Friedrich is a German male given name and the origin of the English Frederick. People with the name include:
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Arts
Friedrich Silaban (1912–1984), Indonesian architect.
Friedrich Goldscheider (1845–1897), Bohemia-born Austrian entrepreneur, and a manufacturer of ceramics and bronze
Friedrich Gorenstein (1932–2002), Russian author and screenwriter
Friedrich Hohe (1802–1870), German lithographer and painter
Friedrich Hölderlin (1770–1843), German poet, one of the key figures in German Romanticism
Friedrich Hundertwasser (1928–2000), Austrian artist and architect, better known as Friedensreich Hundertwasser
Friedrich Joloff (1908–1988), German actor
Friedrich "Fritz" Lang (1890–1976), film maker
Otto Friedrich Walter (1928–1994), Swiss journalist, author and publisher
Friedrich von Hardenberg (1772–1801), German poet and philosopher, better known as Novalis
Friedrich Schiller (1759–1805), German poet and philosopher
Music
Christian Friedrich Johannes Büttner (1979), German DJ, record producer and musician known as TheFatRat
Friedrich von Flotow (1812–1883), German composer
Friedrich Gulda (1930–2000), Austrian pianist and composer
Georg Friedrich Händel (1685–1759), German, later British, Baroque composer
Friedrich Kautz, (born 1979), "Prinz Pi", German rapper
Friedrich Seitz (1848–1918), German romantic era composer
Friedrich Smetana (1824–1884), Czech composer who pioneered the development of a musical style that became closely identified with his country's aspirations to independent statehood, regarded in his homeland as the father of Czech music
Philosophy
Friedrich Engels (1820–1895), German political philosopher, communist, social scientist, journalist and businessman, developer of what is now known as Marxist theory and The Communist Manifesto
Friedrich Hayek (1899–1992), Austrian economist and political philosopher
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900), German philosopher, cultural critic, composer, poet, philologist, and Latin and Greek scholar whose work has exerted a profound influence on modern intellectual history
Friedrich Schiller (1759-1805), German poet, philosopher, physician, historian and playwright
Friedrich Schelling (1775-1854), German philosopher of nature, idealism, mythology, and Christianity
Other fields
Friedrich von Utrecht (c. 780–834/838), saint, bishop of Utrecht
Friedrich der Große (1712–1786), King of Prussia, Frederick the Great
Friedrich Sixt von Armin, German general who participated in the Franco-Prussian War and the First World War
Archduke Friedrich, Duke of Teschen (1856–1936)
Archduke Friedrich of Austria (1821–1847)
Friedrich Ludwig Abresch (1699–1782), German born Dutch philologist
Friedrich Baumbach (1935–2025), German chess grandmaster
Friedrich Bergius (1884–1949), German chemist
Johann Friedrich Blumenbach, German physician, naturalist, physiologist, and anthropologist, one of the first to explore the study of the human being as an aspect of natural history
Friedrich Buchardt, Baltic German SS functionary who commanded Vorkommando Moskau, one of the divisions of Einsatzgruppe B, Post-war worked for MI6 (until 1947) and then, presumably, for the CIA
Friedrich Wilhelm Freiherr von Bülow, German General during Napoleonic Wars
Friedrich Christiansen (1879–1972), German flying ace during World War I and commander of the German Wehrmacht in the occupied Netherlands during World War II
Friedrich Czapek, plant physiologist who developed Czapek medium
Friedrich Dickel (1913–1993), German politician