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Fred Haise
Fred Wallace Haise Jr. (born 1933) is an American astronaut and engineer who was lunar module pilot on Apollo 13, the 1970 mission aborted by an oxygen tank explosion.
Fred Hampton
Fred Hampton (1948–1969), chairman of the Illinois Black Panther Party, founded Chicago's multiracial Rainbow Coalition with the Young Lords and Young Patriots and was killed in a 1969 FBI-informed police raid.
Fred Hampton Jr.
Fred Hampton Jr. (born 1969) is a Chicago activist, son of slain Illinois Black Panther chairman Fred Hampton and Akua Njeri. He leads the Black Panther Party Cubs, founded the Prisoners of Conscience Committee, served nine years in prison, and consulted on Judas and the Black Messiah.
Fred Hansen
Fred Hansen (Frederick Morgan Hansen, born 1940, Cuero, Texas) is an American pole vaulter, 1964 Tokyo Olympic gold medalist at 5.10 m, and 1964 world record holder at 5.28 m; later a Houston dentist.
Fred Hechinger
Fred Hechinger (born 1999) is an American actor and producer from New York City, known for Quinn Mossbacher in The White Lotus and 2024 roles in Thelma, Gladiator II, Kraven the Hunter, and Nickel Boys.
Fred Heffron
Frederick Lee Heffron Jr. was an American microbiologist known for research on Salmonella pathogenesis and on transposable elements, ending his career at Oregon Health & Science University.
Fred Hird
Fred Hird was an American sport shooter and army officer who won a gold and two bronze medals in small-bore rifle events at the 1912 Stockholm Olympics.
Fred Hoiberg
Fred Hoiberg, "The Mayor" (born 1972), NBA guard and Iowa State star; rebuilt Iowa State (115-56), coached the Bulls (115-155), and led Nebraska to the 2024 AP Coach of the Year honor and a 2026 Sweet 16.
Fred Holman
Fred Holman (Frederick Holman, 1883-1913), English breaststroke swimmer from Dawlish, Devon; won the first Olympic 200 m breaststroke at London 1908 in world record 3:09.2; died of typhoid complications at 29.
Fred Holmes
Fred Holmes (Frederick William Holmes, 1886-1944), British City of London Police officer and tug-of-war puller who won Olympic gold for Great Britain at Antwerp 1920; distinct from the baseball player Fred Holmes and others of the name.
Fred Hoyle
Sir Fred Hoyle (1915–2001) was a British astronomer at Cambridge who coined the term "Big Bang" while opposing it, and pioneered the theory of stellar nucleosynthesis.
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center (Fred Hutch), Seattle nonprofit formed April 1, 2022 by merging Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center (founded 1975) and Seattle Cancer Care Alliance; NCI comprehensive cancer center and UW Medicine's cancer program.
Fred J Sigworth
Fred J Sigworth, born Frederick J. Sigworth in 1951, is an American biophysicist who co-developed the patch-clamp technique and spent his faculty career at Yale School of Medicine.
Fred Jones (Scooby-Doo)
Fred "Freddie" Jones is the fictional leader of Mystery Inc. in Scooby-Doo, created in 1969 and voiced mostly by Frank Welker, known for his orange ascot and elaborate traps.
Fred Kavli
Fred Kavli, born Fridtjof Kavli (1927–2013), was a Norwegian-born American physicist and entrepreneur who built the Kavlico sensor company, sold it in 2000, and funded basic science through The Kavli Foundation.
Fred Kelly
Fred Kelly (Frederick Warren Kelly, known as "King") was an American hurdler who won the 110-meter hurdles gold at the 1912 Stockholm Olympics, USC's first Olympic champion.
Fred Kerley
Fred Kerley, American sprinter from Taylor, Texas; 400m collegiate record holder (43.70, 2017), Tokyo 2020 100m silver, 2022 world 100m champion (9.86), Paris 2024 bronze; banned two years in 2025, joined Enhanced Games.
Fred Khumalo
Fred Khumalo, born 1966, is a South African novelist, short story writer, and journalist known for historical fiction that recovers forgotten episodes of South Africa's past, and winner of the European Union Literary Award.
Fred Korematsu
Fred Korematsu, Japanese American resister of the 1942 West Coast exclusion order; his conviction was upheld in Korematsu v. United States (1944), vacated by coram nobis in the 1980s, and the ruling was formally repudiated in 2018.
Fred Kuller
Fred Kuller (born 1945) is an American sprinter, second leg on USC's 440-yard relay world record of 38.6 seconds with McCullouch, Simpson, and Miller at the 1967 NCAA meet in Provo, the last official record for that event.
Fred L. Turner
Fred L. Turner (Frederick Leo Turner, 1933-2013), McDonald's operations chief, CEO and chairman; wrote the 1958 operations manual, founded Hamburger University, and grew the chain from 15 to over 31,000 restaurants.
Fred Lane
Fred Lane (Frederick Claude Vivian Lane, 1880–1969), Australian swimmer, won the 200 m freestyle and 200 m obstacle course at the 1900 Paris Olympics, set seven world records, and was first under a minute for 100 yards.
Fred Lawrence Whipple
Fred Lawrence Whipple (1906–2004) was an American astronomer at Harvard and the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory who proposed the "dirty snowball" model of comets and invented the Whipple spacecraft shield.
Fred Lawrence Whipple Observatory
The Fred Lawrence Whipple Observatory is the largest field research station of the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, located on Mount Hopkins in southern Arizona and established in 1968.
Fred Locks
Fred Locks, born Stafford Elliott, is a Jamaican roots reggae singer best known for the 1975 single "Black Star Liners" and the 1976 album Black Star Liner.
Fred M. Taylor
Fred M. Taylor (Fred Manville Taylor, 1855–1932) was an American economist at the University of Michigan who originated the trial-and-error model of market socialism in his 1928 AEA presidential address.
Fred M. Vinson
Fred M. Vinson (Frederick Moore Vinson, 1890–1953), 13th Chief Justice of the United States (1946–1953), former Kentucky congressman, D.C. Circuit judge, and Truman's Treasury Secretary who led the Bretton Woods institutions and died before Brown v. Board of Education was decided.
Fred MacMurray
Fred MacMurray (Frederick Martin MacMurray, 1908–1991), American actor of Double Indemnity, The Apartment, Disney's The Absent-Minded Professor, and twelve seasons as Steve Douglas on My Three Sons.
Fred McGriff
Fred McGriff (Crime Dog), born 1963 in Tampa, is a Hall of Fame first baseman (inducted 2023) who hit 493 home runs, 30+ homers in 10 seasons with five franchises, and won the 1995 World Series with Atlanta.
Fred Melamed
Fred Melamed is an American character actor and voice-over performer. He is known for his role as Sy Ableman in the 2009 film A Serious Man.