Franz
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Given name
- Archduke Franz Ferdinand of AustriaArchduke Franz Ferdinand of AustriaFranz Ferdinand was an Archduke of Austria-Este, Austro-Hungarian and Royal Prince of Hungary and of Bohemia, and from 1889 until his death, heir presumptive to the Austro-Hungarian throne. His assassination in Sarajevo precipitated Austria-Hungary's declaration of war against Serbia...
, of the House of Habsburg, heir to the thrones of Austria and Hungary, assassinated in 1914 - Franz AdamFranz AdamFranz Adam was a German painter, chiefly of military subjects, born and active for much of his life in Italy.Adam was born in Milan, Italy, to painter Albrecht Adam, a German who had spent the prior several years in Italy...
, 19th century, German painter, chiefly of military subjects - Franz AltFranz AltFranz Leopold Alt was an Austrian-born American mathematician who made major contributions to computer science in its early days...
(1910–2011), Austrian-born American mathematician - Franz BauerFranz BauerFranz Andreas Bauer was an Austrian microscopist and botanical artist.Born in Feldsberg, Moravia , he was the son of Lucas Bauer , court painter to the Prince of Liechtenstein, and brother of the painters Josef Anton and Ferdinand Bauer...
, (1748–1840, Austrian microscopist and botanic artist - Franz BeckenbauerFranz BeckenbauerFranz Anton Beckenbauer is a German football coach, manager, and former player, nicknamed Der Kaiser because of his elegant style, his leadership, his first name "Franz" , and his dominance on the football pitch...
, German football (soccer) player and manager - Franz BendaFranz BendaFranz Benda was a Czech violinist and composer. He was the brother of Jiří Antonín Benda, and he worked for much of his life at the court of Frederick the Great....
, 18th century Bohemian violinist and composer - Franz CalustroFranz CalustroÁlvaro Franz Calustro Cárdenas is a retired Bolivian football midfielder.Calustro obtained a total number of nine caps for the Bolivia national football team during his career. He was a member of the national squad competing at the 2001 Copa América.-References:*...
, Bolivian football (soccer) player - Franz Xaver FeuchtmayerFranz Xaver FeuchtmayerFranz Xaver Feuchtmayer was a German Baroque stucco plasterer of the Wessobrunner School.A member of the famous Feuchtmayer family, he was the son of Michael Feuchtmayer Franz Xaver Feuchtmayer (the Elder) (1698, Wessobrunn, Bavaria – 1763) was a German Baroque stucco plasterer of the...
(the Elder), German Baroque stucco plasterer of the Wessobrunner School - Franz Xaver Feuchtmayer the YoungerFranz Xaver Feuchtmayer the YoungerFranz Xaver Feuchtmayer was a member of the German Feuchtmayer family of Baroque artists associated with the Wessobrunner School....
, Baroque artist and plasterer. - Franz Joseph FeuchtmayerFranz Joseph FeuchtmayerFranz Joseph Feuchtmayer was a member of the German Feuchtmayer family of Baroque artists of the Wessobrunner School.Feuchtmayer was born in Wessobrunn Abbey...
(1660–1718), German artist, one of the patriarchs of the Feuchtmayer family of artists - Franz GrillparzerFranz GrillparzerFranz Seraphicus Grillparzer was an Austrian writer who is chiefly known for his dramas. He also wrote the oration for Ludwig van Beethoven's funeral.-Biography:...
, 18th century Austrian writer and poet - Franz Heinel (born 1994), fictional racer from the Future GPX Cyber Formula series
- Franz Hopper, character from the French-produced animated series Code Lyoko
- Franz Joseph I of AustriaFranz Joseph I of AustriaFranz Joseph I or Francis Joseph I was Emperor of Austria, King of Bohemia, King of Croatia, Apostolic King of Hungary, King of Galicia and Lodomeria and Grand Duke of Cracow from 1848 until his death in 1916.In the December of 1848, Emperor Ferdinand I of Austria abdicated the throne as part of...
(1830–1916), Austrian Emperor - Franz Josef JungFranz Josef JungFranz Josef Jung is a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union . He became Federal Minister of Defence in the Grand coalition cabinet of Angela Merkel on 22 November 2005...
(born 1949), German politician - Franz Joseph HaydnJoseph HaydnFranz Joseph Haydn , known as Joseph Haydn , was an Austrian composer, one of the most prolific and prominent composers of the Classical period. He is often called the "Father of the Symphony" and "Father of the String Quartet" because of his important contributions to these forms...
