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Francesco Paesani

Francesco Paesani is a theoretical and computational chemist at the University of California San Diego, known for the MB-pol water potential and simulations of water's liquid–liquid critical point.

Francesco Panigarola (1548–1594) was an Italian Observant Franciscan, preacher, controversialist, and Bishop of Asti, celebrated as the greatest post-Tridentine Catholic preacher and famed for sermons against heresy and treatises on sacred eloquence.

Francesco Paolo Cantelli

Francesco Paolo Cantelli (1875–1966) was an Italian mathematician and actuary who proved the first general strong law of large numbers and completed the Borel–Cantelli lemma.

Sep 27, 2026

Francesco Paolo Sisto

Francesco Paolo Sisto is an Italian politician of Forza Italia and a criminal lawyer from Bari who has served as Deputy Minister of Justice since 2022.

Oct 21, 2026

Francesco Pavoni

Pierfrancesco Pavoni (born 1963, Rome) is an Italian sprinter, 1982 European 100 m silver medallist and 1983 World Championships 4x100 m relay silver medallist; former Italian indoor 60 m record holder at 6.55.

Francesco Pentimalli

Francesco Pentimalli (1885–1958) was an Italian pathologist and university professor known for experimental oncology, especially viral transmission of fowl sarcoma, and was twice nominated for the Nobel Prize.

Sep 19, 2026

Francesco Peroni

Francesco Peroni (1818–1894) was an Italian brewer from Galliate who founded the Peroni brewery at Vigevano in 1846, adding a Rome plant in 1864; the company marks 180 years in 2026.

Francesco Quinn

Francesco Quinn (Francesco Daniele Quinn), Italian-born American actor (1963–2011), son of Anthony Quinn; played Rhah in Platoon, Syed Ali on 24, and Tomas del Cerro on The Young and the Restless; died of a suspected heart attack in Malibu at 48.

Francesco Ramirez

Francesco Ramirez is a molecular geneticist and professor at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York, known for cloning human collagen genes and studying Marfan syndrome.

Sep 19, 2026

Francesco Renga

Francesco Renga is an Italian singer-songwriter who rose to fame as Timoria's frontman, won the 2005 Sanremo Festival with "Angelo", and has sold over 1 million records.

Francesco Ricci (Italian chemist)

Francesco Ricci is an Italian chemist and full professor of analytical chemistry at the University of Rome Tor Vergata, known for DNA-based electrochemical biosensors and for defining dissipative DNA nanotechnology.

Francesco Risso

Francesco Risso (born 1982) is an Italian fashion designer, creative director of Marni 2016-2025 and of GU from 2026, known for gesamtkunstwerk shows, painted garments, and the Bureau of Imagination.

Sep 27, 2026

Francesco Roberti

Francesco Roberti is an Italian Forza Italia politician serving as President of Molise since July 2023, previously Mayor of Termoli and President of the Province of Campobasso.

Sep 27, 2026

Francesco Rocca

Francesco Rocca, born in Rome in 1965, is an Italian politician who has been President of Lazio since 2023, after leading the Italian Red Cross and the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies.

Francesco Rubino

Francesco Rubino is an Italian surgeon and researcher, Professor of Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery at King's College London, known for trials establishing surgery as a type 2 diabetes treatment.

Francesco Russo (actor)

Francesco Russo (born 1993, Caserta, Italy) is an Italian actor and documentary director; known for Bruno Soccavo in L'amica geniale, Fabrizio in A Classic Horror Story (2021), and Cesare Rossi in M - Il figlio del secolo, distinct from namesakes.

Francesco Savelli

Francesco Savelli is an Italian computational neuroscientist, an assistant professor at UT San Antonio since 2020, who studies how the hippocampal formation builds spatial maps for navigation.

Francesco Saverio Nitti

Francesco Saverio Nitti was an Italian economist and politician who served as Prime Minister of Italy from 1919 to 1920, and was a leading exponent of meridionalismo.

Francesco Schettino

Francesco Schettino, born in 1960 near Naples, is the Italian former captain of the Costa Concordia, which struck rocks off Giglio in 2012, killing 32 people.

Sep 20, 2026

Francesco Sciortino

Francesco Sciortino, born 1960, is an Italian computational physicist and full professor at Sapienza University of Rome, known for work on water's liquid-liquid critical point and patchy colloids.

Francesco Severi

Francesco Severi (1879–1961) was an Italian mathematician and a key architect of the Italian school of algebraic geometry, known for the Néron–Severi theorem and for founding Rome's Istituto Nazionale di Alta Matematica.

Francesco Sforza (cardinal)

Francesco Sforza (1562–1624) was an Italian cardinal of the Santa Fiora branch of the Sforza family, made cardinal at 21 in 1583 and crowned two popes in 1605.

Francesco Siacci

Francesco Siacci (1839–1907) was an Italian mathematician and artillery officer whose firing-table method in exterior ballistics, published from about 1880, was adopted by artilleries worldwide.

Sep 20, 2026

Francesco Stellacci

Francesco Stellacci (born 1973) is an Italian materials scientist and nanotechnologist, full professor at EPFL since 2010, known for work on striped nanoparticle surfaces and nanoparticle cell entry.

Francesco Toldo

Francesco Toldo (born 1971, Padua) is an Italian former goalkeeper of Fiorentina and Inter Milan; hero of Euro 2000's semi-final penalty shootout against the Netherlands, five-time Scudetto winner and 2010 Champions League treble squad member.

Francesco Totti

Francesco Totti, Italian footballer born 1976, one-club AS Roma legend 1993-2017: 786 games, 307 goals, 2001 Scudetto, 2006 World Cup winner, Golden Shoe 2007.

Francesco Tricomi

Francesco Tricomi, full name Francesco Giacomo Tricomi, was an Italian mathematician (1897–1978) known for the Tricomi equation, central to transonic aerodynamics, and the Tricomi function.

Francesco Violi

Francesco Violi is an Italian professor of internal medicine at Sapienza University of Rome, retired in 2020, known for research linking gut bacterial molecules to heart attack and stroke risk.

Francesco Yates

Francesco Yates (born 1995) is a Canadian pop/R&B singer-songwriter from Toronto, signed to Atlantic Records at 16, whose debut EP was co-produced by Robin Hannibal and Pharrell Williams and who sang on Robin Schulz's "Sugar".