Franz is a German name and cognate of the given name

Francis Francis may refer to: People *Pope Francis, the head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of the Vatican City State and Bishop of Rome * Francis (given name), including a list of people and fictional characters * Francis (surname) Places *Rural ...

. Notable people named Franz include:

Nobility

Austria-Hungary

* Francis I, Holy Roman Emperor (1708–1765) *

Francis II, Holy Roman Emperor Francis II (german: Franz II.; 12 February 1768 – 2 March 1835) was the last Holy Roman Emperor (from 1792 to 1806) and the founder and Emperor of the Austrian Empire, from 1804 to 1835. He assumed the title of Emperor of Austria in response ...

(1768–1835), founder of the Austrian Empire * Franz Joseph I (1830–1916), Austrian Emperor * Franz Ferdinand, Archduke of Austria, heir to the thrones of Austria-Hungary, whose assassination in 1914 sparked World War I * Franz Karl, Archduke of Austria (1802–1878), father of two emperors *

Franz Salvator, Archduke of Austria Archduke Franz Salvator of Austria (21 August 1866 – 20 April 1939) was the son of Archduke Karl Salvator of Austria and Princess Maria Immacolata of Bourbon-Two Sicilies. He married Archduchess Marie Valerie in 1890, though, due to Marie Val ...

(1866–1939), Tuscan branch of the House of Habsburg * Franz, Duke of Hohenberg (1927–1977), head of the House of Hohenburg * Franz, Prince of Kohary (1760–1826), Imperial Chancellor * Franz, Prince of Thun and Hohenstein (1847–1916), Governor of Bohemia *

Franz, Count of Deym Count Franz Deym (23 August 1838 at Neuschloss (now Dolní Olešnice) – 3 September 1903 at Eckersdorf, Glatz (now Bożków, Kłodzko)) was an Austrian diplomat. His full title was Franz de Paula Severin Wenzel Maria Philipp Benitius Graf De ...

(1838–1903), diplomat * Franz, Count of Meran (1839–1891), Austrian Count * Franz, Count of Gyulai (1798–1868), Governor of Lombardy-Venetia * Franz, Count Széchényi (1754–1820), Hungarian Count * Franz Anton von Kolowrat-Liebsteinsky (1778–1861), statesman from Prague * Franz Conrad von Hötzendorf (1852–1925), Chief of the General Staff * Franz Moritz von Lacy (1725–1801), Field Marshal * Count Franz Philipp von Lamberg (1791–1848), soldier and statesman

Germany

* Franz, Duke of Bavaria (born 1933), head of the House of Wittelsbach * Franz, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld (1750–1806), member of the House of Wettin * Prince Franz of Bavaria (1875–1957), member of the House of Wittelsbach * Prince Franz-Josef of Bavaria (born 1957), member of the House of Wittelsbach * Prince Franz Joseph of Thurn and Taxis (1893–1971), head of the House of Thurn and Taxis * Prince Franz Wilhelm of Prussia (born 1943), member of the House of Hohenzollern *

Prince Franz Joseph of Battenberg Prince Francis Joseph of Battenberg, (german: Franz Joseph; 24 September 1861 – 31 July 1924), was the fourth and youngest son and child of Prince Alexander of Hesse and by Rhine and his morganatic wife Countess Julia von Hauke. Biography ...

(1861–1924), member of the House of Hesse * Franz, Count of Erbach-Erbach (1754–1823), nobleman and art collector *

Franz von Waldeck Count Franz von Waldeck (1491 – 15 July 1553) was Prince-Bishop of Münster, Osnabrück, and Minden in the Lower Rhenish–Westphalian Circle of the Holy Roman Empire. He suppressed the Münster Rebellion, a millenarian Anabaptist theocr ...

