Dreyfus (surname)

Dreyfus is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

Actors

 * Alexandra Dreyfus (born 1986), American actress
 * Chuckie Dreyfus (born 1974), Filipino actor
 * James Dreyfus (born 1968), English actor
 * Jean-Claude Dreyfus (born 1946), French actor
 * Julie Dreyfus (born 1966), French actress
 * Julia Louis-Dreyfus (born 1961), American actress and comedian
 * Anouk Aimée (born Dreyfus, 1932–2024), French actress

Other people

 * Alfred Dreyfus (1859–1935), French Jewish military officer and focus of the Dreyfus affair
 * Auguste Dreyfus (1827–1897), French guano merchant, financier
 * Camille Dreyfus (chemist) (1878–1956), Swiss chemist
 * Camille Ferdinand Dreyfus (1849–1915), French lawyer who was Senator for Seine-et-Oise from 1909 to 1915
 * Charles Dreyfus (1848–1935), British-French Zionist and businessman
 * Édouard Dreyfus Gonzalez (1876–1941) French lawyer and composer as "Jean Dora"
 * Ferdinand-Camille Dreyfus (1851–1915), French journalist and politician
 * Francis Dreyfus (1940–2010), French record producer, father of Julie Dreyfus
 * George Dreyfus (born 1928), Australian composer, father of Mark Dreyfus
 * Gérard Louis-Dreyfus (1932–2016), French-American businessman (Louis Dreyfus Group), father of Julia Louis-Dreyfus, cousin of Robert Louis-Dreyfus
 * Harry Dreyfus (1891–1978), American businessman implicated in the Secret Court of 1920
 * Henri Dreyfus (1882–1944), Swiss chemist and co-inventor of Celanese
 * Hubert Dreyfus (1929–2017), American philosopher (University of California, Berkeley), brother of Stuart Dreyfus
 * Huguette Dreyfus (1928–2016), French harpsichordist
 * Jack Dreyfus (1913–2009), American financier, founder of the Dreyfus Corporation
 * Jean-Marc Dreyfus, French historian
 * Jérôme Dreyfus (born 1971), French judoka
 * Karen Dreyfus, American violist
 * Laurence Dreyfus (born 1952), American baroque music scholar and viol player
 * Lee S. Dreyfus (1926–2008), American politician, Governor of Wisconsin (1979–1983)
 * Mark Dreyfus (born 1956), Australian lawyer and politician, MP for Isaacs (2007–present), son of George Dreyfus
 * Markus G. Dreyfus (1812–1877), Swiss Jewish teacher and publicist active in the struggle for the emancipation of Jews in Switzerland
 * Max Dreyfus (1874–1964), German-born American music publisher
 * Pablo Dreyfus (1969/70–2009), Argentine arms controller
 * Philippe Dreyfus, French informatics pioneer
 * Pierre Dreyfus (1907–1994), French civil servant, politician and businessman (Renault)
 * René Dreyfus (1905–1993), French Grand Prix motor racing driver
 * Robert Louis-Dreyfus (1946–2009), French businessman (Adidas-Salomon), cousin of Gérard Louis-Dreyfus
 * Stuart Dreyfus, American academic, engineer and author (University of California, Berkeley), brother of Hubert Dreyfus
 * Tony Dreyfus (1939–2023), French politician, Member of the National Assembly for Paris (1997–2012)
 * Yves Dreyfus (1931–2021), French Olympic fencer

Fictional characters

 * Chief Inspector Dreyfus, character in The Pink Panther film series
 * Dreyfus, the main human antagonist in the 2014 film Dawn of the Planet of the Apes
 * Shosanna [sic = Shoshanna] Dreyfus, one of the principal characters in Inglourious Basterds