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Frank B. Cortazar
Frank B. Cortazar is an American nephrologist specializing in vasculitis and glomerular disease who founded the New York Nephrology Vasculitis and Glomerular Center in 2019.
Frank B. Gertler
Frank B. Gertler is a cell biologist and Professor of Biology Emeritus at MIT, known for defining the Ena/VASP proteins that regulate actin filament elongation and cell migration.
Frank B. Jewett
Frank B. Jewett (1879–1949) was an American physicist who led engineering of the first transcontinental telephone line and became the first president of Bell Telephone Laboratories.
Frank B. Kellogg
Frank Billings Kellogg was an American lawyer and Republican politician from Minnesota, a US Senator from 1917 to 1923 and Secretary of State from 1925 to 1929.
Frank Bainimarama
Frank Bainimarama (Josaia Voreqe Bainimarama), Fijian military commander who led the 2006 coup, ruled as interim prime minister from 2007, won elections in 2014 and 2018 under his 2013 Constitution, lost power in 2022, and was imprisoned in 2024.
Frank Baltrusch
Frank Baltrusch, born 1964 in Magdeburg, is a German former backstroke swimmer for East Germany who won 200 m backstroke silver at the 1988 Seoul Olympics (1:59.60) and World and European Championship medals for SC Magdeburg.
Frank Bateson
Frank Maine Bateson (1909–2007) was a New Zealand astronomer who led variable star observation in the Southern Hemisphere, founding the Variable Star Section in 1927 and establishing Mount John Observatory.
Frank Beamer
Frank Beamer (born 1946), American college football coach, Virginia Tech head coach 1987-2015 and Murray State 1981-86; 280 career wins, 1999 national title game, Beamerball special teams, Hall of Fame 2018.
Frank Beard (musician)
Frank Lee Beard (June 11, 1949 – August 17, 2026) was the American drummer of Texas boogie-rock trio ZZ Top for 56 years, the only beardless member, master of the Texas shuffle, inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 2004.
Frank Beaurepaire
Frank Beaurepaire (1891-1956), Australian distance freestyle swimmer, three Olympics 1908-1924, three silver and three bronze medals, 15 world records; later founded Beaurepaires tyres and was Lord Mayor of Melbourne.
Frank Belknap Long
Frank Belknap Long (1901-1994), American horror, fantasy, and science-fiction writer of the Weird Tales era and Lovecraft circle; author of "The Hounds of Tindalos" and early Cthulhu Mythos hardcover fiction.
Frank Bello
Frank Bello (Frank Joseph Bello, born 1965, Bronx, New York) is the bassist of thrash metal band Anthrax, which he joined in 1984 replacing Dan Lilker; he left in 2004, returned in 2005, and plays Altitudes & Attitude side project.
Frank Benford
Frank Benford (Frank Albert Benford Jr.) was an American electrical engineer and physicist at General Electric who in 1938 published Benford's Law, the logarithmic leading-digit distribution.
Frank Bidart
Frank Bidart is an American poet known for dramatic monologues, who won the 2017 National Book Award and 2018 Pulitzer Prize for his collected poems.
Frank Bonner
Frank Bonner, born Frank Woodrow Boers Jr., was an American actor and television director known for playing Herb Tarlek on WKRP in Cincinnati from 1978 to 1982.
Frank Bonsal
Frank Bonsal is an American venture capitalist from Baltimore who co-founded New Enterprise Associates (NEA) in 1978, focusing on life sciences until his retirement in 2003.
Frank Borman
Frank Borman (1928–2023) was an American Air Force officer, NASA astronaut, and airline executive who commanded Gemini 7 and later Apollo 8, the first crewed lunar orbit mission.
Frank Borzage
Frank Borzage (1894–1962) was an American film director who made more than 100 films and won the first Academy Award for Best Director, for 7th Heaven (1927).
Frank Bough
Frank Bough (1933–2020), British BBC television presenter who hosted Grandstand, Nationwide, and launched Breakfast Time in January 1983; sacked in 1988 after a cocaine and sex-workers tabloid scandal; later worked for LWT, Sky, ITV, and LBC radio.
Frank Bowling
Frank Bowling, born Richard Sheridan Franklin Bowling in British Guiana in 1934, is a Guyanese-British painter of large, color-saturated abstract canvases, the first Black artist elected to the Royal Academy.
Frank Bradke
Frank Bradke, born 1969 in Berlin, is a German neuroscientist at the DZNE in Bonn who studies axon growth and won the 2016 Leibniz Prize.
Frank Brewin
Frank Brewin (Frank Gerald Singlehurst Brewin, 1909–1976) was an Indian field hockey fullback who won gold with British India at the 1932 Los Angeles Olympics, playing one match, the 24–1 win over the USA, and later settled in Britain.
Frank Brink Jr.
Frank Brink Jr., an American biophysicist, studied nerve fiber metabolism and worked at The Rockefeller University. He was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1959.
Frank Bruni
Frank Bruni, American journalist and author, longtime New York Times op-ed columnist (first openly gay in that role), chief restaurant critic 2004-2009, now Eugene C. Patterson Professor at Duke's Sanford School and author of The Age of Grievance.
Frank Bruno
Frank Bruno (born 1961), British heavyweight boxer, WBC world heavyweight champion 1995 after beating Oliver McCall; 40-5 record, lost title to Tyson 1996, mental health campaigner.
Frank Buchman
Frank Nathan Daniel Buchman (1878–1961) was an American Lutheran pastor from Pennsylvania who founded the Oxford Group and Moral Re-Armament, a movement that inspired Alcoholics Anonymous.
Frank Buckles
Frank Woodruff Buckles (1901-2011), last surviving American World War I veteran, enlisted at 16 after lying to recruiters, drove ambulances in England and France, and survived 39 months as a Japanese POW in World War II.
Frank Budd
Frank Budd, full name Francis Joseph Budd (1939-2014), American sprinter and NFL wide receiver; 1960 Olympic 100m finalist, world record holder at 100 yards (9.2, 1961) and 220 yards straight (20.0, 1962).
Frank Bunker Gilbreth
Frank Bunker Gilbreth (1868–1924) was an American mechanical engineer and building contractor who, with his wife Lillian, founded motion study, the analysis and elimination of unnecessary movements in work.
Frank C. P. Holstege
Frank C. P. Holstege (born 1966) is a Dutch molecular biologist, professor of Genomics at UMC Utrecht, known for genome-wide transcription studies and pediatric cancer genomics.