Frey (surname)
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Frei or Frey is a French
or German
surname:
France
The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
or German
Germany
Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...
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List of persons with the surname Frei
- Alexander Frei, Swiss football (soccer) player
- Arturo FreiArturo FreiArturo Frei Bolívar is a Chilean political figure, a former senator and presidential candidate in the 2000 election.He was born in Santiago, son of Arturo Frei Montalva and of Marcela Bolívar Le Fort. His uncle was Eduardo Frei Montalva, who would become president of Chile in 1964...
, Chilean politician - Carl FreiCarl FreiCarl Frei was a German organ builder, composer and music arranger who founded a company that manufactured fairground and street organs....
, German organ builder - Carmen FreiCarmen FreiCarmen Frei Ruiz-Tagle is a Chilean politician and teacher. She served as Senator from 1990 to 2006.Frei was born in Santiago, the eldest child to Eduardo Frei Montalva and María Ruiz-Tagle Jiménez. She studied at the Colegio Universitario Inglés; and later graduated as a teacher from the...
, Chilean politician - Christian FreiChristian FreiChristian Frei is a Swiss filmmaker. He is mostly known for his two films War Photographer and The Giant Buddhas . Both deal with topics and themes more or less linked to war and intolerance....
, Swiss filmmaker - Eduardo Frei MontalvaEduardo Frei MontalvaEduardo Frei Montalva was a Chilean political leader of world stature. In his long political career, he was Minister of Public Works, president of his Christian Democratic Party, senator, President of the Senate, and president of Chile from 1964 to 1970...
, president of Chile - Eduardo Frei Ruiz-TagleEduardo Frei Ruiz-TagleEduardo Alfredo Juan Bernardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle is a Chilean politician and civil engineer who was President of Chile from 1994 to 2000. He is currently Senator for Los Ríos and was President of the Senate from 2006 to 2008. He attempted a comeback as the candidate of the ruling Concertación...
, president of Chile - Fabian FreiFabian FreiFabian Frei is a Swiss footballer who currently plays as a midfielder for FC Basel in the Swiss Super League, after a two year loan at FC St. Gallen. Until June 2011 he was player in the Swiss U-21 team...
, Swiss football (soccer) player - Hans Wilhelm FreiHans Wilhelm FreiHans Wilhelm Frei is best known for work on biblical hermeneutics, especially on the interpretation of narrative...
, theologian - Jerry FreiJerry FreiGerald L. "Jerry" Frei was an American football player and coach. He served as the head football coach at the University of Oregon from 1967 to 1971, compiling a record of 22–29–2. At Oregon, Frei coached Dan Fouts and Ahmad Rashad...
, basketball coach - Kerim FreiKerim FreiKerim Frei is an Austrian footballer of Turkish descent, who plays as an attacking midfielder for Fulham...
, Austrian football (soccer) player - Matt FreiMatt FreiMatthias Frei better known as Matt Frei is a German-born British television news journalist and writer, presently the Washington, D.C. correspondent for Channel 4 News.-Personal life:...
, television journalist - Stefan FreiStefan FreiStefan Frei is a Swiss footballer who currently plays for Toronto FC in Major League Soccer.-Youth and college:...
, Swiss footballer - Thomas FreiThomas FreiThomas Frei is a Swiss road bicycle racer. Frei was Swiss Junior champion in road cycling in 2002. Between 2004 and 2006 he cycled for the Bürgis Cycling Team and won the Mountain Championship for U23 cyclists. In the 2007 and 2008 seasons, Frei rode for UCI ProTour team before moving to for...
, Swiss bicycle racer - Wilhelm Siegmund FreiWilhelm Siegmund FreiWilhelm Siegmund Frei was a German dermatologist best known for his contributions to Durand-Nicholas-Favre disease, a sexually transmitted disease found mainly in tropical and subtropical climates...
, medical researcher
List of persons with the surname Frey
- Albert Frey (disambiguation), multiple people
- Alexander FreyAlexander Frey (politician)Alexander Frey was a Finnish senator, bankman and was in the Finnish delegation of Treaty of Tartu between Finland and Russia. He was in Finnish parliament in 1917. Frey was a Chairman of the Board in Pohjoismaiden Yhdyspankki in 1928 - 1945.-External links:*...
(1877–1945), Finnish politician and banker. - Alexander FreyAlexander FreyAlexander Frey is an American symphony orchestra conductor. He is also known as a virtuoso organist and pianist. Frey is in great demand as one of the world's most versatile conductors, and has enjoyed great success in the concert hall and opera house, and in the music of Broadway and Hollywood.In...
