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Francisco de la Cruz
Francisco de la Cruz, born in Barcelona in 1938, is an Argentine condensed-matter physicist at the Instituto Balseiro in Bariloche, known for research on superconductors and magnetic vortices.
Francisco de Miranda
Francisco de Miranda (1750-1816), Venezuelan-born Precursor of Spanish American independence; served in Spanish, French, and Venezuelan armies; wrote federal constitutional projects; left the 63-volume Colombeia archive; died in Cádiz prison.
Francisco de Montejo
Francisco de Montejo, called el Adelantado, was a Spanish conquistador from Salamanca who, with his son, directed the conquest of Yucatán and died in Seville in 1553.
Francisco de Orellana
Francisco de Orellana (1511–1546), Spanish conquistador from Trujillo, Extremadura, led the first full navigation of the Amazon River in 1541–42 with 57 men after separating from Gonzalo Pizarro, and died on a second Amazon expedition.
Francisco de Paula Ruet
Francisco de Paula Ruet (Francesc de Paula Ruet i Roset, 1826–1878) was a Spanish Protestant minister, converted in Turin's Waldensian church, who pioneered the revival of Protestantism in Spain.
Francisco de Paula Santander
Francisco de Paula Santander was a New Granadan soldier and statesman who won the Battle of Boyacá in 1819 and served as vice-president of Gran Colombia.
Francisco de Quevedo
Francisco de Quevedo (1580–1645) was a Spanish writer of the Siglo de Oro, the leading representative of conceptismo, known for the picaresque novel El Buscón and the satires Los sueños.
Francisco de Saavedra
Francisco de Saavedra (1746–1819) was a Spanish statesman and diplomat who financed the Yorktown campaign and later served as Spain's Minister of State and Regent.
Francisco de Sousa
Francisco de Sousa (c. 1540–1611) was a Portuguese nobleman who twice governed colonial Brazil, first as governor-general from 1591 to 1602, then as governor of the southern captaincies.
Francisco de Toledo, Count of Oropesa
Francisco de Toledo, Count of Oropesa (July 1515–1582), was a Spanish nobleman and soldier who served as the fifth viceroy of Peru from 1569 to 1581 under Philip II.
Francisco de Ulloa
Francisco de Ulloa was a Spanish navigator sent by Hernán Cortés who in 1539 explored the Gulf of California and proved Baja California was a peninsula.
Francisco de Villagra
Francisco de Villagra (Francisco de Villagra Velásquez, 1511–1563) was a Spanish conquistador and three-time governor of Chile who made the first European crossing of the central Andes into Cuyo.
Francisco de Zurbarán
Francisco de Zurbarán (1598–1664) was a Spanish Golden Age painter best known for religious pictures of monks, nuns, and martyrs and for his still lifes.
Francisco del Rosario Sánchez
Francisco del Rosario Sánchez (1817–1861) was a Dominican lawyer and politician, one of the three Fathers of the Nation, who proclaimed Dominican independence from Haiti in 1844.
Francisco Dueñas
Francisco Dueñas was a Salvadoran lawyer and coffee grower who led the Conservative party as president of El Salvador from 1863 to 1871, until a revolt deposed him.
Francisco Eduardo Tresguerras
Francisco Eduardo Tresguerras (1759–1833) was a Mexican painter, architect, and sculptor in the Bajío region, best known for the church of Nuestra Señora del Carmen in Celaya.
Francisco Espínola
Francisco Espínola, known as Paco Espínola (1901–1973), was a Uruguayan writer, journalist, and teacher, a leading nativismo figure whose novel Sombras sobre la tierra is a classic of the Uruguayan novel.
Francisco F. Roberto
Francisco F. Roberto, known as Frank Roberto, is a biohydrometallurgist who spent 24 years at Idaho National Laboratory before joining Newmont, and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2020.
Francisco Felix de Sousa
Francisco Felix de Sousa (Francisco Félix de Sousa), known as the Chacha, was a Brazilian slave merchant who became King Ghezo's commercial agent at Ouidah, dying there in 1849.
Francisco Fernández Ochoa
Francisco 'Paquito' Fernández Ochoa (1950–2006), Spanish alpine skier who won the 1972 Sapporo Olympic slalom in 1:49.27, Spain's only Winter Olympic gold; brother of medalist Blanca Fernández Ochoa.
Francisco Franco
Francisco Franco (1892–1975), the Caudillo, Spanish general and dictator who ruled Spain 1939–1975 after the 1936 coup and civil war; authoritarian regime per Linz, condemned by Spain's 2022 Democratic Memory Law.
Francisco G. Cigarroa M.D.
Francisco González Cigarroa is an American pediatric and transplant surgeon at UT Health San Antonio who served as Chancellor of the University of Texas System from 2009 to 2015.
Francisco G. Sada Muguerza
Francisco G. Sada Muguerza was a Mexican businessman born and died in Monterrey who led the Cervecería Cuauhtémoc brewery as general manager from 1894 to 1938, helping build a family industrial empire.
Francisco Gamboa Soto
Francisco Gamboa Soto is a Costa Rican economist and member of the Sovereign People's Party serving as First Vice President of Costa Rica since May 2026.
Francisco García (physician)
Francisco García is an American physician and epidemiologist who led Pima County, Arizona's public-health response through the COVID-19 pandemic and was elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2023.
Francisco García Calderón Rey
Francisco García Calderón Rey (1883–1953) was a Peruvian essayist and diplomat in Paris whose work Les démocraties latines de l'Amérique (1912) carried a preface by Raymond Poincaré.
Francisco Gavidia
Francisco Gavidia (1863 or 1864 – 1955) was a Salvadoran poet, playwright, and historian, an originator of Spanish-American modernismo and early mentor of Rubén Darío.
Francisco Gil de Taboada
Francisco Gil de Taboada y Lemos was a Spanish naval officer who served as viceroy of New Granada from 1789 and viceroy of Peru from 1790 to 1796.
Francisco González Bocanegra
Francisco González Bocanegra (1824–1861) was a Mexican poet, orator, and dramatist from San Luis Potosí who wrote the lyrics of the Himno Nacional Mexicano, winning a government contest in 1854.
Francisco Gonzalez-Scarano M.D.
Francisco González-Scarano is an American physician-scientist in neurovirology who chaired neurology at Penn and was dean of the Long School of Medicine at UT Health San Antonio.