All articles starting with F

Frederic Mishkin

Frederic Mishkin is an American economist at Columbia Business School and a Federal Reserve governor from 2006 to 2008, author of a leading money and banking textbook.

Frédéric Mistral

Frédéric Mistral was a Provençal poet and lexicographer who founded Le Félibrige, compiled a major Occitan dictionary, and shared the 1904 Nobel Prize in Literature.

Oct 21, 2026

Frederic William Moore (1851-1926), British clay pigeon shooter and tea merchant; captained Great Britain 1 to team trap gold at the 1908 London Olympics (407-405 over Canada), placed 10th individually; formerly misnamed Frank Moore.

Frédéric Moynier

Frédéric Moynier is a French cosmochemist at Université Paris Cité and the Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris, known for zinc isotope work on the Moon's origin.

Frédéric Passy

Frédéric Passy (1822–1912) was a French economist and parliamentarian who promoted international arbitration for 50 years and shared the first Nobel Peace Prize in 1901 with Henry Dunant.

Frédéric Prinz von Anhalt

Frédéric Prinz von Anhalt (born Hans-Robert Lichtenberg, 1943), German-born businessman and reality TV personality; acquired the title Prinz von Anhalt by 1980 adult adoption and was Zsa Zsa Gabor's last husband.

Frederic Pryor

Frederic L. Pryor (1933–2019), American comparative economist at Swarthmore College, author of The Communist Foreign Trade System and The Origins of the Economy, and the American student freed in the 1962 Bridge of Spies prisoner exchange.

Frederic Remington

Frederic Remington (1861-1909), American painter, illustrator, sculptor, and writer of the Old West; created 22 bronze subjects including The Broncho Buster and over 3,000 works; an easterner from Canton, New York, not a westerner, unrelated to Remington Arms.

Frédéric Rieux‐Laucat

Frédéric Rieux-Laucat is a French immunologist and Inserm research director at the Imagine Institute in Paris, known for identifying the first genetic cause of human autoimmunity.

Frédéric Saudou

Frédéric Saudou is a French cellular and molecular neuroscientist known for defining how the huntingtin protein controls intracellular transport and neuronal survival in Huntington's disease.

Frédéric Swarts

Frédéric Swarts (2 September 1866, Ixelles – 6 September 1940, Ghent) was a Belgian chemist at Ghent University who pioneered organic fluorine chemistry; his Swarts reaction enabled the fluorocarbon and refrigerant industries.

Sep 23, 2026

Frederic Thesiger, 1st Viscount Chelmsford

Frederic Thesiger, 1st Viscount Chelmsford (1868-1933), was a British colonial administrator and statesman who served as Viceroy of India from 1916 to 1921, during the Montagu-Chelmsford reforms.

Frederic Thesiger, 2nd Baron Chelmsford

Frederic Augustus Thesiger, 2nd Baron Chelmsford, was a British Army general who led the 1879 invasion of Zululand, suffering defeat at Isandlwana before winning at Ulundi.

Frédéric Vasseur

Frédéric Vasseur (Fred Vasseur), born 1968 in Draveil, France, is a French motorsport executive: ART Grand Prix co-founder, Renault 2016, Sauber/Alfa Romeo 2017-2022, and Scuderia Ferrari Team Principal since January 2023.

Frederic Vester

Frederic Vester (1925–2003) was a German biochemist turned biocybernetician, called the father of networked thinking, who founded a Munich research institute in 1970 and wrote 17 books including bestsellers translated into 11 languages.

Frederic W. H. Myers

Frederic W. H. Myers (1843–1901) was an English classicist who co-founded the Society for Psychical Research and wrote Human Personality and Its Survival of Bodily Death.

Oct 20, 2026

Frederic Wandres

Frederic Wandres, German dressage rider born 1987 in Kehl, Olympic team gold medalist at Paris 2024 riding Bluetooth OLD, also 2019 young-horse world champion and 2022 world team bronze medalist.

Frederic Weatherly

Frederic Edward Weatherly (1848-1929), English barrister, judge, and songwriter, wrote "Danny Boy", "The Holy City", and "Roses of Picardy", plus over 1,500 other song lyrics, children's books, and opera translations.

Frederic William Farrar

Frederic William Farrar (1831–1903) was an Anglican clergyman, classicist, and novelist who served as Dean of Canterbury from 1895 and wrote the school story Eric, or Little by Little.

Frédéric-François-Xavier Ghislain de Mérode

Frédéric-François-Xavier Ghislain de Mérode (1820–1874) was a Belgian nobleman, priest, and prelate who served Pius IX as pro-minister of arms and papal almoner, and created the international Papal Zouaves.

Frederica de Laguna

Frederica de Laguna (1906–2004) was an American archeologist and ethnologist who studied Native North American and Arctic cultures, taught at Bryn Mawr College, and wrote a major study of the Yakutat Tlingit.

Frederica of Hanover

Frederica of Hanover (1917–1981), queen consort of Greece 1947–1964 as wife of King Paul I, founded the Royal Welfare Fund and the Paidopoleis child camps during the Greek Civil War, later queen mother, exiled 1967, died in Madrid.

Frederica Wilson

Frederica S. Wilson, Democratic U.S. representative for Florida's 24th District since 2011, former educator, principal, state legislator, founder of the 5000 Role Models of Excellence Project, announced in May 2026 she will not seek a ninth term.

Frederick (Rick) van der Ploeg

Frederick (Rick) van der Ploeg is a Dutch economist, Professor of Economics at Oxford and University Professor of Environmental Economics at Amsterdam, known for work on the resource curse.

Frederick A. Frey

Frederick A. Frey (1938–2021) was an American geochemist and MIT professor emeritus, a pioneer of trace element geochemistry of Earth's mantle who received the N.L. Bowen Award in 1986.

Frederick Abberline

Frederick George Abberline (1843–1929), Metropolitan Police Chief Inspector and lead on-the-ground detective in the 1888 Jack the Ripper Whitechapel murders; also investigated the Fenians and Cleveland Street scandal; later named George Chapman as his suspect.

Frederick Abel

Frederick Abel, also known as Sir Frederick Augustus Abel, 1st Baronet, was a British chemist who made guncotton safe and invented cordite with James Dewar in 1889.

Frederick Albert Saunders

Frederick Albert Saunders was an American physicist who taught introductory physics at Harvard from 1919 to 1941, co-developed the Russell–Saunders atomic coupling, and became a leading researcher of violin acoustics.

Frederick Anthony Kish Jr.

Frederick Anthony Kish Jr., known as Fred Kish, is an American electrical engineer at North Carolina State University who developed high-efficiency LEDs and commercial photonic integrated circuits.