List of Famous people named Friedrich

Friedrich Karl Theodor Zarncke, German philologist, was born in Zahrensdorf, Mecklenburg-Schwerin, the son of a country pastor.

Johann Jacob Friedrich Wilhelm Parrot was a Baltic German naturalist, explorer, and mountaineer, who lived and worked in Dorpat in what was then the Governorate of Livonia of the Russian Empire. A pioneer of Russian and Estonian scientific mountaineering, he is best known for leading the first expedition to the summit of Mount Ararat in recorded history.

Friedrich Gerhard Rohlfs was a German geographer, explorer, author and adventurer.

Friedrich Christian Diez was a German philologist. The two works on which his fame rests are the Grammar of the Romance Languages, and the Etymological Dictionary of the Romance Languages. He spent most of his career at University of Bonn.

Friedrich Wilhelm Ritschl was a German scholar best known for his studies of Plautus.

Friedrich Theodor Vischer was a German novelist, poet, playwright, and writer on the philosophy of art. Today, he is mainly remembered as the author of the novel Auch Einer, in which he developed the concept of Die Tücke des Objekts, a comic theory that inanimate objects conspire against humans.

Friedrich Ernst Dorn was a German physicist who was the first to discover that a radioactive substance, later named radon, is emitted from radium.

Dr. Friedrich Wegener was a German pathologist who is notable for his description of a rare disease originally referred to Wegener disease and now referred to as granulomatosis with polyangiitis. Although this disease was known before Wegener's description, from the 1950s onwards it was generally referred to as Wegener's granulomatosis.

Friedrich Wilhelm Foerster (1869–1966) was a German academic, educationist, pacifist and philosopher, known for his public opposition to Nazism. His works primarily dealt with the development of ethics through education, sexology, politics and international law.

Friedrich Daniel von Recklinghausen was a German pathologist born in Gütersloh, Westphalia. He was the father of physiologist Heinrich von Recklinghausen (1867–1942).