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Floretyrosine F 18 (Pixclara)

Pixclara (floretyrosine F 18, 18F-FET, TLX101-Px) is Telix's fluorine-18 tyrosine PET tracer, FDA-approved in 2026 (NDA 218592) to differentiate recurrent or progressive glioma from treatment-related change via LAT1/LAT2 uptake.

Florfenicol

Florfenicol (FFC) is a synthetic, fluorinated phenicol antibiotic used exclusively in veterinary medicine, first used in Japan in 1990 to treat bacterial infections in livestock and fish.

Flori de mucigai

Flori de mucigai is a 1931 volume of 25 poems by Romanian writer Tudor Arghezi, drawn from his detention at Văcărești prison and regarded as founding the aesthetics of ugliness in Romanian poetry.

Florian Banhart

Florian Banhart is a German-born physicist and professor at the University of Strasbourg who studies electron irradiation of nanomaterials such as graphene and carbon onions.

Florian Bassermann

Florian Bassermann is a German physician-scientist in hematology and oncology who studies ubiquitin-dependent signaling in cancer, directing Internal Medicine III at TUM's Klinikum rechts der Isar since 2017.

Florian Eichler

Florian S. Eichler is an Austrian-trained pediatric neurologist and Harvard professor at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, known for leading lentiviral gene-therapy trials in cerebral adrenoleukodystrophy published in 2017 and 2024.

Florian Engert

Florian Engert is a systems neuroscientist and Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology at Harvard University who studies neural circuits controlling behavior in larval zebrafish.

Florian Fournier

Florian Fournier is a French technology entrepreneur who co-founded PayFit, a Paris-based cloud payroll and HR software company, in 2015, and later founded the defense startup Orasio in 2025.

Florian Fuchs

Florian Fuchs, born 1991 in Hamburg, is a retired German field hockey forward: Olympic gold 2012 and bronze 2016, European champion 2011 and 2013, four Euro Hockey League titles, 239 caps, 116 goals.

Florian Hahn

Florian Hahn is a German CSU politician who has represented München-Land in the Bundestag since 2009 and became Minister of State at the Foreign Office in 2025.

Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck

Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck (Florian Maria Georg Christian Graf Henckel von Donnersmarck), German director born 1973 in Cologne; Oscar winner for The Lives of Others (2006), director of The Tourist (2010) and Never Look Away (2018).

Florian Hollfelder

Florian Hollfelder is a biochemist who is Professor in Chemical and Synthetic Biology at the University of Cambridge, where his group uses droplet microfluidics for directed evolution of enzymes.

Florian Keller

Florian Keller (born 1981, West Berlin), German field hockey forward of the Keller hockey dynasty; 2008 Beijing Olympic gold medalist with Germany, 2001 Champions Trophy winner, later Germany women's assistant coach. Distinct from the 1976-born DEL ice hockey player of the same name.

Florian Klein

Florian Klein is a German physician-scientist, virologist, and immunologist, professor and director of the Institute of Virology at the University of Cologne since 2017, known for broadly neutralizing antibodies against HIV-1 and SARS-CoV-2.

Florian Krammer

Florian Krammer is a virologist and vaccinologist, the Mount Sinai Professor of Vaccinology since 2019, known for a universal influenza vaccine candidate tested in humans.

Florian Läng

Florian Läng, also known as Florian Lang, is an Austrian-born German physiologist at the University of Tübingen known for research on ion channels, cell volume regulation, and SGK1.

Florian Lordick

Florian Lordick is a German medical oncologist specializing in gastro-esophageal cancer who directs the University Cancer Center Leipzig, led the 2025 ESOPEC trial, and chairs ESMO's gastric cancer guideline group.

Florian Mennigen

Florian Mennigen (born 1982, Ratzeburg) is a German rower, Olympic gold medalist in the men's eight at London 2012, three-time world champion (2009–2011), and 2008 Beijing Olympian; later a sport psychologist.

Florian Müller‐Plathe

Florian Müller-Plathe is a German theoretical physical chemist and professor at Technische Universität Darmstadt, known for reverse non-equilibrium molecular dynamics for transport coefficients and Iterative Boltzmann Inversion for coarse-graining polymer models.

Florian Munteanu

Florian Munteanu, 'Big Nasty', German-Romanian heavyweight boxer and actor (born 1990, Würzburg). Cast by Sylvester Stallone as Viktor Drago in Creed II (2018), later Razor Fist in Shang-Chi (2021), Krieg in Borderlands (2024).

Florian R. Greten

Florian R. Greten, born 1972, is a physician-scientist in oncology known for linking the NF-κB pathway to intestinal tumorigenesis; he has directed Frankfurt's Georg-Speyer-Haus since 2013.

Florian Rousseau

Florian Rousseau, French track cyclist born 1974 in Orléans, triple Olympic champion (1996 kilometer; 2000 keirin and team sprint) and ten-time world champion, later INSEP sprint coach and FFC national technical director.

Florian Schneider

Florian Schneider-Esleben (1947–2020) was a German musician who co-founded Kraftwerk with Ralf Hütter in Düsseldorf in 1970, played flute then synthesizers, patented the Robovox, left the band in 2008, and died of cancer aged 73.

Florian Schweitzer

Florian Schweitzer is a Swiss venture capital investor who cofounded b2venture in St. Gallen in 2000 and, as a partner there, backed DeepL, SumUp, and 1KOMMA5°.

Florian Teichtmeister child pornography scandal

Criminal case against Austrian actor Florian Teichtmeister (Burgtheater, Corsage), who was convicted in Vienna in September 2023 of possessing and producing 76,000 child sexual abuse files and received a two-year suspended sentence.

Florian Thauvin

Florian Thauvin, born 1993 in Orléans, is a French left-footed attacking midfielder and winger for RC Lens, 2018 World Cup winner with France, formerly of Marseille, Newcastle, Tigres, and Udinese.

Florian Trittel

Florian Trittel Paul (born 1994, Münsterlingen, Switzerland) is a Spanish sailor, 49er Olympic gold medallist with Diego Botín at Paris 2024, SailGP Season 4 champion wing trimmer for Los Gallos, and 2024 Rolex World Sailor of the Year.

Florian Wellbrock

Florian Wellbrock, German swimmer (born 1997, Bremen; SC Magdeburg), Olympic 10 km open water champion Tokyo 2020 and 1500 m bronze medalist; 2019 Gwangju double world champion, 2025 Singapore four-gold open water sweep, 2026 European champion.

Florian Wirtz

Florian Richard Wirtz (born 2003) is a German attacking midfielder from Pulheim who starred for Bayer Leverkusen, won the unbeaten 2023/24 Bundesliga, and joined Liverpool in 2025 for £100m.

Florian Xhekaj

Florian Xhekaj, born 2004 in Hamilton, Ontario, is a Canadian left wing in the Montreal Canadiens organization, drafted 101st overall in 2023; brother of Arber Xhekaj, Laval Rocket AHL forward, NHL debut November 22, 2025.