François () is a

French French may refer to: * Something of, from, or related to France ** French language, which originated in France ** French people, a nation and ethnic group ** French cuisine, cooking traditions and practices Arts and media * The French (band), ...

masculine given name and surname, equivalent to the English name

Francis Francis may refer to: People and characters *Pope Francis, head of the Catholic Church (2013–2025) *Francis (given name), including a list of people and fictional characters * Francis (surname) * Francis, a character played by YouTuber Boogie2 ...

People with the given name

François Amoudruz François Amoudruz (7 September 1926 – 21 July 2020) was a member of the French Resistance during World War II. Biography Amoudruz was born in Albertville on 7 September 1926. His father was Director of Contributions Directes et du Cadastre. Hi ...

(1926–2020), French resistance fighter *

François-Marie Arouet François-Marie Arouet (; 21 November 169430 May 1778), known by his '' nom de plume'' Voltaire (, ; ), was a French Enlightenment writer, philosopher ('' philosophe''), satirist, and historian. Famous for his wit and his criticism of Chris ...

(better known as

Voltaire François-Marie Arouet (; 21 November 169430 May 1778), known by his ''Pen name, nom de plume'' Voltaire (, ; ), was a French Age of Enlightenment, Enlightenment writer, philosopher (''philosophe''), satirist, and historian. Famous for his wit ...

; 1694–1778), French Enlightenment writer, historian, and philosopher *

François Beauchemin Joseph Jean-François Vinet Beauchemin (born June 4, 1980) is a Canadian former professional ice hockey defenceman who played in the National Hockey League (NHL). Drafted in the third round, 75th overall, by the Montreal Canadiens in the 1998 NH ...

(born 1980), Canadian ice hockey player for the Anaheim Ducks *

François Blanc François Blanc (; 12 December 1806 – 27 July 1877), nicknamed "The Magician of Homburg" and "The Magician of Monte Carlo", was a French entrepreneur and operator of casinos, including the Monte Carlo Casino in Monaco. His daughter, Marie-F� ...

(1806–1877), French entrepreneur and operator of casinos *

François Bonlieu François Pierre Philippe Bonlieu (21 March 1937 – 18 August 1973) was a French alpine skier. Bonlieu debuted for the French alpine skiing national team when he was 15 years old. He was a four time French Champion (twice in the giant slal ...

(1937–1973), French alpine skier *

François Cevert Albert François Cevert (; 25 February 1944 – 6 October 1973) was a French racing driver, who competed in Formula One from to . Cevert won the 1971 United States Grand Prix with Tyrrell Racing, Tyrrell. Cevert competed in Formula One for Tec ...

(1944–1973), French racing driver *

François Chau François Chau (born October 26, 1959) is a Cambodian and American actor. He is known for his roles as Dr. Pierre Chang in ABC's '' Lost'', Quick Kick on '' G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero'', Dr. Chang in the film '' 21 & Over'', Shredder in '' ...

(born 1959), Cambodian American actor *

François Clemmons François Scarborough Clemmons (born April 23, 1945) is an American singer, actor, writer and teacher. He is known for his appearances as "Officer Clemmons" on the PBS television series ''Mister Rogers' Neighborhood'' from 1968 to 1993. Early li ...

(born 1945), American singer and actor *

François Corbier François Corbier (17 October 1944 – 1 July 2018) was a French television presenter and songwriter. Early life Corbier was born as Alain Roux in 1944 in Paris. Career Corbier began his career as a songwriter in Parisian cabarets, where he work ...

(1944–2018), French television presenter and songwriter *

François Coty François Coty (; born Joseph Marie François Spoturno ; 3 May 1874 – 25 July 1934) was a French perfumer, businessman, newspaper publisher, politician and patron of the arts. He was the founder of the Coty, Coty perfume company, today a multin ...

(1874–1934), French perfumer *

François Coulomb the Elder François Coulomb the Elder was a French naval architect and builder of warships (''ingénieur-constructeur''), the son of Laurent Coulomb. François Coulomb was born on 24 January 1654 at La Ciotat, and died on 20 March 1717 at Toulon. He was fi ...

