Frank (given name)
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Frank, pronounced ˈfræŋk, is a masculine given name. Originally it refers to a Germanic people, the Franks, who derived their tribal name from the type of axe they used. It means "free Man" in Latin. In English, 'frank' also has the meaning of sincere or truthful.
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Famous people with the name Frank include:
In arts and entertainment
In literature:- Frank ChinFrank ChinFrank Chin is an American author and playwright.- Life and career :Frank Chin was born in Berkeley, California, but was raised to the age of six by a retired Vaudeville couple in Placerville, California. At six his mother brought him back to the San Francisco Bay Area to live in Oakland Chinatown...
(born 1940), Chinese-American author - Frank ConniffFrank ConniffFrank Conniff is a writer and actor who is perhaps best known for his portrayal of TV's Frank on Mystery Science Theater 3000 .-Early work:...
(born 1958), American actor and writer who portrayed TV's Frank - Frank HerbertFrank HerbertFranklin Patrick Herbert, Jr. was a critically acclaimed and commercially successful American science fiction author. Although a short story author, he is best known for his novels, most notably Dune and its five sequels...
(1920–1986), science fiction writer, author of the Dune series - Frank Lebby StantonFrank Lebby StantonFrank Lebby Stanton—born February 22, 1857 in Charleston, South Carolina, died January 7, 1927 in Atlanta, Georgia, and frequently credited as Frank L. Stanton, Frank Stanton or F. L...
(1857–1927), American lyricist - Frank McCourtFrank McCourtFrancis "Frank" McCourt was an Irish-American teacher and Pulitzer Prize–winning writer, best known as the author of Angela’s Ashes, an award-winning, tragicomic memoir of the misery and squalor of his childhood....
(1930–2009), Irish-American writer - Frank StellaFrank StellaFrank Stella is an American painter and printmaker, significant within the art movements of minimalism and post-painterly abstraction.-Biography:...
(born 1936), American painter and printmaker
In radio:
- Frank SontagFrank SontagFrank M. Sontag is an American radio personality. He is the former host of the Impact program on 95.5 KLOS-FM for more than twenty years, a talk radio show which discussed a wide variety of topics...
(born 1955), talk radio host
In architecture:
- Frank Lloyd WrightFrank Lloyd WrightFrank Lloyd Wright was an American architect, interior designer, writer and educator, who designed more than 1,000 structures and completed 500 works. Wright believed in designing structures which were in harmony with humanity and its environment, a philosophy he called organic architecture...
- Frank GehryFrank GehryFrank Owen Gehry, is a Canadian American Pritzker Prize-winning architect based in Los Angeles, California.His buildings, including his private residence, have become tourist attractions...
In music:
- Frank BlackFrank BlackBlack Francis is an American singer, songwriter and guitarist. He is best known as the frontman of the influential alternative rock band Pixies, with whom he performs under the stage name Black Francis. Following the band's breakup in 1993, he embarked on a solo career under the name Frank Black...
(born 1965), American musician - Frank SinatraFrank SinatraFrancis Albert "Frank" Sinatra was an American singer and actor.Beginning his musical career in the swing era with Harry James and Tommy Dorsey, Sinatra became an unprecedentedly successful solo artist in the early to mid-1940s, after being signed to Columbia Records in 1943. Being the idol of the...
(1915–1998), American singer and actor - Frank ZappaFrank ZappaFrank Vincent Zappa was an American composer, singer-songwriter, electric guitarist, record producer and film director. In a career spanning more than 30 years, Zappa wrote rock, jazz, orchestral and musique concrète works. He also directed feature-length films and music videos, and designed...
(1940–1993), American musician - Frank BelloFrank BelloFrank Bello is an American musician who plays bass guitar for the thrash metal band Anthrax. Originally he was a roadie and guitar technician for the band, but later he replaced Dan Lilker on the Spreading the Disease album. After leaving Anthrax in early 2004 Bello joined Helmet - another New...
(born 1965), American bassist of thrash metal band Anthrax - Frank TurnerFrank TurnerFrank Turner is an English folk/punk singer-songwriter from Meonstoke, Winchester. Initially the vocalist of post-hardcore band Million Dead, Turner embarked upon a primarily acoustic-based solo career following the band's split in 2005. To date, Turner has released four solo albums, two rarities...
British folk/punk singer songwriter - Frank IeroFrank IeroFrank Anthony Iero Jr is the rhythm guitarist, co-lead guitarist and backup vocalist of the alternative rock band My Chemical Romance as well as the vocalist of the post-hardcore band Leathermouth.-Early life:...
, rhythm guitarist for the band My Chemical Romance and lead singer for the band Leathermouth - Frank KlepackiFrank KlepackiFrank Klepacki is an American musician, video game music composer and sound director best known for his work on the Command & Conquer series. Having learned to play drums as a child, he joined Westwood Studios as a composer when he was only 17 years old...
