Frazer (name)
Frazer is both a given name and a surname. It is the Anglicized form of the Gaelic personal name Frasach (the generous/fruitful one). It was the epithet for an 8th-century Irish high king Niall Frossach (or Frasach) mac Fergaile.
Notable people with the name include:
Given name[]
- Frazer Hines, British actor
- Frazer Irving, British comic artist
- Frazer Richardson (born 1982), English footballer
Surname[]
- Augustus Simon Frazer (1776–1835), British Army officer during the Napoleonic Wars
- Bob Frazer, Canadian actor
- Charles Fraser (botanist) (1788–1831), Scottish-born botanist and explorer in Australia
- Dan Frazer, American actor
- Gordon Frazer, Australian engineer
- Ian Frazer, Scottish-Australian physician and scientist, joint inventor of the HPV vaccine
- Jendayi Frazer, U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs
- James George Frazer (1854–1941), Scottish social anthropologist, author of The Golden Bough
- John Frazer, British architect
- J. D. Frazer, pen name Illiad, artist and writer of the webcomic User Friendly
- Joseph W. Frazer, American automobile executive
- Lucy Frazer, British M.P.
- Margaret Frazer (1946–2013), American writer
- Persifor Frazer (1736–1792), American Revolutionary officer
- Ron Frazer (1928–1983), Australian actor and comedian
- Tess Frazer, American actress
- William C. Frazer (1776–1838) U.S. federal territorial judge
Fictional characters[]
- Frazer Yeats, a character from the Network Ten soap opera Neighbours
- Chloe Frazer, a character from the video game Uncharted franchise
- Private James Frazer, a character in the British television sitcom Dad's Army
See also[]
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