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Francesca Hilton
Francesca Hilton (Constance Francesca Gabor Hilton, 1947–2015) was an American actress, photographer, and comedian, the only child of Zsa Zsa Gabor and Conrad Hilton, great aunt of Paris Hilton, and heir to a contested estate.
Francesca Lollobrigida
Francesca Lollobrigida, Italian long-track speed skater born 1991 in Frascati, great-niece of actress Gina Lollobrigida. Double Olympic champion (3000m, 5000m) at Milan-Cortina 2026, silver and bronze at Beijing 2022, 5000m world champion 2025.
Francesca Martinez
Francesca Martinez, British comedian, actress, writer and campaigner born in London; "wobbly" with cerebral palsy; first woman to win the Daily Telegraph Open Mic Award (2000), Grange Hill actress, author of What The Is Normal?!, and playwright of All of Us at the National Theatre.
Francesca Pianzola
Francesca Florida Pianzola, Swiss javelin thrower of Fémina Sport Genève, pioneer of Swiss women's athletics; won the two-handed javelin at the 1922 Women's World Games in Paris with a 43.24 m world record and set her final record of 54.43 m in Lausanne in 1925.
Francesca Scorsese
Francesca Scorsese (born 1999), actress, director and TikTok creator, youngest daughter of Martin Scorsese; known for We Are Who We Are, Fish Out of Water (Tribeca 2023), and viral father-daughter TikToks.
Francesca Sloane
Francesca Sloane, American Salvadoran-American TV writer, producer, and showrunner; co-creator of Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2024) with Donald Glover; also wrote for Atlanta, Fargo, The First, Seven Seconds; two 2024 Emmy nominations.
Francesca Stavrakopoulou
Francesca Stavrakopoulou is a British biblical scholar, Professor of Hebrew Bible and Ancient Religion at Exeter, whose book God: An Anatomy won the PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize.
Francesca Woodman
Francesca Woodman (1958–1981), American photographer known for black-and-white performative self-portraits with motion blur; RISD-trained, over 800 prints, posthumously famous after her 1986 Wellesley exhibition.
Francesca Xuereb
Francesca Xuereb (born 1998, Detroit) is an American actress known for Kim White in Room 203 (2022), Cheyenne in Landman season 2, and Erin in Ted; BFA from Loyola Marymount University.
Francesca's
Francesca's was an American specialty boutique chain founded in Houston in 1999, selling apparel, jewelry, accessories, and gifts through mall boutiques; it peaked near 700 stores before a 2026 bankruptcy.
Francesco Acerbi
Francesco Acerbi (born 1988, Vizzolo Predabissi) is an Italian left-footed centre-back; Sassuolo, Lazio and Inter (2022-2026, six trophies), Euro 2020 winner with Italy, testicular cancer survivor, famous for the 93rd-minute goal against Barcelona in the 2025 Champions League semifinal.
Francesco Acquaroli (Marche politician)
Francesco Acquaroli is an Italian politician of Fratelli d'Italia who has served as President of Marche, having previously been mayor of Potenza Picena and studied economics.
Francesco Amadori
Francesco Amadori is an Italian businessman who co-founded the Amadori poultry company with his brother Arnaldo in Cesena in 1969, building it into one of Italy's leading poultry businesses.
Francesco Angelini
Francesco Angelini (1887–1964) was an Italian pharmacist and entrepreneur from Le Marche who founded the family-owned Angelini group, a pharmaceutical company, in Ancona in 1919.
Francesco Aquilini
Francesco Aquilini, Canadian businessman, Chairman and Governor of the NHL Vancouver Canucks and public face of the Aquilini Investment Group; led the family's 2004-2006 Canucks acquisition, upheld in court against Gaglardi and Beedie.
Francesco Attolico
Francesco Attolico, "Airone Azzurro", Italian water polo goalkeeper born 1963 in Bari; Barcelona 1992 Olympic gold and Atlanta 1996 bronze, world champion Rome 1994, European champion 1993 and 1995 with the Settebello.
Francesco Bagnaia
Francesco "Pecco" Bagnaia, Italian MotoGP rider born 1997 in Turin, number 63 Ducati Lenovo Team; MotoGP champion 2022 and 2023, Moto2 champion 2018; leaves Ducati for Aprilia in 2027.
Francesco Baracca
Francesco Baracca (9 May 1888, Lugo – 19 June 1918, Montello) was Italy's leading First World War fighter ace, with 34 victories in 63 combats. His black prancing horse emblem became Ferrari's logo and an Italian Air Force insignia.
Francesco Barberini
Francesco Barberini (1597–1679) was an Italian cardinal whom his uncle Pope Urban VIII elevated in 1623; he served as papal diplomat, vice-chancellor, and Dean of the College of Cardinals.
Francesco Benozzo
Francesco Benozzo (1969–2025) was an Italian romance philologist, Celticist, poet, and Celtic harpist at the University of Bologna who coined ethnophilology and argued that Romance literature descends from Celtic bards.
Francesco Berni
Francesco Berni (1497 or 1498 to 1535) was an Italian burlesque poet whose comic sonnets and capitoli founded the bernesco style, and whose Tuscan reworking of Boiardo's Orlando Innamorato displaced the original until the 19th century.
Francesco Blasi
Francesco Blasi, born 1937 in Naples, is an Italian molecular biologist who cloned the urokinase receptor uPAR, central to cell migration and cancer invasion, and later studied the Prep1 transcription factor.
Francesco Bonaccorso
Francesco Bonaccorso is an Italian physicist and materials scientist known for liquid-phase exfoliation of graphene, and co-founder and Scientific Director of BeDimensional SpA in Genoa.
Francesco Borromini
Francesco Borromini, born Francesco Castelli, was an Italian Baroque architect who worked in 17th-century Rome with Bernini, building San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane and Sant'Ivo alla Sapienza.
Francesco Bullo
Francesco Bullo is a control theorist and Distinguished Professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara, known for research on network systems, robotic coordination, and synchronization in power grids.
Francesco Calogero
Francesco Calogero (1935–2026) was an Italian theoretical physicist at Sapienza University of Rome, known for the exactly solvable Calogero–Moser system and for serving as Pugwash Secretary General.
Francesco Carril
Francesco Carril is a Spanish actor and theater director, born in Madrid in 1986, known for his stage career and his film work with director Jonás Trueba.
Francesco Carrozzini
Francesco Carrozzini (born 1982, Monza) is an Italian director and photographer, son of Vogue Italia editor Franca Sozzani; directed Franca: Chaos and Creation, The Hanging Sun, Supersex, and the AI-made documentary Be Brave.
Francesco Cecconi
Francesco Cecconi, born in Rome in 1964, is an Italian biochemist and cell biologist known for identifying Apaf1's developmental role in apoptosis and discovering Ambra1, a vertebrate autophagy protein.
Francesco Chieregati
Francesco Chieregati, also Chiericati, was an Italian papal diplomat and Bishop of Teramo, nuncio to England under Leo X and to Germany under Adrian VI from 1522.