Homer (name)

Given name

• Homer Burton Adkins, American chemist
• Homer Martin Adkins, Governor of Arkansas
• Homer D. Angell, American politician
• Homer Banks, African-American songwriter, singer and record producer
• Homer M. Butler, American newspaper editor and politician
• Homer E. Capehart, American businessman and politician, longtime US senator from Indiana
• Homer Stille Cummings, United States Attorney General
• Homer Davenport, American political cartoonist, writer and horse breeder
• Homer B. Dibell, Minnesota Supreme Court justice
• Homer E. A. Dick, New York state senator
• Homer L. Ferguson, American author and businessman
• Homer S. Ferguson, US Senator from Michigan
• Homer Gilbert, aka Knuckles Boyle, American football player
• Homer Hickam, American author and NASA engineer whose autobiography was the basis of the 1999 film October Sky
• Homer A. Holt, American lawyer and politician, Governor of West Virginia
• Homer Hulbert, American missionary, journalist and political activist
• Homer A. Jack, American clergyman, pacifist and social activist
• Homer Jacobson, American retired chemistry professor
• Homer Jones , American former football player
• Homer Jones , American economist
• Homer Jones , American politician
• Homer Eaton Keyes, American author and professor
• Homer Ledford, instrument maker and bluegrass musician
• Homer L. Lyon, American politician
• Homer Martin , American trade unionist and socialist
• Homer C. Martin, American college football head coach
• Homer Dodge Martin, American artist
• Homer Mensch, classical bassist
• Homer V. M. Miller, US senator from Georgia
• Homer Neal, American particle physicist and professor
• Homer Augustus Nelson, American politician and Civil War colonel
• Homer Nelson , American politician
• Homer Plessy, African-American anti-segregationist activist, plaintiff in the United States Supreme Court case Plessy v. Ferguson
• Homer Rice, American football player and coach
• Homer Elihu Royce, American lawyer, politician and jurist
• Homer L. Shantz, American botanist and President of the University of Arizona
• Homer Se, former Philippine Basketball Association player
• Homer Smith, American physiologist and advocate for science
• Homer Smith , American college football player and head coach
• Homer Sprague, American military officer, author and educator
• Homer Sykes, Canadian-born British photographer
• Homer Tate, American artist
• Homer L. Thomas, American art historian and archaeologist
• Homer Thompson, Canadian archaeologist
• Homer Thompson , American Major League Baseball catcher for one game
• Homer Watson, Canadian landscape painter

  Surname

• Horatio J. Homer, Boston's first African-American police officer
• LeRoy Homer Jr., first officer of one of the 9/11 aircraft
• Mark Homer, British actor
• Mark S. Homer, American politician
• Michael Homer, a Netscape vice president
• Sidney Homer, American composer of "A Plantation Ditty"
• Sonny Homer, former Canadian Football League player
• Tom Homer , English footballer
• Tom Homer , English rugby union player
• Travis Homer, American football player
• William Innes Homer 1929–2012), American academic, art historian and author
• Winslow Homer, American painter

  Fictional characters

• Homer Simpson, in the television series The Simpsons
• Homer Simpson, in the 1939 novel The Day of the Locust and its 1975 film adaptation
• Homer Price, in Homer Price and Centerburg Tales, children's books by Robert McCloskey
• Homer, a stage name/character in the American country music comedy duo Homer and Jethro
• Homer Wells, protagonist of John Irving's novel The Cider House Rules
• Homer, sidekick of Snidely Whiplash
• Homer, in the comic strip Non Sequitur
• Homer Pigeon, a cartoon character
• Homer Roberts, in Netflix's The OA
• Homer Yannos, a character from John Marsden's novel Tomorrow, When the War Began
• Homer D. Poe, the mascot of The Home Depot