Kress may refer to:

Places

* Kress, Texas a city in north Texas *

Kress (Columbus, Georgia) Kress may refer to: Places *Kress, Texas a city in north Texas *Kress (Columbus, Georgia), a National Register of Historic Places listings in Muscogee County, Georgia, National Register of Historic Places listing in Muscogee County, Georgia * Kr ...

, a National Register of Historic Places listing in Muscogee County, Georgia *

Kress, Virginia Kress is an unincorporated community located in Brunswick County, in the U.S. state of Virginia Virginia, officially the Commonwealth of Virginia, is a state in the Mid-Atlantic and Southeastern regions of the United States, between th ...

Samuel Kress and his organizations

Samuel H. Kress Samuel Henry Kress (July 23, 1863 – September 22, 1955) was a businessman, philanthropist, and founder of the S. H. Kress & Co. variety store, five and ten cent store chain. With his fortune, Kress amassed one of the most significant collection ...

, a businessman, founder of the organizations in this section * S. H. Kress & Co., a former chain of "five and dime" stores in the United States *

Tiendas Kress S. H. Kress & Co. was the trading name of a chain of five and dime retail department stores in the United States established by Samuel Henry Kress. It operated from 1896 to 1981. In the first half of the 20th century, there were Kress stores wi ...

, the still-operating Puerto Rico subsidiary selling women's clothing *The

Samuel H. Kress Foundation Samuel Henry Kress (July 23, 1863 – September 22, 1955) was a businessman, philanthropist, and founder of the S. H. Kress & Co. five and ten cent store chain. With his fortune, Kress amassed one of the most significant collections of Italian R ...

, which holds and disposes of his large art collection

People

* Daniel H. Kress (1862–1956), Canadian physician, husband of Lauretta Kress below * Eric Kress (born 1962), Danish cinematographer * Friedrich Freiherr Kress von Kressenstein (1870–1948), German general in World War I * Lauretta E. Kress (1863–1955), Canadian-American physician, wife of Daniel Kress above *

Nancy Kress Nancy Anne Kress (born January 20, 1948) is an American science fiction writer. She began writing in 1976 but has achieved her greatest notice since the publication of her Hugo- and Nebula-winning 1991 novella ''Beggars in Spain'', which became a ...

(born 1948), American science fiction writer *

Nathan Kress Nathan Karl Kress (born November 18, 1992) is an American actor and director. Kress began his career at the age of four, notably appearing in several television commercials and providing the voices of Easy and Tough Pup in the comedy-drama film ...

(born 1992), American actor *

Stephen W. Kress Stephen or Steven is a common English first name. It is particularly significant to Christians, as it belonged to Saint Stephen ( grc-gre, Στέφανος ), an early disciple and deacon who, according to the Book of Acts, was stoned to death; h ...

, founder of

Project Puffin Project Puffin is an effort initiated by Dr. Stephen W. Kress of the National Audubon Society to learn how to restore puffins to historic nesting islands in the Gulf of Maine. It was started in 1973 when puffins were nesting in only two locations ...

Viktor Kress Viktor Melkhiorovich Kress (russian: Виктор Мельхиорович Кресс; born 16 November 1948) is a Russian politician. He is best known for serving five terms as governor of Tomsk Oblast, Russia from 1991 to 2012. Biography K ...

(born 1948), governor of Tomsk Oblast, Russia *

W. John Kress Walter John Emil Kress (born Illinois, 4 March 1951) is an American botanist and the vice-president for science at the National Museum of Natural History. He currently holds the appointment (2010) as the Director of the Consortium for Understand ...

(born 1951), American botanist * Wilhelm Kress (1836–1913), Austrian aviation pioneer

Places

Samuel Kress and his organizations

People

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