Fries (surname)

Fries (pronounced "frees") is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
 * Adelaide Fries (1871–1949), scholar of the history and genealogy of Moravians
 * Amalie Fries (1823–1887), stage actor
 * Amos Fries (1873–1963), American army general
 * Bengt Fredrik Fries (1799–1839), Swedish zoologist
 * Bernhard Fries (1820–1879), German painter
 * Charles Arthur Fries (1854–1940), American painter
 * Charles Carpenter Fries (1887–1967), American structural linguist and language teacher
 * David Fries (born 1960), American scientist
 * Ed Fries, American video game programmer and entrepreneur
 * Elias Magnus Fries (1794–1878), Swedish botanist
 * Ellen Fries (1855–1900), Swedish writer
 * Ernst Fries (1801–1833), German painter
 * Fabrice Fries (born 1960), French business executive
 * Francis Henry Fries (1855–1931), American textile businessman and industrialist
 * Frank W. Fries (1893–1980), American politician
 * Fritz Rudolf Fries (1935–2014), German writer and translator
 * George Fries (1799–1866), physician and politician
 * Gladys Fries Harriman (1896–1983), American philanthropist
 * Hanni Fries, Swiss orienteering competitor
 * Hans Fries (1460–1520), Swiss painter
 * Heinrich de Fries (1887–1938), German architect
 * Hjalmar Fries (1891–1973), Norwegian actor and theater director
 * Hugo Friedrich Fries (1818–1889), German judge
 * Jacob H. Fries (born 1978), American journalist
 * Jakob Friedrich Fries (1773–1843), German philosopher
 * James F. Fries (1938–2021), American rheumatologist and author
 * Johann von Fries (1719–1785), counsellor, director of the imperial silk factories, industrialist and banker
 * Johannes Fries (1505–1565), Swiss theologian
 * John Edmund Fries (1885–1955), American football player and coach
 * John Fries (1764–1825), American tax rebel and namesake of the Fries' Rebellion
 * Karl Friedrich Fries (1831–1871), painter
 * Karl Theophil Fries (1875–1962), German chemist
 * Kenny Fries (born 1960), American memoirist and poet
 * Kristina Fries (born 1962), Swedish sport shooter
 * Liv Lisa Fries (born 1990), German actress
 * Matthew Fries (born 1968), American jazz pianist, composer, and educator
 * Mike Fries (born 1963), businessman
 * Otto Fries (1887–1938), American film actor
 * Pascal Fries (born 1972), German neurophysiologist
 * Pete Fries (1857–1937), American baseball player
 * Philipp Fries (1882–1950), German politician
 * Pia Fries (born 1955), Swiss painter
 * Robert Elias Fries (1876–1966), Swedish botanist
 * Sebastian Fries (born 1993), German footballer
 * Sherwood Fries (1920–1986), American football player
 * Theodor Magnus Fries (1832–1913), Swedish botanist
 * Thore Christian Elias Fries (1886–1930), Swedish botanist
 * Tom Fries (born 1942), American politician
 * Walter Fries (1894–1982), German general
 * Will Fries (born 1998), American football player
 * William Dale Fries (1928-2022), American country singer-songwriter better known by his stage name C. W. McCall

Characters

 * Victor Fries, a DC Comics character, also known as Mr. Freeze
 * Nora Fries, a DC Comics character, wife to Mr. Freeze