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Also known as Sir Francis Owen Garbett Williams, Sir Frank Williams

founder of Williams Grand Prix Engineering (1942–2021)

Person · Open Library

Works
36

Top works

  • Elemental Path
  • A new pocket-dictionary of the English and German languages with a pronunciation of the English part in German characters
  • Border Loves
  • Hold on with a Bulldog Grip
  • After the Republic

via Open Library + Wikidata

Film & TV

Acting · South Shields, County Durham, England, UK

Known for

  • Williams & Mansell: Red 5 — Self2023
  • Williams — Self2017
  • Senna — Self2010
  • The Right to Win — Self2004
  • The Secret Life of Formula 1 — Himself2004
  • Buddy1999
  • A Star Named Ayrton Senna — Self1998
  • The Team: A Season With McLaren — Self1993
  • Project the Right Image — Vicar1975
  • 1973 FIA Formula One World Championship Season Review — Self1973

via TMDB

Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Country
US
Active from
1932-02-08

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
3,280
Total plays
11,924

Tags

countryAlldrjazzmrfunkmusic

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

  1. The PHQ-9

    · 2001 · cited 39,408x

  2. The SILVA ribosomal RNA gene database project: improved data processing and web-based tools

    · 2012 · cited 29,135x

  3. A Brief Measure for Assessing Generalized Anxiety Disorder

    · 2006 · cited 28,895x

  4. Learning representations by back-propagating errors

    · 1986 · cited 24,334x

  5. Geant4—a simulation toolkit

    · 2003 · cited 21,254x

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Key facts

Born
Francis Owen Garbett Williams , ( 1942-04-16 ) 16 April 1942, South Shields , Durham, England
Died
28 November 2021 (2021-11-28) (aged 79), Frimley , Surrey, England
Education
St Joseph's College, Dumfries
Occupations
Businessman motorsport executive racing driver
Employers
European Formula Two Frank Williams ( 1968 ) Formula One Frank Williams ( 1969 – 1976 ) Williams ( 1977 – 2020 )
Title
Team Principal
Spouse
Virginia Berry ​ ​ ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1974 ; died 2013 ) ​
Children
3, including Claire
Awards
Knight of the Legion of Honour Wheatcroft Trophy

via Wikipedia infobox

Wikidata facts

Instance of
human
Given name
Frank
Family name
Williams
Gender
male
Citizenship
United Kingdom
Place of birth
South Shields
Place of death
London
Occupation
engineer
Languages spoken
English language
Noble title
Knight Bachelor
Image
FrankWilliams-cropped.JPG
Number of children
3
Show 6 more facts
date of birth
1942-04-16
Commons category
Frank Williams
date of death
2021-11-28
honorific prefix
Sir
name in native language
Frank Williams
medical condition
tetraplegia
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Encyclopedic overview

Sir Francis Owen Garbett Williams (16 April 1942 – 28 November 2021) was a British businessman, motorsport executive and racing driver. From 1977 to 2020, Williams served as co-founder, team principal and co-owner of Williams in Formula One, winning nine World Constructors' Championship titles between 1980 and 1997.

Early life

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Frank Williams” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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