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François Divisia
François Divisia (1889–1964) was a French economist and engineer, born in Algeria, who created the Divisia index and served as president of the Econometric Society in 1935.
Francois Drolet
François Drolet, Canadian short track speed skater, Nagano 1998 Olympic gold medallist in the men's 5000m relay with Bédard, Campbell, and Gagnon; 1996 and 1997 world relay medallist; later Nagano Skate general manager.
François Duvalier
François Duvalier, "Papa Doc" (1907–1971), dictator-president of Haiti 1957–1971; noiriste champion who ruled through the Tontons Macoutes militia, terror, and a personality cult, then passed power to son Jean-Claude.
François Englert
François Englert (1932–2026) was a Belgian theoretical physicist at the Université Libre de Bruxelles who shared the 2013 Nobel Prize in Physics with Peter Higgs.
François Eustache Lesueur
François Eustache Lesueur, also recorded as Jacques-François Le Sueur, was a French Jesuit missionary and philologist in New France who served Abenaki communities in the Saint Lawrence valley.
François Fénelon
François Fénelon (1651–1715) was a French Catholic archbishop and theologian, tutor to Louis XIV's grandsons, whose treatise on the love of God was condemned by Pope Innocent XII in 1699.
François Fillon
François Fillon (born 1954, Le Mans) is a French center-right politician, prime minister 2007–2012 under Sarkozy, 2017 Republican presidential nominee whose campaign collapsed in the Penelopegate fictitious-jobs scandal, definitively convicted in 2026.
François Fuks
François Fuks is a molecular biologist and full professor at the Université Libre de Bruxelles who studies how epigenetic mechanisms fail in cancer, founding Belgium's first epigenetics laboratory in 2006.
François Garasse
François Garasse (1584 or 1585 – 1631) was a French Jesuit polemicist whose 1623 anti-Libertine treatise helped bring about the poet Théophile de Viau's death.
François Gény
François Gény (1861-1959), French jurist and dean at Nancy, author of Méthode d'interprétation et sources en droit privé positif (1899) and of the method of libre recherche scientifique, free scientific research in law.
François Gérard
François Gérard (1770–1837) was a French neoclassical painter, born in Rome, who served as court portraitist under Napoleon I and first painter to Louis XVIII.
François Ghiringhelli
François Ghiringhelli (born 1976) is a French medical oncologist and cancer researcher at the Centre Georges François Leclerc in Dijon, known for his 2009 work on chemotherapy and antitumor immunity.
François Girardon
François Girardon (1628–1715) was a French sculptor, First Sculptor to King Louis XIV, known for the Versailles works Apollo Served by the Nymphs and Abduction of Proserpina.
François Gros
François Gros (1925–2022) was a French molecular biologist who co-discovered messenger RNA in 1961 and later directed the Institut Pasteur and held a chair at the Collège de France.
Francois Guillemot
François Guillemot is a developmental neurobiologist who leads the Neural Stem Cell Biology Laboratory at the Francis Crick Institute in London and was elected a Royal Society Fellow in 2020.
François Guizot
François Guizot (1787–1874), French statesman and historian, Sorbonne professor, doctrinaire leader, author of the 1833 primary education law, foreign minister and President of the Council 1840–1848 under Louis-Philippe; his reform refusal precipitated the 1848 revolution.
Francois Hamelin
François Hamelin, born 1986 in Lévis, Quebec, is a retired Canadian short track speed skater, brother of Charles Hamelin, and 2010 Vancouver Olympic gold medalist in the men's 5000 m relay.
Francois Heersbrandt
François Heersbrandt, Belgian butterfly and sprint freestyle swimmer born 1989 in Uccle; three-time Olympian (2008, 2012, 2016), 2011 European short course 100m butterfly bronze medalist, 2013 4x50m freestyle relay world record holder, seven Belgian records.
François Hollande
François Hollande (born 1954, Rouen) is a French Socialist politician, president of the Republic 2012–2017 and, since July 2024, deputy for Corrèze's 1st constituency under the Nouveau Front Populaire.
François J. Bourguignon
François J. Bourguignon (born 1945) is a French economist specializing in inequality, poverty, and development, who was Chief Economist of the World Bank from 2003 to 2007.
François Jacob
François Jacob (1920–2013) was a French biologist who devised the operon model of gene regulation at the Institut Pasteur, winning the 1965 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
François Joseph Lefebvre
François Joseph Lefebvre, duc de Dantzig (1755-1820), French marshal and peer; sergeant in the gardes françaises who fought at Fleurus, backed 18 Brumaire, took Danzig's 1807 capitulation, and led the Old Guard in Russia and France.
François Joseph Paul de Grasse
François Joseph Paul, comte de Grasse, was a French admiral whose fleet won the Battle of the Chesapeake in 1781, leading to the British surrender at Yorktown.
François Kevorkian
François Kevorkian, known as François K, is a French-born, New York-based DJ, producer, and remixer who remixed over 1,000 records and co-founded the Body & Soul party in 1996.
François l'Olonnais
François l'Olonnais, born Jean-David Nau, was a French buccaneer based on Tortuga in the Caribbean who led the sack of Maracaibo in 1667 and was feared for torturing Spanish captives.
François Legault
François Legault, born 1957, is a Quebec businessman and politician, co-founder of Air Transat and of the Coalition avenir Québec, and the province's 32nd premier from 2018 until his January 2026 resignation.
François Leulier
François Leulier is a French CNRS researcher who leads the Institut de Génomique Fonctionnelle de Lyon in Lyon, best known for defining the mutualism between Lactobacillus plantarum and the fruit fly Drosophila.
Francois Louis Tremblay
François-Louis Tremblay, born 1980 in Alma, Quebec, is a retired Canadian short track speed skater, nicknamed The Boucherville Bomber, with five Olympic medals including 5000 m relay gold at Salt Lake City 2002 and Vancouver 2010.
François Louis, Prince of Conti
François Louis de Bourbon, Prince of Conti, was a prince of the House of Condé who fought in Hungary and was elected King of Poland in 1697.
François M. Abboud
François M. Abboud, also known as F M Abboud, is an Egyptian-born American cardiologist at the University of Iowa known for research on autonomic control of the circulation.