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Frank Solich
Frank Solich (born 1944) is an American college football coach, Nebraska head coach 1998-2003 (58-19, 1999 Big 12 title) and Ohio head coach 2005-2020 (115-82, winningest MAC coach), 173-101 career, College Football Hall of Fame 2024.
Frank Solomon
Frank Solomon is a cell biologist and professor emeritus of biology at MIT, known for work on microtubule-associated proteins, the mitotic spindle, and differentiating neurons, winning a 2011 teaching prize.
Frank Spedding
Frank Spedding was an American chemist who achieved the first workable separations of rare-earth elements, developed the Ames process for high-purity uranium, and founded Ames Laboratory.
Frank Spellman
Frank Isaac Spellman (1922–2017), American middleweight weightlifter, York Barbell Club; 1948 London Olympic gold medalist with a 390 kg Olympic record total, 1947 World silver medalist, three-time AAU champion, 1950 Maccabiah gold medalist.
Frank Spitzer
Frank Spitzer (1926–1992) was an Austrian-born American probabilist at Cornell University, widely regarded as the father of interacting particle systems, known for random walk theory and the Pollaczek–Spitzer formula.
Frank Stallone
Frank Stallone (born 1950, New York) is an American singer and actor, younger brother of Sylvester Stallone, best known for the top-10 single "Far From Over" from Staying Alive (1983) and roles in Barfly and Tombstone.
Frank Stallone Sr.
Frank Stallone Sr. (Francesco Stallone, 1919–2011) was an Italian-American barber, beauty-salon owner, and polo player from Gioia del Colle, Puglia, father of Sylvester and Frank Jr., and timekeeper in Rocky (1976).
Frank Stan Settles
Frank Stan Settles, known as F. Stan Settles, is an American industrial engineer who spent about 30 years at AlliedSignal Aerospace and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1991.
Frank Stegmeier
Frank Stegmeier is an American cancer biologist and functional genomics expert known for the ClonTracer cellular barcoding method and oncology drug target discovery at Novartis and KSQ Therapeutics.
Frank Stella
Frank Stella (1936–2024), American painter, sculptor, and printmaker; Black Paintings of 1958–59 launched Minimalism; later shaped canvases, reliefs, Moby Dick series, prints with Kenneth Tyler, and architectural projects.
Frank Stillinger
Frank Stillinger, born 1934, is an American theoretical chemist who spent most of his career at Bell Laboratories and is known for the Stillinger–Weber potential for silicon.
Frank Stilwell
Frank C. Stilwell (c. 1856–1882), Arizona Territory businessman, Cochise County deputy sheriff, and Cowboy-era outlaw, partner of Pete Spence; acquitted twice in the 1881 Bisbee stage robbery, named in Morgan Earp's murder inquest, and killed by Wyatt Earp's party at Tucson station on 20 March 1882.
Frank Sullivan (Francis Gerald "Frank"•Sullivan)
Frank Sullivan (Francis Gerald Sullivan, 1898-1989), Toronto-born Canadian ice hockey forward, won 1928 St. Moritz Olympic gold with the University of Toronto Grads; brother of goalie Joe Sullivan, Allan Cup winner, Argonauts football player.
Frank Sullivan (olympedia 97956)
Frank Sullivan (Francis Cornelius Sullivan, nicknamed Sully) was a Canadian ice hockey center who won gold at the 1952 Oslo Winter Olympics with the Edmonton Mercurys.
Frank Sutton
Frank Sutton (1923–1974), American actor, played Gunnery Sergeant Vince Carter on Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C. (1964–69, 150 episodes); Army WWII veteran with Bronze Star and Purple Heart, Columbia drama graduate, statue in Clarksville, Tennessee.
Frank Swettenham
Frank Swettenham was a British colonial administrator in the Malay states, first Resident-General of the Federated Malay States from 1896 and Governor of the Straits Settlements from 1901 to 1904.
Frank T. Kyte
Frank T. Kyte is a geochemist at UCLA who studies iridium and other impact markers in marine sediments, and is known for identifying the Eltanin impact.
Frank Tacke
Frank Tacke is a German hepatologist who became head of hepatology and gastroenterology at Charité Berlin in 2019, known for research on liver macrophages and for coordinating EASL clinical guidelines.
Frank Tanana
Frank Tanana (born 1953, Detroit) is a former MLB left-handed pitcher, 1973-1993, with the Angels, Red Sox, Rangers, Tigers, Mets, and Yankees; 240-236, 2,773 strikeouts, 1987 AL East-clinching shutout.
Frank Tate
Frank Tate (born 1964, Detroit) is an American boxer, 1984 Olympic light-middleweight gold medalist and IBF middleweight champion 1987-1988; not the Australian educationist Frank Tate or heavyweight John "Big John" Tate.
Frank the Plank
"Frank the Plank" is episode 2 of Shameless (US) season 1, aired January 16, 2011 on Showtime; written by Paul Abbott and John Wells, directed by Wells; Frank vanishes on disability check day and turns up in Toronto.
Frank Thiess
Frank Thiess, real name Frank Theodor Thieß (1890–1977), was a German novelist and essayist of Baltic German origin whose bestselling naval novel Tsushima (1936) sold several hundred thousand copies.
Frank Thomas
Frank P. Thomas Jr. was a Purdue-trained Indianapolis engineer who invented the automated flame broiler, co-founded Burger Chef, and sold his rights to General Foods in 1968.
Frank Thornton
Frank Thornton (Frank Thornton Ball, 1921-2013), English comedy actor, Captain Peacock in Are You Being Served? (1972-1985) and Truly in Last of the Summer Wine (1997-2010); also stage farceur and film character actor.
Frank Troeh
Frank Merlin Troeh (1882-1968), American trapshooter of the Portland Gun Club; 1920 Antwerp Olympic silver in individual trap and team trap gold; led US amateur averages 1918-1922; Trap Shooting Hall of Fame 1970.
Frank Turner
Frank Turner (born 1981) is an English folk/punk singer-songwriter from Hampshire, ex-frontman of post-hardcore band Million Dead, now a solo artist with ten studio albums, 3,000-plus shows, the Sleeping Souls, and a 2026 touring-break announcement.
Frank Tyler
Frank Tyler (Francis William Tyler, 1904-1956), American bobsledder from Lake Placid, New York; won four-man gold at the 1948 St. Moritz Winter Olympics, sixth in 1936, later US coach and team manager.
Frank Uhlmann
Frank Uhlmann is a cell biologist who studies how sister chromatids are held together and separated during cell division, leading a laboratory at the Francis Crick Institute in London since 2000.
Frank Underwood (House of Cards)
Frank Underwood (Francis J. Underwood) is the fictional Democratic congressman, House Majority Whip, and murderous president played by Kevin Spacey in Netflix's House of Cards (2013-2018), adapted from Michael Dobbs's Francis Urquhart, killed off in Season 6 after the Spacey allegations.
Frank V. deGruy III
Frank V. deGruy III, also known as Frank Verloin deGruy III, is an American family physician and researcher of mental health care in primary care at the University of Colorado.