, Austrian Classical composer. He was baptized with this name but did not use it, being known in his own time as "Joseph Haydn". - Franz KafkaFranz KafkaFranz Kafka was a culturally influential German-language author of short stories and novels. Contemporary critics and academics, including Vladimir Nabokov, regard Kafka as one of the best writers of the 20th century...
, Jewish-Bohemian novelist, one of the major fiction writers of the 20th century - Franz Kemmerich, character in the war novel All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
- Franz KlineFranz KlineFranz Jozef Kline was an American painter mainly associated with the Abstract Expressionist movement centered around New York in the 1940s and 1950s. He was born in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, and attended Girard College, an academy in Philadelphia for fatherless boys...
, 20th century American abstract painter - Franz LachnerFranz LachnerFranz Paul Lachner was a German composer and conductor.Lachner was born in Rain am Lech to a musical family . He studied music with Simon Sechter and Maximilian, the Abbé Stadler. He conducted at the Theater am Kärntnertor in Vienna. In 1834, he became Kapellmeister at Mannheim...
, 19th century German composer and conductor - Franz LehárFranz LehárFranz Lehár was an Austrian-Hungarian composer. He is mainly known for his operettas of which the most successful and best known is The Merry Widow .-Biography:...
, Austrian composer - Franz LidzFranz LidzFranz Lidz is an American writer and journalist.He was a senior writer at Sports Illustrated, a contributing editor at Conde Nast Portfolio, and is a correspondent for GQ, Sports Illustrated, Men's Journal, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Observer, AARP the Magazine, Slate and has written...
, American journalist and memoirist - Franz LisztFranz LisztFranz Liszt ; ), was a 19th-century Hungarian composer, pianist, conductor, and teacher.Liszt became renowned in Europe during the nineteenth century for his virtuosic skill as a pianist. He was said by his contemporaries to have been the most technically advanced pianist of his age...
, Hungarian composer and piano virtuoso, 19th century - Franz MachonFranz MachonMatrosengefreiter Franz Machon was the only survivor of the sunken German submarine U-512, and one of few World War II U-Boat survivors. His story strikes remarkable similarities with Klaus Bargsten of U-521...
, U-512 sole survivor - Franz MarcFranz MarcFranz Marc was a German painter and printmaker, one of the key figures of the German Expressionist movement...
, principal painter of the German Expressionist movement - Franz RosenzweigFranz RosenzweigFranz Rosenzweig was an influential Jewish theologian and philosopher.-Early life:Franz Rosenzweig was born in Kassel, Germany to a middle-class, minimally observant Jewish family...
, early 20th-century Jewish philosopher - Franz SchalkFranz SchalkFranz Schalk was an Austrian conductor. From 1918 to 1929 he was director of the Vienna State Opera, a post he held jointly with Richard Strauss from 1919 to 1924. Later, Schalk was involved in the establishment of the Salzburg Festival.-Biography:Schalk was born in Vienna, Austria, where he later...
, Austrian composer and conductor, founder of the Salzburg Music Festival - Franz SchubertFranz SchubertFranz Peter Schubert was an Austrian composer.Although he died at an early age, Schubert was tremendously prolific. He wrote some 600 Lieder, nine symphonies , liturgical music, operas, some incidental music, and a large body of chamber and solo piano music...
, Austrian composer, 19th century - Franz Wilhelm SeiwertFranz Wilhelm SeiwertFranz Wilhelm Seiwert Franz Wilhelm Seiwert Franz Wilhelm Seiwert (March 9, 1894 – July 3, 1933 was a German painter and sculptor in a constructivist style.right|thumb|Selbstbildnis (Self-portrait) by Franz Wilhelm Seiwert, 1928, oil on canvas, 79 x 50 cm, Von der Heydt-Museum, [[Wuppertal]]...
, German painter and sculptor in a constructivist style - Franz Joseph SpieglerFranz Joseph SpieglerFranz Joseph Spiegler was a German Baroque painter. He is best known for his frescoes, which decorate many of the churches and monasteries along the Upper Swabian Baroque Route. The frescoes in the Zwiefalten Abbey are considered his masterpiece.Spiegler was born the Free Imperial City of Wangen...
, German Baroque painter - Franz, a German enemy character in the fighting game Human Killing MachineHuman Killing MachineHuman Killing Machine, commonly abbreviated as HKM, is a 2D fighting game developed by Tiertex and published by U.S. Gold, released in March 1989. It was touted as a sequel to Tiertex's home computer conversion of Street Fighter...
Family name
- Arthur FranzArthur FranzArthur Franz was a B-movie actor whose most notable role was as Lieutenant, Junior Grade H. Paynter, Jr. in The Caine Mutiny. He also appeared in Roseanna McCoy , Invaders from Mars , Abbott and Costello Meet the Invisible Man and The Unholy Wife , among others...
