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Frank Vandenbroucke (Belgian politician)
Frank Vandenbroucke (born 1955) is a Belgian politician of the Vooruit party, serving as Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Social Affairs and Public Health since 2025.
Frank Verstraete
Frank Verstraete (born 1972, Izegem, Belgium) is a Belgian quantum physicist known for tensor networks, and Leigh Trapnell Professor of Quantum Physics at Cambridge since 2022.
Frank Vincent
Frank Vincent (Frank Vincent Gattuso, 1937 or 1939 to 2017) was an American character actor and former drummer known for Billy Batts in Goodfellas, Frank Marino in Casino, and Phil Leotardo in The Sopranos.
Frank Vogel
Frank Vogel, NBA head coach of the Pacers, Magic, Lakers, and Suns, won the 2020 championship with Los Angeles; career record 480-422; Golden State Warriors assistant from 2026.
Frank W. Clarke
Frank W. Clarke (1847–1931) was an American geochemist who served as chief chemist of the United States Geological Survey from 1883 to 1925 and is considered a father of modern geochemistry.
Frank W. Crowe
Frank W. Crowe (1919–1987) was an American dermatologist in Boise, Idaho, first author of the 1956 monograph establishing autosomal dominant inheritance of neurofibromatosis and the café-au-lait diagnostic counts.
Frank W. DelRio
Frank W. DelRio is an American mechanical engineer who studies nanomechanics and mechanobiology, won the 2011 PECASE at NIST, and joined Sandia National Laboratories in 2020.
Frank W. Fitch
Frank W. Fitch (1929–2021) was an American immunologist at the University of Chicago who pioneered T cell cloning and subsets, and made the first anti-mouse CD4 monoclonal antibody.
Frank W. Luerssen
Frank W. Luerssen (1927–2013) was an American steel-industry metallurgist and executive who spent his entire 40-year career at Inland Steel, rising from research metallurgist to chairman and chief executive officer.
Frank W. McBee Jr.
Frank Wilkins McBee Jr. (1920–2000) was an American mechanical engineer who co-founded the Austin, Texas, defense-electronics firm Tracor and led it as president, CEO, and chairman from 1972 to 1988.
Frank W. Putnam
Frank W. Putnam (1917–2006) was an American biochemist who sequenced antibodies and Bence Jones proteins, and was a professor at Indiana University Bloomington from 1965 to 1988.
Frank W. Taussig
Frank William Taussig (1859–1940) was an American economist at Harvard University, the leading United States authority on tariffs and international trade, and first chairman of the U.S. Tariff Commission.
Frank W. Volk
Frank William Volk (born 1965) is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge in the Southern District of West Virginia since 2019, appointed by President Trump.
Frank W. Wise
Frank W. Wise is an applied physicist and Cornell University professor emeritus known for ultrafast optics, fiber lasers, and quantum dots, including spatiotemporal mode-locking demonstrated in 2017.
Frank Wania
Frank Wania is a German-born environmental chemist and professor at the University of Toronto Scarborough whose models explain how persistent organic pollutants accumulate in cold regions.
Frank Warren (promoter)
Frank Warren is Britain's longest-serving boxing promoter, founder of Queensberry Promotions, International Boxing Hall of Fame inductee (2008), longtime promoter of Tyson Fury, and Eddie Hearn's rival turned Saudi-era partner.
Frank Watson Dyson
Frank Watson Dyson (1868–1939) was an English astronomer who served as Astronomer Royal from 1910 to 1933 and organized the 1919 eclipse expeditions confirming Einstein's general relativity.
Frank Wead
Frank Wilber "Spig" Wead (1895–1947) was a U.S. Navy aviator, test pilot, and Schneider Cup racer who, after a paralyzing 1927 fall, became a Hollywood screenwriter promoting naval aviation; John Wayne played him in The Wings of Eagles (1957).
Frank Wedekind
Frank Wedekin, born Benjamin Franklin Wedekind (1864–1918), was a German playwright whose openly sexual dramas, including Spring Awakening and the Lulu plays, shaped modern theater.
Frank Weinhold
Frank Weinhold, also publishing as F. Weinhold, is an American theoretical chemist and emeritus professor at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, known for developing natural bond orbital methods.
Frank Welker
Frank Welker (Franklin Wendell Welker, born 1946, Denver) is an American voice actor: Fred Jones since 1969, Scooby-Doo since 2002, Megatron and Soundwave in Transformers, and Hollywood's top-grossing credited voice performer.
Frank Westheimer
Frank Westheimer (1912–2007) was an American physical organic chemist at Harvard who helped create bio-organic chemistry, invented molecular mechanics, and won the National Medal of Science in 1986.
Frank Whaley
Frank Joseph Whaley (born 1963, Syracuse, New York) is an American actor, screenwriter, and director known for Ironweed, Field of Dreams, The Doors, Swimming with Sharks, and Pulp Fiction, and for Sundance-winning Joe the King.
Frank Whittle
Frank Whittle (1907–1996) was a British Royal Air Force officer and engineer who patented the turbojet, founding Power Jets to power Britain's first jet aircraft in 1941.
Frank Wiegand
Frank Wiegand (born 1943 in Annaberg, Saxony) is a German former swimmer who won four Olympic silver medals, set two world records, and was East German Athlete of the Year in 1966.
Frank Wieneke
Frank Wieneke (born 1962, Hannover) is a German judoka, Olympic half-middleweight (≤78 kg) champion 1984 and silver medalist 1988 for West Germany, European champion 1986, and national men's head coach 2000-2008 who coached Ole Bischof to 2008 Olympic gold.
Frank Wilczek
Frank Wilczek (born 1951) is an American theoretical physicist who shared the 2004 Nobel Prize in Physics for discovering asymptotic freedom, the basis of quantum chromodynamics.
Frank Williams (actor)
Frank Williams (1931–2022) was an English actor best known as the Rev Timothy Farthing, the vicar in the BBC sitcom Dad's Army (1969–1977), and earlier as Captain Pocket in The Army Game; distinct from other Frank Williams including the Formula One team founder.
Frank Williams (Formula One)
Sir Frank Williams (1942–2021), founder and longest-serving Formula One team principal; Williams Racing won 9 constructors' and 7 drivers' titles and 114 GPs; tetraplegic after a 1986 crash; family sold the team to Dorilton Capital in 2020.
Frank Wills (security guard)
Frank Wills (1948-2000), American security guard at the Watergate Office Building who discovered the June 17, 1972 break-in at Democratic National Committee headquarters, triggering the Watergate scandal and Nixon's resignation; died poor in Augusta, Georgia.