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Dreyfuss Dreyfuss is a surname; notable people with this surname include: *Barney Dreyfuss (1865–1932), baseball entrepreneur, co-founder of the World Series *Gideon Dreyfuss, molecular biologist, Howard Hughes Medical Institute and University of Pennsylv ...

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

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Alexandra Dreyfus Alexandra "Ra" or "Lexie" Dreyfus (born April 7, 1986) is an American actress, director and writer. She is best known for her work directing music videos and commercials, photographing celebrities, and portraying Sarah Genatiempo in the Intern ...

(born 1986), American actress *

Chuckie Dreyfus Chuckie Dreyfus (; born Charles de Joya Dreyfus on August 7, 1974) is a Filipino film actor. He received his first award as Best Child Performer 1984 at the Metro Manila Film Festival, won the FAMAS Award 1985 for Best Child Actor in the film '' ...

(born 1974), Filipino actor *

James Dreyfus James Dreyfus (born 9 October 1968) is an English actor most notable for roles on television sitcoms ''The Thin Blue Line (British TV series), The Thin Blue Line'' as Constable Kevin Goody, and ''Gimme Gimme Gimme (TV series), Gimme Gimme Gimme ...

(born 1968), English actor *

Jean-Claude Dreyfus Jean-Claude Dreyfus (born 18 February 1946, in Paris) is a French actor, comedian, and author. He began his career in film acting in 1973 in the film ''Comment réussir quand on est con et pleurnichard''. Dreyfus is notable for his portrayal ...

(born 1946), French actor *

Julie Dreyfus Julie Dreyfus (born 24 January 1966) is a French actress who is well known in Japan where she made her television debut on a French language lesson program on NHK's educational channel in the late 1980s. She has appeared on the TV show ''Ryō ...

(born 1966), French actress *

Julia Louis-Dreyfus Julia Scarlett Elizabeth Louis-Dreyfus ( ; born January 13, 1961) is an American actress, comedian, and producer who worked on the comedy television series ''Saturday Night Live'' (1982–1985), ''Seinfeld'' (1989–1998), ''The New Adventures ...

(born 1961), American actress and comedian *

Anouk Aimée Nicole Françoise Florence Dreyfus (born 27 April 1932), known professionally as Anouk Aimée () or Anouk, is a French film actress, who has appeared in 70 films since 1947, having begun her film career at age 14. In her early years, she studi ...

(born Dreyfus, 1932), French actress

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Alfred Dreyfus Alfred Dreyfus ( , also , ; 9 October 1859 – 12 July 1935) was a French artillery officer of Jewish ancestry whose trial and conviction in 1894 on charges of treason became one of the most polarizing political dramas in modern French history. ...

(1859–1935), French Jewish military officer and focus of the Dreyfus affair *

Auguste Dreyfus Auguste Dreyfus (28 June 1827 – 25 May 1897) was a French businessman who made his fortune by financing the Peruvian trade in guano. Dreyfus joined a small textile trading firm set up by three of his elder brothers and moved to Lima, Peru to act ...

(1827–1897), French guano merchant, financier *

Camille Dreyfus (chemist) Camille Edouard Dreyfus (November 11, 1878 – September 27, 1956) was a Swiss chemist. He and his brother Henri Dreyfus invented Celanese, an acetate yarn. He founded The Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation in honour of his brother. Early ye ...

(1878–1956), Swiss chemist *

Camille Ferdinand Dreyfus Ferdinand Dreyfus (5 May 1849 - 15 July 1915) was a wealthy French lawyer, historian and philanthropist who became Senator for Seine-et-Oise from 1909 to 1915. Career Ferdinand Dreyfus was born in Paris on 5 May 1849. He became a lawyer and edit ...

(1849–1915), French lawyer who was Senator for Seine-et-Oise from 1909 to 1915 *

Charles Dreyfus Charles Dreyfus (b. Alsace, 1848 - d. Menton, France, 11 December 1935) was President of the Manchester Zionist Society, a member of Manchester City Council and a leading figure in the East Manchester Conservative Association during the time that ...

