Frédéric
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Frédéric and Frédérick are the French
versions of the common male given name
Frederick
. They may refer to:
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French language
French is a Romance language spoken as a first language in France, the Romandy region in Switzerland, Wallonia and Brussels in Belgium, Monaco, the regions of Quebec and Acadia in Canada, and by various communities elsewhere. Second-language speakers of French are distributed throughout many parts...
versions of the common male given name
Given name
A given name, in Western contexts often referred to as a first name, is a personal name that specifies and differentiates between members of a group of individuals, especially in a family, all of whose members usually share the same family name...
Frederick
Frederick
-Royalty:Austria* Frederick I, Duke of Austria , Duke of Austria from 1195–1198* Frederick II, Duke of Austria , last Duke of Austria from the Babenberg dynasty...
. They may refer to:
In artistry:
- Frédéric BackFrédéric BackFrédéric Back, OC, CQ is a Canadian artist and film director of short animated films.-Biography:Born in Saarbrücken, The Territory of the Saar Basin, he emigrated to Canada in 1948...
, Canadian award-winning animator - Frédéric BartholdiFrédéric BartholdiFrédéric Auguste Bartholdi was a French sculptor who is best known for designing the Statue of Liberty.-Life and career:...
, French sculptor - Frédéric BazilleFrédéric BazilleJean Frédéric Bazille was a French Impressionist painter. Many of Bazille's major works are examples of figure painting in which Bazille placed the subject figure within a landscape painted en plein air....
, Impressionist painter best known for his depiction of figures
In politics:
- Frédéric BamvuginyumviraFrédéric BamvuginyumviraFrédéric Bamvuginyumvira was 1st Vice-President of Burundi from 11 June 1998 to 1 November 2001. He is a member of the Hutu ethnic group....
, 1st Vice-President of Burundi - Frédéric NgenzebuhoroFrédéric NgenzebuhoroFrédéric Ngenzebuhoro was Vice-President of Burundi from 11 November 2004 to late August 2005. He is an ethnic Tutsi and a member of the Union for National Progress party. Prior to that appointment, Ngenzebuhoro had served in a number of ministerial capacities under prior President Pierre...
, Vice-President of Burundi from 11 November 2004 to 26 August 2005 - Frédéric BastiatFrédéric BastiatClaude Frédéric Bastiat was a French classical liberal theorist, political economist, and member of the French assembly. He was notable for developing the important economic concept of opportunity cost.-Biography:...
, political economist and member of the French assembly
In literature:
- Frédéric BeigbederFrédéric BeigbederFrédéric Beigbeder is a French writer and literary critic. He won the Prix Interallié in 2003 for his novel Windows on the World and the Prix Renaudot in 2009 for his book Un roman français...
, French writer, commentator critic and pundit - Frédéric BeratFrédéric BératFrédéric Bérat was a French composer and songwriter. He is the writer of Ma Normandie which is used as the National Anthem of Jersey, and sometimes as the unofficial Norman anthem.-External links:...
, French poet and songwriter - Frédéric MistralFrédéric MistralFrédéric Mistral was a French writer and lexicographer of the Occitan language. Mistral won the Nobel Prize in literature in 1904 and was a founding member of Félibrige and a member of l'Académie de Marseille...
, French poet
In science:
- Frédéric CailliaudFrédéric CailliaudFrédéric Cailliaud was a French naturalist, mineralogist and conchologist. He was born, and died, in Nantes.He travelled in Egypt, Nubia, and Ethiopia, collecting minerals and making observations...
, French mineralogist - Frédéric Joliot-CurieFrédéric Joliot-CurieJean Frédéric Joliot-Curie , born Jean Frédéric Joliot, was a French physicist and Nobel laureate.-Early years:...
, French physicist and Nobel laureate
In sport:
- Frédérick BousquetFrédérick BousquetFrédérick Bousquet is a freestyle and butterfly swimmer from France. He was the holder of the world record in the 50 m freestyle in a time of 20.94 in long course, set on April 26, 2009 at the final of the French Championships...
