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Franz Beckert
Franz Beckert was a German artistic gymnast from Neustadt in the Black Forest who won team gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics and later coached at his home club.
Franz Boas
Franz Boas (1858–1942) was a German-born American anthropologist known as the father of American anthropology, who established cultural relativism and built Columbia University's anthropology department.
Franz Bockli
Franz Böckli (1858–1937), Swiss sport shooter, won gold in the 300 m free rifle team event at the 1900 Paris Olympics and was 1899 world champion in the standing position.
Franz Brentano
Franz Brentano (1838-1917), German-Austrian philosopher, reintroduced intentionality as the mark of the mental in Psychology from an Empirical Standpoint (1874); teacher of Husserl, Meinong, Freud, and bridge between analytic and continental philosophy.
Franz Christoph Ignaz Moufang
Franz Christoph Ignaz Moufang (1817–1890) was a German Catholic theologian of Mainz, a moral and pastoral theology professor who edited Der Katholik and secretly ran the diocese from 1877 to 1886.
Franz Conrad von Hötzendorf
Franz Conrad von Hötzendorf was an Austrian field marshal and chief of the Austro-Hungarian general staff from 1906 to 1917, a leading advocate of preventive war.
Franz Delitzsch
Franz Delitzsch (1813–1890) was a German Lutheran theologian and Hebraist who taught at Rostock, Erlangen, and Leipzig, translated the New Testament into Hebrew, and opposed antisemitic scholarship.
Franz Diekamp
Franz Diekamp (1864–1943) was a German Catholic theologian and Thomist at the University of Münster, whose three-volume Katholische Dogmatik was praised as the best German dogmatics manual.
Franz Dittrich
Franz Dittrich (1839–1915) was a German Catholic theologian and church historian who taught at the Lyceum Hosianum in Braunsberg, served as provost of Warmia cathedral, and sat in the Prussian Landtag.
Franz Eilhard Schulze
Franz Eilhard Schulze (1840–1921) was a German zoologist who specialized in glass sponges, described Euplectella from Challenger material, and discovered Trichoplax adhaerens, the simplest known multicellular animal.
Franz F. Pischinger
Franz F. Pischinger, an Austrian-German mechanical engineer, directed thermodynamics at RWTH Aachen until 1997, founded FEV, and pioneered key patents for modern emissions technology.
Franz Ferdinand (band)
Franz Ferdinand, Scottish indie rock band formed in Glasgow in 2001 (no native-script name), led by Alex Kapranos and Bob Hardy; Mercury Prize-winning 2004 debut, "Take Me Out", and 2025 album The Human Fear distinguish them from identically named subjects.
Franz Fühmann
Franz Fühmann (1922–1984) was a German writer, one of the most significant authors of East Germany, who worked as poet, essayist, and translator of Hungarian and Czech poetry.
Franz Grillparzer
Franz Grillparzer, full name Franz Seraphicus Grillparzer (1791–1872), was an Austrian dramatist, poet, and civil servant from Vienna, the leading Austrian playwright of the nineteenth century.
Franz H. Messerli
Franz H. Messerli, born 1942, is a Swiss-born cardiologist and hypertension researcher who led hypertension programs in New Orleans and New York and argued against beta-blockers as first-line therapy.
Franz Halder
Franz Halder (1884–1972), German Generaloberst and Chief of the Army General Staff 1938–1942, planned the Poland, France, and Soviet campaigns; later led the US Army Historical Division and helped shape the clean Wehrmacht myth.
Franz Heinrich Reusch
Franz Heinrich Reusch (1825–1900) was a German Old Catholic theologian and church historian at the University of Bonn who was excommunicated after rejecting papal infallibility.
Franz Hellens
Franz Hellens, pen name of Frédéric Van Ermengem (1881–1972), was a Belgian novelist and poet who wrote in French, founded the review Le Disque vert, and developed fantastic realism.
Franz Hettinger
Franz Hettinger (1819–1890) was a German Catholic theologian and apologist, professor at the University of Würzburg, whose multi-volume Apologie des Christentums is counted a great work of 19th-century apologetics.
Franz Hillenkamp
Franz Hillenkamp (1936–2014) was a German biophysicist at the universities of Frankfurt and Münster who co-discovered MALDI mass spectrometry with Michael Karas in 1985, making large biomolecules accessible to analysis.
Franz Hofmann
Franz Hofmann (born 1942) is a German pharmacologist known for work on cyclic nucleotide-dependent protein kinases and voltage-gated calcium channels, and professor at TU Munich from 1990 to 2008.
Franz Ignaz von Streber
Franz Ignaz von Streber (1758–1841) was a Bavarian numismatist and Catholic prelate who led the Munich coin cabinet and became auxiliary bishop of Munich and Freising in 1821.
Franz J. Gießibl
Franz J. Giessibl (born 1962) is a German physicist at the University of Regensburg known for inventing the qPlus sensor used in atomic force microscopy.
Franz J. Ingelfinger
Franz J. Ingelfinger (1910–1980) was a German-born American gastroenterologist at Boston University who edited the New England Journal of Medicine and created the Ingelfinger rule in 1969.
Franz J. Weissing
Franz J. Weissing is a Dutch theoretical biologist and professor at the University of Groningen who uses mathematical models to study animal personalities, evolutionary game theory, and biodiversity.
Franz Jägerstätter
Franz Jägerstätter (1907–1943) was an Austrian Catholic farmer from Sankt Radegund executed by the Nazis for refusing military service on grounds of conscience, beatified in 2007.
Franz Jonas
Franz Jonas was an Austrian Social Democratic politician who served as Federal President of Austria from 1965 until his death in 1974, after fourteen years as mayor of Vienna.
Franz Josef Kallmann
Franz Josef Kallmann (1897–1965) was a German-American psychiatrist who fled Germany in 1936, led psychiatric genetics research in New York, proposed a recessive-gene model of schizophrenia, and described Kallmann syndrome.
Franz Josef Land
Franz Josef Land (Zemlya Frantsa-Iosifa), a Russian Arctic archipelago of 192 islands at about 80°N, the northernmost land of Eurasia, about 85% glaciated, discovered in 1873 by the Austro-Hungarian Payer-Weyprecht expedition and named for Emperor Franz Joseph I.
Franz Josef Schnitzer
Franz Josef Schnitzer (1928–2006) was an Austrian mathematician working in number theory and complex analysis, holding the mathematics chair at Leoben from 1971 to 1996.