franck
- n French composer and teacher who influenced a generation of composers (1822-1890)
- n United States physicist (born in Germany) who with Gustav Hertz performed an electron scattering experiment that proved the existence of the stationary energy states postulated by Niels Bohr (1882-1964)
franco
- n Spanish general whose armies took control of Spain in 1939 and who ruled as a dictator until his death (1892-1975)
franco-american
- n an American who was born in France or whose ancestors were French
franco-prussian war
- n a war between France and Prussia that ended the Second Empire in France and led to the founding of modern Germany; 1870-1871