Lista de Personas Famosas con el apellido Friis

Peder Claussøn Friis fue un historiador y escritor noruego. En sus traducciones de las sagas antiguas, prestó un gran servicio a la historia de Noruega, de hecho, una saga se conserva únicamente en su traducción. En su Descripción de Noruega y las Islas Adyacentes se encuentra material histórico de gran valor. Su lenguaje es muy puro y su estilo es vigoroso.

Achton Friis was a Danish illustrator, painter and writer. He participated in the Denmark Expedition to Northeast Greenland in 1906–1908, creating a large number of works in the process, both landscape paintings and portraits, as well as a written account which was published in 1909. He later published several comprehensive and richly illustrated works with descriptions of the nature and cultural history of different parts of Denmark. In addition, he designed decorative works for the Bing & Grøndahl porcelain manufacturer.

Harald Trap Friis, who published as H. T. Friis, was a Danish-American radio engineer whose work at Bell Laboratories included pioneering contributions to radio propagation, radio astronomy, and radar. His two Friis formulas remain widely used.

Janus Friis es un empresario danés conocido por cofundar la aplicación para compartir archivos Kazaa, y la aplicación de llamadas en línea entre pares Skype. En septiembre de 2005, él y su socio Niklas Zennström vendió Skype a eBay por $2.6 mil millones. Friis mantuvo los derechos de propiedad a Silver Lake Partners hasta la venta de la marca Skype a Microsoft para $8.5 mil millones en mayo de 2011.

Michael Pedersen Friis was Prime Minister of Denmark from 5 April 1920 to 5 May 1920. His cabinet was called the Cabinet of M.P. Friis.

Agnete Friis is a former Danish badminton player. She became Danish Champion in the women's singles in 1941 and 1944 and nine times in women's doubles from 1941-1958. She played for the national team until the end of the 1950s. She also reached three All England Championship Finals in all three categories in 1953. In the singles final she lost to Marie Ussing; the two of them lost the doubles final to Iris Cooley and June White of Great Britain and in the mixed doubles with Poul Holm, they were defeated by Eddy Choong and June White.

Agnete Friis is a Danish writer who is best known for co-authoring Drengen i kufferten, or The Boy in the Suitcase with Lene Kaaberbøl. The book was short-listed for the Scandinavian Glass Key Award, competing against The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo and received the 2008 Harald Mogensen award for best crime novel.