Top Celebrity Names Starting With Franz

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   Franz Beckenbauer

   Age 66 Male
   

   Football Player and Manager

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   Franz Anton Beckenbauer is a German football coach, manager, and former player, nicknamed Der Kaiser ("The Emperor") because of his elegant style, his leadership, his first name "Franz" (reminiscent of the Austrian emperors), and his dominance on the football pitch. He is generally regarded as the greatest German footballer of all time and one of the greatest and most decorated footballers in the history of the game.… read more

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   Franz Müntefering

   Age 72 Male
   

   Politician and Former Chairman of the Social Democratic Party

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   Franz Müntefering is a German politician and industrial manager. He was Chairman of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) from 18 October 2008 to 13 November 2009, a position he already held from 2004 to 2005. He was Federal Minister of Labour and Social Affairs, as well as Vice-Chancellor, from 2005 to 2007.… read more

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   Franz Liszt

   1811 - 1886 Male
   

   Composer, Conductor, Pedagogue, Pianist

   
   

   Franz Liszt; Hungarian: Liszt Ferencz, in modern use Liszt Ferenc 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. In the 1840s he was considered by some to be perhaps the greatest pianist of all time.… read more

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   Franz Boas

   1858 - 1942 Male
   

   Anthropologist, Pioneer, Social Scientist

   
   

   Franz Boas was a German-American anthropologist and a pioneer of modern anthropology who has been called the "Father of American Anthropology" and "the Father of Modern Anthropology. " Like many such pioneers, he trained in other disciplines; he received his doctorate in physics, and did post-doctoral work in geography.… read more

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   Franz Schubert

   1797 - 1828 Male
   

   Austrian Composer

   
   

   Franz Peter Schubert was an Austrian composer. Although he died at the age of 67, Schubert was a prolific composer, having written some 600 Lieder, nine symphonies, liturgical music, operas, some incidental music, and a large body of chamber and solo piano music which was very popular. Appreciation of Schubert's music during his lifetime was limited, but interest in his work increased significantly in the decades following his death.… read more

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   Franz Kafka

   1883 - 1924 Male
   

   German-language Writer

   
   

   Franz 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. The term "Kafkaesque" has become part of the English language. Kafka was born to middle class German-speaking Jewish parents in Prague, Bohemia, then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.… read more

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   Franz von Hipper

   1863 - 1932 Male
   

   Imperial Navy Admiral

   
   

   Franz Ritter von Hipper was an admiral in the German Imperial Navy (Kaiserliche Marine). Franz von Hipper joined the German Navy in 1881 as an officer cadet. He commanded several torpedo boat units and served as watch officer aboard several warships, as well as Kaiser Wilhelm II's yacht Hohenzollern. Hipper commanded several cruisers in the reconnaissance forces before being appointed commander of the I Scouting Group in October 1913.… read more

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   Franz Josef Strauss

   1915 - 1988 Male
   

   Politician

   
   

   Franz Josef Strauss was a German politician. He was the chairman of the Christian Social Union, member of the federal cabinet in different positions and long-time minister-president of the state of Bavaria. During his political career Strauss was something of a divisive figure. As a younger man he served in several positions in the federal cabinet, and had some brushes with scandal during this time.… read more

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   Franz Bucher

   Age 72 Male
   

   Artist

   
   

   Franz Bucher is a Swiss artist. He has produced paintings, drawings, woodcuts, etchings, sculptural objects, reliefs, murals, and stained glass.

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    Franz Leichter

    Age 81 Male
    

    New York State Senator From 1975-1998

    
    

    Franz S. Leichter served in the New York State Assembly from 1969-1974 and the New York State Senate from 1975-1998.

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    Franz Joseph I of Austria

    1830 - 1916 Male
    

    Emperor of Austria, King of Hungary

    
    

    Franz 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. From 1 May 1850 until 24 August 1866 he was President of the German Confederation.… read more

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    Franz von Papen

    1879 - 1969 Male
    

    Chancellor of Germany (german Reich)

    
    

    Lieutenant-Colonel Franz Joseph Hermann Michael Maria von Papen zu Köningen was a German nobleman, General Staff officer and right-wing politician. He served as as Chancellor of Germany in 1932 and as Vice-Chancellor under Adolf Hitler in 1933–1934. He belonged to the group of close advisers to President Paul von Hindenburg in the late Weimar Republic.… read more

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    Franz Nicolay

    Age 34 Male
    

    Musician, Composer, Performer

    
    

    Franz Nicolay is an American multi-instrumentalist and composer currently based in Brooklyn, New York. He is perhaps best known for playing the accordion and the piano in The World/Inferno Friendship Society and playing keyboards in The Hold Steady from 2005 to 2010. He is also notable for founding Anti-Social Music, a composer/performer collective based in New York City, and for performing in the gypsy-klezmer troupe Guignol.… read more

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    Franz Vranitzky

    Age 74 Male
    

    Austrian Politician

    
    

    Franz Vranitzky is an Austrian politician. A member of the Social Democratic Party of Austria (SPÖ), he was Chancellor of Austria from 1986 to 1997.

