Dreyer (family name)
Dreyer is a family name that occurs mainly in German-speaking countries.
Origin and meaning
Dreyer or Dreier; Dreger is also the Low German name for the turner (obd. lathe operator)
Name bearer
A.
- Aloys Dreyer (1861–1938), German teacher, writer and librarian
- Anders Dreyer (* 1998), Danish soccer player
- Axel Dreyer (* 1957), German economist
B.
- Benedikt Dreyer (around 1495–1555), German carver and painter
- Björn Dreyer (soccer player, 1977) (* 1977), German soccer player and coach
- Björn Dreyer (soccer player, 1989) (* 1989), German soccer player
- Boris Dreyer (* 1967), German ancient historian
- Brigitte Dreyer (* 1946), German politician (CDU)
C.
- Carl Dreyer (General) (1796–1886), lieutenant general from Baden
- Carl Henrich Dreyer (1723–1802), German legal scholar and politician
- Carl Theodor Dreyer (1889–1968), Danish film director
- Christoph Dreyer (* 1966), German politician (CDU), MdL
- Clemens Dreyer (* 1958), German musician and publicist
- Cord Dreyer (* 1962), German journalist
D.
- Dankvart Dreyer ( Dankvart Christian Magnus Dreyer ; 1816–1852), Danish painter
- Dieter Dreyer (* 1940), German politician (CDU)
- Dietrich W. Dreyer (1887–1961), German marine engineer and film producer
E.
- Ernst Dreyer (1816–1899), German shipbuilder and shipowner
- Ernst-Jürgen Dreyer (1934–2011), German writer, playwright, translator and musicologist
F.
- Felix Dreyer , lighting designer
- Frederik Dreyer (1814–1898), Danish lieutenant general and minister
- Friedrich Dreyer (watchmaker) (1822–1902), German court watchmaker
- Friedrich Dreyer (bell founder) (before 1855 – after 1885), German gun, brass and bell founder
- Friedrich Dreyer-Tamura (1899–1975), German painter
- Friedrich Adolph Dreyer (1780–1850), German painter, lithographer, and art dealer and collector
- Friedrich Wilhelm Dreyer (1757–1841), Prussian lawyer, privy councilor of war, finance councilor and general steward
G
- Gabriel Dreyer (around 1580–1631), German painter and draftsman, see Gabriel Dreer
- Georg Dreyer (1847–1903), German dyer, entrepreneur and politician
- Georges Dreyer (1873–1934), Danish doctor and scientist
- Gerald Dreyer (1929–1985), South African boxer
- Gesine Dreyer (* 1969), German harpist
- Günter Dreyer (1943–2019), German Egyptologist
- Gustav Wilhelm Dreyer (1859–1911), German politician, senator in Bremen
H
- Heinrich Dreyer (entrepreneur) , German entrepreneur
- Heinrich Dreyer (writer) (1884–1929), German railway official and writer
- Heinrich Dreyer (politician) (1935-1994), German railway official and politician (CDU)
- Herbert Dreyer , German art historian and museum director
- Hildegard Dreyer (1910–1998), German actress
- Horst Dreyer (1928–2019), German theologian
- Hugo Dreyer (1910–1982), German politician (GB / BHE)
I.
- Irina von Dreyer (1915–2019), Russian-French baroness
J
- Jenna Dreyer (* 1986), South African water diver
- Joachim Christian Daniel Dreyer (1783–1875), German shipowner and importer
- Joachim Hinrich Dreyer (1712–1749), German lawyer and administrative officer
- Johan Ludvig Emil Dreyer (1852–1926), Danish astronomer
- Johann Carl Heinrich Dreyer (1723–1802), German legal scholar and politician, see Carl Henrich Dreyer
- Johann Heinrich Dreyer (1670–1737), businessman and mayor of Lübeck
- Johann Matthias Dreyer (1717–1769), German writer, journalist and diplomatic agent
- Johann Melchior Dreyer (1746 / 1747-1824), German composer
- Johann Traugott Dreyer von der Iller (1803–1871), imperial major general, general staff doctor, ophthalmologist and university professor
- Johannes Dreyer (also Johann Dreger, Johann Dreier ; around 1500–1544), German theologian and reformer
- Joseph Maximilian Dreyer , German politician
K
- Karl Heinrich Dreyer (1830–1900), German lawyer, judge and member of the Reichstag
- Karl-Joachim Dreyer (* 1942), German lawyer and bank manager
- Klaus Dreyer (1909–1999), Israeli occupational physician
- Kurt Dreyer (chess player) (1909–1981), German-South African chess player
- Kurt Dreyer (actor) (born 1944), Danish actor
L.
- Luise Dreyer-Sachsenberg († 2001), German film editor
M.
- Malu Dreyer (* 1961), German politician (SPD)
- Manfred Dreyer (* 1950), German physician
- Martin Dreyer (artist) (born Johannes Dreyer ; 1748–1795), German religious and artist
- Martin Dreyer (journalist) , American journalist
- Martin Dreyer (writer) (* 1965), German theologian and writer
- Martin Dreyer (chess player) ( Martin Paul Dreyer ; * 1966), New Zealand chess player
- Martin Dreyer (rugby player) ( Marthinus Christoffel Dreyer ; * 1988), South African rugby player
- Matthieu Dreyer (* 1989), French football player
- Max Dreyer (1862-1946), German writer
- Mechthild Dreyer (* 1955), German philosopher and university lecturer
- Michael Dreyer (artist) (* 1953), German artist and university professor
- Michael Dreyer (political scientist) (* 1959), German political scientist and historian
- Michael Dreyer (film producer) , film producer
- Michael Dreyer (music producer) (* 1970), German music producer and organizer
N
- Nicolaus Dreyer (1921-2003), German politician (FDP, CDU)
O
- Oskar Dreyer (* 1936), German classical philologist
- Oswald Dreyer-Eimbcke (1923–2010), German ship broker, publicist and diplomat
- Otto Dreyer (theologian) (1837–1900), Protestant theologian
- Otto Dreyer (architect) (1897–1972), Swiss architect
- Otto Dreyer (politician) (1903–1986), German politician (NSDAP)
P
- Pam Dreyer (* 1981), American ice hockey player
- Paul Uwe Dreyer (1939–2008), German painter
- Pierre Dreyer (1924–2005), Swiss politician
R.
- Rahel Dreyer , German educator
- Rolf Dreyer (* 1948), German author
- Rudolf Dreyer (1910–1998), German neurologist, clinical neurophysiologist and epileptologist
S.
- Sven-André Dreyer (* 1973), German writer
U
- Uwe Dreyer (* 1952), German soccer player
W.
- Wilhelm Dreyer (1891–1944), lawyer and victim of the Holocaust, see the list of stumbling blocks in the Cologne district of Sülz
- Wolfgang Dreyer (* 1948), German zoologist
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