, American video game music composer best known for his work on the Command & Conquer series - Frank Edwin Wright IIITre CoolFrank Edwin Wright III, a.k.a. Tré Cool, is an American drummer, best known as the drummer for the punk rock band Green Day. He replaced the group's former drummer John Kiffmeyer in 1990...
(born 1972) Drummer of the band Green Day - Frank OceanFrank OceanChristopher Francis Ocean , better known by his stage name Frank Ocean, is an American singer-songwriter and rapper from New Orleans, Louisiana. He is a member of OFWGKTA.-2005-2010: Career beginnings:...
(born 1987), American musician
In television:
- Frank CaliendoFrank CaliendoFrank Caliendo is an American comedian and impressionist, best known for his work on the Fox Network television series MADtv, and as the in-house prognosticator for Fox NFL Sunday. In 2007 and 2008, he performed his impersonations on his own show, Frank TV, which aired on TBS...
, impressionist and comedian, host of the television show Frank TV
In film:
- Frank BorzageFrank BorzageFrank Borzage was an American film director and actor.-Biography:Frank Borzage's father, Luigi Borzaga, was born in Ronzone, in 1859. As a stonemason, he sometimes worked in Switzerland; he met his future wife, Maria Ruegg , where she worked in a silk factory...
, American film director and actor - Frank CapraFrank CapraFrank Russell Capra was a Sicilian-born American film director. He emigrated to the U.S. when he was six, and eventually became a creative force behind major award-winning films during the 1930s and 1940s...
(1897–1991), American film director - Frank GorshinFrank GorshinFrank John Gorshin, Jr. was an American actor and comedian. He was perhaps best known as an impressionist, with many guest appearances on The Ed Sullivan Show and The Tonight Show...
(1933-2005), American actor and comedian from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
In comics:
- Frank BellamyFrank BellamyFrank Bellamy was a British comics artist, best known for his work on the Eagle comic, for which he illustrated Heros the Spartan and Fraser of Africa. He reworked its flagship Dan Dare strip....
, British comics artist - Frank BrunnerFrank BrunnerFrank Brunner is an American comic book artist and illustrator best known for his work at Marvel Comics in the 1970s.-Comics:...
, American comics artist - Frank GiacoiaFrank GiacoiaFrank Giacoia was an American comic book artist known primarily as an inker. He sometimes worked under the name Frank Ray, and to a lesser extent Phil Zupa, and the single moniker Espoia .-Early life and career:Frank Giacoia studied at Manhattan's School of...
, American comics artist - Frank Le GallFrank Le GallFrank Le Gall, born September 23, 1959 in Rouen, is a French author of comics.He is best known for his own comic series Théodore Poussin.- Publications :*Une aventure de Spirou et Fantasio : Les marais du temps,...
, French comics author - Frank MadsenFrank MadsenFrank Madsen is a contemporary Danish illustrator and cartoonist. He is the author of Kurt Dunder created in the ligne claire style also known from Hergé's Tintin.Frank Bruun Madsen was born in 1962 in the Danish town of Kalundborg....
, Danish comics artist - Frank MargerinFrank MargerinFrank Margerin is a French author and illustrator of comics.- Biography :After high school, Frank Margerin went to a school of applied art, where he mets Denis Sire. He joined Denis's band, Los Crados, as a drummer...
, French comics author - Frank MillerFrank Miller (comics)Frank Miller is an American comic book artist, writer and film director best known for his dark, film noir-style comic book stories and graphic novels Ronin, Daredevil: Born Again, Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, Sin City and 300...
, American comics author - Frank PéFrank PéFrank Pé, often signing solely as Frank is a Belgian comic book artist, best known for Broussaille and Zoo.-Biography:Frank Pé was born in Ixelles in 1956...
, Belgian comics author - Frank SpringerFrank SpringerFrank Springer was an American comic book and comic strip artist best known for Marvel Comics' Dazzler and Nick Fury, Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D....
, American comics artist - Frank ThomasFrank Thomas (comics)Frank Thomas was a Golden Age American cartoonist who worked primarily for Centaur Publications.For Centaur he created The Eye, Chuck Hardy, Dr. Hypno, and Solarman . Later in his career, he worked for Dell on The Owl, Billy and Bonnie Bee, Buddies and other characters...
, American comics artist - Frank TieriFrank Tieri (comics)Frank Tieri is an American comic book writer.-Career:At Marvel Tieri has written New Excalibur, Iron Man, Wolverine , Underworld, a post Avengers Disassembled Hercules mini-series, Wolverine/Darkness, X-Men: Dracula vs...
