Fryer is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Bernie Fryer, American basketball player and official Brian Fryer, Canadian gridiron football player Eric Fryer (actor), Canadian actor Eric Fryer (baseball) (born 1985), American baseball catcher Frederick William Richards Fryer, British administrator in Burma John Fryer (1671–1726), pewterer and Lord Mayor of London J. R. Tranthim-Fryer, born John Robertson Fryer (1858–1928), Australian sculptor John Fryer (producer), English record producer and musician John Fryer (sailor) (1753–1817), officer on the Bounty John E. Fryer (1937–2003), American psychiatrist and gay rights activist Katherine Fryer (1910–2017), English artist Miranda Fryer, actress Nelson Fryer (1818–1896), American farmer and politician Nick Fryer, British disc jockey and record producer Peter Fryer, English writer and journalist Richard Fryer (cinematographer) (1894–1953), born Morris Kolsky, British-born Hollywood cinematographer Richard Fryer (politician) (1770–1846), banker, landowner and British Whig politician Roland G. Fryer Jr, American economist and Harvard professor William Fryer (1895–1960), English-American footballer

See also Freyr Fryar Fryars, British musician Friar, Christian religion