Famous People with Name Franklin

Franklin Delano Frank Selvy            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Franklin Delano Frank Selvy: is a former basketball player.Nicknamed The Corbin Comet, Selvy is best remembered for scoring 100 points in a college game for South Carolina's Furman University against Newberry College on February 13th, 1954, the only NCAA Division I player ever to do so. The game was played towards the end of Selvy's final collegiate season, and Furman coach Lyles Alley had designated the game "Frank Selvy Night" in order to garner recognition for the player who was already certain to finish the season leading the nation in scoring and earn first-team All-American honors, two accomplishments he had already attained the year before. The game was the first to be broadcast live on television in South Carolina and a large contingent from Selvy's hometown, including his family, had made the six-hour trek just for the occasion.

Franklin Frank Thomas            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Franklin Frank Thomas: was an American animator. He was one of Walt Disney's team of animators known as the Nine Old Men.Frank Thomas attended Stanford University, where he worked on campus humor magazine The Stanford Chaparral with Ollie Johnston. After graduating from Stanford, he attended Chouinard Art Institute, then joined The Walt Disney Company on September 24, 1934 as employee number 224. There he animated dozens of feature films and shorts, and also was a member of the Dixieland band Firehouse Five Plus Two, playing the piano.

Franklin Patrick Herbert, Jr.            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Franklin Patrick Herbert, Jr.: was a critically acclaimed and commercially successful American science fiction author. He is best known for the novel Dune and its five sequels. The Dune saga, set in the distant future and taking place over millennia, deals with themes such as human survival and evolution, ecology, and the intersection of religion, politics and power. Dune itself is the "best-selling science fiction novel of all time," and the series is widely considered to be among the classics in the genre.

Franklin James Schaffner            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Franklin James Schaffner: was an Academy Award-winning American film director.The son of missionaries, Schaffner was born in Tokyo, Japan and raised in that country. He returned to the United States and graduated from Franklin and Marshall College in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, where he was active in drama. He studied law at Columbia University in New York City but his education was interrupted by service with the United States Navy in World War II during which he served with American amphibious forces in Europe and North Africa. In the latter stages of the war he was sent to the Pacific Far East to serve with the United States Office for Strategic Services.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Jr.            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Jr.: was the fifth child of Anna Eleanor Roosevelt and Franklin D. Roosevelt (the 32nd President of the United States).As a young man in 1936, he contracted a streptococcal throat infection and developed life-threatening complications. His successful treatment with Prontosil, the first commercially available sulfonamide drug, avoided a risky surgical procedure which the White House medical staff had considered, and the subsequent headlines in the New York Times and other prominent newspapers heralded the start of the era of antibacterial chemotherapy in the United States.

Benjamin Franklin            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Benjamin Franklin: was one of the Founding Fathers of the United States of America. A noted polymath, Franklin was a leading author and printer, satirist, political theorist, politician, scientist, inventor, civic activist, statesman and diplomat. As a scientist he was a major figure in the Enlightenment and the history of physics for his discoveries and theories regarding electricity. He invented the lightning rod, bifocals, the Franklin stove, a carriage odometer, and a musical instrument. He formed both the first public lending library in America and first fire department in Pennsylvania. He was an early proponent of colonial unity and as a political writer and activist he, more than anyone, invented the idea of an American nation[1] and as a diplomat during the American Revolution, he secured the French alliance that helped to make independence possible.

Barbara Vernice Siggers Franklin            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Barbara Vernice Siggers Franklin: was the mother of the legendary soul and gospel singer Aretha Franklin and wife of C. L. Franklin, the famous Black Baptist preacher. She married C. L. on June 3, 1936, and the marriage produced four children: Erma, Cecil, Aretha, and Carolyn. Prior to th

Carolyn Ann Franklin            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Carolyn Ann Franklin: was an American Gospel and Rhythm & Blues singer and songwriter.She was the youngest sister of legendary Queen Of Soul Aretha Franklin, and daughter of the Rev. C. L. Franklin, the famous Detroit-based preacher, and Barbara Siggers Franklin, a pianist and

Brent Franklin            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Brent Franklin: is a Canadian professional golfer.He was coached in golf by Jack McLaughlin as a youth, and first came to prominence when he won the 1981 Vancouver City Match Play Championship as a 15-year-old amateur, to become the youngest champion ever in that event.

Melissa "Missy" Franklin            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Melissa "Missy" Franklin: is an American swimmer. At the age of 13, Franklin competed at the 2008 U.S. Olympic Team Trials but did not qualify to swim in any events at the 2008 Summer Olympics. At the 2010 National Championships, Franklin competed in six individual events and qual