Fritz



Gender:
Origin: German
2983 famous people named Fritz found on Wikipedia.
6304 male in US.
Most recent ranking: 2229-th in year 2018
Best ranking: 389-th in year 1888
Used in: German

Meanings

Fritz originated as a German nickname for Friedrich, or Frederick (der alte Fritz was a nickname for King Frederick II of Prussia and Frederick III, German Emperor), as well as for similar names including Fridolin. Fritz was also a name given to German troops by the British and others in the First and Second World Wars, equivalent to Tommy, as the British troops were called by German and other troops. Other common bases for which the name Fritz was used include the surnames Fritsche, Fritzsche, Fritsch, and Frisch(e).


German familiar form of masc. proper name Friedrich; as a characteristic name for a German attested by 1883; very common in World War I. Phrase on the fritz "inoperative, not working properly" (1903) is American English slang, of unknown connection to the name; the earliest references suggest a theatrical origin.


Short form of Frederick: peaceful ruler, peace-keeper.

Famous People: 2983 found on Wikipedia.
Popularity Name Birth Year Description
1 Fritz Haber 1868 German chemist and receiver of the Nobel prize
2 Fritz Lang 1890 Austrian-American filmmaker, screenwriter, and occasional film producer and actor
3 Fritz Haarmann 1879 German serial killer
4 Taylor Harry Fritz 1997 American tennis player
5 Fritz Weaver 1926 Actor from the United States
6 Fritz Von Erich 1929 American professional wrestler
7 Fritz Kreisler 1875 Austrian violinist and composer
8 Fritz Zwicky 1898 Swiss astronomer
9 Fritz Leiber Junior 1910 American writer of fantasy, horror, and science fiction
10 Fritz Sauckel 1894 German general
11 Fritz Bauer 1903 German judge
12 Fritz Perls 1893 German psychiatrist
13 Fritz Todt 1891 German engineer and senior Nazi figure
14 Fritz Pfeffer 1889 German physician
15 Fritz Joubert Duquesne 1877 South African journalist
16 Fritz Pollard 1894 Player of American Football
17 Fritz Julius Kuhn 1896 American leader of the German American Bund
18 Fritz Thyssen 1873 German businessman
19 Fritz Gerlich 1883 German historian and journalist
20 Fritz Tornow 1924 Adolf Hitler's personal dog-handler
21 Willie Fritz 1960 American football player and coach
22 Fritz Springmeier 1955 American conspiracy theorist
23 Fritz Walter 1920 German footballer
24 Clemens Fritz 1980 German footballer
25 Fritz Bayerlein 1899 German general
26 Fritz Peterson 1942 American baseball player
27 Fritz Strassner 1919 German actor
28 Fritz Wunderlich 1930 German tenor
29 Frank Fritz 1965
30 Fritz Witt 1908 SS general
31 Fritz Da Cat 1975 Italian disc jockey
32 Fritz Strassmann 1902 German nuclear scientist
33 Fritz Feld 1900 Actor
34 Fritz Hilpert 1956 Current member of Kraftwerk
35 Fritz Heider 1896 German psychologist
36 Fritz Kalkbrenner 1981 German DJ and producer
37 Fritz Reiner 1888 Orchestra conductor
38 Bernd Fritz 1945 German author
39 Elisabeth Fritz 1967 Swedish lawyer
40 Fritz Wepper 1941 German actor
41 Henrieke Fritz 1997 German actress
42 Fritz G. Schadt 1940 Indonesian actor
43 Fritz Fischer 1912 Nazi war criminal
44 Fritz Lichtenhahn 1932 Swiss actor
45 Fritz Ostermueller 1907 American baseball player
46 Fritz von Below 1853 German First World War general
47 Fritz Niemand 1915
48 Fritz Stern 1926 American historian
