Meaning of Last Name

Meaning: 1. Frisian<br>2. MHG/mhd. vriese "workers of causeway or dam"

Origins: Frisia, Netherlands, Germany

* 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), 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