, American actor - Dennis FranzDennis FranzDennis Franz is an American actor best known for his role as Andy Sipowicz, a hard-boiled police detective in the television series NYPD Blue. He previously appeared as Lt...
, American actor noted for his performance as Andy Sipowicz in NYPD Blue and Lt. Norman Buntz in Hill Street Blues - Eduard FranzEduard FranzEduard Franz , born Eduard Franz Schmidt, was an American actor of theater, film, and television. Franz portrayed King Ahab in the 1953 biblical low-budget film Sins of Jezebel, Jethro in Cecil B...
, American actor - Elizabeth FranzElizabeth FranzElizabeth Franz is an American stage and television actress.-Life and career:Franz was born Betty Jean Frankovich in Akron, Ohio, the daughter of a factory worker....
, American actress - Frederick William FranzFrederick William FranzFrederick William Franz served as President of the Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society of Pennsylvania, the legal entity used to direct the work of Jehovah's Witnesses. He had previously served as Vice President of the same corporation from 1945 until 1977 and as a member of the Governing Body of...
, Bible scholar and past president of the Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society of Pennsylvania - Johnny FranzJohnny FranzJohnny Franz was a UK record producer and A&R man at the Philips label. Although his name is not recognized by many Americans, Franz was one of Britain's most successful producers in the 1950s and 1960s...
, UK record producer for Philips Label - Kurt FranzKurt FranzKurt Hubert Franz was an SS officer and one of the commanders of the Treblinka extermination camp. Franz was one of the major perpetrators of genocide during the Holocaust.-Early life:...
, Nazi SS Commandant of Treblinka extermination camp - Maik FranzMaik FranzMaik Franz is a German footballer currently playing for Hertha BSC.- Career :Franz grew up in Langenstein near Halbstadt, and began his football career there with SV Langenstein/Harz. In 1997, he transferred to VfB Germania Halberstadt, before joining 1. FC Magdeburg's youth division in the summer...
, German football (soccer) player - Raymond FranzRaymond FranzRaymond Victor Franz was a member of the Governing Body of Jehovah's Witnesses from 20 October 1971 until 22 May 1980, and served at the organization's world headquarters for fifteen years, from 1965 until 1980. Franz claimed the request for his resignation and his subsequent disfellowshipping...
, Former Jehovah's Witness - Robert FranzRobert FranzRobert Franz was a German composer, mainly of lieder.-Biography:He was born Robert Knauth in Halle, Germany, the son of Christoph Franz Knauth...
, 19th-century German composer
Places
- Franz, Ontario, CanadaCanadaCanada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...
- Franz Josef LandFranz Josef LandFranz Josef Land, Franz Joseph Land, or Francis Joseph's Land is an archipelago located in the far north of Russia. It is found in the Arctic Ocean north of Novaya Zemlya and east of Svalbard, and is administered by Arkhangelsk Oblast. Franz Josef Land consists of 191 ice-covered islands with a...
, an archipelago in the Arctic Sea north of Russia
Others
- Franz (crater)Franz (crater)Franz is a small lunar crater that is located along the eastern edge of the Sinus Amoris, a bay that forms a northern extension to the Mare Tranquillitatis. It lies to the southwest of the prominent crater Macrobius...
, a lunar crater - Franz (film)Franz (film)- Plot :The story takes place in a Belgium seaside town, at a boarding house for civil servants recovering from surgery and illness. The six male residents' lives change dramatically when two women arrive. Catherine is a lively, sexually liberated woman willing to kiss, dance, and sleep with the...
, a 1971 Belgian film - Franz Ferdinand (band)Franz Ferdinand (band)Franz Ferdinand are a Scottish post-punk revival band formed in Glasgow in 2002. The band is composed of Alex Kapranos , Bob Hardy , Nick McCarthy , and Paul Thomson .The band first experienced chart success when their second single, "Take Me Out", reached #3 in...
, a Scottish rock band - Franz LispFranz LispIn computer programming, Franz Lisp was a Lisp system written at UC Berkeley by the students of Professor Richard J. Fateman, based largely on Maclisp and distributed with the Berkeley Software Distribution for the Digital Equipment Corp VAX...
, a dialect of the Lisp programming language - United States BakeryUnited States BakeryUnited States Bakery, better known as Franz Family Bakeries, is located in Portland, Oregon. Franz Bakery was founded in 1906. U.S. Bakery also owns the Northwest regional bread brands Williams, Gai's, and Snyder's.-History:...
, better known as Franz Family Bakeries