Famous People with Name Franz

Franz Kline            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Franz Kline: was an American painter mainly associated with the Abstract Expressionist painters who were centered, geographically, around New York, and temporally, in the 1940s and 1950s; but not limited to that setting. He was born in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, attended Girard College, an academy for fatherless boys, attended Boston University, spent summers from 1956-62 painting in Provincetown, Massachusetts, and died in New York City of a rheumatic heart disease. He was married to Elizabeth Vincent Parsons, a British ballet dancer.

Franz Wright            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Franz Wright: is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American poet.Critic Denis Johnson has said, of the poems of Franz Wright, "They're like tiny jewels shaped by blunt, ruined fingers--miraculous gifts." Boston Review has called Wright's poetry "among the most honest, haunting,

Franz S. Leichter            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Franz S. Leichter: is an American Democratic Party politician who served in both the New York State Assembly and the New York Senate.Franz S. Leichter was first elected to the New York State Assembly in 1968. He drafted a bill expanding abortion rights together with Republi

Dennis Franz            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Dennis Franz: is an Emmy-, Screen Actors Guild-, and Golden Globe Award-winning American actor known for his role as Andy Sipowicz, a gritty police detective in the television series NYPD Blue.

Walter “Walt” Or “W.J.” Franz            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Walter “Walt” Or “W.J.” Franz: was a Minnesota politician and a member of the Minnesota Senate from southwestern Minnesota.Franz was first elected in 1954 when he succeeded retiring Senator Bjarne E. Grottum of Jackson, and was re-elected in 1958, 1962 and 1966. He represented the old