Frank (surname)
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Frank is a surname. Notable persons with that surname include:
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In science:
- Adolf Frank (1834–1916), German chemist
- Albert Bernhard FrankAlbert Bernhard FrankAlbert Bernhard Frank was a German biologist. He is credited with coining the term mycorrhiza.The bacterial genus Frankia and family Frankiaceae were named after him.-References:...
(1839-1900), German biologist - András FrankAndrás FrankAndrás Frank is a Hungarian mathematician, working in combinatorics, especially in graph theory, and combinatorial optimisation...
(1949), Hungarian mathematician - Frederick Charles FrankFrederick Charles FrankSir Frederick Charles Frank FRS was a British theoretical physicist.He was born in Durban, South Africa, although his parents returned to England soon afterwards...
(1911–1998), British Physicist, crystallographer - Johann Peter FrankJohann Peter FrankJohann Peter Frank was a German physician and hygienist who was a native of Rodalben.He studied medicine at the Universities of Strasbourg and Heidelberg, and earned his medical doctorate in 1766. He was professor at the Universities of Pavia and Göttingen, and for a period of time was personal...
(1745–1821), German physician and hygienist - Ilya FrankIlya FrankIlya Mikhailovich Frank was a Soviet winner of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1958 jointly with Pavel Alekseyevich Cherenkov and Igor Y. Tamm, also of the Soviet Union. He received the award for his work in explaining the phenomenon of Cherenkov radiation...
(1908–1990), physicist and 1958 Nobel laureate - Philipp FrankPhilipp FrankPhilipp Frank was a physicist, mathematician and also an influential philosopher during the first half of the 20th century. He was a logical-positivist, and a member of the Vienna Circle.He was born on 20 March 1884 in Vienna, Austria, and died on 21 July 1966 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA...
(1884–1966), physicist, mathematician and influential philosopher during the first half of the 20th century
In literature:
- Anne FrankAnne FrankAnnelies Marie "Anne" Frank is one of the most renowned and most discussed Jewish victims of the Holocaust. Acknowledged for the quality of her writing, her diary has become one of the world's most widely read books, and has been the basis for several plays and films.Born in the city of Frankfurt...
(1929–1945), author of a famous diary during WWII- Edith Frank (1900–1945), mother of Anne Frank
- Margot FrankMargot FrankMargot Betti Frank was the older sister of Anne Frank, whose deportation order from the Gestapo hastened the Frank family into hiding, and who subsequently perished in Bergen-Belsen...
(1926–1945), sister of Anne Frank - Otto FrankOtto FrankOtto Heinrich "Pim" Frank was a German-born businessman and the father of Anne Frank and Margot Frank...
(1889–1980), father of Anne Frank and posthumous editor of her works
- Bernard Frank (1929–2006), French journalist and writer
- Bruno FrankBruno FrankBruno Frank was a German author, poet, dramatist, and humanist.Frank studied law and philosophy in Munich, where he later worked as a dramatist and novelist until the Reichstag fire in 1933...
(1878–1945), German author, poet, dramatist and humanist - Waldo David Frank (1889–1967), American author and scholar
In art:
- Jane FrankJane FrankJane Schenthal Frank was an American artist. She studied with Hans Hofmann and Norman Carlberg and is known as a painter, sculptor, mixed media artist, and textile artist...
- Jean-Michel FrankJean-Michel FrankJean-Michel Frank was a French interior designer known for minimalist interiors decorated with plain-lined but sumptuous furniture made of luxury materials, such as shagreen, mica, and intricate straw marquetry.-Life and career:...
, French furniture and interior designer - Mary FrankMary FrankMary Frank née Mary Lockspeiser is a visual artist known primarily as a sculptor, painter and printmaker/illustrator.- Biography :...
In military:
- Hans FrankHans FrankHans Michael Frank was a German lawyer who worked for the Nazi party during the 1920s and 1930s and later became a high-ranking official in Nazi Germany...
