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Fryer is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: *
Bernie Fryer Bernie W. Fryer (born December 25, 1949) has been Vice President and Director of Officials for the National Basketball Association since July 2008. He was a player in the NBA and American Basketball Association (ABA) from 1973 to 1975 before servi ...
, American basketball player and official *
Brian Fryer Brian Fryer (born July 16, 1953) is a retired football player who starred at wide receiver for the University of Alberta, and played professionally for the Washington Redskins of the National Football League and the Edmonton Eskimos and Ottawa Ro ...
, Canadian gridiron football player *
Eric Fryer (actor) Eric Fryer is a Canadian actor, who played Terry Fox in the 1983 biopic ''The Terry Fox Story''."Fox role was a fluke for Fryer". ''The Globe and Mail'', April 27, 1983. Originally from Scarborough, Ontario, he was cast because he was a leg amput ...
, Canadian actor *
Eric Fryer (baseball) Eric Joseph Fryer (born August 26, 1985) is an American former professional baseball catcher. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Pittsburgh Pirates, Minnesota Twins, and St. Louis Cardinals. A product of Ohio State University, th ...
(born 1985), American baseball catcher *
Frederick William Richards Fryer Sir Frederick William Richards Fryer (1845 – 20 February 1922) served as Lieutenant Governor of the British Crown Colony of Burma from May 1897 to April 1903. Prior to that, he had served as Chief Commissioner of British (Lower) Burma. He w ...
, British administrator in Burma *
John Fryer John Fryer may refer to: *John Fryer (physician) (died 1563), English physician, humanist and early reformer *John Fryer (physician, died 1672), English physician *John Fryer (travel writer) (1650–1733), British travel-writer and doctor *Sir John ...
(1671–1726), pewterer and Lord Mayor of London * J. R. Tranthim-Fryer, born John Robertson Fryer (1858–1928), Australian sculptor *
John Fryer (producer) John Fryer (born 1958) is an English record producer. Best known for his production work, he has also performed as a musician, as one of the two constant members of This Mortal Coil (along with Ivo Watts-Russell), providing keyboards, strings an ...
, English record producer and musician *
John Fryer (sailor) The complement of , the Royal Navy ship on which a historic mutiny occurred in the south Pacific on 28 April 1789, comprised 46 men on its departure from England in December 1787 and 44 at the time of the mutiny, including her commander Lieute ...
(1753–1817), officer on the ''Bounty'' *
John E. Fryer John Ercel Fryer, M.D. (November 7, 1937 – February 21, 2003)Birth certificate in the John E. Fryer archive at the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Box 38 was an American psychiatrist and gay rights activist best known for his anonymous spee ...
(1937–2003), American psychiatrist and gay rights activist * Katherine Fryer (1910–2017), English artist *
Miranda Fryer Sky Mangel (also Bishop) is a fictional character from the Australian soap opera '' Neighbours''. She made her first screen appearance during the episode broadcast on 1 February 1989. The character was originally played by Miranda Fryer until 199 ...
, actress *
Nelson Fryer Nelson Fryer (February 22, 1818 – June 5, 1896) was an American farmer and politician. Born in Princetown, Schenectady County, New York, Fryer moved to Cold Spring, Wisconsin Territory in 1843. Fryer was a farmer. He served on the Cold Spr ...
(1818–1896), American farmer and politician *
Peter Fryer Peter Fryer (18 February 1927 – 31 October 2006)
''Spartacus Educational''.
was an English ...
, English writer and journalist * Richard Fryer (cinematographer) (1894–1953), born Morris Kolsky, British-born Hollywood cinematographer *
Richard Fryer (politician) Richard Fryer (11 November 1770 – 8 August 1846) was a Staffordshire banker, landowner and British Whig politician. He held a seat in the House of Commons from 1832 to 1835, representing Wolverhampton. Background Fryer was the son of Richar ...
(1770–1846), banker, landowner and British Whig politician * Roland G. Fryer Jr, American economics professor *
William Fryer William J. "Tucker" Fryer (22 July 1895 in Burradon, Northumberland, England – 29 August 1960 in Linden, New Jersey) was an English-American soccer half back. He is a member of the National Soccer Hall of Fame. Fryer began his career wit ...
(1895–1960), English-American footballer


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Freyr Freyr (Old Norse: 'Lord'), sometimes anglicized as Frey, is a widely attested god in Norse mythology, associated with kingship, fertility, peace, and weather. Freyr, sometimes referred to as Yngvi-Freyr, was especially associated with Sweden an ...
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Fryar The surname “Fryar” has its earliest origins in medieval England, first appearing in the 14th century. The name was also found in Lothian where they were seated from early recorded times and their first records appear on the census rolls tak ...
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Fryars Benjamin Garrett, better known by his stage name Fryars (sometimes stylised frYars), is an English art pop musician from London. Career Fryars released his debut EP, ''The Ides'', in September 2007, and was profiled as ''The Guardian''s "New b ...
, British musician *
Friar A friar is a member of one of the mendicant orders founded in the twelfth or thirteenth century; the term distinguishes the mendicants' itinerant apostolic character, exercised broadly under the jurisdiction of a superior general, from the ol ...
, Christian religion {{surname, Fryer English-language surnames