Franz

Franz
Origin
Word/Name	German
Other names
Related names	Francis, Francisco, Franciscus, Frans, Frantz

Franz may refer to:

People

Given name

• Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, of the House of Habsburg, heir to the thrones of Austria and Hungary, assassinated in 1914
• Franz Adam, 19th century, German painter, chiefly of military subjects
• Franz Alt (1910–2011), Austrian-born American mathematician
• Franz Bauer, (1748–1840, Austrian microscopist and botanic artist
• Franz Beckenbauer, German football (soccer) player and manager
• Franz Benda, 18th century Bohemian violinist and composer
• Franz Calustro, Bolivian football (soccer) player
• Franz Xaver Feuchtmayer (the Elder), German Baroque stucco plasterer of the Wessobrunner School
• Franz Xaver Feuchtmayer the Younger, Baroque artist and plasterer.
• Franz Joseph Feuchtmayer (1660–1718), German artist, one of the patriarchs of the Feuchtmayer family of artists
• Franz Grillparzer, 18th century Austrian writer and poet
• Franz Heinel (born 1994), fictional racer from the Future GPX Cyber Formula series
• Franz Hopper, character from the French-produced animated series Code Lyoko
• Franz Joseph I of Austria (1830–1916), Austrian Emperor
• Franz Josef Jung (born 1949), German politician
• Franz Joseph Haydn, Austrian Classical composer. He was baptized with this name but did not use it, being known in his own time as "Joseph Haydn".
• Franz Kafka, Jewish-Bohemian novelist, one of the major fiction writers of the 20th century
• Franz Kemmerich, character in the war novel All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
• Franz Kline, 20th century American abstract painter
• Franz Lachner, 19th century German composer and conductor
• Franz Lehár, Austrian composer
• Franz Lidz, American journalist and memoirist
• Franz Liszt, Hungarian composer and piano virtuoso, 19th century
• Franz Machon, U-512 sole survivor
• Franz Marc, principal painter of the German Expressionist movement
• Franz Rosenzweig, early 20th-century Jewish philosopher
• Franz Schalk, Austrian composer and conductor, founder of the Salzburg Music Festival
• Franz Schubert, Austrian composer, 19th century
• Franz Wilhelm Seiwert, German painter and sculptor in a constructivist style
• Franz Joseph Spiegler, German Baroque painter
• Franz, a German enemy character in the fighting game Human Killing Machine

Family name

• Arthur Franz, American actor
• Dennis Franz, American actor noted for his performance as Andy Sipowicz in NYPD Blue and Lt. Norman Buntz in Hill Street Blues
• Eduard Franz, American actor
• Elizabeth Franz, American actress
• Frederick William Franz, Bible scholar and past president of the Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society of Pennsylvania
• Johnny Franz, UK record producer for Philips Label
• Kurt Franz, Nazi SS Commandant of Treblinka extermination camp
• Maik Franz, German football (soccer) player
• Raymond Franz, Former Jehovah's Witness
• Robert Franz, 19th-century German composer

Places

• Franz, Ontario, Canada
• Franz Josef Land, an archipelago in the Arctic Sea north of Russia

Others

• Franz (crater), a lunar crater
• Franz (film), a 1971 Belgian film
• Franz Ferdinand (band), a Scottish rock band
• Franz Lisp, a dialect of the Lisp programming language
• United States Bakery, better known as Franz Family Bakeries
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