Fries (surname)
# 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
