List of Famous people named Frantisek

František Vejdovský was a Czech zoologist. In 2007 the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature ruled that the family "Tubificidae" was a junior synonym of Naididae. He was the first biologist to distinguish between nematodes and gordiids when he named a group to contain the horsehair worms the order Nematomorpha. In 1919, Nathan Cobb proposed that nematodes should be recognized alone as a phylum and Nematomorphs were recognized as their own phylum

František Tomášek was a cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church in Bohemia, the 34th Archbishop of Prague, and a Roman Catholic theologian. His "cautious but resolute opposition to the Czechoslovak communist regime helped to bring about its peaceful demise in the 1989 Velvet Revolution".

František Trkal is a Czech former cyclist. He competed in two events at the 1992 Summer Olympics.

František Havránek was a Czech football manager and former player.

František Josef Studnička was a Czech mathematician and popular pedagogue at Charles University in Prague. He was also an active contributor to astronomy and meteorology. He was known as the author of several textbooks and popular articles.

František Tondra was the Roman Catholic bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Spiš (1989-2011), Slovakia.

František Maxmilián Kaňka was a Czech architect and builder.