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Frank M. Bengel
Frank M. Bengel (Frank Bengel), born 1969, is a German nuclear medicine physician and professor at Hannover Medical School since 2011, known for pioneering cardiac PET and molecular heart imaging.
Frank M. Chapman
Frank M. Chapman was an American ornithologist who spent 54 years at the American Museum of Natural History and studied the distribution of North and South American birds.
Frank M. Hull
Frank M. Hull (born 1948) is an American jurist serving as a senior judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit since 2017.
Frank M. LaFerla
Frank M. LaFerla is an American neurobiologist who is dean of biological sciences at UC Irvine and created the 3xTg-AD mouse model of Alzheimer's disease.
Frank M. Raushel
Frank M. Raushel (born 1949) is an American biochemist and Distinguished Professor at Texas A&M University since 1980, known for enzyme catalysis, orphan enzyme discovery, and detoxifying nerve agents.
Frank M. Richter
Frank M. Richter (Frank Morris Richter) is an American geophysicist and experimental petrologist at the University of Chicago, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2001.
Frank M. Sacks
Frank M. Sacks is a Harvard professor of cardiovascular disease prevention who designed the DASH diet trial and led the OmniHeart, PoundsLost, and MIND trials.
Frank Mackey
Frank Jay Mackey (1852-1927), American financier and polo player, founder of Household Finance; won 1900 Paris Olympic polo gold with Britain's Foxhunters Hurlingham; built Minneapolis's Leamington Hotel.
Frank Madeo
Frank Madeo, born 1967 in Schwerte, Germany, is a molecular biologist and professor at the University of Graz known for discovering yeast cell death and spermidine's lifespan-extending effects.
Frank Maley
Frank Maley is an American biochemist at the New York State Department of Health in Albany, known for discovering the first intron in a bacteriophage gene.
Frank Marshall (filmmaker)
Frank Marshall (born 1946) is an American film producer and director, co-founder of Amblin Entertainment and The Kennedy/Marshall Company, producer of Raiders of the Lost Ark and the Bourne series, and 2018 Thalberg Award recipient.
Frank Martin
Frank Hugo Martin (1885-1962), Swedish army officer and show jumper; won Olympic team jumping gold at Antwerp 1920 riding Kohort with König, von Rosen, and Norling; later a Svenska Dagbladet journalist.
Frank Martin (basketball)
Frank Martin (Francisco Jose Martin), Cuban-American college basketball coach at Kansas State, South Carolina, and UMass; 352-264 career record and 2017 Final Four; fired at South Carolina in 2022 with a $3 million buyout.
Frank Martin (boxer)
Frank "The Ghost" Martin (born 1995), Detroit-born American southpaw boxer based in Indianapolis; record 19-1-1 (13 KOs). Lost an eighth-round KO to Gervonta Davis in a 2024 WBA lightweight title fight, now a Top Rank super lightweight contender.
Frank Martinus Arion
Frank Martinus Arion, born Frank Efraim Martinus, was a Dutch-Caribbean writer, poet, and linguist from Curaçao, one of the most important Caribbean authors writing in Dutch.
Frank Mason III
Frank Mason III (born 1994) is an American basketball guard; Kansas 2017 unanimous National Player of the Year, drafted 34th overall by Sacramento in 2017, and 2019-20 NBA G League MVP.
Frank Matthews (drug trafficker)
Frank Matthews, aka Black Caesar (born 1944), American heroin and cocaine kingpin of the late 1960s and early 1970s who ran a 21-state network, jumped $325,000 bail in 1973 with an estimated $20 million and girlfriend Cheryl Brown, and has never been found.
Frank Mccabe
Frank McCabe (Frank Reilly McCabe, 1927-2021), American 6-foot-8 center, Marquette University graduate and Peoria Caterpillars AAU player who won basketball gold for the United States at the 1952 Helsinki Olympics.
Frank McClean
Frank McClean (1837–1904) was a British civil engineer who retired in 1870 and devoted his life to astronomical spectroscopy, inventing a widely used star spectroscope and surveying stellar spectra over the whole sky.
Frank McCormick
Frank McCormick, also known as Francis Patrick McCormick, is an American cancer biologist at UCSF who studies RAS proteins and founded Onyx Pharmaceuticals, which developed sorafenib.
Frank McCourt
Frank McCourt (Francis McCourt, 1930–2009), Irish-American memoirist and New York teacher, author of Angela's Ashes (1996), winner of the 1997 Pulitzer Prize for Biography; also wrote 'Tis and Teacher Man.
Frank McCourt (executive)
Frank H. McCourt Jr., American real estate and sports executive; former Los Angeles Dodgers owner (2004-2012, bankruptcy, $2.15B sale), owner of Olympique de Marseille, executive chairman of McCourt Global, and founder of Project Liberty and the TikTok People's Bid.
Frank McGrath (actor)
Frank McGrath (Benjamin Franklin McGrath, 1903-1967) was an American character actor and stuntman from Mound City, Missouri, known as cook Charlie Wooster on Wagon Train (1957-1965) and as Warner Baxter's stunt double.
Frank McKeon
Frank McKeon is an American stem cell biologist known for cloning the p63 gene and tracing Barrett's esophagus to residual embryonic cells at the gastroesophageal junction.
Frank McSherry
Frank McSherry is an American computer scientist who co-invented differential privacy, led the Naiad and timely dataflow project at Microsoft Research, and is now Chief Scientist at Materialize.
Frank Merle (French mathematician)
Frank Merle, born 1962 in Marseille, is a French mathematician at IHÉS and CY Cergy Paris Université known for blow-up and soliton dynamics of nonlinear PDEs.
Frank Merriam
Frank Finley Merriam (1865–1955), 28th governor of California 1934–1939, Republican; became governor on James Rolph's death, called out the National Guard in the 1934 San Francisco General Strike, and defeated Upton Sinclair in 1934 before losing in 1938.
Frank Merrill
Frank Dow Merrill (1903–1955), American major general, West Point class of 1929 and Japanese-language officer, commanded the 5307th Composite Unit, Merrill's Marauders, in Burma 1944, capturing Myitkyina airfield before heart trouble ended his field command.
Frank Michael Wahl
Frank-Michael Wahl, called Potti, born 1956 in Rostock, is a retired German handball left back, 1980 Olympic champion with East Germany, and Germany's record international with 344 caps and 1,412 goals.
Frank Miller
Frank Miller (born 1957) is an American comic book writer and artist known for Daredevil, Ronin, Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, Sin City, and 300, whose noir style helped bring mature themes into mainstream superhero comics.