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Françoise Abanda (born February 5, 1997) is a Canadian professional tennis player. She reached her highest WTA singles ranking of 111 on October 9, 2017, and her highest WTA doubles ranking of 197 in September 2014. She achieved a career-high combined…
1944–2010
Frank Baker Jr. (January 11, 1944 – January 28, 2010) was an American professional baseball player. He was a backup outfielder in Major League Baseball who played for the Cleveland Indians in the 1969 and 1971 seasons.
1926–2014
Frank Barnes (August 26, 1926 – October 19, 2014) was an American professional baseball pitcher and occasional pinch runner who played three seasons for the St. Louis Cardinals of Major League Baseball (MLB). Barnes pitched another sixteen seasons starting…
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Franklin Roy Horatio Bruno (born 16 November 1961) is an English former professional boxer who competed from 1982 to 1996. He held the World Boxing Council (WBC) heavyweight title from 1995 to 1996. At the regional level, he held the European heavyweight…
1935–2010
Franklin Douglas Burgess (March 9, 1935 – March 26, 2010) was an American professional basketball player and United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Washington.
Biography
Frank Butler (1871 or 1872 – September 24, 1899) was an American baseball pitcher and outfielder in the pre-Negro leagues. Butler played for the Chicago Union Giants for at least two years, coming from the same area as team owners Frank Leland and W.S.…
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Frank Childs (born July 17, 1867, Texas; died June 20, 1936, Waukegan, Illinois), "The Crafty Texan", was an African American boxer who fought professionally out of Chicago from 1892 to 1911 and twice held the World Colored Heavyweight Championship.…
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Franklin Coggins (May 22, 1944 – October 30, 1994) was an American professional baseball player from Griffin, Georgia. He primarily played second base and shortstop.
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Frank Craig (April 1, 1868 – January 1, 1943) was an American boxer who was the colored middleweight champion of the world in the Gay Nineties. The 5′10" Craig fought at a weight of between 153 and 169 lbs. as a middleweight and light-heavyweight during…
1951–1994
Frank D. Dowsing (September 3, 1951 – July 11, 1994) was the first African-American to play football for both Tupelo High School and Mississippi State University.
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Frank Lee Duncan Jr (February 14, 1901 – December 4, 1973) was an American professional baseball player in the Negro leagues from 1920 to 1948. He was primarily a catcher for the Kansas City Monarchs, handling their pitching staff for over a decade. While…
Biography
Frank Ellis Jr. is an American former football coach and college athletics administrator. He served as the head football coach at his alma mater, Savannah State University, from 1977 to 1985, compiling a record of 34–56–2.
1891–1983
Franklin Lindsay Forbes (March 30, 1891 – August 19, 1983) was a Negro league infielder for several years before the founding of the first Negro National League.
1904–1972
Franklin Lafayette Forbes (February 14, 1904 – August 22, 1972) was an American college football, college baseball, and college basketball coach. He served three stints as the head football coach (1932–1933, 1935–1942, 1945–1949) at Morehouse College in…
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Franklin Gore Sr. (born May 14, 1983) is an American former professional football running back who played in the National Football League (NFL) for 16 seasons. A member of the San Francisco 49ers for most of his career, he ranks third in NFL career rushing…
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Frank James Haith Jr. (born November 3, 1965) is an American men's basketball coach, currently serving as an assistant coach at Texas A&M University. He previously served as head coach of the Tulsa Golden Hurricane from 2014 to 2022, and prior to that he…
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Frank Hart (1856 – September 1908) was an American athlete famous as the first African-American world record holder in the 19th century sport of pedestrianism. His most noted win was in an 1879 6 Day Race at Madison Square Garden where he covered 565 miles…
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Frank Herbert Johnson (July 22, 1942 – May 7, 2025) was an American professional baseball player. Primarily an outfielder and third baseman, he had a five-season career that included one full season (1968) and parts of five others (1966–1967; 1969–1971)…
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Franklin Lenard Johnson (born November 23, 1958) is an American former professional basketball player and coach. He played ten seasons in the National Basketball Association (NBA) for the Washington Bullets, Houston Rockets and Phoenix Suns.
1913–2003
Frank Leon "Doc" Kelker (December 9, 1913 – May 23, 2003) was an All-American college football end, college basketball player, and track star for Western Reserve, now known as Case Western Reserve University, from 1935 to 1937. Spanning high school and…
Biography
Frank Kinney Holbrook (c. 1874 in Tipton, Iowa – October 29, 1916) was the first African American intercollegiate athlete at the University of Iowa and one of the first African Americans to participate on an American college varsity athletic squad. He…
1941–2021
Frank McRae (March 18, 1941 – April 29, 2021) was an American film and television actor and a professional football player.
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Frank Herman Nouble (born 24 September 1991) is an English professional footballer who plays as a striker for Northern Premier League Premier Division club Stockton Town. Nouble started his career with the youth team at Chelsea before signing for West Ham…
1933–2007
Franklin Deland Purnell (April 5, 1933 – April 19, 2007) was an American football player and coach. He played professionally as a fullback in the National Football League (NFL) with the Green Bay Packers during the 1957 NFL season. Purnell served as the…
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