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Faith Bandler
Faith Bandler, born Ida Lessing Faith Mussing, was an Australian civil rights activist and writer who led the campaign for the 1967 referendum on Aboriginal rights.
Faith Domergue
Faith Domergue (1924-1999), American actress discovered by Howard Hughes, known for 1950s sci-fi and horror films This Island Earth, It Came from Beneath the Sea, and Cult of the Cobra.
Faith Evans
Faith Evans (Faith Renée Evans, born 1973) is an American R&B singer-songwriter, Bad Boy Records artist, and widow of The Notorious B.I.G.; Grammy winner for "I'll Be Missing You" with eight studio albums.
Faith Ford
Faith Ford (Faith Alexis Ford, born 1964, Alexandria, Louisiana) is an American actress known as Corky Sherwood on Murphy Brown (1988-1998, 2018 revival), five Emmy nominations, and as Hope in Hope & Faith with Kelly Ripa.
Faith Goldy
Faith Goldy (Faith Julia Goldy-Bazos, born 1989) is a Canadian far-right commentator, ex-Rebel Media host fired over a Daily Stormer podcast, third-place 2018 Toronto mayoral candidate, later audited for campaign finance violations.
Faith Healer
Faith Healer is a 1979 play by Irish playwright Brian Friel, consisting of four monologues in which three characters give conflicting accounts of the healer Frank Hardy.
Faith healing
Faith healing, also known as divine healing or prayer healing, is the practice of seeking recovery from illness through prayer, laying on of hands, or ritual.
Faith Hill
Faith Hill (Audrey Faith Perry, born 1967) is an American country-pop singer, wife of Tim McGraw, with 30 million records sold, five Grammys, and the albums Breathe, Cry, and Fireflies.
Faith Jenkins
Faith Jenkins (Faith Jenkins Lattimore), American attorney, former Manhattan prosecutor, and TV judge known for Judge Faith (2014–2018), Divorce Court (2020–2022), and Oxygen's Killer Relationship; Miss Louisiana 2000 and Miss America 2001 first runner-up.
Faith Kipyegon
Faith Chepngetich Kipyegon is a Kenyan middle-distance runner who holds world records in the 1500m and mile and won the 1500m at three straight Olympics, Rio 2016 through Paris 2024.
Faith Leech
Faith Leech (Faith Yvonne Leech-Touhy), Australian freestyle swimmer nicknamed the Flying Fish; 1956 Melbourne Olympic gold medallist in the 4x100 m freestyle relay and bronze in the 100 m freestyle; retired at 16 in 1957 on medical advice.
Faith McLellan
Faith McLellan is a medical humanities scholar and medical editor who studied patients' online illness narratives and later became North American Senior Editor of The Lancet.
Faith No More
Faith No More: San Francisco alternative metal band formed 1979, also pioneers of funk metal. Breakthrough "Epic" (1989) on The Real Thing with Mike Patton; Angel Dust (1992) shaped nu metal; split 1998, reunited 2009, Sol Invictus 2015, 2027 return confirmed.
Faith Osier
Faith Osier is a Kenyan immunologist and pediatrician who studies which antibodies protect against malaria to design blood-stage vaccines, and chairs Immunology at Imperial College London.
Faith Prince
Faith Prince (born 1957, Augusta, Georgia) is an American Broadway singer-actress who won the 1992 Tony Award for Miss Adelaide in the Guys and Dolls revival, with nominations for Jerome Robbins' Broadway, Bells Are Ringing, and A Catered Affair, plus TV roles on Huff and Spin City.
Faith Ringgold
Faith Ringgold (Faith Willi Jones, 1930–2024), American painter, author, and activist from Harlem, best known for painted story quilts such as Who's Afraid of Aunt Jemima? and Tar Beach, the American People series, and children's books.
Faith schools in the United Kingdom
Faith schools in the United Kingdom are state-funded schools affiliated to a religion, with freedoms over admissions and worship; nearly 8,000 exist, about a third of all state schools.
Faith Spotted Eagle
Faith Spotted Eagle is a Yankton Sioux elder and activist from South Dakota who in 2016 became the first Native American to receive an electoral vote for president.
Faithful unto Death (painting)
Faithful unto Death, Poynter's 1865 oil painting of a Roman sentry at his post during Pompeii's destruction, sourced from Bulwer-Lytton's Last Days of Pompeii and an excavated skeleton, Walker Art Gallery.
Faithfully flat descent
Faithfully flat descent is a technique in algebra and algebraic geometry, developed by Grothendieck, for transferring properties from a faithfully flat extension back to the base.
Faithless
Faithless: British electronica band formed in London in 1995 by Maxi Jazz, Sister Bliss, and Rollo; known for Insomnia, God Is a DJ, and We Come 1, three UK number 1 albums, and continued touring after Maxi Jazz's 2022 death.
Faithless elector
Faithless elector: a US Electoral College member who votes against their pledge, seen in 1796, 1872, and a record seven in 2016; bound by state laws upheld in Chiafalo v. Washington (2020); never decisive.
Faithless electors in the 2016 United States presidential election
Faithless electors in the 2016 US presidential election: seven electors voted against their pledges (five Clinton, two Trump), casting votes for Powell, Kasich, Ron Paul, Sanders, and Faith Spotted Eagle; the episode led to Chiafalo v. Washington (2020).
Faiyaz Ahmad
Faiyaz Ahmad is an Indian Rashtriya Janata Dal politician, a member of the Rajya Sabha from Bihar since 2022, who earlier represented Bisfi in the Bihar Legislative Assembly.
Faiyum (الفيوم)
Faiyum (الفيوم), also Fayoum or Fayum, is a Nile-fed oasis depression about 65 km southwest of Cairo, centered on Lake Qaroun, with Middle Kingdom hydraulic works by Amenemhat III, Greco-Roman towns like Karanis, and the famed Faiyum mummy portraits.
Faiyum Governorate
Faiyum Governorate (محافظة الفيوم), a governorate of northern Upper Egypt, Egypt, centered on the Faiyum Oasis depression fed by the Bahr Yussef canal; capital Fayoum city, area 6,068.70 km², population about 4 million, internally drained to Lake Qarun.
Faiyum Neolithic
The Faiyum Neolithic, also called Fayum A, is the earliest farming culture of Egypt, at sites on Lake Qarun dated to the sixth and fifth millennia BC.
Faiyum reclamation
The Faiyum reclamation, also called Fayum reclamation, was a 12th Dynasty Egyptian project that drained and irrigated land around Lake Moeris in the Fayum depression during the first half of the 19th century BC.
Faiz Ahmad Faiz (فیض احمد فیض)
Faiz Ahmad Faiz (فیض احمد فیض), 1911–1984, Sialkot-born Pakistani Urdu poet of the Progressive movement, author of Naqsh-e-Faryadi and Dast-e-Saba, imprisoned in the Rawalpindi case, Lenin Peace Prize 1962, widely translated into English.
Faiz Hameed (فیض حمید)
Faiz Hameed (فیض حمید), retired Pakistani lieutenant general and ISI director general June 2019 to October 2021 under Imran Khan; arrested 2024 over the Top City case and sentenced to 14 years by military court in December 2025.