Fred Manocherian

Fraydun "Fred" Manocherian (born 1932) is an American real estate developer, author, founder of the National Road Safety Foundation, and founder of the New York Health & Racquet Club chain. Manocherian, raised Baha’i, was born in 1932 to a family of Persian Jewish descent, the son of Yahya Manocherian and his wife Touba (née Lalezari). He has one sister, Touran Manocherian Yaghoubzadeh; and three brothers: Amir Houshang, Eskandar, and Manouchehr.

He and his brothers founded Manocherian Brothers and Pan Am Equities, which focused on the redevelopment of Upper East Side tenement blocks.

In 1973, Manocherian, a fitness enthusiast, founded the New York Health & Racquet Club chain which eventually became the largest fitness chain in New York City. He also founded the New York Stress & Research Center.In 1955, he became an advocate for federal funding of public education in traffic safety after two of his high school friends were killed by a drunk driver. In 1962, he founded the National Road Safety Foundation. In 1970, he wrote Flesh, Metal & Glass, a book about auto safety which included his Manocherian Chart. He and attorney Leonard J. Robbins founded The Manocherian-Robbins Foundation tasked with reducing the death rate on the nation's roadways through public-service advertising and legislative lobbying.In 2011, he wrote the fiction novel, My Father's Will: A Novel.