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Francis H. Clauser
Francis H. Clauser (1913–2013) was an American aeronautical engineer and fluid dynamicist at Caltech, one of the founders of the modern science of turbulent boundary layers.
Francis H. Glorieux
Francis H. Glorieux, also known as F.H. Glorieux (1939–2025), was a Belgian-born Canadian pediatrician and geneticist at McGill and the Montreal Shriners Hospital whose rickets and osteogenesis imperfecta treatments became worldwide standards of care.
Francis Halzen
Francis Halzen, born 1944 in Belgium, is a physicist at the University of Wisconsin–Madison who conceived and led the IceCube neutrino observatory at the South Pole.
Francis Hodur
Francis Hodur (Franciszek Hodur) was a Polish-born priest who founded the Polish National Catholic Church in Scranton and led it as Prime Bishop until 1953.
Francis Hoeffer McMechan
Francis Hoeffer McMechan (1879–1939) was an American physician who, after arthritis ended his clinical practice, built organized anesthesiology in the United States from 1915 to 1939.
Francis Hopkinson
Francis Hopkinson (1737-1791), Philadelphia lawyer, judge, composer, and satirist, signed the Declaration of Independence for New Jersey, served as Pennsylvania admiralty judge and federal district judge, and claimed the American flag design.
Francis Hutcheson (philosopher)
Francis Hutcheson (1694-1746), Irish-born Presbyterian philosopher and Glasgow professor of moral philosophy, founder of moral sense theory and the Scottish Enlightenment, first voiced "the greatest happiness for the greatest numbers" and influenced Hume, Smith, Reid, and Kant.
Francis I of France
Francis I (François Ier, 1494–1547), Valois king of France from 1515, victor at Marignano, loser of the 1519 imperial election to Charles V, captured at Pavia in 1525, and patron of the French Renaissance.
Francis I Rákóczi
Francis I Rákóczi (I. Rákóczi Ferenc) was a Hungarian aristocrat elected prince of Transylvania in 1652 but never enthroned, and father of Francis II Rákóczi.
Francis I, Holy Roman Emperor
Francis I (Francis Stephen of Lorraine, 1708–1765), Holy Roman Emperor 1745–1765 and grand duke of Tuscany from 1737; husband and co-regent of Maria Theresa, founder of Habsburg-Lorraine, elected after Charles VII's death, died at Innsbruck.
Francis II of Brittany
Francis II of Brittany (François II, Frañsez II), duke of Brittany 1458-1488, uncle's heir, opponent of Louis XI (League of the Public Weal 1465, Peace of Ancenis 1468), defeated at Saint-Aubin-du-Cormier, signed Treaty of Le Verger, father of Anne of Brittany.
Francis II of France
Francis II of France (François II) was king of France from 1559 to 1560, the eldest son of Henry II and husband of Mary, Queen of Scots.
Francis II of Lorraine
Francis II of Lorraine (François II, 1572–1632), Count of Vaudémont, briefly Duke of Lorraine for a few hours in 1625 after the States of Nancy recognized male heredity, then abdicated to his son Charles IV; husband of Christine de Salm.
Francis II, Holy Roman Emperor
Francis II (Franz II, 1768–1835), last Holy Roman Emperor (1792–1806) and first Emperor of Austria as Francis I (1804–1835); son of Leopold II, abdicated 6 August 1806 after the Confederation of the Rhine, dissolving the Holy Roman Empire.
Francis Island
Francis Island (弗朗西斯島), Antarctic island off the east coast of Graham Land, 22 km ENE of Choyce Point; 13 km long, 9 km wide, named 1947 by FIDS for surveyor S.J. Francis; distinct from Francis Islands in Ontario, Kerguelen, and Chile.
Francis J. DiSalvo
Francis J. "Frank" DiSalvo (1944–2023) was an American solid-state chemist, a Cornell professor and National Academy of Sciences member known for synthesizing new inorganic materials, including nitrides and fuel-cell electrocatalysts.
Francis J. Doyle III
Francis J. Doyle III is an American control engineer known for the artificial pancreas and for serving as dean of Harvard SEAS and provost of Brown University.
Francis J. Klocke
Francis J. Klocke is an American cardiologist and professor emeritus at Northwestern University, founding director of its cardiovascular research institute and a past president of the American College of Cardiology.
Francis J. Pettijohn
Francis J. Pettijohn (1904–1999) was an American geologist often called the father of modern sedimentology, whose 1949 textbook Sedimentary Rocks set the field's standard for decades.
Francis Jacobs
Sir Francis Geoffrey Jacobs (born 1939), British jurist and King's College London professor, served as Advocate General at the European Court of Justice 1988-2006, delivering over 500 Opinions; second-longest holder of that office, first President of the European Law Institute.
Francis Jammes
Francis Jammes (1868–1938) was a French poet, novelist, and chronicler who lived in Béarn and the Basque country, writing plain rural Catholic verse that broke with Symbolism.
Francis Jeffers
Francis Jeffers, born 1981 in Liverpool, English striker for Everton and Arsenal, 2002 league champion, one England cap in 2003; later Everton academy coach and Macclesfield assistant manager.
Francis John Turner
Francis John Turner (1904–1985) was a New Zealand-born metamorphic petrologist, professor of geology at Berkeley, and pioneer of structural petrology elected to the National Academy of Sciences.
Francis John Worsley Roughton
Francis John Worsley Roughton (1899–1972) was a British physiologist and biochemist at Trinity College, Cambridge, who with Hamilton Hartridge invented the rapid-flow method for measuring very fast chemical reactions in 1923.
Francis Johnson
Francis Lee Johnson (1910-1997), American basketball player from Kansas; Wichita University multi-sport athlete, Globe Refiners AAU champion, and gold medalist in the first Olympic basketball tournament, Berlin 1936.
Francis K. McCune
Francis K. McCune was an American engineering executive who rose to vice president of General Electric's atomic products division by 1955 and shaped the company's nuclear business.
Francis Kao
Francis Kao is a venture capitalist who joined Lightspeed China Partners in Shanghai in 2020 and was promoted to partner in 2021, with investments including Bluepha and METiS Pharmaceuticals.
Francis Kerril Amherst
Francis Kerril Amherst (1819–1883) was an English Roman Catholic prelate who served as the second Bishop of Northampton from 1858 until ill health forced his resignation in 1879.
Francis L. LaQue
Francis L. LaQue (1904–1988) was a Canadian-born corrosion scientist who spent 42 years at International Nickel and created renowned seawater corrosion test sites at Kure Beach, North Carolina.
Francis La Flesche
Francis La Flesche (1857–1932) was an Omaha ethnologist with the Smithsonian's Bureau of American Ethnology, best known for The Omaha Tribe and his studies of Osage ceremonies.