Dreier (family name)
Dreier is a family name that occurs mainly in German-speaking countries.
Origin and meaning
Three or three; Dreger is also the Low German name for the turner (obd. lathe operator)
Name bearer
- Alfred Dreier (1940–2011), German lawyer and local politician
- Björn Dreier (* 1981), German American football player
- Christian Dreier (1610–1688), German theologian
- Christine Dreier (* 1961), German musician and artist
- Christoph Dreier (* 1981), Austrian ski racer
- David Dreier (* 1952), American politician
- Franz Adrian Dreier (1924–2000), German art historian
- Frederik Dreier (1827-1853), Danish social philosopher
- Hans Dreier (1885–1966), German artist and film architect
- Horst Dreier (* 1954), German lawyer and legal philosopher
- Johan FL Dreier , Johan Friedrich Leonard Dreier (1775–1833), Norwegian painter, draftsman and illustrator
- Johannes Dreier (1500–1544), German Lutheran reformer in the imperial city of Herford, see Johannes Dreyer
- Josef Dreier (* 1931), politician from Baden-Württemberg
- Karl Dreier (1898–1974), German politician (NSDAP), state president of Schaumburg-Lippe
- Katherine Sophie Dreier (1877–1952), American painter, art patron and art collector
- Marc Dreier (* 1950), American investment fraud
- Margaret Dreier Robins (1868–1945), American trade unionist and suffragette
- Mary Dreier (1875–1963), American trade unionist and suffragette
- Michael Dreier (* 1961), German politician (CDU), mayor of Salzkotten
- Patrick Dreier (* 1964), German trumpeter
- Peter Dreier (* 1966), German local politician (FW)
- Ralf Dreier (1931–2018), German legal scholar
- Richard Dreier (1890–1940), German politician (NSDAP), Member of the Member State of Schaumburg-Lippe
- Thomas Dreier (* 1957), German lawyer and university professor
- Verena Dreier (* 1985), German athlete
- Wilhelm Dreier (1928–1993), German Catholic economist and social ethicist
Individual evidence
- ^ Hans Bahlow: German name dictionary. Family and first names explained according to their origin and meaning. Gondrom Verlag, Bindlach 1991, 1993, 2004, ISBN 3-8112-0294-4