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Frank Hunter
Frank Hunter, born Francis Townsend Hunter, was an American tennis player who won Olympic doubles gold in 1924 and five major doubles titles in the 1920s.
Frank Hurley
Frank Hurley (James Francis Hurley, 1885–1962), Australian photographer and filmmaker, official photographer on the Australasian Antarctic Expedition and Shackleton's Endurance expedition, composite-print pioneer, and AIF official war photographer in both world wars.
Frank Hussey
Frank Hussey was an American sprinter who won gold as lead-off runner on the US 4 × 100 m relay team at the 1924 Paris Olympics.
Frank Iero
Frank Iero (born 1981, Belleville, NJ), also known as frnkiero, is the rhythm guitarist of My Chemical Romance and frontman of Pencey Prep, Leathermouth, and L.S. Dunes; his solo albums Stomachaches, Parachutes, and Barriers each carried a new band name.
Frank Ifield
Frank Ifield was a British-born Australian country and pop singer known for his yodeling and for topping the UK charts with the 1962 hit "I Remember You".
Frank Irons
Frank Irons (Francis Cleveland Irons, 1886-1942), American long jumper for Chicago AA; won 1908 Olympic long jump gold with 7.48 m Olympic record, AAU champion 1909-10, ninth at Stockholm 1912.
Frank J. Dixon
Frank J. Dixon (1920–2008) was an American immunologist who founded immunopathology and directed the Scripps research program in La Jolla, winning the 1975 Lasker Award.
Frank J. Feely Jr.
Frank J. Feely Jr. was an American engineer at Exxon Corporation who was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1979 in the Materials section.
Frank J. Gonzalez
Frank J. Gonzalez is an American molecular toxicologist and senior investigator at the National Cancer Institute in Bethesda, known for P450 knockout and humanized mouse models of cancer susceptibility.
Frank J. Low
Frank J. Low, born Francis James McFadden, was an American infrared astronomer who invented the germanium bolometer in 1961 and spent his career at the University of Arizona.
Frank J. Millero
Frank J. Millero (1939–2025) was an American marine physical chemist who spent 49 years at the University of Miami and shaped how seawater is measured worldwide.
Frank J. Mrvan
Frank J. Mrvan, born 1969, is an American Democrat serving as U.S. Representative for Indiana's 1st district since 2021, after 15 years as North Township Trustee.
Frank J. Rauscher
Frank J. Rauscher is an American molecular biologist at The Wistar Institute known for defining the Fos–AP-1 DNA binding site and showing WT1 is a transcriptional repressor.
Frank J. Schuh
Frank Joseph Schuh (1935–2020) was an American petroleum drilling engineer who pioneered horizontal drilling, held 29 patents, and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1989.
Frank J. Sciulli
Frank J. Sciulli is an experimental particle physicist at Columbia University's Nevis Laboratories, known for Fermilab neutrino experiments, CCFR nucleon structure measurements, and the ZEUS detector at DESY in Hamburg.
Frank J. Sprague
Frank J. Sprague (Frank Julian Sprague) was an American electrical engineer, called the father of electric traction, who built the first large electric street railway in Richmond, Virginia.
Frank J. Stevenson
Frank J. Stevenson (1922–2015) was an American soil chemist at the University of Illinois, a pioneer of soil organic matter research and a Wolf Prize in Agriculture laureate.
Frank J. Tipler
Frank J. Tipler (born 1947) is an American mathematical physicist at Tulane University known for work in general relativity and for The Physics of Immortality (1994), setting out his Omega Point theory.
Frank Jack Fletcher
Frank Jack Fletcher (April 1885–1973), American admiral, Medal of Honor recipient at Veracruz 1914, commanded Task Force 17 at Coral Sea, Midway, and Eastern Solomons, the first three carrier battles; reputation later rehabilitated by Lundstrom.
Frank Jackson (basketball)
Frank Jackson (Franklin Willis Jackson, born 1998) is an American basketball guard from Lone Peak High School and Duke, drafted 31st overall in 2017 by Charlotte and traded to New Orleans; he played 214 NBA games, averaging 8.5 points.
Frank James
Frank James (Alexander Franklin James, 1843-1915), older brother of Jesse James, Confederate guerrilla with Quantrill at Lawrence, James-Younger Gang bank and train robber, acquitted at 1883 Gallatin trial, later Wild West showman.
Frank Jarvis
Frank Washington Jarvis (1878-1933), American sprinter and lawyer, Princeton graduate; won the 1900 Paris Olympic 100 m gold in 11.0 s and equalled the 10.8 s world record in the heats.
Frank John Hughes
Frank John Hughes (born 1967, Bronx) is an American actor and screenwriter known for Wild Bill Guarnere in Band of Brothers, Tom Fox in Catch Me If You Can, Walden Belfiore in The Sopranos, and Tim Woods in 24.
Frank Jülicher
Frank Jülicher, born 1965, is a German biological physicist and director at the Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems in Dresden, known for active matter theory.
Frank Kameny
Frank Kameny (Franklin Edward Kameny, 1925–2011), American astronomer and gay rights pioneer. Fired in 1957 from the Army Map Service during the Lavender Scare, he brought the first sexual-orientation civil rights claim to the Supreme Court (Kameny v. Brucker, denied 1961), co-founded the Mattachine Society of Washington, led the first White House gay rights picket in 1965, coined "Gay is Good," and helped win the 1973 APA delisting of homosexuality and the 1975 end of the federal employment ban.
Frank Kaminsky
Frank Kaminsky (Francis Stanley Kaminsky III, born 1993) is an American 7-foot basketball center, 2015 Wooden Award winner at Wisconsin, ninth overall pick of the Charlotte Hornets, later with the Suns, Hawks, Rockets, Partizan Belgrade, and A Tokyo.
Frank Kelly
Frank Kelly (Francis Declan Kelly, 1938-2016), Irish actor, singer and writer; Father Jack Hackett in Father Ted; household name via Hall's Pictorial Weekly and Wanderly Wagon; distinct from other Frank Kellys.
Frank Kelly (British mathematician)
Frank Kelly, born 1950 in London, is a British mathematician and Cambridge professor whose work on random processes and networks shaped TCP congestion control and telephone network design.
Frank Kenneth Crundwell
Frank Kenneth Crundwell is a South African hydrometallurgist, founder of the consultancy CM Solutions and visiting professor at the University of the Witwatersrand, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2023.
Frank Kirchhoff
Frank Kirchhoff is a German virologist who has directed the Institute of Molecular Virology at the University Clinic Ulm since 2009, known for work on HIV, Nef, and semen factors that enhance infection.