Franco (name)
Encyclopedia
Franco is a common surname (also as a first name) in Spanish
, in Portuguese
and in Italian
which derives from the word "Frank", in reference to the Germanic tribe of the Franks
, who invaded the modern-day France
during the Migration period
.
Spanish language
Spanish , also known as Castilian , is a Romance language in the Ibero-Romance group that evolved from several languages and dialects in central-northern Iberia around the 9th century and gradually spread with the expansion of the Kingdom of Castile into central and southern Iberia during the...
, in Portuguese
Portuguese language
Portuguese is a Romance language that arose in the medieval Kingdom of Galicia, nowadays Galicia and Northern Portugal. The southern part of the Kingdom of Galicia became independent as the County of Portugal in 1095...
and in Italian
Italian language
Italian is a Romance language spoken mainly in Europe: Italy, Switzerland, San Marino, Vatican City, by minorities in Malta, Monaco, Croatia, Slovenia, France, Libya, Eritrea, and Somalia, and by immigrant communities in the Americas and Australia...
which derives from the word "Frank", in reference to the Germanic tribe of the Franks
Franks
The Franks were a confederation of Germanic tribes first attested in the third century AD as living north and east of the Lower Rhine River. From the third to fifth centuries some Franks raided Roman territory while other Franks joined the Roman troops in Gaul. Only the Salian Franks formed a...
, who invaded the modern-day France
France
The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
during the Migration period
Migration Period
The Migration Period, also called the Barbarian Invasions , was a period of intensified human migration in Europe that occurred from c. 400 to 800 CE. This period marked the transition from Late Antiquity to the Early Middle Ages...
.
Politicians
- Francisco FrancoFrancisco FrancoFrancisco Franco y Bahamonde was a Spanish general, dictator and head of state of Spain from October 1936 , and de facto regent of the nominally restored Kingdom of Spain from 1947 until his death in November, 1975...
, Spanish head of state from 1936 to 1975 - Gustavo FrancoGustavo FrancoGustavo Franco is a Brazilian economist, born April 10, 1956 in Rio de Janeiro.-Career:Son of Maria Isabel Barbosa de Barroso Franco and Guilherme Arinos Lima Verde de Barroso Franco, who was a friend and assistant of President Getúlio Vargas, and also a member of the first board of Directors of...
, Brazilian central banker - Itamar FrancoItamar FrancoItamar Augusto Cautiero Franco was a Brazilian politician and the President of Brazil from December 29, 1992, to January 1, 1995. During his long political career, Franco was also a Senator, Mayor, Ambassador, Governor and Vice President...
, former president of Brazil. - João FrancoJoão FrancoJoão Franco Ferreira Pinto Castelo-Branco, GCTE was a Portuguese politician, Minister, 43rd Minister for Treasury Affairs and 73rd Prime Minister in the last years of the Portuguese monarchy...
, prime minister of Portugal - Manuel FrancoManuel FrancoManuel Franco was President of Paraguay. He was a model citizen and illustrious teacher.-Childhood and Youth:Doctor Manuel Franco was born in Concepción on June 9, 1871 in times of the government of Cirilo Antonio Rivarola...
, president of Paraguay - Rafael FrancoRafael FrancoRafael Franco Ojeda was President of Paraguay from February 17, 1936 to August 13, 1937. He was a member of the Febrerista Revolutionary Party....
, president of Paraguay
Artists
- Ani DiFrancoAni DiFrancoAni DiFranco is an American Grammy Award-winning singer, guitarist, poet, and songwriter. She has released more than 20 albums, and is widely considered a feminist icon.-Biography:...
, American musician - Buddy DeFrancoBuddy DeFrancoBoniface Ferdinand Leonard "Buddy" DeFranco is an American jazz clarinet player.-Biography:DeFranco began his professional career just as swing music and big bands — many of which were led by clarinetists like Artie Shaw, Benny Goodman and Woody Herman — were fading in popularity...
, American jazz clarinetist - Daniel FrancoDaniel FrancoDaniel Franco, a native of Los Angeles, California, was born November 11, 1971. He achieved notability for appearing in two seasons of Project Runway.-Biography:...
