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Fred Meyer

Fred Meyer is a chain of large hypermarkets in the Pacific Northwest and Alaska, founded by Fred G. Meyer in Portland, Oregon, in 1922 and owned by Kroger since 1999.

Sep 20, 2026

Fred Morady is an American cardiologist and cardiac electrophysiologist who directed the electrophysiology laboratory at the University of Michigan from 1984 to 2004 and helped shape modern arrhythmia treatment.

Fred Murray

Fred Murray (Frederic Seymour Murray, "Feg", 1894-1973), American hurdler from San Francisco; Stanford captain 1916; won 110m hurdles bronze at the 1920 Antwerp Olympics; later a sports and film cartoonist and radio presenter.

Fred N. Finn

Fred N. Finn (1923–2023) was an American pavement engineer who led the AASHO Road Test work, the Asphalt Institute design procedure, and SHRP's $50 million asphalt research program.

Oct 10, 2026

Fred Neufeld

Fred Neufeld (1869–1945) was a German bacteriologist who directed the Robert Koch Institute in Berlin from 1917 to 1933 and established pneumococcal serotyping, the Quellung reaction, and the bile solubility test.

Fred Neulander

Rabbi Fred Neulander was an American Reform rabbi, founding senior rabbi of Congregation M'kor Shalom in Cherry Hill, New Jersey, convicted in 2002 of arranging his wife's 1994 murder.

Fred Newhouse

Fred Newhouse (Frederick Vaughn Newhouse, 1948-2025), American quarter-miler: 1976 Olympic 400m silver (44.40) behind Juantorena and 4x400m relay gold (2:58.65); NAIA 440y champion 1969-70; later USATF official and Sydney 2000 team leader.

Fred Noonan

Fred Noonan, also known as Frederick Joseph Noonan, was an American navigator who pioneered Pan Am's Pacific routes and disappeared with Amelia Earhart during their 1937 round-the-world flight.

Fred Norris

Fred Norris (born Fred Leo Nukis, 1955) is the Howard Stern Show's sound effects performer, impressionist, and writer; a WCCC overnight DJ who joined Stern in 1979 and legally took the name Eric Fred Norris in 1993.

Fred Ottman

Fred Ottman (born 1956), American retired pro wrestler known as Tugboat, Typhoon, and The Shockmaster; WWF Tag Team Champion with Earthquake as The Natural Disasters, 2025 WWE Hall of Fame inductee.

Fred Perry

Fred Perry (1909-1995), English tennis champion; first man to complete a Career Grand Slam (1935), three-time Wimbledon winner 1934-36, 1929 world table tennis champion, and founder of the Fred Perry clothing brand.

Fred Perry (clothing label)

Fred Perry is a British clothing label founded in 1952 by the tennis champion Fred Perry, best known for its piqué polo shirt with the Laurel Wreath logo.

Fred Phelps

Fred Waldron Phelps (1929–2014), American pastor and disbarred lawyer, founded Topeka's Westboro Baptist Church, led anti-gay "God Hates Fags" funeral picketing, filed some 400 suits, and won Snyder v. Phelps (2011, 8–1).

Fred Plum

Fred Plum (1924–2010) was an American neurologist who helped coin "persistent vegetative state" and "locked-in syndrome", and wrote The Diagnosis of Stupor and Coma with Jerome Posner.

Fred Poordad

Fred Poordad is an American hepatologist at UT Health San Antonio and the Texas Liver Institute who led pivotal hepatitis C trials, including the 2011 SPRINT-2 boceprevir study.

Fred R. Hirsch

Fred R. Hirsch is a medical oncologist and lung cancer researcher who leads the Center for Thoracic Oncology at Mount Sinai and studies EGFR and PD-L1 biomarkers.

Fred Ramsdell

Frederick J. Ramsdell is an American immunologist who co-won the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for work on peripheral immune tolerance and co-discovered Foxp3.

Fred Rapp

Fred Rapp (1929–2001) was an American virologist who chaired microbiology at Penn State's Hershey Medical Center from 1969 to 1990 and showed that herpes simplex virus type 2 can transform cells malignant.

Fred Ridley

Fred Ridley, American lawyer and 1975 U.S. Amateur champion (beat Keith Fergus 2 up), former USGA president (2004-05), and seventh chairman of Augusta National Golf Club and the Masters since October 2017.

Fred Rieke

Fred Rieke is a neuroscientist and professor at the University of Washington who studies how the retina processes visual signals at the limits set by noise.

Fred Rogers

Fred McFeely Rogers (1928–2003), American Presbyterian minister and creator-host of Mister Rogers' Neighborhood (895 episodes, 1968–2001); wrote 200+ songs, made 14 puppets, testified before Congress in 1969, and received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2002.

Fred Rogers's 1969 United States Senate testimony

Fred Rogers's 1969 Senate testimony: the roughly six-minute May 1, 1969 appearance before the Senate Commerce Subcommittee on Communications, defending $20 million in CPB funding from a proposed cut to $10 million, winning over Chairman John Pastore.

Fred Rosner

Fred Rosner (1935 to 2024) was an American physician, board certified in hematology, who became an internationally known authority on Jewish medical ethics, and a professor of medicine at Mount Sinai School of Medicine.

Fred Russell Kramer

Fred Russell Kramer is a molecular biologist and professor at Rutgers New Jersey Medical School who invented molecular beacons and SuperSelective PCR primers for detecting rare cancer mutations.

Sep 20, 2026

Fred S. Rosen

Fred S. Rosen (1930–2005) was an American pediatric immunologist at Harvard Medical School and Boston Children's Hospital who defined the modern understanding of primary immunodeficiencies.

Fred Saad

Fred Saad is a Canadian uro-oncologist, professor of surgery at the Université de Montréal and chief of urology at CHUM, who led major prostate cancer trials including PROfound and ARANOTE.

Fred Savage

Fred Savage is an American actor and television director best known for playing Kevin Arnold on The Wonder Years (1988–1993), and for directing shows including Modern Family.

Fred Scarlett

Fred Scarlett (Alexander Frederick Yorke Scarlett, born 1975), British rower, Leander Club; won gold in the men's eight at Sydney 2000, Britain's first Olympic eights title since 1912, then retired.

Fred Schmidt

Fred Schmidt (Frederick Weber Schmidt, born 1943, Evanston, Illinois) is an American swimmer, 1964 Tokyo Olympic gold medalist in the 4x100 medley relay and bronze medalist in the 200 m butterfly, and former 100 m butterfly world record holder (58.6, 1961).