All articles starting with F

Frank DeCicco

Frank DeCicco, known as "Cheech", was an American mobster and underboss of the Gambino crime family under John Gotti, killed by a car bomb in Brooklyn in 1986.

Frank Diedrich

Frank Diedrich is a physicist who led the 1989 NIST experiment first cooling a single trapped atom to the lowest vibrational state allowed by quantum mechanics.

Frank Dillane (born 1991) is a British actor, son of Stephen Dillane and Naomi Wirthner. Known for Tom Riddle in Half-Blood Prince, Nick Clark in Fear the Walking Dead, and Cannes-winning lead in Harris Dickinson's Urchin.

Frank DiMaio

Frank Paul DiMaio is a computational structural biologist and associate professor of biochemistry at the University of Washington's Institute for Protein Design, known for Rosetta cryo-EM refinement and RoseTTAFoldNA.

Frank DiPascali

Frank DiPascali, Jr. was an American finance executive who served as Bernard Madoff's de facto chief financial officer, running the back office that manufactured the firm's fictitious trading.

Frank Dixon

Frank Dixon (Francis Joseph Dixon, nicknamed Tony), Canadian lacrosse player, 1908 London Olympics gold medalist with Canada (14-10 win over Great Britain); St. Catharines Athletics member; died in a 1932 traffic accident. Not the New Orleans Saints figure or the Alabama governor.

Frank Dobson (lichenologist)

Frank S. Dobson, British lichenologist and photographer, author of Lichens: An Illustrated Guide to the British and Irish Species (1979–2018), President of the British Lichen Society 1992–1994, Honorary Member 1997, Ursula Duncan award 2005.

Frank Dooley

Frank Dooley (Frank Martin Dooley III, 1929–2022) was an American swimmer who swam in the preliminary heat of the US 4x200 m freestyle relay at the 1952 Helsinki Olympics.

Frank Drake

Frank Drake (1930–2022) was an American radio astronomer who founded the modern search for extraterrestrial intelligence, led Project Ozma in 1960, and wrote the Drake equation.

Frank Duckworth

Frank Duckworth (1939–2024) was an English statistician who co-invented the Duckworth–Lewis method for setting fair targets in rain-interrupted cricket, and was appointed MBE in 2010.

Frank Dukes

Frank Dukes, stage name of Canadian producer Adam King Feeney (born 1983, Toronto), founder of the Kingsway Music Library sample platform, now recording as Ging; credits include Havana, Drake, The Weeknd, and Taylor Swift.

Frank Dundr

Frank Dundr, born Frank Butz in 1957, is a retired East German rower of SC Dynamo Berlin who won Olympic gold in the men's quadruple sculls at Moscow 1980 and world titles in 1977 and 1978.

Frank Dunster

Frank Dunster (Bernard Francis Dunster, 1921-1995), Canadian ice hockey forward and RCAF Flying Officer, DFC recipient; won 1948 St. Moritz Olympic gold with the RCAF Flyers, distinct from rower Frank Dundr.

Frank Dux

Frank W. Dux (born 1956, Toronto) is the martial artist behind the Kumite story that inspired Bloodsport (1988); his claims of a secret 1975 Bahamas tournament, 56 straight knockouts, and covert CIA work remain unverified and widely disputed.

Frank E. Butler

Frank E. Butler (Francis E. Butler), baptized 1847 in County Longford, Ireland, died 1926, was an Irish-born American exhibition marksman, Buffalo Bill's Wild West performer, and manager-husband of Annie Oakley, whom he met losing an 1875 Cincinnati match.

Frank E. Karasz

Frank E. Karasz (Frank Erwin Karasz, 1933–2026) was an Austrian-born American polymer chemist at the University of Massachusetts Amherst whose group created the first blue-light-emitting polymer.

Frank E. Löffler

Frank E. Löffler is an environmental microbiologist holding the Goodrich Chair at the University of Tennessee, known for anaerobic bacteria that detoxify chlorinated solvents in contaminated groundwater.

Frank E. Osterloh

Frank E. Osterloh is an inorganic chemist and Professor of Chemistry at the University of California, Davis, who studies photocatalysts for artificial photosynthesis, splitting water into hydrogen fuel with sunlight.

Frank E. Pickering

Frank E. Pickering (1931–2009) was an American mechanical engineer who spent his 39-year career at General Electric's aircraft engine business, becoming a GE vice president and chief engineer.

Frank E. Richart Jr.

Frank E. Richart Jr., known as Bill Richart, was an American civil engineer who helped define soil dynamics and was a University of Michigan professor elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1969.

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Frank E. Speizer

Frank E. Speizer (born 1935) is an American epidemiologist at Harvard who founded the Nurses' Health Study and led the Harvard Six Cities air pollution study.

Frank E. Talke

Frank E. Talke is a mechanical engineer at UC San Diego known for pioneering hard-disk-drive tribology and elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1999.

Frank E. Young

Frank E. Young (1931–2019) was an American physician-scientist and bacteriologist who served as FDA Commissioner from 1984 to 1989 and later worked in healthcare venture capital.

Frank Eisenhauer

Frank Eisenhauer is a German physicist and director at the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics who built the instruments that proved the Milky Way's central black hole.

Frank Elmore Ross

Frank Elmore Ross (1874–1960) was an American astronomer and optical designer at Yerkes Observatory, known for proper-motion star lists, Ross variables, and the Ross corrector.

Frank Erwin Center

Frank Erwin Center, nicknamed the Drum, was UT Austin's 1977 multipurpose arena and Longhorn basketball home until 2022; demolished 2024 after Moody Center replaced it.

Frank F. Aplan

Frank F. Aplan (1923–2020) was an American mineral processing engineer and world authority on flotation, a Distinguished Professor at Penn State elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1989.

Frank F. Furstenberg Jr.

Frank F. Furstenberg Jr., born Frank Folke Furstenberg Jr. in 1940, is an American sociologist at the University of Pennsylvania known for the Baltimore Study of teenage childbearing.

Frank Fang

Frank F. Fang (方复) is a condensed-matter physicist who spent 1960 to 1993 at IBM's Watson Research Center, pioneering two-dimensional quantum transport in silicon inversion layers.