Originally a surname, 'Thayer' may refer to:

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Organisations

People

Places

Other

Organisations

★ Thayer Academy in Braintree, Massachusetts

★ Thayer Amusement Corporation, a US film distributor - see Kingsley-International Pictures

★ Thayer and Chandler, an art materials company that marketed the first modern airbrush

★ Thayer and Eldridge, a former publishing house

★ Thayer Central High School, Hebron, Nebraska

★ Thayer Hall, a Harvard dormitory

★ Thayer High School in Winchester, New Hampshire

★ Thayer Medical Corporation

★ Thayer School of Engineering, Dartmouth College

People

★ Raymond Thayer Birge (1887-1980), physicist

★ Thayer David (1927-1978), film and TV actor

★ Francis Thayer Hobson, husband of writer Laura Z. Hobson

★ Rear-Admiral Alfred Thayer Mahan (1840-1914), US Navy

★ Abbott Handerson Thayer (1849-1921), American artist

★ Alexander Wheelock Thayer (b. 1817), author of ''The life of Ludwig van Beethoven'', a standard biography, and other music biographies

★ Brynn Thayer (b. 1949), American actress

★ E. J. Thayer, the creator of Xenimus

★ Edwin Pope Thayer, Secretary of the U.S. Senate from 1925-1933

★ Elaine Orr Thayer, the first wife of poet E. E. Cummings

★ 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:

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★ John Thayer (priest) (1755-1815).

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★ John Alden Thayer, member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Massachusetts, 1911-1913

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★ John Borland Thayer, Jr, an American cricket player and businessman, who died on the RMS ''Titanic''.

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★ John Borland Thayer, III, a survivor of the Titanic sinking

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★ John Eliot Thayer

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★ John Milton Thayer, U.S. Senator from Nebraska.

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★ 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

★ Rodney Thayer, a founder of KnownSafe

★ Scofield Thayer, American poet and publisher

★ Stuart Thayer (b. 1926), circus historian

★ Sylvanus Thayer (1785-1872), US 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 Makepeace Thayer (1820-1890), American author.

★ William Roscoe Thayer (1859-1923), American author and editor.

★ William Thayer Tutt, hockey builder, 1978 Hockey Hall of Fame

Places

★ Thayer, Illinois

★ Thayer, Iowa

★ Thayer, Kansas

★ Thayer, Missouri

★ Thayer, Nebraska

★ Thayer Corners, a location in Milo, New York

★ Thayer County, Nebraska

★ Thayer Lindsley, a mine owned by Falconbridge Ltd.

★ Thayer Park in Skaneateles (village), New York

★ Thayer Street, Providence, Rhode Island

★ The Thayer Tavern in Marlborough, Massachusetts

Other

★ C.A. Thayer (1895), a sailing ship

★ Thayer's Gull

★ Thayer's Quest, a laserdisc adventure game

★ Thayer Valve, a valve for trombones

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