Frank

Frank

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

Frank may refer to:

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
• 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 who portrayed TV's Frank
• 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 Klepacki, American video game music composer best known for his work on the Command & Conquer series
• 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 guitarists for the band My Chemical Romance and lead singer for the band Leathermouth
• 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
• Frank Engelmann, German guitarist and vocalist

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, man-sized 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 (comic strip), comic strip
• 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
• William J. Frank, American politician
• Barnett Frank, also known as Barney Frank, Massachusetts Democratic congressperson since 1981

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 Frank (1889-1957), legal philosopher
• Leo Frank (1884-1913), man convicted of murdering a 14-year-old girl in Georgia
• Philipp Frank (1884-1966), influential philosopher during the first half of the 20th century
• Robert Frank (b. 1924), photographer
• Robert H. Frank, economist
• FRANK (drugs) the British Government's current drugs awareness campaign [1]

See also:

• Franc (disambiguation), several uses
• Franck, several uses
• Franks (disambiguation), several uses