Dreyfus (surname) explained
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
Notes and References
- Book: Hanks . Patrick . Dictionary of American Family Names . 8 May 2003 . Oxford University Press . 978-0-19-977169-1 . 489 . en.