(1491–1553), Prince-Bishop of Münster

Liechtenstein

* Franz I, Prince of Liechtenstein (1853–1938), sovereign of Liechtenstein * Franz Joseph I, Prince of Liechtenstein (1726–1781), sovereign of Liechtenstein * Franz Joseph II, Prince of Liechtenstein (1906–1989), sovereign of Liechtenstein

Other people

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* Franz Abt (1819–1885), German composer and Kapellmeister * Franz Ackermann (born 1963), German painter and installation artist * Franz Adam (1815–1886), German painter of military subjects * Franz Alt (mathematician) (1910–2011), Austrian-born American mathematician and computer scientist

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* Franz Anton Basch, Nazi executed for war crimes * Franz Bauer (1748–1840), Austrian microscopist and botanist * Franz Beckenbauer, German football player and manager * Franz Behr (1837–1898), German composer * Franz Benda (1709–1786), Czech violinist and composer *

Franz Berwald Franz Adolf Berwald (23 July 1796 – 3 April 1868) was a Swedish Romantic composer. He made his living as an orthopedist and later as the manager of a saw mill and glass factory, and became more appreciated as a composer after his death than ...

(1796–1868), Swedish composer * Franz Beyer (general) (1892–1968), German General in World War II *

Franz Beyer (musicologist) Franz Beyer (26 February 1922, in Weingarten – 29 June 2018, in Munich) was a German musicologist who is best known for his revising and restoration of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's music, in particular his unfinished Requiem, KV 626, which he res ...

(1922–2018), German musicologist * Franz Beyer (pilot) (1918–1944), German fighter pilot * Franz Binder (1911–1989), Austrian football player and coach *

Franz Boas Franz Uri Boas (July 9, 1858 – December 21, 1942) was a German-American anthropologist and a pioneer of modern anthropology who has been called the "Father of American Anthropology". His work is associated with the movements known as historical ...

(1858–1942), German-American anthropologist considered the "Father of American anthropology" * Franz Boos (1753–1832), Austrian botanist and explorer during the Enlightenment *

Franz Bopp Franz Bopp (; 14 September 1791 – 23 October 1867) was a German linguist Linguistics is the scientific study of human language. It is called a scientific study because it entails a comprehensive, systematic, objective, and precis ...

(1791–1867), German linguist * Franz Brunner (handballer) (1913–1991), Austrian handball player who competed in the 1936 Summer Olympics * Franz Burda I (1903–1986), German publisher * Franz Büchner (pathologist) (1895–1991), German pathologist * Franz Bürkl, Gestapo officer in Nazi-occupied Poland, assassinated in Operation Bürkl

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* Franz Calustro, Bolivian football player

D

Franz Defregger Franz Defregger (after 1883 Franz von Defregger) (30 April 1835 – 2 January 1921) was an Austrian artist known for producing genre art and history paintings set in his native county of Tyrol. Biography Franz Defregger was born on 30 April 183 ...

(1835–1921), Austrian painter * Franz Josef Degenhardt (1931–2011), German poet, novelist and singer-songwriter * Franz-Benno Delonge (1957–2007), designer of German-style board games * Franz von Dingelstedt (1814–1881), German poet, dramatist, theatre administrator

E

* Franz Engel (1834–1920), German explorer

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* Franz Joseph Feuchtmayer (1660–1718), German artist, patriarch of the Feuchtmayer family * Franz Xaver Feuchtmayer the Elder (1698–1763), German Baroque artist and plasterer * Franz Xaver Feuchtmayer the Younger (1735–1803), German Baroque artist and plasterer * Franz Fuchs (1949–2000), Austrian terrorist

G

* Franz Grillparzer (1791–1872), Austrian writer and poet

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Franz Halberg Franz Halberg (July 5, 1919 – June 9, 2013 ) was a scientist and one of the founders of modern chronobiology. He first began his experiments in the 1940s and later founded the Chronobiology Laboratories at the University of Minnesota. Halberg p ...

(1919–2013), one of the founders of chronobiology *

Franz Hein Franz Hein (30 June 1892 – 26 February 1976) was a German scientist and artist. History Franz Hein was born in Grötzingen (Baden), Germany. His high school years were spent in Leipzig, as well as, his college years at the University of Leipzig. ...

