All articles starting with F

Fritz Schönhöfer

Fritz Schönhöfer (1892–1965) was a German industrial chemist who worked at Bayer and is documented in the German biographical record only through the malaria-research circle of the pharmacologist Werner Schulemann.

Fritz Schwab

Fritz Schwab (Erich Arthur Fritz Schwab, 1919–2006), Swiss race walker, son of Arthur Tell Schwab; Olympic bronze 1948 and silver 1952 in the 10 km walk, European gold 1950 and silver 1946.

Sep 19, 2026

Fritz Sennheiser

Fritz Sennheiser (1912–2010) was a German electrical engineer who founded Sennheiser Electronic near Hanover in 1945, led it until 1982, and built it into a leading maker of microphones and headphones.

Oct 20, 2026

Fritz Spengler

Fritz Spengler (1908–2003), German field handball player; won Olympic gold with Germany at the 1936 Berlin Games, played two matches, five caps; later national coach of Saar until 1969.

Fritz Staib

Fritz Staib (Christian Fredrik Maximillian Staib, 1892-1956), Norwegian sailor, KNS Oslo; won 1912 Stockholm Olympic gold in the 12-metre class aboard Alfred Larsen's Magda IX, winning both races from behind.

Fritz Strassmann

Fritz Strassmann (1902–1980) was a German chemist who, with Otto Hahn, identified barium in neutron-irradiated uranium in December 1938, the decisive step in the discovery of nuclear fission.

Fritz Strobl

Fritz Strobl, born 1972 in Lienz, Austrian alpine skier nicknamed "The Cat"; 2002 Olympic downhill champion and Streif course record holder (1:51.58, 1997). Not the ORF manager Pius Strobl.

Fritz the Cat

Fritz the Cat (1972) is Ralph Bakshi's adult animated comedy adapted from Robert Crumb's underground comic, the first animated feature rated X by the MPAA, grossing $30 million worldwide by 1973.

Fritz the Cat (film)

Fritz the Cat (1972) is Ralph Bakshi's adult animated comedy, the first X-rated animated feature, adapted from Robert Crumb's underground comic; it grossed about $90 million on a budget near $1 million.

Fritz Thiedemann

Fritz Thiedemann (1918–2000) was a German show jumper and breeder from Schleswig-Holstein who won two Olympic team golds and, at Helsinki 1952, medals in both dressage and jumping.

Sep 21, 2026

Fritz Thoma

Fritz Thoma is a molecular biologist known for decades of work on chromatin structure, nucleosome positioning, and DNA repair in yeast at ETH Zurich, including landmark papers in Cell.

Fritz Todt

Fritz Todt was a German civil engineer and senior Nazi official who directed autobahn construction, founded Organisation Todt, and was Reich armaments minister from 1940 until his death in 1942.

Oct 20, 2026

Fritz Traun

Fritz Traun (Friedrich Adolph Traun, 1876-1908), German athlete and tennis player; won 1896 Olympic men's doubles gold with John Pius Boland after Boland beat him in singles; also a record-holding middle-distance runner.

Fritz Ursell

Fritz Ursell (1923–2012) was a British applied mathematician who first proved the existence of trapped modes in water waves, analyzed the Kelvin ship-wave pattern, and introduced the Ursell number.

Fritz Vögtle

Fritz Vögtle (1939–2017) was a German organic chemist, professor and director of the Kekulé Institute at Bonn, whose 1978 cascade molecules opened dendrimer chemistry and whose group templated catenanes, rotaxanes, and knots.

Sep 21, 2026

Fritz Vollrath

Fritz Vollrath is an evolutionary biologist and Emeritus Professor of zoology at the University of Oxford, known for research on spider webs and silks and for co-founding Oxford Biomaterials.

Fritz Von Erich

Fritz Von Erich, ring name of Jack Adkisson (1929-1997), was a Texas villain wrestler with the Iron Claw hold and promoter of World Class Championship Wrestling, father of the Von Erich brothers.

Fritz von Unruh

Fritz von Unruh (1885–1970) was a German expressionist playwright and pacifist writer, honored with the Kleist and Goethe prizes, who fled Nazi Germany in 1932 and died in exile.

Fritz Waller

Fritz Waller (Friedrich Waller, 1920-2004), Swiss bobsledder, brakesman for Felix Endrich; won two-man bob gold at the 1948 St. Moritz Winter Olympics, 1949 world two-man title, 1947 world silver.

Fritz Weaver

Fritz Weaver (1926-2016), American character actor; Tony winner 1970 for Child's Play, singing Sherlock Holmes in Baker Street, Emmy-nominated for Holocaust; 21 Broadway productions.

Fritz Weigert

Fritz Weigert (1876–1947) was a German-British photochemist, professor of photochemistry at Leipzig from 1914 until his 1935 dismissal, known for the Weigert effect of photo-induced anisotropy.

Fritz X

Fritz X, also designated Ruhrstahl X-1, was a German radio-controlled armor-piercing glide bomb of World War II and the first precision-guided weapon sunk a warship.

Fritz Zwicky

Fritz Zwicky (1898–1974) was a Swiss astronomer at Caltech who inferred dark matter in the Coma cluster in 1933 and co-predicted neutron stars with Walter Baade.

Fritzens

Fritzens is a Tyrolean municipality in the Inn valley (Innsbruck-Land district, 591 m, 2,054 inhabitants in 2013) and, with Sanzeno in Trentino, the eponymous type site of the Iron Age Fritzens-Sanzeno (Raetian) culture, which emerged around 450 BCE and ended with Rome's 15 BC Alpine campaign.

Fritzl case

Fritzl case: Amstetten, Austria, 2008 discovery that Josef Fritzl held daughter Elisabeth captive 24 years in a windowless cellar, fathering seven children; 2009 life sentence.

Friuli

Friuli (Friûl) is a historical region of northeastern Italy between the Livenza, the Carnic and Julian Alps, and the Adriatic, centered on Udine. Core of the Patriarchate of Aquileia from 1077, ruled by Venice from 1420 as the Patria del Friuli, and home of the protected Friulian language.