, Los Angeles fashion designer - Hernando FrancoHernando FrancoHernando Franco was a Spanish composer of the Renaissance, who was mainly active in Guatemala and Mexico.- Life :Franco was born in Galizuela in Extremadura, a source region for many people who came to the New World in the 16th century...
, Spanish composer - James FrancoJames FrancoJames Edward Franco is an American actor, film director, producer, screenwriter, author, painter, performance artist and instructor at New York University. He left college in order to pursue acting and started off his career by making guest appearances on television series in the 1990s...
and Dave FrancoDave FrancoDavid John "Dave" Franco is an American television and film actor who played the role of Cole Aaronson for season nine of Scrubs.-Personal life:...
, American actors - Jesús FrancoJesús FrancoJesús "Jess" Franco is a Spanish film director, writer, cinematographer and actor. His career took off in 1961 with his cult classic The Awful Dr. Orloff, which received wide distribution in the United States and England...
and Ricardo FrancoRicardo FrancoRicardo Franco was a Spanish screenwriter and film director.- Biography :Nephew of Jesús Franco. He died at 49 years old when he filmed Lágrimas negras....
, Spanish directors and brothers - José FrancoJosé Franco-Literary works:*Smilla en Flor, 3 editions *La Sangre Derramada *Una Cruz Verde en el Camino *Coplas y Fábulas a Pelusa *Redobles al Amanecer *Horas Testimoniales *Poemas a mi Patria *Patria Sagrada...
, Panamanian poet - Larry J. FrancoLarry J. FrancoLarry J. Franco is an American film producer. He has also served as an actor, Second Unit Director or Assistant Director. He is the father of former Atlanta Braves baseball player Matt Franco and Phronsie Franco. He is the ex-brother-in-law of actor Kurt Russell and Season Hubley and the...
, American film producer - Tony DeFranco, Canadian musician
- Franco (singer)Franco (singer)Franco , is a singer that in 1986 peaked at number one in the Billboard Hot Latin Tracks with a cover version of a Lucio Dalla song titled "Toda La Vida"...
, Cuban singer
Others
- Felipe FrancoFelipe FrancoFelipe Malzac Franco is a male water polo player from Brazil. Nicknamed "Mega" he competed for his native country at the 2007 Pan American Games, where he claimed the silver medal with the Brazil men's national water polo team.-References:...
(b. 1982), Brazilian water polo player - Guillermo FrancoGuillermo FrancoGuillermo Luis Franco Farquarson is an Argentine-born Mexican football striker who plays for Vélez Sársfield. He also played for the Mexico national team, until his international retirement in September 2010.-Early life:...
(b. 1976), nationalised Mexican footballer - Guillermo Franco (b. 1983), Argentine footballer
- John Franco, US-born baseball pitcher
- Julio FrancoJulio FrancoJulio César Robles Franco is a former Major League Baseball infielder and designated hitter. In , Franco was the oldest active player in the major leagues at the age of 49....
(b. 1958), Dominican-born baseball player - Leryn FrancoLeryn FrancoLeryn Dahiana Franco Steneri is a Paraguayan model and athlete. She specializes in the javelin throw and became an internet sensation during the 2008 Beijing Olympics. Her personal best throw is 55.66 metres, achieved in June,2011 in Buenos Aires...
(b. 1982), Paraguayan javelin thrower and model - Matt FrancoMatt FrancoMatthew Neil Franco is a former professional baseball player who played first base in the major leagues from 1995–2003, and in Nippon Professional Baseball from 2004-2006. Franco started his pro career in 1987 with the Rookie League Wytheville Cubs in the Appalachian League...
(b. 1969), baseball player - Ramón FrancoRamón FrancoRamón Franco y Bahamonde Salgado Pardo de Andrade , was a Galician pioneer of aviation, a political figure and brother of later dictator Francisco Franco...
(b. 1896), pioneer aviator, brother of Francisco Franco, Spanish dictator - Veronica FrancoVeronica FrancoVeronica Franco was an Italian poet and courtesan in 16th century Venice.- Life as a courtesan :Renaissance Venetian society recognized two different classes of courtesans: the cortigiana onesta, the intellectual courtesan, and the cortigiana di lume, lower-class prostitutes who tended to live and...
(1546-1591), Venetian courtesan and poet
Given name
- Franco AlbiniFranco AlbiniFranco Albini was an Italian Neo-Rationalist architect and designer.A native of Robbiate, near Milan, Albini obtained his degree in architecture at Politecnico di Milano University in 1929 and began his professional career working for Gio Ponti. He started displaying his works at...
