Fries
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Fries as surname refer to:
- Fries, originally meant an ethnic minority in the Netherlands, see FrisiansFrisiansThe Frisians are a Germanic ethnic group native to the coastal parts of the Netherlands and Germany. They are concentrated in the Dutch provinces of Friesland and Groningen and, in Germany, East Frisia and North Frisia, that was a part of Denmark until 1864. They inhabit an area known as Frisia...
and FrieslandFrieslandFriesland is a province in the north of the Netherlands and part of the ancient region of Frisia.Until the end of 1996, the province bore Friesland as its official name. In 1997 this Dutch name lost its official status to the Frisian Fryslân...
- Elias Magnus FriesElias Magnus Fries-External links:*, Authors of fungal names, Mushroom, the Journal of Wild Mushrooming.*...
(1794–1878), botanist - Thore M. Fries (1832–1913), botanist, son of Elias Fries
- Robert Elias FriesRobert Elias FriesRobert Elias Fries , the youngest son of Thore M. Fries and grandson of Elias Magnus Friesand an expert on mushrooms...
(1876–1966), botanist, son of Thore Fries, brother of Thore Christian Elias Fries - Thore Christian Elias FriesThore Christian Elias FriesThore Christian Elias Fries was Professor of Systematic Botany at Lund University. He specialized in lichenology and plant geography. This botanist is denoted by the author abbreviation T.C.E.Fr. when citing a botanical name...
, botanist, son of Thore Fries, brother of Robert Elias Fries - Hans Fries (painter)Hans Fries (painter)Hans Fries was a Swiss painter before the Reformation.He was son of a baker and studied with the Bernese painter Heinrich Bichler. After a stay in Basel in the year 1487/88, he returned to his hometown...
, 1460–1520, Swiss painter - Hans Fries (politician)Hans Fries (politician)Hans Fries was a Manitoba politician and perennial candidate for the Cooperative Commonwealth Federation and New Democratic Party. In 1961, he campaigned for the leadership of the Manitoba New Democratic Party....
, Canadian politician in Manitoba 1957-1964 - Jakob Friedrich FriesJakob Friedrich FriesJakob Friedrich Fries was a German philosopher from Barby .-Life and career:...
(1773–1843), a German philosopher - Jan FriesJan FriesJan Fries is a German occultist freestyle shaman. He is a musician, artist, magician and author of several books.He lives in Frankfurt near the Taunus Mountains.-Biography:...
, occultist - John Fries (1764–1825), American tax rebel and namesake of the Fries' Rebellion
- Karl Theophil FriesKarl Theophil FriesKarl Theophil Fries was a German chemist.-Life:Karl Theophil Fries was born in Kiedrich, Germany on . After his family moved to Frankfurt he went to school there, but chose to study chemistry at the near University of Marburg in 1894.After one year in Darmstadt University of Technology to improve...
(1875–1962) German chemist discoverer of the Fries rearrangementFries rearrangementThe Fries rearrangement, named for the German chemist Karl Theophil Fries, is a rearrangement reaction of a phenyl ester to a hydroxy aryl ketone by catalysis of Lewis acids.It involves migration of an acyl group of phenyl ester to benzene ring.- Mechanism:... - Kenny FriesKenny FriesKenny Fries is an American memoirist and poet. He is the author of The History of My Shoes and the Evolution of Darwin's Theory , Body, Remember: A Memoir , and editor of Staring Back: The Disability Experience from the Inside Out...
(1960-), American memoirist and poet