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Friedman, Friedmann, and Freedman are common surname
Surname
A surname is a name added to a given name and is part of a personal name. In many cases a surname is a family name; the family-name meaning first appeared in 1375. Many dictionaries define "surname" as a synonym of "family name". It is also known as a "last name". In some cultures, the surname may...

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They may refer to:
  • Arnold Friedman
    Arnold Friedman
    Arnold Friedman was an American Modernist painter.He was born in Corona, Queens, worked for the Federal Art Project and studied at the Art Students League of New York under the tutelage of Robert Henri and Kenneth Hayes Miller. In 1909, he took a six-month leave of absence from his job to study...

     (1874 – 1946), an American painter
  • Drew Friedman
    Drew Friedman
    Drew Friedman is an American cartoonist and illustrator who first gained renown for his humorous artwork and "stippling"-like style of caricature, employing thousands of pen-marks to simulate the look of a photograph. In the mid-1990s he switched to painting...

    , cartoonist
  • Harold Freedman
    Harold Freedman
    Harold Freedman was an artist from Victoria, Australia renowned for his work in public murals.- Notable works and achievements :* Australian War Memorial...

    , artist public murals
  • Ken Friedman
    Ken Friedman
    Ken Friedman, is a seminal figure in Fluxus, an international laboratory for experimental art, architecture, design, literature, and music. He was a famous drama presenter and created a lot of performances then he went on to do television presenting.He had his first solo exhibition in New York in...

    , seminal figure in Fluxus
  • Tom Friedman (artist)
    Tom Friedman (artist)
    Tom Friedman American conceptual sculptor known for his work employing everyday material, such as toothpicks or sugar cubes in intricate geometric arrangements. Friedman was born in St. Louis, Missouri and attended Washington University in St. Louis, receiving his Bachelor of Fine Arts in graphic...

    , American sculptor

  • Eugene Freedman
    Eugene Freedman
    Eugene Freedman was an entrepreneur and philanthropist. He is widely known as the founder of the Enesco Corporation, the worldwide distributor or Precious Moments porcelain figurines between 1997 and 2005.Born in Philadelphia, Freedman grew up in Milwaukee, Wisconsin...

    , entrepreneur and philanthropist
  • George Friedman
    George Friedman
    George Friedman is an American political scientist and author. He is the founder, chief intelligence officer, financial overseer, and CEO of the private intelligence corporation Stratfor...

    , the founder of Stratfor
  • Joseph Friedman
    Joseph Friedman
    Joseph B. Friedman was an independent American inventor with a broad range of interests and ideas...

    , inventor
  • Nat Friedman
    Nat Friedman
    Nathaniel Dourif Friedman , known as Nat, is a programmer who co-founded Ximian along with Miguel de Icaza in 1999, a company that was later bought by Novell in 2003....

    , programmer

  • Benjamin M. Friedman
    Benjamin M. Friedman
    Benjamin Morton Friedman, a leading American political economist, is the William Joseph Maier Professor of Political Economy at Harvard University. Friedman is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the Brookings Institute's Panel on Economic Activity, and the editorial board of the...

    , leading American political economist
  • Daniel Friedman
    Daniel Friedman
    Daniel Friedman may refer to:*Daniel Fridman, Latvian-German chess grandmaster*Daniel P. Friedman, American computer science professor*Daniel Friedmann , Israeli Minister of Justice...

    , Economics professor at UCSC and director of LEEPS (Learning and Experimental Economics Projects) of Santa Cruz
  • Emanuel Friedman
    Emanuel Friedman
    Emanuel J. Friedman co-founded Arlington, Virginia-based investment banking firm Friedman, Billings, Ramsey in 1989 with Eric F. Billings and W. Russell Ramsey. He stepped down as co-chief executive officer and co-chairman in June 2005. Before starting FBR, Friedman was a senior vice president at...

    , banker
  • Milton Friedman
    Milton Friedman
    Milton Friedman was an American economist, statistician and public intellectual, and a recipient of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics...

    , Nobel Prize-winning economist
    • Friedman rule
      Friedman rule
      The Friedman rule is a monetary policy rule proposed by Milton Friedman. Essentially, Friedman advocated setting the nominal interest rate at zero. According to the logic of the Friedman rule, the opportunity cost of holding money faced by private agents should equal the social cost of creating...

      , Milton Friedman's policy regarding cash-in-advance models of monetary systems
    • Friedman's k-percent rule
      Friedman's k-percent rule
      Friedman's k-percent rule is the monetarist proposal that the money supply should be increased by the central bank by a constant percentage rate every year, irrespective of business cycles.-Definition:...

