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Fred Schule
Fred Schule (Frederick William Schule, 1879-1962) was an American hurdler who won the 110 metres hurdles gold at the 1904 St. Louis Olympics in 16.0, and later worked as a chemist and University of Montana coach.
Fred Sheffield
Fred Sheffield: Frederick "Fred" Sheffield (1902–1971), Yale oarsman and 1924 Paris Olympic gold medalist in the men's eights, later a New York lawyer and Carnegie Corporation chairman; also Frederick Jolley Sheffield (1923–2009), NCAA and BAA basketball player.
Fred Sherman (yeast geneticist)
Fred Sherman (1932–2013) was an American yeast molecular geneticist at the University of Rochester, considered a founder of yeast genetics and the first yeast molecular biologist.
Fred Sirieix
Fred Sirieix (born 1972, Limoges) is a French maître d'hôtel in London, general manager of Michelin-starred Galvin at Windows, host of Channel 4's First Dates, founder of National Waiters Day and The Right Course charity.
Fred Spackman
Fred Spackman (Frederick George Spackman, 1878-1942), English amateur footballer; won 1900 Olympic football gold with Upton Park FC; Fulham Southern League player and Times proof reader.
Fred Steep
Fred Steep (Frederick William Steep, 1874–1956), Canadian footballer from St. Catharines, Ontario; won gold in men's football at the 1904 St. Louis Olympics with Galt FC, playing both matches and scoring once.
Fred Sterzer
Fred Sterzer is an American microwave engineer based in Princeton, New Jersey, and President of MMTC, Inc., known for microwave radiometry that measures subsurface body temperature without contact.
Fred Stoller
Fred Stoller (Frederick Stoller) is an American stand-up comedian, actor, and writer from Chicago, best known as Gerard, Ray's cousin, on Everybody Loves Raymond, with over sixty sitcom guest appearances.
Fred Talbot
Fred Talbot (Frederick Wilson Talbot) is a British former TV weather presenter, best known for forecasts from a floating map in Liverpool's Albert Dock on ITV's This Morning.
Fred Tatasciore
Fred Tatasciore, born in 1968, is an American voice actor based in New York City known for his deep voice as the Hulk, Soldier: 76, and Megatron.
Fred Taylor (American football)
Fred Taylor, born Frederick Antwon Taylor, is a former American football running back who rushed for 11,695 yards over 13 NFL seasons, mostly with the Jacksonville Jaguars.
Fred the Head
Fred the Head is an unidentified white male murder victim found bound and buried kneeling in a shallow grave on a River Trent island at Burton upon Trent in March 1971, wearing pink socks and a gold wedding band; DNA suggests Hungarian or Danish descent, and he remains unidentified.
Fred the Tree
Fred the Tree is an Australian pine (Casuarina) growing out of the roadbed of the abandoned Old Seven Mile Bridge in the Florida Keys, a celebrated local landmark.
Fred Thomas (British politician)
Fred Thomas (Frederick Jacob Theseus Thomas), Labour and Co-operative MP for Plymouth Moor View since 4 July 2024, former Royal Marines captain (2016–2023) who defeated Johnny Mercer with a 5,604 majority and sits on the Defence Committee.
Fred Thompson
Fred Thompson, also known as Fred Dalton Thompson, was an American lawyer and actor who served as a United States senator from Tennessee from 1994 to 2003.
Fred Tootell
Fred Tootell (Frederic Delmont Tootell, 1902-1964), American hammer thrower and coach; 1924 Paris Olympic champion at 53.295 m, first native-born American to win the event, later 32-year head coach at the University of Rhode Island.
Fred Trump
Frederick Christ Trump was an American real estate developer who built over 27,000 apartments in Brooklyn and Queens, and whose fortune paved the way for son Donald Trump's career.
Fred Trump III
Fred Trump III (born 1962, Manhattan), also Frederick Crist Trump III, is a New York real estate professional, son of Fred Trump Jr., nephew of Donald Trump, and author of the 2024 memoir All in the Family.
Fred Trump Jr.
Fred Trump Jr. (Frederick Crist Trump, 1938 to 1981) was an American airline pilot, the eldest son of Fred Trump Sr. and older brother of Donald Trump.
Fred Upton
Fred Upton, Republican U.S. representative from southwest Michigan 1987 to 2023, chaired Energy and Commerce 2011 to 2017, passed the 21st Century Cures Act, voted to impeach Trump after January 6, and retired in 2023.
Fred V & Grafix
Fred V & Grafix were an English liquid drum and bass duo from Exeter, formed in 2009 and signed to Hospital Records, reuniting in 2024.
Fred van der Weij
Fred van der Weij, a Dutch product developer and engineer from Almere, invented the air fryer; Philips licensed his patented design and launched the Airfryer in 2010.
Fred VanVleet
Fred VanVleet, NBA point guard for the Houston Rockets, formerly Toronto Raptors. Undrafted 2016, 2019 NBA champion, 54-point undrafted record, $130M Houston deal, NBPA president, torn ACL 2025.
Fred Vlès
Fred Vlès (1885–1944) was a French zoologist turned biophysicist who founded France's first biophysics institute at the University of Strasbourg and pioneered the physical chemistry of the cell.
Fred vom Jupiter
"Fred vom Jupiter" is a 1981 German synth-pop single by Andreas Dorau, released as Die Doraus und Die Marinas, and a best-known Neue Deutsche Welle hit.
Fred W. Albaugh
Frederic W. Albaugh (1913–1999) was an American chemist-engineer and National Academy of Engineering member who led plutonium reprocessing and reactor research at Hanford, helping establish Pacific Northwest National Laboratory.
Fred W. Glover
Fred W. Glover, born in 1937, is an American operations researcher known for creating the metaheuristics Tabu Search and Scatter Search and for contributions to integer programming.
Fred W. McLafferty
Fred W. McLafferty (1923–2021) was an American chemist and mass spectrometrist at Cornell University, known for the McLafferty rearrangement and the first gas chromatograph–mass spectrometer.
Fred W. Slaughter
Fred Wallace Slaughter, born 1973, is an American jurist serving as a US district judge for the Central District of California since 2022, appointed by President Biden.
Fred W. Turek
Fred W. Turek is an American circadian and sleep biologist at Northwestern University, known for helping identify Clock, the first mammalian circadian clock gene, and for showing benzodiazepines can shift the clock.