Frank Gates Allen (February 14, 1858 – August 30, 1940) was an American football player and businessman. He played for the first college football team at the University of Michigan and was a forward on the 1879 and 1880 Michigan Wolverines football teams. His daughter, Marjorie Allen Seiffert, was a nationally-known poet. In the 1930s, Allen donated his home in Moline, valued at $200,000, to the Moline Board of Education. Allen died of heart disease at his daughter's home in Moline in August 1940.