Elmer

Given name

• Elmer L. Andersen, American businessman, philanthropist, and the 30th governor of Minnesota
• Elmer Bernstein, American composer
• Elmer Bischoff, American painter
• W. Elmer Brandon, Canadian politician, known by his middle name
• Elmer Davis, news reporter, author, director of the United States Office of War Information during World War II, and Peabody Award recipient
• Elmer Dessens, major league baseball relief pitcher
• Elmer Diktonius, Finnish writer and composer
• Elmer E. Ellsworth, lawyer and soldier, and the first conspicuous casualty of the American Civil War
• Elmer Flick, American hall-of-fame baseball player
• Elmer Grey, American architect and artist
• Elmer Beseler Harris, American businessman and politician
• Elmer Cameron Hawley, American novelist
• Elmer Keith, firearms cartridge designer and author
• Elmer Kelton, American journalist and writer, particularly of Western novels
• Elmer Lach, Canadian professional ice hockey player
• Elmer Layden, commissioner of the National Football League and head football coach at the University of Notre Dame
• Elmer MacKay, Canadian politician
• Elmer McCurdy, American outlaw whose corpse was put on exhibit
• Elmer Drew Merrill, American botanist
• Elmer Rees, Welsh mathematician
• Elmer Rice, American playwright
• Elmer Riddle, professional baseball player for the Cincinnati Reds
• Elmer Snowden, American jazz musician
• Elmer Ambrose Sperry, prolific American inventor and entrepreneur
• Elmer Valo, major league baseball player, coach, and scout
• Elmer the flying monk

  Surname

• Sir Felix Aylmer,, English actor of stage, screen and television
• Adolph Daniel Edward Elmer, American botanist
• Birger Elmér, head of the Swedish secret intelligence agency, known as IB
• Charles Elmer, American amateur astronomer, co-founder of the Perkin-Elmer optical company
• Ebenezer Elmer, American politician and physician
• Edwin Romanzo Elmer, American painter
• Greg Elmer, Professor of Professional Communication at Ryerson University
• James Elmer, Australian Olympic field hockey striker
• James C. Elmer, American college football player
• John Elmer , Australian rules footballer
• Jonas Elmer , Danish film director, screenwriter and actor
• Jonas Elmer, Swiss footballer
• Jonathan Elmer, American politician
• Kenneth Elmer, Canadian Olympic middle-distance runner
• Lachlan Elmer, Australian Olympic field hockey player
• Lucius Elmer, American Democratic politician, U.S. Representative from New Jersey
• Rico Elmer, Swiss ski mountaineer and mountain runner
• Rudolf Elmer, whistleblower who released documents about Swiss bank Julius Bär to WikiLeak
• Stephen Elmer, English painter
• Terri-Rae Elmer, Los Angeles radio broadcaster
• Wally Elmer, Canadian ice hockey player
• William Elmer, American silent film actor
• William P. Elmer, U.S. Representative from Missouri
• Philip Elmer-DeWitt, American computer journalist

  In fiction and entertainment

• Elmer the Patchwork Elephant, the title character in a series of children's picture books by David McKee
• Elmer, a fictional bull, "husband" of Elsie the Cow
• Elmer Fudd, a Looney Tunes character
• Elmer Elephant, the titular character of a Disney Silly Symphonies short
• Elmer Gantry, the title character in a novel by Sinclair Lewis
• Elmer C. Albatross, a character in the Baccano! light novel series
• Elmer, the ventriloquist dummy used by Western film actor Max Terhune
• Elmer, a character on Pappyland
• Elmer, a character on Elliot Goes to School
• Uncle Elmer, a professional wrestler, born Stanley Fraizer
• Elmer, a comic book by Gerry Alanguilan

  Other uses

• Elmer FEM solver
• Elmer, a 1976 film starring Dean Cain
• In the amateur radio subculture, an Elmer is a mentor to a newcoming amateur radio operator.
• Elmer's Products, an American manufacturer of glue products

  Places

• Elmer, West Sussex, United Kingdom
• Elmers End, London Borough of Bromley/Croydon