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Friedrich Wilhelm Levi
Friedrich Wilhelm Levi (1888–1966) was a German mathematician known as a founder of infinite abelian group theory; driven from Leipzig by the Nazis, he rebuilt his career in Calcutta.
Friedrich Wilhelm Rettberg
Friedrich Wilhelm Rettberg (1805–1849) was a German Lutheran theologian and church historian who taught at Göttingen and held the theology chair at Marburg from 1838 until his death, best known for his two-volume Kirchengeschichte Deutschlands.
Friedrich Wilhelm Ulrich
Friedrich-Wilhelm Ulrich, East German rower (born 1953, Packebusch), Olympic gold in men's coxed pair 1976 and 1980 with Harald Jährling and cox Georg Spohr; also world champion in the eights 1975, 1978, 1979; later coach in Saarland and Koblenz.
Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben
Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben (1730-1794), Baron von Steuben, Prussian officer and Continental Army inspector general who trained American troops at Valley Forge, wrote the 1779 Blue Book drill manual, shaped the Army NCO corps, and founded the Inspector General system.
Friedrich Wilhelm, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg
Friedrich Wilhelm Paul Leopold (1785-1831), Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg, founder of the younger Glücksburg line in 1825; father of Christian IX of Denmark and ancestor of the Danish, Greek, Norwegian, and British royal houses.
Friedrich Wöhler
Friedrich Wöhler (1800–1882) was a German chemist and professor at the University of Göttingen, known for his 1828 synthesis of urea from ammonium cyanate and for isolating aluminum, beryllium, and yttrium.
Friedrichshain
Friedrichshain, known during Nazi rule as Horst-Wessel-Stadt, is a densely built district in eastern Berlin, now a center of the city's nightlife and a sought-after residential area.
Friedrichstadt
Friedrichstadt is a historic neighborhood in central Berlin, laid out from 1688 as a planned baroque extension south of Unter den Linden, and now part of the Mitte district.
Friend (product)
Friend, also known as Friend AI, is an always-listening AI companion pendant created by Avi Schiffmann, announced in July 2024 and positioned as a friend rather than a productivity assistant.
Friend (친구) (2001 film)
Friend (친구) is a 2001 Korean crime drama by Kwak Kyung-taek about four Busan boyhood friends split by rival gangs. It sold 8,181,377 tickets, breaking JSA's Korean box office record, and inspired a 2009 drama and 2013 sequel.
Friend 2
Friend 2 (친구 2, Friend: The Great Legacy) is Kwak Kyung-taek's 2013 South Korean neo-noir action sequel to Friend (2001), starring Yu Oh-seong, Joo Jin-mo, and Kim Woo-bin; released November 14, 2013, it drew 2,971,475 admissions in Korea.
Friend murine leukemia virus
Friend murine leukemia virus (F-MuLV, FrMLV), a gammaretrovirus isolated by Charlotte Friend in 1956-1957 that causes erythroleukemia in mice; replication-competent helper virus of the two-virus Friend virus complex with SFFV, infecting DBA/2 and Swiss mice.
Friend of Dorothy
Friend of Dorothy (FOD) was mid-twentieth-century coded slang for a gay man, usually traced to Judy Garland's Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz. It let strangers identify each other deniably; the US Navy famously searched for a nonexistent Dorothy in the 1980s.
Friend of Mine (Rihanna song)
Friend of Mine is a 2025 Rihanna single from the Smurfs movie soundtrack, produced by Jon Bellion, Fallen, and Pete Nappi; her first new single since 2022's Lift Me Up, with about 29 sung words.
Friend Request
Friend Request (original title Unfriend) is a 2016 German supernatural horror film directed by Simon Verhoeven, starring Alycia Debnam-Carey and Liesl Ahlers, about a college student cursed after unfriencing an outcast on Facebook; distinct from the 2014 film Unfriended.