, American comics writer
In skateboarding:
- Frank NasworthyFrank NasworthyFrank Nasworthy is recognized as having introduced polyurethane wheel technology to skateboarding in the early 1970s.After graduating from Annandale High School in Northern Virginia in 1969, Nasworthy attended Virginia Tech for a year. Back with his family for the summer in 1970, he visited a...
, American surfing and skateboarding enthusiast, introduced the urethane skateboard wheel and founded Cadillac Wheels Company
Other people
- Frank AbagnaleFrank AbagnaleFrank William Abagnale, Jr. is an American security consultant known for his history as a former confidence trickster, check forger, impostor, and escape artist...
(born 1948), former confidence trickster, check forger, skilled impostor and escape artist. - Frank BarnettFrank BarnettFrank Barnett was the 49th Governor of American Samoa from October 1, 1976 to May 27, 1977. Before becoming governor, he was a Federal Bureau of Investigation agent and a Tennessee attorney. He served as Lieutenant Governor of American Samoa for two years prior to his governorship...
, 49th Governor of American Samoa - Frank BossardFrank BossardFrank Clifton Bossard was a British Secret Intelligence Service agent who provided classified documents to the Soviet Union in the 1960s. MI6 recruited Bossard in 1945, stationing him in Bonn, Germany, with a large entertainment budget. When Bossard returned to London in 1961, he found his...
(1912–1978), Secret Intelligence Service agent convicted of spying for the USSR. - Frank BroersFrank BroersFrank Broers is a Dutch football defender. He made his debut in Dutch professional football on 1998-03-14 for NAC Breda in a competition match against FC Twente .-References:**...
, Dutch football player - Frank BrunoFrank BrunoFranklin Roy Bruno MBE is an English former boxer whose career highlight was winning the WBC Heavyweight championship in 1995. Altogether, he won 40 of his 45 contests...
, British WBC heavyweight boxing champion - Frank BainimaramaFrank BainimaramaCommodore Josaia Voreqe Bainimarama, CF, MSD, OStJ, Fijian Navy, known commonly as Frank Bainimarama and sometimes by the chiefly title Ratu , is a Fijian naval officer and politician. He is the Commander of the Fijian Military Forces and, as of April 2009, Prime Minister...
(born 1954), Commander of the Fijian Military Forces and Interim Prime Minister of Fiji - Frank Cooper, British Oxford-based shopkeeper and marmalade manufacturer
- Frank Cooper, Australian politician
- Frank DehneFrank DehneFrank Dehne is a volleyball player from Germany, who plays for the National Team. He is nicknamed "Döner" and played as a setter for Galatasaray.-References:...
(born 1976), German volleyball player - Frank DobsonFrank DobsonFrank Gordon Dobson, is a British Labour Party politician who has been the Member of Parliament for Holborn and St. Pancras since 1979...
, British politician - Frank DeSimoneFrank DeSimoneFrank A. DeSimone was the Boss of the Los Angeles crime family from 1956 to 1967. DeSimone was the son of former don Rosario DeSimone. He was sometime referred to as "One Eye" because one of his eyes drooped, in the same way as Charles "Lucky" Luciano...
, Italian American mobster - Frank Ebenezer Hill, American Medal of Honor recipient
- Frank Fly, a notable enemy from the Super Nintendo Entertainment System video EarthBound
- Frank Henry (cricketer)Frank Henry (cricketer)Frank Henry was an English cricketer. Henry's batting and bowling styles are unknown.Henry made a single first-class appearance for Middlesex against Surrey in 1882. In this match, he bowled 12 wicket-less overs in Surrey's first-innings, while in their second-innings he took the wickets of J.V...
(dates unknown), English cricketer - Frank JamesFrank JamesAlexander Franklin "Frank" James was a famous American outlaw. He was the older brother of outlaw Jesse James.-Childhood:...
, notorious 19th century outlaw and member of the James-Younger Gang - Frank KooimanFrank KooimanFrank Kooiman is a retired Dutch football goalkeeper. He made his debut in Dutch professional football on 1994-09-25 for Sparta Rotterdam, replacing Edward Metgod in a game against Vitesse Arnhem....
(born 1970), Dutch football player - Frank LampardFrank LampardFrank James Lampard is an English professional footballer who plays as an attacking midfielder for Chelsea and the England national team. He also holds the position of vice-captain for his club side...
, English football player - Frank J. LowFrank J. LowFrank James Low was a solid state physicist who became a leader in the new field of infrared astronomy, after inventing the gallium doped germanium bolometer in 1961...
, American physicist - Frank LowyFrank LowyFrank Lowy, AC is an Australian-Israeli businessman. He is a co-founder of the Westfield Group, operator of over 100 shopping centres in Australia, New Zealand, the United States and Great Britain...
