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    Frederick Lenz

    Male
    Teacher, Designer, Businessman

    Frederick Philip Lenz, III, Ph.D. , also known as Rama and Atmananda, was a spiritual teacher who propounded a syncretic blend of Tibetan Buddhism, Zen, Vedanta, and Mysticism which he called "American Buddhism". Lenz was also an author, software designer, businessman, and record producer.read more

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    Frederick Delius

    1862 - 1934 Male
    Composer

    Frederick Theodore Albert Delius, CH was an English composer. Born in the north of England to a prosperous mercantile family of German extraction, he resisted attempts to recruit him to commerce. He was sent to Florida in the United States in 1884 to manage an orange plantation, where he neglected his managerial duties; influenced by African-American music, he began composing.read more

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    Frederick Russell Burnham

    1861 - 1947 Male
    Father of Scouting; Military Scout; Soldier of Fortune; Oil Man; Writer; Rancher

    Frederick Russell Burnham, DSO was an American scout and world traveling adventurer known for his service to the British Army in colonial Africa and for teaching woodcraft to Robert Baden-Powell, thus becoming one of the inspirations for the founding of the international Scouting Movement. Burnham had only a little formal education, attending high school but never graduating.read more

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    Frederick Buechner

    Age 85 Male
    Poet, Novelist, Short Story Writer, Theologian

    (Carl) Frederick Buechner is an American writer and theologian. Born July 11, 1926 in New York City, he is an ordained Presbyterian minister and the author of more than thirty published books thus far. His work encompasses different genres, including fiction, autobiography, essays and sermons, and his career has spanned six decades. Buechner’s books have been translated into many languages for publication around the world.read more

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    Frederick Wedge

    1880 - 1953 Male
    Clergyman, Educator, Second

    Frederick Wedge was an American boxer who fought over 70 professional bouts as "Kid" Wedge; an ordained clergyman, who pastored churches in Nebraska, Wisconsin, and California for the Presbyterian, Baptist, and Congregational denominations; a Chautauqua lecturer; an author of several books, including The Fighting Parson of Barbary Coast; and an educator, who taught at Pasadena College, and high schools in Arizona and California, whose admission into the Graduate School of Education of Harvard University in January 1922, and his January 1929 second marriage were both a national cause célèbre in the USA.read more

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    Frederick the Great

    1712 - 1786 Male
    King of Prussia

    Frederick II was a King in Prussia and a King of Prussia (1772–1786) from the Hohenzollern dynasty. In his role as a prince-elector of the Holy Roman Empire, he was also Elector of Brandenburg. He was in personal union the sovereign prince of the Principality of Neuchâtel. He became known as Frederick the Great (Friedrich der Große) and was nicknamed Der Alte Fritz.read more

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    Frederick Douglass

    1818 - 1895 Male
    Abolitionist

    Frederick Douglass was an American social reformer, orator, writer and statesman. After escaping from slavery, he became a leader of the abolitionist movement, gaining note for his dazzling oratory and incisive antislavery writing. He stood as a living counter-example to slaveholders' arguments that slaves did not have the intellectual capacity to function as independent American citizens.read more

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    Frederick Chiluba

    1943 - 2011 Male
    President of Zambia

    Frederick Jacob Titus Chiluba was a Zambian politician who was the second President of Zambia from 1991 to 2002. Chiluba, a trade union leader, won the country's multi-party presidential election in 1991 as the candidate of the Movement for Multiparty Democracy (MMD), defeating long-time President Kenneth Kaunda. He was re-elected in 1996.read more

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    Frederick Scherger

    1904 - 1984 Male
    Raaf Senior Commander

    Air Chief Marshal Sir Frederick Rudolph William Scherger KBE, CB, DSO, AFC was a senior commander in the Royal Australian Air Force. He served as Chief of the Air Staff, the RAAF's highest-ranking position, from 1957 until 1961, and as Chairman of the Chiefs of Staff Committee, forerunner of the role of Australia's Chief of the Defence Force, from 1961 until 1966. He was the first of three RAAF officers to have held the rank of Air Chief Marshal.read more

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    Frederick Browning

    1896 - 1965 Male
    General, Army Officer, Military Person

    Lieutenant-General Sir Frederick Arthur Montague Browning GCVO, KBE, CB, DSO was a British Army officer who has been called the "father of the British airborne forces". He is best known as the commander of the I Airborne Corps and deputy commander of First Allied Airborne Army during Operation Market Garden. During the planning for this operation he memorably said: "I think we might be going a bridge too far.read more

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    Frederick E. Morgan

    1894 - 1967 Male
    Lieutenant General, Army Officer, Chief of Staff

    Lieutenant General Sir Frederick Edgeworth Morgan KCB was a British Army officer who fought in the First World War and the Second World War. He is best known as the Chief of Staff to the Supreme Allied Commander (COSSAC), the original planner of Operation Overlord. A graduate of the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, Morgan was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the Royal Field Artillery in 1913.read more

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    Frederick Townsend Ward

    1831 - 1862 Male
    Soldier, Military Person, General

    Frederick Townsend Ward was an American sailor, mercenary, and soldier of fortune famous for his military victories for Imperial China during the Taiping Rebellion.

