Rye is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
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Angela Rye
Angela Rye (born October 26, 1979) is the Principal and CEO of IMPACT Strategies, a political advocacy firm formerly based in Washington, DC. She is a special correspondent on ESPN.
She was (until November 2020) a liberal political commentator ...
, born 1971, Political commentator
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Barbara Lynette Rye
Barbara Lynette Rye is an Australian botanist born in 1952.
Barbara Rye has been associated with the Western Australian Herbarium, where her work as a taxonomist has been the source of many new descriptions of plants. The number of taxa recorded ...
, born 1952, Australian botanist
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Daphne Rye (1916–1992), English theatre actress and director
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Maria Rye
Maria Susan Rye, (31 March 1829 – 12 November 1903), was a social reformer and a promoter of emigration from England, especially of young women living in Liverpool workhouses, to the colonies of the British Empire, especially Canada.
Early life
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(1829–1903), English social reformer
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Michael Rye
Michael Rye (born John Michael Riorden Billsbury; March 2, 1918 – September 20, 2012) was an American actor. His decades-long career spanned radio, television, animated cartoons and video games. Aside from his voice over work, Rye also acted in ...
(born 1918), American voice actor
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Olaf Rye
Olaf Rye (16 November 1791 – 6 July 1849) was a Denmark–Norway, Norwegian-Danish military officer. He died in battle during the First Schleswig War and is considered to have been a Danish war hero.
Biography
Olaf Rye was born at Bø, Tele ...
(1791–1849), Dano-Norwegian military officer
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Roger Rye, MP for Kent
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Stellan Rye
Stellan Rye (4 July 1880 – 14 November 1914) was a Danish-born film director, active in the early 20th century. Rye was born in Randers.
In 1913 he created (together with Hanns Heinz Ewers and Paul Wegener) the silent film '' Der Student von P ...
(1880–1914), Danish-born film director
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Thomas Clark Rye
Thomas Clarke Rye (June 2, 1863September 12, 1953) was an American politician who served as the 32nd governor of Tennessee from 1915 to 1919. An ardent supporter of prohibition of alcoholic beverages, he helped reunify the state's Democratic Part ...
(1863–1953), American politician
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