Frank Evers (Gaelic footballer)

Francis Anthony Evers Jr., known as Frank Evers, was an Irish Gaelic footballer, a native of Menlough, County Galway, born on 27 August 1934, who died on 5 October 2025. He began at senior national level in 1952 at the age of eighteen, played for Westmeath in the 1952 to 1953 league and transferred to Galway in 1953, where he formed a noted centrefield partnership with Mattie McDonagh. He won the 1956 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship with Galway, was on the losing side against Kerry in the 1959 final, won six Connacht Senior medals, two Railway Cup medals and a National Football League medal in 1957, and played his last game for Galway in 1962. From 1960 he worked for the United Nations, serving in the Middle East and elsewhere until 1994, and later for the OSCE in Kosovo.