Dreyfuss

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Dreyfuss is the surname of:

• Barney Dreyfuss (1865-1932), baseball entrepreneur, co-founder of the World Series
• Gideon Dreyfuss, molecular biologist, Howard Hughes Medical Institute and University of Pennsylvania
• Henry Dreyfuss (1904-1972), industrial designer
• Joel Dreyfuss, editor-in-chief of Red Herring
• Richard Dreyfuss (b. 1947), actor
• Robert Dreyfuss, freelance investigative journalist
• Rochelle Dreyfuss, professor of intellectual property law, New York University
• Stephen Dreyfuss, saxophonist

[edit] Origins

"Dreyfuss," "Dreyfuss" and "Dreyfuss," (as well as other variations on the name) is a surname believed to have originated in the German city of Trier. The Latin name for the city was "Treveris," which developed into its current pronunciation through sound shifts of /t/>/d/ and /f/>/v/. The spelling variants tend to correspond to the country the family was living in at the time the spelling was standardized. The use of one "s" tends to be more common among people of French origin, while the the use of two "s"s tends to be found among those of German descent (stemming from the use of the s-set).

See also

• Dreyfus
• Dreifus
• Alfred Dreyfus (1859-1935), an officer in the French Army, wrongly convicted and then exonerated of treason