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Frederick Jones

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 29, 2026
Entity authorityQ5498169 ↗
Source-derived summary

Frederick Jones, or variants, may refer to:

Businessmen

Fred Jones (1892–1971), American businessman, former chairman of Braniff International Airways

Fred Jones Jr. (born 1948), American entrepreneur and entertainment producer

Sir Frederick Jones, 1st Baronet (1854–1936), prominent in coal mining

Fred M. Jones (1890–1971), Jamaican planter and public figure

Politicians

Frederic Jones (politician) (1832–1890), New Zealand politician

Fred Jones (New Zealand politician) (Frederick Jones, born Charles Frederick Benney Dunshea 1884–1966)

Fred Jones (Mississippi politician) (died 1969)

C. Fred Jones (1930–2015), American politician in Florida

Fred A. Jones (1884–1964), American politician in the New Hampshire House of Representatives

Sports

American football

Fred Jones (linebacker, born 1965) (Fredrick Daniel Jones}

Fred Jones (wide receiver) (born 1967)

Freddie Jones (American football) (Freddie Ray Jones Jr., born 1974), tight end

Fred Jones (linebacker, born 1977) (Fred Allen Jones Jr.)

Association football

Fred Jones (footballer, born 1867) (Frederick William Jones, 1867–1910), Welsh international footballer

Fred Jones (footballer, born 1888) (Frederick Jones, 1888–1945), English footballer

Fred Jones (footballer, born 1898) (Frederick John Jones, 1898–c.

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Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Frederick Jones” is wikimedia disambiguation page. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Frederick, Jones and Wikimedia, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1892, 1971, 1948, 1854—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Frederick, Jones and Wikimedia is the immediate research focus.
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This entry incorporates text from “Frederick Jones” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.