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Franz
Pronunciation	German: [fʁants]
Gender	Masculine
Language(s)	German
Name day	January 24 ; April 2; September 8 ; December 3
Origin
Language(s)	1. Latin; 2. German
Word/name	1. Franciscus; 2. Franziskus
Region of origin	German-speaking countries
Other names
Cognate(s)	Francis
Related names	Ferenc, Francisco, François, Frans, František, Frantz
See also	Frantz (given name); Franz (surname)
Popularity	see popular names

Franz is a German name and cognate of the given name Francis. Notable people named Franz include:

Nobility

Austria-Hungary

Francis I, Holy Roman Emperor (1708–1765)
Francis II, Holy Roman Emperor (1768–1835), founder of the Austrian Empire
Franz Joseph I (1830–1916), Austrian Emperor
Franz Ferdinand, Archduke of Austria, heir to the thrones of Austria-Hungary, whose assassination in 1914 sparked World War I
Franz Karl, Archduke of Austria (1802–1878), father of two emperors
Franz Salvator, Archduke of Austria (1866–1939), Tuscan branch of the House of Habsburg
Franz, Duke of Hohenberg (1927–1977), head of the House of Hohenburg
Franz, Prince of Kohary (1760–1826), Imperial Chancellor
Franz, Prince of Thun and Hohenstein (1847–1916), Governor of Bohemia
Franz, Count of Deym (1838–1903), diplomat
Franz, Count of Meran (1839–1891), Austrian Count
Franz, Count of Gyulai (1798–1868), Governor of Lombardy-Venetia
Franz, Count Széchényi (1754–1820), Hungarian Count
Franz Anton von Kolowrat-Liebsteinsky (1778–1861), statesman from Prague
Franz Conrad von Hötzendorf (1852–1925), Chief of the General Staff
Franz Moritz von Lacy (1725–1801), Field Marshal
Count Franz Philipp von Lamberg (1791–1848), soldier and statesman

Germany

Franz, Duke of Bavaria (born 1933), head of the House of Wittelsbach
Franz, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld (1750–1806), member of the House of Wettin
Prince Franz of Bavaria (1875–1957), member of the House of Wittelsbach
Prince Franz-Josef of Bavaria (born 1957), member of the House of Wittelsbach
Prince Franz Joseph of Thurn and Taxis (1893–1971), head of the House of Thurn and Taxis
Prince Franz Wilhelm of Prussia (born 1943), member of the House of Hohenzollern
Prince Franz Joseph of Battenberg (1861–1924), member of the House of Hesse
Franz, Count of Erbach-Erbach (1754–1823), nobleman and art collector
Franz von Waldeck (1491–1553), Prince-Bishop of Münster

Liechtenstein

Franz I, Prince of Liechtenstein (1853–1938), sovereign of Liechtenstein
Franz Joseph I, Prince of Liechtenstein (1726–1781), sovereign of Liechtenstein
Franz Joseph II, Prince of Liechtenstein (1906–1989), sovereign of Liechtenstein

Other people

A

Franz Abt (1819–1885), German composer and Kapellmeister
Franz Ackermann (born 1963), German painter and installation artist
Franz Adam (1815–1886), German painter of military subjects
Franz Alt (mathematician) (1910–2011), Austrian-born American mathematician and computer scientist

B

Franz Anton Basch, Nazi executed for war crimes
Franz Bauer (1748–1840), Austrian microscopist and botanist
Franz Bauer (sculptor) (1798–1872), Austrian sculptor
Franz Beckenbauer (1945–2024), German football player and manager
Franz Behr (1837–1898), German composer
Franz Benda (1709–1786), Czech violinist and composer
Franz Berwald (1796–1868), Swedish composer
Franz Beyer (general) (1892–1968), German General in World War II
Franz Beyer (musicologist) (1922–2018), German musicologist
Franz Beyer (pilot) (1918–1944), German fighter pilot
Franz Binder (1911–1989), Austrian football player and coach
Franz Boas (1858–1942), German-American anthropologist considered the "father of American anthropology"
Franz Boos (1753–1832), Austrian botanist and explorer during the Enlightenment
Franz Bopp (1791–1867), German linguist
Franz Brunner (handballer) (1913–1991), Austrian handball player who competed in the 1936 Summer Olympics
Franz Burda I (1903–1986), German publisher
Franz Büchner (pathologist) (1895–1991), German pathologist
Franz Bürkl, Gestapo officer in Nazi-occupied Poland, assassinated in Operation Bürkl

C

Franz Calustro, Bolivian football player

D

Franz Defregger (1835–1921), Austrian painter
Franz Josef Degenhardt (1931–2011), German poet, novelist and singer-songwriter
Franz de Liagre Böhl (1882-1976), Austrian-born Dutch assyriologist
Franz-Benno Delonge (1957–2007), designer of German-style board games
Franz von Dingelstedt (1814–1881), German poet, dramatist, theatre administrator

E

Franz Engel (1834–1920), German explorer

F

Franz Joseph Feuchtmayer (1660–1718), German artist, patriarch of the Feuchtmayer family
Franz Xaver Feuchtmayer the Elder (1698–1763), German Baroque artist and plasterer
Franz Xaver Feuchtmayer the Younger (1735–1803), German Baroque artist and plasterer
Franz Fuchs (1949–2000), Austrian terrorist

