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Ferdinand Kingsley
Ferdinand Kingsley (born 1988, Leamington Spa) is a British actor, son of Ben Kingsley and Alison Sutcliffe, known for Francatelli in Victoria, Irving Thalberg in Mank, Hob Gadling in The Sandman, and A.M. in Reacher.
Ferdinand Kröger
Ferdinand Anne Kröger (1915–2006) was a Dutch solid-state chemist known for the Kröger–Vink notation for crystal defects, developed with H.J. Vink; he worked at Philips and later helped found materials science at USC.
Ferdinand Kurlbaum
Ferdinand Kurlbaum (1857–1927) was a German experimental physicist at the Physikalisch-Technische Reichsanstalt whose blackbody radiation measurements, including work with Heinrich Rubens, gave Planck the experimental foundation for quantum theory in 1900.
Ferdinand Magellan
Ferdinand Magellan, known as Fernão de Magalhães, was a Portuguese navigator who led the expedition that crossed the Pacific, completing the first circumnavigation of the Earth in 1522.
Ferdinand Marcos
Ferdinand Marcos was a Filipino politician who served as president of the Philippines from 1965 to 1986, imposing martial law in 1972 and fleeing exile in 1986.
Ferdinand Monoyer
Ferdinand Monoyer (1836–1912), French ophthalmologist of Strasbourg, Nancy, and Lyon; creator of the Monoyer eye chart, the 1875 decimal visual acuity notation, and the diopter unit, with his name hidden in the chart rows.
Ferdinand Oyono
Ferdinand Léopold Oyono (1929–2010) was a Cameroonian novelist and diplomat whose three French-language anticolonial novels of the 1950s, notably Houseboy, are classics of African literature; he later served decades as a diplomat and government minister.
Ferdinand Piëch
Ferdinand Piëch, full name Ferdinand Karl Piëch, was an Austrian engineer and automotive executive, grandson of Ferdinand Porsche, who led development of the Porsche 917 and built Volkswagen into a global carmaker.
Ferdinand Porsche
Ferdinand Porsche (1875–1951) was an Austrian-German automotive engineer and founder of the Porsche engineering office in Stuttgart, known for the Lohner-Porsche hybrids, the Auto Union Grand Prix racers, and the Volkswagen Beetle.
Ferdinand Raimund
Ferdinand Raimund, full name Ferdinand Jakob Raimann (1790–1836), was an Austrian actor and playwright of the old Viennese popular theater, known for fairy-tale magic plays like Der Verschwender (1834).
Ferdinand Sauerbruch
Ferdinand Sauerbruch (1875–1951) was a German surgeon whose negative-pressure chamber made open-chest operations possible, and one of the most influential surgeons of the first half of the twentieth century.
Ferdinand Schmidt-Kaler
Ferdinand Schmidt-Kaler, born 1962 in Bonn, is a German experimental physicist working on trapped-ion quantum computing who led the 2003 realization of the Cirac–Zoller controlled-NOT gate and heads the QUANTUM section at Mainz.
Ferdinand Schörner
Ferdinand Schörner (Johann Ferdinand Schörner, 1892–1973) was a German field marshal, the last Heer officer promoted during the war, who commanded army groups on the Eastern Front and was named in Hitler's testament.
Ferdinand Schureman Schenck
Ferdinand Schureman Schenck (1845–1925) was an American minister and professor in the Reformed Church in America, serving New York pastorates and New Brunswick Theological Seminary.
Ferdinand Vandeveer Hayden
Ferdinand Vandeveer Hayden (1829–1887) was an American geologist who led the surveys of the western territories from 1867 to 1879 and helped persuade Congress to create Yellowstone National Park.
Ferdinand VI of Spain
Ferdinand VI, also known as Fernando VI, was King of Spain from 1746 to 1759, pursuing neutrality and reform through his ministers Carvajal and Ensenada.
Ferdinand von Lindemann
Ferdinand von Lindemann, born 1852 in Hannover, was a German mathematician whose 1882 proof that π is transcendental settled squaring the circle; he also supervised David Hilbert.
Ferdinand von Richthofen
Ferdinand von Richthofen (1833–1905) was a German geologist and geographer who made seven survey expeditions to China from 1868 to 1872 and introduced the term Silk Road into scholarly use.
Ferdinand von Saar
Ferdinand von Saar (1833–1906) was an Austrian writer, playwright, and poet, regarded with Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach as a leading realist narrator of late nineteenth-century Austrian literature.
Ferdinand von Wrangel
Ferdinand von Wrangel (Фердинанд Петрович Врангель), 1796–1870, Russian admiral and Baltic German Arctic explorer; surveyed northeast Siberia 1820–24, governed Russian America 1829–35, headed the Russian-American Company, and gave Wrangel Island its name.
Ferdinand von Zeppelin
Ferdinand von Zeppelin, also known as Count Zeppelin (Graf von Zeppelin), was a Württemberg cavalry officer who built the first successful rigid airship, the LZ 1, flown in 1900.
Ferdinand Waldo Demara
Ferdinand Waldo Demara (1921–1982), "The Great Impostor," was an American serial impostor who posed as a Trappist monk, dean, cancer researcher, Texas prison official, and Royal Canadian Navy surgeon Joseph Cyr aboard HMCS Cayuga in the Korean War.
Ferdinand Wittenbauer
Ferdinand Wittenbauer (1857–1922) was an Austrian engineer and professor of technical mechanics at Graz Technical University who founded graphic dynamics and wrote the first German-language mechanics problem collection.
Ferdinand Zirkel
Ferdinand Zirkel (1838–1912) was a German mineralogist and petrographer who established thin-section microscopy as petrography's principal method, and professor of mineralogy at Leipzig from 1870 to 1909.
Ferdinand-Jean Darier
Ferdinand-Jean Darier (1856–1938) was a French dermatologist and pathologist who served at the Hôpital Saint-Louis in Paris from 1909 to 1922 and first described Darier's disease in 1889, along with several other skin conditions.
Ferdinanda Nan Gindele
Nan Gindele (Ferdinanda Gindele-Bauman), American javelin thrower and softball player from Chicago; set the first IAAF-recognized women's javelin world record, 46.745 m in 1932, and placed fifth at the 1932 Los Angeles Olympics.
Ferdinando Altimani
Fernando "Nando" Altimani (1893–1963), Italian race walker, won bronze in the 10 km walk at Stockholm 1912, Italy's first walking medal, and set unratified hour-walk world bests of 13,403 m in 1913.
Ferdinando de' Medici
Ferdinando de' Medici, Grand Duke Ferdinando I of Tuscany, was a Medici prince who held a cardinal's hat from 1563 until 1588 and reigned as grand duke from 1587 to 1609.
Ferdinando Gandolfi
Ferdinando Gandolfi, Italian water polo player born 1967 in Genoa; 1992 Barcelona Olympic gold medalist who scored the winning goal in the final against Spain, later 1993 European and FINA Cup and 1994 World Championship winner.
Ferdinando Mandrini
Ferdinando Mandrini (1897-1980), Italian artistic gymnast from Milan; two Olympic team all-around golds at Antwerp 1920 and Paris 1924, 4th individually in 1924, also a pole vaulter and later Olympic judge.