Friend zone
Friend zone: slang for a friendship in which one person's romantic or sexual interest is not reciprocated. Popularized by a 1994 Friends episode; studied academically since the 2010s as a gendered rejection dynamic.
Friendly epistle
The friendly epistle (дружеское послание) is a Russian verse genre imitating unceremonious conversation between friends, one of the most widespread lyric forms of the 1810s and 1820s.
Friendly Father
Friendly Father (친근한 어버이), also rendered Friendly Parent, is a 2024 North Korean propaganda pop song praising Kim Jong Un, debuted at a Pyongyang 10,000-home ceremony, viral on TikTok, and banned in South Korea under the National Security Act.
Friendly fire
Friendly fire, or fratricide, is unintentional attack on one's own forces. Also called blue-on-blue; term coined in Vietnam, popularized by Bryan's 1976 book. Rose to 24% of US deaths in Desert Storm 1991; countermeasures include IFF and blue force tracking.
Friendly Fire (musician)
Friendly Fire is a Los Angeles house music duo formed by Adam Auburn of Day Trip and LondonBridge of Space Yacht, releasing on labels including Toolroom and South of Saturn.
Friendly Fire (song)
Friendly Fire is a Linkin Park song written by Shinoda, Delson, and Jon Green for the 2017 album One More Light, shelved, reworked, and released February 23, 2024 as lead single of Papercuts, featuring Chester Bennington.
Friendly jamming
Friendly jamming is a physical-layer security technique in which a legitimate network node transmits deliberate interference, usually artificial noise, to stop eavesdroppers decoding confidential wireless traffic.
Friendly Rivalry
Friendly Rivalry (선의의 경쟁, Seonuiui Gyeongjaeng), also called Friendly Competition, is a 2025 South Korean mystery thriller adapted from Song Chae-yoon's webtoon, starring Lee Hye-ri and Chung Su-bin at elite Chaehwa Girls' High School; 16 episodes aired on U+ Mobile TV, February 10 to March 6, 2025.
FRIENDLY THUG 52 NGG
FRIENDLY THUG 52 NGG (Alexander Romanov, born 2000) is a Russian rapper from St. Petersburg who fronts the «52» association and released the albums Cristoforo Colombo and Graf Monte-Cristo.
Friendly's
Friendly's is an American family restaurant and ice cream chain founded in 1935 in Springfield, Massachusetts by the Blake brothers. Once 850 restaurants, now about 87 in 11 Eastern states; restaurants under Brix/Legacy Brands, ice cream brand owned by Dairy Farmers of America.
Friends
Friends (1994-2004) is the NBC sitcom by David Crane and Marta Kauffman about six twenty-somethings in New York, starring Aniston, Cox, Kudrow, LeBlanc, Perry, and Schwimmer, famed for Central Perk and its ensemble format.
Friends (2001 film)
Friends (ப்ரண்ட்ஸ்) is a 2001 Tamil comedy-drama directed by Siddique, a remake of his 1999 Malayalam film, starring Vijay, Suriya, and Ramesh Khanna, with Ilaiyaraaja's music; a Pongal release that ran 175 days and rereleased in 4K in November 2025.
Friends (2016 film)
Friends (फ्रेंड्स) is a 2016 Marathi romantic drama directed by R. Madhesh, starring Swapnil Joshi as Neel, Sachit Patil as Karan, and Gauri Nalawade as Bhairavi, released 15 January 2016.
Friends (Marshmello and Anne-Marie song)
"FRIENDS" is a 2018 friend-zone-themed EDM-pop single by producer Marshmello and English singer Anne-Marie, written and recorded in about three hours in London, peaking at UK number 4, US number 11, and German number 1.
Friends (The Beach Boys album)
Friends is the Beach Boys' 14th studio album, released June 24, 1968, produced by Brian Wilson during the band's transcendental meditation period; it missed the US Top 100 but reached No. 25 in the UK and later became a cult favorite.