Friis is a name of Danish origin, meaning
Frisian person. It may refer to any of the following people:
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Astrid Friis (1893–1966), Danish historian
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Christen Friis (1581–1639), Danish politician
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Eigil Friis-Christensen, Danish geophysicist
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Elizabeth Friis, American bioengineer
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Harald T. Friis (1893–1976), American radio engineer
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Friis formulas for noise
Friis formula or Friis's formula (sometimes Friis' formula), named after Danish-American electrical engineer Harald T. Friis, is either of two formulas used in telecommunications engineering to calculate the signal-to-noise ratio of a multistag ...
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Friis transmission equation
The Friis transmission formula is used in telecommunications engineering, equating the power at the terminals of a receive antenna as the product of power density of the incident wave and the effective aperture of the receiving antenna under i ...
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Henrik Friis Robberstad (1901–1978), Norwegian politician
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Ib Friis (born 1946), Danish botanist whose standard author abbreviation is Friis
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Jacob Friis (born 1976), Danish football player and manager
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Jakob Friis (1883–1956), Norwegian politician
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Jakob Friis-Hansen (born 1967), Danish football player
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Janus Friis
Janus Friis (; born 26 June 1976) is a Danish entrepreneur best known for co-founding the file-sharing application Kazaa, and the peer-to-peer telephony application Skype. In September 2005, he and his business partner Niklas Zennström sold Sk ...
(born 1976), Danish entrepreneur
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Johan Friis (1494–1570), Danish statesman
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Jørgen Friis, Danish bishop
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Kristian Friis Petersen (1867–1932), Norwegian politician
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Lotte Friis (1988), Danish swimmer
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Michael Pedersen Friis
Michael Pedersen Friis (22 October 1857 – 24 April 1944) was a Danish civil servant who served as Prime Minister (Denmark), Prime Minister of Denmark from 5 April 1920 to 5 May 1920.
Biography
M.P. Friis became cand.jur. from the University of ...
(1857–1944), Prime Minister of Denmark
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Nicolai Friis (1815–1888), Norwegian politician
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Peder Claussøn Friis
Peder Claussøn Friis (1 April 1545 – 15 October 1614) was a Norwegian clergyman, author and historian. He is most associated with his translation of ''Snorre Sturlessøns Norske Kongers Chronica''.
Peder Claussen Friis grew up in Audneda ...
(1545–1614), Norwegian author
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Søren Friis (born 1976), Danish football player
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Torsten Friis (1882–1967), Swedish Air Force lieutenant general
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Danish-language surnames
Surnames of Frisian origin
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