Kress
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People

  • Nancy Kress
    Nancy Kress
    Nancy Kress is an American science fiction writer. She began writing in 1976 but has achieved her greatest notice since the publication of her Hugo and Nebula-winning 1991 novella "Beggars in Spain" which was later expanded into a novel with the same title...

     is an American science fiction writer
  • Nathan Kress
    Nathan Kress
    Nathan Karl Kress is an American film and television actor. A professional child model and actor since the age of three, he is best known for his role as Freddie Benson on the Nickelodeon television series iCarly.-Early life:...

     is an American film and television actor best known for his role as Freddie Benson on the series, iCarly.
  • Samuel H. Kress
    Samuel H. Kress
    Samuel Henry Kress was a businessman and philanthropist, founder of the S. H. Kress & Co. five and ten cent store chain. With his fortune, Kress amassed one of the most significant collections of Italian Renaissance and European artwork assembled in the 20th century...

     was the founder of the S. H. Kress & Co. retail chain.
  • Dr. Stephen W. Kress was the founder of Project Puffin
    Project Puffin
    Dr. Stephen W. Kress of the National Audubon Society started Project Puffin in 1973 in an effort to learn how to restore puffins to historic nesting islands in the Gulf of Maine. At that time, literally all the puffin eggs in Maine were located on two small islands — Matinicus Rock and Machias Seal...

  • Viktor Kress
    Viktor Kress
    Viktor Melkiorovich Kress is the governor of Tomsk Oblast, Russia. Both his parents were ethnic Germans.Kress was born into a peasant family with five brothers and a sister...

     (Russian: Виктор Мельхиорович Кресс) is the governor of Tomsk Oblast, Russia
  • Wilhelm Kress
    Wilhelm Kress
    Wilhelm Kress was a pioneer in aviations and constructor of aircraft.-Life:Kress came to Vienna in 1873, where he developed the first modern delta-flying hang glider in 1877...

    , an aviation pioneer.
  • Kress von Kressenstein, a German family of barons (Freiherren), including Friedrich Freiherr Kress von Kressenstein, a German general in World War I.

Places

  • Kress (Columbus, Georgia), listed on the NRHP in Georgia
  • Kress, Texas
    Kress, Texas
    Kress is a city in Swisher County, Texas, United States. The population was 826 at the 2000 census.-Geography:Kress is located at ....

     a city in north Texas.

Stores

  • S. H. Kress & Co.
    S. H. Kress & Co.
    S. H. Kress & Co. was the trading name of a chain of "five and dime" retail department stores in the United States, which operated from 1896 to 1981....

    , a chain of "five and dime" stores in the United States.
  • Tiendas Kress
    Tiendas Kress
    Tiendas Kress is a Puerto Rican chain of stores dedicated in particular to the sales of women's clothes. Tiendas Kress has about 50 stores countrywide in Puerto Rico. Tiendas Kress is a derivate of S. H...

    , a women's clothing store in Puerto Rico.
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