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21 famous people named Deer found on Wikipedia.
Deer is a Native American given name. Notable people with the name include:
Dick Deer Slayer (20th century), Native American football player
Susan Deer Cloud (born 1950), Native American writer
Old English deor "animal, beast," from Proto-Germanic *deuzam, the general Germanic word for "animal" (as opposed to man), but often restricted to "wild animal" (source also of Old Frisian diar, Dutch dier, Old Norse dyr, Old High German tior, German Tier "animal," Gothic dius "wild animal," also see reindeer), from PIE *dheusom "creature that breathes," from root *dheu- (1) "cloud, breath" (source also of Lithuanian dusti "gasp," dvesti "gasp, perish;" Old Church Slavonic dychati "breathe"). For prehistoric sense development, compare Latin animal from anima "breath"). Sense specialization to a specific animal began in Old English (usual Old English for what we now call a deer was heorot; see hart), common by 15c., now complete. Probably via hunting, deer being the favorite animal of the chase (compare Sanskrit mrga- "wild animal," used especially for "deer"). Deer-lick is first attested 1778, in an American context.
Means: animal deer.
Popularity | Name | Birth Year | Description |
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1 | Deer Woman | ||
2 | Gary Mule Deer | 1940 | American actor |
3 | John Fire Lame Deer | 1903 | American activist |
4 | Rob Deer | 1960 | American baseball player |
5 | Brian Deer | Journalist | |
6 | Lame Deer | ||
7 | Ada Deer | 1935 | American scholar |
8 | James Young Deer | 1876 | American actor |
9 | Tracey Deer | 1978 | Canadian film director and publisher |
10 | Archie Fire Lame Deer | 1935 | Hollywood stuntman and Lakota Siouxmedicine man |
11 | Sarah Deer | 1972 | |
12 | William Alexander Deer | 1910 | British geologist |
13 | Jancita Eagle Deer | 1952 | American rape victim |
14 | Esther Louise Georgette Deer | 1891 | |
15 | Gene Deer | American musician | |
16 | George Deer | 1890 | British politician |
17 | Aaron Deer | 1980 | American singer-songwriter |
18 | Beatrice Deer | Canadian singer | |
19 | Andrew Deer | 1987 | English taekwondo practitioner |
20 | Peter Deer | 1881 | Canadian athlete |
21 | Dave Running Deer |