frans hals
- n Dutch portrait and genre painter who endowed his portraits with vitality and humor (1580?-1666)
franklin
- n United States historian noted for studies of Black American history (born in 1915)
- n printer whose success as an author led him to take up politics; he helped draw up the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution; he played a major role in the American Revolution and negotiated French support for the colonists; as a scientist he is remembered particularly for his research in electricity (1706-1790)
- n a landowner (14th and 15th centuries) who was free but not of noble birth
franklin delano roosevelt
- n 32nd President of the United States; elected four times; instituted New Deal to counter the Great Depression and led country during World War II (1882-1945)