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Francisco D'Souza
Francisco D'Souza, born in Kenya, is an American business executive who co-founded the IT services company Cognizant in 1994 and led it as CEO from January 2007 to March 2019.
Francisco Morazan hydroelectric plant
The Francisco Morazan hydroelectric plant, known as El Cajón, is a 300 MW hydroelectric plant in central Honduras, completed in 1985 around a 226-meter arch dam.
Franciszek Czapek
Franciszek Czapek (František Čapek, later François Czapek), born 1811 in Bohemia, was a watchmaker who co-founded Patek, Czapek & Cie in Geneva in 1839, the firm that became Patek Philippe.
François Chollet
François Chollet is a French software engineer and AI researcher who created the Keras deep learning framework and the ARC-AGI reasoning benchmark, and co-founded Ndea in 2025.
Frank Allgöwer
Frank Allgöwer is a German control theorist, professor of mechanical engineering, and director of the Institute for Systems Theory and Automatic Control at the University of Stuttgart.
Frank Borman
Frank Borman (1928–2023) was an American Air Force officer, NASA astronaut, and airline executive who commanded Gemini 7 and later Apollo 8, the first crewed lunar orbit mission.
Frank Bunker Gilbreth
Frank Bunker Gilbreth (1868–1924) was an American mechanical engineer and building contractor who, with his wife Lillian, founded motion study, the analysis and elimination of unnecessary movements in work.
Frank Caruso (nanotechnologist)
Frank Caruso (Francesco Caruso, born 1968 in Italy) is an Australian chemical engineer and nanotechnologist at the University of Melbourne known for engineering polymer capsules and nanoparticles for drug delivery.
Frank D. Robinson
Frank D. Robinson (Franklin Davis Robinson, 1930–2022) was an American aeronautical engineer who founded Robinson Helicopter Company in 1973 and designed the R22, R44, and R66 light helicopters.
Frank E. Pickering
Frank E. Pickering (1931–2009) was an American mechanical engineer who spent his 39-year career at General Electric's aircraft engine business, becoming a GE vice president and chief engineer.
Frank E. Richart Jr.
Frank E. Richart Jr., known as Bill Richart, was an American civil engineer who helped define soil dynamics and was a University of Michigan professor elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1969.
Frank E. Talke
Frank E. Talke is a mechanical engineer at UC San Diego known for pioneering hard-disk-drive tribology and elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1999.
Frank F. Aplan
Frank F. Aplan (1923–2020) was an American mineral processing engineer and world authority on flotation, a Distinguished Professor at Penn State elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1989.
Frank Gehry
Frank Gehry (1929–2025), born Frank Owen Goldberg, was a Canadian-born American architect in Los Angeles, famous for the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao and Walt Disney Concert Hall.
Frank J. Feely Jr.
Frank J. Feely Jr. was an American engineer at Exxon Corporation who was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1979 in the Materials section.
Frank J. Schuh
Frank Joseph Schuh (1935–2020) was an American petroleum drilling engineer who pioneered horizontal drilling, held 29 patents, and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1989.
Frank J. Sprague
Frank J. Sprague (Frank Julian Sprague) was an American electrical engineer, called the father of electric traction, who built the first large electric street railway in Richmond, Virginia.
Frank Kenneth Crundwell
Frank Kenneth Crundwell is a South African hydrometallurgist, founder of the consultancy CM Solutions and visiting professor at the University of the Witwatersrand, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2023.
Frank L. Lewis
Frank L. Lewis is an American control and systems engineer who holds an endowed chair at the University of Texas at Arlington and applies reinforcement learning to optimal control.
Frank L. Parker
Frank L. Parker was an American environmental engineer who specialized in radioactive waste disposal at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, the IAEA, and Vanderbilt University, joining the National Academy of Engineering in 1988.
Frank Lloyd Wright
Frank Lloyd Wright, born Frank Lincoln Wright, was an American architect who designed more than 1,100 buildings, including Fallingwater and the Guggenheim Museum, and pioneered organic architecture.
Frank Luke
Frank Luke Jr. was an American World War I fighter pilot, nicknamed the "Arizona Balloon Buster," who shot down 14 balloons and 4 airplanes in 17 days.
Frank McSherry
Frank McSherry is an American computer scientist who co-invented differential privacy, led the Naiad and timely dataflow project at Microsoft Research, and is now Chief Scientist at Materialize.
Frank P. Incropera
Frank P. Incropera (born 1939) is an American mechanical engineer and heat transfer researcher, longtime Purdue professor and co-author of Fundamentals of Heat and Mass Transfer.
Frank Robinson (aeronautical engineer)
Frank Robinson, also known as Frank D. Robinson, was an American aeronautical engineer who founded Robinson Helicopter Company in 1973 and designed the affordable R22 helicopter.
Frank Rosenblatt
Frank Rosenblatt (1928–1971) was an American psychologist at Cornell Aeronautical Laboratory in Buffalo, New York, who invented the perceptron in 1957, a direct ancestor of today's neural networks.
Frank S. Barnes
Frank S. Barnes is an American electrical engineer and Distinguished Professor at the University of Colorado Boulder, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2001.
Frank Stan Settles
Frank Stan Settles, known as F. Stan Settles, is an American industrial engineer who spent about 30 years at AlliedSignal Aerospace and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1991.
Frank Verstraete
Frank Verstraete (born 1972, Izegem, Belgium) is a Belgian quantum physicist known for tensor networks, and Leigh Trapnell Professor of Quantum Physics at Cambridge since 2022.
Frank W. DelRio
Frank W. DelRio is an American mechanical engineer who studies nanomechanics and mechanobiology, won the 2011 PECASE at NIST, and joined Sandia National Laboratories in 2020.