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Frank Pallone

Frank Pallone, Jr. is an American Democratic politician who has represented New Jersey's 6th congressional district in the U.S. House since 1993, after representing the 3rd district from 1989.

Frank Rizzo

Frank Rizzo (Francis Lazzaro Rizzo, 1920–1991), Philadelphia police commissioner 1967–1971 and mayor 1972–1980; law-and-order Democrat, later Republican; 71 percent 1971 win, MOVE raid, statue removed 2020.

Frank Russell, 2nd Earl Russell

Frank Russell, 2nd Earl Russell (John Francis Stanley Russell, 1865-1931), Bertrand Russell's elder brother: British peer, author, divorce-law reformer, and under-secretary for India, twice divorced and imprisoned for bigamy after a 1901 House of Lords trial.

Frank Schwabe

Frank Schwabe, born in 1970, is a German politician of the SPD who has represented Recklinghausen I in the Bundestag since 2005 and became a justice state secretary in 2025.

Frank Vandenbroucke (Belgian politician)

Frank Vandenbroucke (born 1955) is a Belgian politician of the Vooruit party, serving as Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Social Affairs and Public Health since 2025.

Frank-Walter Steinmeier

Frank-Walter Steinmeier, born 1956 in Detmold, is Germany's 12th Federal President (SPD, since 2017, re-elected 2022), formerly Federal Foreign Minister 2005-2009 and 2013-2017 and Chancellery chief.

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 Foil

Franklin Foil is an American politician and Republican Louisiana state senator from Baton Rouge's District 16, elected in 2019 after 12 years in the state House.

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.

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.

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.

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 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 Joseph II of Liechtenstein

Franz Joseph II (Franz Josef II. von und zu Liechtenstein, 1906–1989), reigning Prince of Liechtenstein 1938–1989, first prince to reside in Vaduz, kept the state neutral in WWII, lost Czechoslovak estates in 1945, and modernized the economy.

Franz von Papen

Franz von Papen (1879–1969), German aristocrat, Centre Party politician, cavalry officer, and diplomat; Reich Chancellor June–November 1932, Hitler's vice-chancellor in 1933, ambassador to Austria and Turkey, acquitted at Nuremberg.

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.

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.

Frauke Petry

Frauke Petry is a German politician and chemist who led the AfD from 2015 to 2017. She was directly elected to the Bundestag from 2017 to 2021.

Fred Agbedi

Fred Agbedi is a Nigerian politician of the Peoples Democratic Party who serves as Minority Leader of the House of Representatives and has represented Sagbama/Ekeremor, Bayelsa State, since 2011.

Fred Clark

Fred Clark is an American Democratic politician, forester, and business owner from Bayfield, Wisconsin, who won the 2026 Democratic nomination for Wisconsin's 7th Congressional District seat.

Fred Crespo

Fred Crespo is an American politician, a Democrat in the Illinois House of Representatives who has represented the 44th district since first being elected in 2006.

Fred Girod

Fred Girod is an American politician and dentist serving as a Republican member of the Oregon State Senate from District 9, appointed in 2008 and elected Senate Republican Leader in 2020.

Fred Hampton

Fred Hampton (1948–1969), chairman of the Illinois Black Panther Party, founded Chicago's multiracial Rainbow Coalition with the Young Lords and Young Patriots and was killed in a 1969 FBI-informed police raid.

Fred Rogers's 1969 United States Senate testimony

Fred Rogers's 1969 Senate testimony: the roughly six-minute May 1, 1969 appearance before the Senate Commerce Subcommittee on Communications, defending $20 million in CPB funding from a proposed cut to $10 million, winning over Chairman John Pastore.

Fred Thomas (British politician)

Fred Thomas (Frederick Jacob Theseus Thomas), Labour and Co-operative MP for Plymouth Moor View since 4 July 2024, former Royal Marines captain (2016–2023) who defeated Johnny Mercer with a 5,604 majority and sits on the Defence Committee.

Fred Upton

Fred Upton, Republican U.S. representative from southwest Michigan 1987 to 2023, chaired Energy and Commerce 2011 to 2017, passed the 21st Century Cures Act, voted to impeach Trump after January 6, and retired in 2023.

Fred Wellman

Fred Wellman is an American politician and retired U.S. Army officer who won the 2026 Democratic primary for U.S. House in Missouri's 2nd Congressional District on August 4, 2026.

Freda Dudley Ward

Freda Dudley Ward (Winifred Dudley Ward, 1894–1983), English socialite and wife of Liberal MP William Dudley Ward; long-term mistress and confidante of Edward, Prince of Wales, 1918–1934, before Wallis Simpson.

Fredderick Vida

Fredderick Vida is a Filipino politician who has served as Acting Secretary of Justice of the Philippines since 2025, after three terms as Mayor of Mendez, Cavite.