Franssen is a

Dutch Dutch commonly refers to: * Something of, from, or related to the Netherlands * Dutch people () * Dutch language () Dutch may also refer to: Places * Dutch, West Virginia, a community in the United States * Pennsylvania Dutch Country People E ...

patronymic surname meaning "son of

Frans Frans is an Afrikaans, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, Icelandic, Norwegian, and Swedish given name, sometimes as a short form of ''François''. One cognate of Frans in English is ''Francis''. Given name * Frans van Aarssens (1572–1641), Dutch diplomat ...

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Everhardt Franßen Everhardt Franßen (born October 1, 1937 in Essen) is a retired German judge. He was a justice of the Federal Constitutional Court of Germany The Federal Constitutional Court (german: link=no, Bundesverfassungsgericht ; abbreviated: ) ...

(born 1937), German judge * Jan Franssen (born 1951), Dutch politician * Jo Franssen (1909-1995), Dutch politician * M.H.H. Franssen (1903-1981), Dutch lawyer * Margot Franssen (born 1952), Dutch-born Canadian philanthropist, activist and entrepreneur * Nico Valentinus Franssen (1932–1993), Dutch-born American physicist and inventor **

Franssen effect The Franssen effect is an auditory illusion where the listener incorrectly localizes a sound. It was found in 1960 by Nico Valentinus Franssen (1926–1979), a Dutch physicist and inventor. There are two classical experiments, which are related ...

, an auditory illusion discovered by him Franssens * Joep Franssens (born 1955), Dutch composer

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