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Florence Faivre
Florence Faivre (Florence Vanida Faivre), born 1983, is a French-Thai actress known for Julie Mao in The Expanse and Sinara in Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. season 5, after debuting in The Siam Renaissance (2004).
Florence Foster Jenkins
Florence Foster Jenkins (1868–1944), born Narcissa Florence Foster, was the tone-deaf American soprano and New York socialite who sold out Carnegie Hall in 1944, recorded nine sides at Melotone, and inspired the 2016 Meryl Streep film.
Florence Foster Jenkins (film)
Florence Foster Jenkins is a 2016 British biographical comedy-drama directed by Stephen Frears, starring Meryl Streep as the tone-deaf New York heiress who sold out Carnegie Hall in 1944, with Hugh Grant as St Clair Bayfield; Oscar-nominated, 87% on Rotten Tomatoes.
Florence Green
Florence Green (Florence Beatrice Patterson, 1901–2012), British Women's Royal Air Force mess stewardess in Norfolk, generally considered the last verified World War I veteran; recognized in 2010, died aged 110 at King's Lynn.
Florence Griffith Joyner
Florence Griffith Joyner (Flo-Jo), American sprinter (1959–1998) whose 100 m (10.49 s) and 200 m (21.34 s) world records from 1988 still stand; she won three golds and a silver at Seoul 1988 and silver in the 200 m at Los Angeles 1984.
Florence Halop
Florence Halop, born Florence Cohen, was an American character actress known for Mrs. Hufnagel on St. Elsewhere and bailiff Florence Kleiner on Night Court in the 1980s.
Florence Harding
Florence Harding (Florence Mabel Kling DeWolfe Harding, 1860–1924), first lady 1921–1923 as wife of Warren G. Harding, called "The Duchess"; first woman to vote for her husband for president, activist for veterans, women, and animals, later maligned by a debunked poisoning claim.
Florence Henderson
Florence Agnes Henderson (1934–2016), American actress and singer from Dale, Indiana; Carol Brady on ABC's The Brady Bunch (1969–1974); Broadway star of Fanny and first female guest host of The Tonight Show.
Florence Henri
Florence Henri (1893–1982) was a Swiss artist, born in New York, who studied painting with Fernand Léger, trained at the Bauhaus in 1927, and became a leading interwar experimental photographer in Paris.
Florence Jebet Kiplagat
Florence Jebet Kiplagat, Kenyan long-distance runner (born 1987), 2009 World Cross Country and 2010 World Half Marathon champion; set half marathon world records of 1:05:12 (2014) and 1:05:09 (2015) in Barcelona and won Berlin 2011/2013 and Chicago 2015/2016 marathons.
Florence Kasumba
Florence Kasumba (born 1976, Kampala, Uganda) is a German actress known as Ayo of the Dora Milaje in the Marvel Cinematic Universe and as Anaïs Schmitz, the first dark-skinned Tatort detective, in the Göttingen Tatort; also Wonder Woman, Deutschland 86/89, and musical stage roles including Aida and Mamma Mia.
Florence Knapp (author)
Florence Knapp is a British author whose 2025 debut novel The Names (Viking) traces three parallel life paths of a boy named Bear, Julian, or Gordon, and who previously wrote the 2018 quilting guide Flossie Teacakes' Guide to English Paper Piecing.
Florence Knoll
Florence Knoll Bassett (1917–2019) was an American architect and furniture designer who, as president of Knoll, created the Knoll Planning Unit and defined the modern corporate interior.
Florence Nightingale
Florence Nightingale (1820–1910), the Lady with the Lamp, British nurse, statistician, and founder of modern nursing; led 38 nurses at Scutari in the Crimean War, founded the 1860 Nightingale Training School, and pioneered the Polar Area Chart.
Florence Nunatak
Florence Nunatak, also Nunatak Yamana (Argentina), is a 340 m nunatak east-northeast of Potter Cove, King George Island, South Shetland Islands, named for the 1876-77 sealing ship Florence and formed of Tertiary calc-alkaline volcanic rock.
Florence Ordesh
Florence Ordesh is an Irish actress and director from Meath, trained in Vancouver, known for Dublin Murders, Departure, Foundation, Hidden Assets, and as Fiona in Damian McCarthy's 2026 horror film Hokum.
Florence Owens Thompson
Florence Owens Thompson (born Florence Leona Christie, 1903-1983) was a Cherokee-born American migrant worker, the subject of Dorothea Lange's 1936 Migrant Mother photograph taken at a Nipomo, California pea-pickers camp; anonymous until 1978, she received no royalties and died in Modesto in 1983.
Florence Pannell
Florence Ada Bethia Pannell (née Neate, 1868–1980), British supercentenarian who died at 111 years 299 days; GRG- and ESO-validated, oldest known living person in Europe at her death, interviewed in 1977 about Victorian life.
Florence Pat Haseltine
Florence Pat Haseltine is an American physician-scientist in reproductive endocrinology who founded the Society for Women's Health Research in 1990 and the Journal of Women's Health in 1992.
Florence Price
Florence Beatrice Smith Price (1887-1953), American composer and first African-American woman to have a symphony performed by a major orchestra: Symphony No. 1 in E minor, Chicago Symphony Orchestra under Frederick Stock, June 15, 1933; over 300 works blending Afro-Romantic style with spirituals and juba rhythms; manuscripts rediscovered in 2009.
Florence Pugh
Florence Pugh (born 1996, Oxford) is an English actress and producer known for Lady Macbeth, Midsommar, Little Women (Oscar nomination), Yelena Belova in Marvel's Black Widow and Thunderbolts, Dune: Part Two, and East of Eden.
Florence R. Sabin
Florence R. Sabin was an American anatomist who became the first woman full professor at Johns Hopkins and pioneered research on the lymphatic system and tuberculosis.
Florence Road
Florence Road: Irish indie-rock quartet from Bray, County Wicklow (Lily Aron, Emma Brandon, Ailbhe Barry, Hannah Kelly), named after their school's street. Warner-signed, EPs Fall Back and Spring Forward, first all-female Irish band atop the Irish Airplay Chart.
Florence S. Cromwell
Florence S. Cromwell, or Florence Stevens Cromwell, was an American occupational therapist who led the AOTA and was elected to the Institute of Medicine in 1975.
Florence Scovel Shinn
Florence Scovel Shinn, also known as Florence Shinn, was an American illustrator and New Thought teacher who self-published The Game of Life and How to Play It in 1925.
Florence Shaw
Florence Shaw is an English singer, vocalist of the South London post-punk band Dry Cleaning, which she joined in 2018, known for her deadpan spoken-word delivery.
Florence Stanley
Florence Stanley (born Florence Schwartz, 1924–2003) was an American actress known as Bernice Fish on Barney Miller and Fish, Judge Wilbur on My Two Dads, and the voice of Packard in Atlantis: The Lost Empire.
Florence Tullis
Florence "Rusty" Tullis, also known as Rusty Dennis, was the California mother of Rocky Dennis, who had craniodiaphyseal dysplasia, and was portrayed by Cher in the 1985 film Mask; she died in 2006 at 70 after a motorcycle accident.
Florence Welch
Florence Welch (Florence Leontine Mary Welch, born 1986) is the English singer-songwriter leading Florence and the Machine, from Lungs through Everybody Scream, known for her powerful voice and theatrical live shows.
Florence Wong
Florence Wong is a hepatologist and professor of medicine at the University of Toronto who researches decompensated cirrhosis and led the 2021 CONFIRM trial of terlipressin.