      , Milton Friedman's policy regarding optimal money supply growth
    • Friedman test
      Friedman test
      The Friedman test is a non-parametric statistical test developed by the U.S. economist Milton Friedman. Similar to the parametric repeated measures ANOVA, it is used to detect differences in treatments across multiple test attempts. The procedure involves ranking each row together, then...

      , non-parametric statistical test developed by the U.S.
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Friedman, Friedmann, and Freedman are common surname
Surname
A surname is a name added to a given name and is part of a personal name. In many cases a surname is a family name; the family-name meaning first appeared in 1375. Many dictionaries define "surname" as a synonym of "family name". It is also known as a "last name". In some cultures, the surname may...

s.
They may refer to:

Art

  • Arnold Friedman
    Arnold Friedman
    Arnold Friedman was an American Modernist painter.He was born in Corona, Queens, worked for the Federal Art Project and studied at the Art Students League of New York under the tutelage of Robert Henri and Kenneth Hayes Miller. In 1909, he took a six-month leave of absence from his job to study...

     (1874 – 1946), an American painter
  • Drew Friedman
    Drew Friedman
    Drew Friedman is an American cartoonist and illustrator who first gained renown for his humorous artwork and "stippling"-like style of caricature, employing thousands of pen-marks to simulate the look of a photograph. In the mid-1990s he switched to painting...

    , cartoonist
  • Harold Freedman
    Harold Freedman
    Harold Freedman was an artist from Victoria, Australia renowned for his work in public murals.- Notable works and achievements :* Australian War Memorial...

    , artist public murals
  • Ken Friedman
    Ken Friedman
    Ken Friedman, is a seminal figure in Fluxus, an international laboratory for experimental art, architecture, design, literature, and music. He was a famous drama presenter and created a lot of performances then he went on to do television presenting.He had his first solo exhibition in New York in...

    , seminal figure in Fluxus
  • Tom Friedman (artist)
    Tom Friedman (artist)
    Tom Friedman American conceptual sculptor known for his work employing everyday material, such as toothpicks or sugar cubes in intricate geometric arrangements. Friedman was born in St. Louis, Missouri and attended Washington University in St. Louis, receiving his Bachelor of Fine Arts in graphic...

    , American sculptor

Business

  • Eugene Freedman
    Eugene Freedman
    Eugene Freedman was an entrepreneur and philanthropist. He is widely known as the founder of the Enesco Corporation, the worldwide distributor or Precious Moments porcelain figurines between 1997 and 2005.Born in Philadelphia, Freedman grew up in Milwaukee, Wisconsin...

    , entrepreneur and philanthropist
  • George Friedman
    George Friedman
    George Friedman is an American political scientist and author. He is the founder, chief intelligence officer, financial overseer, and CEO of the private intelligence corporation Stratfor...

    , the founder of Stratfor
  • Joseph Friedman
    Joseph Friedman
    Joseph B. Friedman was an independent American inventor with a broad range of interests and ideas...

    , inventor
  • Nat Friedman
    Nat Friedman
    Nathaniel Dourif Friedman , known as Nat, is a programmer who co-founded Ximian along with Miguel de Icaza in 1999, a company that was later bought by Novell in 2003....

    , programmer

Economics

  • Benjamin M. Friedman
    Benjamin M. Friedman
    Benjamin Morton Friedman, a leading American political economist, is the William Joseph Maier Professor of Political Economy at Harvard University. Friedman is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the Brookings Institute's Panel on Economic Activity, and the editorial board of the...

    , leading American political economist
  • Daniel Friedman
    Daniel Friedman
    Daniel Friedman may refer to:*Daniel Fridman, Latvian-German chess grandmaster*Daniel P. Friedman, American computer science professor*Daniel Friedmann , Israeli Minister of Justice...

    , Economics professor at UCSC and director of LEEPS (Learning and Experimental Economics Projects) of Santa Cruz
  • Emanuel Friedman
    Emanuel Friedman
    Emanuel J. Friedman co-founded Arlington, Virginia-based investment banking firm Friedman, Billings, Ramsey in 1989 with Eric F. Billings and W. Russell Ramsey. He stepped down as co-chief executive officer and co-chairman in June 2005. Before starting FBR, Friedman was a senior vice president at...

    , banker
  • Milton Friedman
    Milton Friedman
    Milton Friedman was an American economist, statistician and public intellectual, and a recipient of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics...

