Frank Cleary Hanighen (1899 – January 10, 1964) was an American journalist.
Frank Hanighen graduated from Harvard College. He worked as a foreign correspondent in Europe for The New York Post and The Philadelphia Record. He then worked as a Washington, D.C. correspondent for Common Sense. He later became an editorial assistant for Dodd, Mead and Company and a columnist for The Freeman.
In 1944, he was a founding editor of Human Events, together with Felix Morley and William Henry Chamberlin.
He was involved in the America First Committee, favoring isolationism during World War II.