Bauer
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Bauer is a German
German language
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 family name
Family name
A family name is a type of surname and part of a person's name indicating the family to which the person belongs. The use of family names is widespread in cultures around the world...

. It translates in English as peasant
Peasant
A peasant is an agricultural worker who generally tend to be poor and homeless-Etymology:The word is derived from 15th century French païsant meaning one from the pays, or countryside, ultimately from the Latin pagus, or outlying administrative district.- Position in society :Peasants typically...

or farmer
Farmer
A farmer is a person engaged in agriculture, who raises living organisms for food or raw materials, generally including livestock husbandry and growing crops, such as produce and grain...

.

Surname

Notable people of this name include:
  • André Bauer
    André Bauer
    Rudolph Andreas "André" Bauer was the 87th Lieutenant Governor of South Carolina from 2003 to 2011. He is a member of the Republican Party...

     (born 1969), American politician
  • Belinda Bauer (born 1950), Australian actress
  • Bill Bauer
    Bill Bauer
    William Bauer is a U.S.-born poet who immigrated with his wife, Nancy Bauer, to Fredericton, New Brunswick in 1965.-Works:*A Migration now Largely Forgotten , Fiddlehead*If I Don’t Tell You, No One Else Will , Fiddlehead...

    , Canadian writer
  • Bobby Bauer
    Bobby Bauer
    Robert Theodore Bauer was a Canadian professional ice hockey right winger who played 10 seasons in the National Hockey League for the Boston Bruins.-Playing career:...

     (1915-1964), Canadian ice hockey player
  • Branko Bauer
    Branko Bauer
    -Early life:Bauer became interested in cinema as a school boy, influenced by a Jewish girl, a piano player, who was hiding from Ustaše in his parents' home. After World War II, he began working in the Zagreb-based Jadran Film studio as a documentary filmmaker...

     (1921-2002), Croatian film director
  • Bruno Bauer
    Bruno Bauer
    Bruno Bauer was a German philosopher and historian. As a student of GWF Hegel, Bauer was a radical Rationalist in philosophy, politics and Biblical criticism...

     (1809-1882), German philosopher, theologian and historian
  • Charita Bauer
    Charita Bauer
    Charita Bauer was an American soap opera radio and television actress.Born in Newark, New Jersey, she began her career at the age of eight as a model for clothing ads...

     (1922-1985), American soap opera actress
  • Chris Bauer
    Chris Bauer
    Mark Christopher "Chris" Bauer is an American film and television actor.-Early life:Bauer was born in Los Angeles, California and attended high school at Miramonte High School in Orinda, California. He played on Miramonte Championship football team his senior year, 1984...

     (born 1966), American actor
  • Christian Bauer
    Christian Bauer
    Christian Bauer is a French chess player and author. In 1996 he won the French Chess Championship. In 2009 he came first at Vicente Bonil ahead of 21 GMs and 33 titled players.-External links:...

     (born 1977), French chess player
  • Conny Bauer
    Conny Bauer
    Konrad "Conny" Bauer is a free jazz trombonist. He is the brother of the trombonist Hannes Bauer....

     (born 1943), free jazz trombonist
  • David Bauer
    David Bauer (actor)
    David Bauer was an American actor, a Chicagoan, who was based primarily in Britain. He was chosen as the most promising actor at Washington University and his professional career began immediately after graduating...

     (1917-1973), American actor who settled in the UK
  • Donna Bauer
    Donna Bauer
    Donna Jane Bauer is an Australian politician, and has been the member for Carrum in the Victorian Legislative Assembly since 2010...

     (born 1970), Australian politician
  • Eddie Bauer
    Eddie Bauer
    Eddie Bauer Holdings Inc. is a holding company that operates the Eddie Bauer clothing store chain, headquartered in Bellevue, Washington, United States. EBH was formed after Eddie Bauer's former parent company, Spiegel, Inc., went bankrupt in 2003...

     (1899-1986), American clothing manufacturer
  • Emily Bauer
    Emily Bauer
    Emily Bauer is an American singer, dancer, actress and voice actress. She is also credited as Emily Blau.-Biography:...