, French swimmer - Frédéric DelcourtFrédéric DelcourtFrédéric Delcourt is a former French international swimmer who was an Olympic silver medalist.Delcourt was born in Nord, France....
, French swimmer - Frédéric DemontfauconFrédéric DemontfauconFrédéric Demontfaucon is a judoka from France.-Achievements:- Video :* -References:* on JudoInside.com*...
, French judoka - Frédéric HavasFrédéric HavasFrédéric Havas is a retired volleyball player from France, who earned a total number of 138 caps for the Men's National Team.-International Competitions:*1999 – World League *1999 – European Championship...
, French volleyball player - Frédéric HerpoelFrédéric HerpoelFrédéric Herpoel is a Belgian former football goalkeeper. At the age of 7 he began to play for S.C. Havré and then moved to Anderlecht in 1988 where he played in the youth team. Between 1993 and 1997, Herpoel only played 4 Jupiler League games for the Brussels side...
, Belgian football goalkeeper - Frédéric KanoutéFrédéric KanoutéFrédéric Oumar Kanouté is a French-born Malian footballer who currently plays for Sevilla FC in the Spanish La Liga. On 2 February 2008, Kanouté was named the 2007 African Footballer of the Year and is the first foreign-born player to win it.-Lyon:Born in Sainte-Foy-lès-Lyon, Rhône, Kanouté's...
, French-Malian footballer - Frédéric KuhnFrédéric KuhnFrédéric Kuhn is a retired male hammer thrower from France, who competed at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain. He set his personal best on May 30, 1992 at a meet in Angers....
, French hammer thrower - Frédérick Michalak, French rugby union footballer who plays for his hometown team, Stade Toulousain
- Frédéric PiquionneFrédéric PiquionneFrédéric Piquionne is a French football player who plays as a forward for West Ham United. His former clubs are Golden Star of Martinique, Nîmes Olympique, Rennes, AS Saint-Etienne, AS Monaco, Lyon and Portsmouth...
, French football player who plays in the forward position - Frédéric SerratFrédéric SerratFrédéric Serrat is a professional boxer from France. Serrat's most notable performance as an amateur was winning the silver medal at the 1997 World Amateur Boxing Championships in Budapest, Hungary. There he was defeated in the final by Russia's Aleksandr Lebziak in the light heavyweight division...
, French boxer
In music:
- Frédéric ChopinFrédéric ChopinFrédéric François Chopin was a Polish composer and virtuoso pianist. He is considered one of the great masters of Romantic music and has been called "the poet of the piano"....
, Polish composer - Frédéric LeclercqFrédéric LeclercqFrédéric Leclercq is the bassist and backing vocalist for power metal band DragonForce and the guitarist/vocalist in his own band, Maladaptive. He is a session musician for various other bands, including George Lynch's Souls of We...
, the bassist for extreme power metal band DragonForce
In other fields:
- Frédéric DumasFrédéric DumasFrédéric Dumas was part of a team of three, with Jacques-Yves Cousteau and Philippe Tailliez, in which he was nicknamed Didi. They had a passion for diving, and developed the diving regulator with the aid of the engineer Émile Gagnan...
, one of the first two diving companions of Jacques-Yves Cousteau - Frédérick LemaîtreFrédérick LemaîtreFrédérick Lemaître — birth name Antoine Louis Prosper Lemaître — was a French actor and playwright, one of the most famous players on the celebrated Boulevard du Crime.-Biography:...
(born Antoine Louis Prosper Lemaître), FrenchFrench peopleThe French are a nation that share a common French culture and speak the French language as a mother tongue. Historically, the French population are descended from peoples of Celtic, Latin and Germanic origin, and are today a mixture of several ethnic groups...
actorActorAn actor is a person who acts in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio in that capacity...
and playwrightPlaywrightA playwright, also called a dramatist, is a person who writes plays.The term is not a variant spelling of "playwrite", but something quite distinct: the word wright is an archaic English term for a craftsman or builder... - Frédéric LepiedFrédéric LepiedFrédéric Lepied is a French computer engineer, and was the CTO of Mandriva until January 2006.Lepied is a graduate of the ESIEE engineering school in France....
