Frank (surname)

Frank is a surname, and may refer to:

In science:
* Adolf Frank (1834–1916), German chemist
* 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

In literature:
* Anne Frank (1929–1945), author of a famous diary during WWII
* Otto Frank (1889–1980), father of Anne Frank and posthumous editor of her works
* Margot Frank (1926-1945), sister of Anne Frank
* Edith Frank (1900-1945), mother of Anne Frank
* 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 art:
* Jane Frank
* Jean-Michel Frank, French furniture and interior designer
* Mary Frank

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, also known as Barney Frank, Massachusetts Democratic congressperson since 1981
* Bernhard Frank, Schutzstaffel, Germany
* William J. Frank, Maryland Republican congressperson since 2003

Other:
* Andre Gunder Frank (1929–2005), sociologist known as a founder of dependency theory
* Bernard Frank, a wilderness activist and co-founder of The Wilderness Society
* Henry Frank (1851–1908), Montana entrepreneur
* Jacob Frank (1726–1791), founder of a Jewish dissident sect
* Jerome Frank (1889–1957), legal philosopher
* Leo Frank (1884–1913), man convicted of murdering a 14-year-old girl in Georgia
* Robert Frank (born 1924), photographer
* Robert H. Frank, economist
* Thomas Pierson Frank, British civil engineer

ee also

* Franke
* Franck
* Francke