text: Fritz Leiber (1910–1992), American fantasy, horror and science fiction author
  Fred Fritz Peterson (born 1942), American Major League Baseball pitcher
  Fritz Felix Pipes (1887–1983), Austrian Olympic medalist tennis player
  Fritz Pollard (1894–1986), American football player and coach
  Fritz-Georg von Rappard (1892–1946), German Nazi general during World War II executed for war crimes
  Fritz Reichl (1890–1959), Austrian architect
  Fritz Reiner (1888–1963), American conductor, born in Hungary
  Fritz Ritterbusch (1894–1946), German Nazi SS concentration camp commander executed for war crimes
  Fritz Sauckel (1894–1946), German Nazi politician, executed for war crimes
  Fritz Schlieper, German Nazi general during World War II
  Fritz von Scholz, high-ranking member of the Nazi Waffen-SS
  Fritz Steuri (1879–1950), Swiss skier and mountain guide
  Fritz Strobl (born 1972), Austrian former World Cup alpine ski racer
  Fritz Suhren (1908–1950), German SS Nazi concentration camp commandant executed for war crimes
  Fritz Walter (1920–2002), German footballer
  Fritz Wepper (born 1941), German actor
  Fritz Wunderlich (1930–1966), German tenor
  Fritz Zwicky (1898–1974), Swiss astronomer
  Fritz, name given to William S. Hart's show and stunt riding horse
  Nickname, ring name or code name
  Fritz, nickname of Walter F. Mondale, former Vice President of the United States and U.S. senator from Minnesota
  Friedrich Heinrich Karl "Fritz" Haarmann (1879–1925), prolific and cannibalistic German serial killer, rapist, and fraudster