Benjamin Frankel
Benjamin Frankel (31 January 190612 February 1973) was a British composer. His best known pieces include a cycle of five string quartets, eight symphonies, and concertos for violin and viola. He was also notable for writing over 100 film scores ...
(1906–1973), British composer
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Bethenny Frankel
Bethenny Frankel (born November 4, 1970) is an American businesswoman, television personality, entrepreneur, philanthropist, and author. She starred in the Bravo television series ''The Real Housewives of New York City'', having appeared in eigh ...
(born 1970), American chef and reality television personality
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Charles Frankel
Charles Frankel (December 13, 1917 – May 10, 1979) was an American philosopher, Assistant U.S. Secretary of State, professor and founding director of the National Humanities Center.
Early life and personal life
Born into a Jewish family in New ...
(1917–1975), American philosopher, known for Charles Frankel Prize
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Cyril Frankel
Cyril Solomon Israel Frankel (28 December 19217 June 2017) was a British film and television director. His career in television began in 1953 and he directed for over 30 TV programmes until 1990. He directed many episodes of popular British TV sho ...
(1921-2017), British director
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Dan Frankel (American politician)
Dan B. Frankel (born April 11, 1956) is a Democratic member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives for the 23rd District. He was first elected to the House in 1998. During the 2021-2022 legislative session, he serves as the Democratic Ch ...
(born 1956), member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives
* Dan Frankel (British politician) (1900–1988), MP for Mile End, 1935–1945
* Dave Frankel, attorney, former television weatherman and news anchor
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David Frankel
David Frankel (born April 2, 1959) is an American filmmaker. Most known as the director of 2006 film, '' The Devil Wears Prada'', he is an executive producer and the director of the first and fourth episodes of the Netflix miniseries ''Inventing ...
(born 1959), American director, editor, screenwriter, executive producer
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Felice Frankel Felice Frankel is a photographer of scientific images who has received multiple awards, both for the aesthetic quality of her science photographs and for her ability to effectively communicate complex scientific information in images.
Early life an ...
, American photographer of scientific art images, or artistic science images.
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Gene Frankel
Eugene V. Frankel (December 23, 1919 – April 20, 2005) was an American actor, theater director, and acting teacher especially notable in the founding of the off-Broadway scene. Frankel served in the Army during World War II in entertainment and ...
(1919–2005), American theater director
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Jacob Frankel
Jacob Frankel (July 5, 1808January 12, 1887) was a German-born rabbi who became the first official Jewish military chaplain of the United States, during the American Civil War.
Life and work
Frankel came from a Jewish family with a long tradi ...
(1808-1887), German-born American rabbi
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Jeffrey Frankel
Jeffrey Alexander "Jeff" Frankel (born November 5, 1952, in San Francisco, California) is an international macroeconomist. He works as the James W. Harpel Professor of Capital Formation and Growth at Harvard Kennedy School.
Education
Frankel gr ...
, American economist
* Jerry Frankel (1930-2018), American musical theatre producer and thoroughbred breeder and owner
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Jonah Frankel
Jonah Frankel, also spelled Yonah Frankel, Jonah Fraenkel (1928-2012) was an author, Hebrew literature professor and Israel Prize laureate.
Biography
Jonah Frankel was born in Munich in 1928 and emigrated to Israel in 1937 when the Nazis came to ...
(1928–2012), author, Hebrew literature professor and Israel Prize laureate
* Jonah Frankel (businessman) (died 1846), German Jewish businessman, banker and philanthropist
* Jonah Teomim-Frankel (1595–1669), author of the book ''Kikayon deYona''
* Joseph Frankel (musician) (1882-1956), an American army band and
klezmer
Klezmer ( yi, קלעזמער or ) is an instrumental musical tradition of the Ashkenazi Jews of Central and Eastern Europe. The essential elements of the tradition include dance tunes, ritual melodies, and virtuosic improvisations played for l ...
bandleader
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Justin Frankel
Justin Frankel (born 1978) is an American computer programmer best known for his work on the Winamp media player application and for inventing the Gnutella peer-to-peer network. Frankel is also the founder of Cockos Incorporated, which creates ...
(born 1978), American computer programmer
* Leó Frankel (1844–1896), Hungarian politician
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Lois Frankel
Lois Jane Frankel (born May 16, 1948) is an American politician and lawyer who has been the United States representative for Florida's 21st congressional district since 2017 and who represented Florida's 22nd congressional district from 2013 to 20 ...
