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Frances Farmer

Frances Farmer (1913-1970) was a Seattle-born stage and film actress, star of Come and Get It and Broadway's Golden Boy, later institutionalized in the 1940s and host of Indianapolis TV's Frances Farmer Presents; the lobotomy claim traces to a retracted biography.

Frances Fisher

Frances Fisher (born 1952, Milford-on-Sea, England) is an American actress known as Deborah Saxon on The Edge of Night, Strawberry Alice in Unforgiven, and Ruth DeWitt Bukater in Titanic, with a career in theater, film, and SAG-AFTRA activism.

Frances Ford Seymour

Frances Ford Seymour, also known as Frances Ford Seymour Fonda, was a Canadian-born socialite, the second wife of Henry Fonda, and mother of Jane and Peter Fonda.

Frances Fox Piven

Frances Fox Piven, born 1932 in Calgary, is an American sociologist and political scientist known for studies of poor people's movements, welfare, and voting rights.

Frances Grey, Duchess of Suffolk

Frances Grey, Duchess of Suffolk (born Frances Brandon, 1517-1559), eldest daughter of Charles Brandon and Mary Tudor, mother of Lady Jane Grey, passed over in Edward VI's succession devise, remarried Adrian Stokes.

Frances Ha

Frances Ha is a 2012 American black-and-white comedy-drama directed by Noah Baumbach, co-written with star Greta Gerwig, about a 27-year-old aspiring dancer drifting between apartments in New York City.

Oct 22, 2026

Frances Harper

Frances Harper, known in her lifetime as the Bronze Muse, was an African American poet, novelist, and reformer born free in Baltimore who wrote and lectured against slavery and racism.

Frances Hodgson Burnett

Frances Hodgson Burnett (1849-1924), Anglo-American novelist born Frances Eliza Hodgson in Manchester, author of Little Lord Fauntleroy, A Little Princess, and The Secret Garden, and a 1887 copyright lawsuit landmark.

Oct 21, 2026

Frances Jackling

Frances Jackling, University of California athlete, set the women's 8-lb shot put world best of 10.41 m (34-1.75) at Berkeley on 14 April 1914, also a basketball throw record.

Sep 27, 2026

Frances K. Behm

Frances Kay Behm is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge for the Eastern District of Michigan since 2022, appointed by President Biden.

Frances K. Graham

Frances Keesler Graham (1918–2013) was an American psychologist and psychophysiologist at the University of Delaware whose laboratory established the startle-blink modification paradigm, and she was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1988.

Frances Kirwan

Frances Kirwan is a British mathematician at Oxford known for the Kirwan map and cohomology of quotients; she was Savilian Professor of Geometry from 2017 to 2024.

Frances Kray

Frances Kray, born Frances Elsie Shea (1943–1967), was Reggie Kray's first wife; they married in April 1965, she left within a year, and she died by phenobarbitone overdose in June 1967, aged 23.

Frances Larson

Frances Larson (born 1976) is a British anthropologist and historian of medicine who writes about collecting and museums; her books include An Infinity of Things (2009) and Severed (2014).

Frances Lawrence Parker

Frances Lawrence Parker (1906–2002), American micropaleontologist at Scripps Institution of Oceanography; expert on benthic and planktonic Foraminifera, co-founder of the Marine Foraminifera Laboratory, pioneer of paleoceanography, 1962 planktonic foraminifera classification.

Frances M. Ashcroft

Frances M. Ashcroft is a British physiologist at Oxford whose work on KATP channels explained insulin secretion and let neonatal diabetes patients switch from insulin to tablets.

Frances M. Brodsky

Frances M. Brodsky is an American cell biologist and immunologist known for defining how clathrin assembles and for discovering the CHC22 isoform's role in glucose metabolism.

Sep 20, 2026

Frances M. Ross

Frances M. Ross is an American-based materials scientist, the TDK Professor at MIT since 2018, known for in situ electron microscopy of crystal growth and nanowires.

Oct 22, 2026

Frances Macdonald

Frances Macdonald, later Frances Macdonald MacNair, was a Scottish artist and designer of the Glasgow Style, a member of The Four with her sister Margaret, Mackintosh, and MacNair.

Frances McDormand

Frances McDormand (born 1957) is an American actress and producer, wife of Joel Coen, with three Best Actress Oscars (Fargo, Three Billboards, Nomadland), two Emmys for Olive Kitteridge, and a Tony for Good People.

Frances O'Connor

Frances O'Connor (Frances Ann O'Connor), British-Australian actress and director born 1967 in Wantage, England; star of Mansfield Park, A.I. Artificial Intelligence, and The Missing; directed Emily (2022).

Frances of Rome

Frances of Rome (Francesca Bussa de' Ponziani, c. 1384–1440) was a Roman noblewoman and mystic who founded the Oblates of Tor de' Specchi and was canonized in 1608.

Frances Oldham Kelsey

Frances Oldham Kelsey (1914–2015), Canadian-born pharmacologist and FDA medical officer, refused U.S. approval of thalidomide (Kevadon) in 1960 despite sponsor pressure, averting thousands of birth defects; honored with the 1962 President's Award for Distinguished Federal Civilian Service.

Frances Perkins

Frances Perkins served as U.S. Secretary of Labor from 1933 to 1945, being the first woman cabinet secretary and principal architect of the Social Security Act.

Frances R. Balkwill

Frances R. Balkwill, known as Fran Balkwill, is a British cancer researcher and Professor at Queen Mary University of London who studies cancer-related inflammation, especially in ovarian cancer.

Frances Reid

Frances Reid (1914-2010), American stage and television actress, best known as Alice Horton on NBC's Days of Our Lives from the 1965 premiere to 2007; Emmy Lifetime Achievement Award 2004.

Frances Ridley Havergal

Frances Ridley Havergal (1836–1879) was an English Anglican hymn writer and devotional poet, best known for the consecration hymn "Take My Life and Let It Be".

Oct 21, 2026

Frances Rivett-Carnac

Frances Rivett-Carnac (1874–1962) was a British sailor who won 1908 Olympic gold in the 7-meter class aboard her husband Charles's yacht Heroine.

Frances S. Chance

Frances S. Chance is an American computational neuroscientist at Sandia National Laboratories who studies how biological neural networks process information and applies it to brain-inspired computing.