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Fredric M. Menger
Fredric M. Menger is an American organic chemist at Emory University known for his work on micelle structure and for coining the term gemini surfactants.
Fredric March
Fredric March (Ernest Frederick McIntyre Bickel, 1897–1975), American stage and screen actor from Racine, Wisconsin; two-time Best Actor Oscar winner (Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, The Best Years of Our Lives) and two-time Tony winner.
Fredric Raichlen
Fredric Raichlen, known as Fred Raichlen, was an American coastal engineer and Caltech professor known for laboratory and numerical studies of tsunamis and harbor resonance.
Fredrick Brennan
Fredrick Brennan was an American software developer and type designer who created the imageboard 8chan in 2013 and later campaigned for its shutdown; he also designed the Chomsky font.
Fredrick C. Redlich
Fredrick C. Redlich, known as Fritz Redlich, was an Austrian-born American psychiatrist who led Yale's psychiatry department for 17 years and coauthored the classic study Social Class and Mental Illness.
Fredrick Hirth
Fredrick Hirth, also printed as Fred Hirth or F. Hirth, was a Grand Rapids leather merchant who in 1883 formed the Hirth-Krause Company with G.A. Krause, the wholesale leather business that grew into Wolverine World Wide.
Fredrick J. Stare
Fredrick J. Stare (1910–2002) was an American nutritionist and physician who founded and chaired Harvard's Department of Nutrition from 1942 to 1976, becoming a controversial figure in food-industry funding debates.
Fredrick K. Manthi
Fredrick K. Manthi is a Kenyan paleontologist at the National Museums of Kenya who directs Turkana Basin excavations and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2024.
Fredrick Love
Fredrick Love, known as Fred Love, is an American politician and the Democratic nominee for governor of Arkansas in 2026, facing Republican Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders in November.
Fredrick Van Goor
Fredrick Van Goor is a Canadian-born cell biologist who, as head of cystic fibrosis research at Vertex Pharmaceuticals, led the biology behind five licensed CF medicines including Trikafta.
Fredricka Whitfield
Fredricka Whitfield, CNN Newsroom weekend anchor based in Atlanta; joined CNN 2002 after NBC News; Howard University journalism graduate born in Nairobi, Kenya, daughter of Olympian Malvin Whitfield; Peabody and Emmy winner.
Fredrik Bäckhed
Fredrik Bäckhed is a Swedish microbiome researcher and professor of molecular medicine at the University of Gothenburg, known for showing how gut bacteria affect fat storage and insulin signaling.
Fredrik Backman
Fredrik Backman (born 1981) is a Swedish novelist, born in Stockholm and raised in Helsingborg, author of A Man Called Ove (En man som heter Ove) and the Beartown trilogy, translated into more than 40 languages.
Fredrik Bajer
Fredrik Bajer (1837–1922) was a Danish pacifist, parliamentarian, and women's-rights advocate who shared the 1908 Nobel Peace Prize with Klas Pontus Arnoldson for their work for peace.
Fredrik Cassel
Fredrik Cassel is a venture capital investor and General Partner at Creandum, the Stockholm-based firm he joined in 2003, known for early backing of Spotify, Depop, and Kahoot!.
Fredrik Edfors
Fredrik Edfors is a Swedish proteomics researcher and Director of ProteomEdge AB, a Stockholm proteomics company he co-founded in 2023, and an assistant professor at KTH Royal Institute of Technology.
Fredrik Eklund
Fredrik Eklund is a Swedish-born luxury real estate broker and television personality, an original cast member of Bravo's Million Dollar Listing New York from 2012 to 2022.
Fredrik Hansen
Fredrik Hansen, born 1979 in Drammen, is a Norwegian Catholic prelate, convert from Lutheranism, and former Holy See diplomat who became Bishop of Oslo in July 2025.
Fredrik Hedberg
Fredrik Hedberg is a Swedish technology entrepreneur who co-founded the Stockholm open banking platform Tink in 2012, serving as its chief technology officer through Visa's €1.8 billion acquisition.
Fredrik Hjelm
Fredrik Hjelm is a Swedish entrepreneur who co-founded Voi Technology in Stockholm in 2018 and leads it as chief executive officer, steering the shared e-scooter operator to its first profitable year in 2024.
Fredrik Höök
Fredrik Höök is a biophysicist and professor of nano and biophysics at Chalmers University of Technology, known for developing QCM-D, nanoplasmonic sensing, and two-dimensional flow nanometry of biological nanoparticles.
Fredrik Idestam
Fredrik Idestam was a Finnish mining engineer who founded the pulp mill that grew into Nokia, converting it into the limited company Nokia Ab with Leo Mechelin in 1871.
Fredrik Kjellin
Fredrik Adolf Kjellin (1872–1910) was a Swedish chemist and engineer who built the first usable electric induction furnace and produced the first usable electric steel, at Gysinge bruk in 1900.
Fredrik Kristian Nielsen
Fredrik Kristian Nielsen (1846–1907) was a Danish church historian and Lutheran bishop, professor of church history at Copenhagen and later bishop of Aalborg and Aarhus.
Fredrik Leeb-Lundberg
L. M. Fredrik Leeb-Lundberg is a pharmacologist and professor emeritus of Experimental Medical Science at Lund University, known for his work on G protein-coupled receptors in cancer.
Fredrik Modin
Fredrik Modin (born 1974, Sundsvall) is a Swedish retired NHL left wing, 898 games and 462 points, and a Triple Gold Club member: 1998 World gold, 2004 Stanley Cup with Tampa Bay, 2006 Olympic gold.
Fredrik Österberg
Fredrik Österberg (born 1970) is a Swedish businessman who co-founded Evolution AB, the Stockholm-based live-dealer casino supplier, in 2006 with Jens von Bahr and remains one of its largest owners.
Fredrik Rosencrantz
Fredrik Rosencrantz (1879–1957), Swedish army officer and equestrian; won team show jumping gold at the 1912 Stockholm Olympics on horse Drabant; non-scoring team member; Knight of the Order of the Sword.
Fredrika Bremer
Fredrika Bremer (1801–1865) was a Swedish novelist born in Finland, the first Swedish fiction writer with an international reputation, whose 1856 novel Hertha helped win unmarried women legal majority.
Fredrikstad
Fredrikstad is a city and municipality in Østfold, Norway, at the mouth of the river Glomma. Founded 12 September 1567 by Frederik II after Sarpsborg burned; 86,243 inhabitants on 1 January 2026, tenth-largest Norwegian municipality.