What is "dreyfus"

Dreyfus may refer to:

• The Dreyfus affair, a French political scandal
  • Alfred Dreyfus, French Jewish military officer at the center of the above
• Dreyfus, a 1930 German film on the Dreyfus affair
• Louis Dreyfus Group, a company
• Dreyfus Corporation, a Mellon Financial Corporation subsidiary
• Disques Dreyfus, a French record label
• The Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation, United States-based charitable foundation
• Berta A. Dreyfus Intermediate School 49, middle school in Staten Island, New York City
• Centre d'entraînement Robert Louis-Dreyfus, also known as La Commanderie, training ground of Olympique de Marseille
• Dreyfus Prize in the Chemical Sciences, chemistry award
• 6317 Dreyfus, main-belt asteroid
• Dreyfus, Kentucky, a community in the United States

Dreyfus (released in the US as The Dreyfus Case) was a 1930 film on the Dreyfus affair, based on a novel by Bruno Weil. It was one of the sources for the later English film Dreyfus.

Dreyfus is a 1931 British film on the Dreyfus affair, translated from the play by Wilhelm Herzog and Hans Rehfisch and the 1930 German film Dreyfus.

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

• Alfred Dreyfus (1859–1935), French Jewish military officer and focus of the Dreyfus affair
• Auguste Dreyfus (1827–1897), French guano merchant, financier
• Camille Dreyfus (1878–1956), Swiss chemist. He and his brother Henri Dreyfus invented Celanese, an acetate yarn.
• 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 (born 1932), French-American businessman (Louis Dreyfus Group), father of Julia Louis-Dreyfus, cousin of Robert Louis-Dreyfus
• Robert Louis-Dreyfus (1946–2009), French businessman (Adidas-Salomon), cousin of Gérard 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 (born 1929), 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
• Jérôme Dreyfus (born 1971), French judoka
• Julie Dreyfus (born 1966), French actress
• 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
• 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
• Stuart Dreyfus, American academic, engineer and author (University of California, Berkeley), brother of Hubert Dreyfus
• Tony Dreyfus (born 1939), French politician, Member of the National Assembly for Paris (1997–present)
• Yves Dreyfus (born 1931), French Olympic fencer