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Francis W. Zwiers
Francis Zwiers is a Canadian climate scientist specializing in statistical detection and attribution of climate change, formerly director of the Pacific Climate Impacts Consortium at the University of Victoria.
Francis Walsingham
Sir Francis Walsingham (c. 1532–1590) was Elizabeth I's principal secretary from 1573 and her spymaster, whose network uncovered the Ridolfi, Throckmorton, and Babington plots; distinct from the Jesuit Francis Walsingham (1577–1647).
Francis Wheeler Loomis
Francis Wheeler Loomis was an American physicist who discovered the isotope effect in molecular spectra in 1920 and headed the University of Illinois physics department from 1929 to 1957.
Francis Willoughby, 5th Baron Willoughby of Parham
Francis Willoughby, 5th Baron Willoughby of Parham (1612–1666) was an English peer and soldier who served twice as colonial governor of Barbados and founded the Suriname colony Willoughbyland.
Francis X. Bushman
Francis X. Bushman (1883-1966), American silent-film actor and director nicknamed King of the Movies; star of His Friend's Wife (1911) and Messala in Ben-Hur (1925); later radio and TV actor.
Francis Xavier
Francis Xavier, also known as Francisco de Xavier, was a Navarrese Jesuit missionary who evangelized India, Southeast Asia, and Japan, dying off China in 1552.
Francis Xavier Dercum
Francis Xavier Dercum (1856–1931) was an American neurologist in Philadelphia who identified adiposis dolorosa, the painful fat disorder still called Dercum's disease, and treated President Woodrow Wilson.
Francis Xavier Haberl
Francis Xavier Haberl, also known as Franz Xaver Haberl, was a German Catholic priest and music historian who led the Cecilian reform of church music in Germany.
Francis Xavier Witt
Francis Xavier Witt (Franz Xaver Witt, 1834–1888) was a Bavarian Catholic priest and composer who founded the Allgemeiner Deutscher Cäcilien-Verein in 1868 and wrote 33 masses.
Francis Yeoh
Francis Yeoh, full name Tan Sri Francis Yeoh Sock Ping, is a Malaysian businessman and executive chairman of YTL Corporation, which he transformed into a global infrastructure group.
Francis Ysidro Edgeworth
Francis Ysidro Edgeworth (1845–1926) was an Irish-born economist and statistician at Oxford who introduced indifference curves, the contract curve, and the term "coefficient of correlation".
Francis Zamora
Francis Zamora (Francisco Javier Manlapit Zamora, born 1977) is the mayor of San Juan City, Philippines, since 2019, when he ended the Estrada family's rule; former UAAP champion basketball captain, now League of Cities president in his final term.
Francis, Duke of Anjou
Francis, Duke of Anjou (Hercule François de Valois, 1554/1555-1584), youngest son of Henry II of France and Catherine de' Medici; heir presumptive after 1574, duke of Alençon then Anjou, suitor of Elizabeth I, and nominal sovereign of the rebel Netherlands until the failed French Fury at Antwerp in 1583.
Francis, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld
Francis (Franz Friedrich Anton, 1750-1806) was Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld 1800-1806, a reforming art collector; through his seven children he became ancestor of Queen Victoria, Prince Albert, Leopold I of Belgium, and the Bulgarian royal line.
Francis, Duke of Teck
Francis, Duke of Teck (Franz Paul Karl Louis Alexander, 1837–1900), morganatic Württemberg prince, Austrian and British army officer, husband of Mary Adelaide of Cambridge, and father of Queen Mary.
Francisca Cerqueira Gomes
Francisca (Kika) Cerqueira Gomes, born 2003 in Porto, is a Portuguese model and influencer, daughter of presenter Maria Cerqueira Gomes; first Portuguese to walk Le Défilé L'Oréal Paris in 2025.
Francisca Crovetto
Francisca Crovetto (Francisca Valeria Crovetto Chadid), Chilean skeet shooter born 1990; 2024 Paris Olympic champion, first Chilean woman Olympic gold medalist, women's skeet qualification world record holder (125, Lonato 2022), Pan American champion Santiago 2023.
Francisca Mutapi
Francisca Mutapi is a Zimbabwean medical researcher and professor at the University of Edinburgh whose work on schistosomiasis opened treatment to 50 million African preschool children.
Francisca Pizarro Yupanqui
Francisca Pizarro Yupanqui (1534-1598), also called Inés Huaylas Yupanqui's daughter, was a Peruvian mestiza noblewoman, daughter of Francisco Pizarro and the Inca princess Quispe Sisa, granddaughter of Huayna Capac, later wife of Hernando Pizarro in Spain.
Franciscan friary
Franciscan friary (Greyfriars): a house of the mendicant Franciscan order in England from 1224; about 60 existed by the 1530s. The Richmond friary, founded 1257-8 and dissolved January 1539, survives as scheduled monument 1020405.
Franciscan Missions in the Sierra Gorda of Querétaro
Franciscan Missions in the Sierra Gorda of Querétaro (Misiones franciscanas de la Sierra Gorda): five 18th-century Franciscan mission churches in Querétaro, Mexico, led by Junípero Serra, UNESCO World Heritage Site since 2003 under criteria (ii) and (iii).
Franciscan University of Steubenville
Franciscan University of Steubenville, formerly the College of Steubenville, is a private Catholic university in Steubenville, Ohio, founded by TOR Franciscan friars in 1946, renamed in 1985, known for its Catholic identity, Austrian study abroad program, and Steubenville youth conferences.
Franciscans
The Franciscans, or Grey Friars, are a Catholic mendicant order founded by Francis of Assisi around 1209, whose friars take a vow of poverty and include the Friars Minor, Poor Clares, and Secular Franciscans.
Francisco (moon)
Francisco, designated Uranus XXII, is a small, dark retrograde moon of Uranus discovered in 2001, about 22 km across and the innermost of its irregular satellites.
Francisco A. Besosa
Francisco Augusto Besosa, born 1949 in San Juan, is a senior United States district judge for the District of Puerto Rico, appointed by George W. Bush in 2006.
Francisco Abal
Francisco "Panchito" Abal (Francisco Domingo Abal Guerault, 1951–1972), Uruguayan rugby winger for Old Christians Club and the 1970 national team, died in the Andes Flight 571 crash after swapping seats with Nando Parrado; depicted in Society of the Snow.
Francisco Adolfo de Varnhagen
Francisco Adolfo de Varnhagen, Visconde de Porto Seguro (1816–1878), was a Brazilian diplomat and historian whose História Geral do Brasil, built on archival documents, appeared in 1854–1857.
Francisco and Jacinta Marto
Francisco and Jacinta Marto were Portuguese shepherd children, cousins of Lúcia dos Santos, who reported the Virgin Mary's apparitions at Fátima in 1917 and were canonized by Pope Francis in 2017.
Francisco Antonio de Lorenzana
Francisco Antonio de Lorenzana (1722–1804) was a Spanish cardinal and reformist prelate who served as Archbishop of Mexico and then Toledo, published the Mozarabic liturgy, and died in Rome.
Francisco Antonio de Zela
Francisco Antonio de Zela (1768–1821) was a Peruvian treasury official who led the Tacna uprising of 1811, remembered as the first rebellion for independence in the Viceroyalty of Peru.