All articles starting with F

Franks Casket

The Franks Casket is an early eighth-century whalebone box carved with runic inscriptions and scenes from Roman, Christian, and Germanic tradition, held in the British Museum.

Franks Report (1957), Cmnd 218, Report of the Committee on Administrative Tribunals and Enquiries chaired by Sir Oliver Franks; set out openness, fairness, impartiality and 95 recommendations leading to the Tribunals and Inquiries Act 1958 and Council on Tribunals.

Oct 20, 2026

Franks Roman villa

Franks Roman villa (Franks Hall Roman villa), Farningham, Kent: scheduled minor Romano-British villa on the River Darent, 29 m by 19.4 m with wings, hypocaust, occupied 1st-5th century AD, over Iron Age farmstead remains.

Frankston line

The Frankston line, also called the Frankston railway line, is an electrified suburban railway in Melbourne running from Flinders Street to Frankston through the bayside southern suburbs.

Franky (フランキー) (One Piece)

Franky (フランキー), real name Cutty Flam, is the cyborg shipwright of the Straw Hat Pirates in One Piece; he built the Thousand Sunny from Adam wood, joined as the seventh member, and has a 394,000,000-berry bounty.

Franky Doyle (Wentworth)

Franky Doyle (Francesca Doyle) is a fictional inmate, former Top Dog, and central character of the Foxtel prison drama Wentworth (2013–2021), played by Nicole da Silva, exonerated by season 6; a reimagining of Carol Burns's 1979 Prisoner character.

Sep 21, 2026

Franky So

Franky So is an electrical engineer and Walter and Ida Freeman Distinguished Professor at North Carolina State University who spent fourteen years in industrial OLED research at Motorola and OSRAM.

Sep 19, 2026

Franky Wah

Franky Wah is the stage name of Luke Storrs, a British DJ and producer from Doncaster, Yorkshire, who works in melodic house and techno and runs the SHÈN label.

Sep 19, 2026

Frankyeffe

Frankyeffe is the stage name of Francesco Fava, an Italian techno DJ, producer, and label owner based in Rome, where he founded and runs Riot Recordings and is known for melodic, trance-inflected techno.

Franny and Zooey

Franny and Zooey, J.D. Salinger's 1961 Little, Brown book collecting the New Yorker stories "Franny" (1955) and "Zooey" (1957), follows college student Franny Glass's spiritual breakdown and the Jesus Prayer, resolved by her brother Zooey; a number-one bestseller with hostile early reviews.

Franny Norton

Franny Norton, full name Francis Charles Norton, is a retired British jockey born in Liverpool in 1970 who rode more winners at Chester than any other modern-day jockey.

Frano Selak

Frano Selak (Frane Selak), Croatian music teacher (1929–2016) from Dubrovnik, famed for unverified accounts of surviving seven accidents, including a 1962 train derailment and a 1963 fall from a plane, then winning a lottery jackpot; fact-checkers found inconsistencies.

Frano Supilo

Frano Supilo (1870–1917) was a Croatian politician and journalist who led the New Course, co-founded the Croat-Serb Coalition, and later resigned from the Yugoslav Committee.

Frano Vican

Frano Vićan is a Croatian former water polo goalkeeper who won Olympic gold at London 2012 and the 2007 World Championship with Croatia, playing for clubs including Jug Dubrovnik.

Oct 15, 2026

Franpipe Gas Pipeline

Franpipe is an 840-kilometer natural gas pipeline running from the Draupner E platform in the North Sea to Dunkerque in northern France, opened in 1998.

Frans Burmann

Frans Burmann (Franciscus Burmannus, 1628–1679) was a Dutch Reformed theologian and professor of theology at Utrecht, author of the widely reprinted Synopsis Theologiae and a recorded 1648 conversation with Descartes.

Frans De Haes

Frans De Haes (Franciscus Theophilis De Haes, 1899–1923), Belgian weightlifter; won 1920 Antwerp Olympic featherweight gold with 220.0 kg total, Belgium's only Olympic weightlifting gold; died of influenza before Paris 1924.

Frans Eemil Sillanpää

Frans Eemil Sillanpää (1888–1964) was a Finnish writer who won the 1939 Nobel Prize in Literature for portraying his country's peasantry, with novels including Hurskas kurjuus.

Frans Floris

Frans Floris, born Frans de Vriendt (about 1516 to 1520, died 1570), was a Flemish painter who led Romanism in sixteenth-century Antwerp, running a workshop of more than 100 pupils.

Frans Hals

Frans Hals (c. 1582/83-1666), Haarlem Dutch Golden Age painter of portraits and genre scenes, master of loose visible brushwork and laughing sitters, five civic guard group portraits, rediscovered by the Impressionists.

Frans Hin

Frans Hin (Franciscus Fidelio Joseph Hin, 1906–1968), Dutch sailor, youngest gold medalist at the 1920 Antwerp Olympics at 14 years 163 days, winning the 12-foot dinghy class aboard Beatrijs III with father Cornelis and brother Johan; youngest Dutch Olympic gold winner.

Frans Masereel

Frans Masereel (1889–1972), Belgian Flemish printmaker and painter, pioneer of the wordless woodcut novel with works like Mon livre d'heures and La Ville; pacifist imagery influenced Ward, Spiegelman, Drooker.

Frans Michel Penning

Frans Michel Penning (1894–1953) was a Dutch physicist at the Philips laboratory in Eindhoven known for Penning ionization, the Penning vacuum gauge, and the Penning trap.

Frans Oort

Frans Oort, born in Bussum in 1935, is a Dutch mathematician and Utrecht professor emeritus, a leading expert on abelian varieties over finite fields whose conjectures and students shaped Dutch algebraic geometry.

Oct 20, 2026

Frans Persson

Frans Holger "Cirkus" Persson (1891-1976), Swedish artistic gymnast from Ystad with Stockholms GF; won 1920 Antwerp Olympic gold in the men's team Swedish-system event, Sweden scoring 1.363.833 over Denmark and Belgium.

Frans Pretorius

Frans Pretorius is a computational physicist and professor of physics at Princeton University whose 2005 computer simulation of two black holes merging solved a problem long considered unsolvable.

Frans Snyders

Frans Snyders, also spelled Frans Snijders, was a Flemish painter of Antwerp, born in 1579 and died in 1657, known for animal still lifes, hunting scenes, and market and pantry pictures.

Frans Spaepen

Frans Spaepen is a materials scientist, the John C. and Helen F. Franklin Professor of Applied Physics at Harvard, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2008.

Frans Timmermans

Frans Timmermans (born 1961, Maastricht) is a Dutch PvdA politician, former Dutch foreign minister, European Commission First Vice-President (2014-2019) and Executive Vice-President for the European Green Deal (2019-2023), who led GroenLinks-PvdA in the 2023 and 2025 Dutch elections.