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Frederick Augustus Genth

Frederick Augustus Genth (1820–1893) was a German-born analytical chemist and mineralogist in Philadelphia, trained under Robert Bunsen, who first crystallized cobalt-ammine salts and described about 170 mineral species.

Frederick Augustus II of Saxony

Frederick Augustus II (Friedrich August II., 1797–1854), penultimate Albertine king of Saxony (r. 1836–54): co-regent from 1830, refused the 1849 Reichsverfassung, faced the Dresden May Uprising, died in a Tyrol carriage accident.

Frederick Augustus Porter Barnard

Frederick Augustus Porter Barnard was an American scientist and educator, chancellor of the University of Mississippi from 1856 to 1861 and tenth president of Columbia College from 1864 to 1889.

Frederick Augustus Rauch

Frederick Augustus Rauch (Friedrich August Rauch, 1806–1841) was a German-born educator, first president of Marshall College in Mercersburg, Pennsylvania, and author of an early American psychology textbook.

Frederick Banting

Frederick Grant Banting (1891–1941), Canadian physician who co-discovered insulin at the University of Toronto in 1921 with Best, Macleod, and Collip; won the 1923 Nobel Prize, shared its money with Best, and died in a 1941 plane crash.

Frederick Barbarossa

Frederick Barbarossa (Frederick I, c. 1123–1190), Hohenstaufen Holy Roman emperor from 1155, German king from 1152; fought the Lombard League (Legnano 1176, Peace of Constance 1183), first used sacrum imperium, drowned in the Göksu river on the Third Crusade, 10 June 1190.

Frederick Barrett

Frederick Whitfield Barrett ("Rattle", 1875-1949), Irish-born British polo player with the 15th Hussars; Olympic gold 1920 and bronze 1924, 1914 Westchester Cup captain, 10-goal rating, later National Hunt trainer.

Frederick Belding Power

Frederick Belding Power (1853–1927) was an American pharmaceutical chemist and phytochemist, first director of the Wellcome Chemical Research Laboratories in London, known for his work on chaulmoogra oil.

Frederick Blackman

Frederick Frost Blackman (1866–1947) was a British botanist at Cambridge who founded quantitative plant physiology in England and formulated the principle of limiting factors in 1905.

Frederick Bousquet

Fred Bousquet (Frédérick Bousquet), born 1981 in Perpignan, French sprint freestyle and butterfly swimmer; Auburn NCAA champion, first under 19 seconds in the 50-yard freestyle, 50 m freestyle world record 20.94 in 2009, Olympic relay silver at Beijing 2008.

Frederick Browning

Sir Frederick "Boy" Browning (1896-1965), British lieutenant-general, Grenadier Guards DSO winner, husband of Daphne du Maurier, builder of Britain's airborne forces and corps commander at Operation Market Garden.

Frederick C. Battaglia

Frederick C. Battaglia is an American perinatal physiologist at the University of Colorado, known for measuring how the placenta delivers amino acids and oxygen to the fetus.

Frederick C. Goetz

Frederick C. Goetz (1922–2012) was an American diabetologist at the University of Minnesota Medical School who directed the UGDP diabetes trial clinic and helped bring kidney and pancreas transplantation to diabetic patients.

Frederick C. Lindvall

Frederick C. Lindvall (1903–1989) was an American electrical and mechanical engineer who chaired Caltech's engineering division for over 20 years and modernized American engineering education.

Frederick C. Mills

Frederick C. Mills, also known as Frederick Cecil Mills, was an American economist and statistician at Columbia University and the NBER who built price indexes and led the American Statistical Association in 1934.

Frederick C. Robbins

Frederick C. Robbins, also known as Frederick Chapman Robbins, was an American pediatrician and virologist who shared the 1954 Nobel Prize for growing poliovirus in tissue culture.

Frederick Calvert, 6th Baron Baltimore

Frederick Calvert, 6th Baron Baltimore (1731/32–1771), last Baron Baltimore and fifth Lord Proprietary of Maryland; absentee landlord who never visited Maryland, was acquitted at a 1768 rape trial, and willed the province to his illegitimate son Henry Harford.

Frederick Chapman

Frederick William Chapman (1883-1951), English amateur footballer; won 1908 Olympic football gold with Great Britain, scoring in the 2-0 final win over Denmark; 16 amateur England caps; 1912 Olympic non-starter; later a major and company director.

Frederick Charles Bawden

Frederick Charles Bawden (1908–1972) was a British plant pathologist and virologist who, with Norman Pirie, established that plant viruses contain RNA, and directed Rothamsted Experimental Station from 1958 until his death.

Frederick Charles Frank

Sir Frederick Charles Frank (1911–1998) was a British theoretical physicist at the University of Bristol known for the Frank–Read source, the spiral-growth theory of crystals, and liquid crystal theory.

Frederick Charles Husenbeth

Frederick Charles Husenbeth (1796–1872) was an English Roman Catholic priest and prolific translator who served fifty-two years as chaplain to the Jerningham family at Costessey Hall, Norfolk.

Frederick Chilton

Dr. Frederick Chilton is the asylum administrator who oversees Hannibal Lecter in Thomas Harris's novels, played by Anthony Heald in the 1991 film and by Raúl Esparza in NBC's Hannibal, where he is maimed every season.

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Frederick Chiluba

Frederick Chiluba (1943 to 2011) was a Zambian trade union leader who served as President of Zambia from 1991 to 2002, ending Kenneth Kaunda's 27-year rule.

Frederick Christian

Frederick Christian was an English cricketer who won a gold medal at the 1900 Paris Olympics, taking seven wickets in the only Olympic cricket match ever played.

Frederick Cook

Frederick Albert Cook, American physician and polar explorer of the Belgica expedition, claimed the North Pole on April 21, 1908, a year before Peary; a Danish commission rejected his evidence, and he was later convicted of mail fraud.

Frederick Copleston

Frederick Copleston (1907–1994), English Jesuit priest and historian of philosophy, author of the nine-volume A History of Philosophy (1946–1975, later eleven volumes), first principal of Heythrop College in the University of London, and famous for his 1948 BBC radio debate on God's existence with Bertrand Russell.