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Francisco Arcellana
Francisco Arcellana (1916–2002) was a Filipino writer, essayist, and teacher who shaped the modern Philippine short story in English and was named National Artist for Literature in 1990.
Francisco Assis
Francisco Assis, born 1965, in Amarante, is a Portuguese Socialist Party politician and Member of the European Parliament since 2024, chairing the OACPS-EU delegation.
Francisco Balagtas
Francisco Balagtas (Francisco Baltazar, 1788–1862), the "Prince of Tagalog Poets," wrote the awit Florante at Laura (published 1838, 399 quatrains) while imprisoned in Manila; the balagtasan verse debate and Bulacan's town of Balagtas honor him.
Francisco Bangoy International Airport
Francisco Bangoy International Airport, also called Davao International Airport, is the main airport serving Davao City, Philippines, and the busiest airport on Mindanao, with about 4.5 million passengers in 2019.
Francisco Baralle
Francisco E. Baralle, born 1943 in Buenos Aires, is an Argentine molecular biologist in Trieste who sequenced the first complete eukaryotic mRNA in 1977 and pioneered alternative splicing research.
Francisco Barreto de Meneses
Francisco Barreto de Meneses (1616–1688) was a Luso-Brazilian military commander and colonial administrator who led the expulsion of the Dutch from northeastern Brazil and served as governor-general of Brazil from 1657 to 1663.
Francisco Bertrand
Francisco Bertrand (Francisco Bertrand Barahona, 1866–1926), born in Juticalpa, was a Honduran physician and politician who served as president of Honduras three times between 1911 and 1919.
Francisco Bezanilla
Francisco Bezanilla is a Chilean-trained biophysicist, professor emeritus at the University of Chicago, known for codiscovering the gating current in sodium channels and for work on voltage sensors.
Francisco Bilbao
Francisco Bilbao (1823–1865) was a Chilean writer, philosopher, and revolutionary who campaigned for democratic and anti-clerical reform and is credited with introducing the term "América latina".
Francisco Bolognesi
Francisco Bolognesi Cervantes was a Peruvian army colonel who commanded the defense of Arica in the War of the Pacific and died when Chilean forces stormed the Morro on 7 June 1880.
Francisco Brines
Francisco Brines (Francisco Brines Bañó, 1932–2021) was a Spanish poet of the Generation of '50, known for elegiac poetry on time and death, and winner of the 2020 Cervantes Prize.
Francisco Caamaño
Francisco Alberto Caamaño Deñó was a Dominican soldier who led the constitutionalist forces in the April 1965 revolt, served as constitutional president, and died leading a 1973 guerrilla expedition.
Francisco Cabral
Francisco Cabral (c. 1530, Azores – 1609, Goa) was a Portuguese Jesuit priest who led the Jesuit mission in Japan as superior from 1570 to 1581, opposing cultural adaptation.
Francisco Carvalho
Francisco Avelino Vieira de Carvalho (born 1970) is a Cape Verdean sociologist, former mayor of Praia and PAICV leader who became prime minister on 19 June 2026, winning 37 of 72 parliamentary seats.
Francisco Cervantes de Salazar
Francisco Cervantes de Salazar (c. 1514–1575) was a Spanish Renaissance humanist and the first professor of rhetoric at the Royal and Pontifical University of Mexico.
Francisco Céspedes
Francisco "Pancho" Céspedes, born in Santa Clara, Cuba, in 1957, is a Cuban singer-songwriter based in Mexico City whose romantic music fuses bolero, balada, and jazz.
Francisco Coloane
Francisco Coloane Cárdenas (1910–2002) was a Chilean writer whose fiction centers on Patagonia and the southern oceans, winning the Premio Nacional de Literatura in 1964.
Francisco Conceição
Francisco Conceição (Francisco Fernandes da Conceição, born 2002, Coimbra) is a Portuguese left-footed right winger at Juventus and Portugal; Porto academy product, Euro 2024 late winner vs Czechia, €32 million permanent Juventus signing in 2025.
Francisco D'Souza
Francisco D'Souza, born in Kenya, is an American business executive who co-founded the IT services company Cognizant in 1994 and led it as CEO from January 2007 to March 2019.
Francisco Dagohoy
Francisco Dagohoy, born Francisco Sendrijas in Inabanga, Bohol, was a Boholano rebel leader who led the longest revolt in Philippine history against Spanish rule from 1744 to 1829.
Francisco de Aguirre
Francisco de Aguirre was a Spanish conquistador, born around 1500 and died 1581, who served under Pedro de Valdivia in Chile, refounded La Serena, and founded Santiago del Estero in 1553.
Francisco de Almeida
Francisco de Almeida, a Portuguese nobleman and naval commander, was the first Viceroy of Portuguese India from 1505 to 1509, winning the Battle of Diu in 1509.
Francisco de Arango y Parreño
Francisco de Arango y Parreño (1765–1837) was a Cuban lawyer, statesman, and economic reformer whose advocacy at the Spanish court opened the way for Cuba's sugar boom.
Francisco de Ávila
Francisco de Ávila (c. 1573–1647) was a Peruvian priest, curate of San Damián in Huarochirí and the first judge-visitador of idolatries of the archbishopric of Lima.
Francisco de Bobadilla
Francisco de Bobadilla was a Spanish royal official appointed Governor of the Indies in 1499, best known for arresting Christopher Columbus and sending him to Spain in chains.
Francisco de Borja y Aragón
Francisco de Borja y Aragón, prince of Esquilache, was a Spanish nobleman, poet, and viceroy of Peru from 1615 to 1621, appointed by King Philip III at age 32.
Francisco de Carbajal
Francisco de Carbajal, also spelled Carvajal, was a Spanish soldier and conquistador in Peru, nicknamed the Demon of the Andes for cruelty in the Peruvian civil wars.
Francisco de Carvajal
Francisco de Carvajal, born Francisco López Gascón, was a Spanish conquistador who won the battle of Chupas in 1542 and served in Gonzalo Pizarro's rebellion in Peru.
Francisco de Enzinas
Francisco de Enzinas, also known as Dryander, was a Spanish Hellenist and Protestant controversialist who produced the first printed Spanish New Testament, published at Antwerp in 1543.
Francisco de Jerez
Francisco de Jerez, also known as Francisco López de Xerez, was a Spanish conquistador and chronicler, born in Seville in 1497, who served as personal secretary to Francisco Pizarro.