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Francis and the Lights

Francis and the Lights is the American alt-R&B project of Francis Farewell Starlite, founded in Oakland, California. Known for Farewell, Starlite! (2016), Just for Us (2017), and collaborations with Bon Iver, Kanye West, Drake, and Chance the Rapper.

Francis Arias

Francis Arias (Spanish: Francisco Arias) was a Spanish Jesuit ascetical writer, preacher, and rector of Seville, known for his Exhortation to Spiritual Profit and Spanish Imitation of Christ.

Francis Arinze

Francis Arinze, born 1932, is a Nigerian cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church who served as Archbishop of Onitsha, led the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue, and was once considered papabile.

Francis Asbury

Francis Asbury (1745–1816) was an English-born Methodist minister who organized American Methodism into an independent denomination, serving as bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church from 1784.

Francis Bacon

Francis Bacon, Baron Verulam and Viscount St Alban (1561–1626), English philosopher, lawyer, and Lord Chancellor; devised the Great Instauration, the Novum Organum, the idols doctrine, and New Atlantis, founding empiricism and the inductive method.

Francis Bacon (artist)

Francis Bacon (1909–1992), Dublin-born British figurative painter of distorted bodies and popes; breakthrough 1944 triptych, Tate retrospective 1962, Reece Mews studio, oils plus household and spray paints.

Francis Balfour-Browne

Francis Balfour-Browne (1874–1967) was an English entomologist and professor of entomology at Imperial College who ran the British and Irish water beetle recording scheme; the Balfour-Browne Club is named for him.

Francis Bashforth

Francis Bashforth (1819–1912) was an English mathematician, Anglican priest, and ballistics expert who invented the Bashforth chronograph for measuring the varying velocity of projectiles in flight.

Francis Beaumont

Francis Beaumont (1584/5-1616), English Jacobean playwright, best known for his collaboration with John Fletcher on Philaster, The Maid's Tragedy, and A King and No King, and for his solo comedy The Knight of the Burning Pestle.

Sep 19, 2026

Francis Bebey

Francis Bebey (1929–2001) was a Cameroonian musician, novelist, and musicologist who modernized makossa with classical guitar, the sanza, and synthesizers, winning the Grand Prix littéraire de l'Afrique noire.

Francis Bellamy

Francis Julius Bellamy (1855–1931) was an American Baptist minister, Christian socialist, and magazine editor who wrote the Pledge of Allegiance, published in The Youth's Companion in 1892.

Francis Benhamou

Francis Benhamou is an American actress, born in Montevideo, Uruguay, and raised in Miami. Known for Arranged (2007) and for winning the Lucille Lortel and Drama Desk Awards as Elodie in Prayer for the French Republic on Broadway in 2024.

Francis Bertody Sumner

Francis Bertody Sumner (1874–1945) was an American zoologist and ichthyologist, professor of biology at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography from 1913 until his death, known for experimental studies of animal coloration.

Francis Biddle

Francis Biddle (1886-1968), American attorney general under Roosevelt 1941-1945 and primary U.S. judge at the Nuremberg trials; civil libertarian who opposed Japanese American exclusion yet acquiesced in EO 9066.

Francis Birch (geophysicist)

Francis Birch (1903–1992) was an American Harvard geophysicist whose high-pressure measurements of Earth's interior materials produced Earth models that remain the basis of most published since.

Francis Bitter

Francis Bitter (1902–1967) was an American physicist at MIT whose stacked-plate electromagnet became the standard for intense magnetic fields; MIT's magnet lab bears his name.

Francis Bourgeois (trainspotter)

Francis Bourgeois, real name Luke Magnus Nicolson, is an English trainspotter and TikTok creator known for fisheye GoPro train videos, the 2021 authenticity controversy, The Trainspotter's Notebook, Channel 4 series, and presenting The Grand Tour.

Francis Boyle

Francis A. Boyle, American international law professor at the University of Illinois; counsel to Bosnia at the ICJ and legal adviser to the PLO; drafted the Biological Weapons Anti-Terrorism Act of 1989; died January 30, 2025.

Francis Brambell

Francis William Rogers Brambell (1901–1970) was an Irish-born medical scientist and zoologist, professor at Bangor, who discovered how mothers transfer passive immunity to their young.

Francis Brooke (political advisor)

Francis John Brooke Jr. (born 1989 or 1990) is an American Republican political advisor, Trump White House energy adviser and NEC deputy director, Scalise policy director, and 2026 nominee for Deputy Secretary of the Treasury.

Sep 23, 2026

Francis Buchanan

Francis Buchanan, later Francis Hamilton or Buchanan-Hamilton (1762–1829), was a Scottish physician and East India Company surveyor known for his statistical surveys of Mysore (1800–01) and Bengal (1807–14).

Oct 21, 2026

Francis Burchell

Francis Romulus Burchell (1873-1947) was an English cricketer who won gold in men's cricket at the 1900 Paris Olympics with the Devon and Somerset Wanderers, batting number 11 and scoring no runs.

Francis C. Wood

Francis C. Wood, also known as Francis Carter Wood, was an American pathologist and cancer researcher who directed Columbia's Crocker cancer research fund from 1912 to 1940.

Francis Carbone

Francis Carbone is an Australian immunologist, a professor at the University of Melbourne and the Peter Doherty Institute known for research on T cell selection and cross-presentation.

Francis Chan

Francis Chan is an American evangelical pastor and author who founded Cornerstone Community Church in Simi Valley, California, and wrote the bestseller Crazy Love, which sold over 3 million copies.

Francis Clark Howell

Francis Clark Howell, known professionally as F. Clark Howell, was an American paleoanthropologist at UC Berkeley who led the Omo expeditions in Ethiopia and made human-origins study multidisciplinary.

Sep 19, 2026

Francis Clergue

Francis Clergue (1856–1939) was an American financier who built a mining, forestry, railway, and steel empire at Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, and founded Algoma Steel.

Francis Clifford Smith

Francis Clifford Smith (Frank Smith, 1924-2026), Connecticut man convicted in 1950 of the 1949 murder of watchman Grover Hart; spared execution eight times, served 70 years, and died as the longest-serving US prisoner.

Francis Coleman

Francis Coleman (1924–2008), Canadian-born conductor and television producer; first music director era of the Royal Winnipeg Ballet, some 500 CBC programs, then BBC2, ITV, and Thames TV in Britain; Prix Italia 1977 for Saint Nicolas.