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Fred Ward
Fred Ward, born Freddie Joe Ward, was an American character actor best known for roles in Tremors, The Right Stuff, and Henry & June; he died in 2022.
Fred Waring
Fred Waring (1900-1984), American bandleader and choral conductor who led Fred Waring and the Pennsylvanians on radio, TV, and records, founded Shawnee Press, backed the Waring Blendor, and won the 1983 Congressional Gold Medal.
Fred Warner (American football)
Fred Warner (Federico Anthony Warner, born 1996) is a San Francisco 49ers linebacker, BYU product drafted 70th overall in 2018; four-time first-team AP All-Pro, four-time Pro Bowler, and 2021's highest-paid inside linebacker at $95 million.
Fred Weller
Fred Weller (Frederick Weller), American actor born in New Orleans, best known as Marshal Mann on USA's In Plain Sight; Broadway credits include Take Me Out, Glengarry Glen Ross, and To Kill a Mockingbird.
Fred Wellman
Fred Wellman is an American politician and retired U.S. Army officer who won the 2026 Democratic primary for U.S. House in Missouri's 2nd Congressional District on August 4, 2026.
Fred Wendorf
Fred Wendorf (1924–2015) was an American archaeologist of North African prehistory who directed the Combined Prehistoric Expedition in Egypt and Sudan and founded SMU's anthropology department.
Fred Wesley
Fred Wesley (born 1943, Columbus, Georgia) is a funk and jazz trombonist, arranger, and bandleader, James Brown's music director 1968–1975, later Parliament-Funkadelic horn arranger and leader of the New JBs.
Fred West
Fred West (Frederick Walter Stephen West, 1941–1995), English builder and serial killer who with wife Rosemary murdered 12 known victims, mostly at 25 Cromwell Street, Gloucester; he hanged himself at Winson Green prison on 1 January 1995 before trial.
Fred Willard
Fred Willard (1933 or 1939 – May 15, 2020) was an American comic actor and improviser, Jerry Hubbard on Fernwood 2 Night, star of Christopher Guest mockumentaries including Best in Show, and a four-time Emmy nominee.
Fred Williamson
Fred "The Hammer" Williamson (born 1937 or 1938, Gary, Indiana) is a former NFL/AFL defensive back turned actor, director, producer, and screenwriter, a leading blaxploitation action star (Hammer, Black Caesar, Boss Nigger) and founder of Po' Boy Productions.
Fred Wilpon
Fred Wilpon (born 1936), Brooklyn-born real estate developer and co-founder of Sterling Equities, was the New York Mets' principal owner from 2002 until selling 95 percent of the team to Steve Cohen for $2.42 billion in October 2020.
Fred Wilson (venture capitalist)
Fred Wilson is an American venture capitalist who has invested since the 1980s and co-founded Union Square Ventures in New York in 2003, backing Twitter, Tumblr, Etsy, and Coinbase.
Fred Winston
Fred Winston (born 1952) is an American yeast geneticist, the John Emory Andrus Professor of Genetics at Harvard Medical School, known for studies of transcription and chromatin structure in yeast.
Fred Wolcott
Fred Wolcott, American hurdler from Snyder, Texas (Rice University), set world records in the 120y/110m high hurdles (13.7) and 220y low hurdles; his Olympic chances were lost to World War II.
Fred Wudl
Fred Wudl is an American organic chemist and materials scientist known for organic conductors and superconductors, fullerene chemistry, and self-healing polymers, now Professor Emeritus at UC Santa Barbara.
Fred Young Submillimeter Telescope
The Fred Young Submillimeter Telescope (FYST), formerly CCAT-prime, is a 6-meter submillimeter survey telescope on Cerro Chajnantor in Chile, run by a Cornell-led consortium, with first light expected in 2026.
Fred Zinnemann
Fred Zinnemann (Alfred Zinnemann, 1907-1997), Austrian-born American film director of High Noon, From Here to Eternity, and A Man for All Seasons; four-time Oscar winner who directed Brando, Clift, and Streep in their screen debuts.
Fred: The Movie (ЯED)
Fred: The Movie (FЯED) is a 2010 Nickelodeon television comedy starring Lucas Cruikshank as his YouTube character Fred Figglehorn, directed by Clay Weiner. It drew 7.6 million viewers, earned a 0% Tomatometer score, and spawned two sequels and a TV series.
Fred: The Show
Fred: The Show is a 2012 Nickelodeon live-action short-form comedy, also known as the Fred Figglehorn series, created by and starring Lucas Cruikshank; 24 11-minute episodes aired January 16 to August 3, 2012, averaging about 2.3 million viewers.
Freda D. Miller
Freda D. Miller is a Canadian developmental neurobiologist at the University of British Columbia known for isolating multipotent stem cells from adult mammalian skin in 2001.
Freda Dudley Ward
Freda Dudley Ward (Winifred Dudley Ward, 1894–1983), English socialite and wife of Liberal MP William Dudley Ward; long-term mistress and confidante of Edward, Prince of Wales, 1918–1934, before Wallis Simpson.
Freda K. Stevenson
Freda K. Stevenson, born in 1939, is a British immunologist and Emerita Professor at Southampton known for DNA fusion-gene vaccines against lymphoma and CLL immunogenetics.
Freda Payne
Freda Payne (Freda Charcilia Payne, born 1942, Detroit) is an American jazz, soul, and pop singer and actress, known for the 1970 No. 1 UK hit "Band of Gold" on Invictus and her later Ella Fitzgerald tribute concerts.
Fredderick Vida
Fredderick Vida is a Filipino politician who has served as Acting Secretary of Justice of the Philippines since 2025, after three terms as Mayor of Mendez, Cavite.
Freddie Aguilar
Freddie Aguilar (Abdul Farid; 1953–2025), Filipino folk-rock singer-songwriter and OPM pillar. His 1978 Tagalog ballad "Anak" sold over 30 million copies worldwide, and his "Bayan Ko" became the anthem of the 1986 People Power uprising.
Freddie and the Dreamers
Freddie and the Dreamers were a Manchester beat group of the 1960s British Invasion, led by comic singer Freddie Garrity; "I'm Telling You Now" hit UK No. 2 and topped the US Billboard Hot 100 in 1965, followed by the dance craze "Do the Freddie."
Freddie Anderson (soccer)
Freddie Samuel Anderson (born 2006) is an English-born centre-back at Stoke City, a US U20 youth international, loaned to Cork City in 2025 and Barrow in 2026.
Freddie Bartholomew
Freddie Bartholomew (Frederick Cecil Bartholomew, 1924-1992), British-born American child star of David Copperfield, Little Lord Fauntleroy, and Captains Courageous; MGM's top-paid boy actor after Shirley Temple, later an advertising executive.
Freddie Blassie
Freddie Blassie, "Classy" Freddie Blassie (Fred Blassman, 1918-2003), American pro wrestling villain and manager; 1960s WWA champion in Los Angeles, WWE Hall of Fame 1994, manager of Iron Sheik and Hulk Hogan.
Freddie Bray
Freddie Bray is a cancer epidemiologist who heads the Cancer Surveillance Branch at IARC in Lyon, France, and leads GLOBOCAN, the worldwide estimates of cancer incidence and mortality.