Franklin Clark Fry (August 30, 1900 – June 6, 1968) was a leading American Lutheran clergyman, known for his work on behalf of interdenominational unity.

He attended Hamilton College in Clinton, New York; the American School of Classical Studies at Athens; and the Lutheran Theological Seminary at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Nonetheless, during his time as president, Fry became known among many church leaders as "Mr. Protestant", a moniker that captured his tireless work on behalf of greater unity among Protestant church bodies and made famous by the cover story on Fry in Time magazine in 1958.

[2] In January 1968, Fry issued a stirring appeal to fellow church members to "unstop your ears" to the need for a "massive improvement in the lot of Negro ghettos," warning of the prospects for "spiraling and spreading violence" if racial justice were not achieved swiftly.

Fry, as the Los Angeles Times put it several years after his death, was "known everywhere for his brilliant parliamentarian tactics, his shortcutting of time-consuming wrangles, the pungency with which he cut through intricate debate snarls, and for his wit and incisive dominance of any situation.

Fry resigned midway through his second four-year term as president of the LCA , only days before his death of cancer, when it became apparent that he had not long to live.

His son, Franklin Drewes Fry, followed him into the ministry, was a leading clergyman in the ELCA, and died in 2006 at the age of 78.