Frank Zappa (1940–1993) was an American musician, songwriter, composer, recording engineer, record producer and film director. Zappa may also refer to: Zappa (surname), including a list of people with the name Zappa (chess), a computer chess program Zappa (film), a 1983 Danish film by Bille August Zappa (Guilty Gear), a character from Guilty Gear Zappa, a 2020 documentary film about Frank Zappa Zappa, a character in Chrono Cross Zappa, a group of meerkats in Meerkat Manor See also Pachygnatha zappa, a spider Zappa confluentus, the New Guinea slender mudskipper, endemic to New Guinea Zappa–Szép product, a way in which a group can be constructed from two subgroups. It is a generalization of the direct and semidirect products