Dreyfuss
Dreyfuss and Dreyfus are surnames.
The spelling variants, Dreyfuss vs. Dreyfus, tend to correspond to the country the family was living in at the time the spelling was standardized. Dreyfus tends to be more common among people of French origin. Dreyfuss tends to be found among those of German descent (stemming from the use of the long s (ſ) and ß (s sharp).
Dreyfus(s) is a Jewish Ashkenazic surname derived from the town of Trier on the Moselle, known in French as Trèves, from a Celtic tribal name Treveri of uncertain etymology. The form of the surname has been altered by folk etymological association with modern German Dreifuss tripod.[1]
People
- Barney Dreyfuss (1865–1932), baseball entrepreneur, co-founder of the World Series
- Gideon Dreyfuss, molecular biologist, Howard Hughes Medical Institute and University of Pennsylvania
- Henry Dreyfuss (1904–1972), industrial designer
- Joel Dreyfuss (born 1945), editor-in-chief of Red Herring
- Richard Dreyfuss (born 1947), American actor
- Robert Dreyfuss, American freelance investigative journalist
- Rochelle C. Dreyfuss, American law professor
See also
- Dreyfus (disambiguation), Dreyfus (surname)
- Dreifuss
- Orvil Dryfoos (1912–1963), publisher of The New York Times from 1961 to 1963
This page lists people with the surname Dreyfuss.
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References
- ^ Hanks and Hodges 'A Dictionary of Surnames' (Oxford) 1988.