Franklin (given name)
Franklin is a masculine English given name. It is of English coming from the medieval English Frankeleyn, coming from the Anglo-Norman fraunclein. Its meaning is landowner of free but not noble origin.
People with the given name
- Franklin O. Adams, American architect
- Franklin P. Adams, American columnist
- Franklin Adreon, American actor
- Franklin A. Alberger, American businessman and politician
- Franklin Anangonó, Ecuadorian footballer
- Franklin Anzité, Central African footballer
- Franklin Bache, American physician
- Franklin P. Backus, American judge
- Franklin Thomas Backus, American lawyer and politician
- Franklin Barreto, Venezuelan baseball player
- Franklin Bautista, Filipino politician and governor
- Franklin Bett, Kenyan politician
- Franklin Bittencourt, Brazilian football scout, coach, and player
- Franklin Booth, American artist
- Franklin Boukaka, Congolese musician
- Franklin W. Bowdon, American politician and slave owner
- Franklin Brito, Venezuelan biologist and political activist
- Franklin Brownell, American-Canadian artist and teacher
- Franklin Bruno, American singer-songwriter, academic and writer
- Franklin Buchanan, American politician
- Franklin Burghardt, American football and basketball coach and athlete
- Franklin Burroughs, American entrepreneur
- Franklin Burroughs, American author
- Franklin Carmichael, Canadian artist
- Franklin B. Carpenter, American lumber merchant and politician
- Franklin Metcalfe Carpenter, Canadian politician
- Franklin R. Carpenter, American mining specialist
- Franklin Chang-Díaz, Costa Rican-American astronaut and entrepreneur
- Franklin Cohen, American clarinetist
- Franklin A. Coles, American lawyer and politician
- Franklin R. Collbohm, American engineer
- Franklin S. Cooper, American physicist and inventor
- Franklin Cover, American actor
- Franklin Cudjoe, Ghanaian writer and social commentator
- Franklin A. Davis, American chemist
- Franklin M. Davis Jr., American author and major general
- Franklin Archibald Dick, American lawyer
- Franklin Hughes Delano, American merchant, diplomat and society man
- Franklin Dodge, American FBI agent
- Franklin D'Olier, American businessman
- Franklin Drilon, Filipino politician
- Franklin Dyall, English actor
- Franklin Edson, American politician
- Franklin Edwards, American basketball player
- Franklin Engelmann, British radio personality
- Franklin B. Evans, American murderer and suspected serial killer
- Franklin Florence, American civil rights activist
- Franklin Delano Floyd, American murderer
- Franklin Ford, American historian
- Franklin Franco, Dominican historian, sociologist, and politician
- Franklin Clark Fry, American Lutheran clergyman
- Franklin Foster Fry, American Lutheran minister
- Franklin I. Gamwell, American philosopher
- Franklin Garcia, American politician
- Franklin Gómez, Puerto Rican wrestler
- Franklin B. Gowen, American president of the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad
- Franklin Graham, American Christian evangelist, missionary, and son of Billy Graham
- Franklin Gutiérrez, Venezuelan baseball player
- Franklin L. Hagenbeck, American Army general
- Franklin Hansen, American sound engineer
- Franklin S. Harris, American university president
- Franklin A. Hart, American general in the United States Marine Corps
- Franklin Hobbs, American rower
- Franklin Pierce Holland, American publisher and the mayor of Dallas
- Franklin B. Hough, American Civil War surgeon and civil servant
- Franklin Huddle, American diplomat
- Franklin D. Israel, American architect
- Franklin Jacobs, American high jumper
- Franklin Johnson (disambiguation), several people
- Franklin Khan, Trinidad and Tobago politician
- Franklin J. Knoll, American politician, lawyer, and judge
- Franklin Lacey, American playwright and screenwriter
- Franklin R. Levy, American film producer
- Franklin Lindsay, American spy and business executive
- Franklin Lobos, Chilean footballer and miner
- Franklin A. Long, American chemist
- Franklin MacVeagh, American politician
- Franklin Main, American politician
- Franklin B. Mann, American politician
- Franklin Ware Mann, American physician and inventor
- Franklin Clarence Mars, American businessman
- Franklin Mascote, Brazilian footballer