    , Nobel Prize-winning economist
    • Friedman rule
      Friedman rule
      The Friedman rule is a monetary policy rule proposed by Milton Friedman. Essentially, Friedman advocated setting the nominal interest rate at zero. According to the logic of the Friedman rule, the opportunity cost of holding money faced by private agents should equal the social cost of creating...

      , Milton Friedman's policy regarding cash-in-advance models of monetary systems
    • Friedman's k-percent rule
      Friedman's k-percent rule
      Friedman's k-percent rule is the monetarist proposal that the money supply should be increased by the central bank by a constant percentage rate every year, irrespective of business cycles.-Definition:...

      , Milton Friedman's policy regarding optimal money supply growth
    • Friedman test
      Friedman test
      The Friedman test is a non-parametric statistical test developed by the U.S. economist Milton Friedman. Similar to the parametric repeated measures ANOVA, it is used to detect differences in treatments across multiple test attempts. The procedure involves ranking each row together, then...

      , non-parametric statistical test developed by the U.S. economist Milton Friedman
  • Rose Friedman
    Rose Friedman
    Rose Director Friedman , also known as Rose D. Friedman and Rose Director, was the wife of Milton Friedman , the winner of the 1976 Nobel Prize in Economics, and sister of Aaron Director , a professor at the University of Chicago Law School...

    , political author and the wife of Milton Friedman
  • Stephen Friedman (PFIAB)
    Stephen Friedman (PFIAB)
    Stephen Friedman is the current Chairman of the United States President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board. He was nominated on October 27, 2005 to replace Brent Scowcroft in the position.-Life and career:...

    , chairman of the U.S. President Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board
  • Bernát Friedmann
    Bernát Friedmann
    Bernhard Friedmann, or Friedmann Bernát was a Hungarian Jewish jurist and criminal lawyer.He studied law at the "Rechtsakademie" there and at the University of Budapest...

    , Hungarian jurist and criminal lawyer
  • Bernie Friedman
    Bernie Friedman
    Bernie Friedman is an attorney in Hollywood, Florida, and a major political figure in South Florida, often called the "sixth commissioner" of Hollywood. Formerly president of the College Democrats of America, he worked for Rep...

    , attorney in Hollywood, Florida
  • Daniel Friedmann
    Daniel Friedmann
    Daniel Friedmann was the Minister of Justice of Israel from 2007 to 2009. A professor of law, he was appointed by PM Ehud Olmert. He was sworn in on February 7, 2007, succeeding Tzipi Livni. In 2009 he was succeeded by Ya'akov Ne'eman....

    , Israeli Minister of Justice
  • David D. Friedman
    David D. Friedman
    David Director Friedman is an American writer who became a leading figure in the anarcho-capitalist community with the publication of his book The Machinery of Freedom...

    , libertarian writer
  • Martin Freedman
    Martin Freedman
    Martin H. Freedman, Q.C., was appointed a judge of the Manitoba Court of Appeal on July 17, 2002. He replaced Madam Justice Bonnie M. Helper, who resigned....

    , Manitoba lawyer
  • Michel Friedman
    Michel Friedman
    Michel Friedman is a German lawyer, former CDU politician and talk show host. He withdrew from public office and was disbarred after found guilty of possession of cocaine and allegations of fostering illegal prostitution...

    , German former lawyer
  • Samuel Freedman
    Samuel Freedman
    Samuel Freedman, OC, LL.B, LL.D, QC , was a lawyer, judge, and Chief Justice of the Province of Manitoba .-Early life:...

    , lawyer, judge, and Chief Justice of the Province of Manitoba
  • Stephen J. Friedman
    Stephen J. Friedman
    Stephen J. Friedman, former commissioner of the United States Securities and Exchange Commission, is the current president of Pace University. Prior to that, Friedman has served as dean of the Pace Law School, and senior partner and co-chairman of Debevoise & Plimpton.Friedman earned an AB from...

    , dean of Pace University School of Law
  • Morris Friedman
    Morris Friedman
    Morris Friedman was, until 1905,Anthony Lukas, Big Trouble, 1997, page 687. the private stenographer for Pinkerton detective James McParland. Friedman came to the attention of the public when he published an exposé of anti-union actions by the private detective industry which was called...

    , private stenographer

Education

  • Gerald J. and Dorothy R. Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy
    Gerald J. and Dorothy R. Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy
    The Gerald J. and Dorothy R. Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy at Tufts University brings together biomedical, clinical, social, and behavioral scientists to conduct research, educational, and community service programs in the field of human nutrition...

