Dreyfus (Yiddish: דרײפֿוס)
Origin
Meaningtripod[1]
Region of originTrier, Germany
Other names
Variant form(s)Dreyfuss
Dictionary of American Family Names

Dreyfus is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

Actors

Other people

  • Alfred Dreyfus (1859–1935), French Jewish military officer and focus of the Dreyfus affair
  • Auguste Dreyfus (1827–1897), French guano merchant, financier
  • Camille Dreyfus (chemist) (1878–1956), Swiss chemist
  • Camille Ferdinand Dreyfus (1849–1915), French lawyer who was Senator for Seine-et-Oise from 1909 to 1915
  • Charles Dreyfus (1848–1935), British-French Zionist and businessman
  • Édouard Dreyfus Gonzalez (1876–1941) French lawyer and composer as "Jean Dora"
  • Ferdinand-Camille Dreyfus (1851–1915), French journalist and politician
  • Francis Dreyfus (1940–2010), French record producer, father of Julie Dreyfus
  • George Dreyfus (born 1928), Australian composer, father of Mark Dreyfus
  • Gérard Louis-Dreyfus (1932-2016), French-American businessman (Louis Dreyfus Group), father of Julia Louis-Dreyfus, cousin of Robert Louis-Dreyfus
  • Harry Dreyfus (1891–1978), American businessman implicated in the Secret Court of 1920
  • Henri Dreyfus (1882–1944), Swiss chemist and co-inventor of Celanese
  • Hubert Dreyfus (1929–2017), American philosopher (University of California, Berkeley), brother of Stuart Dreyfus
  • Huguette Dreyfus (1928–2016), French harpsichordist
  • Jack Dreyfus (1913–2009), American financier, founder of the Dreyfus Corporation
  • Jean-Marc Dreyfus, French historian
  • Jérôme Dreyfus (born 1971), French judoka
  • Karen Dreyfus, American violist
  • Laurence Dreyfus (born 1952), American baroque music scholar and viol player
  • Lee S. Dreyfus (1926–2008), American politician, Governor of Wisconsin (1979–1983)
  • Mark Dreyfus (born 1956), Australian lawyer and politician, MP for Isaacs (2007–present), son of George Dreyfus
  • Markus G. Dreyfus (1812-1877), Swiss Jewish teacher and publicist active in the struggle for the emancipation of Jews in Switzerland
  • Max Dreyfus (1874–1964), German-born American music publisher
  • Pablo Dreyfus (1969/70–2009), Argentine arms controller
  • Philippe Dreyfus, French informatics pioneer
  • Pierre Dreyfus (1907–1994), French civil servant, politician and businessman (Renault)
  • René Dreyfus (1905–1993), French Grand Prix motor racing driver
  • Robert Louis-Dreyfus (1946–2009), French businessman (Adidas-Salomon), cousin of Gérard Louis-Dreyfus
  • Stuart Dreyfus, American academic, engineer and author (University of California, Berkeley), brother of Hubert Dreyfus
  • Tony Dreyfus (1939–2023), French politician, Member of the National Assembly for Paris (1997–2012)
  • Yves Dreyfus (1931–2021), French Olympic fencer

Fictional characters

See also

References

  1. ↑ Hanks, Patrick (8 May 2003). Dictionary of American Family Names. Oxford University Press. p. 489. ISBN 978-0-19-977169-1.
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