, French computer engineer - Frédéric MonodFrédéric MonodFrédéric Monod was a French Protestant pastor.The brother of Adolphe Monod, he was greatly influenced by Robert Haldane. Along with Count Gasparin, Monod founded the Union of the Evangelical Churches of France; his son, Théodore, followed in his footsteps.Naturalist and explorer Théodore André...
, French Protestant pastor - Frédéric OzanamFrédéric OzanamAntoine-Frédéric Ozanam was a French scholar. He founded with fellow students the Conference of Charity, later known as the Society of Saint Vincent de Paul...
, French scholar - Frédéric PassyFrédéric PassyFrédéric Passy was a French economist and a joint winner of the first Nobel Peace Prize awarded in 1901.- Biography :...
, French economist - Frédérick RaynalFrédérick RaynalFrédérick Raynal is a French video game designer and programmer, notable for his game developments in Infogrames, Adeline Software International and No Cliché. He is married to Yaël Barroz, a fellow game designer, with whom he has two children....
, French videogame designer and programmer - Frédéric RossifFrédéric RossifFrédéric Rossif was a French film and television director who specialized primarily on documentaries, frequently using archive footage. Rossif's common themes included wildlife, 20th century history and contemporary artists...
, French film and television director
See also:
- FedericoFederico-People with the given name Federico:In business:* Federico Moctezuma, founder of Damazco Builders and Land Development CorpIn the arts:* Federico Ágreda, Venezuelan composer and DJ....
- FredFredFred may refer to:People:*Fred , pen name of French comics creator Fred Othon Aristidès*Fred Tuttle , American farmer from Vermont who ran for the U.S...
- Freddie (disambiguation)
- Freddo
- FreddyFreddyFreddy or Freddie may refer to:*Freddy Auratus, a fiction golden hamster from The Golden Hamster Saga, written by Dietlof Reiche and translated from the German by John Brownjohn.*Freddie Mac, government sponsored enterprise of the U.S...
- Frederic (given name)Frederic (given name)Frederic is a given name, and may refer to:In politics:* Frederic C. Walcott, United States Senator from Connecticut* Frederic M. Sackett, United States Senator from Kentucky and ambassador to Germany...
- FrederickFrederick-Royalty:Austria* Frederick I, Duke of Austria , Duke of Austria from 1195–1198* Frederick II, Duke of Austria , last Duke of Austria from the Babenberg dynasty...
- FredericoFredericoFrederico is a given name, and may refer to:In literature:* Frederico Barbosa, Brazilian poet* Frederico Ghisliero, Italian fencer and soldier who wrote his text Regole di molte cavagliereschi essercitiiIn sports:...
- FredrikFredrikFredrik is derived from the Germanic name Friedrich or Friederich, from the Old High German fridu meaning "peace" and rîhhi meaning "ruler" or "power". The name means "peaceful ruler" The most common variant spelling of this name is Frederik, although the English spelling Frederick is more common...
- FredroFredroFredro is a surname or given name, and may refer to:* Aleksander Fredro, Polish poet, playwright, and writer* Andrzej Maksymilian Fredro, Polish szlachcic* Fredro Starr, rapperSee also:* Fryderyk...
- FriedrichFriedrich-Names:*Friedrich , people with the surname Friedrich*Friedrich , people with the given name Friedrich-Other:*Friedrich , a board game about Frederick the Great and the Seven Years' War...
- Fryderyk (disambiguation)Fryderyk (disambiguation)Fryderyk is a given name, and may refer to:* Fryderyk Chopin , a Polish piano composer* Fryderyk Getkant , a military engineer, artilleryman and cartographer of German origin...