Franz (given name)

Austria-Hungary

Franz I (1708–1765), Holy Roman Emperor

Franz II (1768–1835), Holy Roman Emperor, founder of the Austrian Empire

Franz Joseph I (1830–1916), Austrian Emperor

Franz Ferdinand, Archduke of Austria, heir to the thrones of Austria-Hungary, whose assassination in 1914 sparked World War I

Franz Karl, Archduke of Austria (1802–1878), father of two emperors

Franz Salvator, Archduke of Austria (1866–1939), Tuscan branch of the House of Habsburg

Franz, Duke of Hohenberg (1927–1977), head of the House of Hohenburg

Franz, Prince of Kohary (1760–1826), Imperial Chancellor

Franz, Prince of Thun and Hohenstein (1847–1916), Governor of Bohemia

Franz, Count of Deym (1838–1903), diplomat

Franz, Count of Meran (1839–1891), Austrian Count

Franz, Count of Gyulai (1798–1868), Governor of Lombardy-Venetia

Franz, Count Széchényi (1754–1820), Hungarian Count

Count Franz Anton von Kolowrat-Liebsteinsky (1778–1861), statesman

Count Franz Conrad von Hötzendorf (1852–1925), Chief of the General Staff

Count Franz Moritz von Lacy (1725–1801), Field Marshal

Count Franz Philipp von Lamberg (1791–1848), statesman

Germany

Franz, Duke of Bavaria (born 1933), head of the House of Wittelsbach

Franz, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld (1750–1806), patrilineal ancestor of Elizabeth II

Prince Franz of Bavaria (1875–1957), member of the House of Wittelsbach

Prince Franz-Josef of Bavaria (born 1957), member of the House of Wittelsbach

Prince Franz Joseph of Thurn and Taxis (1893–1971), head of the House of Thurn and Taxis

Prince Franz Wilhelm of Prussia (born 1943), member of the House of Hohenzollern

Prince Franz Joseph of Battenberg (1861–1924), member of the House of Hesse

Franz, Count of Erbach-Erbach (1754–1823), nobleman and art collector

Franz, Count of Waldeck (1491–1553), Prince-Bishop of Münster

Liechtenstein

Franz I, Prince of Liechtenstein (1853–1938), sovereign of Liechtenstein

Franz Joseph I, Prince of Liechtenstein (1726–1781), sovereign of Liechtenstein

Franz Joseph II, Prince of Liechtenstein (1906–1989), sovereign of Liechtenstein

Musicians, artists, writers

Franz Abt (1819–1885), German composer and Kapellemeister

Franz Ackermann (born 1963), German painter and installation artist

Franz Adam (1815–1886), German painter of military subjects

Franz Benda (1709–1786), Czech violinist and composer

Franz Behr (1837–1898), German composer

Franz Defregger (1835–1921), Austrian painter

Franz Josef Degenhardt (1931–2011), German poet, novelist and singer-songwriter

Franz Joseph Feuchtmayer (1660–1718), German artist, patriarch of the Feuchtmayer family

Franz Xaver Feuchtmayer the Elder (1698–1763), German Baroque artist and plasterer

Franz Xaver Feuchtmayer the Younger (1735–1803), German Baroque artist and plasterer

Franz Grillparzer (1791–1872), Austrian writer and poet

Franz Joseph Haydn (1732–1809), Austrian classical composer. The "Franz" was not generally used by Haydn or his contemporaries; see Haydn's name.

Franz Kafka (1883–1924), Bohemian novelist, one of the major writers of the 20th century

Franz Kline (1910–1962), American abstract painter

Franz Lachner (1803–1890), German composer and conductor

Franz Lehár (1870–1948), Austrian composer

Franz Lidz (born 1951), American writer and journalist

Franz Liszt (1811–1886), Hungarian composer and piano virtuoso

Franz Marc (1880–1916), principal painter of the German Expressionist movement

Franz Nachbaur (1835–1902), German opera tenor

Franz Xaver Nachtmann (1799–1846), German painter

Franz Schalk (1863–1931), Austrian conductor and founder of the Salzburg Music Festival

