Friedrich is a German given name and the origin of the English Frederick. People with the name include: Arts Friedrich Gorenstein (1932–2002), Russian author and screenwriter Friedrich Hohe (1802–1870), German lithographer and painter Friedrich Hölderlin (1770–1843), German poet, one of the key figures in German Romanticism Friedrich Hundertwasser (1928–2000), Austrian artist and architect, better known as Friedensreich Hundertwasser Friedrich "Fritz" Lang (1890–1976), film maker Otto Friedrich Walter (1928–1994), Swiss journalist, author and publisher Friedrich von Hardenberg (1772–1801), German poet and philosopher, better known as Novalis Friedrich Schiller (1759–1805), German poet and philosopher Music Christian Friedrich Johannes Büttner (1979), German DJ, record producer and musician known as TheFatRat Georg Friedrich Händel (1685–1759), German, later British, Baroque composer Friedrich Smetana (1824–1884), Czech composer who pioneered the development of a musical style that became closely identified with his country's aspirations to independent statehood, regarded in his homeland as the father of Czech music Philosophy Friedrich Engels (1820–1895), German political philosopher, communist, social scientist, journalist and businessman, developer of what is now known as Marxist theory and The Communist Manifesto Friedrich Hayek (1899–1992), Austrian economist and political philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900), German philosopher, cultural critic, composer, poet, philologist, and Latin and Greek scholar whose work has exerted a profound influence on modern intellectual history Friedrich Schiller (1759-1805), German poet, philosopher, physician, historian and playwright Friedrich Schelling (1775-1854), German philosopher of nature, idealism, mythology, and Christianity Other fields Friedrich der Große (1712–1786), King of Prussia, Frederick the Great Friedrich Sixt von Armin, German general who participated in the Franco-Prussian War and the First World War Friedrich Wöhler (1800–1882), German chemist who synthesised urea Archduke Friedrich, Duke of Teschen (1856–1936) Archduke Friedrich of Austria (1821–1847) Friedrich Ludwig Abresch (1699–1782), German born Dutch philologist Friedrich Bergius (1884–1949), German chemist Johann Friedrich Blumenbach, German physician, naturalist, physiologist, and anthropologist, one of the first to explore the study of the human being as an aspect of natural history Friedrich Buchardt, Baltic German SS functionary who commanded Vorkommando Moskau, one of the divisions of Einsatzgruppe B, Post-war worked for MI6 (until 1947) and then, presumably, for the CIA Friedrich Wilhelm Freiherr von Bülow, German General during Napoleonic Wars Friedrich Christiansen (1879–1972), German flying ace during World War I and commander of the German Wehrmacht in the occupied Netherlands during World War II Friedrich Czapek, plant physiologist who developed Czapek medium Friedrich Dickel (1913–1993), German politician Friedrich Robert Faehlmann (1798-1850), Estonian