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    Franz Baermann Steiner

    1909 - 1952 Male
    

    Anthropologist, Polymath, Poet

    
    

    Franz Baermann Steiner was an ethnologist, polymath, essayist, aphorist, and poet. He was familiar, apart from German, Yiddish, Czech, Greek and Latin, with both classical and modern Arabic, Hebrew, Turkish, Armenian, Persian, Malay, English, French, Spanish, Italian, Russian, six other Slavic languages, Scandinavian languages and Dutch.… read more

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    Franz Burgmeier

    Age 30 Male
    

    Professional Association Football Player

    
    

    Franz Burgmeier is a Liechtenstein footballer, who plays as a midfielder for Vaduz in the Swiss Challenge League. Born in Triesen, Burgmeier was a burgeoning footballer and keen skier, until he gave up the latter sport at 16 following a serious injury. Having been a youth player for Triesen, he started his professional career with Vaduz. Burgmeier won several Liechtensteiner Cups with Vaduz, who were promoted to the Swiss Challenge League in 2001, and played in the UEFA Cup.… read more

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    Franz Mesmer

    1734 - 1815 Male
    

    Doctor, Scientist

    
    

    Franz Anton Mesmer, sometimes, albeit incorrectly, referred to as Friedrich Anton Mesmer, was a German physician with an interest in astronomy, who theorised that there was a natural energetic transference that occurred between all animated and inanimate objects that he called magnétisme animal and other spiritual forces often grouped together as mesmerism.… read more

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    Franz Welser-Möst

    Age 51 Male
    

    Austrian Conductor

    
    

    Franz Welser-Möst is an Austrian conductor who is currently the music director for the Cleveland Orchestra and the Vienna State Opera.

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    Franz Halder

    1884 - 1972 Male
    

    General, Military Person, Writer

    
    

    Franz Halder was a German General and the head of the Army General Staff from 1938 until September, 1942, when he was dismissed after frequent disagreements with Adolf Hitler.

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    Franz Bäke

    1898 - 1978 Male
    

    Substitute, Army Officer, Knight

    
    

    Generalmajor der Reserve Dr. med. dent. Franz Bäke was a German Army officer and panzer ace. He was also a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves and Swords. The Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross and its higher grade Oak Leaves and Swords was awarded to recognise extreme battlefield bravery or successful military leadership.… read more

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    Franz Stangl

    1908 - 1971 Male
    

    Commanding Officer, Military Person

    
    

    Franz Paul Stangl was an Austrian-born SS commandant of the Sobibor and Treblinka extermination camps during the Operation Reinhard phase of the Holocaust. He was arrested in Brazil in 1967, extradited and tried in West Germany for the mass murder of 900,000 people, and in 1970 was found guilty and sentenced to the maximum penalty, life imprisonment. He died of heart failure six months later.… read more

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    Franz Reichelt

    1879 - 1912 Male
    

    Inventor

    
    

    Franz Reichelt, also known as Frantz Reichelt or François Reichelt, was an Austrian-born French tailor, inventor and parachuting pioneer, now sometimes referred to as the Flying Tailor, who is remembered for his accidental death by jumping from the Eiffel Tower while testing a wearable parachute of his own design.… read more

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    Franz Grillparzer

    1791 - 1872 Male
    

    Austrian Playwright and Poet

    
    

    Franz Seraphicus Grillparzer was an Austrian writer who is chiefly known for his dramas. He also wrote the oration for Ludwig van Beethoven's funeral.

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    Franz Borkenau

    1900 - 1957 Male
    

    Sociologist, Writer, Civil Servant

    
    

    Franz Borkenau was an Austrian writer. Borkenau was born in Vienna, Austria, the son of a civil servant. As a university student in Leipzig, his main interests were Marxism and psychoanalysis. Borkenau is known as one of the pioneers of the totalitarianism theory.… read more

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    Franz Xaver Winterhalter

    1805 - 1873 Male
    

    Painter

    
    

    Franz Xaver Winterhalter was a German painter and lithographer, known for his portraits of royalty in the mid-nineteenth century. His name has become associated with fashionable court portraiture. Among his best known works are Empress Eugénie Surrounded by her Ladies in Waiting (1855) and the portraits he made of Empress Elisabeth of Austria (1865).… read more