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Frankie Yale
Frankie Yale (Francesco Ioele, also Uale), Calabrian-born Brooklyn mob boss, ran the Harvard Inn, employed Al Capone, was linked to Big Jim Colosimo's 1920 murder, and was shot dead in Brooklyn on July 1, 1928.
Frankie Zhu
Frankie Zhu is a member of the investment team at Griffin Gaming Partners and Managing Director at GoodGame Advisors, an interactive entertainment M&A boutique he joined after banking at LionTree.
Frankincense
Frankincense, also called olibanum, is the aromatic gum resin tapped from Boswellia trees in Arabia, Africa, and India, burned as incense since antiquity and traded across the ancient Mediterranean world.
Frankish language
Frankish (Old Frankish, Old Franconian, reconstructed Frenkisk) was the West Germanic language of the Franks, 4th–9th centuries. It split into Old Dutch and Rhine Franconian German/Luxembourgish, died out in Gaul by the 8th century, and left many loanwords in French.
Frankissstein
Frankissstein: A Love Story is Jeanette Winterson's 2019 novel reimagining Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, interleaving 1816 Lake Geneva with a Brexit-era story of trans doctor Ry Shelley and AI professor Victor Stein; longlisted for the 2019 Booker Prize.
Franklin
Franklin (2024) is an eight-episode Apple TV+ historical miniseries starring Michael Douglas as Benjamin Franklin on his 1776–1783 French diplomatic mission, based on Stacy Schiff's A Great Improvisation, directed by Tim Van Patten, with mixed reviews (Metacritic 57, Rotten Tomatoes 71%).
Franklin (Peanuts)
Franklin, sometimes Franklin Armstrong, is Peanuts' first Black character, debuting July 31, 1968 after schoolteacher Harriet Glickman's letters to Charles Schulz; he met Charlie Brown via a beach ball and got his surname in 1994 as homage to cartoonist Robb Armstrong.
Franklin (TV series)
Franklin is a Canadian animated preschool educational series from Nelvana, based on the Franklin the Turtle books by Paulette Bourgeois and Brenda Clark, about a young turtle growing up in Woodland.
Franklin & Bash
Franklin & Bash: TNT legal comedy-drama (2011-2014) created by Bill Chais and Kevin Falls, starring Mark-Paul Gosselaar and Breckin Meyer as street lawyers recruited into a Los Angeles firm; four seasons, canceled after ratings fell 32 percent.
Franklin & Marshall College
Franklin & Marshall College (F&M), a private liberal arts college in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, formed in 1853 from Franklin College (1787, funded by Benjamin Franklin) and Marshall College (1836); about 1,946 undergraduates, 52 fields of study, 9:1 ratio, U.S. News No. 34 liberal arts college.
Franklin A. Long
Franklin A. Long (1910–1999) was an American chemist and Cornell professor known for work on organic reaction mechanisms in solution and for a career in arms control and science policy.
Franklin Allen
Franklin Allen, born 1956, is a financial economist who spent 36 years at Wharton and has directed the Brevan Howard Centre at Imperial College London since 2014.
Franklin Antonio
Franklin Antonio (1953–2022) was an American engineer and philanthropist who co-founded Qualcomm in San Diego in 1985, served as chief scientist, and left nearly $200 million to the Summer Science Program.
Franklin Arias
Franklin Arias, Venezuelan shortstop (born 2005, Caracas), Boston Red Sox prospect signed January 2023 for $525,000; 2024 FCL MVP, 2026 Eastern League MVP, MLB Pipeline No. 2 overall prospect with 60 hit and 60 field grades.
Franklin Bay
Franklin Bay, a V-shaped bay of the southeastern Beaufort Sea in the Northwest Territories between Cape Bathurst and Cape Parry; also Lady Franklin Bay on Ellesmere Island, site of the Greely expedition.
Franklin Blackhorse
Franklin Blackhorse is a venture capital fund platform based in San Mateo, California, operating within the Franklin Templeton group through funds advised by Franklin Advisers, Inc.
Franklin Buchanan
Franklin Buchanan (1800–1874), first superintendent of the U.S. Naval Academy, resigned in 1861 to join the Confederate Navy, commanded CSS Virginia at Hampton Roads and CSS Tennessee at Mobile Bay, and became the Confederacy's ranking naval officer.
Franklin child prostitution ring allegations
Franklin child prostitution ring allegations: claims from 1988 Omaha, Nebraska that credit union manager Lawrence King Jr. ran a child sex trafficking ring; two 1990 grand juries called them a hoax, King was convicted of $39 million fraud.
Franklin Clarence Mars
Franklin Clarence Mars (1883–1934), American candy maker and founder of Mars, Incorporated; created the Milky Way bar in Minneapolis in 1923, moved to Chicago in 1929, and introduced Snickers in 1930.
Franklin County, Massachusetts
Franklin County, Massachusetts: rural county in the upper Connecticut River Valley with 71,029 residents (2020) and 26 towns; its county government was abolished July 1, 1997 and replaced by the Franklin Regional Council of Governments.
Franklin County, Ohio
Franklin County, Ohio: county seat Columbus, state capital; established April 30, 1803 from Ross County and named for Benjamin Franklin. Ohio's most populous county (1,323,807 in 2020), governed by a three-member Board of Commissioners with a $2+ billion budget.
Franklin County, Pennsylvania, United States
Franklin County, Pennsylvania: county formed from Cumberland County on September 9, 1784, named for Benjamin Franklin, county seat Chambersburg. Population 155,932 (2020), 160,652 (2025 estimate); leading dairy and fruit county on the I-81 corridor.
Franklin Cover
Franklin Cover, full name Franklin Edward Cover, was an American actor best known as Tom Willis on The Jeffersons and for his long Broadway stage career.
Franklin D. Murphy
Franklin David Murphy (1916–1994) was an American physician and university chancellor who led the University of Kansas and UCLA before chairing the Times Mirror Company, publisher of the Los Angeles Times.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Franklin D. Roosevelt (FDR, 1882–1945), 32nd US president, elected four times (1932–1944), architect of the New Deal and World War II leader; also known for polio, Warm Springs, and Japanese American incarceration.
Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr. (1914-1988), fifth child of FDR and Eleanor Roosevelt, was a lawyer, New York congressman 1949-1955, Under Secretary of Commerce, and first Chairman of the EEOC (1965-1966), defeated for the 1954 New York Democratic gubernatorial nomination by Averell Harriman.
Franklin Dam controversy
The Franklin Dam controversy, known as the Gordon below Franklin Scheme, was an Australian conservation battle of the late 1970s and early 1980s over a proposed dam in south-west Tasmania.
Franklin Delano Floyd
Franklin Delano Floyd, also known as Clarence Hughes and Brandon C. Williams, is an American death-row inmate convicted of murdering Cheryl Commesso; he kidnapped his stepdaughter Suzanne Sevakis as a child, married her, and killed 6-year-old Michael Hughes in 1994.
Franklin Electric
Franklin Electric Co., Inc. is an American manufacturer of water and fuel pumping systems and submersible motors, founded in 1944 in Bluffton, Indiana, and headquartered in Fort Wayne.
Franklin F. Offner
Franklin F. Offner (1911–1999) was an American biophysicist and inventor who founded Offner Electronics in 1938, built the world-standard Type R Dynograph EEG machine, and taught biophysics at Northwestern University.