Bauer is a German family name. It translates to peasant or farmer (agricola in Latin). Notable people of this name include:
- Bill Bauer, Canadian writer
- Bobby Bauer, Canadian ice hockey player
- Bruno Bauer (1809-1882), German philosopher, theologian and historian
- Charita Bauer (1922-1985), American soap opera actress
- Christian Bauer (b. 1977), French chess player
- Conny Bauer (born 1943), free jazz trombonist
- Eddie Bauer (1899-1986), American clothing manufacturer
- Ferdinand Bauer (1760-1826), Austrian botanical illustrator
- Franz Bauer (1758-1840), Austrian botanical illustrator
- Gary Bauer, American conservative politician
- Gustav Bauer (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, American baseball player
- Harold Bauer (conductor), conductor and music director of the Erie Philharmonic
- Harold Bauer (1873-1951), English pianist
- Harold W. Bauer (1908-1942), American aviator and Lieutenant Colonel in the United States Marine Corps
- Ida Bauer, a hysterical patient of Sigmund Freud
- Jack Bauer, fictional counter-terrorist agent
- John Bauer, Swedish illustrator
- José Carlos Bauer (1925-2007), Brazilian footballer
- June Bauer, bondage model and actress
- Jutta Bauer, German illustrator
- Kristin Bauer, American actress
- Lukáš Bauer (born 1977) Czech cross country skier
- Marion Bauer (1882-1955), American composer
- Michelle Bauer (born 1958), bondage model and actress
- Nancy Bauer, Canadian writer
- Otto Bauer (1881-1938), Austrian Social Democratic theoretician and politician.
- Otto Bauer (born 1965), pornographic actor and director
- Peter Thomas Bauer (1915-2002), Hungarian-born economist
- Steven Bauer, American actor
- Viola Bauer (born 1976), German skier
- Walter Bauer, Ancient Greek philologist
- Wilhelm Bauer (1822-1875), German u-boat engineer
- Wolfgang Bauer (1941-2005), Austrian dramatist
- Yehuda Bauer (born 1926), Czech-Israeli Holocaust historian
- Yevgeni Bauer (1865-1917), Russian silent film director
See also
- Rothschild family (Bauer is the former surname of Mayer Amschel Rothschild, the family founder)
- Bower, altered spelling of Bauer
- Bowers
- Bowery
- Bauer & Cie. v. O'Donnell, a 1913 U.S. Supreme Court case
- Jack Bauer, a fictional character from the American television series 24
- Teri Bauer, a fictional character from the American television series 24
- Kim Bauer, a fictional character from the American television series 24
- Phillip Bauer, a fictional character from the American television series 24
- Graem Bauer, a fictional character from the American television series 24
- Marilyn Bauer, a fictional character from the American television series 24
- Josh Bauer, a fictional character from the American television series 24
- Michelle Bauer Santos, a fictional character from the American television series Guiding Light
- Denise Bauer, a fictional character from the American television series Boston Legal
- Bauer (Dutch band), a Dutch band
- Bauer Hall, a residence hall at Cornell University
- Nike Bauer, a manufacturer of hockey and ice hockey equipment
- Boyer, of which the derivation is sometimes a corruption or deliberate alteration of "Bauer"
- Bert Bauer, fictional character from American soap opera Guiding Light.
- Heinrich Bauer Verlag, a German publishing company; now
