Baer

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Baer (or Bär, from ) or Van Baer is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

Baer

• Abel Baer (1893–1976), American songwriter
• Abraham Baer (1834–1894), German cantor, musician, and composer
• Alan Baer, American tuba player
• Anna Elisabeth Baer (1722–1799), Finnish merchant and shipowner
• Arthur "Bugs" Baer (1886–1969), American journalist and humorist
• Art Baer (1925–2006), American producer and screenwriter
• Asher Baer (died 1897), Russian Jewish mathematician and engraver
• Brett Baer, American television producer and screenwriter
• Buddy Baer (1915–1986), American boxer
• Byron Baer (1929–2007), American politician
• Carl Baer (1918–1996), American basketball player
• Chuck Baer (1905–1987), American football coach
• Cindy Baer, American actress, director, producer, and entrepreneur
• Clara Gregory Baer (1863–1938), American inventor of netball, Newcomb ball and author of first rules of women's basketball
• Dale Baer (1950–2021), American character animator
• Dan Baer (born 1977), American politician and diplomat
• Donald M. Baer (1931–2002), American developmental psychologist
• Édouard Baer (born 1966), French actor and filmmaker
• Elizabeth R. Baer (born 1946), American academic
• Eric Baer (born 1932), American polymer researcher
• Eva Baer (1920–2017), Israeli art historian
• Fred Baer (1932–2007), American football player
• Freddie Baer (1952-2015), American anarchist and collage artist
• Friederike Baer, German-American historian
• Gabriel Baer (1919–1982), Israeli orientalist
• Geoffrey Baer, American television personality, writer, and producer
• George A. Baer (1903–1994), German/Swiss/American bookbinder
• George Baer Jr. (1763–1834), American politician
• George Frederick Baer (1842–1914), American lawyer and executive
• Gertrud Baer (1890–1981), German Jewish women's rights and peace activist
• Greg Baer (born 1962), American public policy executive
• Gretchen Baer (born 1963), American painter and performance artist
• Hanania Baer (born 1943), Israeli cinematographer
• Hannah Baer, American writer, therapist, and cultural critic
• Hans J. Baer (1927–2011), Swiss banker
• Harold Baer (1905–1987), American judge
• Harold Baer Jr. (1933–2014), American judge
• Harry Baer (born 1947), German actor, producer and author
• Herman Baer (1830–1901), German-American writer
• Jack Baer (1914–2002), American college baseball coach
• Jack Baer (art dealer) (1924–2016), British art dealer
• Jean Baer (1902–1975), Swiss parasitologist and environmentalist
• Jean-Loup Baer, French-American computer scientist
• Jo Baer (1929–2025), American painter associated with minimalist art
• Johann Baer, German revolutionary socialist
• John Baer (actor) (1923–2006), American actor, Terry and the Pirates
• John Baer (journalist), American journalist, Philadelphia Daily News
• John Metz Baer, American educational psychologist
• John Miller Baer (1886–1970), American congressman from North Dakota
• John Willis Baer (1861–1931), American Presbyterian leader and college president
• Joseph A. Baer (1878–1958), United States Army general
• Judith A. Baer, American political scientist
• Julie Baer (born 1960), American author and visual artist
• Julius Baer (1857–1922), Swiss banker
• Karl M. Baer (1885–1956), German-Israeli author and activist, first recorded person to undergo transgender sex reassignment surgery
• Kate Baer, American poet
• Kenneth Baer (born 1972), American political advisor and author
• Kent Baer (born 1951), American football coach
• Larry Baer (born 1957), President and chief executive officer of the San Francisco Giants
• Les Baer, founder of Les Baer Custom, Inc
• Libbie C. Riley Baer (1849–1929), American poet
• Marc David Baer, American historian
• Max Baer (boxer) (1909–1959), American boxer
• Max Baer Jr. (born 1937), American actor and director
• Max Baer (judge) (1947–2022), American judge
• Meridith Baer (born 1947), American businesswoman, actress, and screenwriter
• Michael Baer (born 1987), Welsh cricketer
• Mignon Baer, German musician
• Monika Baer (born 1964), German painter
• Moritz Baer (born 1997), German ski jumper
• Morley Baer (1916–1995), American photographer and teacher
• Neal Baer (born 1955), American pediatrician and screenwriter
• Nicolai Reymers Baer (c. 1550–c. 1600), aka Ursus, German mathematician
• Parley Baer (1914–2002), American actor
• Paul Frank Baer (1894–1930), American fighter pilot
• Ralph H. Baer (1922–2014), American inventor
• Ray Baer (1905–1968), American football player
• Reinhold Baer (1902–1979), German mathematician
• Richard Baer (1911–1963), German Nazi SS concentration camp commandant
• Richard Baer (screenwriter) (1928–2008), American screenwriter
• Richard J. Baer (1892–1940), Swiss physicist and banker
• Robert Baer (born 1952), American CIA officer and writer
• Robert J. Baer (1924–2011), United States Army tank general
• Ronni Baer (born 1954), American art historian and curator
• Seligman Baer (1825–1897), German Jewish biblical scholar
• Steve Baer (1938–2024), American inventor
• Steve Baer (political activist), American political activist
• Susan Baer (1950–2016), American public servant, New York transportation manager
• Susanne Baer (born 1964), German judge and legal scholar
• Thomas M. Baer, American physicist
• Thomas S. Baer (1843–1906), American judge
• Virgil Baer (1912–1993), American football and basketball coach
• Vladimir Baer (1853–1905), Russian captain
• Werner Baer (1931–2016), American economist
• Will Christopher Baer (born 1966), American writer
• William Baer (writer) (born 1948), American writer
• William Baer (lawyer) (born 1950), American lawyer
• William Jacob Baer (1860–1941), American painter
• Yitzhak Baer (1888–1980), German-born Israeli historian
• Yuval Baer (born 1958), Israeli architect

Van Baer

• Van Baer (family), Middle Age noble family from the Dutch province of Gelderland
• Frederik Johan van Baer (1645–1713), Dutch officer in the military service of William III of Orange
• Stanny van Baer (born 1942), Dutch model and beauty queen, Miss International 1961

Von Baer

• Bern von Baer (1911–1981), German Wehrmacht officer
• Ena von Baer (born 1974), Chilean journalist and politician
• Karl Ernst von Baer (1792–1876), Estonian biologist

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