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Frank Sinatra

Name at birth: Francis Albert SinatraFrank Sinatra was the 20th century's greatest icon of American musical cool. Frank Sinatra's official career was singing: he began as a rail-thin crooner during…

Frank Serpico

Former New York City cop Frank Serpico is famous for his 1971 Knapp Commission testimony which called attention to widespread corruption within the city's police department. Serpico had been a cop…

Frank Oz

Name at birth: Frank OznowiczFrank Oz is a veteran puppeteer and the performer behind Miss Piggy, the porcine diva of Jim Henson's Muppets. Oz began working with Henson in 1963 and was a key player…

Frank Ocean

Name at birth: Christopher BreauxFrank Ocean is the smooth tenor whose 2012 R&B album channel ORANGE put him in the spotlight as a star hip-hop collaborator, with critics comparing him to Marvin…

Frank Miller

Frank Miller is a comic book artist who first earned popular and critical success in the late 1970s, thanks to his work on Daredevil and its spin-off miniseries, Elektra. His ground-breaking graphic…

Damrosch, Frank Heino

(Encyclopedia) Damrosch, Frank HeinoDamrosch, Frank Heinohīˈnō dămˈrŏsh [key], 1859–1937, German-American conductor and educator, attended the College of the City of New York; son of Leopold Damrosch…

Tamm, Igor Yevgenyevich

(Encyclopedia) Tamm, Igor Yevgenyevich, 1895–1971, Soviet physicist, Ph.D. Moscow State Univ., 1933. He was a researcher at the P. N. Lebedev Physical Institute in Moscow from 1934 until his death in…

Dyson, Sir Frank Watson

(Encyclopedia) Dyson, Sir Frank WatsonDyson, Sir Frank Watsondīˈsən [key], 1868–1939, English astronomer, b. Ashby-de-la-Zouch, grad. Cambridge. He was astronomer royal of Scotland (1905–10) and of…