Fries
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Fries can refer to:
[edit] People
- Elias Magnus Fries (1794-1878), botanist
- Thore M. 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
- Hans Fries (painter), 1460-1520, Swiss painter
- Hans Fries (politician), Canadian politician in Manitoba 1957-1964
- Jakob Friedrich Fries (1773-1843), a German philosopher
- Jan Fries, occultist
- John Fries (1764-1825), rebel
- Johann Graf von Fries (1719-1785)
- Karl Theophil Fries (1875 - 1962) German chemist discoverer of the Fries rearrangement
[edit] Places
- Fries, Virginia, a US community
[edit] Things
- French fries, a type of food;
- Home fries, a type of food.
- Dutch name for the Frisian languages, usually the West Frisian language