Frank
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For the medieval Germanic people, see Franks or Frankish Empire. Other usages:
In currency:
- Liechtenstein frank, the currency of Liechtenstein since 1920
- Westphalian frank, currency of the Kingdom of Westphalia between 1808 and 1813
In science:
- Adolf Frank (1834-1916), German chemist
- Ilya Frank (1908-1990), physicist and 1958 Nobel laureate
- B-rizz Frank (1989-present), 2nd Vice President of Phi Beta Chi and friend of Albert Einstein E=mc^2
In literature:
- Anne Frank (1929-1945), author of a famous diary during WWII
- Bernard Frank (b. 1927), French oriental scholar and writer
- Bruno Frank (1878-1945), German author, poet, dramatist and humanist
- Frank Chin (b. 1940), Chinese-American author
- Frank Conniff (b. 1958), American actor and writer
- Rene Frank (b. 1974), German author and composer; See German article
- Waldo David Frank (1889-1967), American author and scholar
In art:
In music:
- Frank Black (b. 1965), American musician
- Frank Sinatra (1915-1998), American singer who is one of the most highly acclaimed male popular song vocalists of all time
- Frank Zappa (1940-1993), American musician
- Frank Iero, one of two guitarist for the band My Chemical Romance
- Frank (album), an album by Squeeze
- Frank (Amy Winehouse album), an Amy Winehouse album
- Frank (band), a four piece girl band created for a Channel 4 comedy drama series
- Totally Frank, comedy drama series
In military:
- Hans Frank (1900-1946), governor general of Nazi occupied Poland
- Otto Frank (1889-1980), father of Anne Frank
- Karl Hermann Frank (1898–1946), prominent Sudeten-German Nazi official in Czechoslovakia
In geography:
- Frank, Alberta, small community in the Crowsnest Pass at the southern end of the Canadian Rockies
- Frank, West Virginia, unincorporated community located in Pocahontas County, West Virginia, USA
- Frank Slide, natural landslide feature in the southern Rocky Mountains of Canada
In popular culture:
- Frank, giant rabbit from the movie Donnie Darko
- Frank (comics), series of experimental comic books by Jim Woodring
- Frank (magazine), a Canadian scandal sheet
- Frank and Ernest, cartoon
- Frank the Goat, the LiveJournal mascot
- Franky (One Piece), fictional character from the anime and manga One Piece
- TV's Frank, character from Mystery Science Theater 3000
In politics:
- Franked mail, the ability to send mail by one's signature rather than by postage
In video games:
- Frank "The hunter", one of the player's wingmen in the game Blazing Angels.
- Frank West, a fictional photojournalist in the video game "Dead Rising"
In food:
- Frankfurter, a sausage as made in Frankfurt; a hot dog
In other fields:
- Andre Gunder Frank (1929-2005), sociologist known as a founder of dependency theory
- Frank Gorshin, American actor and comedian from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
- Henry Frank (1851-1908), Montana entrepreneur
- Jacob Frank (1726-1791), founder of a Jewish dissident sect
- Jerome N. Frank (1889-1957), chairman of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission between 1939 and 1941
- Leo Frank (1884-1913), man convicted of murdering a 13 year old girl in Georgia
- Philipp Frank (1884-1966), influential philosopher during the first half of the 20th century
- Robert Frank (b. 1924), photographer
- Frank, a nick name for a hot dog.
- Frank (composer) an English composer, fl. 15th century
- FRANK (drugs) the British Government's current drugs awareness campaign [1]
- Frank Richardson (1983-), Canadian National Paintball Champion
See also:
- Franc (disambiguation), several uses
- Franck, several uses
- Fränkel, Jewish family of scholars and Talmudists
- Franken, several uses
- Frankenthal, city in southwestern Germany
- Frankfurt, the largest city in the German state of Hesse and the fifth-largest city in Germany
- Franking, the marking of mail relating to postage by a company or government
- Frankish Empire, the territory of the Franks from the 5th to the 10th centuries
- Franks (disambiguation), several uses
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