    , school
  • James O. Freedman
    James O. Freedman
    James Oliver Freedman was a career academic administrator. A graduate of Harvard College and Yale Law School, he would briefly serve as Dean of the University of Pennsylvania Law School; as the sixteenth president of the University of Iowa from 1982 to 1987; and as the fifteenth president of...

    , the fifteenth president of Dartmouth College
  • Richard A. Friedman
    Richard A. Friedman
    Richard Alan Friedman, M.D. is Director of Psychopharmacology at the Payne Whitney Psychiatric Clinic and the Weill Cornell Medical College, where he is a professor of psychiatry. He is an expert in the pharmacologic treatment of mood disorders, including depression and bipolar disorder...

    , Director of Psychopharmacology
  • Samuel O. Freedman
    Samuel O. Freedman
    Samuel Orkin Freedman, OC, CQ, FRSC is a Canadian clinical immunologist, professor and academic administrator. In 1965, he co-discovered with Phil Gold the carcinoembryonic antigen, the basis of a blood test used in the diagnosis and management of people with colorectal cancer.Born in Montreal,...

    , clinical immunologist, professor
  • Stephen J. Friedman
    Stephen J. Friedman
    Stephen J. Friedman, former commissioner of the United States Securities and Exchange Commission, is the current president of Pace University. Prior to that, Friedman has served as dean of the Pace Law School, and senior partner and co-chairman of Debevoise & Plimpton.Friedman earned an AB from...

    , dean of Pace University School of Law

Literature and Journalism

  • Bruce Jay Friedman
    Bruce Jay Friedman
    Bruce Jay Friedman is an American novelist, screenwriter, and playwright.Raised in the Bronx by Irving and Mollie Friedman, Bruce Jay Friedman graduated from DeWitt Clinton High School. He then attended the University of Missouri as a journalism major, then served as a First Lieutenant in the...

    , novelist, screenwriter and playwright
  • Celia S. Friedman
    Celia S. Friedman
    Celia S. Friedman is a writer of science fiction and fantasy.Friedman writes epic science fiction and fantasy novels which feature complex interweavings of plot and richly detailed settings. To date she has published eight novels, several short stories, and a sourcebook for White Wolf's Vampire:...

    , science fiction novelist
  • David Freedman
    David Freedman
    David Freedman was a Romanian-born American playwright and biographer who became known as the "King of the Gag-writers" in the early days of radio.-Personal life:...

    , playwright and biographer
  • David Friedman
    Dafydd ab Hugh
    Dafydd ab Hugh is a U.S. science fiction author. In the 1980s he served in the United States Navy training to be a Radar Intercept Officer, hoping to be selected to become an astronaut....

    , writer
  • Elizebeth Friedman
    Elizebeth Friedman
    The following article is adapted from the Hall of Honor from the National Cryptologic Museum :Elizebeth Smith Friedman was cryptanalyst and author, and a pioneer in U.S. cryptography...

    , cryptanalyst and author
  • Esther Pauline Friedman, advice columnist also known as Ann Landers
  • Frieda Friedman
    Frieda Friedman
    Frieda Friedman was an author of children's literature who, from the late 1940s to the early 1960s, published several short, illustrated novels primarily intended for preteen and adolescent girls...

    , author
  • David Gerrold
    David Gerrold
    David Gerrold, born Jerrold David Friedman on 24 January 1944, in Chicago, Illinois, is an American science fiction author who started his career in 1966 while a college student by submitting an unsolicited story outline for the television series Star Trek. He was invited to submit several...

    , science fiction author, also known as Jerrold David Friedman
  • Michael Jan Friedman
    Michael Jan Friedman
    Michael Jan Friedman is an author of nearly sixty books of fiction and nonfiction, more than half of which are in the Star Trek universe. Ten of his titles have appeared on the New York Times Best Seller list...

    , author
  • Rita Friedman, creator of The Letter People
  • Samuel G. Freedman
    Samuel G. Freedman
    Samuel G. Freedman is an American author and journalist and currently a professor at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. He has authored six nonfiction books, including most recently Who She Was, a book about his mother's life as a teenager and young woman, and Letters to a Young...

    , journalist
  • Thomas L. Friedman, columnist

Mathematics

  • Alexander Friedman, mathematician and cosmologist
  • Freedman-Diaconis rule
    Freedman-Diaconis rule
    In statistics, the Freedman-Diaconis rule can be used to select the size of the bins to be used in a histogram. The general equation for the rule is:where is the interquartile range of the data is the number of observations in the sample -Sturges' rule:...

    , rule used to specify the number of bins to be used in a histogram
  • Friedman number
    Friedman number
    A Friedman number is an integer which, in a given base, is the result of an expression using all its own digits in combination with any of the four basic arithmetic operators and sometimes exponentiation. For example, 347 is a Friedman number since 347 = 73 + 4...

