Fries (surname)
Fries is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
- Elias Magnus Fries (1794–1878), botanist
- Ellen Fries (1885-1900), writer
- Theodor Magnus Fries (1832–1913), botanist, son of Elias Fries
- Robert Elias Fries (1876–1966), botanist, son of Thore Fries, brother of Thore Christian Elias Fries
- Thore Christian Elias Fries, botanist, son of Thore Fries, brother of Robert Elias Fries
- Fritz Rudolf Fries, German writer and translator
- Gladys Fries Harriman (1896-1983), American philanthropist, equestrian and big game hunter
- Hans Fries, 1460–1520, Swiss painter
- Jakob Friedrich Fries (1773–1843), a German philosopher
- Jan Fries, occultist
- John Fries (1764–1825), American tax rebel and namesake of the Fries' Rebellion
- Karl Theophil Fries (1875–1962) German chemist discoverer of the Fries rearrangement
- Kenny Fries (1960-), American memoirist and poet
Fictional characters:
- Victor Fries, a DC Comics character, also known as Mr. Freeze
- Nora Fries, a DC Comics character, wife to Mr. Freeze
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