Franks (surname)
Surname list
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Franks is an Anglo-American surname, derived from the given name Frank and originally came from England and Germany.[1] The name was in the early records, of the Virginia Colony, starting in the 1660s.[2] The Jewish surname, Franks has also been found as early as the 17th century, in New York City.
People with the surname include:
- Abigail Franks (1696–1756), American colonist
- Dick Franks (1920–2008), American civil servant
- Augustus Wollaston Franks (1826–1897), English antiquarian
- Bobby Franks (1909–1924), murder victim
- Bubba Franks (born 1978), American footballer
- Camilla Franks (born 1976), Australian fashion designer
- Carl Franks (born 1960), American college football coach
- Cecil Franks (1935–2014), English politician
- David Franks (loyalist) (1720–1794), English colonist
- David Franks (aide-de-camp) (1740–1793), aide-de-camp of Benedict Arnold
- Feleipe Franks (born 1997), American football player
- Herman Franks (1914–2009), American baseball player
- Hermina Franks (1914–2010), American baseball player
- Jordan Franks (born 1996), American football player
- Lawrence Franks Jr. (1987–2020), American rapper known professionally as Huey
- Lynne Franks (born 1948), English public relations consultant
- Mary Anne Franks, American academic
- Michael Franks (musician) (born 1944), American singer-songwriter
- Michael Franks (athlete) (born 1963), American sprinter
- Mike Franks (tennis) (born 1936), American tennis player
- Oliver Shewell Franks (1905–1992), English philosopher
- Paul Franks (born 1979), English cricketer
- Philip Franks (born 1956), British actor
- Robert Franks, Disambiguation
- Bob Franks (1951–2010), American politician
- Stephen Franks (born 1950), New Zealand lawyer
- Tanya Franks (born 1967), English actress
- Tillman Franks (1920–2006), American bassist and songwriter
- Tim Franks (born 1968), British journalist
- Tommy Franks (born 1945), American general
- Trent Franks (born 1957), American politician
- Wilbur R. Franks (1901–1986), Canadian scientist
- William Sadler Franks (1851–1935), British astronomer
- Feleipe Franks, American Sportsman
- James Moyer Franks (born 1972), American singer and songwriter.