(1892–1976), German chemist * Franz von Hipper (1863–1932), German World War I admiral, commander of High Seas Fleet *

Franz Hofmeister Franz Hofmeister (30 August 1850, in Prague – 26 July 1922, in Würzburg) was an early protein scientist, and is famous for his studies of salts that influence the solubility and conformational stability of proteins. In 1902, Hofmeister becam ...

(1850–1922), German protein scientist * Franz Hössler (1906–1945), Nazi officer at Auschwitz executed for war crimes

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* Franz Jägerstätter (1907–1943), Austrian conscientious objector during World War II * Franz Josef Jung (born 1949), German politician

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Franz Kafka Franz Kafka (3 July 1883 – 3 June 1924) was a German-speaking Bohemian novelist and short-story writer, widely regarded as one of the major figures of 20th-century literature. His work fuses elements of realism and the fantastic. It ty ...

(1883–1924), Bohemian novelist * Franz Kindermann, German merchant * Franz Klammer (born 1953), champion Austrian alpine ski racer * Franz Kleffner (1907–1945), SS officer in World War II *

Franz Kline Franz Kline (May 23, 1910 – May 13, 1962) was an American painter. He is associated with the Abstract Expressionist movement of the 1940s and 1950s. Kline, along with other action painters like Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, Robert M ...

(1910–1962), American abstract painter * Franz Konrad (SS officer) (1906–1952), German SS officer executed for war crimes *

Franz König Franz König (3 August 1905 – 13 March 2004) was an Austrian Cardinal of the Catholic Church. He served as archbishop of Vienna from 1956 to 1985, and was elevated to the cardinalate in 1958. The last surviving cardinal elevated by Pope John ...

(1905–2004), Austrian Cardinal of the Catholic Church

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* Franz Lachner (1803–1890), German composer and conductor *

Franz Langoth Franz Langoth (20 August 1877 – 17 April 1953) was an Austrian nationalist politician who later became a leading figure in the country's Nazi movement. Nationalist politics A native of Linz, Langoth was the son of a miller and a flour merchant ...

(1877–1953), Austrian nationalist politician * Franz Lehár (1870–1948), Austrian composer * Franz Lidz (born 1951), American writer and journalist *

Franz Liszt Franz Liszt, in modern usage ''Liszt Ferenc'' . Liszt's Hungarian passport spelled his given name as "Ferencz". An orthographic reform of the Hungarian language in 1922 (which was 36 years after Liszt's death) changed the letter "cz" to simpl ...

(1811–1886), Hungarian composer and piano virtuoso

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Franz Machon Matrosengefreiter Franciszek Machoń (18 March 1918 – 1968), known as Franz Machon and later as Frank J. Machon, was the only survivor of the sunken , and one of few World War II U-boat survivors. His story strikes remarkable similarities with ...

(1918–1968), German sailor in World War II and sole survivor of ''U-512'' * Franz Marc (1880–1916), principal painter of the German Expressionist movement * Franz Marek (1913–1979), Austrian communist politician * Franz Erdmann Mehring (1846–1919), German publicist, politician and historian * Franz Müntefering (born 1940), German politician and industrialist

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Franz Nachbaur Franz Innozenz Stahl Nachbauer (1835–1902) was a famous German opera tenor. Born in Giessen, he studied with Giovanni Battista Lamperti in Milan and with the celebrated baritone, Jan Krtitel Pisek, in Stuttgart. He made his debut on the sta ...

(1835–1902), German opera tenor * Franz Xaver Nachtmann (1799–1846), German painter

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* Franz von Papen (1879–1969), Chancellor of Germany in the Weimar Republic

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* Franz Rademacher (1906–1973), Nazi diplomat and author of the Madagascar Plan * Franz Reichleitner (1906–1944), Austrian Nazi SS concentration camp commander * Franz Rosenzweig (1886–1929), German-Jewish theologian and philosopher

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* Franz Schafheitlin (1895–1980), German film actor *

Franz Schalk Franz Schalk (27 May 18633 September 1931) 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. He was later involved in the establishment of the ...

