Franks (surname)

Franks is an Anglo-American surname, derived from the given name Frank and originally came from England and Germany. ^[1] The name was in the early records, of the Virginia Colony, starting in the 1660s. ^[2] The Jewish surname, Franks has also been found as early as the 17th century, in New York City.

People with the surname include:

• Abigail Franks (1696–1756), American colonist
• Dick Franks (1920–2008), American civil servant
• Augustus Wollaston Franks (1826–1897), English antiquarian
• Bobby Franks (1909–1924), murder victim
• Bubba Franks (born 1978), American footballer
• Carl Franks (born 1960), American college football coach
• Cecil Franks (1935–2014), English politician
• David Franks (loyalist) (1720–1794), English colonist
• David Franks (aide-de-camp) (1740–1793), aide-de-camp of Benedict Arnold
• Feleipe Franks (born 1997), American football player
• Herman Franks (1914–2009), American baseball player
• Hermina Franks (1914–2010), American baseball player
• Jordan Franks (born 1996), American football player
• Lawrence Franks Jr. (1987–2020), American rapper known professionally as Huey
• Lynne Franks (born 1948), English public relations consultant
• Mary Anne Franks, American academic
• Michael Franks (musician) (born 1944), American singer-songwriter
• Michael Franks (athlete) (born 1963), American sprinter
• Mike Franks (tennis) (born 1936), American tennis player
• Oliver Shewell Franks (1905–1992), English philosopher
• Paul Franks (born 1979), English cricketer
• Philip Franks (born 1956), British actor
• Robert Franks, Disambiguation
• Bob Franks (1951–2010), American politician
• Stephen Franks (born 1950), New Zealand lawyer
• Tanya Franks (born 1967), English actress
• Tillman Franks (1920–2006), American bassist and songwriter
• Tim Franks (born 1968), British journalist
• Tommy Franks (born 1945), American general
• Trent Franks (born 1957), American politician
• Wilbur R. Franks (1901–1986), Canadian scientist
• William Sadler Franks (1851–1935), British astronomer
• Feleipe Franks, American Sportsman

See also

• Frank (surname)
• Frank (given name)
• Franks (disambiguation)

References

1. Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press (2013); Ann Madison Franks (c. 1165–1739).
2. Louise Pledge Heath Foley, Early Virginia Families Along the James River, Genealogical Publishing, 2009, p. 67.

External links

• ancestry.com