49 Fritz von Friedl 1941 Austrian actor
50 Fritz Hartnagel 1917 German soldier and judge
51 Fritz Glatz 1943 Austrian racing driver
52 Fritz Christen 1921 Waffen-SS soldier
53 Fritz Wiessner 1900 German free climber
54 Fritz Albert Lipmann 1899 American biochemist
55 Fritz Suhren 1908 SS Officer and politician
56 Fritz London 1900 American physicist
57 Fritz Dittlbacher 1963 Austrian television presenter
58 Fritz Scholder 1937 Luiseño painter and printmaker, educator
59 Fritz Erler 1913 German politician
60 Fritz Crisler 1899 American football, basketball, and baseball player and coach, college athletics administrator
61 Fritz Klingenberg 1912 SS officer
62 Special Agent Fritz Howard
63 Jean Fritz 1915 American children's writer
64 Fritz Coleman 1948 American weathercaster
65 Fritz Hellwig 1912 German politician
66 Fritz Ries 1907 German manufacturer
67 Fritz von Weizsäcker 1960 German doctor
68 Fritz Darges 1913 German military officer
69 Fritz Hippler 1909 German film director
70 Fritz Mauthner 1849 Austrian writer
71 Fritz Hoffmann-La Roche 1868 Swiss businessman
72 Fritz Keller 1957 German hotel manager
73 Fritz Streletz 1926 German politician
74 Fritz Löhner-Beda 1883 Austrian writer
75 Fritz Seitz 1848 German musician
76 Fritz Schilgen 1906 German athlete
77 Fritz Pregl 1869 Slovene-Austrian Nobel prize laureate and scientist
78 Fritz Hartjenstein 1905 SS officer
79 Fritz Machlup 1902 Austrian economist
80 Fritz ter Meer 1884 German chemist
81 Fritz von Opel 1899 Rocket pioneer
82 Fritz von Scholz 1896 German general
83 Fritz Sennheiser 1912 German businessman
84 Fritz Kolbe 1900 German diplomat and resistance member
85 Fritz G. A. Kraemer 1908 American military educator and advisor
86 Fritz Knoechlein 1911 SS officer
87 Fritz Honka 1935 German murderer
88 Fritz Bachschmidt 1928 German actor
89 Fritz Bracht 1899 German politician
90 Fritz Molden 1924 Austrian writer, journalist, diplomat and publisher
91 Fritz Shurmur 1932 American football player and coach
92 Fritz Kortner 1892 Actor; theatre director
93 Fritz Rott 1959 German voice actor
94 Fritz Katzmann 1906 German general
95 Hans-Werner Fritz 1953
96 Fritz Grobba 1886 German diplomat
97 Frederick Louis Maytag III 1937 American businessman and brewer
98 Fritz Lenz 1887 German geneticist
99 Fritz Schopps 1946
100 Fritz Rasp 1891 German actor
101 Dennis Fritz American wrongfully convicted of murder
102 Robert Fritz 1943 American managemetn consultant
103 Fritz Eckenga 1955 German cabaret artist and writer
104 Fritz Müller 1822 German biologist
105 Fritz von Uhde 1848 German artist
106 Fritz McIntyre 1952 British musician
107 Fritz Hollenbeck 1929 German actor
108 Fritz Bleyl 1880 German artist
109 Fritz Koenig 1924 German sculptor
110 Fritz Pfleumer 1881 German-Austrian inventor and engineer
111 Fritz Kuhn 1955 German politician
112 Fritz Houtermans 1903 German physicist
113 Fritz Roethlisberger 1898 American business theorist
114 Fritz Zuber-Buhler 1822 Swiss artist
115 Fritz Melbye 1826 Danish artist
116 Amanda Fritz 1958 American politician
117 Fritz Busch 1890 German conductor
118 Fritz Wiedemann 1891 German diplomat
119 Fritz Platten 1883 Swiss politician
120 Fritz Szepan 1907 German footballer
121 Jonny Fritz
122 Fritz Wetherbee 1936 American screenwriter
123 Fritz Eichenberg 1901 American/German illustrator and wood engraver
124 Fritz John 1910 Mathematician
125 Fritz Behn 1878 German sculptor
