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Fred Trump III
Fred Trump III (born 1962, Manhattan), also Frederick Crist Trump III, is a New York real estate professional, son of Fred Trump Jr., nephew of Donald Trump, and author of the 2024 memoir All in the Family.
Frederick Douglass
Frederick Douglass, born Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey, was an American abolitionist, orator, and publisher who escaped from slavery in Maryland in 1838 and became a leading spokesman for abolition.
Frederick von Mierers
Frederick von Mierers (born Freddie Meyer, 1946–1990), American cult leader who founded Eternal Values, claimed Arcturus origin; not a social psychologist; taxonomy placement an indexing error.
Free association (psychology)
Free association is a core psychoanalytic method, made fundamental by Sigmund Freud, in which the patient verbalizes every thought without censorship so unconscious material can surface and be interpreted.
Free love
Free love is a social movement originating in the mid-nineteenth century that holds love, sex, and marriage should follow personal choice, not state or religious regulation.
Free Nutritious Meals
Free Nutritious Meals: no-charge school meals, chiefly US universal free school meal policies via the National School Lunch Program and Community Eligibility Provision, with state programs in nine states and Finland's free school meal tradition.
Free people of color
Free people of color, French gens de couleur libres, were legally free people of African or mixed ancestry in American slave societies; prominent in Spanish America and New Orleans, where they were nearly a quarter of the city by 1830.
Free recall
Free recall is a memory task in which a person studies a list of items and then recalls as many as possible in any order, without cues.
Free software movement
The free software movement, launched by Richard Stallman's 1983 GNU Project and the 1985 Free Software Foundation, campaigns for users' four essential freedoms to run, study, redistribute, and modify software, distinct from the 1998 open source movement.
Free the nipple
Free the nipple (#FreeTheNipple) is a fourth-wave feminist campaign for gender-equal rights to appear topless in public and against social media censorship of female nipples, founded around Lina Esco's 2012 film.
Free writing
Free writing is a writing exercise in which a person writes continuously for a set period without stopping or editing, used to build fluency and reduce writing anxiety.
Freemasonry
Freemasonry, a fraternal society using stonemason-derived ritual and symbolism, was organized as a Grand Lodge in London in 1717; the United Grand Lodge of England now counts about 170,000 members, with separate women's Grand Lodges.
Freemasonry and women
Freemasonry and women: women's participation in Freemasonry despite male-only constitutions of 1723. Covers Elizabeth Aldworth, French Lodges of Adoption (1740s), Le Droit Humain co-Masonry (1893), British Order of Women Freemasons (1908), and recognition debates.
Freikörperkultur
Freikörperkultur (FKK), or free body culture, is the German movement and practice of nude bathing and recreation in nature, arising around 1900 with Lebensreform, mass-based in the GDR, and organized today by the DFK with declining membership.
French Americans
French Americans, also known as Franco-Americans, are people in the United States of French ancestry, about 6.3 million in 2022, concentrated in California and New England.
French Canadians
French Canadians: descendants of New France's settlers in Canada, chiefly the Québécois of Quebec and the Acadians of the Maritimes; 21.4% of Canadians had French as first official language in 2021.
French nobility
French nobility (noblesse française): hereditary legal status of the Second Estate under the Ancien Régime, acquired by birth, ennobling office, or royal letters; feudal privileges abolished 1789, with about 3,000 descendant families remaining today.
French people
French people (les Français) are holders of French nationality, defined civically rather than ethnically. About 68.6 million residents in 2025, 2.5 million French abroad, no ethnic census permitted since a 2007 Constitutional Council decision.
Frenemy
Frenemy (also frienemy), a blend of friend and enemy, is an informal term for a person or group that acts friendly for benefit while harboring rivalry; first recorded 1950-55, studied in workplace ambivalence research.
Frequency illusion
Frequency illusion, also called the Baader-Meinhof phenomenon or blue car syndrome, is a cognitive bias where something newly noticed seems to appear everywhere; named by Arnold Zwicky in 2005, it combines selective attention and confirmation bias.
Fresno nightcrawler
Fresno Nightcrawler (Fresno Alien, walking pants): a modern cryptid from 2007 Fresno, California security footage showing pale, armless leg-like figures, plus a 2011 Yosemite clip; unverified, embraced as Fresno's mascot.
Freud family
The Freud family, the Central European Jewish family of psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud (1856–1939): Galician-Moravian merchant origins, Vienna household with Martha Bernays, Minna Bernays, and six children, the 1938 flight to London, Holocaust losses, and the family's archives and museum legacy.
Freud's psychoanalytic theories
Freud's psychoanalytic theories: Sigmund Freud's theory of a dynamic unconscious, repression, id-ego-superego structure, psychosexual stages, dream interpretation, and free association; plus criticisms of unfalsifiability and its modern standing.
Freudian slip
Freudian slip (parapraxis): an unconscious error in speech, writing, memory, or action attributed by psychoanalytic theory to repressed impulses, from Freud's 1901 Psychopathology of Everyday Life; modern cognitive psychology explains most such errors as language-production failures.
Freya Leach
Freya Leach is an Australian conservative political commentator and director of the Centre for Youth Policy at the Menzies Research Centre. She was a Liberal Party candidate in 2023.
Fridtjof Nansen
Fridtjof Nansen (1861–1930), Norwegian polar explorer, scientist, diplomat, and Nobel Peace Prize laureate (1922). First League of Nations High Commissioner for Refugees; creator of the Nansen passport; first to cross Greenland's inland ice; Fram expedition record at 86° 14′ N.
Frieda Vizel
Frieda Vizel (born 1985) is an American YouTuber, blogger, and licensed NYC tour guide, formerly Satmar Hasidic of Kiryas Joel, known for her Williamsburg walking tours, YouTube interviews, and blog on Hasidic life.
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.
Friendship
Friendship: a voluntary, reciprocal, informal close relationship, also called philia in Aristotle's three-tier theory. Distinguished from family and romance by its six functions (companionship, support, security, alliance, self-validation, intimacy) and strong links to wellbeing.
Frisians
Frisians are a Germanic people of the North Sea coast in the Netherlands and Germany, first recorded by Tacitus, known for medieval Frisian freedom, Old Frisian law, and the West, East, North, and Sater Frisian languages.