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Frank (surname)

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Frank is a German surname. Notable persons with the surname include:

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In art

  • Jane Frank
  • Jean-Michel Frank, French furniture and interior designer
  • Magda Frank, sculptor
  • Mary Frank
  • Robert Frank, American photographer
  • In literature

  • Anne Frank (1929–1945), author of a famous diary during World War II
  • Edith Frank (1900–1945), mother of Anne Frank
  • Margot Frank (1926–1945), sister of Anne Frank
  • Otto Frank (1889–1980), father of Anne Frank and posthumous editor of her works
  • Bernard Frank (1929–2006), French journalist and writer
  • Bruno Frank (1878–1945), German author, poet, dramatist and humanist
  • Waldo David Frank (1889–1967), American author and scholar
  • In military

  • Hans Frank (1900–1946), governor general of Nazi occupied Poland
  • Karl Hermann Frank (1898–1946), prominent Sudeten-German Nazi official in Czechoslovakia
  • In politics

  • Barnett Frank, known as Barney Frank, Massachusetts Democratic congressperson
  • Bernhard Frank, German SS Commander
  • James Frank, Republican member of the Texas House of Representatives from Wichita Falls
  • Josip Frank, Croatian lawyer and politician
  • Michael Frank, Wisconsin politician
  • William J. Frank, Maryland Republican state congressperson since 2003
  • Other

  • Andre Gunder Frank (1929–2005), German-American sociologist known as a founder of dependency theory
  • Bernard Frank (wilderness activist), wilderness activist and co-founder of The Wilderness Society
  • Eugene Maxwell Frank (1907–2009), American Bishop of the Methodist and United Methodist Churches
  • Helmar Frank (1933–2013), German mathematician and pedagogist
  • Henry Frank (1851–1908), Montana entrepreneur
  • Jacob Frank (1726–1791), founder of a Jewish dissident sect
  • Jerome Frank (1889–1957), legal philosopher
  • John Frank (born 1962), American NFL football player
  • Leo Frank (1884–1915), man convicted of murdering a 14-year-old girl in Georgia
  • Peter Frank (academic) (1934–2013), British professor and media commentator on Russian affairs
  • Peter Frank (art critic) (born 1950), art critic, curator, and poet
  • Robert Frank (born 1924), photographer
  • Robert H. Frank, economist
  • Thomas Pierson Frank, British civil engineer
  • Ulrich Frank (born 1958 ), German computer scientist
  • Wolfgang Frank (1951–2013), German footballer and manager
  • In science

  • Adolf Frank (1834–1916), German chemist
  • Albert Bernhard Frank (1839-1900), German biologist
  • András Frank (1949), Hungarian mathematician
  • Frederick Charles Frank (1911–1998), British Physicist, crystallographer
  • Johann Peter Frank (1745–1821), German physician and hygienist
  • Ilya Frank (1908–1990), physicist and 1958 Nobel laureate
  • Philipp Frank (1884–1966), physicist, mathematician and influential philosopher during the first half of the 20th century
  • References

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