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Frankel
Frankel is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Benjamin Frankel (1906–1973), British composer * Bethenny Frankel (born 1970), American chef and reality television personality * Charles Frankel (1917–1975), American philosopher * Cyril Frankel (1921–2017), British director * Dan Frankel (American politician) (born 1956), American politician from Pennsylvania * Dan Frankel (British politician) (1900–1988), British politician * Dave Frankel (1957–2025), American attorney, television weatherman and news anchor * David Frankel (born 1959), American director, editor, screenwriter, executive producer * Felice Frankel, American photographer * Gene Frankel (1919–2005), American theater director * Jacob Frankel (1808–1887), German-born American rabbi * Jeffrey Frankel (born 1952), American economist * Jerry Frankel (1930–2018), American musical theatre producer and thoroughbred breeder and owner * Jonah Frankel (1928–2012), Hebrew literature profes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bethenny Frankel
Bethenny Frankel, also known as Bethenny Parisella, (born November 4, 1970) is an American entrepreneur, television personality, philanthropist, and author. She was the runner-up on the NBC reality competition series '' The Apprentice: Martha Stewart'' in 2005, and increased her profile on the Bravo reality television series '' The Real Housewives of New York City'' (2008–2010, 2015–2019). She propelled her fame from the series and founded Skinnygirl, a lifestyle brand. Frankel's spin-off series '' Bethenny Ever After'' aired three seasons from 2010–2012, and '' Bethenny & Fredrik'' aired one season in 2018. She also headlined the Fox daytime talk show '' Bethenny'' (2013–2014) and the HBO Max reality competition series '' The Big Shot with Bethenny'' (2021). She also founded BStrong, a philanthropic organization that has provided disaster relief; written four self-help books; hosted two podcasts; and a YouTuber. Early life Frankel is the only child of Robert J. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 22nd congressional district since 2023, having previously served it from 2013 to 2017. As a member of the Democratic Party, she represented the 21st congressional district from 2017 to 2023, was a 7-term member of the Florida House of Representatives, and was mayor of West Palm Beach for two terms. Frankel was a member of the Florida House for fourteen years, serving as Minority Whip and later Minority Leader of the Florida State House. She was elected mayor of West Palm Beach in 2003, serving two terms in office until leaving office in 2011 due to term limits. Frankel additionally ran unsuccessful campaigns to run for the US House of Representatives in 1992 and for Governor of Florida in 2002. Early life and education Frankel was born to a Jewish family on May 16, 1948 in New York City and received a bachelor's degree from Boston University ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Max Frankel
Max Frankel (April 3, 1930 – March 23, 2025) was an American journalist who was executive editor of ''The New York Times'' from 1986 to 1994. He won a Pulitzer Prize in 1973 for his coverage of Richard Nixon's visit to China. He also brought attention to ''The New York Times'' underreporting on the Holocaust. He is the father of film director David Frankel. Early life and career Frankel was born in Gera, Germany, on April 3, 1930, the son of Mary (Katz) and Jakob Frankel. He was an only child, and his family belonged to a Jewish minority in the area; his parents were from Galicia, and had Polish passports. Hitler came to power when Frankel was less than three years old, and Frankel remembered Germany's racial hatred: " could have become a good little Nazi in his army. I loved the parades; I wept when other kids marched beneath our window without me. But I was ineligible for the Aryan race, the Master Race that Hitler wanted to purify of Jewish blood…". Frankel came to t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 200 months in prison based on over $200 million in proven losses to insurance companies he bought then looted their actuarial reserves; the sentence was reaffirmed in 2006. Personal life Marty Frankel was born to Leon and Tilly Frankel in 1954; he was Leon's fourth child and Tilly's second, and was raised as Jewish. He attended the University of Toledo but never graduated. Career Frankel used astrology to make financial trading decisions. In addition, he usually could not bring himself to actually make trades, causing trouble for him with the brokerage firms he worked for. After being fired by his boss John Schulte in 1986, Schulte's wife and brokerage partner, Sonia, left the marriage to join Frankel as his business and life partner. F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Felice Frankel
Felice Frankel is an American researcher and photographer of scientific images. She has received multiple awards, both for the aesthetic quality of her science photographs and for her ability to effectively communicate complicated scientific information in images. Early life and education Born in Brooklyn, Felice Frankel attended Midwood High School and then Brooklyn College of the City University of New York (CUNY), where she majored in biology. She became an architectural photographer. Career redirection In 1991–1992, she was awarded a Loeb Fellowship at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. Unlike many of her visual design colleagues, she decided to return to her scientific roots, auditing a class in chemistry taught by professor George M. Whitesides. Working with one of his postdocs, Nick Abbott, they collaboratively produced a striking image that was selected for the cover of the professional journal ''Science''. Impressed with her work, Whitesides advised her, "Stay wit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Benjamin Frankel
