List of Famous people named Fritz
Fritz Kuhn
Fritz Kuhn is a German politician. He was co-chairman of Alliance '90/The Greens, the German Green party, from June 2000 to December 2002. On 21 October 2012 he was elected Mayor of Stuttgart.
Fritz Peterson
Fred Ingels Peterson is a former Major League Baseball (MLB) player who played for the New York Yankees, Cleveland Indians, and Texas Rangers from 1966 to 1976. Peterson was a southpaw starting pitcher who enjoyed his best success in 1970 with the Yankees when he went 20–11 and pitched in the All-Star game. He is widely known for trading families with teammate Mike Kekich in the early 1970s. He had a career record of 133–131.
Fritz Schramma
Fritz Schramma is a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU). He was mayor of Cologne from 2000 until 2009.
Fritz von Friedl
Fritz von Friedl is a German-born Austrian film and television actor. He began his career as a child actor in the early 1950s. His father was the Austrian cinematographer Fritz von Friedl, while his younger sister is the actress Loni von Friedl.
Fritz Steuri
Fritz Steuri Jr. also known as Fritz Steuri III was a Swiss ski jumper. He competed in the individual event at the 1932 Winter Olympics.
Fritz Walter
Fritz Walter is a German former professional footballer who played as a striker, and who was nicknamed "Little Fritz". Born in Mannheim, he is of no relation to German legend of the same name Fritz Walter.
Fritz Kasparek
Fritz Kasparek was an Austrian mountaineer who was on the team that made the first successful ascent of the Eiger north face.
Fritz Weitzel
Fritz Weitzel was a German SS commander during the Nazi era.
Fritz Schmenkel
Fritz Paul Schmenkel was a German communist and resistance fighter against Nazism, who fought with the Soviet partisans in German-occupied Byelorussia during World War II.
Fritz London
Fritz Wolfgang London was a German physicist and professor at Duke University. His fundamental contributions to the theories of chemical bonding and of intermolecular forces are today considered classic and are discussed in standard textbooks of physical chemistry. With his brother Heinz London, he made a significant contribution to understanding electromagnetic properties of superconductors with the London equations and was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Chemistry on five separate occasions.