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Francisco Trincão

Francisco Trincão (Francisco António Machado Mota de Castro Trincão), Portuguese winger born 1999 in Viana do Castelo; Braga, Barcelona (€31M, 2020), Sporting CP 2022-2026 (two league titles, renewed to 2030), then Al Ahli for up to USD 50 million in July 2026.

Francisco Vázquez de Coronado

Francisco de Coronado was a Spanish conquistador who led the 1540–1542 expedition from Compostela, searching the American Southwest for the mythical Seven Cities of Cíbola and Quivira.

Francisco Vicente Aguilera

Francisco Vicente Aguilera (1821–1877) was a Cuban patriot and lawyer, one of Oriente's wealthiest landowners, who organized the uprising that began the Ten Years' War in 1868.

Francisco Villota

Francisco Villota (Francisco Villota y Baquiola, 1873-1950), Spanish pelotari; with José de Amézola won gold in two-man cesta, Basque pelota, Paris 1900 without playing; Spain's first Olympic medal, IOC-recognized 2004.

Francisco X. Real

Francisco X. Real, also known as Paco Real, is a Spanish physician-scientist who studies how pancreatic and bladder cancers arise, and a professor of cell biology in Barcelona.

Francisco Xavier de Mendonça Furtado

Francisco Xavier de Mendonça Furtado (1701–1769) was a Portuguese naval officer and colonial administrator, brother of the Marquis of Pombal, who governed Grão-Pará e Maranhão.

Francisco Xavier do Amaral

Francisco Xavier do Amaral (1937–2012), East Timorese independence leader, founded ASDT which became FRETILIN, proclaimed Timor-Leste's independence on 28 November 1975 as its first president, later led revived ASDT in parliament.

Francisco Ximénez

Francisco Ximénez (1666 to about 1729) was a Spanish Dominican friar in Guatemala who made the only surviving transcription and first Spanish translation of the Popol Vuh.

Francisco Zaera

Francisco Zaera is a Venezuelan-born surface chemist and Distinguished Professor at UC Riverside, honored with the AVS Medard W. Welch Award in 2024 for catalysis research.

Francisco Zarco

Francisco Zarco was a Mexican journalist, politician, and historian who championed freedom of the press, served in the Constituent Congress of 1856–1857, and held office under Benito Juárez.

Oct 10, 2026

Franciscus Gomarus

Franciscus Gomarus (François Gomaer, 1563–1641) was a Dutch Calvinist theologian and Leiden professor who led the strict Reformed party against Jacobus Arminius, giving his name to the Gomarists.

Francisella

Francisella is a genus of small, nonmotile Gram-negative coccobacilli and the only genus in the family Francisellaceae; its species cause tularemia in humans and francisellosis in farmed fish.

Francisella tularensis

Francisella tularensis, agent of tularemia (rabbit fever), a Gram-negative facultative intracellular coccobacillus; type A ID50 under 10 cfu, Tier 1 Select Agent, cytosolic replication via FPI-encoded T6SS, no US-licensed vaccine.

Franciszek Czapek

Franciszek Czapek (František Čapek, later François Czapek), born 1811 in Bohemia, was a watchmaker who co-founded Patek, Czapek & Cie in Geneva in 1839, the firm that became Patek Philippe.

Franciszek Kleeberg

Franciszek Kleeberg (1888–1941) was a Polish general who commanded Independent Operational Group "Polesie" in the Battle of Kock, the last battle of the 1939 campaign.

Franciszek Ksawery Branicki

Franciszek Ksawery Branicki (about 1730 to 1819) was a Polish magnate, Grand Hetman of the Crown from 1774, and a leader of the Targowica Confederation.

Francium

Francium (Fr), also known as element 87 or eka-caesium, is a highly radioactive alkali metal discovered by Marguerite Perey in 1939; its longest-lived isotope has a half-life of just 22 minutes.

Oct 20, 2026

Franck Adisson

Franck Adisson (born 1969, Tarbes) is a French slalom canoeist who with Wilfrid Forgues won C2 slalom gold at Atlanta 1996 and bronze at Barcelona 1992, plus world titles in 1991 and 1997.

Franck Biya

Franck Emmanuel Biya, eldest son of Cameroon's President Paul Biya, is a businessman and informal advisor central to succession speculation. He holds no office; a 2026 decree naming him vice president was fabricated.

Franck David

Franck David (born 1970, Paris) is a French windsurfer, 1992 Barcelona Olympic gold medalist in the men's Lechner A-390 event with 70.7 points, also 1992 world champion, later co-founder of the Race for Water Foundation.

Franck Dumoulin

Franck Dumoulin, born in 1973 in Denain, France, is a French pistol shooter who won Olympic gold in the 10 m air pistol at Sydney 2000.

Franck Esposito

Franck Esposito (Franck Simon Esposito), French butterfly swimmer born 1971 in Salon-de-Provence; 1992 Olympic 200m butterfly bronze, four Olympiads, 1998 world silver, four European 200 fly titles, and short-course world records.

Oct 20, 2026

Franck Eyeni

Franck Eyeni (Eyeni Mongomin N'diamoi Franck Olivier, born 2001, Aboisso) is an Ivorian recurve archer, African 70 m record holder with 660 points (Riom 2024) and 2025 African champion, based at Arc Club de Nîmes.

Franck Kessié

Franck Kessié, Ivorian midfielder born 1996, Ivory Coast captain and AFCON 2024 winner. Played for Atalanta, AC Milan (Serie A 2021/22), Barcelona, Al-Ahli; rejoined Atalanta in August 2026.

Sep 27, 2026

Franck Leroy

Franck Leroy, born 1963, is a French divers droite politician who has led the Grand Est region since 2023 and has chaired France's transport infrastructure financing agency since 2024.

Franck Morschhauser

Franck Morschhauser (born 1967) is a French hematologist at CHU de Lille who became president of the Lymphoma Study Association in 2020 and led the RELEVANCE trial.

Oct 20, 2026

Franck Piccard

Franck Piccard (born 1964) is a French former alpine ski racer who won the first Olympic super-G gold at Calgary in 1988 and took three Olympic medals.

Franck Polleux

Franck Polleux is a French-trained developmental neuroscientist, professor at Columbia University and its Zuckerman Institute, known for work on cortical development and human brain evolution.

Sep 19, 2026

Franck Pourcel

Franck Pourcel (1913–2000) was a French conductor, arranger, and composer from Marseille whose easy-listening string orchestra sold records in 58 countries; his 1959 hit "Only You" sold over 3 million copies.