Friis is a name of Danish origin, meaning
Frisian person. It may refer to any of the following people:
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Astrid Friis
Astrid Friis (1893–1966) was a Danish historian. In 1945, she was appointed professor of history at the University of Copenhagen, so becoming the first female professor in a Danish university. She was immediately recognized as an outstanding res ...
(1893–1966), Danish historian
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Christen Friis (1581–1639), Danish politician
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Eigil Friis-Christensen
Eigil Friis-Christensen (29 October 1944 – 21 September 2018) was a Danish geophysicist specializing in space physics.
Career
Friis-Christensen received a Magisterkonferens (Ph.D. equivalent) in Geophysics from University of Copenhagen in 197 ...
, Danish geophysicist
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Elizabeth Friis, American bioengineer
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Harald T. Friis (1893–1976), American radio engineer
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Friis formulas for noise
Friis formula or Friis's formula (sometimes Friis' formula), named after Danish-American electrical engineer Harald T. Friis, is either of two formulas used in telecommunications engineering to calculate the signal-to-noise ratio of a multistag ...
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Friis transmission equation
The Friis transmission formula is used in telecommunications engineering, equating the power at the terminals of a receive antenna as the product of power density of the incident wave and the effective aperture of the receiving antenna under i ...
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Henrik Friis Robberstad (1901–1978), Norwegian politician
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Ib Friis
Ib Friis (born 1945) is a Danish professor of botany at the Natural History Museum of Denmark, University of Copenhagen.
Friis has mainly studied the taxonomy of tropical Urticaceae and related families, flora and vegetation of Africa south of t ...
(born 1946), Danish botanist whose standard author abbreviation is Friis
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Jacob Friis (born 1976), Danish football player and manager
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Jakob Friis
Jakob Johan Sigfrid Friis (27 April 1883 – 12 December 1956) was a Norwegian journalist, publicist, historian, and archivist. He was a newspaper editor and member of the Norwegian Parliament.
Biography
Jakob Friis was born in Røros in Sør-T ...
(1883–1956), Norwegian politician
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Jakob Friis-Hansen (born 1967), Danish football player
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Janus Friis
Janus Friis (; born 26 June 1976) is a Danish entrepreneur best known for co-founding the file-sharing application Kazaa, and the peer-to-peer telephony application Skype. In September 2005, he and his business partner Niklas Zennström sold Sk ...
(born 1976), Danish entrepreneur
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Johan Friis
Johan Friis (20 February 1494 – 5 December 1570) was a Danish statesman. He served as Chancellor under King Christian III of Denmark.
Biography
He was born at Lundbygård manor as the son of Jesper Friis til Lundbygård and Anne Johansda ...
(1494–1570), Danish statesman
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Jørgen Friis, Danish bishop
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Kristian Friis Petersen
Kristian Friis Petersen (17 September 1867 – 5 April 1932) was the Norwegian Minister of Social Affairs 1914–1916 and Minister of Trade 1916–1919.
Kristian became a student from Ålesund Latin School in 1886. In 1891 he attended a Candidat ...
(1867–1932), Norwegian politician
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Lotte Friis
Lotte Friis (born 9 February 1988) is a Danish competitive swimmer from Allerød Municipality.
Career
Friis was born in Blovstrød. Finishing third in the 1500 metre freestyle competition at the European Championships 2008 in Eindhoven she w ...
(1988), Danish swimmer
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Michael Pedersen Friis
Michael Pedersen Friis (22 October 1857 – 24 April 1944) was a Danish civil servant who served as Prime Minister (Denmark), Prime Minister of Denmark from 5 April 1920 to 5 May 1920.
Biography
M.P. Friis became cand.jur. from the University of ...
(1857–1944), Prime Minister of Denmark
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Nicolai Friis
Nicolai Friis (1815–1888) was a Norwegian politician.
Growing up in a family of thirteen, he was the son of priest Søren Hjelm Friis and brother of professor Jens Andreas Friis and geologist Jacob Pavels Friis.
Nicolai Friis was chaplain in ...
(1815–1888), Norwegian politician
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Peder Claussøn Friis
Peder Claussøn Friis (1 April 1545 – 15 October 1614) was a Norwegian clergyman, author and historian. He is most associated with his translation of ''Snorre Sturlessøns Norske Kongers Chronica''.
Peder Claussen Friis grew up in Audneda ...
(1545–1614), Norwegian author
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Søren Friis
Søren Engell Friis (born 13 December 1976) is a former Danish professional football midfielder.
Friis played a big part in AC Horsens' promotion to the Superliga in 2004/05, when he was a regular starter at the left wing scored the crucial d ...
(born 1976), Danish football player
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Torsten Friis
Lieutenant General Torsten Friis (1 August 1882 – 21 April 1967) was a Swedish Air Force officer. Friis was initially a fortification officer and was commanding officer of the Field Telegraph Corps from 1928 to 1932 and chief of the Military ...
(1882–1967), Swedish Air Force lieutenant general
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Danish-language surnames
Surnames of Frisian origin
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