Frederick Ernest "Fritz" Triebel (December 29, 1865 – 1944) was an American sculptor, best remembered for his two works, marble statues of George Laird Shoup and Henry Mower Rice, located in the National Statuary Hall Collection in Washington D.C.

He was born in Peoria, Illinois on December 29, 1865,[1] where his father was a monument maker.

[2] His father Otto had been apprenticed as a stone carver in Germany before immigrating to the United States and it was likely from him that Triebel learned the rudiments of sculpting.

[3] At the age of 16 Triebel was apprenticed to a stone carver in Chicago, and from there he moved to first New York and then Boston.

In the early 1890s Triebel was invited to be a part of the international sculpture selection jury for the World's Columbian Exposition.