     (born 1981), American singer, dancer, actress/voice actress
  • Erich Bauer
    Erich Bauer
    Hermann Erich Bauer , sometimes referred to as "Gasmeister", was a SS-Oberscharführer . He participated in Nazi Germany's Action T4 program and later in Operation Reinhard, serving as a gas chamber operator at Sobibor extermination camp...

     (1900-1980), Nazi SS Guard at Sobibor death camp during World War II.
  • Ferdinand Bauer
    Ferdinand Bauer
    Ferdinand Lucas Bauer was an Austrian botanical illustrator who travelled on Matthew Flinders' expedition to Australia.-Biography:...

     (1760-1826), Austrian botanical illustrator
  • Frans Bauer
    Frans Bauer
    Frans Bauer is a Dutch singer of "het levenslied" .-Biography:From an early age, Frans Bauer was determined to become a singer. His great idols are Julio Iglesias, Elvis Presley and Koos Alberts...

     (born 1973), Dutch singer
  • Franz Bauer
    Franz Bauer
    Franz Andreas Bauer was an Austrian microscopist and botanical artist.Born in Feldsberg, Moravia , he was the son of Lucas Bauer , court painter to the Prince of Liechtenstein, and brother of the painters Josef Anton and Ferdinand Bauer...

     (1758-1840), Austrian botanical illustrator
  • Gary Bauer
    Gary Bauer
    Gary Lee Bauer is an American politician notable for his ties to several evangelical Christian groups and campaigns.-Biography:...

     (born 1946), American conservative politician
  • Gustav Bauer
    Gustav Bauer
    ' was a German Social Democratic Party leader and Chancellor of Germany from 1919 to 1920.Born in Darkehmen near Königsberg in East Prussia, Bauer, who rose to notice through his leadership of a white-collar trade union, served from 1908 to 1918 as chairman of the General Commission of Trade...

     (1870-1944), German Social Democratic chancellor in the early days of the Weimar Republic
  • Georg Bauer, real name of Georgius Agricola (1490-1555), German scholar
  • Hank Bauer
    Hank Bauer
    Henry Albert "Hank" Bauer was an American right fielder and manager in Major League Baseball. He played with the New York Yankees and Kansas City Athletics ; he batted and threw right-handed...

     (1922-2007), American baseball player
  • Harold Bauer (conductor), conductor and music director of the Erie Philharmonic
  • Harold Bauer
    Harold Bauer
    Harold Bauer was a noted pianist who began his musical career as a violinist.Harold Bauer was born in London; his father was a German violinist and his mother was English. He took up the study of the violin under the direction of his father and Adolf Pollitzer. He made his debut as a violinist in...

     (1873-1951), English pianist
  • Harold W. Bauer
    Harold W. Bauer
    Lieutenant Colonel Harold William Bauer, commonly referred to as "Joe" Bauer, was a United States Marine Corps air group commander and fighter pilot ace credited with destroying 11 Japanese aircraft during World War II...

     (1908-1942), American aviator and Lieutenant Colonel in the United States Marine Corps
  • Ida Bauer (1882-1945), a hysterical patient of Sigmund Freud known as Dora
  • John Bauer (1882-1918), Swedish illustrator
  • Jon Bauer
    Jon Bauer
    Jon Bauer is a Christian worship leader and songwriter from Edmonton, Alberta. Bauer leads worship, speaks, and performs at churches/conferences/schools throughout the world...

    , Canadian Christian songwriter
  • José Carlos Bauer
    José Carlos Bauer
    José Carlos Bauer, commonly known as Bauer was a former Brazilian football player and manager. Born in São Paulo, he was the son of a Swiss man and an Afro-Brazilian woman....

     (1925-2007), Brazilian footballer
  • June Bauer (a.k.a. Julia Parton, born 1964), bondage model and actress
  • Jutta Bauer
    Jutta Bauer
    -Life:After studying at the Technical College of Design in Hamburg, she worked as a children’s book illustrator as well as cartoonist for the women’s magazine Brigitte....

     (born 1955), German illustrator
  • K. Jack Bauer
    K. Jack Bauer
    Karl Jack Bauer , was one of the founders of the North American Society for Oceanic History and a well-known naval historian. NASOH’s K...

