Franklin Henry Hooper (January 28, 1862, Worcester, Massachusetts – August 14, 1940, Bedford Hills, New York) was a U.S. editor.
His older brother Horace Everett Hooper was publisher of the Encyclopædia Britannica, and Franklin was an editor there.
Horace Hooper and Walter Jackson bought the Encyclopædia Britannica in 1901, holding it until 1920.
[1] Hooper died two years later of injuries sustained after being hit by a truck.
As noted in his obituary, he "persistently flouted traffic signals", and dismissed cautionary warnings from friends with the reply, "We are all going to die some day.