, Italian architect - Franco AlfanoFranco AlfanoFranco Alfano was an Italian composer and pianist. Best known today for his opera Risurrezione and above all for having completed Puccini's opera Turandot in 1926. He had considerable success with several of his own works during his lifetime.- Biography :He was born in Posillipo, Naples...
, Italian composer - Franco AmatoriFranco AmatoriFranco Amatori is professor of economic history at Bocconi University, Milan, Italy.Due to a Fulbright Scholarship, Amatori spent three semesters in the individual studies program of Harvard Business School under the tutelage of Alfred D. Chandler, Jr.....
, Italian economic historian - Franco AssettoFranco AssettoFranco Assetto was an Italian sculptor and painter, who lived in the United States for much of his life.His early work anticipated Pop Art....
, Italian sculptor and painter - Franco BaresiFranco BaresiFranco Baresi is an Italian football youth team coach and former player. He played as a sweeper and spent his entire career with Serie A club AC Milan, acknowledged as one of the greatest defenders ever to play the game. Baresi was nicknamed "Piscinin", Milanese for "Little one"...
, Italian footballer - Franco BattiatoFranco BattiatoFrancesco Battiato is an Italian singer-songwriter, composer, filmmaker and, under the pseudonym Süphan Barzani, also a painter. Battiato's songs contain esoteric, philosophical and religious themes...
, Italian singer and songwriter - Franco BoneraFranco BoneraGianfranco Bonera was an Italian Grand Prix motorcycle road racer. His best year was in 1974 when he won the Nations Grand Prix and finished second to his MV Agusta team-mate, Phil Read, in the 500cc world championship...
, Italian motorcycle racer - Franco CarraroFranco CarraroFranco Carraro is an Italian sport manager and a former member of Italian Socialist Party in the 1980s and 1990s.-Football:Carraro was born in Padua....
, Italian sports director - Franco CausioFranco CausioFranco Causio is an Italian, World Cup winning former footballer who played for Juventus for many years in the 1970s and 1980s.-Biography:Causio was born in Lecce , and moved to Juventus when he was 17....
, Italian footballer - Franco CorelliFranco CorelliFranco Corelli was a famous Italian tenor who had a major international opera career between 1951 and 1976. Associated in particular with the spinto and dramatic tenor roles of the Italian repertory, he was celebrated universally for his powerhouse voice, electrifying top notes, clear timbre, a...
, Italian tenor - Franco CristaldiFranco CristaldiFranco Cristaldi was an Italian film producer, credited with producing more than 60 feature films from the 1950s to the 1990s.-Career:...
, Italian film producer - Franco Di SantoFranco di SantoFranco Matías di Santo is an Argentine footballer who plays as a striker for Wigan Athletic.- Audax Italiano :Di Santo began his club career in the Chilean team Audax Italiano. In the 2006–07 season he scored 26 goals in 76 matches, including one goal in six matches in the Copa Libertadores...
, Argentine footballer - Franco EvangelistiFranco EvangelistiFranco Evangelisti , was an Italian composer specifically interested in the scientific theories behind sound.-Biography:...
, Italian composer - Franco FabriziFranco FabriziFranco Fabrizi was an Italian actor.Son of a barber and a cinema cashier, he was a soap opera photo actor, for example, the fotoromanzo Arizona Kid, in the newspaper Avventuroso Film...
, Italian actor - Franco FerraraFranco FerraraFranco Ferrara was an Italian conductor.After obtaining diplomas in piano, violin, organ and musical composition at the Conservatory of Bologna, Ferrara began his career as violin player in Bologna, in Rome and in Florence, with the Orchestra of Maggio Musicale Fiorentino...
, Italian conductor - Franco FraticelliFranco FraticelliFranco Fraticelli is an Italian film editor with more than 150 film credits. Fraticelli was consistently Dario Argento's editor of choice from The Bird with the Crystal Plumage through Opera ....
, Italian film editor - Franco Frattini, Italian politician
- Franco HarrisFranco HarrisFranco Harris is a former American football player. He played his NFL career with the Pittsburgh Steelers and Seattle Seahawks.In the 1972 NFL Draft he was chosen by the Pittsburgh Steelers in the first round, the 13th selection overall...
