List of Famous people named Franklin

Franklin April was a Namibian football defender who played for FC Civics and the Namibia national football team. He was a part of the squad at the 2008 African Cup of Nations. April died from an asthma attack.

Franklin Spencer Miguel Bittencourt is a Brazilian former football striker who works as a scout and youth coach with Energie Cottbus.

Franklin Leonard Pope was an American engineer, explorer, and inventor.

Franklin de Sousa Martins is a Brazilian journalist who served as Press Secretary for the government of President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva of Brazil.

Franklin James Schaffner was an American film, television, and stage director. He won an Academy Award for Best Director for Patton (1970), and is known for the films Planet of the Apes (1968), Nicholas and Alexandra (1971), Papillon (1973), and The Boys from Brazil (1978). He served as president of the Directors Guild of America between 1987 and 1989.

Franklin Erasmo Lobos Ramírez is a retired Chilean footballer. Lobos debuted in 1980 for Regional Atacama, and retired in 1995, playing for the same club he started his career with. He was nicknamed El Mortero Mágico. He eventually became a miner and was one of the miners trapped underground for two months in the 2010 Copiapó mining accident. On October 13, 2010, Lobos was the 27th of 33 miners to be rescued.

Frank Poole Dyall, professionally known as Franklin Dyall, was an English actor. In his early years he was a member of the companies of the actor-managers George Alexander, Ben Greet, John Martin-Harvey and Johnston Forbes-Robertson. During a 50-year stage career he played a wide range of parts in plays from Shakespeare to modern comedy, grand guignol, swashbuckling costume drama and the works of Ibsen. He broadcast on radio and television and made more than 20 films. He was the father of the actor Valentine Dyall.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt III is an American retired economist and academic. Through his father, he is a grandson of U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt and Eleanor Roosevelt, and through his mother, he is related to the prominent du Pont family.