Kress may refer to:

Places

Kress, Texas Kress is a city in Swisher County, Texas, United States. The population was 715 at the 2010 census. Geography Kress is located at (34.365010, –101.748129). According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 0.6 ...

a city in north Texas * Kress (Columbus, Georgia), a National Register of Historic Places listing in Muscogee County, Georgia * Kress, Virginia

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, 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

Eric Kress Eric Kress (born 25 March 1962) is a Danish cinematographer. Biography Kress was born in Zürich on 25 March 1962 to a French father and a Danish mother. He studied cinematography at the National Film School of Denmark in Copenhagen from 1987 ...

(born 1962), Danish cinematographer *

Friedrich Freiherr Kress von Kressenstein Friedrich Siegmund Georg Freiherr Kress von Kressenstein (also ; 24 April 1870 – 16 October 1948) was a German general from Nuremberg. He was a member of the group of German officers who assisted in the direction of the Ottoman Army duri ...

(1870–1948), German general in World War I *

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, 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 locatio ...

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 (born 1951), American botanist *

Wilhelm Kress Wilhelm Kress (29 July 1836 in Saint Petersburg – 24 February 1913 in Vienna) Born of German (Bavarian) parents in St. Petersburg in 1836. Moved to Vienna in 1873, where his self-propelled flying models attracted much attention. He became a na ...

(1836–1913), Austrian aviation pioneer

Places

Samuel Kress and his organizations

People

See also