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Fred Crisman
Fred Lee Crisman (1919–1975), Tacoma harbor-patrol supervisor, co-claimant of the 1947 Maury Island UFO hoax, later named by Jim Garrison as a JFK 'tramp' suspect.
Fred Cummings
Frederick Williams Cummings (1931–2019) was an American theoretical physicist who co-created the Jaynes–Cummings model, a 1963 cornerstone of quantum optics, and taught at UC Riverside.
Fred Davis
Fred Davis (Frederick Davis, 1886-1960), British freestyle wrestler from Liverpool, Hammersmith Amateur Wrestling Club; =5th in bantamweight at the 1908 London Olympics, losing the quarter-final to Aubert Côté; not the runner Fred Davies.
Fred Deburghgraeve
Fred Deburghgraeve (Frédérik Edouard Robert Deburghgraeve, born 1973) is a Belgian breaststroke swimmer, first Belgian Olympic swimming champion, winning 100 m gold at Atlanta 1996 in world record time, later world champion 1998.
Fred DeLuca
Fred DeLuca (1947-2015), American entrepreneur, co-founded Subway in 1965 at age 17 with $1,000 from Peter Buck; pioneered the development-agent franchising model and built the world's largest restaurant chain by store count.
Fred Destin
Fred Destin is a London-based venture capitalist who founded the seed fund Stride.VC after serving as a General Partner at Accel and Accomplice (formerly Atlas Venture).
Fred Dibnah
Fred Dibnah (28 April 1938 – 6 November 2004), Bolton steeplejack and TV presenter. Famous for felling chimneys by hand in the BAFTA-winning 1979 BBC documentary Fred Dibnah, Steeplejack; later hosted BBC industrial heritage series including Industrial Age and Age of Steam; MBE 2004.
Fred Dinenage
Fred Dinenage (born 1942, Birmingham), English TV presenter and author; original host of How and How 2, ITV Meridian regional news anchor 1983–2021, Kray twins biographer, MBE 2010.
Fred Dryer
Fred Dryer (John Frederick Dryer, born 1946), American defensive end for the New York Giants and Los Angeles Rams (1969-1981) and actor starring as Rick Hunter on NBC's Hunter (1984-1991); College Football Hall of Fame 1997.
Fred Durst
Fred Durst is an American rapper, singer, and director, frontman and co-founder (1994, Jacksonville, Florida) of nu metal band Limp Bizkit, whose albums sold over 30 million copies; he later directed films including The Fanatic (2019).
Fred Dyda
Fred Dyda is a structural biologist who leads the Structural Biochemistry Section at NIH's NIDDK in Bethesda, Maryland, and determined the first structure of HIV integrase in 1994.
Fred E. Cohen
Fred E. Cohen, born in 1956, is an American molecular biologist and physician who spent his career at UCSF studying protein folding and prion protein structure, later becoming a biotechnology venture capitalist.
Fred Eggan
Fred Eggan (1906–1991) was an American anthropologist at the University of Chicago who joined British social anthropology to American historical ethnology in studies of Native American and Philippine kinship.
Fred Etchen
Fred Etchen (Frederick Rudolph Etchen, Sr., 1884-1961), American trapshooter from Coffeyville, Kansas; captain of the gold-medal 1924 U.S. Olympic trap team in Paris, 1926 live bird world champion, Kansas Sports Hall of Fame charter inductee.
Fred Figglehorn
Fred Figglehorn (FRED) is the hyperactive six-year-old YouTube character with a sped-up, high-pitched voice, created by Lucas Cruikshank in 2006; his channel was the first on YouTube to reach 1 million subscribers and spawned a Nickelodeon film trilogy.
Fred Flintstone
Fred Flintstone is the loud, bowling-loving quarry worker of Hanna-Barbera's The Flintstones, which premiered September 30, 1960 on ABC, the first prime-time animated sitcom, voiced by Alan Reed and patterned on The Honeymooners.
Fred Ford (video game programmer)
Fred Ford, born Robert Frederick Ford, is an American game programmer who co-founded Toys for Bob in 1989 and wrote the code for Star Control.
Fred Fortin
Fred Fortin, born Joseph Antoine Frédéric Fortin Perron in 1971, is a Quebec folk-rock singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, a founding figure of the "son du Lac" sound who also plays in Gros Mené and Galaxie.
Fred G. Benning
Fred G. Benning (1900-1974), World War I Distinguished Service Cross recipient of the 16th Infantry Regiment at Exermont, France, 1918; later Neligh, Nebraska mayor and 2025 Fort Benning namesake.
Fred G. Sanford
Fred G. Sanford is the fictional junk dealer played by Redd Foxx on the NBC sitcom Sanford and Son (1972-77), an adaptation of Steptoe and Son set in Watts, Los Angeles, famous for fake heart attacks and the line "I'm coming to join you, Elizabeth!"
Fred Galvin
Fred Galvin is a mathematician and Professor Emeritus at the University of Kansas, known for proving in 1995 that the list chromatic index of a bipartite multigraph equals its chromatic index, settling the Dinitz conjecture.
Fred Gamble
Fred Ridley Gamble, Jr. (1941–2025) was an American physical chemist who led an interdisciplinary research group at Exxon's labs and co-authored the 1975 lithium intercalation work in titanium disulfide.
Fred Gilbert Jr.
Fred Ivan Gilbert Jr. (1920–1995) was a Hawaii internist and epidemiologist at Straub Clinic who founded the Pacific Health Research Institute in 1960 and directed it for 32 years.
Fred Girod
Fred Girod is an American politician and dentist serving as a Republican member of the Oregon State Senate from District 9, appointed in 2008 and elected Senate Republican Leader in 2020.
Fred Gould
Fred Gould is an American entomologist and evolutionary biologist at North Carolina State University, known for work on insect-resistant crops, gene drives, and genetically engineered mosquitoes.
Fred Grace
Fred Grace (Frederick Grace, 1884–1964), British amateur boxer of Eton Mission ABC, won lightweight gold at London 1908, beating Matt Wells and Fred Spiller, took four ABA titles, and placed fifth at Antwerp 1920.
Fred Grandy
Fred Grandy (Frederick Lawrence Grandy), born 1948 in Sioux City, Iowa, is the American actor who played purser Gopher Smith on The Love Boat (1977-1986) and then served four terms as a Republican U.S. Representative from Iowa (1987-1995), later leading Goodwill Industries.
Fred Gwynne
Fred Gwynne (1926–1993), American actor, played Francis Muldoon in Car 54, Where Are You? and Herman Munster in The Munsters; later a character actor in Pet Sematary and My Cousin Vinny, and an Obie-winning stage performer and children's author.
Fred H. Gage
Fred H. Gage, known as Rusty Gage, is an American neuroscientist at the Salk Institute in La Jolla, California, known for demonstrating adult neurogenesis in the human brain.
Fred H. Poettmann
Fred H. Poettmann was an American chemical and petroleum engineer known for the Poettmann-Carpenter gas-lift correlation, 30 years at Marathon Oil, and a Colorado School of Mines professorship.