    , integer which, in a given base, is the result of an expression using all its own digits
  • Daniel P. Friedman
    Daniel P. Friedman
    Daniel P. Friedman is a professor of Computer Science at Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana. His research focuses on programming languages, and he is a prominent author in the field....

    , computer scientist and mathematician specializing in functional languages at Indiana University.
  • Harvey Friedman
    Harvey Friedman
    Harvey Friedman is a mathematical logician at Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio. He is noted especially for his work on reverse mathematics, a project intended to derive the axioms of mathematics from the theorems considered to be necessary...

    , mathematical logician at The Ohio State University
  • Michael Freedman
    Michael Freedman
    Michael Hartley Freedman is a mathematician at Microsoft Station Q. In 1986, he was awarded a Fields Medal for his work on the Poincaré conjecture. Freedman and Robion Kirby showed that an exotic R4 manifold exists.Freedman was born into a Jewish family in Los Angeles...

    , mathematician at Microsoft Research
  • Sy Friedman
    Sy Friedman
    Sy-David Friedman is an American and Austrian mathematician and a professor of mathematics at the University of Vienna and the director of the Kurt Gödel Research Center for Mathematical Logic...

    , logician at the University of Vienna
  • William F. Friedman
    William F. Friedman
    William Frederick Friedman was a US Army cryptographer . He ran the research division of the Army's Signals Intelligence Service in the 1930s, and parts of its follow-on services into the 1950s...

    , cryptologist

Music


  • Avraham Fried
    Avraham Fried
    Avraham Shabshi Hacohen Friedman is a popular musical entertainer in the Orthodox Jewish community, although he is known by his stage name, Avraham Fried....

    , Jewish composer and musical entertainer, also known as Avraham Friedman
  • Dean Friedman
    Dean Friedman
    Dean Friedman is an American singer-songwriter who plays piano, keyboard, guitar and other instruments, including the harmonica.-Music:...

    , singer-songwriter
  • Debbie Friedman
    Debbie Friedman
    Deborah Lyn "Debbie" Friedman is an American composer and singer of songs with Jewish religious content. She was born in Utica, New York but moved with her family to Minnesota at age 5....

    , musician
  • Gary William Friedman
    Gary William Friedman
    Gary William Friedman is an American musician and composer.His music spans the worlds of theater, television, jazz, classical and film. He is the composer of the Obie-Award winning, Tony-nominated musical The Me Nobody Knows...

    , composer
  • Harry Freedman
    Harry Freedman
    Harry Freedman was a Canadian composer, musician and educator. In 1984, he was made an Officer of the Order of Canada.-External links:** *...

    , Canadian composer, musician and educator
  • Ignaz Friedman
    Ignaz Friedman
    Ignaz Friedman Ignaz Friedman Ignaz Friedman (also spelled by languages Ignace or Ignacy; exactly Solomon (Salomon) Isaac Freudman(n), (February 13, 1882January 26, 1948) was a Polish pianist and composer. Critics (e.g. Harold C. Schonberg) and colleagues (e.g...

    , Polish-Austrian pianist, composer, also known as Ignacy Friedman
  • Kinky Friedman
    Kinky Friedman
    Richard S. "Kinky" Friedman is an American singer, songwriter, novelist, humorist, politician and former columnist for Texas Monthly who styles himself in the mold of popular American satirists Will Rogers and Mark Twain. He was one of two independent candidates in the 2006 election for the office...

    , singer and candidate for the Texas gubernatorial election, 2006
  • Marc Friedman
    Marc Friedman
    Marc Friedman is an electric bassist/multi-instrumentalist and composer. Marc tours internationally and has recorded seven full-length albums with Boston based avante-rock power trio The Slip. Marc is a co-arranger/producer/writer of the band's material along with the other two members, Brad and...

    , electric bassist/multi-instrumentalist and composer
  • Marty Friedman (guitarist)
    Marty Friedman (guitarist)
    Marty Friedman is an American guitarist. He is most widely recognized for his tenure as lead/rhythm guitarist for thrash metal band Megadeth for close to ten years...

    , guitarist
  • Ross the Boss Friedman, guitarist
  • Tim Freedman
    Tim Freedman
    Tim Freedman is the lead singer and pianist of the Australian band The Whitlams. He was born in Sydney and was raised in Collaroy, in Sydney's Northern Beaches region, and was educated at the prestigious Shore School in North Sydney...

