Frye (family name)
Frye is a family name .
Origin and meaning
The family name Frye is a version of Frie and Frei in German . It is thus of the same origin as the family name Frey . The family name Frye is most common in Germany in the districts of Cloppenburg and Osnabrück .
Frye in its English version is a variant of Fry , an English family name derived from a nickname . The common root of both variants is possibly the Old English word frig with the meaning "free". Alternatively, it could come from the Old Norse frjó (seed, germ) meaning child , descendant , little person, or little insignificant people .
Name bearer
- Annika Frye (* 1985), German designer and design scientist
- Channing Frye (born 1983), American basketball player
- Charlie Frye (born 1981), American football player
- Christopher B. Frye (* 1956), American composer and music teacher
- David Frye (1934–2011), American parodist
- Don Frye (pianist) (1903-1981), American jazz pianist
- Don Frye (wrestler) (born 1965), American mixed martial arts fighter, wrestler and actor
- Dwight Frye (1899–1943), American actor
- E. Max Frye (* 1956), American screenwriter
- Glenn M. Frye (1926-2007), American physicist
- Jack Frye (1904–1959), American aviation pioneer and co-founder of the former airline TWA
- Johann Georg Christian Frye (around 1750–1824), German landscape painter
- Kelly Frye (* 1984), American actress
- Northrop Frye (1912-1991), Canadian literary critic
- Richard Nelson Frye (1920–2014), American orientalist and historian
- Soleil Moon Frye (* 1976), American actress and director
- Sven Frye (* 1976), German politician (SPD)
- Thomas Frye (politician) (1666–1748), British politician and lawyer
- Thomas Frye (painter) (1710–1762) Irish painter, engraver and entrepreneur
- Walter Frye († around 1474), English composer of the early Renaissance
- Wayne Frye (1930-2014), American rower
- William P. Frye (1830–1911), American politician