Friedrich or Friedrichs is a
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surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Friedrich
* Johannes Friedrich, Bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Bavaria
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Ariane Friedrich
Ariane Friedrich (born Tempel; 10 January 1984 in Nordhausen) is a German high jumper. She won the silver medal at the 2009 World Championships and represented Germany at the 2008 Summer Olympics and 2012 Summer Olympics. She is the German ...
, German high jumper
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Arne Friedrich
Arne Friedrich (born 29 May 1979) is a German football executive and former player who played as a defender. He formerly was the sporting director of Hertha BSC.
He played 82 times for the Germany national team.
Friedrich was a very versati ...
, German football player
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Bruce Friedrich
Bruce Gregory Friedrich (born August 7, 1969) is co-founder and president of The Good Food Institute (GFI), a Y Combinator funded non-profit that promotes plant- and cell-based alternatives to animal products. He is also a co-founder of the a ...
, United States campaigner for the ethical treatment of animals
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Christian Friedrich (baseball)
Christian Louis Patrick Friedrich (born July 8, 1987) is an American professional baseball pitcher who is a free agent. He made his Major League Baseball (MLB) debut with the Colorado Rockies in 2012 and also played with the San Diego Padres. Fri ...
, American baseball player
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Johann Friedrich, German theologian
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John Friedrich (fraudster)
Johann Friedrich Hohenberger OAM (7 September 195027 July 1991), also known as John Friedrich, was executive director of the National Safety Council of Australia (Victorian Division) during the 1980s. He was the subject of Victoria's biggest ...
, Australian conman
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Jörg Friedrich, independent historian and writer
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Jörg Friedrich, German rower
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Karl-Heinz Friedrich (born 1934), German artistic gymnast
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Manuel Friedrich
Manuel Friedrich (born 13 September 1979) is a German former professional footballer who played as a central defender.
A Mainz 05 youth product, he amassed Bundesliga totals of 258 games and 16 goals over the course of 12 seasons, represent ...
, German football player
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Wolf Matthias Friedrich, German classical singer
Politics
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Carl Joachim Friedrich
Carl Joachim Friedrich (; ; June 5, 1901 – September 19, 1984) was a German-American professor and political theorist. He taught alternately at Harvard and Heidelberg until his retirement in 1971. His writings on state and constitutional theor ...
, political scientist
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Dwight Friedrich
Dwight Paul Friedrich (July 3, 1913 – August 24, 1993) was an American politician and businessman.
Biography
Dwight Paul Friedrich was born in Marion County, Illinois on June 3, 1913. He was a graduate of Salem High School in Salem, Illinois ...
(1913-1993), American politician and businessman
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Hans-Peter Friedrich
Hans-Peter Friedrich (born 10 March 1957) is a German politician of the Christian Social Union (CSU) who has been serving as a member of the German Bundestag since 1998. Under the leadership of Chancellor Angela Merkel, he served as Federal M ...
, German MP
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Ingo Friedrich
Ingo Friedrich (born 24 January 1942 in Kutno-Wartheland) is a former German (Bavarian) Member of the European Parliament. He was elected on the CSU ticket and sits with the EPP-ED Group. Friedrich holds a University degree in Economics. He was a ...
, German MEP
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István Friedrich
István Friedrich (anglicised as Stephen Frederick; 1 July 1883 – 25 November 1951) was a Hungarian politician, footballer and factory owner who served as prime minister of Hungary for three months between August and November in 1919. His te ...
, Hungarian politician
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Rudolf Friedrich
Rudolf Friedrich (4 July 1923 – 15 October 2013) was a Swiss politician, lawyer and member of the Swiss Federal Council (1982–1984). He was elected to the Swiss Federal Council on 8 December 1982 and, for health reason, resigned his of ...
(1923–2013), Swiss politician and lawyer
Artistry
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Caspar David Friedrich
Caspar David Friedrich (5 September 1774 – 7 May 1840) was a 19th-century German Romantic landscape painter, generally considered the most important German artist of his generation. He is best known for his mid-period allegorical landscape ...
, German Romantic painter
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Gary Friedrich
Gary Friedrich (; August 21, 1943 – August 29, 2018) was an American comic book writer best known for his Silver Age stories for Marvel Comics' '' Sgt. Fury and his Howling Commandos'', and, in the following era, for the series '' The Monster o ...
, United States comic book writer
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Mike Friedrich
Mike Friedrich (; born March 27, 1949) is an American comic book writer and publisher best known for his work at Marvel and DC Comics, and for publishing the anthology series '' Star*Reach'', one of the first independent comics. He is also an a ...
, United States comic book writer
Friedrichs
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Fritz Friedrichs (18491918), operatic baritone
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Fritz Walter Paul Friedrichs
Fritz Walter Paul Friedrichs (28. July 1885, Stützerbach – 1958) (also published as Fritz Friedrichs) was a German chemist.
Fritz, was a son of Ferdinand and Olga Friedrichs, born Reinhardt. He is the inventor of the spiral cold finger-type c ...
(18821958), also published under the name Fritz Friedrichs, German chemist, and inventor of the
Friedrichs condenser
In chemistry, a condenser is laboratory apparatus used to condense vaporsthat is, turn them into liquidsby cooling them down.
Condensers are routinely used in laboratory operations such as distillation, reflux, and extraction. In distillat ...
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Hanns Joachim Friedrichs
Hanns Joachim "Hajo" Friedrichs (15 March 1927 – 28 March 1995) was a German journalist.
Life
Friedrichs was born in Hamm. From 1971 to 1981, he was a sports journalist for the German magazine ''Sportstudio''. 1985 Friedrichs went from ZDF ...
(19271995), German journalist
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Kurt Otto Friedrichs
Kurt Otto Friedrichs (September 28, 1901 – December 31, 1982) was a noted German-American mathematician. He was the co-founder of the Courant Institute at New York University, and a recipient of the National Medal of Science.
Biography
Friedri ...
(19011983), American mathematician
* Rebecca Friedrichs, lead plaintiff in ''
Friedrichs v. California Teachers Association'', a 2016 U.S. Supreme Court case
See also
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Fredericks (surname) Fredericks is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Sports
*Clayton Fredericks (born 1967), Australian equestrian athlete and Olympic medalist (married to Lisa Fredericks)
*Cornel Fredericks (born 1990), South African hurdler
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Frederick (given name)
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Friedreich
Nikolaus Friedreich (1 July 1825 in Würzburg – 6 July 1882 in Heidelberg) was a German pathologist and neurologist, and a third generation physician in the Friedreich family. His father was psychiatrist Johann Baptist Friedreich (1796–1862), ...
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Friz
The surname Friz derives from ''Fritz'', diminutive of the German name ''Friederich'' (Frederick), originating from the Old Germanic ''Frithurik'', composed of the prefix ''frithu'' ("peace", "friendship": Friede, in German) and the suffix ''riki ...
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Friedrichs v. California Teachers Ass'n Friedrichs may refer to:
Names
* Bob Friedrichs, American baseball pitcher
* Carl Joseph Friedrichs, German printer, author and gold prospector
* Friedrich Friedrichs, German World War I fighter ace
* Fritz Walter Paul Friedrichs, German chemist ...
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