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Francesco Zerbetto
Francesco Zerbetto is an Italian theoretical and computational chemist, Full Professor of Physical Chemistry at the University of Bologna since 2001, known for work on molecular machines, fullerenes, and carbon nanotubes.
Francesco Zucchetti
Francesco Zucchetti (1902–1980), Italian track cyclist, Olympic gold medalist in the 4,000 m team pursuit at Paris 1924 with De Martini, Dinale, and Menegazzi; later professional in the United States.
Francesinha
Francesinha, Porto's layered hot sandwich: bread with linguiça, sausage, ham and steak under melted cheese, flooded with spicy tomato-beer sauce. Created 1952 at A Regaleira by Daniel David da Silva, adapting the French croque monsieur; about 1,100 kcal.
Franceska Mann
Franceska Mann (Franciszka Manheimer, Mannówna, 1917–1943), Polish Jewish dancer trained in Warsaw and placed 4th at the Brussels dance competition; credited with shooting SS officer Josef Schillinger in the Birkenau undressing room on 23 October 1943.
Francevillian biota
Francevillian biota (Gabonionta, Gabon macrofossils): ~2.1 Ga centimeter-sized pyritized structures in Gabon's Francevillian B Formation black shales, interpreted by El Albani et al. 2010 as colonial organisms; biogenicity still debated.
Franche-Comté
Franche-Comté, the Free County of Burgundy, is a historical region of eastern France between the Saône and the Jura; an Habsburg territory annexed by Louis XIV in 1678 by the Treaty of Nijmegen, it was a French region from 1955 until merging into Bourgogne-Franche-Comté on 1 January 2016.
Franchesca Ramsey
Franchesca Ramsey, also known as Chescaleigh, is an American comedian, actress, and writer born 1983 in West Palm Beach, Florida. Known for the 2012 viral video "Sh*t White Girls Say...to Black Girls," MTV's Decoded, The Nightly Show, and the 2018 book Well, That Escalated Quickly. Distinct from Danielle Ramsey, Ramsey Solutions reviewers, and psychic advisor Francesca.
Franchi
Franchi, formally Luigi Franchi S.p.A., is an Italian firearms manufacturer founded in Brescia in 1868, now part of the Beretta Group and known for hunting shotguns and the SPAS-12 combat shotgun.
Franchi SPAS-12
The Franchi SPAS-12 is an Italian 12-gauge combat shotgun made by Luigi Franchi in Brescia from 1979 to 2000, distinguished by a selectable dual-mode action: gas-operated semi-automatic or pump.
Franchise and regional capacity purchase agreement
A capacity purchase agreement (CPA) is a fixed-fee contract in which a major U.S. airline buys a regional airline's flying capacity, keeping the passenger revenue.
Franchise tag
The franchise tag is a National Football League designation, introduced in 1993, that lets each team keep one impending free agent on a one-year contract.
Franchising
Franchising, also called business franchising, is a contractual relationship in which a franchisee pays fees and royalties to operate under a franchisor's trademark and methods.
Franchot Tone
Franchot Tone (Stanislas Pascal Franchot-Tone, 1905–1968), American stage and film actor, Group Theatre founding member and MGM leading man; Oscar-nominated for Mutiny on the Bounty (1935); first husband of Joan Crawford.
Franci Matoz
Franci Matoz (born 1963) is a Slovenian politician and lawyer of the Slovenian Democratic Party who has been Minister of the Interior and Public Administration since June 2026.
Francia
Francia, the Latin name for the kingdom of the Franks (Regnum Francorum), covered the Merovingian and Carolingian realms between Loire and Rhine; after the 843 Treaty of Verdun it split into Francia Occidentalis (future France) and Francia Orientalis (nucleus of Germany).
Francia Raisa
Francia Raisa (Francia Raisa Almendárez), American actress born 1988 in Los Angeles, of Mexican and Honduran descent; star of The Secret Life of the American Teenager, grown-ish, and How I Met Your Father; donated a kidney to Selena Gomez in 2017.
Francie (doll)
Francie is a fashion doll introduced by Mattel in 1966 as Barbie's 'Mod'ern cousin', a teenage doll built to showcase the youth-oriented Mod fashions of the mid-1960s.
Francie Larrieu Smith
Francie Larrieu Smith (Francis Ann Larrieu-Smith) is an American distance runner who made five U.S. Olympic teams from 1972 to 1992 and later coached at Southwestern University.
Francina Armengol
Francina Armengol is a Spanish Socialist politician, President of the Congress of Deputies since 2023 and previously the first woman to lead the Balearic Government.
Francine Benes
Francine Mary Benes is an American psychiatrist and neuroscientist at Harvard Medical School and McLean Hospital, known for showing that schizophrenia involves measurable changes in inhibitory GABA neurons.
Francine Grodstein
Francine Grodstein is an epidemiologist at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago who studies cognitive aging in women and directed the Nurses' Health Study until 2019.
Francis (given name)
Francis is a masculine given name of English and French origin, the English form of the Late Latin Franciscus, meaning "Frenchman". Its spread owes much to Saint Francis of Assisi.
Francis A. Barr
Francis A. Barr, also known as Francis Barr, is a cell biologist who holds the EP Abraham Professorship of Mechanistic Cell Biology at the University of Oxford.
Francis A. Longstaff
Francis A. Longstaff is an American financial economist and Distinguished Professor of Finance at UCLA Anderson, known for the Longstaff-Schwartz method for valuing American options and fixed-income research.
Francis A. Plummer
Francis A. Plummer, known as Frank Plummer, was a Canadian HIV/AIDS researcher who led the National Microbiology Laboratory in Winnipeg and identified HIV-resistant sex workers in Nairobi.
Francis Adorno
Francis Adorno (Francesco Adorno, 1533–1586) was an Italian Jesuit preacher from a Genoese patrician family who served as confessor and spiritual director to St. Charles Borromeo.
Francis Aidan Gasquet
Francis Aidan Gasquet, born Francis Neil Gasquet, was an English Benedictine monk of Downside Abbey who became a cardinal in 1914 and wrote on the dissolution of the monasteries.
Francis Albarède
Francis Albarède (born 1947) is a French isotope geochemist, professor emeritus at the École normale supérieure de Lyon, known for pioneering metal isotope analysis in geochemistry, archaeology, and medicine.
Francis Alexander Shields
Francis Alexander Shields Jr. (1941–2003) was an American businessman who worked in marketing and sales for Revlon and Estée Lauder, best known as the father of actress Brooke Shields.
Francis Amasa Walker
Francis Amasa Walker (1840–1897) was an American economist, statistician, and Civil War general who superintended the US censuses of 1870 and 1880 and led MIT as its third president.