: **[[John Thayer (priest)]] (1755-1815). **[[John Alden Thayer]], member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Massachusetts, 1911-1913 **[[John Thayer (cricketer)]] (John Borland Thayer, Jr.), an American cricket player and businessman, who died on the RMS ''Titanic'' **[[Jack Thayer]] (John Borland Thayer III), a survivor of the Titanic sinking **[[John Eliot Thayer]] **[[John Milton Thayer]], U.S. Senator from Nebraska **[[John Randolph Thayer]], member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Massachusetts, 1899-1905 * [[Joseph Henry Thayer]] (1828-1901), American biblical scholar * [[Lorna Thayer]] (1919-2005), American actress * [[Max Thayer]] (b. 1946), American movie actor * [[Nathaniel Thayer]] (1769-1840), minister * Orla Ed Thayer, inventor of the [[Thayer Valve]] for trombones * [[Robert H. Thayer]] * [[Scofield Thayer]], American poet and publisher * [[Stuart Thayer]] (b. 1926), circus historian * [[Sylvanus Thayer]] (1785-1872), United States general * [[Tiffany Thayer]], founder of the Fortean Society * [[Tom Thayer]], NFL player * [[Tommy Thayer]] (b. 1960), lead guitarist of KISS * [[W. W. Thayer]] * [[Webster Thayer]], the judge at the trial of Sacco and Vanzetti * [[Whitney Eugene Thayer]] (1838-1889), American organist and composer * [[William Roscoe Thayer]] (1859-1923), American author and editor ==Places== ;United States * [[Thayer, Illinois]] * [[Thayer, Indiana]] * [[Thayer, Iowa]] * [[Thayer, Kansas]] * [[Thayer, Missouri]] * [[Thayer, Nebraska]] * [[Thayer County, Nebraska]] * [[Thayer Street]], Providence, Rhode Island ==Other== * [[C.A. Thayer (1895)]], a sailing ship * [[Thayer's Gull]] * [[Thayer's Quest]], a laserdisc adventure game * [[Thayer Valve]], a valve for trombones * [[Mount Thayer]], a mountain in the [[Santa Cruz Mountains]] of [[California]] * Thayer Amusement Corporation, a US film distributor - see [[Kingsley-International Pictures]] * Thayer and Chandler, an art materials company that marketed the first modern [[airbrush]] {{disambig}} [[Category:Surnames]] [[de:Thayer]] [[fr:Thayer]] [[nl:Thayer]] [[pl:Thayer]] [[vo:Thayer]]