(1654–1717), French naval architect *

François Coulomb the Younger François Coulomb the Younger ( La Ciotat, 1691 - Toulon, July 1751) was a French naval architect (''ingénieur-constructeur''), the son of François Coulomb the Elder. During his career, he designed 18 ships for the French Navy The French Na ...

(1691–1751), French naval architect *

François Couperin François Couperin (; 10 November 1668 – 11 September 1733) was a French Baroque music, Baroque composer, organist and harpsichordist. He was known as ''Couperin le Grand'' ("Couperin the Great") to distinguish him from other members of the musi ...

(1668–1733), French Baroque composer, keyboardist *

François Couturier François Couturier (born 2 May 1950 in Fleury-les-Aubrais, Orléans) is a French Jazz piano, jazz pianist. Biography Couturier began learning piano at the age of six. A year after earning his degree in classical music, classical piano and mus ...

(born 1950), French jazz pianist * François Henricus Anthonie van Dixhoorn (born 1948), Dutch poet * François de Klerk (born 1991), South African rugby player * François "Faf" du Plessis (born 1984), South African cricketer *

François Englert François, Baron Englert (; born 6 November 1932) is a Belgian theoretical physicist and 2013 Nobel Prize laureate. Englert is professor emeritus at the Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB), where he is a member of the Service de Physique Thé ...

(born 1932), Belgian particle physicist who in 2013 shared the Nobel Prize with Peter Higgs *

François Feldman François Feldman (; born 23 May 1958) is a French singer. He had a great success in the 1980s and the 1990s in France. Biography The young François Feldman spent his adolescence listening to soul music, including songs by Marvin Gaye, Stevie ...

(born 1958), French singer *

François Gautier François Gautier (born 1950) is a journalist and Hindutva activist based in India who served as the South Asian correspondent for multiple reputed French-language dailies. He is also the founder of a private museum which seeks to portray In ...

(born 1950), French journalist *

François Gernigon François Gernigon (born 2 April 1961) is a French politician. As a member of Horizons (political party), Horizons, he was elected Deputy (France), member of parliament for Maine-et-Loire's 1st constituency in the 2022 French legislative electio ...

(born 1961), French politician *

François Lalande François Lalande (29 November 1930 – 1 September 2020) was a French actor. He had performed in the theatre, on television, and films. Filmography Cinema *''Un jour à Paris'' (1962) *''Yo Yo'' (1965) *''Le Gang'' (1977) *''La Question'' (197 ...

(1930–2020), French actor * François Lapointe (politician) (born 1971), Canadian politician *

François Lapointe (racewalker) François Lapointe may refer to: * François Lapointe (racewalker) (born 1961), Canadian retired racewalker * François Lapointe (politician) (born 1962), Canadian politician {{hndis, Lapointe, Francois ...

(born 1961), Canadian racewalker *

François Laroque François Laroque (born 26 April 1948) is a French academic and translator specialising in the works of William Shakespeare. He is professor emeritus of the University of Sorbonne Nouvelle Paris 3 since 2014. Career François Laroque is a forme ...

(born 1948), French academic, translator and Shakespeare specialist *

François Lavoie François Lavoie (born February 27, 1993) is a right-handed Canadian ten-pin bowler from Quebec City, Quebec, Canada, now making his home in Wichita, Kansas. He is a member of the Professional Bowlers Association, and has been a member of Team C ...

(born 1993), Canadian ten-pin bowler *

François Leterrier François Leterrier (; 26 May 1929 – 4 December 2020) was a French film director and actor. He entered the film industry when he was cast as the lead in Robert Bresson's film ''A Man Escaped'' (1956). After this he assisted other directors before ...

(1929–2020), French film director and actor *

François Lionet François Lionet is a French programmer, best known for having written STOS BASIC on the Atari ST and AMOS BASIC on the Amiga (along with Constantin Sotiropoulos). He has also written several games on these platforms. In 1994, he founded Click ...

(born 1963), French computer programmer *

François Pienaar Jacobus Francois Pienaar (born 2 January 1967) is a retired South African rugby union player. He played flanker for South Africa (the Springboks) from 1993 until 1996, winning 29 international caps, all of them as captain. He is best known for ...

(born 1965), South African rugby player *

François Pinault François Pinault (born 21 August 1936) is a French billionaire businessman, founder of the luxury group Kering and the investment holding company Artémis. Pinault started his business in the timber industry in the early 1960s. Taken public i ...

