Franz

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name = Franz


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origin = German
related names = Francis, Frans
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Franz may refer to:

People

Given name

* Franz Beckenbauer, German footballer
* Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria
* Franz Xaver Feuchtmayer (the Elder), a German Baroque stucco plasterer of the Wessobrunner School
* Franz Xaver Feuchtmayer the Younger
* Franz Joseph Feuchtmayer
* Franz Hopper, a character in the French animated television series "Code Lyoko"
* Franz Josef (or Franz Joseph)
* Franz Kafka, a Jewish-Bohemian novelist, one of the major fiction writers of the 20th century
* Franz Kemmerich, a character in the acclaimed war novel All Quiet on the Western Front
* Franz Kline, an American Painter
* Franz Lehár, Austrian composer
* Franz Liszt
* Franz Machon, U-512 sole survivor
* Franz Marc, a principal painter of the German Expressionist movement
* Franz Rosenzweig, early 20th-century Jewish philosopher
* Franz Schubert
* Franz Wilhelm Seiwert, a German painter and sculptor in a constructivist style
* Franz Joseph Spiegler, a German Baroque painter

Family name

* Arthur Franz, American actor
* Dennis Franz, American actor notable for "NYPD Blue"
* Eduard Franz, American actor
* Elizabeth Franz, American actress ("Death of a Salesman", "Another World")
* Frederick William Franz Late Bible Scholar and religious leader of Jehovah's Witnesses
* Maik Franz, German football (soccer) player
* Raymond Franz, Former Jehovah's Witness
* Robert Franz, nineteenth-century German composer

Places

* Franz, Ontario, Canada

Things

* Franz (crater), a lunar crater
* Franz Ferdinand (band), a Scottish rock band
* Franz Lisp, a dialect of the Lisp programming language
* Franz Inc., a software company
* United States Bakery, better known as Franz Family Bakeries