List of Famous people named Franz

Franz Seraph Tausend, "Der Goldmacher" was a 20th-century German alchemist, who was able to raise significant funding from senior Nazi Party figures for his project. He was arrested in 1929 and convicted of misappropriation, serving a prison sentence. He died in prison in 1942, while serving a sentence for a separate crime.

Franz Tost is an Austrian former racing driver and current team principal of the Scuderia AlphaTauri Formula One team.

Franz Lichtblau was a German architect.

Franz Ernst Neumann was a German mineralogist, physicist and mathematician.

Franz J. Sedelmayer is a German security consultant and CEO of the US-based Multinational Asset Recovery Company (M.A.R.C). His attempts, through legal proceedings in various jurisdictions, to win compensation for assets expropriated by the Russian state in the 1990s have been covered by the world media. To date Sedelmayer is the only one of Russia’s creditors who has actually collected on outstanding debt overriding Russia's claim of sovereign immunity. The Sedelmayer vs. Russian Federation saga, which included approximately 80 different legal proceedings throughout the world is an illustration of the difficulties one might encounter when trying to enforce investment arbitral awards against a state.

Franz Xaver Winterhalter was a German painter and lithographer, known for his flattering portraits of royalty and upper-class society in the mid-19th century. His name has become associated with fashionable court portraiture. Among his best known works are Empress Eugénie Surrounded by her Ladies in Waiting (1855) and the portraits he made of Empress Elisabeth of Austria (1865).

Franz Josef Georg Clemens Maria Leopold Salvator, Prince of Altenburg was an Austrian ceramicist and sculptor. He was a member of the House of Habsburg-Lorraine. He was regarded as a leading modern ceramicist of Austria, and received awards including the Decoration of Honour for Services to the Republic of Austria.

Franz Manfred Wuketits was an Austrian biologist, university teacher and epistemologist. He wrote extensively on epistemology, the history and theory of biology, evolution theory, evolutionary ethics, evolutionary epistemology and sociobiology.

Franz Xaver Messerschmidt was a German-Austrian sculptor most famous for his "character heads", a collection of busts with faces contorted in extreme facial expressions.

Franz Friedrich Kruckenberg was an engineer and pioneer of high speed railway systems. He designed several high speed trains. His most famous design was the Schienenzeppelin.