(1948-), member of the
United States House of Representatives
The United States House of Representatives, often referred to as the House of Representatives, the U.S. House, or simply the House, is the Lower house, lower chamber of the United States Congress, with the United States Senate, Senate being ...
from
Florida
Florida is a state located in the Southeastern region of the United States. Florida is bordered to the west by the Gulf of Mexico, to the northwest by Alabama, to the north by Georgia, to the east by the Bahamas and Atlantic Ocean, and to ...
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Martin Frankel
Martin R. "Marty" Frankel (born 1954) is an American financial criminal who conducted a series of investment frauds in the late 20th century, causing hundreds of millions of dollars in losses. He was caught in 1999, and in 2004 was sentenced to ...
(born 1954), financier
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Max Frankel
Max Frankel (born April 3, 1930) is an American journalist. He was executive editor of ''The New York Times'' from 1986 to 1994.
Life and career
Frankel was born in Gera, Germany. He was an only child, and his family belonged to a Jewish minorit ...
, journalist and former ''New York Times'' executive editor
* Naomi Frankel, German-Israeli novelist
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Otto Frankel
Sir Otto Herzberg Frankel FRS FAA FRSNZ (4 November 1900, Vienna – 21 November 1998, Canberra) was an Austrian-born Australian geneticist.Richard B. Frankel, American physicist
* Robert "Bobby" J. Frankel (1941–2009), American thoroughbred race horse trainer
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Sandra Frankel
Sandra L. Frankel is the former Supervisor of the Town of Brighton, Monroe County, New York. A former
Brighton school board member (6 years) and BOCES I Monroe Board of Education (10 years), Vice President of both, Frankel served for 20 years ...
, former supervisor of the Town of Brighton, Monroe County, New York
* Susannah Frankel, British fashion journalist and author
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Susy Frankel
Susy Rebecca Frankel is a New Zealand law academic, and as of 2019 is a full professor at the Victoria University of Wellington.
Academic career
After an LL.B. at Victoria University of Wellington and an LLM at Queen Mary University of Lon ...
, New Zealand law academic
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Stan Frankel
Stanley Phillips Frankel (1919 – May, 1978) was an American computer scientist. He worked in the Manhattan Project and developed various computers as a consultant.
Early life
He was born in Los Angeles, attended graduate school at the Univers ...
(1919–1978), American physicist
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Theodore Frankel
Theodore Frankel (June 17, 1929 – August 5, 2017) was a mathematician who introduced the Andreotti–Frankel theorem and the Frankel conjecture.
Frankel received his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley in 1955. His doctoral adv ...
, mathematician
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Tomer Frankel
Tomer Frankel ( he, תומר פרנקל; born 18 October 2000) is an Israeli swimmer. He competes in the 100 m butterfly, 100 m freestyle, 100 m medley, 200 m butterfly, 200 m freestyle, 400 m freestyle, 50 m butterfly, 4x100 m freestyle, 4x10 ...
(born 2000), Israeli swimmer, European 2018 junior champion in the 100 m freestyle
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William Frankel
William Frankel (3 February 1917 – 18 April 2008) was the editor of the British weekly newspaper ''The Jewish Chronicle'' from 1958 until 1977. He wrote the books ''Friday Nights'' (1973), ''Israel Observed'' (1980), ''Survey of Jewish Affairs'' ...
(1903–2008), editor of the British weekly newspaper, ''The Jewish Chronicle'', from 1958 to 1977
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Zecharias Frankel
Zecharias Frankel, also known as Zacharias Frankel (30 September 1801 – 13 February 1875) was a Bohemian-German rabbi and a historian who studied the historical development of Judaism. He was born in Prague and died in Breslau. He was the foun ...
(1801–1875), Bohemian-German conservative rabbi, historian
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Fränkel ''Fränkel'' (or ''Fraenkel'') is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
* Abraham Fraenkel (1891–1965), German-Israeli mathematician, known for Zermelo–Fraenkel set theory
* Albert Fränkel (1848–1916), German physician
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Frenkel Frenkel is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
* Aaron G. Frenkel (born 1957), Israeli entrepreneur and philanthropist
* Alexander Frenkel (born 1985), German boxer of Ukrainian origin
* (1895–1984), Polish painter
* Daan Frenk ...