Scherer

• Albert Scherrer (1908–1986), Swiss racing driver
• Bill Scherrer (born 1958), American baseball player
• Eduard Scherrer (1890–1972), Swiss bobsledder
• Jean-Louis Scherrer (1935–2013), French fashion designer
• Hélène Scherrer (born 1950), Canadian politician
• Paul Scherrer (1890–1969), Swiss physicist
• Tom Scherrer (born 1970), American golfer
• Dominik Scherrer, Swiss-born British film, theatre and television composer

The first traces of the Schierer (von Walthaimb zu Falkenau) family date back to 1289 with Schierer Bernhard Ritter von Klosterneuburg[1] an arbitration judge at the Court of Albert I., Duke of Austria. Written recordings of the medieval Schierer family are dating back to the founders of the first Bohemian glassmakers in the XVth century. Its master dynasties together with the Friedrich family made glass history in Bohemia, Silesia, Austria, Tyrol and Slovenia. Paul Schierer the Elder, born in 1443, owned a large number of glass houses and invented the colouring process of blue glass by adding cobalt (c27). Thus the Schierer family was appointed court factors and purveyors to the House of Habsburg and ennobled for their services by the Holy Roman Emperor, Rudolph II, in Prague in 1592 and confirmed in 1663 by Holy Roman Emperor Leopold I. Forced by the 30 years war (1618-1648) the knighted converted Protestant branches of the Schierer family extended through marriage with the von Nagerschigg family to Sweden and to Denmark. Their Baronial status was also confirmed in 1625 in Sweden and Denmark. The converted Roman Catholic branches of the family remained in the Kingdom of Bohemia and Lower Austria, Litschau and Vienna. The latter branche was confirmed as Knights and raised to Freiherrlich, Barony of the Holy Roman Empire.

The motto of the family Schierer (von Walthaimb zu Falkenau) Inspiratio - Reverentia - Cognoscere.

Family members are among others:

Old tomb memorial slab of Dominic Schierer von Walthaimb zu Falknov, 15th century, Bohemia	Old tomb memorial slab of Schierer von Walthaimb zu Falknov family, 15th century, Bohemia

• Paulus Schierer, (1443), Founder of the North Bohemian glassmaker family and founding father of the House of Schierer von Waldhaimb zu Falkenau.
• Christoph Schierer, (1500 - 1560), Bohemian glassmaker
• Paul II. Schierer, (1500 - 1560), Bohemian glassmaker
• Paulus III the Younger (1530 - 1590), Bohemian glassmaker founder of glassworks in Kořenov (German: Bad Wurzelsdorf) in Jablonec nad Nisou District, Liberec Region in 1577.
• Bartholomäus Schierer, (1500 - ), Bohemian glassmaker
• Dominik Schierer v.W.z.F., (1562 - 1614), Bohemian glassmaker in Hoflenz; Dominik his Cousins Kaspar from Labau (Gablonz), Valentin from Krombach (Deutsch-Gabel) and Martin were ennobled with the aristocratic title "Schierer von Waldhaim(b) zu Falknov" by Rudolph II Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire on June 10, 1592.
• Oswald Schierer, (1599), Goldsmith, watchmaker and trombone maker. Musical instrument purveyor of the monastery of Kremsmünster.[2][3]
• Christoph Schierer, (1623), Carinthian Münzwardein,[4] guardian of precious metals and the imperial minting commissioned by the highest authority. He was the official representative of his principal in discharging his duty as an inspector of precious metals and precious metal goods in trade. It was his duty to produce weights used in minting and often he would also be charged with the safekeeping of minting irons when they were not used in producing specie. The first Wardein to be so called worked in mining. They were chemists working in mines and smelting facilities, where they were called on for their know-how in metallurgy. Frequently they doubled as goldsmiths and were required to separate auriferous silver from base metal.
• Georg Schierer, (-30.10.1634), Gold and Silversmith. Some of his finest works the so-called Akeleipokal, a parcel-gilt cup and cover, are showcased in the British Museum and at Windsor Castle.
• Mathias Toman Schierer, (1668), estate owner in Litschau, Forest Quarter (Waldviertel), Lower Austria
• Johann Friedrich Schierer von Waldheim, (6.2.1684), married to Anna Reich.
• Paulus Schierer v. W., (1.11.1718), estate owner in Hauckschlag, Forest Quarter (Waldviertel), Lower Austria
• Amalie Gräbert, nee Schierer von Waldheim, (1808 - 08.01.1871), Actress at the City theater of Erfurt and theater director Berlin, 63 years old
• Franz Schierer von Waldheim, (*10.2.1819 - 20.2.1865). Member of the Viennese Municipal Council, Honorary Member of diverse Choirs, Great Golden Medal awarded by the Emperor Franz Josef II. for art in 1861. and Coffee house owner. Famous choir singer and writer. From 1848 member of the 1. Wiener Männergesangsverein (MGV), 2nd bass of the male vocals Association. Committee Member from 1855-1856 and later Director from 1859 until his death in 1865 (successor N. Dumba). Under his leadership, the first song festival in Austria took place in 1861 in Lower Austria, Krems and Stein. Schierer received the honorary award of the Association held in the same year at the singer Festival in Nuremberg, Germany. Founder of the Lower Austrian Choral Society in 1863. Erection (together with J. Herbeck) of the Schubert Memorial in Stadtpark, Vienna. In 1863 Franz Schierer suggested the establishment of folk concerts of the Vienna MGV. In 1864, the first Federal Song Festival of the Austrian singer Confederation took place in Wiener Neustadt.[5][6]
• Eduard Schierer von Waldheim, Jäger Battalion 8 Austro-Hungarian Infantry, 1834[7]
• Vinzenz Schierer v.W.z.F., (*4.4.1840 - ), k.u.k. artillerie regiment nr 3 imperial gunner and lance corporal[8]
• Schierer von Waldheim, Imperial head forest ranger bei Wlkawa, 1849[9]
• Schierer von Waldheim, Pharmacist in Vienna, 1865[10]
• Christian H. Schierer, Austrian Trade Commissioner to France.