    , the vocalist and pianist
  • Matthew Friedman
    Matthew Friedman
    Matthew Friedman is a musician, singer and performer from New York, New York. In January of 2006, he became the Piano Man in the First National Touring Company of Billy Joel and Twyla Tharp's acclaimed musical, Movin' Out, a role which he performed until the tour's end in January of 2007...

    , musician, singer and performer
  • Don Friedman
    Don Friedman
    Don Friedman is a jazz pianist who was born on May 4 1935 in San Francisco.His parents loved classical music and they owned a piano. Don started playing piano at age four and took lessons from age five from a private teacher named Katherine Swint. Though he had no exposure to jazz at this time,...

    , jazz pianist

Photography

  • Glen E. Friedman
    Glen E. Friedman
    Glen E. Friedman is an American photographer and artist.Coming to prominence in the 1980s with his photography of skateboarders and musicians, Friedman is considered one of the most important photographers of his generation...

    , photographer
  • Robert Capa
    Robert Capa
    Robert Capa , born Endre Ernő Friedmann , was a 20th century combat photographer and photojournalist who covered five different wars: the Spanish Civil War, the Second Sino-Japanese War, World War II across Europe, the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, and the First Indochina War...

    , 20th century war photographer, also known as Endré Ernő Friedmann

Religion

  • Yisroel Friedman, Hasidic rebbe of Ruzhin
  • David Noel Freedman
    David Noel Freedman
    David Noel Freedman , son of Romanian and Russian immigrants, was a biblical scholar, author, editor, archaeologist and an ordained Presbyterian minister...

    , biblical scholar
  • Denes Friedmann
    Denes Friedmann
    Denes Friedmann was an Hungarian writer and Chief Rabbi in Újpest , Hungary.He was co-editor of Magyar Zsido Szemle....

    , Hungarian writer and Chief Rabbi in Újpest
  • Meïr ben Jeremiah Friedmann, Hungarian-Austrian scholar, Jewish theologian
  • Richard Elliott Friedman
    Richard Elliott Friedman
    Richard Elliott Friedman is a biblical scholar and the Ann and Jay Davis Professor of Jewish Studies at the University of Georgia. He joined the faculty of the UGA Religion Department in 2006. Prior to his appointment there, he was the Katzin Professor of Jewish Civilization: Hebrew Bible; Near...

    , scholar of biblical criticism
  • Israel Friedmann
    Israel Friedmann
    Rabbi Yisroel Friedman of Ruzhyn was a Hasidic rebbe. Known as der heyliger rizhiner , "the holy one from Ruzhin", he was the progenitor of several Hasidic dynasties known collectively by the name Ruzhin....

    , founder of the Ruzhiner dynasty
  • Manis Friedman
    Manis Friedman
    Rabbi Manis Friedman is a Chabad Lubavitch Hassid. He is a Torah scholar, author, counselor and speaker and is the dean of the Bais Chana Institute of Jewish Studies....

    , biblical scholar, author, counselor and speaker

Science

  • Friedmann-Lemaître-Robertson-Walker, exact solution of the Einstein field equations of general relativity
  • Friedmann equations
    Friedmann equations
    The Friedmann equations are a set of equations in cosmology that govern the expansion of space in homogeneous and isotropic models of the universe within the context of general relativity...

    , equations relating various cosmological parameters
  • Daniel P. Friedman
    Daniel P. Friedman
    Daniel P. Friedman is a professor of Computer Science at Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana. His research focuses on programming languages, and he is a prominent author in the field....

    , computer scientist
  • Herbert Friedman
    Herbert Friedman
    Herbert Friedman was an American pioneer in the application of sounding rockets to solar physics, aeronomy, and astronomy. He was also a statesman and public advocate for science...

    , rocket science, solar physics, aeronomy, and astronomy
  • Egon Friedell
    Egon Friedell
    Egon Friedell born Egon Friedmann 21 January 1878 in Vienna, died 16 March 1938 in Vienna, was a prominent Austrian philosopher, historian, journalist, actor, cabaret performer and theatre critic.-Early life:...

    , Austrian philosopher, also known as Egon Friedmann
  • Georges Friedmann
    Georges Friedmann
    Georges Philippe Friedmann , French Sociologist.Georges Friedmann was the founder of a human work sociology after World War II. In 1921, after studying industrial chemistry, he entered a teacher training college on the rue d'Ulm, in Paris, France. During the war, he was an intellectual Marxist...

     (1902-1977), French sociologist
  • Hermann Friedmann
    Hermann Friedmann
    Adolph Hermann Friedmann was a Polish-German philosopher and jurist.-Literary works:* Die Welt der Formen * Wissenschaft und Symbol...

