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Franz–Josef Neumann

Franz–Josef Neumann is a German interventional cardiologist who directed cardiology at the Heart Centre Bad Krozingen from 2001 to 2022 and chaired the 2018 ESC/EACTS revascularization guidelines.

Franziska Brantner

Franziska Brantner, born 1979, is a German Green politician who has co-led Alliance 90/The Greens with Felix Banaszak since 2024 and sits in the Bundestag.

Franziska Brauße

Franziska Brauße, German track and road cyclist (born 1998, Metzingen), Olympic team pursuit gold at Tokyo 2020 in world-record 4:04.242, world champion team pursuit 2021 and individual pursuit 2022, rides for REMBE | rad-net Women.

Franziska Gude

Franziska Gude, later Franziska Löwe, born 1976 in Göttingen, is a German field and indoor hockey player; Olympic gold 2004 Athens, 168 caps, Rot-Weiss Köln midfielder.

Franziska Linkerhand

Franziska Linkerhand is an unfinished novel by the East German writer Brigitte Reimann, published posthumously in 1974. It follows a young architect whose utopian plans collide with GDR bureaucracy.

Franziska Michor

Franziska Michor is an Austrian-born computational biologist who earned a Harvard PhD at 22, holds the Charles A. Dana Chair in Human Cancer Genetics at Dana-Farber, and models cancer evolution and drug resistance.

Franziska Preuß

Franziska Preuß (Franzi), German biathlete born 1994, SC Haag; 2024/25 World Cup Total Score winner over Lou Jeanmonnot, 2025 pursuit world champion at Lenzerheide, two Olympic relay bronzes, retired after the 2026 Milano Cortina Games.

Franziska Schoenebeck

Franziska Schoenebeck is a German chemist who has been Full Professor and Chair of Organic Chemistry at RWTH Aachen University since 2016, known for palladium catalysis and computational catalyst design.

Franziska van Almsick

Franziska van Almsick, German freestyle swimmer born 1978 in East Berlin, won 10 Olympic medals (4 silver, 6 bronze, no gold) from 1992 to 2004, two world titles, 18 European titles, and six world records including the 200m freestyle mark that stood until 2007.

Franziska von Karma

Franziska von Karma (狩魔 冥, Karuma Mei) is the whip-wielding prodigy prosecutor of Capcom's Ace Attorney series, daughter of Manfred von Karma, who debuted in Justice for All as Phoenix Wright's rival after passing the bar exam at age 13.

Franziska Weber

Franziska Weber, born 1989 in Potsdam, is a German sprint canoeist who won Olympic gold in the K2 500 m with Tina Dietze at the 2012 London Games.

FRAP (fluorescence microscopy)

FRAP, or fluorescence recovery after photobleaching, is a fluorescence microscopy technique that bleaches a small region of labeled molecules in a living cell and measures fluorescence recovery to quantify diffusion and binding.

FRAPCON

FRAPCON is a computer code developed by Pacific Northwest National Laboratory for the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission to calculate steady-state thermal-mechanical behavior of light-water reactor fuel rods.

Fraport

Fraport AG, founded in 1924 and listed on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange in 2001, is a German airport company that operates Frankfurt Airport and about 30 airports worldwide.

Frappé coffee

Frappé coffee, also called Greek frappé, is a foam-topped iced coffee made by shaking instant coffee with cold water and sugar, invented in Greece in 1957.

Frappuccino

Frappuccino is Starbucks' trademarked line of blended iced coffee and crème drinks. The name came from Boston's Coffee Connection, acquired in 1994; the drink launched nationally in 1995 and went bottled with PepsiCo in 1996.

Frasca International

Frasca International is an American flight simulator manufacturer based in Urbana, Illinois, founded by aviation pioneer Rudy Frasca in 1958, with devices from desktop trainers to full flight simulators.

Fraser

Fraser most often means the Fraser River, British Columbia's longest river (1,375 km), an undammed main-stem salmon river named for explorer Simon Fraser, site of the 1858 gold rush.

Fräser A. Armstrong

Fräser A. Armstrong, also known as Fraser Armstrong, is a British chemist and Emeritus Professor at Oxford, elected Fellow of the Royal Society in 2008.

Fraser Album

The Fraser Album is a set of over ninety watercolours of the people of India, commissioned by the Scottish Fraser brothers in Delhi between 1815 and 1820.

Fraser Anning

Fraser Anning (born 1949) is a former Australian Senator for Queensland, 2017-2019, who filled the vacancy after One Nation senator Malcolm Roberts was disqualified, changed parties, and was censured by the Senate.

Fraser Canyon War

The Fraser Canyon War, also called the Canyon War, was an 1858 conflict between Nlaka'pamux people and American miners during the Fraser River gold rush.

Fraser Clarke Heston

Fraser Clarke Heston, born 1955 in Los Angeles, is an American director, screenwriter, and producer, son of Charlton Heston; known for Needful Things (1993), Treasure Island (1990), Alaska (1996), and Agamemnon Films.

Fraser fir

Fraser fir, also called she-balsam, is an evergreen conifer native to high elevations in the southern Appalachian Mountains and a leading North American Christmas tree species.

Fraser Forster

Fraser Forster (born 1988, Hexham) is an English goalkeeper, 201 cm tall, with 6 England caps. Celtic clean-sheet record holder, later Southampton, Tottenham, and from January 2026 Bournemouth.

Fraser Institute

The Fraser Institute is a Canadian public policy think tank founded in 1974 and headquartered in Vancouver, known for its Economic Freedom of the World report.

Fraser Kelton

Fraser Kelton is a General Partner, Early at venture firm Spark Capital. An AI-focused investor, he was Head of Product at OpenAI, leading the teams that launched ChatGPT and DALL·E.

Fraser Plateau

Fraser Plateau: elevated basalt-capped plateau in central British Columbia, part of the Interior Plateau, bisected by the Fraser River into the Chilcotin and Cariboo plateaus; named for explorer Simon Fraser.

Fraser River

Fraser River: longest river in British Columbia (1,375 km), undammed main stem, draining a quarter of the province to the Strait of Georgia; famed for salmon, Simon Fraser's 1808 descent, and the Port of Vancouver.

Fraser script

Fraser script, also called Old Lisu (老傈僳文), is a writing system for the Lisu language created from modified Latin capitals by Ba Thaw and James Outram Fraser, with punctuation-like tone marks; official in China since 1992 and encoded in Unicode U+A4D0–A4FF.