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Frank Faylen
Frank Faylen, born Francis Charles Ruf, was an American character actor known as the male nurse in The Lost Weekend (1945) and the cabdriver Ernie in It's a Wonderful Life (1946).
Frank Fenner
Frank Fenner (1914–2010) was an Australian virologist whose myxomatosis research showed viruses and hosts evolving together, and who chaired the WHO commission certifying smallpox eradicated in 1980.
Frank Ferrer
Frank Ferrer, American rock drummer, longest-serving drummer of Guns N' Roses (2006-2025), played on Chinese Democracy's title track; also of The Psychedelic Furs, Love Spit Love, The Compulsions, and Pisser.
Frank Fertitta III
Frank Fertitta III, Las Vegas casino executive, chairman and CEO of Red Rock Resorts and Station Casinos, who with brother Lorenzo bought the UFC for $2 million in 2001 and sold it for $4 billion in 2016.
Frank Finlay
Frank Finlay (Francis Finlay, 1926–2016) was a British character actor, Oscar-nominated as Iago in Othello (1965), a BAFTA-winning TV lead, Porthos in Lester's Musketeers films, and a 1984 CBE.
Frank Fisher
Frank Fisher (Franklyn Wood Fisher, 1907–1983) was a Canadian ice hockey defenseman who won gold with Canada at the 1928 Winter Olympics and also served there as a referee.
Frank Fitzsimmons
Frank E. Fitzsimmons was an American labor leader who served as president of the Teamsters from 1967 until his death in 1981, succeeding Jimmy Hoffa.
Frank Forberger
Frank Forberger (1943–1998) was a German rower from Meißen, Saxony, who competed for East Germany and won Olympic gold in the coxless fours in 1968 and 1972.
Frank Foss
Frank Foss (Frank Kent Foss, 1895-1989), American pole vaulter; won 1920 Antwerp Olympic gold with 4.09 m world record, first and one of only two men to win Olympic pole vault gold with a world record.
Frank Frazetta
Frank Frazetta (1928–2010), American fantasy illustrator famous for his 1966 Conan the Adventurer cover, Death Dealer, and Tarzan paintings; his Man Ape Conan cover sold for $13.5 million in 2025.
Frank Frederick
Frank Frederick (Francis Harland Frederick, 1907–1968), American rower and UC Berkeley Golden Bear; won gold in the men's eight at the 1928 Amsterdam Olympics; later a mining geologist; distinct from sprinter Frankie Fredericks.
Frank Fredrickson
Frank Fredrickson (Sigurdur Franklin Fredrickson) was a Canadian ice hockey center who captained the Winnipeg Falcons to the first Olympic hockey gold at the 1920 Antwerp Games.
Frank Friday Fletcher
Frank Friday Fletcher (1855–1928), USNA class of 1875, was a U.S. Navy rear admiral who led the 1914 Veracruz landing and won the Medal of Honor; uncle of Admiral Frank Jack Fletcher and namesake of USS Fletcher (DD-445).
Frank G. Clement
Frank Goad Clement (1920–1969), Tennessee Democratic governor 1953–1959 and 1963–1967, 1956 DNC keynote speaker, first southern governor to veto a segregation bill, died in a 1969 car crash.
Frank G. Holz
Frank G. Holz is a German ophthalmologist and professor at the University of Bonn, known for research on age-related macular degeneration and retinal imaging, including fundus autofluorescence.
Frank Gardner (journalist)
Frank Gardner, born 1961, is a British journalist and retired Army Reserve officer who has been the BBC's Security Correspondent since 2002, covering the War on Terror.
Frank Gehry
Frank Gehry (1929–2025), born Frank Owen Goldberg, was a Canadian-born American architect in Los Angeles, famous for the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao and Walt Disney Concert Hall.
Frank Gifford
Frank Gifford (1930-2015), NFL halfback and flanker for the New York Giants, 1956 MVP, Hall of Fame 1977, and longtime Monday Night Football play-by-play voice and analyst from 1971.
Frank Ginn
Frank Ginn is an American Republican politician serving in the Georgia State Senate from the 47th district, previously Franklin County's first county manager and a consulting engineer.
Frank Gioia Jr.
Frank Gioia Jr., aka Frank Capri, is a former Lucchese crime family made man who cooperated with the FBI in the 1990s, helped win 70+ convictions, entered witness protection in 1999, and was later convicted in a $65 million Arizona restaurant fraud.
Frank Glorius
Frank Glorius is an organic chemist and Full Professor at the University of Münster since 2007, known for C–H activation, photocatalysis, and the 2013 Leibniz Prize.
Frank Gohlke
Frank Gohlke, born in 1942, is an American landscape photographer known for grain elevators, tornado damage, and the aftermath of the Mount St. Helens eruption.
Frank Gore
Frank Gore, NFL running back 2005-20 (49ers, Colts, Dolphins, Bills, Jets), third all-time with 16,000 rushing yards, 49ers franchise leader, five-time Pro Bowler, now a 49ers personnel advisor.
Frank Gorshin
Frank Gorshin (April 5, 1933 – May 17, 2005), American actor, comedian, and impressionist from Pittsburgh; Emmy-nominated as the Riddler on the 1966–68 Batman series and Star Trek's Commissioner Bele, later starring as George Burns on Broadway.
Frank Greer
Frank Bartholomew Greer (1879-1943), American sculler of the East Boston Amateur Athletic Boat Club; won gold in the men's single sculls at the 1904 St. Louis Olympics in 10:08.50 and NAAO titles in 1903, 1905, and 1908.
Frank Grillo
Frank Grillo (Frank Anthony Grillo, born 1965, New York City) is an American actor known as Crossbones in the MCU, Rick Flag Sr. in the DCU, Leo Barnes in The Purge films, and star of Kingdom, Wolf Warrior 2, and Boss Level.
Frank Grosveld
Frank Grosveld (1948–2026) was a Dutch molecular biologist who discovered the β-globin locus control region, taught at Erasmus MC Rotterdam, and won the 1995 Spinoza Prize.
Frank H. Easterbrook
Frank H. Easterbrook, born Frank Hoover Easterbrook in 1948, is an American jurist serving as a judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit since 1985.
Frank H. Field
Frank H. Field (1922–2013) was an American chemist who, with Burnaby Munson, developed chemical ionization mass spectrometry at Humble Oil in 1965, later directing mass spectrometry research at Rockefeller University.
Frank H. Herbstein
Frank H. Herbstein (1926–2011) was a South African-born Israeli crystallographer and Technion professor who studied phase transitions in molecular crystals and wrote a two-volume monograph on crystalline molecular complexes.