126 Fritz von Herzmanovsky-Orlando 1877 Austrian architect and writer
127 Fritz Buntrock 1909 Holocaust perpetrator
128 Fritz Freitag 1894 German general
129 Fritz Lee 1988 Rugby player
130 Fritz Jean 1953 A notable Haitian economist, politician and writer
131 Fritz Egger 1960 Austrian actor
132 Fritz Rodewald 1939 German teacher
133 Fritz Schumacher 1869 German architect and urban designer
134 Fritz Erik Hoevels 1948 German psychoanalyst
135 Fritz Moen 1941 Norwegian prisoner
136 Fritz Reuter 1810 Low German writer
137 Fritz Kühn 1910 Sculptor, restorer and university teacher (1910-1967)
138 Fritz Kiersch 1951 American film director
139 Fritz Frey 1958 German television presenter and journalist
140 Fritz Thiele 1894 German resistance member
141 Fritz Arno Wagner 1889 German cinematographer
142 Fritz Beckhardt 1889 German flying ace
143 Fritz von Brodowski 1886 German general
144 Fritz von Hardenberg 1954 German actor and voice actor
145 Fritz Wächtler 1891 Nazi politician
146 Fritz Lindemann 1894 German general
147 Dr. Fritz
148 Helmut Fritz 1975 French singer
149 Harold A. Fritz 1944 United States Army Medal of Honor recipient
150 Fritz Wotruba 1907 Austrian sculptor
151 Fritz Leonhardt 1909 German engineer
152 Fritz Haller 1924 Swiss architect
153 Fritz Selbmann 1899 German politician
154 Fritz Erpenbeck 1897 German writer
155 Fritz Schäffer 1888 German politician
156 Fritz Spiegl 1926 Austrian writer
157 Fritz Egli 1937 Swiss motorcycle racer
158 Fritz Kötteritzsch 1935
159 Fritz Huschke von Hanstein 1911 German racecar driver
160 Fritz Arens 1912 German art historian
161 Fritz Kahn 1888 German physician and author
162 Henning Fritz 1974 Handball player
163 Fritz Günther von Tschirschky 1900 German politician and diplomat
164 Fritz Dietrich 1898 SS officer
165 Fritz Gosslau 1898 German engineer
166 Fritz Dorls 1910 German politician
167 Fritz Koch-Gotha 1877 German illustrator and painter
168 Fritz Indra 1940 Austrian engineer
169 Fritz Reinhardt 1895 German politician
170 Friedrich Eisel 1929 German painter
171 Fritz Schlegel 1901 Actor
172 Fritz Vogt 1918 SS officer
173 Fritz B. Busch 1922 German journalist
174 Fritz Roth 1949 German writer (1949-2012)
175 Fritz Du Bois Freund 1955 Peruvian economist and journalist (1955-2014)
176 Fritz Kasparek 1910 Austrian mountain climber
177 Fritz Nöpel 1935 German karateka
178 Jürgen Fritz 1953 German musician
179 Fritz von Thurn und Taxis 1950 German prince
180 Fritz Schur 1951 Danish businessman
181 Fritz Noether 1884 German-born mathematician
182 Fritz Weitzel 1904 SS leader
183 Fritz Schaudinn 1871 German zoologist
184 Fritz von Wille 1860 German painter
185 Klaus Fritz 1958 German author and translator
186 Fritz Fullriede 1895 German general
187 Fritz Teufel 1943 Prominent figure in the West German political left of the 1960s
188 Fritz Schlieper 1892 German general
189 Fritz Schmedes 1894
190 Fritz Ertl 1908 Austrian architect
191 Fritz Schütze 1944 German university teacher
192 Fritz B. Simon 1948 German psychiatrist
193 Fritz Hintermayer 1911
194 Fritz Benscher 1906 German actor
195 Fritz Angst 1944 Swiss author
196 Samuel Fritz 1654 Czech traveller, cartographer, Christian missionary and Roman Catholic priest
197 Fritz Saxl 1890 Austrian art historian
198 Fritz Oser 1937 Swiss psychologist and educationist
199 Fritz de Quervain 1868 Swiss surgeon
200 Fritz Weber 1909 German composer