Fran (given name)
Fran is a Spanish, Italian, Croatian and Albanian male name or a common short form of the English names Frances and Francis. The Spanish and Italian Fran is more common for men, while the English name is mostly used for women. While the Croatian, Slovene and Albanian Fran is used as a proper name only for men.
Fran is the name of:
People
Women
- Fran Adams, American actress
- Frances Fran Allison, American television and radio comedian, personality and singer, star of the television show Kukla, Fran and Ollie
- Fran Baum, Australian social scientist
- Fran Blanche, American engineer and guitar pedal builder
- Frances Fran Brill, American retired Muppets puppeteer and actress
- Fran Capo, American motivational speaker and author
- Francine Fran Drescher, American actress
- Fran Gebhard, Canadian theatre director and actor
- Francis Fran Jeffries, American actress, singer and model
- Fran Jonas, New Zealand cricketer
- Fran Kirby, English association footballer
- Frances Fran Lebowitz, American author and public speaker
- Fran Ross, American comedy writer and novelist
- Fran Ryan, American actress
- Fran Scott, British television presenter
- Fran Stallings, American storyteller
- Fran Unsworth, BBC News executive
- Fran Warren, stage name of American singer Frances Wolfe
- Frances Fran Wilde, New Zealand politician
Men
- Fran Albreht, Slovene writer and politician
- Fran Bošnjaković, Croatian thermodynamicist
- Fran Bradač, Slovene classical philologist
- Fran Brodić, Croatian football player
- Fran Cosgrave, Irish nightclub owner and minor celebrity
- Fran Čubranić, Croatian water polo player
- Fran Detela, Slovene writer
- Francisco Fran Escribá, Spanish football manager
- Fran Krsto Frankopan Croatian baroque poet, nobleman and politician
- Fran Fraschilla, American basketball commentator and former college basketball coach
- Fran Saleški Finžgar, Slovene folk writer
- Fran Galović, Croatian writer
- Fran Gerbič, Slovene composer
- Francisco Javier González Pérez, Spanish footballer better known as Fran
- Francis Fran Healy (baseball), American Major League Baseball broadcaster and former player
- Francis Fran Healy (musician), Scottish lead singer and main songwriter of the rock band Travis
- Fran Jesenko, Slovenian botanist
- Fran Karačić, Croatian football player
- Fran Kurniawan, Indonesian badminton player
- Fran Levstik, Slovene writer, political activist, playwright and critic
- Fran Lhotka, Czech-born Croatian composer
- Fran Mileta, Croatian handball player
- Fran Millar, American politician
- Fran Milčinski, pen name Fridolin Žolna, Slovene lawyer, writer and playwright
- Fran Novljan, Croatian educator
- Francis Fran O'Brien (American football), American National Football League player
- Fran O'Brien (footballer), Irish footballer in Ireland and the North American Soccer League
- Francisco Fran Perea, Spanish singer and actor
- Fran Pilepić, Croatian basketball player
- Fran Ramovš, Slovene linguist
- Fran Roš, Slovene writer, poet and playwright
- Fran Smith Jr., American bass guitarist with the rock band The Hooters
- Francis Fran Tarkenton, American retired National Football League Hall-of-Fame quarterback
- Fran Tudor, Croatian football player
- Francisco Fran Vázquez, Spanish basketball player
- Francisco Fran Vélez, Spanish footballer
- Francisco Javier Fran Yeste, Spanish footballer
Fictional characters
- Fran Kubelik, the female main character of the film The Apartment, portrayed by Shirley MacLaine
- Fran Lockwood, the posthumous overarching protagonist in Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs. She was the wife of Tim Lockwood and the mother of Flint Lockwood.
- Fran Sinclair, mother of the Sinclair family on the sitcom Dinosaurs
- Fran, from the video game Final Fantasy XII
- Fran, a red squirrel from the Playhouse Disney Channel show Higglytown Heroes
- The main character of the video game Fran Bow
- Fran, the protagonist of the manga series Franken Fran
- Fran Fine, the protagonist of the TV series The Nanny