All articles starting with F

Francis Lawrence

Francis Lawrence (born 1971, Vienna) is an American film director known for Constantine, I Am Legend, and directing all Hunger Games films except the first, plus Red Sparrow, Slumberland, and The Long Walk.

Francis Libermann

Francis Libermann, born Jacob Libermann, was a French Catholic priest, a Jewish convert who founded the Society of the Holy Heart of Mary in 1841 and led the Spiritans.

Oct 21, 2026

Francis Luyce

Francis Luyce (born 1947), French freestyle swimmer and administrator; 800 m freestyle world record holder 1967-1968, Olympian at Tokyo 1964 and Mexico 1968, and president of the French Swimming Federation (FFN) from 1993 to 2017.

Francis M. Giardiello

Francis M. Giardiello, also known as Francis Giardiello, is a gastroenterologist and physician-scientist at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine known for his research on hereditary gastrointestinal cancer, especially familial adenomatous polyposis.

Francis M. McCubbin

Francis M. McCubbin is a planetary scientist and cosmochemist who serves as NASA's Astromaterials Curator at Johnson Space Center, studying water and volatiles in the inner solar system.

Francis M. Rackemann

Francis Minot Rackemann (1887–1973) was an American physician and allergist who led the allergy clinic at Massachusetts General Hospital and classified asthma into extrinsic and intrinsic forms, a distinction still used in research.

Francis Magalona

Francis Magalona (Francis M, Master Rapper, 1964-2009) was the Filipino rapper-actor-TV host who pioneered Pinoy rap with the landmark debut album Yo (1990), nationalist hits like Mga Kababayan Ko, and stewardship of Filipino hip-hop's golden age.

Francis Makemie

Francis Makemie (c. 1658–1707/08) was a Scotch-Irish Presbyterian minister who planted churches on the Chesapeake's eastern shore and organized the first American presbytery in Philadelphia in 1706.

Francis Mallmann

Francis Mallmann (Francisco José Mallmann) is an Argentine chef and restaurateur known for live-fire Patagonian cooking, with more than sixteen restaurants worldwide and seven books.

Francis Manuleleua

Francis Manuleleua (born 2004, Auckland) is a Samoan international second-rower for the Newcastle Knights; NRL debut 2026, 2026 grand finalist, ex-Penrith pathways player and groundskeeper, 2026 World Cup Toa Samoa squad.

Francis Marion

Francis Marion, the "Swamp Fox" (c. 1732–1795), was a South Carolina planter and Revolutionary War brigadier general whose guerrilla raids against British supply lines after the 1780 fall of Charleston, and his evasion of Banastre Tarleton, made him a famed partisan leader.

Oct 22, 2026

Francis Marrash

Francis Marrash, also known as Francis al-Marrash (فرنسيس مرّاش), was a Syrian writer, poet, and physician of the Nahda whose 1865 work Ghabat al-Haqq is considered by critics the first Arabic novel.

Francis Marshall (physiologist)

Francis Hugh Adam Marshall (1878–1949) was a British physiologist who demonstrated that ovarian secretions control the oestrous cycle and wrote the 1910 textbook The Physiology of Reproduction.

Francis Martin (fungal genomicist)

Francis Martin is a French fungal genomicist and Research Director Emeritus at INRAE in Nancy, known for sequencing the Laccaria bicolor and Périgord black truffle genomes.

Francis Molo

Francis (Frank) Molo, born 1994 in Auckland, is an NRL prop for the Dolphins, formerly Broncos, Cowboys and Dragons; Queensland Origin 2021, Cook Islands and Samoa international, re-signed to 2028.

Oct 21, 2026

Francis Moreau

Francis Moreau (Francis Georges Henri Moreau), French track and road cyclist born 1965 in Saint-Quentin; Olympic team pursuit gold at Atlanta 1996 in 4:05.930 and 1991 world professional pursuit champion; seven Tours de France; retired 2000.

Francis Moylan

Francis Moylan (1735–1815) was an Irish Roman Catholic bishop, Bishop of Kerry from 1775 and Bishop of Cork from 1787, who built the Catholic institutional church in Cork.

Francis Ngannou

Francis Ngannou, born 1986 in Batié, Cameroon, is a Cameroonian-French MMA heavyweight, former UFC champion (won 2021, left 2023) and PFL-Bellator champion who lost both boxing matches to Tyson Fury and Anthony Joshua.

Sep 20, 2026

Francis Nimmo

Francis Nimmo is a British-born planetary geophysicist at the University of California, Santa Cruz, known for work on the interiors of Pluto, Enceladus, and the Moon.

Francis Nugent

Francis Lavalin Nugent (1569–1635) was an Irish Capuchin friar and the first Irish Capuchin, who founded the Irish Capuchin mission and built its continental houses and colleges.

Francis O. Schmitt

Francis O. Schmitt (1903–1995) was an American biologist and neuroscientist, Institute Professor at MIT, who launched neuroscience as a field with his Neurosciences Research Program in 1962.

Francis of Assisi

Saint Francis of Assisi was an Italian religious founder who established the Franciscan Order in 1209, was canonized in 1228, and wrote the Canticle of Brother Sun.

Francis of Delirium

Francis of Delirium is the indie-rock project of musician Jana Bahrich, based in Luxembourg, known for blending 1990s grunge with modern indie rock on albums like Lighthouse (2024).

Francis Okoronkwo

Francis Okereke Okoronkwo (born 2004, Blyth) is an English forward, ex-Sunderland and Everton academy player, loaned to Salford, Lincoln City, and Doncaster Rovers, joining Doncaster permanently in 2026.

Francis Onyeka

Francis Onyeka (Francis-Ikechukwu Onyeka, born 2007, Gummersbach) is a German-Nigerian attacking midfielder, a Bayer Leverkusen academy product under contract to 2032, on loan at SV Elversberg, captain of Germany's U19 side and 2024 Fritz Walter Medal winner.