, American football player - Franco LeoniFranco LeoniFranco Leoni was an Italian opera composer. After training in Milan, he made most of his career in England, composing for Covent Garden and West End theatres. He is best known for the opera L'Oracolo, written for Covent Garden but taken up successfully by the Metropolitan Opera in New York...
, Italian opera composer - Franco LucentiniFranco LucentiniFranco Lucentini was an Italian writer, journalist, translator and editor of anthologies. His novel The Sunday Woman, which was also made into a film, 1976, with Marcello Mastroianni and Jacqueline Bisset.- Biography :...
, Italian writer - Franco MalerbaFranco MalerbaFranco Egidio Malerba is an Italian astronaut. He was the first citizen of Italy to travel to space....
, Italian astronaut - Franco MariniFranco MariniFranco Marini is an Italian politician and a prominent member of the centre-left Democratic Party. From 2006 to 2008 he was President of the Italian Senate.-Biography:...
, Italian politician - Franco ModiglianiFranco ModiglianiFranco Modigliani was an Italian economist at the MIT Sloan School of Management and MIT Department of Economics, and winner of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics in 1985.-Life and career:...
, Italian-American economist - Franco MorettiFranco MorettiFranco Moretti is an Italian literary scholar, trained as a Marxist critic, whose work focuses on the history of the novel as a "planetary form". He has written five books, Signs Taken for Wonders , The Way of the World , Modern Epic , Atlas of the European Novel, 1800-1900 , and Graphs, Maps,...
, Italian scholar - Franco MoschinoFranco MoschinoFranco Moschino was an Italian fashion designer remembered for his witty, colorful, lively and provocative designs which not only challenged, but poked fun at, the fashion establishment.-Early years:...
, Italian fashion designer - Franco NeroFranco NeroFranco Nero is an Italian actor.-Early life:Nero was born Francesco Sparanero in San Prospero Parmense , the son of a sergeant in the...
, Italian actor - Franco NetoFranco NetoFranco José Vieira Neto is a beach volleyball player from Brazil, who won the bronze medal in the men's beach team competition at the 1999 Pan American Games in Winnipeg, Canada, partnering Roberto Lopes. He represented his native country at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia.-References:*...
, Brazilian beach volleyball player - Franco PellizottiFranco PellizottiFranco Pellizotti is an Italian professional road bicycle racer, currently suspended from the sport....
, Italian cyclist - Franco Maria RicciFranco Maria RicciFranco Maria Ricci is an Italian publisher. Among his publications is FMR, an art magazine published six times yearly in Italian, English, German, French and Spanish, based in Milan, Italy...
, Italian art publisher - Franco SacchettiFranco SacchettiFranco Sacchetti , was an Italian poet and novelist.-Biography:Born in Florence or in Ragusa , he was the son of Benci di Uguccione, surnamed "Buono", Florentine merchant of the noble and ancient family of the Sacchetti...
, Italian poet - Franco ScaglioneFranco ScaglioneFranco Scaglione was an automobile coachwork designer.-Biography:Franco Scaglione was born in Florence to Vittorio Scaglione, a chief army doctor, and to Giovanna Fabbri, captain of the Italian Red Cross service. His was a well-to-do family of noble ancestry...
, Italian automobile designer - Franco SelvaggiFranco SelvaggiFranc Selvaggi is a former Italian football player. Born in Pomarico, province of Matera, he was a striker.In Serie A career he was played for Ternana, A.S. Roma, Cagliari, Torino, Udinese and Inter. For the Italian national team he was 1982 World Champion but never played a match in that event....
, Italian footballer - Franco SemioliFranco SemioliFranco Semioli is an Italian footballer for U.C. Sampdoria of Serie A. He plays in the role of right wing.-Club career:...
, Italian footballer - Franco UnciniFranco UnciniFranco Uncini is an Italian former Grand Prix motorcycle road racing World Champion.-Career:Uncini was born at Recanati, province of Macerata....
, Italian motorcycle racer - Franco ZeffirelliFranco ZeffirelliFranco Zeffirelli KBE is an Italian director and producer of films and television. He is also a director and designer of operas and a former senator for the Italian center-right Forza Italia party....
, Italian film director