Frederic (given name)

Frederic is a given name. For its origin, see Frederick. Notable persons with that name include:

• Frederic William Burton (1816–1900), Irish painter and curator
• Frédéric Chopin (1810–1849), Polish composer and virtuoso pianist
• Frederic Edwin Church (1826–1900), American landscape painter
• Frédéric Bazille (1841–1870), French Impressionist painter
• Frédéric Fromet (born 1971), French chansonnier
• Frederic Leighton, 1st Baron Leighton (1830–1896), English painter and sculptor
• Frederic Remington (1861–1909), American painter, illustrator, sculptor, and writer
• Frederic Storck (1872–1942), Romanian sculptor
• Frederic Matys Thursz (1930–1992), Moroccan painter, teacher
• Frederic Tuten (born 1936), American novelist, short story writer and essayist

• Frederic Bennett (1918–2002), British politician
• Frederic René Coudert, Jr. (1898–1972), American politician from New York
• Frederic William Maitland (1850–1906), English jurist and historian
• Frederic Maugham, 1st Viscount Maugham (1866–1958), British lawyer and judge
• Frederic M. Sackett (1868–1941), American politician and diplomat from Kentucky
• Frederic C. Walcott (1869–1949), American politician from Connecticut
• Fredric Wise (1871–1928), British Conservative Party politician

• Frederic M. Ashley (1870–1960), American architect
• Frederic Charles Bartlett (1886–1969), British psychologist
• Frederic C. Billingsley (1921–2002), American engineer
• Frédéric Bourdillon (born 1991), French-Israeli basketball player in the Israel Basketball Premier League
• Frederic Lister Burk (1862–1924), Canadian-born American educator, university president, and educational theorist
• Frederic Charles Dreyer (1878–1956), officer of the Royal Navy
• Frederic Friedel (born 1945), German German chess player, publisher and businessman
• Frederic Gehring, American Catholic priest
• Frederic Hsieh (1945–1999), Chinese-American realtor and investor
• Frederic B. Ingram, American businessman whose jail sentence for bribery was commuted by President Jimmy Carter and who renounced his US citizenship
• Frederic North (1866–1921), Australian civil servant and sportsman
• Frédéric Saldmann (born 1953), French cardiologist and author of books on preventive medicine
• Frederic Walker (cricketer) (1829–1889), English cricketer

In fictional characters:

• Frederic, the pirate apprentice of Gilbert and Sullivan's comic opera The Pirates of Penzance
• Frédéric François Chopin, protagonist in Eternal Sonata, based on the composer of the same name
• Frederic Henry, the protagonist of the novel A Farewell to Arms.
• King Frederic, a recurring character from Tangled: The Series who is ruler of the island kingdom of Corona and overprotective father of Rapunzel, its long-lost princess