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Francisco Morazán
Francisco Morazán (1792–1842) was a Honduran general and statesman who served two terms as president of the Federal Republic of Central America, leading the liberal, unionist faction.
Francisco Morazan hydroelectric plant
The Francisco Morazan hydroelectric plant, known as El Cajón, is a 300 MW hydroelectric plant in central Honduras, completed in 1985 around a 226-meter arch dam.
Francisco Moreno
Francisco Moreno, known as Francisco Pascasio Moreno, was an Argentine explorer and boundary expert nicknamed the Perito, whose surveying fixed the Andean frontier with Chile in the 1902 arbitration.
Francisco Padilla
Francisco de Jesús Padilla Sánchez is a Mexican technology entrepreneur who left Wall Street to co-found Konfío, a fintech lender to small businesses, in 2013.
Francisco Palóu
Francisco Palóu (1723–1789) was a Spanish Franciscan missionary and historian who worked in Baja and Alta California, founded Mission San Francisco de Asís in 1776, and wrote the first published biography of Junípero Serra.
Francisco Partners
Francisco Partners is a San Francisco-based private equity firm focused on technology investments, founded in 1999, with more than $75 billion of capital raised since inception.
Francisco Pelsaert
Francisco Pelsaert was a Dutch merchant of the Dutch East India Company in Mughal India, known for his 1626 report on the empire and the Batavia wreck of 1629.
Francisco Peña
Francisco Peña, Latinized Franciscus Pegna, was an Aragonese canonist who became an auditor of the Roman Rota in 1588 and its dean from 1604, editing influential inquisitorial manuals.
Francisco Pérez Mackenna
Francisco Pérez Mackenna, born in 1958, is a Chilean politician and business executive serving as Minister of Foreign Affairs since 2026 under President José Antonio Kast.
Francisco Pimentel
Francisco Pimentel (1832–1893) was a Mexican aristocrat, historian, and linguist, a founder of the Academia Mexicana de la Lengua known for his comparative study of Mexico's indigenous languages.
Francisco Pizarro
Francisco Pizarro (c. 1471/1475–1541), Spanish conquistador from Trujillo, conqueror of the Inca Empire, captor of Atahualpa at Cajamarca 1532, founder of Lima 1535, assassinated 1541.
Francisco Primo de Verdad y Ramos
Francisco Primo de Verdad y Ramos (1760–1808) was a New Spanish lawyer who proposed in 1808 that sovereignty revert to the people, dying imprisoned as the first martyr of Mexican independence.
Francisco Rafael Arellano Félix
Francisco Rafael Arellano Félix (El Pelón), eldest Arellano Félix brother and co-founder of the Tijuana Cartel; imprisoned in Mexico from 1993, extradited to the US in 2006, pleaded guilty in 2007, assassinated by a clown-costumed gunman in Los Cabos in 2013.
Francisco Ramírez
Francisco Ramírez, known as Pancho Ramírez or El Supremo Entrerriano, was an Argentine federalist caudillo who governed Entre Ríos, won the battle of Cepeda in 1820, and was killed in 1821.
Francisco Robles
Francisco Robles, born Juan Francisco de Robles y García, was an Ecuadorian general and politician who served as President of Ecuador from 1856 to 1859.
Francisco Rodriguez
Francisco Rodriguez: name shared by Venezuelan Olympic boxing champion Francisco "Morochito" Rodríguez (1945-2024, first Venezuelan gold, 1968 light-flyweight) and Spanish boxer Juan Francisco Rodríguez Márquez (1949-2019), plus a Cuban rower, MLB reliever, and bodybuilder.
Francisco Rodríguez (Venezuelan pitcher)
Francisco Rodríguez (K-Rod), born 1982 in Caracas, Venezuelan MLB closer, 437 saves (sixth all-time), record 62 saves in 2008, 2002 World Series champion Angels, six-time All-Star.
Francisco Sá Carneiro
Francisco Sá Carneiro (1934–1980), Portuguese lawyer and politician, founder and first leader of the PPD/PSD, led the Democratic Alliance to victory in 1979 and 1980 and served as prime minister from January 1980 until his death in the Camarate plane crash on 4 December 1980.
Francisco San Martín
Francisco San Martín (1985–2025), Spanish actor born in Mallorca, raised in Montana; played Dario Hernandez on Days of Our Lives, Mateo on The Bold and the Beautiful, and Fabian Regalo del Cielo on Jane the Virgin; died in Los Angeles at 39.
Francisco Sánchez‐Madrid
Francisco Sánchez-Madrid, born 1954, is a Spanish immunologist, Full Professor at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, who shared the 2023 Robert Koch Prize with Timothy Springer for work on leukocyte adhesion.
Francisco Sarmiento de Mendoza
Francisco Sarmiento de Mendoza (1525–1595) was a Spanish canonist, professor at Salamanca, auditor of the Roman Rota, and bishop of Astorga and later Jaén under Philip II.
Francisco Scaramanga
Francisco "Paco" Scaramanga, "The Man with the Golden Gun," is Ian Fleming's final Bond villain (1965 novel), named after his Eton schoolmate; Christopher Lee played him in the 1974 film with a $1m-per-hit fee and an assembled golden pistol.
Francisco Solano López
Francisco Solano López was a Paraguayan military leader and president from 1862 to 1870, who led Paraguay through the War of the Triple Alliance and died in battle.
Francisco Sosa
Francisco Sosa, full name Francisco de Paula Sosa Escalante, was a Mexican biographer, journalist, poet, and historian known for Biografías de mexicanos distinguidos (1884), a collection of more than a hundred short lives of notable Mexicans.
Francisco Suárez
Francisco Suárez (1548–1617) was a Spanish Jesuit theologian and philosopher whose Disputationes metaphysicae (1597) became the standard European metaphysics textbook and whose works on law helped found international law.
Francisco Tárrega
Francisco Tárrega (Francesc Tàrrega i Eixea, 1852-1909), Spanish guitarist and composer, father of the modern classical guitar school; wrote Recuerdos de la Alhambra, Capricho árabe, about 80 works and 120 transcriptions.
Francisco Tito Yupanqui
Francisco Tito Yupanqui, an Indigenous Andean sculptor of Inca noble descent, carved the Virgin of Copacabana, a Marian image enthroned at Copacabana on Lake Titicaca in 1583.
Francisco Tiu Laurel Jr.
Francisco "Kiko" Tiu Laurel Jr., Filipino fishing tycoon and Frabelle Fishing Corporation president, has been Secretary of the Philippine Department of Agriculture since November 3, 2023, appointed by Marcos Jr.; confirmed December 5, 2023; no college degree.
Francisco Toledo
Francisco Benjamín López Toledo (1940–2019) was a Mexican Zapotec artist from Juchitán, Oaxaca, known for painting, printmaking, and sculpture, and widely called the most important living Mexican artist.
Francisco Trinaldo
Francisco Trinaldo, "Massaranduba" (born 1978, Amarante, Brazil), Brazilian MMA fighter, TUF Brazil 1 alumnus, 28-9-0 UFC record, seven-fight lightweight win streak 2014-2016, welterweight 2021, UFC release 2022.