     (1926-1987), American historian
  • Kristin Bauer
    Kristin Bauer
    Kristin Bauer van Straten is an American film and television actress, perhaps best known for her role as vampire Pam in the HBO series True Blood.-Biography:...

     (born 1973), American actress
  • Lukáš Bauer
    Lukáš Bauer
    Lukáš Bauer is a Czech cross country skier who has competed since 1996.On February 17, 2006, he won the Winter Olympics silver medal for the 15 km cross-country classical....

     (born 1977), Czech cross country skier
  • Marion Bauer
    Marion Bauer
    Marion Eugénie Bauer was an American composer, teacher, writer, and music critic. A contemporary of Aaron Copland, Bauer played an active role in shaping American musical identity in the early half of the twentieth century....

     (1882-1955), American composer
  • Martin Bauer
    Martin Bauer
    Martin W. Bauer is a social psychologist, currently Head of the department of the Methodology Institute at the London School of Economics. He directs the MSc in Social and Public Communication at the Institute of Social Psychology...

    , a social psychologist
  • Michelle Bauer
    Michelle Bauer
    Michelle Bauer is an American B-movie actress, scream queen, pornographic actress, and bondage model.Bauer was Penthouse magazine's Pet of the Month for July 1981....

     (born 1958), bondage model and actress
  • Nancy Bauer
    Nancy Bauer
    Nancy Bauer, née Nancy Luke is a Canadian female writer and editor who writes about craftspeople, visual artists, and writers for various maritime magazines.Born north of Boston, Massachusetts, Bauer received her B.A...

     (born 1934), Canadian writer
  • Otto Bauer
    Otto Bauer
    Otto Bauer was an Austrian Social Democrat who is considered one of the leading thinkers of the left socialist Austro-Marxist tendency...

     (1881-1938), Austrian Social Democratic theoretician and politician.
  • Otto Bauer
    Otto Bauer (porn star)
    Otto Bauer is a veteran pornographic actor and director. He is a third generation German-American who grew up in Texas...

     (born 1965), pornographic actor and director
  • Peter Thomas Bauer
    Peter Thomas Bauer
    Peter Thomas Bauer, Baron Bauer was a developmental economist. Bauer is best remembered for his opposition to the widely-held notion that the most effective manner to help developing countries advance is through state-controlled foreign aid.- Life :Bauer was born as Péter Tamás Bauer in Budapest,...

     (1915-2002), Hungarian-born economist
  • Rudolf Bauer
    Rudolf Bauer (artist)
    Alexander Georg Rudolf Bauer was a German-born painter who was involved in the avant-garde group Der Sturm in Berlin, and whose work would become central to the Non-Objective art collection of Solomon R...

     (1889-1953), artist
  • Rudolf Bauer
    Rudolf Bauer (athlete)
    Rezső Bauer was a Hungarian athlete and the winner of the gold medal in the men's discus throw at the 1900 Summer Olympics. He won with 36.04 metres, a new world record....

     (1879-1932), A Hungarian
    Hungary
    Hungary , officially the Republic of Hungary , is a landlocked country in Central Europe. It is situated in the Carpathian Basin and is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine and Romania to the east, Serbia and Croatia to the south, Slovenia to the southwest and Austria to the west. The...

     gold medal winning Olympian
    Olympic Games
    The Olympic Games is a major international event featuring summer and winter sports, in which thousands of athletes participate in a variety of competitions. The Olympic Games have come to be regarded as the world’s foremost sports competition where more than 200 nations participate...

  • Steven Bauer
    Steven Bauer
    Steven Bauer is a Cuban-American actor. He is known for his role as Manny Ribera in the 1983 film Scarface, and his role on the bilingual PBS show Que Pasa, USA.-Early life:...

    , American actor
  • Tom Bauer
    Tom Bauer
    Tom Bauer is an American lawyer and politician from St. Louis, Missouri who served in the Missouri House of Representatives and on the St. Louis Board of Aldermen...

     (born 1946), American lawyer and politician
  • Viola Bauer
    Viola Bauer
    Viola Bauer is a retired German cross-country skier who competed from 1995 to 2007...

