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People

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Alex Frayne Alex Frayne is an Adelaide-based Australian photo artist whose images have received attention locally and abroad. He studied Film at the Flinders University of South Australia, where he met long-time collaborator and cinematographer Nick Remy Ma ...
, an Australian film director *
Bruce Frayne Bruce Frayne (born 24 January 1958) is a retired Australian sprinter who specialized in the 200 and 400 metres. He was Australian Champion in the 200 metres 1980, 81, and 1983. He also won the 400 metres in 1984. In 1981 he won Gold in the 4 × 4 ...
(1958), Australian sprinter *
David Frayne David Frayne was an Anglican priest and Provost of Blackburn Cathedral. He was educated at Reigate Grammar School and St Edmund Hall, Oxford, and ordained in 1961. He was Curate at St Michael, East Wickham, and then Priest in charge of St Barnab ...
, a British Anglican priest, Provost of Blackburn *
George Frayne Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen were an American rock band founded in 1967. The group's leader and co-founder was pianist and vocalist George Frayne IV, alias Commander Cody (born July 19, 1944 in Boise, Idaho, died September 26, 2021 i ...
leader of
Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen were an American rock band founded in 1967. The group's leader and co-founder was pianist and vocalist George Frayne IV, alias Commander Cody (born July 19, 1944 in Boise, Idaho, died September 26, 2021 ...
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Henry Frayne (athlete) Henry Frayne (born 14 April 1990) is an Australian track and field athlete who competes in triple jump and long jump. He qualified for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics and finished 14th in qualifying with a distance of 7.93m, and did not qualify for the ...
(born 1990), Australian track and field athlete *
Henry Frayne (musician) Henry David Frayne (born January 26, 1965) is an Irish-American musician. Frayne was the second guitarist of three in the long history of Champaign, Illinois' Ack-Ack, where he met Lynn Canfield, Brendan Gamble, Steve Shields and Joe Strell. He ...
(born 1965), Irish-American musician * Hugh Frayne (1869–1934), American labor leader *
John G. Frayne John G. Frayne (July 8, 1894 in Ireland – October 31, 1990 in Pasadena, California) was a physicist and sound engineer. Career Frayne received his Ph.D. in physics from the University of Minnesota while working at the Bell Laboratories. I ...
(1894–1990) physicist and sound engineer *
Shawn Frayne The Windbelt is a wind power harvesting device invented by Shawn Frayne in 2004 for converting wind power to electricity. It consists of a flexible polymer ribbon stretched between supports transverse to the wind direction, with magnets glued to ...
inventor of the Windbelt device for converting wind power to electricity * Steve Frayne (1982) is an English magician who performs under the stage-name of Dynamo *
Trent Frayne Trent Gardiner Frayne (September 13, 1918 – February 11, 2012) was a Canadian sportswriter whose career stretched over 60 years. Pierre Berton described Frayne as “likely Canada's greatest sportswriter ever." Early life "Billy" Frayne, as ...
(1918–2012), Canadian sportswriter *
Hilary Weston Hilary Mary Weston ( Frayne; born January 12, 1942) is an Irish–Canadian businesswoman and writer who served as the 26th Lieutenant Governor of Ontario from 1997 to 2002. During her five-year tenure, Weston focused on issues related to wom ...
née Frayne (1942), Lieutenant Governor of Ontario *
Michael Frayn Michael Frayn, FRSL (; born 8 September 1933) is an English playwright and novelist. He is best known as the author of the farce '' Noises Off'' and the dramas ''Copenhagen'' and ''Democracy''. His novels, such as ''Towards the End of the Mo ...
(1933), an English playwright and novelist *
Rebecca Frayn Rebecca Frayn is an English documentary film maker, screenwriter, novelist and actress. Career Rebecca Frayn is a film maker and screen writer. She has directed a wide variety of quirky documentary essays for the BBC, Channel 4 and ITV on su ...
(1962), an English documentary film maker, screenwriter and novelist.


Places

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Frayne College Wodonga ( Waywurru: ''Wordonga'') is a city on the Victorian side of the border with New South Wales, north-east of Melbourne, Australia. It is located wholly within the boundaries of the City of Wodonga LGA. Its population is approximately ...
, a co-educational school located in Baranduda, Victoria. *
Ursula Frayne Catholic College The Ursula Frayne Catholic College is a dual-campus independent Roman Catholic co-educational primary and secondary day school, located southeast of Perth, Western Australia. Students from Kindergarten to Year 6 are educated at the Balmoral st ...
, a private, co-educational school located southwest of Perth, Western Australia.


Other

* Re: Fraynes (later The Fraynes) is a Canadian sports talk show television series. * Re: Fraynes Frayne is also a Gaelic word meaning Ash Tree.


See also

* Defreine. Frayne is an anglicised version of Defreine. *
Frain (disambiguation) Frain may refer to: *Frain (name), a surname * Frain, Vosges, a commune in France *Vranov nad Dyjí, a market town in the Czech Republic, also known by its German name, Frain See also *Frane Frane is a masculine Croatian given name and a variant ...
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