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Frederick Haynes III
Frederick Douglass Haynes III, Dallas Baptist pastor of Friendship-West Baptist Church since 1983 and briefly Rainbow PUSH president, is the 2026 Democratic nominee for Texas's 30th congressional district, succeeding Jasmine Crockett.
Frederick Heyliger
Frederick Theodore "Moose" Heyliger (1916–2001), American Army officer and fourth commander of Easy Company, 506th PIR, 101st Airborne; led the Operation Pegasus Rhine evacuation and was wounded by friendly fire in October 1944.
Frederick Humphreys
Frederick Harkness Humphreys (1878-1954), British City of London policeman, tug-of-war puller and wrestler; Olympic tug-of-war gold 1908 and 1920, silver 1912; oldest tug-of-war gold medalist at 42 years 203 days.
Frederick I of Brandenburg
Frederick I of Brandenburg (c. 1371–1440), born Frederick VI Burgrave of Nuremberg, first Hohenzollern Elector of Brandenburg (1415–40), granted the title by Sigismund at the Council of Constance, 30 April 1415.
Frederick I of Brandenburg-Ansbach
Frederick I of Brandenburg-Ansbach (Frederick the Elder), Hohenzollern margrave of Ansbach 1486-1515, son of Albrecht Achilles, husband of Sofia Jagiellon, deposed in 1515 by his sons Kasimir and Georg the Pious; distinct from Elector Frederick I of Brandenburg (d. 1440).
Frederick I of Denmark
Frederick I of Denmark (Frederik 1., 1471–1533), king of Denmark and Norway 1523–1533, elected after Christian II's deposition. Uncle of Christian II, father of Christian III; signed a strict håndfæstning, favored Lutherans at the 1527 Diet of Odense, ruled from Gottorp Castle.
Frederick I of Prussia
Frederick I of Prussia (Friedrich I., 1657–1713), as Frederick III Elector of Brandenburg, crowned himself first King in Prussia at Königsberg on 18 January 1701 and founded Halle University, the Berlin Academy of Arts, and the Berlin Society of Sciences.
Frederick I of Sweden
Frederick I (Fredrik I), Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel, King of Sweden 1720–1751, husband of Ulrika Eleonora; a constitutional figurehead of the Age of Liberty whose dynasty ended with his childless death in 1751.
Frederick II of Austria
Frederick II of Austria, known as the Quarrelsome (c. 1210 – 1246), was the last Babenberg duke of Austria and Styria, killed in battle against Hungary in 1246.
Frederick II of Swabia
Frederick II of Swabia, known as Friedrich II, Duke of Swabia and called the One-Eyed, was the second Hohenstaufen Duke of Swabia, reigning from 1105 to 1147.
Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor
Frederick II (1194–1250), Hohenstaufen Holy Roman Emperor (1220–1250), king of Sicily, Germany, and Jerusalem, called stupor mundi; recovered Jerusalem bloodlessly by the 1229 Treaty of Jaffa, founded the University of Naples, and fought repeated excommunications and wars with the papacy.
Frederick III of Denmark
Frederick III of Denmark, also known as Frederik III, was king of Denmark and Norway from 1648 to 1670, who introduced absolute monarchy by the Kongeloven of 1665.
Frederick III, Elector of Saxony
Frederick III, called the Wise, was Elector of Saxony from 1486 to 1525 who founded the University of Wittenberg and protected Martin Luther after 1517.
Frederick III, Elector Palatine
Frederick III, called Frederick the Pious, was Elector Palatine of the Rhine from 1559 to 1576, making the Palatinate the center of German Reformed Protestantism through the Heidelberg Catechism.
Frederick III, German Emperor
Frederick III (Friedrich III., 1831–1888), German Emperor and King of Prussia for 99 days in 1888's Year of Three Emperors; son of Wilhelm I, husband of Queen Victoria's daughter Victoria, died of throat cancer, liberal reputation contested.
Frederick III, Holy Roman Emperor
Frederick III (1415–1493), a Habsburg Emperor and King of the Romans, was the last emperor crowned in Rome, securing his dynasty through a key marriage.
Frederick IV, Duke of Austria
Frederick IV, Duke of Austria, nicknamed Friedl of the Empty Pockets, was the Habsburg duke who ruled Tyrol from 1406, made Innsbruck his capital in 1420, and died in 1439.
Frederick J. Almgren, Jr.
Frederick J. Almgren, Jr. (1933–1997) was an American mathematician and pioneer of the geometric calculus of variations, best known for his regularity theory of area-minimizing surfaces.
Frederick J. Doyle
Frederick J. Doyle (1920–2013) was an American photogrammetry and remote-sensing scientist who led Apollo lunar mapping photography, won the NASA Exceptional Scientific Achievement Medal, and served the U.S. Geological Survey as senior advisor for cartography.
Frederick J. Ellert
Frederick J. Ellert was an American electrical engineer at General Electric who led the development of high-voltage direct current transmission and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1987.
Frederick J. Hooven
Frederick J. Hooven (1905–1985) was an American engineer and inventor who held dozens of patents, including the first radio compass and first electronic phototypesetter, and taught at Dartmouth.
Frederick J. Kapala
Frederick J. Kapala (born 1950) is an American jurist who served as a United States district judge for the Northern District of Illinois from 2007 until 2019.
Frederick J. Karol
Frederick J. Karol (1933–2018) was an American chemist and Union Carbide Senior Corporate Fellow who developed the Unipol gas-phase polyethylene process and won the 1989 Perkin Medal.
Frederick J. Krambeck
Frederick J. Krambeck is an American chemical engineer who spent over 30 years in catalysis at Mobil and ExxonMobil and is a member of the National Academy of Engineering.
Frederick J. Leonberger
Frederick J. Leonberger is an American electrical engineer who pioneered lithium niobate integrated-optic modulators for fiber-optic networks and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2000.
Frederick J. Mancheski
Frederick J. Mancheski (1926–2018) was an American mechanical engineer who led Echlin Inc., a Connecticut automotive-parts maker, as chairman and CEO from 1967 to 1997, growing annual sales from $38 million to $3.3 billion.
Frederick J. Martone
Frederick J. Martone (born 1943) is an American jurist serving as a senior United States district judge of the District of Arizona, appointed by President George W. Bush in 2001.
Frederick J. Moody
Frederick J. Moody is an American nuclear engineer at General Electric in San Jose, known for his analysis of two-phase blowdown and fluid transients in nuclear plants.
Frederick J. Scullin, Jr.
Frederick James Scullin, Jr. (born 1939) is an American jurist serving as a senior United States district judge for the Northern District of New York.
Frederick J. Sigworth
Frederick J. Sigworth is an American biophysicist, Professor Emeritus of Cellular and Molecular Physiology at Yale, who helped develop patch-clamp recording of single ion channels.