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Franglish
Franglish is the stage name of Gédéon Mundele Ngolo, born 1994 in Paris, a French singer and rapper blending R&B, rap, and Congolese-rooted afro-pop, with four top-10 albums and five diamond singles.
Frangula alnus
Frangula alnus (alder buckthorn, glossy buckthorn; syn. Rhamnus frangula), a Rhamnaceae shrub native from Europe to Central Siberia and NW Africa, used for laxative bark and gunpowder charcoal, and a highly invasive North American weed.
Franjo Marković
Franjo Marković (1845–1914) was a Croatian philosopher, poet, and theater critic who became the first professor of philosophy at the restored University of Zagreb in 1874.
Franjo Rački
Franjo Rački (1828–1894) was a Croatian historian, politician, and first president of the Yugoslav Academy of Sciences and Arts, regarded as the father of modern critical Croatian historiography.
Franjo Tuđman
Franjo Tuđman was a Croatian politician who founded the Croatian Democratic Union and served as the first president of Croatia from 1990 until his death in 1999.
Franjo von Allmen
Franjo von Allmen (born 2001, Zweisimmen, Switzerland) is a Swiss downhill and super-G skier who won three gold medals at the 2026 Milan Cortina Olympics and the 2025 world downhill title.
Frank (Amy Winehouse album)
Frank is Amy Winehouse's debut studio album, released 20 October 2003 on Island Records, produced mainly by Salaam Remi and named after Frank Sinatra; it blends jazz vocals with hip-hop and neo-soul, was Mercury Prize-nominated, and went double platinum in the UK.
Frank (film)
Frank (film) is a 2014 comedy-drama directed by Lenny Abrahamson, where Michael Fassbender stars as Frank, an enigmatic musician in an avant-garde band loosely inspired by Frank Sidebottom.
Frank (lizard)
Frank was an Asian water monitor lizard best known for playing Mrs. Kipling on the Disney Channel series Jessie from 2011 to 2015, a role he reprised in Bunk'd.
Frank & Lola
Frank & Lola is a 2016 psychosexual noir romance, Matthew Ross's directorial debut, starring Michael Shannon and Imogen Poots as a Las Vegas chef and designer; premiered at Sundance, released December 9, 2016.
Frank & Louis
Frank & Louis is a 2026 Swiss-British prison drama, Petra Volpe's English-language debut, starring Kingsley Ben-Adir and Rob Morgan. Inspired by California's Gold Coat prison caregiver program, it premiered at Sundance 2026 and won the Locarno Audience Award.
Frank A. Chervenak
Frank A. Chervenak is an obstetrician-gynecologist and maternal-fetal medicine specialist known for fetal ultrasound diagnosis and a systematic ethics framework for obstetrics, elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2011.
Frank A. Fetter
Frank A. Fetter (Frank Albert Fetter) was an American economist at Princeton from 1911 to 1931 who developed subjectivist theories of value, rent, and interest.
Frank A. Finnerty
Frank A. Finnerty, Jr. (1924–2011) was an American physician-scientist in cardiology based in Washington, D.C., who studied hypertension and its drug treatment and the hypertensive disorders of pregnancy.
Frank A. Lederle
Frank A. Lederle is an American physician-scientist in internal medicine who led the VA's ADAM and OVER trials, which changed abdominal aortic aneurysm treatment guidelines.
Frank A. Oski
Frank A. Oski was an American pediatrician and hematologist who directed the Johns Hopkins Children's Center from 1985 to 1995 and researched infant anemia and iron deficiency.
Frank A. Riddick Jr
Frank Adams Riddick Jr. (1931–2014) was an American endocrinologist and physician-executive who led the Ochsner Clinic in New Orleans as CEO from 1975 to 1992.
Frank A. Sinicrope
Frank A. Sinicrope is a gastrointestinal medical oncologist and Professor of Medicine and Oncology at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, known for work on Lynch syndrome colorectal cancer and immunotherapy biomarkers.
Frank A. Sloan
Frank A. Sloan, born 1942 in Greensboro, North Carolina, is an American health economist and longtime Duke University professor who studies how policy and incentives shape health care.
Frank A. von Hippel
Frank A. von Hippel is an American professor of environmental health sciences at the University of Arizona, where he leads the One Health research initiative.
Frank Abagnale
Frank William Abagnale Jr. (born 1948, Bronx), American security consultant and subject of Catch Me If You Can (1980 memoir with Stan Redding; 2002 Spielberg film). Court, bank, and prison records contradict most claimed exploits, including the $2.5 million check fraud and FBI employment.
Frank Adams
Frank Adams, born John Frank Adams, was a British algebraic topologist who introduced the Adams spectral sequence and Adams operations, and held chairs at Manchester and Cambridge.
Frank Alden Bovey
Frank Alden Bovey (1918–2003) was an American polymer chemist at Bell Laboratories who pioneered NMR spectroscopy of polymers and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1975.
Frank Allgöwer
Frank Allgöwer is a German control theorist, professor of mechanical engineering, and director of the Institute for Systems Theory and Automatic Control at the University of Stuttgart.
Frank Ambrose Beach
Frank Ambrose Beach (1911–1988) was an American psychobiologist, a principal founder of behavioral endocrinology, who wrote the field's first compendium, Hormones and Behavior (1948), and co-founded its journal.
Frank Amyot
Frank (Francis) Amyot (1904-1962), Canadian sprint canoeist who won the C-1 1000m gold at Berlin 1936 in 5:32.1, Canada's only gold at those Games, after self-funding his trip.
Frank and Percy
Frank and Percy is a British comedy-drama, also known as a 2023 two-hander play by Ben Weatherill, about two older dog walkers on Hampstead Heath who fall in love. Ian McKellen and Roger Allam starred in the play and its 2026 Sean Mathias film adaptation, released in UK cinemas in early 2027.
Frank Anguissa
André-Frank Zambo Anguissa, Cameroonian midfielder born 1995 in Younde, plays for Napoli in Serie A after Fulham and Villarreal; 168 Napoli appearances, 15 goals, multiple league titles, Cameroon international.
Frank Armstrong Crawford Vanderbilt
Frank Armstrong Crawford Vanderbilt (1839–1885), Mobile-born second wife of Cornelius Vanderbilt, married him in 1869 and is credited with inspiring his $1 million 1873 founding gift to Vanderbilt University.
Frank Austin Gooch
Frank Austin Gooch (1852–1929) was an American analytical chemist and longtime Yale professor of chemistry, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1897 and known for the Gooch crucible.