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Frans Van de Werf
Frans Van de Werf is a Belgian cardiologist, emeritus professor at the University of Leuven, who pioneered thrombolytic therapy for heart attacks and led major international trials.
Frans Β. Μ. de Waal
Frans B. M. de Waal (1948–2024) was a Dutch-born primatologist at Emory University, known for Chimpanzee Politics and for showing that reconciliation, consolation, and fairness reach deep into primate evolution.
Frantic (film)
Frantic is a 1988 mystery thriller directed by Roman Polanski, starring Harrison Ford as an American doctor searching Paris for his wife, who vanished from their hotel.
František Čapek
František Čapek (1914–1914 Branice – 2008 Prague), Czechoslovak sprint canoeist, Olympic gold medalist in the C-1 10,000 m at London 1948 in 1:02:05.2; distinct from the namesake Czechoslovak trap shooter who placed fourth at Helsinki 1952.
Frantisek Douda
František Douda (1908–1990), Czechoslovak shot putter and discus thrower; 1932 Olympic and 1934 European bronze medalist, first Czechoslovak athletics world record holder (16.04 m, 16.20 m shot put).
František Drtikol
František Drtikol (1883–1961) was a Czech photographer and painter who raised Czech photography to a European art form, known above all for his Art Deco female nudes of the 1920s.
František Hromada
František Hromada (1857–1934) was a Czech lawyer and chamber-of-commerce secretary who served as first chairman of the Czech Joint Stock Brewery, today's Budějovický Budvar, founded in 1895.
František Karel Studnička
František Karel Studnička (1870–1955) was a Czech physician, anatomist, and histologist who developed the exoplasm theory and became a founding professor of Masaryk University's medical faculty in Brno.
František Křižík
František Křižík (1847–1941) was a Czech electrotechnical engineer and industrialist called the Czech Edison, who lit the 1891 Prague Jubilee Exhibition and electrified the Tábor–Bechyně railway.
Frantisek Kucera
František Kučera (born 1968, Prague) is a Czech former NHL defenseman, 465 games and 119 points, who won 1998 Nagano Olympic gold and World Championship titles in 1999 and 2000 with the Czech Republic.
Frantisek Kunzo
František Kunzo (born 1954, Spišský Hrušov), Slovak defender, Dukla Banská Bystrica and Lokomotíva Košice; won 1980 Moscow Olympic football gold with Czechoslovakia, playing 4 of 6 matches. Not the younger Kunzo born 1973.
František Kupka
František Kupka, also known as Frank or François Kupka, was a Czech-born painter who settled in Paris and pioneered abstract painting, exhibiting the Amorpha series at the 1912 Salon d'Automne.
František Ladislav Čelakovský
František Ladislav Čelakovský (1799–1852) was a Czech poet and philologist of the National Revival, best known for his Echo of Russian Songs and Echo of Czech Songs.
František Ladislav Rieger
František Ladislav Rieger (1818–1903) was a Czech politician, economist, and publicist who led the Old Czech party and served in Bohemian and Habsburg legislatures from 1848 until his death.
František Martin Pelcl
František Martin Pelcl, also spelled Pelzel, was a Czech historian and Enlightenment figure who in 1793 became the first professor of Czech language and literature at Prague University.
František Palacký
František Palacký (1798–1876) was a Czech historian and politician called the "Father of the Nation" who founded modern Czech historiography and led the nineteenth-century Czech national movement.
František Šorm
František Šorm (1913–1980) was a Czech organic chemist known for his work on terpenes and nucleosides, and president of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences until 1969.
Frantisek Stambacher
Frantisek Stambacher (František Štambacher, also Štambachr, nicknamed Štambi), born 1953 in Čebín, Czech midfielder for Dukla Praha who won Olympic football gold with Czechoslovakia at Moscow 1980, assisting the winning goal in the final.
František Tureček
František Tureček, born 1950 in Prague, is a Czech-born chemist and Endowed Professor at the University of Washington known for mass spectrometry and newborn screening research.
Frantisek Ventura
Frantisek Ventura (1895–1969) was a Czechoslovak army officer and show jumper who won the individual jumping gold medal at the 1928 Olympics in Amsterdam, riding Eliot.
Frants Kostyukevich
Frants Kostyukevich (born 1963) is a Belarusian race walker who competed for the USSR and later Belarus; World Indoor 5000m walk bronze 1989 and 1991, 1989 World Race Walking Cup 20km winner, 20km best 1:18:51.
Frantsishak Bahushevich
Frantsishak Bahushevich (Францішак Багушэвіч; 1840–1900) was a Belarusian poet and lawyer who wrote as Matsei Buračok; his collections The Belarusian Pipe (1891) and The Belarusian Fiddle (1894) founded modern Belarusian literature.
Frantz
Frantz is a 2016 French-German drama by François Ozon, starring Paula Beer and Pierre Niney, set in post-WWI Germany, loosely adapting Rostand's play and Lubitsch's Broken Lullaby, shot mostly in black and white.
Frantz Fanon
Frantz Omar Fanon (1925–1961), Martinican-born psychiatrist, philosopher, and anti-colonial writer; author of Black Skin, White Masks and The Wretched of the Earth; Blida hospital chief, FLN militant, GPRA ambassador to Ghana; died of leukemia in 1961.
Frantz Reichel
Frantz Reichel (François Étienne Reichel, 1871-1932), French all-round athlete, 1896 Olympian, 1900 rugby gold medalist, founder of French sports federations, FIH and AIPS president, and Le Figaro sports journalist.
Franz (2025 film)
Franz (2025) is Agnieszka Holland's kaleidoscopic biographical drama of Franz Kafka, starring Idan Weiss, 127 minutes, a Czech-German-Polish co-production, Poland's 98th Academy Awards International Feature submission.
Franz Andrysek
Franz Andrysek (1906–1981), Austrian weightlifter, first Austrian Olympic weightlifting champion; won 1928 Amsterdam featherweight gold with 287.5 kg total and 120.0 kg world-record clean & jerk, plus 1929 European title.
Franz Anton von Kolowrat-Liebsteinsky
Franz Anton von Kolowrat-Liebsteinsky (František Antonín Kolowrat-Liebsteinský) was a Bohemian-born Austrian statesman who managed Habsburg finances, rivaled Metternich, and led Austria's first constitutional ministry in 1848.
Franz Bardon
Franz Bardon, known as Frabato, was a Czech naturopath and occultist who wrote three graded Hermetic textbooks, including Initiation into Hermetics, before dying in custody in 1958.
Franz Beckenbauer
Franz Beckenbauer, Der Kaiser (1945–2024), German libero who redefined the sweeper role; World Cup winner as captain 1974 and coach 1990; Bayern legend, Ballon d'Or 1972 and 1976, 2006 World Cup organizer.