All articles starting with F

Francisco Goya

Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes (1746–1828), Spanish painter and etcher, court painter to Charles III, Charles IV, and Ferdinand VII; creator of Los Caprichos, The Disasters of War, The Third of May 1808, and the Black Paintings.

Francisco Guinea

Francisco Guinea López, born in Madrid in 1953, is a Spanish theoretical condensed matter physicist at IMDEA Nanociencia known for his work on graphene and strain engineering.

Francisco Hernández de Córdoba (founder of Nicaragua)

Francisco Hernández de Córdoba (ca. 1475–1526) was a Spanish conquistador, born in Cabra, who conquered Nicaragua and founded Granada and León in 1524 before being beheaded in 1526; Nicaragua's córdoba currency bears his name.

Francisco Hernández Girón

Francisco Hernández Girón was a Spanish conquistador and encomendero in Peru who led the last major encomendero uprising against royal authority from 1553 to 1554.

Francisco I. Madero

Francisco I. Madero (Francisco Indalecio Madero González, 1873–1913), Mexican president and 'Apostle of Democracy'; led the 1910 revolt against Porfirio Díaz via the Plan of San Luis, presided 1911–1913, assassinated after Huerta's coup.

Francisco J Asturias

Francisco J. Asturias is a structural biologist and Professor of Biochemistry at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical School, known for cryo-EM structures of the Mediator transcription complex, the RSC chromatin remodeler, and the HIV-1 capsid.

Sep 21, 2026

Francisco J. Ayala

Francisco José Ayala (1934–2023) was a Spanish-born American evolutionary geneticist at UC Davis and Irvine known for work on the origin of species, genetic diversity, and the molecular clock of evolution.

Sep 20, 2026

Francisco J. Quintana

Francisco J. Quintana, also known as Francisco Quintana, is a neuroimmunologist and Professor of Neurology at Harvard Medical School who studies inflammation in multiple sclerosis and the AHR pathway.

Francisco Javier Alegre

Francisco Javier Alegre (1729–1788) was a Mexican Jesuit theologian and historian, exiled to Bologna in 1767, best known for his history of the Jesuits in New Spain.

Francisco Javier Arellano Félix

Francisco Javier Arellano Félix (El Tigrillo) led the Tijuana-based Arellano Félix Organization drug cartel; captured by the U.S. Coast Guard in 2006 aboard the yacht Dock Holiday, he pleaded guilty in 2007 and is serving a life sentence with $50 million forfeiture.

Francisco Javier Clavijero

Francisco Javier Clavijero (1731–1787) was a Mexican Jesuit historian and linguist, expelled by Charles III in 1767, who wrote the Historia antigua de México in Italy, defending America's indigenous peoples.

Francisco Javier de Elío

Francisco Javier de Elío was a Spanish soldier, governor of Montevideo from 1808, and last Viceroy of the Río de la Plata, executed in 1822.

Francisco Javier Eugenio de Santa Cruz y Espejo

Francisco Javier Eugenio de Santa Cruz y Espejo (1747–1795) was a Quiteño physician, lawyer, and journalist of the Ecuadorian Enlightenment who founded Quito's first newspaper in 1792.

Francisco Javier Mina

Francisco Javier Mina (1789–1817) was a Spanish guerrilla leader from Navarre who fought the French in the Peninsular War and later the insurgency in New Spain.

Francisco José de Caldas

Francisco José de Caldas (1768–1816) was a Colombian naturalist, astronomer, and independence figure who directed the Bogotá observatory and was executed by Spanish forces in 1816.

Francisco José Maria de Lacerda e Almeida

Francisco José Maria de Lacerda e Almeida (1753–1798) was a Brazilian-born Portuguese mathematician and explorer who died leading the first Portuguese scientific expedition into south-central Africa.

Francisco José Tenreiro

Francisco José Vasques Tenreiro (1921–1963) was a São Toméan poet, essayist, and geographer whose 1942 debut, Ilha de Nome Santo, inaugurated Lusophone Negritude; he co-edited the landmark 1953 anthology Poesia Negra de Expressão Portuguesa.

Francisco Juan Martínez Mojica

Francisco Juan Martínez Mojica, known as Francis Mojica, is a Spanish microbiologist at the University of Alicante who recognized CRISPR as a bacterial immune system.

Francisco Laso

Francisco Laso (Francisco Laso de los Ríos, 1823–1869) was a Peruvian painter, writer, and politician who first made indigenous people the protagonists of Peruvian painting, pioneering indigenismo.

Francisco Lindor

Francisco Miguel Lindor, nicknamed "Mr. Smile," is a Puerto Rican professional baseball shortstop for the New York Mets, traded from Cleveland in 2021 for $341 million.

Francisco López de Gómara

Francisco López de Gómara, born in 1511, was a Spanish priest and historian, chaplain to Hernán Cortés, whose 1552 history of the conquest of Mexico was banned in 1553.

Sep 21, 2026

Francisco M. Marty

Francisco M. Marty was a Harvard infectious disease physician who led the 2017 trial that made letermovir the first approved CMV prophylaxis drug after stem-cell transplantation.

Sep 21, 2026

Françisco M. Raymo

Françisco M. Raymo is a chemist at the University of Miami, on the faculty since 2000, who studies photochromic oxazines and fluorescent molecular switches for super-resolution imaging.

Francisco Macedo

Francisco Macedo (1596–1681) was a Portuguese Franciscan theologian and leading Scotist, known for the Collationes comparing Aquinas and Scotus and for defending John IV of Portugal.

Francisco Macías Nguema

Francisco Macías Nguema, first president of Equatorial Guinea (1968-1979), ruled as a president-for-life with a personal cult ("no other God than Macías"), was deposed by his nephew Obiang in the August 3, 1979 coup and executed.

Francisco Madariaga

Francisco Madariaga (1927–2000) was an Argentine poet who fused surrealism with the landscapes and mythology of Corrientes province, winning the Premio Nacional de Poesía posthumously in 2005.

Francisco Martin Duran

Francisco Martin Duran, born 1968, fired about 29 SKS rifle rounds at the White House North Lawn on October 29, 1994, mistaking a Clinton look-alike for the president; convicted of attempted assassination, sentenced to 40 years.

Francisco Mauigoa

Francisco (Kiko) Mauigoa, linebacker from American Samoa; Washington State and Miami; New York Jets fifth-round pick (162nd overall, 2025 NFL Draft); two-time second-team All-ACC; brother Francis is a Giants first-round tackle.

Francisco Mauro Salzano

Francisco Mauro Salzano (1928–2018) was a Brazilian human population geneticist at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul who pioneered genetic studies of Brazil's indigenous peoples.