Colyer (disambiguation)

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Colyer is a community in Pennsylvania.

Colyer may also refer to:

As a given name

Colyer Meriwether was an American historian, educator and writer.

As a surname
Evelyn Colyer British tennis player

Evelyn Lucy Colyer was a female tennis player from Great Britain. With Joan Austin, sister of Bunny Austin, Colyer played doubles in the 1923 Wimbledon final against Suzanne Lenglen and Elizabeth Ryan. Colyer and Austin were known in the British press as "The Babes." At the 1924 Paris Olympics she teamed up with Dorothy Shepherd-Barron to win a bronze medal in the women's doubles event.

Sir James Frank Colyer KBE FRCS FDSRCS Eng was a British dental surgeon and dental historian.

James Colyer was an English politician.

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