# Frida (given name)

Frida (with variants Freda, Frieda, Frinta and Freida) is a feminine given name. In central and eastern Europe, Frida is a short form of compound names containing the Germanic element fried meaning "peace".

## People
### Freda

* Frida Argento (born 2000), Swedish actress
* Freda Betti (1924–1979), French opera singer
* Freda Corbet (1900–1993), British politician
* Freda Dowie (1928–2019), English actress
* Freda Du Faur (1882–1935), Australian mountaineer
* Freda Dudley Ward (1894–1983), English socialite and mistress of future king Edward VIII
* Freda Foh Shen (born 1948), American film, television and theatre actress
* Freda Gardner (1929–2020), former Moderator of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (USA)
* Freda Hoffman Zgodzinski (1914–2012), Anarchist activist
* Freda Jackson (1907–1990), British actress
* Freda James (1911–1988), British tennis player
* Freda Koblick (1920–2011), American acrylic artist and sculptor
* Freda Josephine McDonald (1906–1975), American-born French entertainer, known as Joséphine Baker
* Freda Payne (born 1942), American singer and actress
* Freda Swain (1902–1985), English composer, pianist and music educator
* Freda Warrington, British author
* Freda Warfield, American politician
* Freda Wright-Sorce (1955–2005), American radio broadcaster
* Freda L. Wolfson (born 1954), American judge

### Freedia

* Big Freedia (born 1978), American musician

### Frida

* Frida Benneche (1880 – after 1943), American coloratura soprano
* Frida Felser (1841–1941), German opera singer and actress
* Frida Gustavsson (born 1993), Swedish model
* Frida Hansdotter (born 1985), Swedish alpine skier
* Frida Hyvönen (born 1977), Swedish singer-songwriter
* Frida Kahlo (1907–1954), Mexican painter
* Anni-Frid Lyngstad (born 1945), Swedish pop singer and member of ABBA, also known by her mononym Frida
* Frida Maanum (born 1999), Norwegian professional footballer
* Josefine Frida Pettersen (born 1996) Norwegian actress
* Frida Stéenhoff (1865–1945), Swedish writer and feminist
* Frida Topno (1925–2018), Indian politician
* Frida Westman (born 2001), Swedish ski jumper

### Frieda

* Frieda Arnold (fl. 1854–fl. 1859), British courtier, dresser (lady's maid) to Queen Victoria of Great Britain.
* Frieda Belinfante (1904–1995), Dutch cellist, conductor, prominent lesbian and member of the Dutch Resistance during World War II
* Frieda Dänzer (1931–2015), Swiss former Alpine skier
* Frieda Hempel (1885–1955), German operatic soprano
* Frieda Inescort (1901–1976), Scottish stage and film actress
* Frieda Keller (1879–1942), a Swiss murderer
* Frieda von Richthofen (1879–1956), German author and wife of the writer D. H. Lawrence
* Frieda Zamba (born 1965), American four-time world surfing champion

### Freida

* Freida Lee Mock, American award-winning filmmaker
* Freida Pinto (born 1984), Indian actress and model
* Freida J. Riley (1937–1969), American science and math teacher

## Fictional characters

* Frieda (Peanuts), a character from the comic strip Peanuts
* Frieda, a character in the Adventure Time miniseries "Islands"
* Frieda Petrenko, a character from UK TV series Holby City
* Frieda Pesky, a character from the TV series The Buzz on Maggie
* Frida Suarez, a character from the television series El Tigre: The Adventures of Manny Rivera
* Frida Villarreal, character in the telenovela Entre el amor y el odio
* Frieda, a character from the children's film, Thomas & Friends: The Great Race
* Freida "Freddi", a character from the Time Warp Trio book series and the adapted TV series
* Frieda Berlin, a character from the television series Orange Is the New Black
* Frida, a character from the television series Hilda
* Frieda Jason, a character from the Stephen King novel, Carrie
* Frieda, a character from the Franz Kafka novel, The Castle
* Frieda Reiss, a character from the manga series Attack on Titan and the adapted TV series.

## Animals

* Frida (dog), Mexican search and rescue dog