Famous People with Name Frieda

Frieda Rebecca Hughes            Origin/Culture/Country: Australian

Frieda Rebecca Hughes: an English poet and painter. She has published seven children's books and four poetry collections and had many exhibitions.She moved to Perth, Western Australia in 1988, and later settled in Wooroloo, a small hamlet north of Perth, in 1991, where the Australian landscape became the basis of much of her painting. She returned to the UK to live and work when her father was diagnosed with terminal cancer in 1997. Her father died in October 1998. Her only sibling, Nicholas Hughes, committed suicide on March 16, 2009.[1]

Frieda Belinfante            Origin/Culture/Country: Dutch

Frieda Belinfante: was a Dutch cellist, conductor and a member of the Dutch Resistance during World War II.Frieda Belinfante was a lesbian and a good friend of Willem Arondeus, one of the leaders of Raad van Verzet and an openly gay man. She actively contributed to the Dutch resistance, mainly by forging personal documents for Jews. Together with Arondeus, she was part of the group that organised the bombing of the population registry in Amsterdam on March 27, 1943. Thousands of files were destroyed, and the attempt to compare forged documents with documents in the registry were hindered. However, her contributions to the Resistance have been largely forgotten over time.

Frieda Dänzer            Origin/Culture/Country: Swiss

Frieda Dänzer: is a Swiss former Alpine skier, successful in the second half of the 1950s. At the 1956 Winter Olympics, she won silver in downhill. At Bad Gastein in 1958, she became world champion in Alpine Combined and won the silver medal in Downhill and bronze in Gi

Frieda Fromm-Reichmann            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Frieda Fromm-Reichmann: was a German psychiatrist and contemporary of Sigmund Freud who emigrated to America during World War II. When Adolf Hitler rose to power in Germany and Jews began to be persecuted, Frieda moved to France and then later to the United States where her husband Erich Fromm, from whom she had long been separated, got her a job as a psychiatrist at Chestnut Lodge, a mental hospital in Maryland[1].

Frieda Wunderlich            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Frieda Wunderlich: was a German economist, sociologist and politician of the German Democratic Party.

Betty Friedan            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Betty Friedan: was an American feminist, activist and writer, best known for starting what is commonly known as the "Second Wave" of feminism through the writing of her book The Feminine Mystique.As a young girl, Betty was active in Marxist and Jewish circles; she later wrote how she felt isolated from the community at times, and felt her "passion against injustice...originated from my feelings of the injustice of anti-Semitism". She went to high school in Peoria. She briefly became involved in her high school newspaper, but when she was turned down for a column, she and six other friends launched a literary magazine called Tide. In this magazine, Betty and her friends talked about home life as opposed to school life.