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Frank H. Knight
Frank H. Knight was an American economist at the University of Chicago whose 1921 book Risk, Uncertainty and Profit distinguished risk from uncertainty, founding modern profit theory.
Frank H. L. Koppens
Frank H. L. Koppens (Frank Koppens), born 1976, is a Dutch physicist who leads the Quantum Nano-Optoelectronics group at ICFO near Barcelona and studies graphene photonics.
Frank H. Ruddle
Frank H. Ruddle, known as Frank Ruddle, was an American molecular biologist and Sterling Professor at Yale who pioneered human gene mapping and created the first transgenic mice.
Frank H. Seay
Frank Howell Seay, born in 1938, is an American jurist serving as a senior judge on the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Oklahoma since 1979.
Frank H. Stillinger
Frank H. Stillinger is an American theoretical chemist who spent four decades at Bell Laboratories before moving to Princeton, known for water simulations, the Stillinger-Weber potential, and inherent structure theory.
Frank Hahn
Frank Hahn (1925–2013) was a British economic theorist and Cambridge professor who worked at the center of general equilibrium theory and criticized its inability to include money.
Frank Hall
Frank Hall (1865-1939), American trap shooter with the New York Athletic Club; won team trap gold for the United States at Stockholm 1912 and placed 15th in the individual trap; distinct from boxer Frank Haller and Canadian sailor Frank Hall.
Frank Hamer
Frank Hamer (Francis Augustus Hamer, 1884-1955) was a Texas Ranger captain who led the 102-day manhunt and six-man posse that ambushed Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow in Louisiana on May 23, 1934, later winning a defamation suit over his 1967 film portrayal.
Frank Hamilton
Frank Hamilton (William Franklin Hamilton, 1883–1955), American sprinter nicknamed Reddy of the Chicago AA; won 1908 Olympic gold in the 1,600 m medley relay, later a physician in Marshalltown, Iowa.
Frank Hannon
Frank Hannon (born 1966, Sacramento) is co-founder and lead guitarist of hard rock band Tesla (Geffen, 1986, over 14 million US albums) and a solo artist whose 2025 phone-recorded instrumental album Reflections followed the death of his father-in-law, Dickey Betts.
Frank Hansen
Frank Hansen: Norwegian rower (born 1945, Oslo), Olympic double sculls gold 1976 with brother Alf and silver 1972 with Svein Thøgersen, three world titles; also Francis Louis Hansen, US bobsledder, 16th in four-man at Sarajevo 1984.
Frank Harary
Frank Harary (1921–2005) was an American mathematician known as the father of modern graph theory, based at the University of Michigan and New Mexico State University.
Frank Hardy
Frank Hardy, born Francis Joseph Hardy (1917–1994), was an Australian novelist and communist activist whose 1950 novel Power Without Glory prompted one of Australia's most prominent criminal libel trials.
Frank Havens
Frank Havens (1924-2018), American sprint canoer, four-time Olympian; silver in C-1 10,000 m at London 1948, gold at Helsinki 1952 in 57:41.1; son of Bill Havens Sr., brother of Bill Jr.
Frank Henry
Frank Sherman Henry (1909-1989), US Army officer and equestrian, won gold in team eventing plus silver in individual eventing and team dressage at London 1948, the only American equestrian with three medals at one Olympics.
Frank Henter
Frank Henter is a German former swimmer from Dortmund who finished seventh in the 50 meters freestyle final for West Germany at the 1988 Seoul Olympics.
Frank Herbert
Frank Herbert (1920–1986), American science fiction author and journalist, creator of Dune (1965), the desert-planet epic that won the Nebula, shared the 1966 Hugo, sold about 20 million copies, and launched a six-novel series.
Frank Herbert's Children of Dune
Frank Herbert's Children of Dune is a three-episode, 4-hour-19-minute Sci Fi Channel miniseries, the sequel to the 2000 miniseries Frank Herbert's Dune, directed by Greg Yaitanes.
Frank Herbert's Dune
Frank Herbert's Dune is the three-part 2000 Sci Fi Channel miniseries written and directed by John Harrison, starring William Hurt and Alec Newman, budgeted at $20 million, Emmy-winning, the most-watched program in the network's history, and remembered as the most faithful screen adaptation of Herbert's 1965 novel.
Frank Hoffmeister
Frank Hoffmeister (born 1965, Erfurt) is a German backstroke swimmer who fled the GDR in Rome in 1984, won 1986 and 1991 World Championship medals, placed fourth in the 1988 Olympic medley relay, and set European short course records.
Frank Hole
Frank Hole (born 1931) is an American Near Eastern archaeologist whose excavations in western Iran produced early evidence for the origins of agriculture and pastoralism.
Frank Holtrup
Frank Holtrup is a molecular-diagnostics executive serving as Chief Technology Officer of Haystack Oncology, a liquid-biopsy company acquired by Quest Diagnostics in 2023, and Managing Director of its Hamburg subsidiary.
Frank Hopkins
Frank T. Hopkins (died 1951), American claimant to frontier and endurance-riding fame, including the 3,000-mile Ocean of Fire Arabian race; investigations found no independent evidence, making the 2004 film Hidalgo's 'true story' basis false.
Frank Horsfall
Frank Lappin Horsfall, Jr. (1906–1971) was an American virologist who achieved the first successful antiviral therapy in animals, an influenza vaccine halving incidence, and the Tamm–Horsfall protein.
Frank Horvat
Frank Horvat, born Francesco Horvat (1928–2020), was a photographer based in France who brought reportage style, street realism, and humor to fashion photography of the late 1950s and 1960s.
Frank Howard (baseball)
Frank Howard, also known as Frank Oliver Howard and nicknamed "The Capital Punisher," was an American baseball player who hit 382 home runs and twice led the American League.
Frank Hu
Frank B. Hu is a nutritional epidemiologist who chairs the Department of Nutrition at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and studies diet, lifestyle, and type 2 diabetes prevention.
Frank Huang
Frank Huang (黄崇仁) was a Taiwanese semiconductor entrepreneur who founded DRAM maker Powerchip Semiconductor in 1994 and rebuilt it as the foundry PSMC, which he chaired until his death in 2026.
Frank Hubner
Frank Hübner (born 1950, Lüdenscheid) is a West German sailor, 1976 Montreal Olympic gold medalist with Harro Bode in the 470 two-person dinghy at Kingston, Ontario; also 1973 and 1975 European Championship medalist.
Frank Hughes
Frank Hughes refers to several athletes: Frank Henry Hughes (1881–1942), American trap shooter with 1924 Olympic gold and bronze; Francis Hughes (1889–1974), Canadian 1928 Olympic marathoner; Frank 'Checker' Hughes, Australian rules premiership player-coach; and a Canadian hockey forward born 1949.