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Frederick, Hereditary Prince of Denmark
Frederick, Hereditary Prince of Denmark (Arveprins Frederik, 1753–1805) was the only child of King Frederik V and Juliane Marie, and formally led the Danish government from 1772 to 1784.
Frederick, Maryland
Frederick, Maryland: county seat of Frederick County, founded 1745 by Daniel Dulany the Elder, incorporated 1817, mayor-council government, population about 92,000 (2025 estimate), home to Fort Detrick, a National Register historic district, and MARC rail service to Washington.
Frederick, Prince of Wales
Frederick Louis, Prince of Wales (1707–1751), eldest son of George II, father of George III, and head of the Leicester House Patriot opposition to Walpole; patron of the Opera of the Nobility and "Rule Britannia," died before reigning.
Frederick's of Hollywood
Frederick's of Hollywood is an American lingerie brand founded by Frederick Mellinger in 1946 and renamed in 1947, credited with introducing the push-up and padded bras to the United States.
Fredericksburg, Texas
Fredericksburg, Texas (Friedrichsburg): Gillespie County seat in the Texas Hill Country, founded May 8, 1846 by German Adelsverein settlers; German heritage town, wine and tourism hub with $175M visitor spending in 2024.
Fredericksburg, Virginia
Fredericksburg, Virginia: independent city on the Rappahannock River, founded 1728, incorporated 1781/1879, council-manager government, population about 30,400 (2025), Civil War Battle of Fredericksburg site.
Fredericton
Fredericton, capital of New Brunswick, Canada, on the Wolastoq (Saint John River); founded as Frederick's Town in 1785 by Loyalists, incorporated 1848, population about 79,000 in 2025.
Frederik Andersen
Frederik Andersen is a Danish ice hockey goaltender, the first Denmark-born goalie in the NHL, who won the Jennings Trophy twice and the 2026 Stanley Cup with Carolina.
Frederik Barkhof
Frederik Barkhof is a Dutch neuroradiologist known for the Barkhof criteria, MRI findings used to diagnose multiple sclerosis, and professor at Amsterdam UMC and University College London.
Frederik Belinfante
Frederik Jozef Belinfante (1913–1991) was a Dutch theoretical physicist who gave one of the first general proofs of the spin-statistics theorem and co-invented the symmetrized stress-energy tensor.
Frederik C. Krebs
Frederik C. Krebs (born 1970) is a Danish chemist known for roll-to-roll manufacture of flexible polymer solar cells, who founded the printed-electronics company infinityPV.
Frederik L. Hisaw
Frederik L. Hisaw, also known as Frederick Lee Hisaw, was an American endocrinologist and professor of zoology at Harvard University, best known for discovering the hormone relaxin, which widens the pelvis during pregnancy.
Frederik Pohl
Frederik George Pohl Jr., known as Frederik Pohl, was an American science fiction writer, editor, and fan whose 1977 novel Gateway won the Hugo, Nebula, Locus, and Campbell awards.
Frederik Pohl bibliography
Frederik Pohl bibliography (1919–2013): catalog of the American SF writer's novels, stories, series, and anthologies, including The Space Merchants, Gateway, the Heechee books, pseudonyms, and standard bibliography sources.
Frederik R. Wurm
Frederik R. Wurm (Frederik Wurm) is a polymer chemist and professor of Sustainable Polymer Chemistry at the University of Twente since 2020, known for biodegradable polyphosphoesters.
Frederik Sangster
Frederik Sangster (Frederik Leonard Johan Sangster) is a Dutch Philips researcher in Eindhoven credited with patenting the bucket brigade device, an analog shift register, with Kees Teer.
Frederik van Eeden
Frederik van Eeden (1860–1932) was a Dutch poet, novelist, and psychiatrist who co-founded De Nieuwe Gids in 1885, pioneered psychotherapy in the Netherlands, and coined the term "lucid dream".
Frederik, Crown Prince of Denmark
Frederik X (Frederik André Henrik Christian, born 1968), formerly Crown Prince of Denmark, became king on 14 January 2024 after Margrethe II's abdication; Aarhus MSc, Navy frogman, married Queen Mary, four children.
Frederiksberg, Capital Region
Frederiksberg Kommune, an independent Danish municipality in the Capital Region, an enclave surrounded by Copenhagen Municipality. 106,150 residents on 8.7 km2, Denmark's smallest and most densely populated municipality, independent since 1858.
Frederiksen III Cabinet
Frederiksen III Cabinet (Regeringen Mette Frederiksen III): Danish minority government formed 3 June 2026 under Mette Frederiksen, uniting Social Democrats, Socialist People's Party, Moderates, and Social Liberal Party after record 69-day talks; 21 ministers, majority women.
Fredholm determinant
The Fredholm determinant, introduced by Erik Ivar Fredholm in 1903, generalizes the ordinary determinant to operators of the form identity plus trace class on a Hilbert space.
Fredholm index
The Fredholm index of a Fredholm operator between Banach spaces is dim ker T minus dim coker T, an integer that stays stable under compact perturbations.
Fredholm integral equation
A Fredholm integral equation is an integral equation in which the unknown appears under an integral with fixed limits, in a first kind and a second kind.
Fredo Corleone
Fredo Corleone (Frederico Corleone) is the weak second son of Don Vito Corleone in Puzo's The Godfather, played by John Cazale; he betrays Michael in Part II and is killed on Michael's order.
Fredo Durand
Fredo Durand, also known as Frédo Durand, is a French computer graphics researcher who is the Amar Bose Professor of Computing at MIT, known for computational photography and Halide.
Fredo Santana
Fredo Santana (Derrick Demond Coleman, 1990-2018) was a Chicago drill rapper, older cousin of Chief Keef, GBE co-founder, and Savage Squad Records founder; his debut album Trappin' Ain't Dead featured Kendrick Lamar. Distinct from the UK rapper Fredo and from Fredo Bang.
Fredric E. Wondisford
Fredric E. Wondisford is an American physician-scientist in endocrinology and diabetes who has served as dean of the University of Arizona College of Medicine–Phoenix since 2023.
Fredric F. Ehrich
Fredric F. Ehrich (1928–2023) was an American mechanical engineer who spent four decades designing aircraft gas turbines at Westinghouse and General Electric, leading the GE T64 engine.
Fredric Jameson
Fredric Jameson (1934–2024), American Marxist literary critic and cultural theorist at Duke University; author of The Political Unconscious and Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism; known for metacommentary and cognitive mapping.
Fredric L. Coe
Fredric L. Coe is an American nephrologist at the University of Chicago known for kidney stone research, founding its Kidney Stone Evaluation and Treatment Program in 1969.