(1863–1931), Austrian conductor and founder of the Salzburg Music Festival * Franz Schall (1918–1945), German World War II fighter ace * Franz Schieß (1921–1943), German World War II fighter ace *

Franz Scholz Franz Scholz (10 December 1909 – 1 September 1998) was a German priest and professor of theology from Breslau, Silesia. He had eight brothers and two sisters. His youngest brother Gerhard is now 86. He studied at Breslau's Catholic St.-Matthias- ...

(1909–1998), German priest and theologian * Franz von Paula Schrank (1747–1835), German botanist and entomologist *

Franz Schubert Franz Peter Schubert (; 31 January 179719 November 1828) was an Austrian composer of the late Classical and early Romantic eras. Despite his short lifetime, Schubert left behind a vast ''oeuvre'', including more than 600 secular vocal wor ...

(1797–1828), Austrian composer * Franz Heinrich Schwechten (1841–1924), German architect * Franz Schwede (1888–1960), Nazi Gaulieter of Pomerania *

Franz Schädle Franz Schädle (19 November 1906 – 2 May 1945) was the last commander of Adolf Hitler's personal bodyguard (the '' Führerbegleitkommando''; FBK), from 5 January 1945 until his death on 2 May 1945. Biography Schädle was born in Western ...

(1906–1945), commander of Adolf Hitler's personal bodyguard * Franz Wilhelm Seiwert (1894–1933), German constructivist painter and sculptor * Franz Joseph Spiegler (1691–1757), German Baroque painter * Franz Stangl (1908-1971), Austrian-born Nazi SS concentration camp commandant * Franz Stofel (1915–1945), German Nazi concentration camp commander executed for war crimes * Franz Josef Strauss (1915–1988), German politician * Franz von Suppé (1819–1895), Austrian composer * Franz Xaver Süssmayr (1766–1803), Austrian composer

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* Franz Taurinus (1794–1874), German mathematician * Franz Thonner (1863–1928), Austrian taxonomist and botanist * Franz Treichler, Swiss rock musician and singer of The Young Gods

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* Franz Unger (1800–1870), Austrian botanist, paleontologist and plant physiologist

V

* Franz Vranitzky (born 1937), Austrian politician

W

* Franz Werfel, (1890–1945), Austrian-Bohemian novelist, playwright and poet

Z

* Franz Ziereis (1905–1945), German Nazi SS concentration camp commandant

Fictional characters

* Franz, a German enemy character in the 1989 video game '' Human Killing Machine'' *

Hans and Franz Hans and Franz are characters in a recurring sketch called "Pumping Up with Hans & Franz" on the television sketch comedy show ''Saturday Night Live'', played by Dana Carvey and Kevin Nealon, respectively. Description In the sketch, Carvey and ...

, characters of the television show ''Saturday Night Live'' *

Franz Bibfeldt Franz Bibfeldt is a fictitious German theologian and in-joke among American academic theologians. Bibfeldt made his first appearance as the author of an invented footnote in a term paper of a Concordia Seminary student, Robert Howard Clausen. ...

, fictitious theologian and in-joke among American academic theologian * Dr. Franz Eldemann, character from '' House of Dracula'' * Franz Heinel, character in the Japanese anime series ''Future GPX Cyber Formula'' * Franz Hopper, character from the French-produced animated series ''Code Lyoko'' * Franz Kemmerich, character in the war novel ''All Quiet on the Western Front'' * Franz Liebkind, character in ''The Producers'' * Franz Oberhauser, ''James Bond'' character professionally known as Ernst Stavro Blofeld * Franz Sanchez, character in the 1989 James Bond film ''Licence to Kill'' * Franz, guard in Franz Kafka's novel '' The Trial'' * Baron Franz d'Épinay, friend of Albert de Morcerf in Alexandre Dumas's novel '' The Count of Monte Cristo''

References

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