, American conductor. - Alice FreyAlice FreyAlice Frey was a Belgian painter.Born in Antwerp, Alice was one of three children. She was trained as a dressmaker, a trade which she later taught as a school teacher. As with many Belgian families, the Freys left their home in the First World War, moving to Ostend. There Alice met painter James...
, Belgian painter. - Allan H. FreyAllan H. FreyAllan H. Frey is an American neuroscientist known for his research and writing during the Cold War on the nature of the microwave auditory effect, also called the "Frey effect". He worked at General Electric's Advanced Electronics Center at Cornell University...
, American neuroscientistNeuroscientistA neuroscientist is an individual who studies the scientific field of neuroscience or any of its related sub-fields...
. - Amber Frey
- Bernard Frey, appellant in Frey v. Fedoruk et al.Frey v. Fedoruk et al.Frey v. Fedoruk et al. [1950] S.C.R. 517 is a decision by the Supreme Court of Canada on the definition of a breach of the peace and whether being a "peeping tom" is a crime. The Court found that actions do not necessarily breach the peace just because they cause violent reactions...
. - Bruno FreyBruno FreyBruno S. Frey is a Swiss economist and a professor at the University of Zurich. He may be best known for his critique of Homo economicus or economic man, arguing that it places excessive emphasis on extrinsic motivation rather than intrinsic motivation...
, Swiss economist. - Christopher FreyChristopher FreyChristopher Frey was born in 1959 in the former German capital Bonn. He grew up in a political and international environment as his father worked for the US embassy. He received a music education at the school of music of the Regensburger Domspatzen. His early interest in the fine arts was also...
, German writer and business angel - Corey Frey
- Darcy FreyDarcy FreyDarcy Frey is an American writer from New York. Best known for his 1994 book The Last Shot: City Streets, Basketball Dreams, Frey has published articles in The American Lawyer, Rolling Stone, Harper's, and The New York Times Magazine...
, American writer. - Diana FreyDiana FreyDiana Frey is an Argentine film producer and production manager active in the Cinema of Argentina since 1976.She has produced a number of significant Argentine pictures such as Alambrado , Plata quemada and El Fondo del mar .She is currently working on Resurrectores which is in production for a...
, Argentine film producer. - Donald N. FreyDonald N. FreyDonald Nelson Frey , was widely known as the Ford Motor Company product manager who, along with Lee Iacocca and others, developed the Ford Mustang into a viable project — and who ultimately supervised the development of the car in a record 18 months.At times besieged by autograph seekers for...
, an American innovator in manufacturing. - Emil FreyEmil FreyEmil Johann Rudolf Frey was a Swiss politician, soldier in the American Civil War and member of the Swiss Federal Council .-Early life:...
(1838–1922), Swiss politician - Gerhard FreyGerhard FreyGerhard Frey is a German mathematician, known for his work in number theory. His Frey curve, a construction of an elliptic curve from a purported solution to the Fermat equation, was central to Wiles' proof of Fermat's Last Theorem....
, German mathematician. - Gerhard FreyGerhard Frey (politician)Gerhard Frey is a German publisher, businessman and politician. He was the chairman and main financial backer of the far-right party Deutsche Volksunion, which he founded in 1971. He resigned as chairman in January 2009....
, German politician - Glenn FreyGlenn FreyGlenn Lewis Frey is an American musician, singer, songwriter, and actor, best known as a founding member of the Eagles. Frey formed the Eagles after he met drummer Don Henley in 1970 and the two eventually joined Linda Ronstadt's backup band for her summer tour. The Eagles formed in 1971 and...
, recording artist and actor - Greg FreyGreg FreyGreg Frey is a former college football player. He is currently a football announcer and high school football assistant coach....
, American football player - Heinrich FreyHeinrich FreyHeinrich Frey was a German-born Swiss entomologist who studied Lepidoptera. He was born in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, and died in Zurich, Switzerland.-Biography:...
(1822–1890), Swiss entomologist - James FreyJames FreyJames Christopher Frey is an American writer. His books A Million Little Pieces and My Friend Leonard , as well as Bright Shiny Morning , were bestsellers...
, American writer. - James N. FreyJames N. FreyJames N. Frey is an American writer and creative writing teacher. Frey has written both fiction and non-fiction and is known for his book called How to Write a Damn Good Novel. He has written novels, plays, and several guides on writing. In addition to being an author, he is a lecturer at schools...
, American writer. - Jennifer Frey, American actress.
- Jim FreyJim FreyJames Gottfried Frey is a former manager and coach in Major League Baseball. He led the Kansas City Royals to their first American League championship in 1980, in his first year with the team...
, baseball player. - John P. FreyJohn P. FreyJohn P. Frey was a labor activist and president of the American Federation of Labor's Metal Trades Department during a crucial period in American labor history.-Early life:...
