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François M. M. Morel
François M. M. Morel is a biogeochemist, the Albert G. Blanke Professor of Geosciences at Princeton University, known for trace metals in oceans and discovering the only known cadmium enzyme.
François Mackandal
François Mackandal, also spelled Makandal or Macandal, was an escaped enslaved African who became a maroon leader organizing poisonings on Saint-Domingue plantations until his capture and burning in 1758.
François Mauriac
François Mauriac (1885–1970) was a French novelist, journalist, and member of the Académie française who won the 1952 Nobel Prize in Literature for novels of sin and grace set around Bordeaux.
François Mitterrand
François Mitterrand (1916–1996), French president 1981–1995, first left-wing president of the Fifth Republic; Fourth Republic minister, Socialist Party leader, abolitionist of the death penalty, Maastricht architect, and figure of the Vichy and Rwanda controversies.
François Morel (physiologist)
François Morel (1923–2007) was a Swiss-born, naturalised French physiologist who held the Chair of Cellular Physiology at the Collège de France from 1967 to 1993 and mapped hormone action along the kidney nephron.
François Olivennes
François Olivennes, French gynecologist-obstetrician and IVF specialist who worked with René Frydman at Antoine Béclère, directed Cochin's reproductive medicine unit from 2002, then practiced at Eylau-La Muette; author of Mille et un bébés.
François Ozon
François Ozon, French film director, screenwriter, and producer born 1967 in Paris; Fémis-trained auteur of Sitcom, Sous le sable, 8 femmes, Swimming Pool, and Grâce à Dieu; prolific genre-shifting queer-inflected cinema, six César nominations without a win.
François Picquet
François Picquet (1708–1781) was a French Sulpician missionary priest who founded the Mission of La Présentation at present-day Ogdensburg, New York, in 1749, building it into a fortified Iroquois mission on the St. Lawrence.
Francois Pienaar
Francois Pienaar (Jacobus Francois Pienaar, born 1967) is a South African flanker who captained the Springboks in all 29 of his tests and won the 1995 Rugby World Cup, famously receiving the Webb Ellis Cup from Nelson Mandela.
François Pinault
François Pinault, born in 1936 in Brittany, is a French businessman who turned a timber trading firm into the luxury group Kering and owns Christie's auction house.
François Rabelais
François Rabelais (c. 1494–1553), French Renaissance humanist, physician, and author of Pantagruel (1532) and Gargantua (1534), satirical giant chronicles condemned by the Sorbonne; wrote as Alcofribas Nasier.
François Rougeon
François Rougeon, born in 1942, is a French molecular biologist who spent his career at the Institut Pasteur and CNRS, known for work on antibody diversity and mRNA cloning.
François Rude
François Rude (1784–1855) was a French Romantic sculptor, born in Dijon, best known for La Marseillaise on the Arc de Triomphe and for teaching Carpeaux.
François Schweisguth
François Schweisguth is a French developmental biologist who studies Notch signaling, asymmetric cell division, and pattern formation in the fruit fly Drosophila at the Institut Pasteur in Paris.
Francois Spitz
François Spitz is a French geneticist and professor of human genetics at the University of Chicago, known for defining large regulatory domains around the HoxD gene cluster.
François Thibault
François Thibault is a French maître de chai, or cellar master, from Cognac who co-created Grey Goose vodka with Sidney Frank in 1997 and still oversees its production.
François Tomb
François Tomb (Tomba François), an Etruscan painted burial chamber of the Saties family at Vulci's Ponte Rotto necropolis, carved in tuff c. 340–320 BCE, discovered 1857 by Alessandro François; frescoes of Vel Saties, Mastarna, and Achilles entered Villa Giulia in 2026.
François Tombalbaye
François Tombalbaye, later Ngarta Tombalbaye, was a Chadian schoolteacher and politician who became Chad's first president at independence from France in 1960, ruling for fifteen years.
François Trèves
François Trèves, born 1930, is a mathematician and Professor Emeritus at Rutgers University known for his work with Louis Nirenberg on local solvability of linear partial differential equations.
François Truffaut
François Truffaut (1932–1984), French director and critic, founder of the French New Wave; author of the 1954 auteur polemic in Cahiers du cinéma; directed The 400 Blows, Jules and Jim, Day for Night, and The Last Metro.
Francois van Coke
Francois van Coke, born Francois Badenhorst in 1980, is a South African Afrikaans rock singer and songwriter, frontman of Fokofpolisiekar and a solo artist since 2015.
François Villon
François Villon (born François de Montcorbier, around 1431 in Paris) was a French poet of the late Middle Ages, known for his mock-testament poems and ballades; he disappeared after 1463.
François-Alphonse Forel
François-Alphonse Forel (1841–1912) was a Swiss physician and professor of medicine at Lausanne who founded limnology, the science of lakes, through his three-volume monograph on Lake Geneva.
François-André Danican Philidor
François-André Danican Philidor (1726–1795), French composer and the strongest 18th-century chess player; author of Analyse du jeu des Échecs (1749), the Philidor Defense opening, and the Philidor position rook endgame draw.
François-Etienne Caulet
François-Etienne de Caulet (1610–1680) was a French Catholic bishop of Pamiers from 1644 to 1680, one of four appellant bishops who resisted the anti-Jansenist Formulary and refused Louis XIV's régale.
François-Henri Pinault
François-Henri Pinault is a French businessman, son of François Pinault, who was chairman and CEO of the luxury group Kering from 2005 to 2025 and leads the family holding Artémis.
François-Joachim de Bernis
François-Joachim de Bernis (1715–1794) was a French cardinal, poet, and diplomat who negotiated the 1756 reversal of alliances and served as France's ambassador to Rome.
François-Joseph Troubat
François-Joseph Troubat (1874–1968) was a French industrialist and art collector of Montluçon who built the villa La Louvière, bequeathed to the town as a museum.
François-Louis Blosius
François-Louis Blosius, known as Louis de Blois, was a Benedictine abbot of Liessies in Hainaut and spiritual writer, abbot from 1530 until his death in 1566.
François-Marie Banier
François-Marie Banier, born Paris 1947, French photographer, painter, and writer known for street portraits, celebrity portraits, handwritten text on photographs, and his 2015 conviction in the Liliane Bettencourt affair.