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Ferdinand Bloch-Bauer
Ferdinand Bloch-Bauer (1864–1945) was a Bohemian-born Jewish sugar industrialist who controlled a fifth of Habsburg sugar output and assembled a major collection of Gustav Klimt paintings.
Ferdinand Brickwedde
Ferdinand Graft Brickwedde (1903–1989) was an American physicist at the National Bureau of Standards who co-discovered deuterium in 1932 by concentrating heavy hydrogen through low-temperature distillation of liquid hydrogen.
Ferdinand Buisson
Ferdinand Buisson was a French educator, parliamentarian, and pacifist who built the Third Republic's free, compulsory, secular schools and shared the 1927 Nobel Peace Prize.
Ferdinand Cheval
Ferdinand Cheval, le Facteur Cheval (1836–1924), French rural postman at Hauterives, Drôme, who built the Palais Idéal alone over 33 years (1879–1912) from stones collected on his 32 km mail rounds; classified Monument Historique in 1969.
Ferdinand Dabitz
Ferdinand Dabitz is a German entrepreneur, co-founder and CEO of Augustus, a Berlin payments company founded in 2022 as Ivy that received conditional OCC approval for a US national clearing bank in 2026.
Ferdinand de Lesseps
Ferdinand de Lesseps (1805–1894) was a French diplomat and entrepreneur who organized the construction of the Suez Canal, opened in 1869, and later led the failed French Panama canal attempt.
Ferdinand de Saussure
Ferdinand de Saussure (1857–1913), Swiss linguist and founder of structural linguistics; author of the posthumous Cours de linguistique générale, known for signifier/signified, langue/parole, and synchronic/diachronic distinctions, distinct from C. S. Peirce's triadic semiotics.
Ferdinand Ellerman
Ferdinand Ellerman (1869–1940) was an American astronomer, Hale's solar assistant and a Mount Wilson founding staff member, known for the solar brightenings called Ellerman bombs.
Ferdinand Engelhart
Ferdinand Engelhart was a pharmacologist in Otto Loewi's institute at Graz who in 1930 and 1931 proved acetylcholine release in the eye during pupillary contraction.
Ferdinand F. Fernandez
Ferdinand F. Fernandez, born 1937, is an American jurist and senior judge of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, appointed by President George H.W. Bush in 1989.
Ferdinand Foch
Ferdinand Foch (1851–1929), French marshal and military theorist, author of Des principes de la guerre; École de Guerre professor, Marshal of France, and Supreme Allied Commander whose 1918 counteroffensives won World War I.
Ferdinand Freiligrath
Ferdinand Freiligrath (1810–1876) was a German poet and translator who rose to fame with exotic verse, became the leading political poet of the 1848 revolution, and introduced Walt Whitman to German readers.
Ferdinand Freudenstein
Ferdinand Freudenstein (1926–2006) was a German-born American mechanical engineer at Columbia University, considered the father of modern kinematics in America; his 1954 dissertation introduced the Freudenstein equation.
Ferdinand Georg Frobenius
Ferdinand Georg Frobenius (1849–1917) was a German mathematician at the University of Berlin who founded the character theory and representation theory of finite groups, with results named for him across group and matrix theory.
Ferdinand Habsburg (racing driver)
Ferdinand Habsburg, also known as Ferdinand Zvonimir, is an Austrian racing driver and heir to the House of Habsburg-Lorraine who won the 2021 24 Hours of Le Mans.
Ferdinand Hitzig
Ferdinand Hitzig (1807–1875) was a German Protestant Old Testament exegete and orientalist, professor at Zurich and Heidelberg, whose 1833 Isaiah commentary became a model for grammatico-historical exegesis.
Ferdinand Hodler
Ferdinand Hodler (1853–1918) was a Swiss Symbolist painter known for his compositional doctrine of parallelism and monumental allegorical works, admired by Gustav Klimt and Egon Schiele.
Ferdinand Hueppe
Ferdinand Hueppe (1852–1938) was a German bacteriologist and hygienist, professor at the German University in Prague, and the first president of the German Football Association, 1900 to 1904.
Ferdinand I of Austria
Ferdinand I of Austria, also Ferdinand V of Hungary and Bohemia (1793–1875), Habsburg emperor 1835–1848, ruled via the Staatskonferenz regency due to epilepsy, abdicated at Olmütz to Franz Joseph in 1848, retired rich in Prague.
Ferdinand I of Bulgaria
Ferdinand I of Bulgaria, born Ferdinand of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha-Koháry (1861–1948), ruled 31 years as Prince from 1887 and King of the Bulgarians from independence in 1908 until forced abdication in 1918 after World War I.
Ferdinand I of Romania
Ferdinand I of Romania (1865–1927), Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen king 1914–1927, nephew of Carol I, called Întregitorul the Unifier; led Romania into WWI on the Entente, refused to ratify the 1918 Treaty of Bucharest, sanctioned the unions and the 1923 Constitution.
Ferdinand I of the Two Sicilies
Ferdinand I of the Two Sicilies (Ferdinando I di Borbone, 1751–1825), also Ferdinand IV of Naples, first Bourbon king of the united Two Sicilies from 1816; forced to grant the 1812 Spanish constitution in 1820, restored by Austrian arms in 1821.
Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor
Ferdinand I (1503–1564), Habsburg ruler of Austria from 1521, king of Bohemia and Hungary from 1526, king of the Romans 1531, and Holy Roman Emperor 1556/1558–1564; founder of the Austrian Habsburg line and broker of the 1555 Peace of Augsburg.
Ferdinand I's election as King of Bohemia and Hungary
Ferdinand I's election as King of Bohemia and Hungary was the 1526 election of Archduke Ferdinand of Habsburg by the Bohemian and Hungarian estates after Louis II died at Mohács.
Ferdinand II
Ferdinand II was Holy Roman Emperor from 1619 to 1637, King of Bohemia from 1617, and King of Hungary from 1618, championing the Counter-Reformation during the Thirty Years' War.
Ferdinand II of Aragon
Ferdinand II of Aragon, Ferdinand the Catholic (1452–1516), king of Aragon from 1479 and husband of Isabella I of Castile; completed the Reconquista at Granada in 1492, expelled the Jews, and built Spanish power in Italy and the Mediterranean.
Ferdinand II of Portugal
Ferdinand II of Portugal (Fernando II, 1816 Vienna–1885 Lisbon), Saxe-Coburg prince, king consort of Maria II from 1837, regent for Pedro V 1853–55, builder of the Pena Palace.
Ferdinand III of Castile
Ferdinand III of Castile (Fernando III, El Santo, 1199–1252), king of Castile from 1217 and León from 1230, conquered Córdoba (1236) and Seville (1248), reduced Muslim Spain to Granada, and was canonized in 1671.
Ferdinand III, Grand Duke of Tuscany
Ferdinand III, also known as Ferdinando III of Tuscany, was a Habsburg-Lorraine archduke who reigned as Grand Duke of Tuscany from 1790 to 1801 and again from 1814 to 1824.
Ferdinand III, Holy Roman Emperor
Ferdinand III (Habsburg; 1608–1657), Holy Roman Emperor 1637–1657: commanded imperial forces after Wallenstein's murder, won Nördlingen 1634, concluded the Peace of Westphalia 1648, first Habsburg emperor to compose music.