  • Irving Friedman
    Irving Friedman
    Irving Friedman was a U.S. Geological Survey scientist and a pioneer in geochemistry. Born in New York City, New York, he obtained a B.S. degree in chemistry from Montana State University, a M.S. degree in chemistry from Washington State University, and a Ph.D...

    , geochemist
  • Jerome Isaac Friedman
    Jerome Isaac Friedman
    Jerome Isaac Friedman is an American physicist. He was born in Chicago, Illinois to parents who emigrated to the US from Russia, and excelled particularly in art while growing up...

    , Nobel Prize physicist
  • Stanton T. Friedman
    Stanton T. Friedman
    Stanton Terry Friedman is a professional Ufologist, currently residing in Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada. He is the original civilian investigator of the Roswell incident. He originally studied physics at the University of Chicago and worked as a nuclear physicist on Research and Development...

    , physicist and ufologist
  • Meyer Friedman
    Meyer Friedman
    Dr. Meyer Friedman developed with colleague R.H. Rosenman the theory that the "Type A" behavior of chronically angry and impatient people raises their risk of heart attacks. The cardiologist and researcher worked until his death at 90 as director of a medical institute that bears his name...

    , medical scientist

Social Work

  • Freedman's Aid Society
    Freedman's Aid Society
    The Freedmen's Aid Society was founded in 1861 by the American Missionary Association to further education in the South by providing housing and teachers....

    , organization
  • Freedman's Bureau, federal agency that was formed during the American Civil War

Sports

  • Henryk Friedman
    Henryk Friedman
    Henryk Friedman was a Polish chess master.He lived in Lvov . In 1926–1934, Friedman won seven times in succession the Championship of Lvov but 1930, when he took 2nd place behind Stepan Popel. Friedman played in four Polish championships. In 1926, he took 14th in Warsaw . The event was won by...

    , Polish chess master
  • Benny Friedman
    Benny Friedman
    Benjamin "Benny" Friedman was an American football quarterback who played for the University of Michigan , Cleveland Bulldogs , Detroit Wolverines , New York Giants , and Brooklyn Dodgers . He is generally considered the first great passer in professional football...

    , American football quarterback
  • Dougie Freedman
    Dougie Freedman
    Douglas "Dougie" Freedman is a Scottish footballer who plays as a striker for League One side Southend United. He is most famous for playing for Crystal Palace, for whom he has totalled ten years of service over two spells....

    , Scottish professional association footballer
  • Lee Freedman
    Lee Freedman
    David Lee Freedman is a prominent Australian racehorse trainer. In partnership with brothers Anthony, Michael, and Richard, he has been a prolific winner of Australia's major races in past 20 years, with four Golden Slippers, four Caulfield Cups, two Cox Plates, and five Melbourne Cups,...

    , prominent Australian racehorse trainer
  • Lennie Friedman
    Lennie Friedman
    Leonard Lebrecht Friedman is an American football offensive lineman who is currently a Free Agent in the National Football League. He was drafted by the Denver Broncos in the second round of the 1999 NFL Draft...

    , American football player for the Cleveland Browns of the NFL
  • Marty Friedman (basketball)
    Marty Friedman (basketball)
    Max "Marty" Friedman was a pro basketball player and coach.He played almost 20 years of pro basketball , while being mostly known for playing with the New York Whirlwinds....

    , pro basketball player and coach
  • Prahlad Friedman
    Prahlad Friedman
    Prahlad S. Friedman is an American professional poker player from Los Angeles, California.Friedman won a World Series of Poker bracelet in 2003 in the $1,500 pot limit hold'em event earning him $109,400. Later, at the WSOP circuit event at Harrah's Rincon in 2005, he won the second place prize of...

    , professional poker player

Television and Film

  • Budd Friedman
    Budd Friedman
    Budd Friedman is best known as the founder and original proprietor and MC of the Improvisation Comedy Club, which opened in 1963 on West 44th Street in Manhattan...

    , actor and producer
  • Capturing the Friedmans
    Capturing the Friedmans
    Capturing the Friedmans is a documentary film directed by Andrew Jarecki. It focuses on the 1980s investigation of Arnold and Jesse Friedman for child molestation. It was nominated for the Academy Award for Documentary Feature in 2003...

    , documentary film directed by Andrew Jarecki
  • David F. Friedman
    David F. Friedman
    David F. Friedman is an American filmmaker and film producer from Birmingham, Alabama.Friedman first became interested in entertainment after spending parts of his childhood at traveling carnival sites. He met exploitation film pioneer Kroger Babb during his stay in the Army. This encounter got...