(born 1936), French billionaire *

François-Henri Pinault François-Henri Pinault (; born 28 May 1962) is a French businessman, the son of billionaire François Pinault. François-Henri took the reins of his father's retail conglomerate Pinault-Printemps-Redoute in 2005, and turned it into the luxury ...

(born 1962), French billionaire *

François Prelati François Prelati was an Italians, Italian Clergy, cleric and Alchemy, alchemist who took part in the murders committed by Gilles de Rais in the 15th century. He claimed he could summon demons and involved Gilles in this practice. He is thought by ...

, Italian cleric and alchemist *

François Quesnay François Quesnay (; ; 4 June 1694 – 16 December 1774) was a French economist and physician of the Physiocratic school. He is known for publishing the " Tableau économique" (Economic Table) in 1758, which provided the foundations of the ideas ...

(1694–1774), French economist *

François Rabbath François Rabbath (born 1931) is a contemporary French double-bass virtuoso, soloist, and composer. Career Rabbath was born into a Syrian family of musicians but his only instruction came from a book written by a Parisian bassist Edouard Nanny. ...

(born 1931), French double-bass player and composer *

François Rabelais François Rabelais ( , ; ; born between 1483 and 1494; died 1553) was a French writer who has been called the first great French prose author. A Renaissance humanism, humanist of the French Renaissance and Greek scholars in the Renaissance, Gr ...

(died 1553), French Renaissance writer, doctor and humanist *

François-Xavier Roth François-Xavier Paul Roth (born 6 November 1971) is a French conductor. Biography Roth is the son of the organist Daniel Roth—the two share the same first name. His brother Vincent is a violist. Before turning to conducting, he was a flauti ...

(born 1971), French conductor * François Rozenthal (born 1975), French ice hockey player * François Ruffin (born 1975), French journalist, filmmaker, author and politician * François Sagat (born 1979), French model and porn actor * François Steyn (born 1987), South African rugby player * François Vincent Henri Antoine de Stuers (1792–1881), Dutch general * François Tracanelli (born 1951), French pole vaulter * François Trinh-Duc (born 1986), French rugby player * François Truffaut (1932–1984), French film director, screenwriter, producer, actor and film critic * François Vérove (1962–2021), French serial killer * François Vidal (1832–1911), French poet * François van 't Sant (1883–1966), Dutch spy and police commissioner

Heads of State and Government

France

* Francis I of France (1494–1547), King of France (), known as "the Father and Restorer of Letters" * Francis II of France (1554–1560), King of France and King consort of Scots (), known as the husband of Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots * François Fillon (born 1954), Prime Minister of France 2007–2012 * François Hollande (born 1954), President of France 2012–2017 * François Mitterrand (1916–1996), President of France 1981–1995

Haiti

* François Denys Légitime (1841–1935), President of Haiti from 1888 to 1889 * François Duvalier (1907–1971), President of Haiti from 1957 to 1971

Fictional Characters

* Francois Turbot, a recurring character in the Canadian television series ''PAW Patrol''

Further disambiguation

* François Aubry (disambiguation), several people * François Baby (disambiguation), several people * François Boucher (disambiguation), several people * François Caron (disambiguation), several people * François Dominique (disambiguation), several people * François Duval (disambiguation), several people * François Fournier (disambiguation), several people

People with the surname

* Abraham François (born 1977), Canadian soccer player * Alexandre François, French linguist * André François (cartoonist), André François (1915–2005), Hungarian-born French cartoonist * Christian Francois (born 1985), volleyball player from Trinidad and Tobago * Claude François (1939–1978), French pop singer * Déborah François (born 1987), Belgian actress * Deondre Francois (born 1997), Haitian-born American football player * Elvis Francois (born 1985), American orthopedic surgeon and singer * Guillaume François (born 1990), Belgian professional footballer * Hermann von François (1856–1933), German general during WW1 * Hunter J. Francois (1924–2014), Saint Lucian politician * Jacques François (1920–2003), French actor * Jacques Francois (footballer) (born 1992), Haitian football player * Julien François (born 1979), French footballer * Kendall Francois (1971–2014), serial killer from Poughkeepsie, New York * Mark François (born 1965), British politician * Tony François (born 1971), Mauritian international footballer