Thayer

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Originally a surname, Thayer may refer to:

Contents 1 Education 2 People 2.1 Given name 2.2 Surname 3 Places 4 Other

[edit] 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

[edit] People

[edit] 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

[edit] 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, 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

[edit] Places

United States

• Thayer, Illinois
• Thayer, Indiana
• Thayer, Iowa
• Thayer, Kansas
• Thayer, Missouri
• Thayer, Nebraska
• Thayer County, Nebraska
• Thayer Street, Providence, Rhode Island

[edit] 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