Froude (, ) may refer to:
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Christine Froude (born 1947), Archdeacon of Malmesbury and Acting Archdeacon of Bristol
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Derek Froude (1959– ), New Zealand athlete
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Fred Froude (1910–1978), Australian rules footballer
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Hurrell Froude (1803–1836), Anglican priest
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James Anthony Froude
James Anthony Froude ( ; 23 April 1818 – 20 October 1894) was an English historian, novelist, biographer, and editor of ''Fraser's Magazine''. From his upbringing amidst the Anglo-Catholic Oxford Movement, Froude intended to become a clergym ...
(1818–1894), British historian
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William Froude
William Froude (; 28 November 1810 – 4 May 1879) was an English engineer, hydrodynamicist and naval architect. He was the first to formulate reliable laws for the resistance that water offers to ships (such as the hull speed equation) and for ...
(1810–1879), British engineer and hydrodynamicist
See also
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Froude, Saskatchewan - a small community in Canada
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Froude number
In continuum mechanics, the Froude number (, after William Froude, ) is a dimensionless number defined as the ratio of the flow inertia to the external force field (the latter in many applications simply due to gravity). The Froude number is ba ...
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