, Australian businessman - Frank MilesFrank MilesGeorge Francis "Frank" Miles was a London artist who specialised in pastel portraits of society ladies, also an architect and a keen plantsman.-Life and career:...
(1852-1891), British artist - Frank MirFrank MirFrancisco Santos Miranda is an American mixed martial artist, as well as a black belt in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu and Kenpō Karate, who competes in the heavyweight division of the Ultimate Fighting Championship. He is a former UFC Heavyweight Champion and a former UFC Interim Heavyweight Champion...
, MMA fighter (UFC) - Frank MocklerFrank MocklerFrank Carpenter Mockler was an American attorney who served as the 47th Governor of American Samoa. Mockler was the county attorney for Fremont County, Wyoming. He was Speaker of the Wyoming House of Representatives in 1951. He was Secretary of American Samoa under John Morse Haydon...
, 47th Governor of American Samoa - Frank MorenoFrank MorenoFrank Esteban Moreno García is a retired Cuban judoka, who represented his native country twice at the Summer Olympics. He won several medals during his career at the Pan American Games in the Men's Heavyweight division.-References:*...
(born 1965), Cuban judoka - Frank MullerFrank MullerFrank Muller was a stage and television actor, but was most famous as an audiobook narrator.-Early life:Muller was born in The Netherlands, the eldest of five children. His family emigrated to the United States when he was five.-Career:Muller was a classically trained actor who began his career...
(1951–2008), Dutch audio book narrator and actor - Frank MüllerFrank MüllerFrank Müller is a retired male decathlete from Germany. He twice competed at the Summer Olympics for his native country . Müller set his personal best in the men's decathlon on July 22, 2000 in Salzgitter.-Achievements:-References:*...
(born 1968), German decathlete - Frank RijkaardFrank RijkaardFranklin Edmundo Rijkaard is a Dutch football manager of Dutch and Surinamese descent and former player. Rijkaard has played for Ajax, Real Zaragoza and Milan, and represented his national side 73 times, scoring 10 goals. In his coaching career, he has been at the helm of the Dutch national side,...
, Dutch football player and manager - Frank RobinsonFrank RobinsonFrank Robinson , is a former Major League Baseball outfielder and manager. He played from 1956–1976, most notably for the Cincinnati Reds and the Baltimore Orioles. He is the only player to win league MVP honors in both the National and American Leagues...
, Hall of Fame North American baseball player and manager - Frank SchillingFrank SchillingFrank Schilling is a Cayman Islands based 'Internet Investor' whose portfolio of domain names is one of the largest privately owned, and estimated to be valued in the vicinity of $500 million dollars.-Early Years:...
, Domain Name and Internet investor - Frank Thomas (disambiguation):
- Frank Thomas (designated hitter), Major League Baseball player in the American League from 1990 to 2008
- Frank Thomas (outfielder), Major League Baseball player in the National League from 1951 to 1966
- Frank Thomas (American football) (1898–1954)
- Frank Thomas (animator)Frank Thomas (animator)Franklin M. "Frank" Thomas was an American animator. He was one of Walt Disney's team of animators known as the Nine Old Men....
(1912–2004), one of Walt Disney's team of animators known as the Nine Old Men - Frank Thomas (comics)Frank Thomas (comics)Frank Thomas was a Golden Age American cartoonist who worked primarily for Centaur Publications.For Centaur he created The Eye, Chuck Hardy, Dr. Hypno, and Solarman . Later in his career, he worked for Dell on The Owl, Billy and Bonnie Bee, Buddies and other characters...
(1914–1968), American cartoonist; creator of The Eye and Fantom of the Fair amongst others - Frank M. ThomasFrank M. ThomasFrank Marion Thomas , was an American actor on the stage, screen and television.Born in St. Joseph, Missouri, to Jesse and Virginia Thomas, he first appeared on Broadway in 1914. Thomas also played many supporting roles in films from the 1930s through the 1970s...
(1889–1989), American actor
See also
- Franc (disambiguation)Franc (disambiguation)Franc or francs may refer to:* French name for the Franks* franc, the name of several currency units* Francs, a commune of the Gironde département, in France...
- FranckFranck- People :* César Franck , Belgian composer of the Romantic era* George Franck , University of Minnesota & New York Giant* Harry A...
- Franks (disambiguation)Franks (disambiguation)The Franks were medieval Germanic tribes.Franks may also refer to:* French people in the context of medieval Middle Eastern history* USS Franks , a United States Navy warship...
- Frank CooperFrank Cooper (company)Frank Cooper's is a UK brand of marmalades and jams owned by Premier Foods. Frank Cooper's is known primarily for its "Oxford" Marmalade and holds a Royal Warrant.-Oxford High Street:...
, British Oxford-based marmalade manufacturer