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Frederick G. Pohland
Frederick G. Pohland, also known as Frederick George Pohland, was an American environmental engineer elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1993 for advancing anaerobic treatment.
Frederick H. Dill
Frederick H. "Rick" Dill is an American electrical engineer and IBM researcher known for founding the scientific modeling of photolithography, the Dill Parameters, and video RAM.
Frederick H. Todd
Frederick H. Todd (1903–1992) was a British naval architect who led hydrodynamics labs in Britain and America and created the Series 60 ship hull experiments, still a standard data set.
Frederick J. Doyle
Frederick J. Doyle (1920–2013) was an American photogrammetry and remote-sensing scientist who led Apollo lunar mapping photography, won the NASA Exceptional Scientific Achievement Medal, and served the U.S. Geological Survey as senior advisor for cartography.
Frederick J. Ellert
Frederick J. Ellert was an American electrical engineer at General Electric who led the development of high-voltage direct current transmission and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1987.
Frederick J. Hooven
Frederick J. Hooven (1905–1985) was an American engineer and inventor who held dozens of patents, including the first radio compass and first electronic phototypesetter, and taught at Dartmouth.
Frederick J. Krambeck
Frederick J. Krambeck is an American chemical engineer who spent over 30 years in catalysis at Mobil and ExxonMobil and is a member of the National Academy of Engineering.
Frederick J. Mancheski
Frederick J. Mancheski (1926–2018) was an American mechanical engineer who led Echlin Inc., a Connecticut automotive-parts maker, as chairman and CEO from 1967 to 1997, growing annual sales from $38 million to $3.3 billion.
Frederick J. Moody
Frederick J. Moody is an American nuclear engineer at General Electric in San Jose, known for his analysis of two-phase blowdown and fluid transients in nuclear plants.
Frederick Jelinek
Frederick Jelinek was an information theorist who pioneered statistical speech recognition and machine translation, leading IBM's speech group and then Johns Hopkins' Center for Language and Speech Processing.
Frederick Law Olmsted
Frederick Law Olmsted (1822–1903) was an American landscape architect who co-designed New York's Central Park with Calvert Vaux and founded the profession of landscape architecture in the United States.
Frederick R. Chang
Frederick R. Chang is an American computer security expert and former Director of Research at the National Security Agency, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2016.
Frederick S. Billig
Frederick S. Billig was an American aerospace engineer at Johns Hopkins APL who pioneered scramjet propulsion and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1995.
Frederick T. Andrews
Frederick T. Andrews (1926–2013) was an American electrical engineer at Bell Laboratories who helped develop the T1 digital carrier and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1988.
Frederick Terman
Frederick Emmons Terman (1900–1982) was an American electrical engineer, dean of engineering and provost at Stanford, who advised Hewlett-Packard's founders and is credited with building Silicon Valley.
Frederick W. Garry
Frederick W. Garry (1921–1993) was an American aerospace manufacturing executive who led General Electric's military engines business, then served as chairman and CEO of Rohr Industries.
Frederick W. Lanchester
Frederick W. Lanchester, also known as Frederick William Lanchester, was an English engineer who built the first British automobile in 1895 and pioneered the circulation theory of lift.
Frederick W. Sturckow
Frederick Wilford "Rick" Sturckow, born 1961, is an American engineer, retired Marine Corps colonel, and former NASA astronaut who flew four shuttle missions before joining Virgin Galactic as a pilot.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
Free and open-source software
Free and open-source software (FOSS), also called libre software or FLOSS, is software whose licenses guarantee users the rights to run, study, modify, and redistribute it.
Free Download Manager
Free Download Manager (FDM) is a free download manager and accelerator for Windows, macOS, Linux, and Android that resumes interrupted downloads and includes a built-in BitTorrent client.
Free flight (model aircraft)
Free flight is model aviation in which an aircraft, once launched, flies with no control from its owner, governed by the FAI under the F1 classes.
Free Pascal
Free Pascal, originally FPK-Pascal, is an open-source Pascal and Object Pascal compiler started by Florian Klämpfl in 1993, compatible with Turbo Pascal 7.0 and Delphi and paired with the Lazarus IDE.
Free Software Foundation
The Free Software Foundation is a tax-exempt American nonprofit founded by Richard Stallman in 1985 to fund the GNU operating system and promote computer users' freedom to run, copy, and modify software.
Free Software Foundation Europe
The Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE) is a charitable organization founded in 2001 that promotes Free Software across Europe through public awareness, policy advocacy, and legal support.