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Francis Coquelin
Francis Coquelin, French defensive midfielder born 1991 in Laval; Arsenal 2008-2017 (two FA Cups), Valencia (Copa del Rey 2019), Villarreal (Europa League 2021), Nantes, and a 2026 return to Stade Lavallois.
Francis Crick
Francis Harry Compton Crick (1916–2004) was a British molecular biologist who co-proposed DNA's double-helix structure in 1953, winning the 1962 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
Francis Crick Institute
The Francis Crick Institute, known as the Crick, is a biomedical research institute in central London, formed in 2015 and led by Nobel laureate Paul Nurse.
Francis Crozier
Francis Rawdon Moira Crozier (1796–1848), Irish Royal Navy captain from Banbridge, County Down; Parry Arctic voyages 1821–27, captain of HMS Terror on Ross's Antarctic expedition 1839–43, and commander of the Franklin expedition after Franklin's 1847 death.
Francis D. Moore
Francis D. Moore (1913–2001) was an American surgeon who led surgery at Harvard's Peter Bent Brigham Hospital and founded the scientific study of surgical metabolic care.
Francis D’Souza
Francis D'Souza is a chemist at the University of North Texas known for light-harvesting supramolecular systems and elected 124th President of The Electrochemical Society in 2026.
Francis Darwin
Sir Francis Darwin (1848–1925), third son of Charles Darwin, English botanist; collaborated on The Power of Movement in Plants (1880), Cambridge botany lecturer and reader, Royal Society foreign secretary, knighted 1913, editor of Life and Letters of Charles Darwin.
Francis de Sales
Francis de Sales, honored as Saint Francis de Sales, was a Savoyard bishop of Geneva who re-Catholicized the Chablais by persuasion and wrote the Introduction to the Devout Life.
Francis Diebold
Francis X. Diebold is an American economist and econometrician at the University of Pennsylvania, known for the Diebold–Mariano test, realized volatility, and financial connectedness research.
Francis Dolarhyde
Francis Dolarhyde is the serial-killer villain of Thomas Harris's 1981 novel Red Dragon, also called the Tooth Fairy. Portrayed by Tom Noonan (Manhunter 1986), Ralph Fiennes (Red Dragon 2002), and Richard Armitage (Hannibal S3).
Francis Dominic Murnaghan
Francis Dominic Murnaghan (1893–1976) was an Irish mathematician who applied group theory to continuum mechanics, taught at Johns Hopkins, and gave his name to the Birch–Murnaghan equation of state.
Francis Drake
Sir Francis Drake (c. 1540–1596), English privateer and naval officer, El Draque to the Spanish; first Englishman to circumnavigate the globe (1577–1580) aboard the Golden Hind, knighted by Elizabeth I, second-in-command against the 1588 Spanish Armada, died off Porto Bello and buried at sea in a lead coffin.
Francis E. Low
Francis E. Low (1921–2007) was an American theoretical physicist who worked on quantum electrodynamics at MIT, proved the 1958 soft-photon theorem, and served as provost from 1980 to 1985.
Francis E. Marchlinski
Francis E. Marchlinski is an American cardiac electrophysiologist who directs electrophysiology at the University of Pennsylvania and is known for developing substrate-based catheter ablation of ventricular tachycardia.
Francis Ellis (comedian)
Francis Ellis, American stand-up comedian and Barstool Sports podcaster; Harvard graduate, Barstool Idol season 1 winner (2016), fired 2019 over a blog, rehired; hosts Son of a Boy Dad, Barstool Radio, and Oops The Podcast; known for piano Game of Thrones songs and the 2019 special Bad Guy.
Francis Escudero
Francis Joseph "Chiz" Guevara Escudero (born 1969) is a Filipino lawyer and senator, Sorsogon representative and governor, and Senate President from May 2024 until his September 2025 ouster amid flood-control corruption probes.
Francis Farley
Francis James Macdonald Farley (1920–2018) was a British experimental physicist who took part in the first four muon g-2 experiments at CERN and Brookhaven, winning the 1980 Hughes Medal.
Francis Ford Coppola
Francis Ford Coppola (born 1939, Detroit) is an American director, screenwriter, and producer of New Hollywood, creator of The Godfather trilogy, The Conversation, Apocalypse Now, and the self-financed Megalopolis, co-founder of American Zoetrope.
Francis Frith
Francis Frith (1822–1898) was an English photographer and publisher who made three pioneering expeditions to Egypt and the Holy Land, then founded F. Frith & Co., one of Victorian Britain's largest photographic publishers.
Francis Fukuyama
Francis Fukuyama, American political scientist at Stanford FSI, author of the "end of history" thesis (1989 essay; 1992 book The End of History and the Last Man) and the Political Order series on state building.
Francis Galluppi
Francis Galluppi is an American self-taught writer-director whose debut feature, the one-location crime thriller The Last Stop in Yuma County (2024), led to his hiring to write and direct Evil Dead Wrath (2028).
Francis Galton
Francis Galton (1822–1911) was an English polymath and half-cousin of Charles Darwin who founded biometric statistics, introducing correlation and regression to the mean, and also coined the term eugenics.
Francis Gano Benedict
Francis Gano Benedict (1870–1957) was an American chemist and physiologist who directed the Carnegie Nutrition Laboratory in Boston from 1907 to 1937 and developed the Harris–Benedict equations for basal metabolism.
Françis Garnier
Françis Garnier, also known as Francis Garnier, is a French materials scientist at CNRS who built the first all-organic transistor in 1990 and the first printed all-polymer transistor in 1994.
Francis Gary Powers
Francis Gary Powers, also known as Gary Powers, was an American CIA U-2 pilot shot down over the Soviet Union in 1960 and exchanged for a Soviet spy in 1962.
Francis George
Francis Eugene George (1937–2015) was an American cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church and the eighth Archbishop of Chicago from 1997 to 2014, the first native Chicagoan to hold the office.
Francis George (Kerala politician)
K. Francis George is an Indian politician from Kerala, of the Kerala Congress, who represents Kottayam in the Lok Sabha after being elected in 2024.
Francis Gilman Blake
Francis Gilman Blake (1887–1952) was an American physician and immunologist, Sterling Professor of Medicine at Yale, known for demonstrating the viral cause of measles and directing early tests of penicillin.
Francis Graham-Smith
Sir Francis Graham-Smith (1923–2025) was a British radio astronomer who identified cosmic radio sources, researched pulsars, and served as the 13th Astronomer Royal from 1982 to 1990.
Francis Greenway
Francis Howard Greenway (1777–1837), English convict architect transported for forgery in 1814; first civil architect of New South Wales under Governor Macquarie, designer of Macquarie Lighthouse, Hyde Park Barracks, St James's and St Matthew's churches.