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    Frederick Winslow Taylor

    1856 - 1915 Male
    Engineer and Management Consultant

    Frederick Winslow Taylor was an American mechanical engineer who sought to improve industrial efficiency. He is regarded as the father of scientific management and was one of the first management consultants. Taylor was one of the intellectual leaders of the Efficiency Movement and his ideas, broadly conceived, were highly influential in the Progressive Era.read more

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    Frederick S. Humphries

    Age 76 Male
    Academic Administrator, Professor, Regent

    Frederick Stephen Humphries is an American academic administrator and chemistry professor. He has been a Regent Professor at the Florida A&M University College of Law since 2003. Dr. Humphries is President Emeritus of Tennessee State University (1974 to 1985), and is President Emeritus of Florida A&M University (1985 to 2001).read more

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    Frederick Law Olmsted

    1822 - 1903 Male
    Architect, Landscape Architect

    Frederick Law Olmsted was an American journalist, social critic, public administrator, and landscape designer. He is popularly considered to be the father of American landscape architecture, although many scholars have bestowed that title upon Andrew Jackson Downing. Olmsted was famous for co-designing many well-known urban parks with his senior partner Calvert Vaux, including Central Park and Prospect Park in New York City.read more

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    Frederick M. Nicholas

    Age 92 Male
    Lawyer, Counsel

    Frederick M. Nicholas is an American lawyer specializing in real estate development and leases. He is known as "Mr. Downtown Culture" for his role in building MOCA, the Geffen Contemporary, the Walt Disney Concert Hall, and for the founding of Public Counsel, the nation's largest public interest law firm. Frederick M. Nicholas has combined his legal career with a heavy real estate involvement to become an institution builder in the arts in Los Angeles.read more

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    Frederick Sanger

    Age 93 Male
    Biochemist, Chemist, Military Person

    Frederick Sanger, OM, CH, CBE, FRS is an English biochemist and a two-time Nobel laureate in chemistry, the only person to have been so. In 1958 he was awarded a Nobel prize in chemistry "for his work on the structure of proteins, especially that of insulin". In 1980, Walter Gilbert and Sanger shared half of the chemistry prize "for their contributions concerning the determination of base sequences in nucleic acids".read more

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    Frederick J. Horne

    1880 - 1959 Male
    United States Navy Admiral and Navy Cross Recipient

    Admiral Frederick Joseph Horne was a four-star admiral in the United States Navy. As the first Vice Chief of Naval Operations, he directed all Navy logistics during World War II.

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    Frederick Selous

    1851 - 1917 Male
    Explorer, Hunter, Ally

    Frederick Courteney Selous /səˈluː/ DSO was a British explorer, officer, hunter, and conservationist, famous for his exploits in south and east of Africa. His real-life adventures inspired Sir H. Rider Haggard to create the fictional Allan Quatermain character. Selous was also a good friend of Theodore Roosevelt, Cecil Rhodes and Frederick Russell Burnham. He was the older brother of ornithologist and writer Edmund Selous.read more

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    Frederick Augustus I of Saxony

    1750 - 1827 Male
    King, Duke, Knight

    Frederick Augustus I was King of Saxony from the House of Wettin. He was also Elector Frederick Augustus III (Friedrich August III. ) of Saxony (1763–1806) and Duke Frederick Augustus I of Warsaw (1807–1813). The Augustusplatz in Leipzig is named after him.read more

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    Frederick C. Brower
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    Frederick Bailey Deeming

    1853 - 1892 Male
    Australian Murderer

    Frederick Bailey Deeming was an English-born Australian gasfitter and murderer. Deeming was born in Ashby-de-la-Zouch, Leicestershire, England, son of Thomas Deeming, brazier, and his wife Ann, née Bailey. He was a "difficult child" according to writers Maurice Gurvich and Christopher Wray. At 16 years of age he ran away to sea, and thereafter, he began a long career of crime, largely thieving and obtaining money under false pretences.read more

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    Frederick Swann

    Age 81 Male
    Organist, Musician, Composer

    Frederick L. Swann is a prominent American church and concert organist, recording artist, choral conductor, and former president of the American Guild of Organists (2002–2008). During his career spanning more than a half-century, he has performed on most of the well-known pipe organs in the world and made numerous compact disc recordings. Swann has been called "one of the country's most distinguished organists".read more

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    Frederick W. Lanchester

    1868 - 1946 Male
    Engineer, Polymath, Builder

    Frederick William Lanchester, Hon FRAeS FRS was an English polymath and engineer who made important contributions to automotive engineering, aerodynamics and co-invented the field of operations research. He was also a pioneer British motor car builder, a hobby he eventually turned into a successful car company, and is considered one of the "big three" English car engineers, the others being Harry Ricardo and Henry Royce.read more

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    Frederick Rousseau

    Age 54 Male
    Instrument, Voice, Musician

    Frederick Rousseau belongs to the generation that witnessed the beginning of New Age music and the explosion of technologic applications to the entertainment world. His musical research is based on electronic sounds that he mixes with ethnic instruments, classical orchestras and to voices of all tones, colours and provenances.read more