Famous People with Name Franklin

Franklin Edmundo Rijkaard            Origin/Culture/Country: Dutch

Franklin Edmundo Rijkaard: a Dutch football manager and former player. Rijkaard has played for AFC Ajax, Real Zaragoza and AC Milan, and represented his national side 73 times, scoring 10 goals. On May 8, 2008, it was announced he would leave his managerial post at F.C Barcelona at the end of the season and be replaced by Barcelona B coach Josep Guardiola. His mother is Dutch and his father is Surinamese.Rijkaard was just 17, when Ajax coach Leo Beenhakker gave him his senior squad debut August 23, 1980. He made an immediate impact, scoring for his team 0–3 in the 2–4 away victory over Go Ahead Eagles, the first league match in the 1980–81 season

Franklin Hiram King            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Franklin Hiram King: American agricultural scientist who was born on a farm near Whitewater, Wisconsin, attended country schools, and received his professional training first at Whitewater State Normal School and then at Cornell University.

Franklin William Stahl            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Franklin William Stahl: an American molecular biologist. With Matthew Meselson, Stahl conducted the famous Meselson-Stahl experiment showing that DNA is replicated by a semiconservative mechanism, meaning that each strand of the DNA serves as a template for the "replicated" strand.He is Emeritus Professor of Biology[1] at the University of Oregon's Institute of Molecular Biology in Eugene, Oregon.

Franklin Delano Alexander Braithwaite            Origin/Culture/Country: Jamaican

Franklin Delano Alexander Braithwaite: was one of the founders of, and the first lead singer of The Wailers.Junior Braithwaite was born in Kingston, Jamaica, in the same neighborhood where Bob Marley, Bunny Wailer (aka. Bunny Livingston) and Peter Tosh later lived. Higgs and Wilson, one of the top harmonizing groups in Jamaica at that time, used to rehearse in his backyard. The friends Braithwaite, Wailer, Marley, Tosh and Beverley Kelso, inspired by Wilson and Higgs, started singing together under various names, and in 1963 they became known as "The Wailers".

Franklin Ramón Chang-Díaz            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Franklin Ramón Chang-Díaz: is a Costa Rican-American physicist and former NASA astronaut. He is a veteran of seven Space Shuttle missions, making him the record holder for most spaceflights (a record he shares with Jerry L. Ross). He was one of the first Hispanic or Latino American

Trevor John Franklin            Origin/Culture/Country: Australian

Trevor John Franklin: has played 21 Tests and three One Day Internationals for New Zealand.

James Franklin            Origin/Culture/Country: Australian

James Franklin: Australian historian of ideas and philosopher

James Edward Charles Franklin            Origin/Culture/Country: Australian

James Edward Charles Franklin: is a New Zealand cricketer. He is a left-arm fast bowler who can swing the ball and also a capable left handed lower order batsman. He is one of only two New Zealanders to ever take a hat-trick in Test cricket (the other being Peter Petherick). He achieve

Richard Franklin            Origin/Culture/Country: Australian

Richard Franklin: was an Australian-born film director.Franklin was born and grew up in Brighton, Melbourne[2] and was educated at Haileybury College. In the 1960s, Franklin was the drummer in the Melbourne band The Pink Finks, which also featured Ross Wilson and Ross Hannaford, later of Daddy Cool.

Miles Franklin            Origin/Culture/Country: Australian

Miles Franklin: was an Australian writer and feminist, who is best known for her autobiographical novel, My Brilliant Career, published in 1901. While she wrote throughout her life, her other major literary success, All That Swagger, was not published until 1936.She was committed to the development of a uniquely Australian form of literature, and she actively pursued this goal by supporting writers, literary journals, and writers' organisations. She has had a long-lasting impact on Australian literary life through her endowment of a major literary award known as the Miles Franklin Award.