    , American filmmaker and producer
  • Josh Friedman
    Josh Friedman
    Josh Friedman is an American screenwriter best known as screenwriter of Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles and as the writer of the 2005 film adaptation of H.G. Wells' War of the Worlds...

    , American screenwriter
  • Maria Friedman
    Maria Friedman
    Maria Friedman is an English actress of television and musical theatre.-Early years:Friedman was born to Leonard and Clair Friedman in the Bernese Oberland in Switzerland. Her mother is an English concert pianist, and her father, a Russian violinist for the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra...

    , musical theatre actress
  • Sidney Freedman, psychiatrist in the television series M*A*S*H

Other

  • Battle-Friedman House
    Battle-Friedman House
    The Battle Friedman House is an antebellum town home located in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. The house was built in 1835 by Alfred Battle and his wife, Millicent Battle. The house's grounds include the only remaining documented antebellum garden in the state, the house itself is noted for its vernacular...

    , an antebellum town home located Alabama
  • Friedman Memorial Airport
    Friedman Memorial Airport
    Friedman Memorial Airport is a city-owned public-use airport located one nautical mile southeast of the central business district of Hailey, a city in Blaine County, Idaho, United States. The airport is operated by the Friedman Memorial Airport Authority under a Joint Powers Agreement between the...

    , public airport located in the town of Hailey in Blaine County, Idaho
  • Friedrich Franz Friedmann
    Friedrich Franz Friedmann
    Friedrich Franz Friedmann was a tuberculosis researcher in Berlin who came to New York City to give what he called the "turtle vaccine" to people who came to his clinic in 1913. He claimed to have developed a strain capable of providing immunity, by passing the strain through turtles.-Biography:He...

    , tuberculosis charlatan
  • Jeffrey Friedman
    Jeffrey Friedman
    Jeffrey Friedman is a political scientist and the editor of Critical Review: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Politics and Society.Friedman graduated from Brown University in 1983 with a double major in History and Philosophy, and received an MA in History at the University of California, Berkeley,...

    , political scientist
  • Sylvan Friedman
    Sylvan Friedman
    Sylvan N. Friedman was a Louisiana politician. Friedman was a rare Jewish member of both houses of the Louisiana State Legislature, having served from Natchitoches Parish in the House of Representatives from 1944-1952 and then in the State Senate from 1952 until his retirement in 1972.-Early years...

    , Louisiana
    Louisiana
    The State of Louisiana is a state located in the southern region of the United States of America. Its capital is Baton Rouge and largest city is New Orleans. Louisiana is the only state divided into parishes, which are local governments equivalent to counties...

     politician
    Politician
    A politician or political leader is an individual who is involved in influencing public decision making. This includes people who hold decision-making positions in government, and people who seek those positions, whether by means of election, coup d'état, appointment, electoral fraud, conquest,...

  • Tuviah Friedman
    Tuviah Friedman
    Tuviah Friedman is a retired Nazi hunter and director of the Institute for the Documentation of Nazi War Crimes in Haifa, Israel.Friedman was born in Poland January 23 1922. During World War II he was imprisoned in a Nazi concentration camp near Radom, from which he escaped in 1944. In 1945 he was...

    , director of the Institute for the Documentation of Nazi War Crimes in Haifa
  • Yohanan Friedmann
    Yohanan Friedmann
    -Biography:He is Max Schloessinger Professor Emeritus of Islamic Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and, since 1999, a member of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities...

    , an Israeli scholar of Islamic studies.

See also

  • Freedman
    Freedman
    A freedman is a former slave who has been released from slavery, usually by legal means. Historically, slaves became freedmen either by manumission or emancipation, ....

    , a former slave
  • Fried
    Fried
    -People:* Bullcrap Fried, a Rabbi and popular and great entertainer in the Orthodox Jewish community* Charles Fried, a prominent conservative American jurist and lawyer* Daisy Fried American poet...

  • Friedman (unit)
    Friedman (unit)
    The Friedman, or Friedman Unit , is a tongue-in-cheek neologism coined by blogger Atrios on May 21, 2006.A Friedman is a unit of time equal to six months in the future....

    , a tongue-in-cheek neologism named after columnist Thomas L. Friedman
  • Fridman
    Fridman
    Fridman is a surname and may refer to:* Gal Fridman, Israeli windsurfer and an Olympic gold medalist* Mikhail Fridman, Russian businessman* Victor Fridman, Russian composer and jazz musician...