Famous People with Name Fritz

Fritz William Weaver            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Fritz William Weaver: is a American Tony Award-winning actor and voice actor.Weaver was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, the son of Elsa W. (née Stringaro) and John Carson Weaver. His mother was of Italian descent. Weaver attended Peabody High School. He served in Civilian Public Service as a conscientious objector during World War II, breaking into acting in the early 1950s. His first television role came in 1956 on an episode of The United States Steel Hour. He would continue to appear on television during the next four decades, appearing on such shows as The Twilight Zone (in episodes "Third from the Sun" and "The Obsolete Man"), Beyond This Place, Dr. Kildare, The Man from U.N.C.L.E., Rawhide, Mission: Impossible, Combat!, Gunsmoke, Mannix, Kung Fu, Hawaii Five-O, Magnum P.I., Murder, She Wrote, Matlock, Law & Order, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (in the episode "Tribunal"), The X-Files, and Frasier.

Fritz Zwicky            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Fritz Zwicky: was an American-based Swiss astronomer of Bulgarian origin. He was an original thinker, with many important contributions in theoretical and observational astronomy.He received an advanced education in mathematics and experimental physics at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, located in Zürich, Switzerland and in 1925 emigrated to the United States to work with Robert Millikan at California Institute of Technology (Caltech). He was responsible for positing numerous cosmological theories that have a profound impact on understanding of our universe today. He was appointed Professor of Astronomy at Caltech in 1942 and also worked as a research director/consultant for Aerojet Engineering Corporation (1943-1961) and staff member of Mount Wilson Observatory and Palomar Observatory for most of his career.

Fritz Scholder            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Fritz Scholder: was one of the most renowned Native American artists of the 20th century. Born in Breckenridge, Minnesota, Scholder was one-quarter Luiseño, a California Mission tribe. Scholder's most influential works were post-modern in sensibility and somewhat Pop Art in execution as he sought to deconstruct the mythos of the American Indian. A teacher at the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe in the late 1960s, Scholder influenced a generation of students that are prominent Native artists today.

Fritz Buehning            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Fritz Buehning: is a former American tennis player from Short Hills, New Jersey. Buehning attended Millburn High School, where he won the New Jersey state individual tennis championship in 1977 as a junior, his final year in high school. He attended University of Califor

Jeremy Fritz            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Jeremy Fritz: is a Canadian professional wrestler, best known under his ring name Eric Young. He currently performs for Total Nonstop Action Wrestling, where he has gained popularity using a variety of comic relief gimmicks. On the October 15, 2004 episode of Impact!,

Patti Fritz            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Patti Fritz: is a Minnesota politician and a member of the Minnesota House of Representatives representing District 26B, which includes all or portions of Rice and Steele counties in the southeastern part of the state. A Democrat, she is also a licensed practical nurs