(1900–1946), governor general of Nazi occupied Poland - Karl Hermann FrankKarl Hermann FrankKarl Hermann Frank was a prominent Sudeten German Nazi official in Czechoslovakia prior to and during World War II and an SS-Obergruppenführer...
(1898–1946), prominent Sudeten-German Nazi official in Czechoslovakia
In politics:
- Barnett Frank, also known as Barney Frank, Massachusetts Democratic congressperson
- Bernhard FrankBernhard FrankObersturmbannführer Bernhard Frank was an SS Commander of the Obersalzberg complex who arrested Hermann Göring on April 25, 1945 by order of Adolf Hitler, who had been manipulated by Reichsleiter Bormann into believing Göring was attempting to usurp the Führer's authority...
, German SS Commander - William J. FrankWilliam J. FrankWilliam J. Frank , is a member of the Maryland House of Delegates, District 42.-Background:William Frank is a member of the Maryland House of Delegates, representing District 42, which covers a part of Baltimore County. Prior to 2002, District 42 was represented by Democrats James W. Campbell,...
, Maryland Republican state congressperson since 2003
Other:
- Andre Gunder FrankAndre Gunder FrankAndre Gunder Frank was a German-American economic historian and sociologist who promoted "dependency theory" after 1970 and "World Systems Theory" after 1984...
(1929–2005), German-American sociologist known as a founder of dependency theory - Bernard Frank (wilderness activist)Bernard Frank (wilderness activist)Bernard Frank was an American forester and wilderness activist. He is known for being one of the eight founding members of The Wilderness Society....
, wilderness activist and co-founder of The Wilderness Society - Henry FrankHenry FrankBorn in Ohio, USA in 1851 of French parents, Henry L. Frank was an important business and political figure in the state of Montana, USA. A self-made entrepreneur who invested in liquor distribution, real estate and mining, he also founded the Silver Bow Electric Light Company, was president of the...
(1851–1908), Montana entrepreneur - Jacob FrankJacob FrankJacob Frank was an 18th century Jewish religious leader who claimed to be the reincarnation of the self-proclaimed messiah Sabbatai Zevi and also of the biblical patriarch Jacob...
(1726–1791), founder of a Jewish dissident sect - Jerome Frank (1889–1957), legal philosopher
- John FrankJohn FrankJohn G. Frank was an American football player who played tight end in the NFL from 1984 to 1988 and earned two Super Bowl rings.-High school & college:He attended Mt...
(born 1962), American NFL football player - Leo FrankLeo FrankLeo Max Frank was a Jewish-American factory superintendent whose hanging in 1915 by a lynch mob of prominent citizens in Marietta, Georgia drew attention to antisemitism in the United States....
(1884–1913), man convicted of murdering a 14-year-old girl in Georgia - Robert FrankRobert FrankRobert Frank , born in Zürich, Switzerland, is an important figure in American photography and film. His most notable work, the 1958 photobook titled The Americans, was influential, and earned Frank comparisons to a modern-day de Tocqueville for his fresh and skeptical outsider's view of American...
(born 1924), photographer - Robert H. FrankRobert H. FrankRobert H. Frank is the Henrietta Johnson Louis Professor of Management and a Professor of Economics at the Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management at Cornell University. He contributes to the "Economic View" column, which appears every fifth Sunday in The New York Times.-Career:Frank...
, economist - Thomas Pierson FrankThomas Pierson FrankThomas Pierson Frank was a British civil engineer and surveyor.Frank was born in 1881 at Kirkbymoorside in North Yorkshire. He was elected president of the Institution of Civil Engineers for the November 1945 to November 1946 session....
, British civil engineer
See also
- Franke (disambiguation)
- Franck (disambiguation)
- Francke
- FrankelFrankelFrankel is the surname of:* Charles Frankel , American philosopher, known for Charles Frankel Prize* Benjamin Frankel , British composer* Bethenny Frankel, American chef and reality television personality...
, FranklFranklFrankl is the surname of:* Abe Frankl, see Yankee Rose* Adolf Frankl , Jewish Hungarian-Austrian painter* George Frankl , Austrian psychoanalyst and author* Gerhart Frankl , Austrian painter...