Rye Family Crest, Coat of Arms

Contemporary Notables of the name Rye (post 1700) +

Douglas Forsythe Rye (b. 1950), American voice actor based in Los Angeles
Michael Rye (1918-2012), born John Michael Riorden Billsbury, American voice actor and television actor
Thomas Clarke Rye (1863-1953), American politician, 32nd Governor of Tennessee from 1915 to 1919
Samuel R. Rye, American politician, Mayor of Adrian, Michigan, 2005 3
Stellan Rye (1880-1915), Danish-born film director
Preben Lerdorff Rye (1917-1995), Danish film actor who appeared in 92 films between 1941 and 1989
Major-General Charles Henry Rye (1874-1969), Danish Head of Army Technical Corps (1930-1941) 4
Edward Caldwell Rye (1832-1885), English entomologist, eldest son of Edward Rye, a London solicitor of Norfolk descent, Librarian of the Royal Geographical Society
Frank Gibbs Rye OBE CBE (1874-1948), British solicitor and Conservative politician

Filby, P. William, Meyer, Mary K., Passenger and immigration lists index : a guide to published arrival records of about 500,000 passengers who came to the United States and Canada in the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries. 1982-1985 Cumulated Supplements in Four Volumes Detroit, Mich. : Gale Research Co., 1985, Print (ISBN 0-8103-1795-8)
New Zealand Yesteryears Passenger Lists 1800 to 1900 (Retrieved 26th March 2019). Retrieved from http://www.yesteryears.co.nz/shipping/passlist.html
The Political Graveyard: Alphabetical Name Index. (Retrieved 2015, November 19) . Retrieved from http://politicalgraveyard.com/alpha/index.html
Generals of World War II. (Retrieved 2011, October 5) Charles Rye. Retrieved from http://generals.dk/general/Rye/Charles_Henry/Denmark.html