Benjamin Frankel (31 January 1906 – 12 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 and working as a big band arranger in the 1930s. During the last 15 years of his life, Frankel also developed his own style of twelve-tone technique, 12-note composition which retained contact with tonality. Biography Frankel was born in London on 31 January 1906, the son of Polish Jewish parents. He began to learn the violin at an early age, showing remarkable talent; at age 14, his piano-playing gifts attracted the attention of the American pianist and teacher Victor Benham (1867–1936) who persuaded his parents to let him study music full-time. He spent six months in Germany in 1922, then returned to London, where he won a scholarship from the Worshipful Company of Musicians and attempted his first serious compositions while ear ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 University of Rochester, received his PhD in physics from the University of California, Berkeley, and began his career as a post-doctoral student under J. Robert Oppenheimer at University of California, Berkeley in 1942. Career Frankel helped develop computational techniques used in the nuclear research taking place at the time, notably making some of the early calculations relating to the diffusion of neutrons in a critical assembly of uranium with Eldred Nelson. He joined the T (Theoretical) Division of the Manhattan Project at Los Alamos in 1943. His wife Mary Frankel was also hired to work as a human computer in the T Division. While at Los Alamos, Frankel and Nelson organized a group of scientists' wives, including Mary, to perfo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Naomi Frankel
Naomi Frankel (; 20 November 1918 – 20 November 2009), also spelled Fraenkel and Frenkel, was a German-born Israeli novelist. Born in Berlin, she was evacuated to Mandatory Palestine with other German-Jewish children in 1933. She became a member of Kibbutz Beit Alfa, where she lived until 1970. She began writing novels in 1956 and achieved fame with her trilogy ''Shaul ve-Yohannah'' (Saul and Joanna), a three-generational tale of an assimilated German-Jewish family in prewar Germany. She wrote four other novels for adults as well as several books for children. In the 1980s Frankel abandoned her Left-wing politics, leftist convictions and adopted right-wing politics, right-wing ideology, settling in the West Bank, where she died in 2009, aged 91. Early life and education Naomi Frankel was born into an affluent, assimilated Jewish family in Berlin, Germany on 20 November 1918. Her mother died when she was two. Her father worked in the family factory set up by her grandfather. In he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jerry Frankel
Jerry Frankel (August 1, 1930 – November 17, 2018) was an American Tony Award-winning producer of plays and musicals for Broadway theatre, the founder of Jerrell Inc. (Dallas), a leading US manufacturer of women's apparel, and a breeder/owner of Thoroughbred race horses, including Dayatthespa. He would sometimes use the titles of shows, names of actors and songs as eponyms for his horses, such as the mare named after Linda Eder, a star in his Broadway musical, '' Jekyll & Hyde'', and another named after " This Is the Moment", a song in the same show. Early life and career Frankel was born on August 1, 1930, in Queens, New York City. His father, Abraham, was a dress manufacturer. Frankel attended the University of Illinois, where he earned a bachelor's degree in journalism. Frankel's business career began when he started working for his father's garment manufacturing business in New York. In 1964, he co-founded his own garment manufacturing company, Jerrell Inc., located in Da ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joseph Frankel (musician)
Lieutenant Joseph Frankel (1882–1956) was an American klezmer musician, Clarinet, clarinetist and military band bandleader of the early 20th century. Biography Early life Frankel was born in Kyiv, Kiev Governorate, Russian Empire, on October 19, 1882. He began learning music at age five. He entered the Kiev Conservatory in 1896, graduating with honours in 1899. After graduating, he became bandleader for the 150th infantry unit of the Imperial Russian army. Music career In 1904, Frankel toured the United States as the head of the Russian 14th regiment military band. He decided to settle in the New York area, and married his wife Ida in 1905. At the outbreak of the First World War he was on tour in South America with a Russian orchestra. He decided to become an American citizen and enlisted in the U.S. Army, becoming bandmaster of the 1st Field Artillery Regiment (United States), 1st Field Artillery Regiment in New York City. His main recorded output took place during the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 as a member of an aerial crew. Life and career Frankel's direction of the off-Broadway production of Jean Genet's ''The Blacks (play), The Blacks'' was regarded as a crucial production in promoting African-American theater during the civil-rights movement which opened in 1961 and ran at St. Mark's Theatre for more than 1,400 performances, the longest-running Off-Broadway non-musical of the decade. The cast included James Earl Jones, Roscoe Lee Browne, Louis Gossett Jr., Cicely Tyson, Godfrey Cambridge, Maya Angelou and Charles Gordone; sets were by Kim E. Swados, music by Charles Gross, and costumes and masks by Patricia Zipprodt. He began his own career as an actor and was one of the earliest members of the Actors Studio. He moved behi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 York City, U.S., he was the son of Abraham Philip and Estelle Edith (Cohen) Frankel. After attending Cornell University, Frankel received Bachelor of Arts with honors in English and philosophy from Columbia University in 1937. He then continued his education at the same university, earning a Doctor of Philosophy in 1946. During World War II, Frankel served as lieutenant in the United States Navy and in 1968 graduated from Mercer with a degree in law. Frankel married Helen Beatrice Lehman on August 17, 1941. Together they raised two children, Susan and Carl. He was a member of the American Philosophical Association, the American Association of University Professors (chair of committee on professional ethics), the Institut International ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