     (born 1976), German skier
  • Walter Bauer
    Walter Bauer
    Walter Bauer was a German theologian and scholar of the development of the early Christian churches.-Life:...

     (1877-1960), theologian and ancient Greek philologist
  • Wilhelm Bauer
    Wilhelm Bauer
    Wilhelm Bauer was the German inventor and engineer, who built several hand-powered submarines.-Biography:...

     (1822-1875), German U-boat engineer
  • Wolfgang Bauer (1941-2005), Austrian dramatist
  • Yehuda Bauer
    Yehuda Bauer
    Yehuda Bauer is a historian and scholar of the Holocaust. He is a Professor of Holocaust Studies at the Avraham Harman Institute of Contemporary Jewry at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.-Biography:...

     (born 1926), Czech-Israeli Holocaust historian
  • Yevgeni Bauer
    Yevgeni Bauer
    Yevgeni Franzevich Bauer was a Russian film director of silent films, a theatre artist and a screenwriter. His work had a great influence on the aesthetics of Russian cinematography at the beginning of the 20th century....

     (1865-1917), Russian silent film director

Fictional characters

  • From the American television series 24
    24 (TV series)
    24 is an American television series produced for the Fox Network and syndicated worldwide, starring Kiefer Sutherland as Counter Terrorist Unit agent Jack Bauer. Each 24-episode season covers 24 hours in the life of Bauer, using the real time method of narration...

    • Graem Bauer
    • Jack Bauer
      Jack Bauer
      Jack Bauer is the main protagonist of the American television series 24. His character has worked in various capacities on the show, often as a member of the fictional Counter Terrorist Unit based in Los Angeles, and working with the FBI in Washington, D.C...

    • Josh Bauer
    • Kim Bauer
      Kim Bauer
      Kim Bauer is a fictional character played by Elisha Cuthbert on the television series 24. She is portrayed as the only daughter of the show's main character, Jack Bauer...

    • Marilyn Bauer
    • Phillip Bauer
    • Teri Bauer
      Teri Bauer
      Teri Bauer is a fictional character played by Leslie Hope on the first season of the television series 24.-Characterization:Teri Bauer was born in 1969. She is the wife of Jack Bauer and the mother of Kim Bauer...

  • From the American television series Boston Legal
    Boston Legal
    Boston Legal is an American legal dramedy created by David E. Kelley, which was produced in association with 20th Century Fox Television for the ABC...

    • Denise Bauer
  • From the American television series Guiding Light
    Guiding Light
    Guiding Light is an American daytime television drama that is credited by the Guinness Book of World Records as the longest running drama in television and radio history, running from 1937 until 2009...

    • Beth Bauer
    • Bert Bauer
    • Ed Bauer
      Ed Bauer
      William Edward "Ed" Bauer Jr. is a fictional character on CBS's daytime drama Guiding Light. While having been portrayed by five different actors, Ed has been portrayed by a number of actors, including Robert Gentry, Mart Hulswit and Peter Simon....

    • Frederick Bauer
    • Michelle Bauer Santos
      Michelle Bauer Santos
      Michelle Bertha Santos is a fictional character on the popular CBS daytime soap opera, Guiding Light. The character was originally named Bertha Ramsey Bauer at birth. She is the child of Dr. Ed Bauer and Dr. Claire Ramsey conceived through a one-night stand and would be adopted by Ed's wife...


See also

  • Agricola (disambiguation)
  • Bower
    Bower
    Bower may refer to:* a folly built by the Bowerbird to attract mates; see wiktionary:bower.* a dwelling or lean-to shelter, also known as an arbor* an anchor carried at the bow of a ship* Bower Manuscript, a Sanskrit manuscript...

  • Bowers (disambiguation)
  • Bowery
    Bowery
    Bowery may refer to:Streets:* The Bowery, a thoroughfare in Manhattan, New York City* Bowery Street is a street on Coney Island in Brooklyn, N.Y.In popular culture:* Bowery Amphitheatre, a building on the Bowery in New York City...

  • Boyer (disambiguation)
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