Fries (family name)
Fries is a family name .
Name bearer
A.
- Albin Fries (* 1955), Austrian pianist and composer
- Alfred Fries-Skene (1870–1947), Austrian administrative officer
- Andreas Fries (1811–1890), Wertheimer chronicler
- Anne Fries (1907–1973), German politician
- Anton Fries (1763–1834), German painter and sculptor
- August von Fries ( Fries von Friesenberg ; 1841–1918), Austrian politician
- August Fries (1842–1919), German machine manufacturer and councilor
B.
- Bengt Fries (1799–1839), Swedish zoologist
- Bernhard Fries (1820–1879), German painter
C.
- Carl Fries (1895–1982), Swedish zoologist and writer
- Charles Carpenter Fries (1887–1967), American English and linguist
- Christian Fries (1895 – unknown), German criminal police officer and resistance fighter
- Christian Fries (actor) (* 1959), German actor, director, musician and author
- Christian Adam Fries (1766–1847), German banker, manufacturer and art collector
- Christof Fries (1787 / 1788–1857), German singer (bass), actor and set designer
D.
- David Fries (1818–1875), Swiss Protestant clergyman and politician
- Dirk Fries (* 1979), German baseball player
E.
- Ed Fries (* 1964), American manager, consultant and developer
- Edgar Fries (* 1937), German diplomat
- Elias Magnus Fries (1794-1878), Swedish mycologist
- Ellen Fries (1855–1900), Swedish historian and women's rights activist
- Emilia Rosa de Fries (* 1986), German actress
- Engelbert Fries (1861–1946), German ball bearing manufacturer
- Ernst Fries (1801–1833), German painter
- Ernst Fries (chemist) (1856–1911), German chemist, entrepreneur and painter
- Ernst Fries (sculptor) (* 1934), German sculptor, has lived in Australia since 1959
- Ewerdt Fries (1619–1672), German-Danish-Swedish woodcarver, see Ewerdt Friis (alternative spelling)
F.
- Frank W. Fries (1893–1980), American politician
- Fred Fries (* 1938), German swimmer
- Friedrich Fries (publisher) (1856–1926), German evangelist and publisher
- Friedrich Fries (art historian) (1865–1954), German art historian
- Fritz Fries (politician) (1887–1967), German politician (SPD), MdL Prussia
- Fritz Rudolf Fries (1935–2014), German writer and translator
G
- George Fries (1799–1866), American politician
- Gerd Fries (* 1942), first German Taekwondo champion
- Günther Fries (1913–1934), German aerobatic pilot
H
- Hanny Fries (1918–2009), Swiss painter
- Hans Fries (painter) (around 1460 – around 1523), Swiss painter
- Hans Fries (chronicler) (around 1460–1518), Swiss chronicler and politician
- Hans Fries von Mergentheim (approx. 1465–1523), student of Riemenschneider, German painter
- Hans Fries (sculptor, around 1490) (around 1490–1533), student of Riemenschneider, German sculptor
- Hans Fries (sculptor, 1872) (1872–1955), German sculptor
- Hans Fries (architect) (1920–2003), Swedish architect
- Hans-Rudolf Fries ( Ruedi Fries ; * 1955), Swiss agricultural scientist and university professor
- Heinrich de Fries (1887–1938), German architecture critic
- Heinrich Fries (1911–1998), German theologian
- Heinrich Remigius Fries (1812–1875), entrepreneur and politician of the Free City of Frankfurt
- Helma Fries (* 1945), German actress and author
- Hermann Fries-Schwenzen (1857 / 1858–1927), Norwegian-German landowner, painter and writer
- Hugo Friedrich Fries (1818–1889) German lawyer and politician, MdR
J
- Jakob Friedrich Fries (1773–1843), German philosopher
- Jakob Fries (1913–1974), German SS leader in concentration camps and war criminal
- Jan Fries (occultist) , German occultist and author
- Jan Fries (Council of State) (* 1981), German economist and politician (Alliance 90 / The Greens)
- Jana Esther Fries (* 1969), German archaeologist
- Johann von Fries (1719–1785), Swiss banker
- Johann Fries (architect) ( John M. Fries ; 1817–1880), American architect of German origin
- Johann Fries (entrepreneur) (before 1866–1931), German manufacturer and company founder
- Johann Simon Fries (1777–1835), German entrepreneur
- Johannes Fries (1505–1565), Swiss theologian, educator and lexicographer
- Jutta Maria Fries (* before 1975), German singer
K
- Karl Fries (youth functionary) (1861–1943), Swedish youth functionary and author
- Karl Fries (philologist) (1867 – after 1934), German philologist, high school teacher and writer
- Karl Friedrich Fries (1831–1871), German painter
- Karl Theophil Fries (1875–1962), German chemist
- Katharina de Fries (* 1934), German left activist of the student movement and author
L.
- Leonhard Friedrich Fries ( Leonhard Friedrich Waldemar Fries ; 1881– ??), graphic artist
- Liv Lisa Fries (* 1990), German actress
- Lorenz Fries (1489–1550), German chronicler and historian
- Lorenz Fries (medic) (1490–1531 / 1532), German physician, astrologer and geographer
M.
- Margarete Fries (1911–2012), Austrian actress
- Martha Fries (* 2000), German actress
- Matthew Fries (* 1968), American jazz musician and university professor
- Moritz von Fries (1777–1826), Austrian banker, art patron and collector
- Moritz von Fries (diplomat) (1804–1887), Austrian diplomat
N
- Nils Fries (1912–1994), Swedish botanist
O
- Otto Fries (1849–1905), German forester and politician, MdR
P
- Pankraz Frieze (before 1738 – around 1782), German sculptor
- Pascal Fries (* 1972), German physician
- Patrik Constantin Fries (1826–1905), Swedish officer and author
- Paul Fries (1864 – after 1904), German Catholic priest, writer and playwright
- Peter Fries (1820–1851), German politician and revolutionary
- Philipp Fries (1882–1950), German politician (SPD, USPD, KPD)
- Pia Fries (* 1955), Swiss painter
R.
- Reinhard Fries (* 1950), German veterinarian
- Richard von Fries (1863–1931), Austrian military
- Richard Fries (* 1960/1961), American cyclist, journalist, editor and official
- Robert Elias Fries (1876–1966), Swedish botanist
- Rudolf von Fries (1853–1932), German lieutenant general
- Rudolf Fries (physician) (1929–2017), Austrian oral surgeon
- Rudolf Fries (Investor) (* 1958), Austrian investor
- Ruedi Fries (* 1955), Swiss agricultural scientist and university professor, see Hans-Rudolf Fries
S.
- Samuel Fries (1867–1914), Swedish Protestant theologian
- Sebastian Fries (* 1993), German soccer player
- Sigurd Fries (1924–2013), Swedish linguist
T
- Theodor Magnus Fries (1832–1913), Swedish botanist
- Thore Christian Elias Fries (1886–1930), Swedish botanist
U
- Uli Fries (* 1988), German soccer player
- Ulla Fries (* 1946), Swedish painter and graphic artist
W.
- Walter Fries (art historian) (1890–1934), German art historian
- Walter Fries (General) (1894–1982), German officer
- Wilhelm Fries (1845–1928), German philologist and educator
- Willi Fries (musician) (* 1931), German musician and composer
- Willi Fries (actor) , German actor
- William Fries Jr. (* 1928), American musician - see CW McCall
- Willy Fries (painter, 1881) (1881–1965), Swiss painter and art teacher
- Willy Fries (painter, 1907) (1907–1980), Swiss painter and author
- Wolfgang Fries (* 1975), German ice hockey player