All articles starting with F

Francis Parker Yockey

Francis Parker Yockey (1917–1960), American far-right lawyer and thinker, wrote Imperium (1948) under the pseudonym Ulick Varange and founded the European Liberation Front; distinct from namesake Yockeys.

Francis Pegahmagabow

Francis Pegahmagabow (Binaaswi), Ojibwe soldier of Wasauksing First Nation, was Canada's most decorated Indigenous soldier of the First World War, winning the Military Medal with two bars, and later chief and Indigenous rights advocate.

Oct 22, 2026

Francis Picabia

Francis Picabia was a French painter and writer, born and died in Paris, who moved through Impressionism, abstraction, and Dada, leading the Dada movement in New York alongside Marcel Duchamp.

Francis Poulenc

Francis Poulenc (1899-1963), French composer and pianist of Les Six, known for melodious diatonic songs, sacred works like Litanies a la vierge noire, and the opera Dialogues des Carmelites.

Francis Preston Blair

Francis Preston Blair (1791-1876), Jacksonian journalist, editor of the Washington Globe and Congressional Globe, advisor to Jackson, Van Buren, and Lincoln, Republican founder, and Lincoln's 1865 peace envoy to Jefferson Davis.

Francis Preston Blair Jr.

Francis Preston Blair Jr. (Frank Blair, 1821–1875), Missouri congressman, Union major general who helped keep Missouri in the Union, 1868 Democratic vice-presidential nominee, and U.S. senator 1871–1873.

Francis Quiñones

Francis Quiñones (Francisco de los Ángeles Quiñones, c. 1482–1540) was a Spanish Franciscan friar, Minister General from 1523, a cardinal from 1527, and diplomat for Emperor Charles V.

Francis R. Boyd

Francis R. Boyd, known to colleagues as Joe, was an American experimental petrologist at the Carnegie Institution's Geophysical Laboratory who developed the pyroxene geotherm for reading the mantle's thermal structure.

Francis R. Willett

Francis R. Willett (Frank Willett) is a neuroscientist and Stanford assistant professor of neurosurgery known for brain-computer interfaces that decoded handwriting at 90 characters per minute.

Sep 23, 2026

Francis Rawdon-Hastings, 1st Marquess of Hastings

Francis Rawdon-Hastings, 1st Marquess of Hastings (1754–1826), was a British soldier and statesman who served as Governor-General of India from 1813 to 1823, concluding the Anglo-Nepalese and Third Anglo-Maratha Wars.

Francis Reichelderfer

Francis Reichelderfer was an American meteorologist who served as chief of the U.S. Weather Bureau from 1938 to 1963, introducing radar, numerical weather prediction, and satellites into American forecasting.

Francis Robert Beattie

Francis Robert Beattie (1848–1906) was a Canadian-born Presbyterian theologian and apologist who taught at Columbia Theological Seminary and Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary and defended Calvinism against higher criticism.

Francis Rossi

Francis Rossi, born in 1949, is an English rock singer and guitarist known for founding and fronting Status Quo for over five decades and co-writing multiple hits.

Francis S. Lee

Francis S. Lee is an American psychiatrist and neuroscientist at Weill Cornell Medicine who studies the molecular basis of mood and anxiety disorders, and was elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2016.

Francis Scarpaleggia

Francis Scarpaleggia (born 1957, Montreal) is a Liberal MP for Lac-Saint-Louis, Quebec, since 2004 and the 40th Speaker of the Canadian House of Commons, elected May 26, 2025; former environment committee and National Liberal Caucus chair.

Francis Schaeffer

Francis Schaeffer (1912–1984) was an American Presbyterian pastor and apologist who founded the L'Abri Fellowship in Switzerland in 1955 and became a leading voice of evangelical engagement with abortion and public policy.

Francis Scott Key

Francis Scott Key (1779–1843), Maryland lawyer and amateur poet, wrote "Defence of Fort M'Henry" after witnessing the 1814 bombardment of Fort McHenry; set to "To Anacreon in Heaven," it became "The Star-Spangled Banner," the U.S. national anthem since 1931.

Francis Scott Key Bridge (Baltimore)

The Francis Scott Key Bridge was a 1.6-mile steel truss bridge carrying Interstate 695 over the Patapsco River at Baltimore's outer harbor; opened in 1977, it collapsed in 2024 after a ship strike.

Francis Scott Key Bridge collapse

The Francis Scott Key Bridge collapse occurred on March 26, 2024, when the containership Dali lost power and struck the bridge in Baltimore, killing six workers.

Francis Scott Key Bridge replacement

The Francis Scott Key Bridge replacement, also called the Key Bridge replacement, is a cable-stayed bridge being built across the Patapsco River in Baltimore after the original collapsed in 2024.

Francis Simon

Francis Simon, born Franz Eugen Simon, was a German-British low-temperature physicist who invented a cheap helium liquefier and led British uranium isotope separation during World War II.

Francis Sowerby Macaulay

Francis Sowerby Macaulay (1862–1937) was an English mathematician who, while a schoolmaster at St Paul's School in London, created much of the foundation of commutative algebra.

Francis Sylvius

Francis Sylvius (François du Bois, 1581–1649) was a Walloon Catholic theologian who held the first chair of theology at Douai and wrote a four-volume commentary on Aquinas's Summa theologiae.

Francis Tumblety

Francis Tumblety, the "Indian Herb Doctor," was an Irish-born American quack doctor active in Canada and the United States, arrested after Lincoln's assassination and named a Jack the Ripper suspect via the 1913 Littlechild letter.

Francis turbine

The Francis turbine, a mixed-flow reaction water turbine invented by James B. Francis in 1849, is the most commonly used turbine type in hydropower generation worldwide.

Francis V of Modena

Francis V (Francesco V d'Austria-Este), 1819-1875, last reigning Duke of Modena, Reggio, and Guastalla; succeeded 1846, fled in 1848 and 1859, died in exile in Vienna, heir Archduke Franz Ferdinand.

Sep 20, 2026

Francis V. Chisari

Francis V. Chisari, known as Frank Chisari, is an American virologist and immunologist at The Scripps Research Institute who defined how the immune system clears hepatitis B and C.

Francis VerSnyder

Francis Louis VerSnyder was an American high-temperature metallurgist who invented the single-crystal turbine blades used in jet engines, receiving the National Medal of Technology in 1986.

Francis W. Aston

Francis W. Aston, also known as Francis William Aston, was a British chemist at Cambridge who invented the mass spectrograph and won the 1922 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for discovering isotopes.