John Fryer, also known as Fu Lanya, was an English sinologist who was first Louis Agassiz Professor of Oriental Languages and Literature at the University of California, Berkeley. He was professor of English at Tung-Wen College, Peking, China and head of the Anglo-Chinese School in Shanghai, China, and established the Shanghai Polytechnic and Institute for the Chinese Blind there. He was president of the Oriental Institute of California, United States.
- Occupation
- missionary, translator
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
- Born
- August 6, 1839
- Died
- July 2, 1928
