Franke

Franke is both a German-language surname and a given name.

Surname

• Bernd Franke (born 1948), German soccer player
• Bette Franke (born 1989), Dutch fashion model
• Bob Franke (born 1947), American folk singer and song writer
• Christian Wilhelm Franke, one of the editors of early editions of the Brockhaus Enzyklopädie
• Christopher Franke (born 1953), German musician/composer in Tangerine Dream
• Donald T. Franke (1921–2013), American jurist and legislator
• Egon Franke (fencer) (born 1935), Polish Olympic fencer
• Egon Franke (politician) (1913–1995), German politician (SPD)
• Elsa Thiemann (née Franke, 1910–1981), German photographer
• Garance Franke-Ruta (born 1972), American writer and editor
• Guillaume Franke (born 1987), German rugby union player
• Herbert Franke (sinologist) (1914–2011), German sinologist, co-author of the Cambridge History of China
• Herbert W. Franke (born 1927), Austrian science fiction writer
• Jay Anthony Franke (born 1972), American actor, voice actor and musician
• Jens Franke (born 1964), German mathematician
• Josef Franke (1876–1944), German architect
• Keith Franke (1954–1988), American professional wrestler known as Adrian Adonis
• Marcel Franke (born 5 April 1993), German footballer
• Matthieu Franke (born 1985), German rugby union player
• Nikki Franke (born 1951), American fencer and fencing coach
• Stéphane Franke (1964–2011), German long distance runner
• Victor Franke (1865–1936), German military officer
• Werner Franke (born 1940), German professor and biologist
• William B. Franke (1894–1979), American financial manager, U.S. Secretary of the Navy 1959–1961
• Yannick Franke (born 1996), Dutch basketball player

Given name

• Franke Previte, American composer
• Franke Rupert (1888–1971), Austrian engraver

See also

• Franke (company), Swiss manufacturing company
• Franke and the Knockouts, American band in the early 1980s
• Franke Institute for the Humanities at the University of Chicago
• Francke, surname
• Franken (disambiguation)