Fry (surname)

Fry is an English and Scottish surname which derived from the Old Norse frjó meaning 'seed'.

People

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  • Barry Fry (born 1945), English football manager
  • Ben Fry (born 1975), American computer software expert and digital art designer
  • Bertha Fry (1893–2007), American supercentenarian
  • Beverly Jane Fry, Australian ballerina
  • Bob Fry (1930–2019), American football player
  • Birkett D. Fry (1822–1891), Confederate general in the American Civil War

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  • Ed Fry (1879–1968), Australian rugby league and rugby union player
  • Edmund Fry (1754–1835), English type-founder
  • Edward Fry (1827–1918), British judge
  • Elizabeth Fry (1780–1845), British prison reformer, social reformer and philanthropist
  • Ella Fry (1916–1997), Australian artist and musician
  • Elliott Fry (born 1994), American football player
  • Emma Sheridan Fry (1864–1936), American actress, playwright and teacher
  • Eric Fry (born 1987), American rugby union player
  • F. E. J. Fry (Frederick Ernest Joseph Fry; 1908–1989), Canadian ecologist

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  • Graham Fry (born 1949), British High Commissioner and politician

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  • Isaac N. Fry (1827–1900), American Civil War soldier awarded the Medal of Honor

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  • Ken Fry (1920–2007), Australian politician

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  • Laura Anne Fry (1857–1943), American artist
  • Lena Jane Fry (1850–1938), Canadian-American writer
  • Leslie Fry (1882–1970), pen name of Paquita de Shishmareff, American antisemitic activist
  • Lewis Fry (1832–1921), British Quaker, lawyer, philanthropist and politician
  • Louis Edwin Fry Sr. (1903–2000), American architect and professor

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  • Nan Fry, American poet
  • Nick Fry (born 1956), British motorsport executive
  • Nina Fry, British actress
  • Norah Fry (1871–1960), British social activist and politician

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  • Varian Fry (1907–1967), American journalist who ran a rescue network in Vichy France

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Fictional characters

See also