Frank (surname)
Frank is a German surname. Notable persons with the surname include:
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
See also
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