Fries (surname)

This article is about the surname. For Belgian footballer, see Fries Deschilder. For other uses, see Fries (disambiguation).

Fries (pronounced "frees") is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

• Adelaide Fries (1871–1949), scholar of the history and genealogy of Moravians
• Amalie Fries (1823–1887), stage actor
• Amos Fries (1873–1963), American army general
• Bengt Fredrik Fries (1799–1839), Swedish zoologist
• Bernhard Fries (1820–1879), German painter
• Charles Arthur Fries (1854–1940), American painter
• Charles Carpenter Fries (1887–1967), American structural linguist and language teacher
• David Fries (born 1960), American scientist
• Ed Fries, American video game programmer and entrepreneur
• Elias Magnus Fries (1794–1878), Swedish botanist
• Ellen Fries (1855–1900), Swedish writer
• Ernst Fries (1801–1833), German painter
• Fabrice Fries (born 1960), French business executive
• Francis Henry Fries (1855–1931), American textile businessman and industrialist
• Frank W. Fries (1893–1980), American politician
• Fritz Rudolf Fries (1935–2014), German writer and translator
• George Fries (1799–1866), physician and politician
• Gladys Fries Harriman (1896–1983), American philanthropist
• Hanni Fries, Swiss orienteering competitor
• Hans Fries (1460–1520), Swiss painter
• Heinrich de Fries (1887–1938), German architect
• Hjalmar Fries (1891–1973), Norwegian actor and theater director
• Hugo Friedrich Fries (1818–1889), German judge
• Jacob H. Fries (born 1978), American journalist
• Jakob Friedrich Fries (1773–1843), German philosopher
• James F. Fries (1938–2021), American rheumatologist and author
• Johann von Fries (1719–1785), counsellor, director of the imperial silk factories, industrialist and banker
• Johannes Fries (1505–1565), Swiss theologian
• John Edmund Fries (1885–1955), American football player and coach
• John Fries (1764–1825), American tax rebel and namesake of the Fries' Rebellion
• Karl Friedrich Fries (1831–1871), painter
• Karl Theophil Fries (1875–1962), German chemist
• Kenny Fries (born 1960), American memoirist and poet
• Kristina Fries (born 1962), Swedish sport shooter
• Liv Lisa Fries (born 1990), German actress
• Matthew Fries (born 1968), American jazz pianist, composer, and educator
• Mike Fries (born 1963), businessman
• Otto Fries (1887–1938), American film actor
• Pascal Fries (born 1972), German neurophysiologist
• Pete Fries (1857–1937), American baseball player
• Philipp Fries (1882–1950), German politician
• Pia Fries (born 1955), Swiss painter
• Robert Elias Fries (1876–1966), Swedish botanist
• Sebastian Fries (born 1993), German footballer
• Sherwood Fries (1920–1986), American football player
• Theodor Magnus Fries (1832–1913), Swedish botanist
• Thore Christian Elias Fries (1886–1930), Swedish botanist
• Tom Fries (born 1942), American politician
• Walter Fries (1894–1982), German general
• Will Fries (born 1998), American football player
• William Dale Fries (1928-2022), American country singer-songwriter better known by his stage name C. W. McCall

Characters

• Victor Fries, a DC Comics character, also known as Mr. Freeze
• Nora Fries, a DC Comics character, wife to Mr. Freeze

See also

• Defries, surname
• Friess, surname