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Frank Winfield Woolworth
Frank Winfield Woolworth (1852–1919) was an American retailer who built the F.W. Woolworth Company into the world's largest variety-store chain by selling goods at fixed five- and ten-cent prices.
Frank Winkler
Frank Winkler is a German neurologist and neuroscientist at Heidelberg University who helped establish cancer neuroscience through discoveries about brain tumor networks, winning the 2025 Brain Prize.
Frank Woods (bishop)
Frank Woods (1907–1992) was an English Anglican bishop, Archbishop of Melbourne from 1957 to 1977 and Primate of the Church of England in Australia from 1971.
Frank Worrell
Frank Worrell (1924-1967), Barbadian cricketer and first black man appointed captain of a West Indies touring side (1960-61 Australia tour); 51 Tests, 3,860 runs at 49.48; led the tied Brisbane Test; Frank Worrell Trophy namesake.
Frank Wright (businessman)
Frank Wright was Roy W. Allen's first employee at the 1919 Lodi, California root beer stand, his partner from 1922 to 1924, and the W in A&W Root Beer.
Frank Würthner
Frank Würthner (born 1964 in Villingen-Schwenningen, Germany) is a German chemist who has held the Chair of Organic Chemistry II at the University of Würzburg since 2002, known for perylene bisimide dyes and J-aggregates.
Frank Wykoff
Frank Wykoff (1909–1980), American sprinter nicknamed Flying Frank; first man to win three Olympic 4x100m relay golds (1928, 1932, 1936), each in world-record time; also first official 9.4 for 100 yards.
Frank Yablans
Frank Yablans (1935-2014), American film executive and producer, president of Paramount Pictures 1971-1975 during The Godfather and Chinatown era, later MGM/UA COO and founder of Promenade Pictures.
Frank Yates
Frank Yates (1902–1994) was a British statistician who led the statistics department at Rothamsted Experimental Station for over three decades, known for the Yates correction, experimental design, and sampling methods.
Frank Yerby
Frank Garvin Yerby (1916–1991), Augusta, Georgia-born African American novelist, first Black writer with a million-selling novel, The Foxes of Harrow (1946); 33 novels, 55 million copies, exile in Madrid.
Frank Zane
Frank Zane (born 1942, Kingston, Pennsylvania) is an American bodybuilder, three-time Mr. Olympia (1977-1979), 1968 Mr. America, and the man who beat Arnold Schwarzenegger at the 1968 Mr. Universe, famed for symmetry and the vacuum pose.
Frank Zappa
Frank Zappa, also known as Frank Vincent Zappa, was an American composer and guitarist. His career spanned the 1960s to the 1990s, during which he released over 60 albums.
Frank Zappa discography
The Frank Zappa discography lists the American composer and guitarist's recorded output with the Mothers of Invention and solo, from Freak Out! (1966) through continuing posthumous releases.
Frank Zimar
Frank Zimar was a Ph.D. chemist at Corning Glass Works who drew the first low-loss fused silica optical fiber in 1970 and co-invented outside vapor deposition.
Frank-Ter Haar syndrome
Frank-Ter Haar syndrome, also known as Ter Haar syndrome and formerly Borrone dermatocardioskeletal syndrome, is a rare inherited bone dysplasia with enlarged corneas, skeletal anomalies, and developmental delay.
Frank-Walter Steinmeier
Frank-Walter Steinmeier, born 1956 in Detmold, is Germany's 12th Federal President (SPD, since 2017, re-elected 2022), formerly Federal Foreign Minister 2005-2009 and 2013-2017 and Chancellery chief.
Frank–Kasper phases in block copolymers
Frank–Kasper phases in block copolymers are low-symmetry sphere-packing lattices, including σ, A15, C14, and C15, formed by micelles of unequal sizes in block polymer melts.
Frank–Starling law
Frank–Starling law (Starling's law of the heart): intrinsic cardiac mechanism whereby greater ventricular filling (preload) stretches myocardial fibers and increases stroke volume; named for Otto Frank (1895 frog heart) and Ernest Starling (1915 law of the heart).
Frank–Wolfe algorithm
The Frank–Wolfe algorithm, also called the conditional gradient method, is a projection-free first-order method for minimizing a smooth convex function over a compact convex set.
Frank's RedHot
Frank's RedHot is an American Louisiana-style cayenne pepper hot sauce first bottled in 1920 by Jacob Frank and Adam Estilette, used in the original 1964 Anchor Bar buffalo wings, now owned by McCormick and mild at about 450 SHU.
Franka Emika GmbH
Franka Emika GmbH was a Munich-based robotics company founded in 2016 as a spin-off of German Aerospace Center research, best known for its torque-controlled Panda robot arm.
Franka Emika Panda
The Franka Emika Panda is a seven-axis collaborative robot arm by Munich's Franka Emika, with torque sensors in all joints and wide use in robotics research.
Franka Kitchen
Franka Kitchen is a simulated robotics benchmark where a 9-degree-of-freedom Franka robot arm completes kitchen tasks like opening a microwave, originating at Google Research and now maintained by the Farama Foundation.
Franka Potente
Franka Potente (born 1974) is a German actress and director, star of Run Lola Run (1998) and the first two Bourne films with Matt Damon, whose directing debut was Home (2020).
Franke Sloothaak
Franke Sloothaak, born 1958, is a Dutch-born show jumper who competed for Germany, winning two Olympic team gold medals and the 1994 world title in The Hague.
Frankel (horse)
Frankel (2008–), Juddmonte's Galileo colt trained by Henry Cecil, won all 14 races including ten Group 1s; Timeform 147, official 140, now a triple champion sire at Banstead Manor.
Frankelda's Book of Spooks
Frankelda's Book of Spooks (Sustos Ocultos de Frankelda) is a 2021 Mexican stop-motion children's horror anthology by Arturo and Roy Ambriz for HBO Max: five 14-minute episodes about ghostwriter Frankelda, her book Herneval, and fear-feeding spooks.
Frankenchrist
Frankenchrist: 1985 third album by Dead Kennedys, released on Alternative Tentacles; slowed, melodic punk whose H.R. Giger 'Penis Landscape' poster triggered a 1987 obscenity trial of Jello Biafra, ending in dismissed charges.
Frankenmuth, Michigan
Frankenmuth, Michigan, or Michigan's Little Bavaria, is a Saginaw County city founded in 1845 as a Franconian Lutheran mission colony by August Craemer under Wilhelm Loehe; about 5,000 residents, 3 million annual visitors, Bavarian-themed tourism.
Frankenstein
Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus (1818) is Mary Shelley's Gothic novel about Victor Frankenstein, whose animated creature destroys him. Written at Geneva in 1816, published anonymously, revised in 1831, and often called the first science fiction novel.