(1848–1935), British-French Zionist and businessman *

Édouard Dreyfus Gonzalez Édouard Vincent Joseph Dreyfus González de Orbegoso, 4th count of Premio Real (1876–1941) was a French Catholic businessman of Jewish descent, a lawyer, painter and writer, who was also an amateur composer under the pseudonym of Jean Dora. É ...

(1876–1941) French lawyer and composer as "Jean Dora" *

Ferdinand-Camille Dreyfus Ferdinand-Camille Dreyfus (Paris, 19 August 1851 – 1905) was a French journalist and politician, unrelated to his contemporary Captain Alfred Dreyfus. After a classical and commercial education he prepared himself for the École Polytechnique, ...

(1851–1915), French journalist and politician *

Francis Dreyfus Francis Dreyfus (; 2 March 1940 in Le Raincy – 24 June 2010 in Neuilly-sur-Seine) was a French record producer, who focused on jazz and electronic music, publishing Jean-Michel Jarre's first commercially successful work, ''Oxygène''. In 1971, Dr ...

(1940–2010), French record producer, father of Julie Dreyfus *

George Dreyfus George Dreyfus AM (born 22 July 1928) is an Australian contemporary classical, film and television composer. Early life and orchestral career Dreyfus was born to a Jewish family in Elberfeld, Wuppertal, Germany. He was the younger of two sons ...

(born 1928), Australian composer, father of Mark Dreyfus *

Gérard Louis-Dreyfus Gérard C. Louis-Dreyfus (21 June 1932 – 16 September 2016), also known as William, was a French-American businessman. His net worth was estimated at $3.4 billion by ''Forbes'' in 2006. He was the chairman of Louis Dreyfus Energy Services and ...

(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 The Secret Court of 1920 was an ''ad hoc'' disciplinary tribunal of five administrators at Harvard University formed to investigate charges of homosexual activity among the student population. During two weeks in May and June 1920, "the court", h ...

Henri Dreyfus Henri Dreyfus (or Henry Dreyfus, 7 January 1882 – 30 December 1944) was a Swiss inventor of the modern weaving loom. He and his brother Camille Dreyfus also invented Celanese, an acetate yarn. Early years Henri Dreyfus was born in 1882, into ...

(1882–1944), Swiss chemist and co-inventor of Celanese *

Hubert Dreyfus Hubert Lederer Dreyfus (; October 15, 1929 – April 22, 2017) was an American philosopher and professor of philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley. His main interests included phenomenology, existentialism and the philosophy of both ...

(1929–2017), American philosopher (University of California, Berkeley), brother of Stuart Dreyfus *

Huguette Dreyfus Pauline Huguette Dreyfus (30 November 1928 – 16 May 2016) was a French harpsichordist. Biography Dreyfus was born in Mulhouse, Alsace, France, on 30 November 1928 to Fernand and Marguerite Dreyfus. The doctor incorrectly wrote Pauline Hugu ...

(1928–2016), French harpsichordist *

Jack Dreyfus John J. Dreyfus Jr. (August 28, 1913 – March 27, 2009) was an American financial expert and the founder of the Dreyfus Funds. Born in Montgomery, Alabama, Dreyfus was a graduate of Lehigh University in Pennsylvania. He is widely publicize ...

(1913–2009), American financier, founder of the Dreyfus Corporation * Jean-Marc Dreyfus, French historian * Jérôme Dreyfus (born 1971), French judoka *

Karen Dreyfus Karen Dreyfus is a violist who currently teaches at the USC Thornton School of Music. Ms. Dreyfus has distinguished herself as a recipient of many prizes, including the Walter W. Naumburg Foundation, Naumburg Viola Competition (1982), the Lionel T ...

, American violist *

Laurence Dreyfus Laurence Dreyfus, FBA (born 1952) is an American musicologist and player of the viola da gamba who was University Lecturer and Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford. Early life Dreyfus was born and raised in Boston, Massachusetts, and lived in Ch ...

