Franklin Joseph "Frankie" Lymon (September 30, 1942 – February 27, 1968) was an American rock and roll/rhythm and blues singer and songwriter, best known as the boy soprano lead singer of a New York City-based early rock and roll group (musical group), The Teenagers. The group was composed of five boys, all in their early to mid teens. The original lineup of the Teenagers, an integrated (Racial integration) group, included three African American members, Frankie Lymon, Jimmy Merchant and Sherman Garnes, and two Puerto Rican (Puerto Rican American) members, Herman Santiago and Joe Negroni.

The Teenagers first single, 1956s "Why Do Fools Fall in Love (Why Do Fools Fall in Love (song))", was also their biggest hit. After Lymon went solo in mid-1957, both his career and those of the Teenagers fell into decline. By age 25, he was found dead in his grandmothers bathroom from a heroin overdose.