Fram

The Fram was an arctic exploration vessel from Norway.

Fram may also refer to:

Places and geography

• Fram, Paraguay, a town in Itapúa, Paraguay
• Fram Formation, a sequence of rock strata on Ellesmere Island, Canada
• Fram, Rače–Fram, a settlement in Slovenia
• Fram (river), a stream in Slovenia
• Framlingham, town in England referred to by locals as "Fram"
• Framingham, Massachusetts, a city often nicknamed "Fram"
  • Framingham State University, a university in that city also often nicknamed "Fram"
• Fram Strait, in the Arctic Ocean
• Fram Islands, in Antarctica
• Fram Mesa, in Antarctica
• Fram (crater), crater on Mars explored by the Opportunity rover
• 6230 Fram, a minor planet and asteroid named after the ship

Arts and culture

• Fram (play), by Tony Harrison
• Fram (Middle-earth), fictional character from the stories of J. R. R. Tolkien
• Fram, the Polar Bear, children's book by Romanian writer Cezar Petrescu
• Fram Museum, a museum in Oslo, Norway

Sports

• Knattspyrnufélagið Fram, Icelandic association football club
• IF Fram Tórshavn, Faroese association football club
• IF Fram, Finnish association football club from Åland
• IF Fram Larvik, Norwegian sports club
• IL Fram, Norwegian sports club
• IL Hjelset-Fram, Norwegian sports club
• SK Fram (Oslo), Norwegian skiing and social club
• SK Fram, Norwegian sports club now a part of Selsbakk IF
• SK Fram, Norwegian sports club now a part of Brumunddal IL
• Framlingham Town F.C. (known as Fram), English association football club
• Fram Stadion, a football stadium in Larvik, Norway

People

• Edward M. Fram (1905–1955), Christian Iraqi businessman, merchant and philanthropist
• Leslie Fram, American media executive
• Fram Farrington (1908–2002), polar explorer
• Sam Hormusji Framji Jamshedji Manekshaw (1914 – 2008), Field Marshal of the Indian Army

As an acronym

• Fleet Rehabilitation and Modernization, United States Navy and Coast Guard program to modernize older ships in their respective fleets
• Fellow of the Royal Academy of Music in the University of London
• Ferroelectric RAM, electronic device using the ferroelectric effect to produce low density random access memory
• Flight Releasable Attachment Mechanism for ORUs on External stowage platforms of the International Space Station
• Functional Resonance Analysis Method, Modelling Complex Socio-technical Systems, by Erik Hollnagel

Other uses

• FRAM (brand), an American brand of automotive filters
• MS Fram, expedition cruise ship owned by Hurtigruten Group
• Fram (bicycle company), a Swedish bicycle manufacturer