(born 1952), American baroque music scholar and viol player *

Lee S. Dreyfus Lee Sherman Dreyfus (pronounced ; June 20, 1926 – January 2, 2008) was an American educator and politician. A member of the Republican Party (United States), Republican Party, he served as the List of Governors of Wisconsin, 40th Governor of W ...

(1926–2008), American politician, Governor of Wisconsin (1979–1983) *

Mark Dreyfus Mark Alfred Dreyfus (born 3 October 1956) is an Australian politician and lawyer who has been attorney-general of Australia and cabinet secretary since June 2022, having held both roles previously in 2013 and from 2010 to 2013 respectively. ...

(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 Max Dreyfus (April 1, 1874 – May 12, 1964) was a German-born American music publisher, arranger and songwriter. Between the 1910s and 1950s he encouraged and published the work of many of the writers of the so-called Great American Songbook ...

(1874–1964), German-born American music publisher * Pablo Dreyfus (1969/70–2009), Argentine arms controller *

Philippe Dreyfus Philippe Dreyfus is a French informatics pioneer. After gaining his master's degree in physics in 1950 from the École supérieure de physique et de chimie industrielles de la ville de Paris, he became a professor at the Informatics faculty at Ha ...

, French informatics pioneer *

Pierre Dreyfus Pierre Dreyfus (18 November 1907, Paris — 25 December 1994, Paris) was a high French civil servant who in 1955 became a wealthy businessman. Between 1947 and 1955, he occupied senior administrative positions in the Ministry of Industry and Comm ...

(1907–1994), French civil servant, politician and businessman (Renault) *

René Dreyfus René Dreyfus (6 May 1905 – 16 August 1993) was a French driver who raced automobiles for 14 years in the 1920s and 1930s, the Golden Era of Grand Prix motor racing. Early life Dreyfus was born and raised in Nice to a Jewish family. He show ...

(1905–1993), French Grand Prix motor racing driver *

Robert Louis-Dreyfus Robert Louis-Dreyfus ( – ) was a French businessman who was chief executive officer (CEO) of Adidas (then, "Adidas Salomon") and Saatchi & Saatchi. He was a majority shareholder of the French football team Olympique de Marseille, and durin ...

(1946–2009), French businessman (Adidas-Salomon), cousin of Gérard Louis-Dreyfus *

Stuart Dreyfus A native of Terre Haute, Indiana, Stuart E. Dreyfus is professor emeritus at University of California, Berkeley in the Industrial Engineering and Operations Research Department. While at the Rand Corporation he was a programmer of the JOHNNIAC com ...

, 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 Yves Dreyfus (17 May 1931 – 16 December 2021) was a French epee fencer who held two medals as part of the French Olympic épée team. Life and career Dreyfus was born in Clermont-Ferrand, France, and was Jewish. He survived the Nazi occupati ...

(1931–2021), French Olympic fencer

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* Chief Inspector Dreyfus, character in ''

The Pink Panther ''The Pink Panther'' is an American media franchise primarily focusing on a series of comedy-mystery films featuring an inept French police detective, Inspector Jacques Clouseau. The franchise began with the release of the classic film ''The Pink ...

'' film series * Dreyfus, the main human antagonist in the 2014 film ''

Dawn of the Planet of the Apes ''Dawn of the Planet of the Apes'' is a 2014 American science fiction film directed by Matt Reeves from a screenplay by Mark Bomback, Rick Jaffa and Amanda Silver. It is the sequel to ''Rise of the Planet of the Apes'' (2011), and the second ins ...

'' * Shosanna ic = ''Shoshanna''Dreyfus, one of the principal characters in ''

Inglourious Basterds ''Inglourious Basterds'' is a 2009 war film written and directed by Quentin Tarantino, starring Brad Pitt, Christoph Waltz, Michael Fassbender, Eli Roth, Diane Kruger, Daniel Brühl, Til Schweiger and Mélanie Laurent. The film tells an alter ...

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