Ivan Franko
- Birth Date
- 8/27/1856 - 5/28/1916
- Birth Place
- Nahuievychi, Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria, Austrian Empire [now Lviv Oblast, Ukraine]
- Known For
- Writing
Ivan Franko (August 27, 1856 – May 28, 1916) was a Ukrainian poet, writer, social and literary critic, journalist, interpreter, economist, political activist, doctor of philosophy, ethnographer, the author of the first detective novels and modern poetry in the Ukrainian language.
