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Frank S. Walsh
Frank S. Walsh is a molecular biologist known for his work on the neural cell adhesion molecule N-CAM and for leading neuroscience drug discovery at Wyeth.
Frank Sargeson
Frank Sargeson, pen name of Norris Frank Davey (1903–1982), was a New Zealand short-story writer, novelist, and playwright who introduced everyday New Zealand speech into the country's literature.
Frank Sauer
Frank Sauer is an American-based German biochemist known for research on epigenetics and transcriptional regulation in the fruit fly Drosophila.
Frank Schell
Frank Reamer Schell (1884–1959), American rower with Vesper Boat Club, Philadelphia; won gold in the men's eight at the 1904 St. Louis Olympics, beating Toronto Argonauts by three lengths, later a U.S. Army officer.
Frank Schepke
Frank Schepke (1935-2017), West German rower of ATV Ditmarsia Kiel; won men's eights gold at the 1960 Rome Olympics in 5:57.18 with brother Kraft; later NPD politician and Kannwas currency initiator.
Frank Schlesinger
Frank Schlesinger (1871–1943) was an American astronomer, called the "Father of Modern Astrometry," who directed the Allegheny and Yale observatories and made photographic stellar parallax measurement routine.
Frank Schluenzen
Frank Schluenzen is a structural biologist who co-determined high-resolution structures of bacterial ribosomal subunits, showing antibiotics bind only RNA, and later worked in scientific computing at DESY.
Frank Schorfheide
Frank Schorfheide is a German econometrician and empirical macroeconomist, professor at the University of Pennsylvania, known for Bayesian estimation of DSGE models and co-creating GDPplus.
Frank Schroeder
Frank C. Schroeder is a German-born chemical biologist at the Boyce Thompson Institute and Cornell University known for discovering ascaroside signaling molecules in C. elegans.
Frank Schwabe
Frank Schwabe, born in 1970, is a German politician of the SPD who has represented Recklinghausen I in the Bundestag since 2005 and became a justice state secretary in 2025.
Frank Sedgman
Frank Sedgman (born 29 October 1927, Mont Albert, Victoria) is an Australian tennis great who won 22 majors from 1948 to 1952, the 1951 doubles Grand Slam with Ken McGregor, and the 1952 Wimbledon triple crown.
Frank Serpico
Frank Serpico (born 1936) is a retired Italian-American NYPD detective who exposed department-wide bribery with David Durk, prompting the 1970 Knapp Commission; he was shot in 1971 and became the subject of Peter Maas's book and Sidney Lumet's 1973 film with Al Pacino.
Frank Shakespeare
Frank Shakespeare, born Franklin Bradford Shakespeare in 1930, is an American rower who won Olympic gold in the men's eight at Helsinki 1952 while a Naval Academy midshipman.
Frank Shamrock
Frank Shamrock (born Dec. 8, 1972, Santa Monica) is a retired American MMA fighter, first UFC middleweight/light heavyweight champion (1997-1999, 703 days, four defenses, 5-0 UFC), also champion in Pancrase, WEC, and Strikeforce; record 23-10-2.
Frank Shann
Frank Shann is an Australian pediatric intensivist and vaccine researcher at the Royal Children's Hospital, Melbourne, known for childhood pneumonia research in Papua New Guinea and vaccine non-specific effects.
Frank Sheeran
Frank "The Irishman" Sheeran (1920–2003) was an Irish-American Teamsters union official and Bufalino crime family associate who claimed in I Heard You Paint Houses that he killed Jimmy Hoffa, a claim never corroborated.
Frank Shorter
Frank Shorter is an American long-distance runner who won the 1972 Olympic marathon and took silver in 1976, and later helped found the anti-doping agency USADA.
Frank Shu
Frank Shu (徐遐生) was a Chinese-born American theoretical astrophysicist (1943–2023) who developed density wave theory of spiral galaxies and the inside-out model of star formation, winning the 2009 Shaw Prize.
Frank Silva
Frank Silva (1950–1995), American set dresser and actor, played the demonic BOB in Twin Peaks after David Lynch spotted him in a mirror reflection during pilot filming; also worked on Dune, Blue Velvet, Wild at Heart.
Frank Sinatra
Frank Sinatra (Francis Albert Sinatra, 1915-1998), 'Ol' Blue Eyes,' American singer and actor from Hoboken; Harry James and Tommy Dorsey vocalist, Capitol concept-album era with Nelson Riddle, founder of Reprise Records, 1954 Oscar winner, Rat Pack leader.
Frank Sinatra discography
The Frank Sinatra discography catalogs recordings spanning his big-band years with Tommy Dorsey from 1940 and a solo career on Columbia, Capitol, and his own Reprise label.
Frank Sinatra Jr.
Frank Sinatra Jr. (Franklin Wayne Sinatra, 1944–2016), American singer, conductor, composer, and actor; son of Frank Sinatra; kidnapped in 1963, led his own big band, and was his father's musical director from 1988.
Frank Sivero
Frank Sivero (Francesco LoGiudice), Italian-American actor born 1952 in Siculiana, Sicily, raised in Brooklyn; played Genco in The Godfather Part II and Frankie Carbone in Goodfellas; sued Fox over the Simpsons' Louie.
Frank Skinner
Frank Skinner (Christopher Graham Collins, born 1957, West Bromwich) is an English comedian and broadcaster, 1991 Perrier Award winner, co-host of Fantasy Football League with David Baddiel, co-writer of Three Lions, and host of The Frank Skinner Show and Absolute Radio's Saturday show.
Frank Slack
Frank J. Slack is a molecular biologist at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School who co-discovered let-7, the second microRNA identified and the first in humans.
Frank Slide
The Frank Slide was a 1903 rock avalanche from Turtle Mountain in Alberta, Canada, that buried part of the town of Frank, killing an estimated 70 to more than 90 people.
Frank Smith
Frank Smith (Francis Bede Smith, 1886-1954), Australian rugby union centre from Wellington, NSW; won gold with Australasia in rugby at the 1908 London Olympics, beating Cornwall 32-3.
Frank Smithies
Frank Smithies (1912–2002) was a British mathematician at St John's College, Cambridge, who worked on integral equations and functional analysis and supervised many research students.
Frank Sobotka
Frank Sobotka (Francis Sobotka) is the fictional Polish-American stevedores' union secretary-treasurer, played by Chris Bauer, at the center of season two (2003) of HBO's The Wire, based partly on longshoreman Walt Benewicz, who smuggles for The Greek to fund a canal-dredging lobby and is killed near the finale.
Frank Soldner
Frank Soldner is a German-trained physician-scientist and Associate Professor at Albert Einstein College of Medicine known for modeling Parkinson's disease with patient-derived stem cells and genome editing.