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Frank Klepacki
Frank Klepacki (born 1974, Las Vegas) is an American video game composer and audio director, famed for Westwood's Command & Conquer scores and "Hell March"; Petroglyph audio director, solo Rocktronic album series, Tiberian Sons live band.
Frank Kriz
Frank Kriz (Frank Josef Kriz, 1894–1955), American Sokol gymnast and New York firefighter; won vault gold at the 1924 Paris Olympics (9.980) and competed in 1920, 1924, and 1928.
Frank L. H. Brown
Frank L. H. Brown is a theoretical and computational chemist at the University of California, Santa Barbara, who studies biomembrane dynamics and single-molecule fluorescence spectroscopy.
Frank L. Lewis
Frank L. Lewis is an American control and systems engineer who holds an endowed chair at the University of Texas at Arlington and applies reinforcement learning to optimal control.
Frank L. Parker
Frank L. Parker was an American environmental engineer who specialized in radioactive waste disposal at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, the IAEA, and Vanderbilt University, joining the National Academy of Engineering in 1988.
Frank Lampard
Frank Lampard, English manager and former midfielder (born 1978), Chelsea's record scorer with 211 goals and 106 England caps; managed Derby, Chelsea twice, Everton, and Coventry City, winning the 2025-26 Championship.
Frank Langdon
Dr. Frank Langdon is a fictional senior emergency-medicine resident at Pittsburgh Trauma Medical Center in Max's The Pitt (2025), played by Patrick Ball; Robby's "heir apparent" whose secret opioid addiction drives his season-one downfall and season-two rehab return.
Frank Langella
Frank Langella is an American stage and film actor with a six-decade career, four Tony Awards (per Screen Daily), Broadway Dracula and Frost/Nixon, and an Oscar nomination for the 2008 Frost/Nixon film.
Frank LaRose
Frank LaRose is an American Republican politician who has served as Ohio's 51st Secretary of State since 2019, after serving in the Ohio State Senate.
Frank Laubach
Frank Laubach (1884–1970) was an American Congregational missionary who founded the Each One Teach One method and Laubach Literacy, credited with teaching perhaps 100 million people to read.
Frank Lausche
Frank Lausche, also known as Frank John Lausche, was a Democratic politician from Cleveland, Ohio, elected to a record five terms as governor between 1945 and 1957.
Frank Lautenberg
Frank Raleigh Lautenberg (1924-2013), New Jersey Democratic senator 1982-2001 and 2003-2013, ADP cofounder, last WWII veteran in the Senate; wrote the airline smoking ban, drinking age 21 law, and Lautenberg refugee amendment.
Frank Leahy
Frank Leahy (1908–1973), American college football coach at Boston College and Notre Dame, 107-13-9 (.864), second behind Rockne; four national championships (1943, 1946, 1947, 1949), T-formation innovator, Hall of Fame 1970.
Frank Leboeuf
Frank Leboeuf (Lebœuf), born 1968 in Marseille, French centre-back; Chelsea 1996-2001 (204 games, 2 FA Cups, Cup Winners' Cup), 50 France caps, 1998 World Cup and Euro 2000 winner, later actor and pundit.
Frank Leibfarth
Frank Leibfarth is an American polymer chemist at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill who develops catalysts for plastic upcycling and PFAS removal.
Frank Lentini
Frank Lentini (Francesco A. Lentini, 1889-1966), Sicilian-American sideshow performer born with a parasitic twin giving him three legs, four feet, and sixteen toes; billed the Three-Legged Football Player, he toured Ringling Bros. and Barnum, kicking soccer balls with his third leg.
Frank Leverett
Frank Leverett (1859–1943) was an American glacial geologist with the United States Geological Survey who mapped the Midwest's Pleistocene glacial deposits and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1929.
Frank Lewis
Frank Wyatt Lewis (1912–1998) was an American freestyle wrestler who won the welterweight gold medal at the 1936 Berlin Olympics, the only American wrestling champion at those Games.
Frank Lloyd Wright
Frank Lloyd Wright, born Frank Lincoln Wright, was an American architect who designed more than 1,100 buildings, including Fallingwater and the Guggenheim Museum, and pioneered organic architecture.
Frank Loesche
Frank Loesche is a computer scientist turned neuroscientist and electromechanical engineer at Janelia Research Campus, known for instrumentation for measuring fly behavior and large-scale Drosophila connectome projects.
Frank Loesser
Frank Loesser (1910–1969), American composer-lyricist of Guys and Dolls and How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying; Oscar for "Baby, It's Cold Outside," 1962 Pulitzer Prize, five Broadway musicals.
Frank Loomis
Frank Loomis (Frank Farmer Loomis Jr., 1896-1971), American hurdler of Chicago AA; won 1920 Antwerp Olympic 400m hurdles gold in world record 54.0, breaking Charles Bacon's 12-year-old 55.0 record.
Frank Lowy
Frank Lowy, also known as Sir Frank Lowy, is a Slovak-born Australian property developer who co-founded Westfield and built it into the world's largest retail-property group.
Frank Lubin
Frank Lubin (Pranas Lubinas, 1910–1999) was an American-Lithuanian basketball center who won the first Olympic basketball gold with the USA at the 1936 Berlin Games.
Frank Lucas
Frank Lucas (1930–2019) was an American drug trafficker who ran a major heroin operation in Harlem in the 1960s and 1970s, inspiring the film American Gangster.
Frank Lucas (Oklahoma politician)
Frank D. Lucas is an American Republican politician who has represented Oklahoma's 3rd congressional district in the U.S. House since 2003, after the 6th from 1993.
Frank Luck
Frank Luck (born 1967, Schmalkalden) is a German biathlete who competed for East Germany and Germany, winning Olympic relay gold in 1994 and 1998, three Olympic silvers, and 11 World Championship titles, retiring after the 2004 Oberhof relay.
Frank Luke
Frank Luke Jr. was an American World War I fighter pilot, nicknamed the "Arizona Balloon Buster," who shot down 14 balloons and 4 airplanes in 17 days.
Frank Luntz
Frank Luntz, American Republican pollster and communications consultant, pioneer of Instant Response dial focus groups, pollster for the 1994 Contract with America, popularizer of "death tax" and "climate change."
Frank Lyko
Frank Lyko is a German molecular biologist who heads the Division of Epigenetics at the German Cancer Research Center in Heidelberg, studying DNA methylation in cancer.