Swayze

Swayze is a surname found chiefly in the English speaking regions of North America and representing an Anglicized form of the German-language surname Schweiz, Schweize, or Schweizer ("Swiss").

Notable persons having this surname include:

• Patrick Swayze, American actor and singer
• Don Swayze, American actor and stuntman, younger brother of Patrick Swayze
• Isaac Swayze, American-Canadian soldier and politician
• John Cameron Swayze, American news commentator
• Marc Swayze, American comic book writer

Other uses

• Swayze Field, in Oxford, Mississippi, US
• Swayze Lake, in St. Landry Parish, Louisiana, US
• Shwayze, a rapper

See also

• Swayzee, Indiana (sometimes spelled "Swayze"), a town in the United States