Frank

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For the medieval Germanic people, see Franks or Frankish Empire. Other usages:

In currency:

  • Swiss frank (or franc), the currency of Switzerland since 1850.
  • 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

In literature:

  • Anne Frank (1929-1945), author of a famous diary during WWII
  • Otto Frank (1889-1980), father of Anne Frank
  • 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:

  • Frank Stella
  • Jane Frank
  • Mary Frank


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
  • Karl Hermann Frank (1898–1946), prominent Sudeten-German Nazi official in Czechoslovakia
  • Frank Bainimarama (1954-present)

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
  • Frank Gallagher, one of the main characters of the British drama, Shameless.

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
  • Brian Frank (1989-?), baller....
  • 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