Frey (surname)

Frey is a surname of German origin, from the Middle High German word "vri," meaning "free," and as a name, it referred to a free man, as opposed to a bondsman or serf in the feudal system.^[1][2] Other variations include Freyr, Freyer, Freyda, Freyman, Freyberg, Freystein, Fray, Frayr, Frayda, Frayberg, Frayman, Freeman.

Frey is the surname of the following people:

People

• Aaron Frey, American politician
• Albert Frey (disambiguation), multiple people
• Alexander Frey (politician) (1877–1945), Finnish politician and banker
• Alexander Frey, American conductor
• Alexander Moritz Frey, German author
• Alice Frey, Belgian painter
• Allan H. Frey, American neuroscientist
• Amber Frey
• Bernard Frey, appellant in Frey v. Fedoruk et al.
• Bruno Frey, Swiss economist
• Casey Frey, American actor, comedian, dancer
• Christopher Frey, German writer
• Darcy Frey, American writer
• Diana Frey, Argentine film producer
• Donald N. Frey, an American innovator in manufacturing
• Emil Frey (1838–1922), Swiss politician
• Emilio Frey (1872–1964), Argentine geographer
• Gerhard Frey (mathematician) (born 1944), German mathematician
• Gerhard Frey (politician), (1933–2013) German politician (DVU)
• Glenn Frey (1948–2016), American recording artist and actor
• Greg Frey, American football player
• Heinrich Frey (1822–1890), Swiss entomologist
• Henri-Nicolas Frey (1847–1932), French major general
• Hugo Frey (musician), American musician
• Hugo Frey, German fighter pilot
• James Frey, American writer
• James N. Frey, American writer
• Jim Frey, American baseball manager
• John P. Frey, American labor activist
• Joseph Samuel C. F. Frey (born Joseph Levi; 1771–1850), missionary
• Konrad Frey, German gymnast
• Leonard Frey, American actor
• Lonny Frey, American baseball player
• Louis Frey, Jr. (1934–2019), American politician
• Łucja Frey, Polish physician and neurologist
• Martin Frey (1904–1971), German politician
• Max Frey (1874–1944), German painter and graphic artist
• Mogens Frey, Danish cyclist
• Nicolas Frey, French footballer, brother of Sébastien
• Oliver Frey, Swiss magazine illustrator
• Oliver W. Frey, American politician
• Paul Frey, Canadian operatic tenor
• Perry A. Frey, American biochemist
• Peter Frey (journalist), German journalist
• Peter Frey (sailor) (born 1949), Swiss sailor
• Petra Frey, Austrian singer
• Rahel Frey, Swiss racing driver
• Raymond Frey (1941–2012), American philosopher
• Raymond E. Frey (physicist) (born 1956), American physicist
• R. Scott Frey, American contemporary sociologist
• Richard Karl Hjalmar Frey (1886–1965), Finnish entomologist, specialist of Diptera
• Richard L. Frey, (1905–1988), American bridge player
• Roger Frey (1913–1997), French politician
• Sébastien Frey (born 1980), French football goalkeeper, brother of Nicolas
• Stephen Frey, American author
• Steve Frey, American baseball player
• Toomas Frey, Estonian botanist and ecologist
• William J. Frey (1929-2011), American politician, businessman, and farmer

Fictional characters

• House Frey, from A Song of Ice and Fire
• Dieter Frey, from Call for the Dead le Carre

See also

• Freya (disambiguation)
• Fry (surname)
• Frye
• Fray (surname)
• Frei (surname)