Francisca is a feminine given name. Notable people with the name include: *

Francisca Ballesteros Francisca Ballesteros (born 1969) is a Spanish woman who poisoned to death her first baby, a five month old daughter, in 1990. Fourteen years later, in 2004, she killed her husband and second daughter because she had met a man on the Internet an ...

(born 1969), Spanish serial killer *

Maria Francisca Bia Maria Francisca Bia known as Mimi Bia and as Mimi Engelman-Bia and Mimi de Vries-Bia (9 September 1809 – 13 July 1889) was a Dutch ballet dancer, opera singer (soprano) and dramatic stage actress. Starting her career as a ballet dancer, she had ...

(1809-1889), Dutch actor *

Ana Francisca de Borja y Doria Ana Francisca Hermenegilda de Borja y Doria, condesa de Lemos (1640–1706) was the wife of Peruvian Viceroy Pedro Antonio Fernández de Castro, conde de Lemos. During his five-month absence from the capital, she was governor of the Viceroyalty ...

(1640-1706), first female governor of the Viceroyalty of Peru * Francisca Duarte (1595–1640), Portuguese singer * Francisca Campos (born 1985), Chilean mountain biker *

Francisca del Espiritu Santo Fuentes The francisca (or francesca) is a throwing axe used as a weapon during the Early Middle Ages by the Franks, among whom it was a characteristic national weapon at the time of the Merovingians from about 500 to 750 and is known to have been used d ...

(1647-1711), Filipina religious leader *

Francisca Martínez Francisca Martínez (born October 4, 1966) is a retired female race walker from Mexico. Personal bests *10 km: 43:50 min – Eisenhüttenstadt, 14 May 1995 *20 km: 1:37:19 hrs – Dublin Dublin (; , or ) is the capital and l ...

(born 1966), Mexican race walker *

Francisca Nuñez de Carabajal Francisca Nuñez de Carabajal ( pt, Francisca Nunes de Carvalhal) (ca. 1540, Portugal – December 8, 1596, Mexico City) was a Marrana (Crypto-Jew) in New Spain executed by burning at the stake by the Inquisition for judaizing in 1596. Arrival ...

(circa 1540-1596), victim of the Inquisition *

Francisca Pleguezuelos Francisca Pleguezuelos Aguilar (born 28 June 1950 in Granada) was a Spanish politician and Member of the European Parliament for the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party, part of the Party of European Socialists. She began her political career in 1 ...

(born 1950), Spanish politician *

Francisca Queiroz Francisca Vaz Queiroz (born September 4, 1979) is a Brazilian television and film actress. She played the lead role, Catarina, in the television series A Lei e o Crime. Biography Born in Campinas, São Paulo state, her father is an entrepreneur, ...

(born 1979), Brazilian actress *

Francisca Rojas Francisca Rojas is believed to be the first criminal found guilty through fingerprint evidence in the world. On 29 June 1892, 27-year-old Rojas murdered her two children in Necochea, Buenos Aires Province, in Argentina. Her six-year-old son, Ponc ...

(born 1865), Argentine murderer *

Francisca Senhorinha da Motta Diniz Francisca Senhorinha da Motta Diniz, also known as Francisca Diniz (? in São João del Rey, Minas Gerais – ? in Campanha, Minas Gerais), was a Brazilian teacher who played an important role in feminism in the 1890s. She founded a newspaper e ...

, Brazilian teacher and feminist * Francisca Stading (1763-1836), Swedish opera singer * Francisca Subirana (1900–1981), Spanish tennis player * Francisca Wieser (1869–1949), American scientific illustrator * Dilian Francisca Toro (born 1959), Colombian doctor and politician *

Francisca Urio Francisca Urio (born February 6, 1981, in Meiningen, Thuringia, East Germany) is a German singer-songwriter and radio presenter of Afro-German heritage who lives in Berlin. Personal life Francisca Urio was born in Meiningen, a town in souther ...

(born 1981), German singer-songwriter and radio presenter *

Infanta Francisca Josefa of Portugal Infanta Francisca Josefa Maria Xaviera(; ) (30 January 1699 – 15 July 1736) was a Portuguese '' infanta'' (princess) and the last of eight children of King Peter II of Portugal and his second wife Marie Sophie of Neuburg. Francisca Josef ...

(1699-1736), Portuguese princess *

Infanta Maria Francisca Isabel of Portugal ''Infante'' (, ; f. ''infanta''), also anglicised as Infant or translated as Prince, is the title and rank given in the Iberian kingdoms of Spain (including the predecessor kingdoms of Aragon, Castile, Navarre, and León) and Portugal to th ...

(born 1997), third in line to the Portuguese throne * Infanta Maria Francisca of Portugal (1800-1834), daughter of King John VI of Portugal and Carlota Joaquina of Borbón *

Infanta Mariana Francisca of Portugal Maria Ana of Braganza (''Maria Ana Francisca Josefa Rita Joana''; 7 October 1736 – 16 May 1813), was a Portuguese ''infanta'' daughter of King Joseph I of Portugal and his wife Mariana Victoria of Spain. Biography The infanta was born in ...

(1736-1813), Portuguese princess * Maria Francisca of Nemours (1646-1683), Queen of Portugal *

Princess Francisca of Brazil Dona Francisca (2 August 1824 – 27 March 1898) was a princess of the Empire of Brazil (as daughter of Emperor Dom Pedro I, who also reigned as King Dom Pedro IV of Portugal, and his wife Maria Leopoldina of Habsburg), who became Princess o ...

(1824-1898), Brazilian princess and Portuguese infanta Fictional characters with the name include: * Francisca, from '' Kirby Star Allies''

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