title: Fries (surname)
text: # Fries (surname)
  
  Fries (pronounced "frees") is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
  
  * Adelaide Fries (1871–1949), scholar of the history and genealogy of Moravians
  * Amalie Fries (1823–1887), stage actor
  * Amos Fries (1873–1963), American army general
  * Bengt Fredrik Fries (1799–1839), Swedish zoologist
  * Bernhard Fries (1820–1879), German painter
  * Charles Arthur Fries (1854–1940), American painter
  * Charles Carpenter Fries (1887–1967), American structural linguist and language teacher
  * David Fries (born 1960), American scientist
  * Ed Fries, American video game programmer and entrepreneur
  * Elias Magnus Fries (1794–1878), Swedish botanist
  * Ellen Fries (1855–1900), Swedish writer
  * Ernst Fries (1801–1833), German painter
  * Fabrice Fries (born 1960), French business executive
  * Francis Henry Fries (1855–1931), American textile businessman and industrialist
  * Frank W. Fries (1893–1980), American politician
  * Fritz Rudolf Fries (1935–2014), German writer and translator
  * George Fries (1799–1866), physician and politician
  * Gladys Fries Harriman (1896–1983), American philanthropist
  * Hanni Fries, Swiss orienteering competitor
  * Hans Fries (1460–1520), Swiss painter
  * Heinrich de Fries (1887–1938), German architect
  * Hjalmar Fries (1891–1973), Norwegian actor and theater director
  * Hugo Friedrich Fries (1818–1889), German judge
  * Jacob H. Fries (born 1978), American journalist
  * Jakob Friedrich Fries (1773–1843), German philosopher
  * James F. Fries (1938–2021), American rheumatologist and author
  * Johann von Fries (1719–1785), counsellor, director of the imperial silk factories, industrialist and banker
  * Johannes Fries (1505–1565), Swiss theologian
  * John Edmund Fries (1885–1955), American football player and coach
  * John Fries (1764–1825), American tax rebel and namesake of the Fries' Rebellion
  * Karl Friedrich Fries (1831–1871), painter
  * Karl Theophil Fries (1875–1962), German chemist
  * Kenny Fries (born 1960), American memoirist and poet
  * Kristina Fries (born 1962), Swedish sport shooter
  * Liv Lisa Fries (born 1990), German actress
  * Matthew Fries (born 1968), American jazz pianist, composer, and educator
  * Mike Fries (born 1963), businessman
  * Otto Fries (1887–1938), American film actor
  * Pascal Fries (born 1972), German neurophysiologist
  * Pete Fries (1857–1937), American baseball player
  * Philipp Fries (1882–1950), German politician
  * Pia Fries (born 1955), Swiss painter
  * Robert Elias Fries (1876–1966), Swedish botanist
  * Sebastian Fries (born 1993), German footballer
  * Sherwood Fries (1920–1986), American football player
  * Theodor Magnus Fries (1832–1913), Swedish botanist
  * Thore Christian Elias Fries (1886–1930), Swedish botanist
  * Tom Fries (born 1942), American politician
  * Walter Fries (1894–1982), German general
  * Will Fries (born 1998), American football player
  * William Dale Fries (1928-2022), American country singer-songwriter better known by his stage name C. W. McCall
  
  ## Characters
  
  * Victor Fries, a DC Comics character, also known as Mr. Freeze
  * Nora Fries, a DC Comics character, wife to Mr. Freeze
  