Franz Schubert (1797–1828), Austrian composer

Franz Heinrich Schwechten (1841–1924), German architect

Franz von Suppé (1819–1895), Austrian composer

Franz Werfel, (1890–1945), Austrian-Bohemian novelist, playwright and poet

Franz Wilhelm Seiwert (1894–1933), German constructivist painter and sculptor

Franz Joseph Spiegler (1691–1757), German Baroque painter

Scientists, mathematicians, philosophers

Franz Alt (mathematician) (1910–2011), Austrian-born American mathematician and computer scientist

Franz Bauer (1748–1840), Austrian microscopist and botanist

Franz Boas (1858–1942), German-American anthropologist considered the "Father of American anthropology"

Franz Boos (1753–1832), Austrian botanist and explorer during the Enlightenment

Franz Bopp (1791–1867), German linguist

Franz Büchner (1895–1991), German pathologist

Franz Halberg (1919–2013), one of the founders of chronobiology

Franz Hein (1892–1976), German chemist

Franz Hofmeister (1850–1922), German protein scientist

Franz von Paula Schrank (1747–1835), German botanist and entomologist

Franz Rosenzweig (1886–1929), German-Jewish theologian and philosopher

Franz Taurinus (1794–1874), German mathematician

Franz Thonner (1863–1928), Austrian taxonomist and botanist

Franz Unger (1800–1870), Austrian botanist, paleontologist and plant physiologist

Sports figures

Franz Beckenbauer, German football player and manager

Franz Binder (1911–1989), Austrian football player and coach

Franz Brunner (1913–1991), Austrian handball player who competed in the 1936 Summer Olympics

Franz Calustro, Bolivian football player

Franz Klammer (born 1953), champion Austrian alpine ski racer

Others

Franz-Benno Delonge (1957–2007), designer of German-style board games

Franz Burda I (1903–1986), German publisher

Franz Beyer (disambiguation), several people

Franz Beyer (musicologist) (born 1922), German musicologist

Franz Beyer (general) (1892–1968), German General in World War II

Franz Beyer (pilot) (1918–1944), German fighter pilot

Franz Bürkl, Gestapo officer in Nazi-occupied Poland, assassinated in Operation Bürkl

Franz Fuchs (1949–2000), Austrian terrorist

Franz Hössler (1906–1945), Nazi officer at Auschwitz executed for war crimes

Franz Jägerstätter (1907–1943), Austrian conscientious objector during World War II

Franz Josef Jung (born 1949), German politician

Franz Kindermann, German merchant

Franz Kleffner (1907–1945), SS officer in World War II

Franz König (1905–2004), Austrian Cardinal of the Catholic Church

Franz Langoth (1877–1953), Austrian nationalist politician

Franz Machon (born 1918), German sailor in World War II and sole survivor of U-512

Franz Erdmann Mehring (1846–1919), German publicist, politician and historian

Franz Müntefering (born 1940), German politician and industrialist

Franz von Papen (1879–1969), Chancellor of Germany in the Weimar Republic

Franz Rademacher (1906–1973), Nazi diplomat and author of the Madagascar Plan

Franz Schädle (1906–1945), commander of Adolf Hitler's personal bodyguard

Franz Schafheitlin (1895–1980), German film actor

Franz Schall (1918–1945), German World War II fighter ace

Franz Schieß (1921–1943), German World War II fighter ace

Franz Schwede (1888–1960), Nazi Gaulieter of Pomerania

Franz Scholz (1909–1998), German priest and theologian

Franz von Hipper (1863-1932), German World War I Admiral, Commander of High Seas Fleet

Franz Nagata (born 1983), French mother and Japanese father, Canadian born Founder of HSFSB

Fictional characters

Franz, a German enemy character in the 1989 video game Human Killing Machine

Hans and Franz, characters of the television show Saturday Night Live

Franz Bibfeldt, fictitious theologian and in-joke among American academic theologians

Franz Heinel, character in the Japanese anime series Future GPX Cyber Formula

Franz Hopper, character from the French-produced animated series Code Lyoko

Franz Kemmerich, character in the war novel All Quiet on the Western Front

Franz Liebkind, character in The Producers

Franz Sanchez, character in the 1989 James Bond film Licence to Kill