Notable Ayers

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Notables

Notable people with the Ayer surname include:

• Adele Augusta (Ayer) Gardner (1867 - 1938), grandmother of U.S. President Gerald Ford
• Alfred Jules Ayer (1910–1989), British philosopher [1]
• Beatrice Banning (Ayer) Patton (1886 - 1953), wife of Lt. Gen. George S. Patton [2]
• Claire D. Ayer (born 1948), Vermont politician [3]
• David Ayer (born 1968), American screenwriter [4]
• Edward E. Ayer (1841–1927), American antiquarian and benefactor of Newberry Library and the Field Museum of Natural History [5]
• Francis Ayer (1848–1923), American advertising businessman [6]
• Hilal Tuba Tosun Ayer (born 1970), Turkish female referee [7]
• James Cook Ayer (1818–1878), American patent medicine businessman [8]
• Lewis Malone Ayer, Jr. (1821–1895), Confederate politician [9]
• Mary (Ayer) Parker (1634 - 1692), executed for witchcraft at Salem, Massachusetts [10] [11] [12] [13]
• Nat Ayer (1887–1952), British-American composer [14]

Notable people with the Ayers surname include:

• A.D. Ayers, National League umpire [15]
• Bill Ayers, a professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago and a former member of the revolutionary organization Weather Underground [16]
• Edward L. Ayers, president of the University of Richmond [17]
• Eli Ayers, first colonial agent of the American Colonization Society [18]
• Henry Ayers, former Premier of South Australia (Ayers Rock namesake) [19]
• Kevin Ayers, British rock singer [20]
• Michael R. Ayers, British philosopher [21]
• Nathaniel Ayers, schizophrenic musician whose life was used as a basis for the movie The Soloist starring Jamie Foxx and Robert Downey, Jr. [22]
• Randy Ayers, U.S. basketball coach [23]
• Ron Ayers, British aeronautical engineer and designer of ThrustSSC [24]
• Roy Ayers, funk, soul and jazz vibraphone player [25]
• Roy Elmer Ayers, Governor of Montana [26] [27]
• Rufus A. Ayers, Virginia lawyer, businessman, and politician, who served as Attorney General of Virginia [28]
• Squire Ayers - Deacon, Auditor, Commissioner, & Rep to Constitutional Convention
• Thomas G. Ayers, Chicago businessman, philanthropist, and father of Bill Ayers [29]
• Tony Ayers, former senior Australian public servant [30]

Notable people with the Ayre surname include:

• Billy Ayre (1952-2002), English footballer [31]
• Bobby Ayre (born 1932), English former footballer [32]
• Calvin Ayre (born 1961), Canadian founder of the Bodog online gaming and entertainment brand [33]
• Charles R. Ayre (1819-1889), Newfoundland merchant and politician [34]
• Colin Ayre (born 1956), English former footballer [35]
• Garry Ayre (born 1953), Canadian former soccer player [36]
• Jack Ayre (1894-1977), Canadian entertainer [37]
• James S. Ayre (1881–1953), businessman and political figure in Newfoundland [38]
• John B. Ayre (1850–1915), merchant and political figure in Newfoundland, son of Charles Ayre [39]
• Keegan Ayre (born 1988), Canadian soccer player
• Kristian Ayre (born 1977?), Canadian actor [40]
• Lewis H.M. Ayre (1914-1985), Canadian businessman [41]
• Richard James Ayre, English journalist [42]
• Sanjay Ayre (born 1980), Jamaican sprinter [43]

Notable people with the Ayres surname include:

• Agnes Ayres (1898–1940), American silent film actor [44]
• Alice Ayres (1859–1885), honored for rescuing of her three nieces from a burning building at the cost of her own life [45]
• Anne Ayres (1816–1886), American Episcopalian nun [46]
• Benjamin Ayres (born 1977) an actor, director, photographer [47]
• Benjamin Ayres (instrument maker) (died c. 1775), an English instrument maker [48]
• Bill Ayres, American radio talk show host, co-founder and executive director of World Hunger Year [49]
• Caroline Ayres, basketball player [50]
• Christopher Ayres (born 1965), American voice actor [51]
• Gary Ayres (born 1960), Australian rules footballer and coach [52]
• Gillian Ayres (born 1930), British painter [53]
• Greg Ayres (born 1968), American voice actor [54]
• H. Welborn Ayres (1900-1985), American judge [55]
• Ian Ayres (born 1959), American professor at Yale Law School and Yale School of Management [56]
• Ian Ayres (filmmaker), American filmmaker [57]
• James Ayres, New Zealand gold rush participant [58]
• João Maria Correia Ayres de Campos, 1st Count of Ameal (1847–1920), Portuguese humanist, politician and art-collector [59]
• José Márcio Ayres (1954–2003), Brazilian primatologist and conservationist [60]
• Leonard Porter Ayres (1879–1946), American statistician [61]
• Lew Ayres (1908–1996), American actor [62]
• Lewis Ayres, lay Catholic theologian [63]
• Pam Ayres (born 1947), British writer of humorous poetry [64]
• Philip Ayres (poet) (1638–1712), English poet [65]
• Philip Burnard Ayres, British physician and botanist [66]
• Richard Ayres (born 1965), British composer [67]
• Robert Ayres (scientist), American scientist [68]
• Robert Ayres (actor) (1914–1968), American actor [69]
• Robert Ayres (rugby league), British sportsman [70]
• Bob Ayres, entrepreneur [71]
• Romeyn B. Ayres (1825–1888), Union general in the American Civil War [72]
• Rosalind Ayres (born 1946), British actress [73]
• Thomas Ayres (1816–1858), artist who first drew Yosemite [74]
• Thomas Ayres (1828–1913), South African ornithologist [75]
• Vernon Ayres (born 1909), Canadian ice hockey player [76]
• William Orville Ayres (1817–1887), American physician and ichthyologist [77]

Notable people with the Eyre surname include:

• Alan Eyre, British-born Jamaican geographer [78]
• Alan Eyre (diplomat), Persian-language spokesperson of the United States Department of State [79]
• Charles Petre Eyre, Archbishop of Glasgow [80]
• Chris Eyre, film director and producer [81]
• Damian Eyre, Australian police officer murdered in 1988 [82]
• Edward John Eyre, Australian explorer and Jamaican Governor [83]
• Ella Eyre, British singer-songwriter [84]
• George Eyre (d. 1839), Royal Navy officer [85]
• Ivan Eyre, Canadian artist [86]
• Sir James Eyre (judge) (1734–1799), English judge [87]
• Sir James Eyre (British Army officer) (1930–2003) [88]
• James Eyre (philologist) (1748–1813), English philologist [89]
• Sir James Eyre (physician) (1792–1857), English physician and mayor of Hereford [90]
• Jehu Eyre, figure of the American Revolution [91]
• Sir John Eyre, English diplomat
• Les Eyre, former Norwich City F.C. footballer [92]
• Manuel Eyre, figure of the American Revolution and powerful business leader in the early American Republic [93]
• Mary Eyre (1923–2013), British sportswoman and administrator [94]
• M. Banning Eyre, Canadian writer and guitarist, Afropop Worldwide public radio reporter and editor
• Richard Eyre, English film, theatre and TV director [95]
• Scott Eyre, Major League Baseball relief pitcher [96]
• Tommy Eyre, English rock musician [97]
• William Eyre (died 1629), MP for Heytesbury and Wiltshire [98]
• William Eyre (leveller) (fl. 1634–1675), English Parliamentary army officer in the English Civil War and a Leveller [99]
• William Eyre of Neston (fl. 1642–1660), parliamentarian army officer and politician [100]
• Sir William Eyre (major-general) (1805–1859), Major General in the British Army [101]
• William Eyre (painter) (1891–1979), English landscape painter [102]
• Rev. William Leigh Williamson Eyre (1841-1914), English naturalist and mycologist [103]
• Willie Eyre, Major League Baseball relief pitcher [104]

Notable people with the Eyer name:

• Mary Magdelena (Eyer) Hoy ( - 1779) doctor / healer [105]

Notable people with the Ayar name:

• Legend of the Ayar brothers in ancient Inca Empire Monco Capac