De Vries is one of the most common Dutch surnames. It indicates a geographical origin: "Vriesland" is an old spelling of the Dutch province of Friesland (Frisia). Hence, "De Vries" means "The Frisian". The name has been transcended abroad to "DeVries", "deVries", or "Devries".
People named De Vries:
- Adriaen de Vries (1556–1626) — Dutch sculptor
- Albert de Vries (born 1955) — Dutch politician
- Ali de Vries (1914–2007) — Dutch athlete
- Anne de Vries (1904–1964) — Dutch author
- Aukje de Vries (born 1964) — Dutch politician
- Bibi de Vries (born 1963) — Dutch politician
- Casper de Vries (born 1964) — South African comedian
- David Devriès (1881–1936), — French lyric operatic tenor
- David Pietersen de Vries (born c. 1593) — Dutch patroon of Zwaanendael Colony
- Dolf de Vries (born 1937) — Dutch actor
- Dorus de Vries (born 1980) — Dutch goalkeeper
- Feike de Vries (born 1943) — Dutch water polo player
- Gerrit de Vries (cyclist) (born 1967) — Dutch road cyclist
- Gerrit de Vries (1818–1900) — Dutch prime minister
- Gijs de Vries (born 1956) — Dutch politician
- Greg de Vries (born 1973) — Canadian hockey player
- Gustav de Vries (1866–1934) — Dutch mathematician
- Han de Vries (born 1941) — Dutch oboist
- Hans Vredeman de Vries (1527–1607) — Dutch architect
- Herman de Vries (born 1931) — Dutch artist
- Hessel de Vries (1916–1959) — Dutch physicist
- Hugo de Vries (1848–1935) — Dutch biologist
- Jan de Vries (linguist) (1890–1964) — Dutch linguist
- Jan de Vries (1896–1939) — Dutch athlete
- Jan-Lodewijk de Vries (born 1972) — Dutch water polo player
- Jared DeVries (born 1976) — American football player
- Jeroen de Vries (born 1971) — Dutch speed skater
- Jill De Vries (born 1953) — American model
- John de Vries (born 1966) — Australian racecar driver
- Keith DeVries (1937–2006) — American archaeologist
- Kelly DeVries (born 1956) — American medievalist historian
- Klaas de Vries (born 1944) — Dutch composer
- Klaas de Vries (born 1943) — Dutch politician
- Maarten Gerritsz Vries (or "de Vries") (fl. 1643) — Dutch explorer
- Manfred F.R. Kets de Vries (born 1943) — Dutch author and researcher
- Marc de Vries (born 1958) — Dutch physicist
- Marion De Vries (1865–1939) — American politician
- Marius De Vries (born 1961) — English music producer
- Mark de Vries (born 1975) — Dutch footballer
- Matt DeVries (born 1977) — American guitarist
- Mered de Vries (born 1977) — Dutch volleyballer
- Nina de Vries (born 1961) — Dutch sex worker
- Pascal de Vries — Swiss network expert
- Peter De Vries (1910–1993) — American editor and comic novelist
- Peter R. de Vries (born 1956) — Dutch journalist
- Rheta Devries — American educator
- Theun de Vries (1907–2005) — Dutch writer and poet
- William DeVries (born 1943) — American surgeon who performed first permanent artificial heart transplant
Fictional characters:
- Alicia DeVries; drop commando and captain of the alpha synth starship Megaera from the novel Path of the Fury by David Weber
- Cassandra de Vries — director of the dataDyne corporation from the Perfect Dark video game series
- Piter De Vries — villain from the Dune novels
Locations: Vries, Drenthe is a village in the province of Drenthe in the Netherlands
Famous quotes containing the word vries:
“Anyone informed that the universe is expanding and contracting in pulsations of eighty billion years has a right to ask, “What’s in it for me?””
—Peter De Vries (b. 1910)