, American labor activist. - Kip Allen FreyKip Allen FreyKip Allen Frey is a venture capitalist and an adjunct professor at the Sanford School of Public Policy of Duke University. He served as President and CEO of several companies and has presided over company transactions that produced more than $1 billion of value for investors.-Early life and...
- Konrad FreyKonrad FreyKonrad Frey was a German gymnast.With 3 Gold and 6 medals in total at the 1936 Summer Olympics, he had beaten team-mate Alfred Schwarzmann by one Silver for the honours of becoming the most successful competitor in term of total medals won, and the most successful competitor of host nation Germany...
, German gymnast. - Leonard FreyLeonard Frey- Biography :Frey was born in Brooklyn, New York. After college, where he studied art with designs on being a painter, he studied acting at New York City's prestigious Neighborhood Playhouse under famed acting coach Sanford Meisner, and pursued a career in theater instead...
, actor. - Lonny FreyLonny FreyLinus Reinhard Frey [Junior] was an infielder in Major League Baseball who played from through for the Brooklyn Dodgers , Chicago Cubs , Cincinnati Reds , New York Yankees and New York Giants...
, baseball player. - Louis Frey, Jr.Louis Frey, Jr.Louis Frey, Jr. is an American+ politician and a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from 1969 until 1979...
, American politician. - Mogens FreyMogens FreyMogens Frey Jensen is a retired Danish road bicycle racer. Frey won, along with Gunnar Asmussen, Per Lyngemark, and Reno Olsen the gold medal at the 1968 Summer Olympics in 4 km team pursuit. However, he is more famous for the way he won stage 9 in the 1970 Tour de France. Here, he defeated...
, Danish cyclist. - Nicholas Frey (born 1984) is a French athlete.
- Oli FreyOli FreyOliver "Oli" Frey is a magazine illustrator and artist who worked on comic strips in the 1970s and 1980s.- Biography :Frey was born in Zurich, Switzerland on 30 June 1948. He grew up fluent in Italian and German...
, magazine illustrator. - Oliver W. FreyOliver W. FreyOliver Walter Frey was a Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.-Biography:...
, American politician. - Perry A. FreyPerry A. FreyPerry A. Frey is professor emeritus of biochemistry at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. He was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1998. Research in his laboratory centered around the elucidation of enzymatic reaction mechanisms....
, American biochemist. - Petra FreyPetra FreyPetra Frey is an Austrian singer, born on 27 June 1978 in Wattens. She has released twelve studio albums and five compilation albums and participated in the Eurovision Song Contest.-Biography:Frey released her debut album, Bloss Träume im Kopf in 1993...
, Austrian singer. - R. Scott FreyR. Scott FreyR. Scott Frey is a sociologist at the University of Tennessee. He specialises in the interrelated areas of public policy, environment, and social change and social development. His recent work centers on risk and globalization issues.- Publications :...
, sociologist. - Roger FreyRoger FreyRoger Frey was a French politician. He was Minister of the Interior and president of the Constitutional Council of France.-Monokini prosecution:...
, French politician. - Scott D. Frey, American Businessman.
- Sébastien FreySébastien FreySébastien Frey is a French footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Serie A club Genoa.-Club career:Frey began his career with French side AS Cannes in 1997, at the age of 17...
(born 1980) is a French footballerFootball (soccer)Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a sport played between two teams of eleven players with a spherical ball...
. - Stephen FreyStephen FreyStephen Frey is a best-selling author who writes novels set in the financial world. He is a managing director at a private equity firm, and lives in Florida...
, author.
In fiction
- House Frey from A Song of Ice and Fire.
- Dieter FreyDieter FreyDieter Frey is a German former footballer who played as a defender or midfielder. Frey began his professional career with Bayern Munich, making his debut against VfB Leipzig in the 1993–94 season. He never established himself as a first-team regular, however, and left in 1996 to join SC Freiburg...
from Call for the Dead le Carre.
See also
- Freya (disambiguation)Freya (disambiguation)The name of the Norse goddess Freyja and its modern variants, including Freya, Freia, and Freja can refer to:-Locations:*Frøya, Sogn og Fjordane, an island and a former municipality of Sogn og Fjordane county in Norway...
- Fry (surname)Fry (surname)Fry is the surname of several notable people:*Abi Fry, Scottish musician*Adam Fry , British footballer*Adrian Fry , British musician*Arthur Fry , American inventor and scientist...
- Frye (disambiguation)Frye (disambiguation)-People:*Channing Frye , basketball player*Charlie Frye , football player for the Oakland Raiders*Don Frye , mixed martial arts fighter*Donna Frye , San Diego city councilwoman*Dwight Frye , American actor...