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Frank Wesley Sharp (March 18, 1906 – April 2, 1993) was a land developer in Houston, Texas, United States who was responsible for creating several large post-World War II housing developments. Sharp's largest projects included Oak Forest in 1946 and Sharpstown in 1955. Sharp also created Royden Oaks in the early 1970s.
Frank Sharp may refer to: Frank Sharp (footballer, born 1899) (1899–1963), English football forward with Birmingham and Chesterfield. Frank Sharp (footballer, born 1947), Scottish football winger with clubs including Barnsley.
Frank Sharp (born 28 May 1947) is a Scottish former footballer who scored 13 goals in 231 league games in a ten-year career in the Football League and Scottish Football League. A winger, he played for Heart of Midlothian, Carlisle United, Cardiff City, Barnsley, Grimsby Town, Port Vale, and Northwich Victoria .
Frank Sharp built a lot of single-family homes in postwar Houston. As the lead developer on two major single-family subdivisions, Oak Forest (1946) and the so-humbly named Sharpstown (1956), Sharp helped propel Houston’s outward growth and shaped much of Houston’s early suburbia.
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Apr 5, 1993 · HOUSTON -- A funeral was scheduled Tuesday for Houston developer and financier Frank W. Sharp, the central figure in the Sharpstown scandal that rocked Texas in the early 1970s.
Dr. Sharp's research focuses on brain injury including whole genome studies of ischemic stroke, intracerebral hemorrhage, subarachnoid hemorrhage, white matter hyperintensities and Alzheimer's Disease in humans and in animal disease models.
Dec 18, 2018 · Houston Developer Frank Sharp embroiled in banking scandal that eventually reaches the Texas Legislature
University of California-Davis, Department of Neurology. Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center and University of Cincinnati, College of Medicine. University of California Davis,...
Nov 26, 2018 · It was the late 1960s, and famed Houston developer Frank Sharp, who’d made a pile of money in real estate, banking, and insurance, wanted to see some favorable banking bills pushed through the...
Aug 1, 1971 · Sharp, a rural Texas Methodist who grew up to wear Homburg hats and be honored by a Catholic Pope, made a fortune capitalizing on the chronic housing shortage here after World War II. A...