- Franklin Matthias, American nuclear engineer
- Franklin Merrell-Wolff, American philosopher and mystic
- Franklin Milton, American sound engineer
- Franklin Molina, Venezuelan cyclist
- Franklin Morales, Venezuelan baseball player
- Franklin Murphy, American politician
- Franklin David Murphy, American academic administrator
- Franklin Nelson, American ice dancer
- Franklin A. Neva, American physician
- Franklin W. Olin, American baseball player and civil engineer
- Franklin Pangborn, American actor
- Franklin Peale, American mint official
- Franklin Pele, New Zealand rugby league and rugby union footballer
- Franklin Pérez, Venezuelan baseball pitcher
- Franklin P. Peterson, American mathematician specializing in algebraic topology
- Franklin Pierce, 14th President of the United States of America
- Franklin Quitugua, Guamanian politician
- Franklin Raines, American businessman and federal executive
- Franklin Rawson, Argentine painter
- Franklin D. Richards, American apostle of the LDS Church
- Franklin S. Richards, American politician and general counsel for the LDS Church
- Franklin D. Richards, American lawyer and a general authority of the LDS Church
- Franklin Lafayette Riley Jr., American historian
- Franklin D. Roosevelt, 32nd President of the United States of America
- Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr., American lawyer, businessman, and politician
- Franklin D. Roosevelt III, American educator
- Franklin Rumbiak, Indonesian footballer
- Franklin Salas, Ecuadorian footballer
- Franklin Benjamin Sanborn, American journalist, teacher, reformer, and abolitionist
- Franklin Sands, American politician
- Franklin Sasere, Swiss footballer
- Franklin J. Schaffner, American director
- Franklin Sellers, American Reformed Episcopalian bishop
- Franklin Session, American basketball player
- Franklin Simmons, American sculptor
- Franklin Sirmans, American art critic, editor, writer, and curator
- Franklin Song, American entrepreneur and private equity investor
- Franklin Sonn, South African diplomat, businessman and activist
- Franklin Sousley, American Marine
- Franklin Southworth, American linguist
- Franklin B. Sprague, American military officer, businessman and judge
- Franklin Stahl, American molecular biologist and geneticist
- Franklin Stanwood, American painter
- Franklin Steele, American settler
- Franklin Stubbs, American baseball player
- Franklin Taylor, English pianist, organist, music educator, and writer
- Franklin A. Thomas, American businessman and philanthropist
- Franklin Rosborough "Frank" Thomas, American animator and pianist
- Franklin D. Turner, American prelate
- Franklin P. Turner, American lawyer and delegate
- Franklin U. Valderrama, American judge
- Franklin Van Valkenburgh, American Navy Medal of Honor recipient
- Franklin Virgüez, Venezuelan actor
- Franklin Webster, American publisher
- Franklin Webster, Honduran footballer
- Franklin H. Westervelt, American computer scientist
- Franklin Wharton, American Marine Corps general
- Franklin Delano Williams, American singer
- Franklin Zielski, Canadian rower
- Franklin B. Zimmerman, American musicologist and conductor
- Franklin Zimring, American criminologist
Fictional characters
- Franklin the Turtle, the protagonist of the book series and television adaptations by the same name
- Franklin, a character in the Peanuts comic strip
- Franklin Richards, fictional character appearing in comic books published by Marvel Comics
- Franklin Rock, a character from DC Comics, also known as Sgt. Rock
- Freewheelin' Franklin Freek, one of the Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers.
- Franklin Delano Bluth, a puppet on Arrested Development
- Franklin Stern, a fictional character in the DC Comics universe
- Franklin Bordeau, a member of the phantom troupe from the manga Hunter x Hunter
- Franklin Clarke, fictional murderer in Agatha Christie's The A.B.C. Murders
- Franklin Clinton, a playable character in the video game Grand Theft Auto V
- Franklin Nelson, known as Foggy Nelson, a character from the Daredevil comics
- Franklin Bean, a main antagonist of Fantastic Mr. Fox
- Franklin Saint, a character from the TV series ''Snowfall''
Related names
- Frank (given name), a short name for Franklin
- Franklin (surname)