G

Franz Grillparzer (1791–1872), Austrian writer and poet

H

Franz Halberg (1919–2013), one of the founders of chronobiology
Franz Hein (1892–1976), German chemist
Franz von Hipper (1863–1932), German World War I admiral, commander of the High Seas Fleet
Franz Hofmeister (1850–1922), German protein scientist
Franz Hössler (1906–1945), Nazi officer at Auschwitz executed for war crimes
Franz Joseph Haydn (1732-1809), Austrian Composer

J

Franz Jägerstätter (1907–1943), Austrian conscientious objector during World War II
Franz Jantscher (born 1969), Austrian politician
Franz Josef Jung (born 1949), German politician

K

Franz Kafka (1883–1924), Bohemian novelist
Franz Kindermann, German merchant
Franz Klammer (born 1953), champion Austrian alpine ski racer
Franz Kleffner (1907–1945), SS officer in World War II
Franz Kline (1910–1962), American abstract painter
Franz Konrad (SS officer) (1906–1952), German SS officer executed for war crimes
Franz König (1905–2004), Austrian Cardinal of the Catholic Church

L

Franz Lachner (1803–1890), German composer and conductor
Franz Langoth (1877–1953), Austrian nationalist politician
Franz Lehár (1870–1948), Austrian composer
Franz Lidz (born 1951), American writer and journalist
Franz Liszt (1811–1886), Hungarian composer and piano virtuoso

M

Franz Machon (1918–1968), German sailor in World War II and sole survivor of U-512
Franz Marc (1880–1916), principal painter of the German Expressionist movement
Franz Marek (1913–1979), Austrian communist politician
Franz Erdmann Mehring (1846–1919), German publicist, politician and historian
Franz Muhri (1924–2001), Austrian communist politician
Franz Müntefering (born 1940), German politician and industrialist

N

Franz Nachbaur (1835–1902), German opera tenor
Franz Xaver Nachtmann (1799–1846), German painter

O

Franz Oppenheim (1852–1929), German chemist and industrialist

P

Franz von Papen (1879–1969), Chancellor of Germany in the Weimar Republic

R

Franz Rademacher (1906–1973), Nazi diplomat and author of the Madagascar Plan
Franz Reichleitner (1906–1944), Austrian Nazi SS concentration camp commander
Franz Rosenzweig (1886–1929), German-Jewish theologian and philosopher

S

Franz Schafheitlin (1895–1980), German film actor
Franz Schalk (1863–1931), Austrian conductor and founder of the Salzburg Music Festival
Franz Schall (1918–1945), German World War II fighter ace
Franz Schieß (1921–1943), German World War II fighter ace
Franz Scholz (1909–1998), German priest and theologian
Franz von Paula Schrank (1747–1835), German botanist and entomologist
Franz Schubert (1797–1828), Austrian composer
Franz Heinrich Schwechten (1841–1924), German architect
Franz Schwede (1888–1960), Nazi Gaulieter of Pomerania
Franz Schädle (1906–1945), commander of Adolf Hitler's personal bodyguard
Franz Wilhelm Seiwert (1894–1933), German constructivist painter and sculptor
Franz Joseph Spiegler (1691–1757), German Baroque painter
Franz Stangl (1908-1971), Austrian-born Nazi SS concentration camp commandant
Franz Stofel (1915–1945), German Nazi concentration camp commander executed for war crimes
Franz Josef Strauss (1915–1988), German politician
Franz von Suppé (1819–1895), Austrian composer
Franz Xaver Süssmayr (1766–1803), Austrian composer

T

Franz Taurinus (1794–1874), German mathematician
Franz Thonner (1863–1928), Austrian taxonomist and botanist
Franz Treichler, Swiss rock musician and singer of The Young Gods

U

Franz Unger (1800–1870), Austrian botanist, paleontologist and plant physiologist

V

Franz Vranitzky (born 1937), Austrian politician

W

Franz Werfel, (1890–1945), Austrian-Bohemian novelist, playwright and poet

Z

Franz Ziereis (1905–1945), German Nazi SS concentration camp commandant

Fictional characters

Franz, a German enemy character in the 1989 video game Human Killing Machine
Franz, character in Fire Emblem: The Sacred Stones
Franz, guard in Franz Kafka's novel The Trial
Hans and Franz, characters of the television show Saturday Night Live
Franz Bibfeldt, fictitious theologian and in-joke among American academic theologian
Dr. Franz Eldemann, character from House of Dracula
Baron Franz d'Épinay, friend of Albert de Morcerf in Alexandre Dumas's novel The Count of Monte Cristo
Franz Heinel, character in the Japanese anime series Future GPX Cyber Formula
Franz Hopper, character from the French-produced animated series Code Lyoko
Franz Kemmerich, character in the war novel All Quiet on the Western Front
Franz Liebkind, character in The Producers
Franz Oberhauser, James Bond character professionally known as Ernst Stavro Blofeld
Franz Sanchez, character in the 1989 James Bond film Licence to Kill'

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