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Frank Mir
Frank Mir (born 1979, Las Vegas) is a retired American MMA heavyweight, two-time UFC heavyweight champion, 19-13 record, famous for submitting Brock Lesnar at UFC 81 and losing the UFC 100 rematch.
Frank Montalvo
Frank Montalvo (born 1956) is an American jurist serving as a senior United States district judge for the Western District of Texas, appointed by George W. Bush in 2003.
Frank Montieth
Frank Montieth (Frank Andy Montieth Herrera), Cuban baseball pitcher born 1985 in Palma Soriano; Industriales hurler who won Olympic baseball gold with Cuba at the 2004 Summer Olympics and later pitched in Italy for Athletics Bologna.
Frank Morgan
Frank Morgan (Francis Philip Wuppermann, 1890–1949), American character actor, played five roles including the Wizard in The Wizard of Oz (1939); MGM contract player, two Oscar nominations, radio star.
Frank Morgan Strong
Frank Morgan Strong (1908–1993) was an American biochemist and University of Wisconsin professor who, with Conrad Elvehjem, identified niacin as the food component curing pellagra.
Frank Morley
Frank Morley (1860–1937) was a British-born mathematician at Johns Hopkins University known for Morley's theorem, that angle trisectors of any triangle form an equilateral triangle.
Frank Mulholland, Lord Mulholland
Frank Mulholland, Lord Mulholland, is a Scottish judge, a Senator of the College of Justice since 2016, who earlier served as Solicitor General and then Lord Advocate for Scotland.
Frank Murkowski
Frank Hughes Murkowski (born 1933) is an American Republican politician, Alaska's U.S. senator 1981-2002 and eighth governor 2002-2006, who appointed his daughter Lisa to his Senate seat and lost the 2006 primary to Sarah Palin.
Frank N. von Hippel
Frank N. von Hippel is an American theoretical physicist who co-founded Princeton's Program on Science and Global Security and works on nuclear arms control and nonproliferation.
Frank Neese
Frank Neese, born 1967 in Wiesbaden, is a German theoretical chemist and director at the Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung, best known as developer of the ORCA quantum chemistry program.
Frank Nitti
Frank Nitti (Francesco Raffaele Nitto), "The Enforcer," led the Chicago Outfit after Al Capone's 1931 imprisonment, diversifying into gambling and labor racketeering, and died by suicide in March 1943 under Hollywood extortion indictment.
Frank Noé
Frank Noé, born 1975 in Germany, is a computational scientist at Microsoft Research AI4Science in Berlin who co-pioneered Markov state models and developed deep learning systems for molecular simulation.
Frank Norman Wilson
Frank Norman Wilson (1890–1952) was an American cardiologist at the University of Michigan who created the Wilson central terminal and the precordial lead system underlying the modern 12-lead electrocardiogram.
Frank Ntilikina
Frank Ntilikina, French guard born 1998 in Ixelles, Belgium; 2017 NBA draft No. 8 pick of the Knicks, later Mavericks and Hornets; now Paris Basketball; Olympic silver 2021 and 2024 with France.
Frank O. Lowden
Frank Orren Lowden (1861–1943), Illinois Republican congressman (1906–1911) and governor (1917–1921), reorganized state government, handled the 1919 Chicago race riot, and nearly won the 1920 GOP presidential nomination.
Frank O. Nestlé
Frank O. Nestlé, born 1964, is a dermatologist and immunologist known for his work on psoriasis and melanoma, formerly Mary Dunhill Professor at King's College London.
Frank O'Connor
Frank O'Connor was the pen name of Michael Francis O'Donovan (1903–1966), an Irish writer from Cork best known for short stories and memoirs that established the Irish short story as a major genre.
Frank O'Hara
Frank O'Hara (1926–1966), American poet and MoMA curator, leading New York School figure; wrote Lunch Poems on lunch breaks, won posthumous 1972 National Book Award.
Frank Ocean
Frank Ocean, born Christopher Edwin Breaux in 1987, is an American singer-songwriter of Nostalgia, Ultra, Channel Orange, and Blonde, and a former Odd Future member known for Grammy wins, independent releases, and sparse output since 2016.
Frank Ocean discography
Frank Ocean discography: Nostalgia, Ultra mixtape (2011), Channel Orange (2012, Def Jam), Endless visual album and independent Blonde (2016, Boys Don't Cry), plus singles Chanel, Moon River, DHL, Dear April, Cayendo.
Frank Oliver Glöckner
Frank Oliver Glöckner, born 1969, is a German bioinformatician known for building the SILVA ribosomal RNA database and leading PANGAEA data services at the Alfred Wegener Institute.
Frank Olson
Frank Olson, Army biochemist and Fort Detrick biological warfare researcher (Special Operations Division), covertly dosed with LSD by the CIA in November 1953; died falling from a Statler Hotel window nine days later, a death disputed after the 1994 exhumation.
Frank Oppenheimer
Frank Oppenheimer (Frank Friedman Oppenheimer) was an American particle physicist, younger brother of J. Robert Oppenheimer, who worked on the Manhattan Project and founded the Exploratorium in 1969.
Frank Ostholt
Frank Ostholt, born 1975 in Warendorf, is a German eventing rider who won Olympic team gold at the 2008 Hong Kong Games on Mr. Medicott and the 2006 Aachen world team title, later coaching German youth squads.
Frank Oz
Frank Oz (born Frank Oznowicz, 1944) is an American puppeteer, voice actor, and director, Jim Henson's closest collaborator, performer of Miss Piggy, Bert, Grover, Cookie Monster, Fozzie, Animal, and Yoda, and director of The Dark Crystal, Little Shop of Horrors, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, and In & Out.
Frank P. Geraci, Jr.
Frank P. Geraci, Jr., also known as Frank Paul Geraci, Jr., is an American jurist serving as a senior United States district judge in western New York.
Frank P. Incropera
Frank P. Incropera (born 1939) is an American mechanical engineer and heat transfer researcher, longtime Purdue professor and co-author of Fundamentals of Heat and Mass Transfer.
Frank P. Ramsey
Frank P. Ramsey, also known as Frank Plumpton Ramsey, was a British mathematician, philosopher, and economist at Cambridge who founded Ramsey theory, decision theory, and optimal growth economics before dying in 1930 at 26.
Frank Packer
Sir Frank Packer (1906–1974) was an Australian media proprietor who built Australian Consolidated Press into the country's dominant magazine group and founded the Nine television network.
Frank País
Frank País, also known as Frank País García, was a Cuban revolutionary leader who built the urban underground of Castro's Twenty-Sixth of July Movement and led the Santiago uprising of 1956.