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Frances Perkins
Frances Perkins served as U.S. Secretary of Labor from 1933 to 1945, being the first woman cabinet secretary and principal architect of the Social Security Act.
Frances X. Frei
Frances X. Frei is a Harvard Business School professor of technology and operations management who served as Uber's first Senior Vice President of Leadership and Strategy in 2017.
Francesca's
Francesca's was an American specialty boutique chain founded in Houston in 1999, selling apparel, jewelry, accessories, and gifts through mall boutiques; it peaked near 700 stores before a 2026 bankruptcy.
Francesco Amadori
Francesco Amadori is an Italian businessman who co-founded the Amadori poultry company with his brother Arnaldo in Cesena in 1969, building it into one of Italy's leading poultry businesses.
Francesco Angelini
Francesco Angelini (1887–1964) was an Italian pharmacist and entrepreneur from Le Marche who founded the family-owned Angelini group, a pharmaceutical company, in Ancona in 1919.
Francesco Gaetano Caltagirone
Francesco Gaetano Caltagirone, also known as Francesco G. Caltagirone, is an Italian billionaire entrepreneur, born in Rome in 1943, who founded and leads the Milan-listed holding Caltagirone S.p.A.
Francesco Peroni
Francesco Peroni (1818–1894) was an Italian brewer from Galliate who founded the Peroni brewery at Vigevano in 1846, adding a Rome plant in 1864; the company marks 180 years in 2026.
Franchising
Franchising, also called business franchising, is a contractual relationship in which a franchisee pays fees and royalties to operate under a franchisor's trademark and methods.
Francis Alexander Shields
Francis Alexander Shields Jr. (1941–2003) was an American businessman who worked in marketing and sales for Revlon and Estée Lauder, best known as the father of actress Brooke Shields.
Francis Amasa Walker
Francis Amasa Walker (1840–1897) was an American economist, statistician, and Civil War general who superintended the US censuses of 1870 and 1880 and led MIT as its third president.
Francis Clergue
Francis Clergue (1856–1939) was an American financier who built a mining, forestry, railway, and steel empire at Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, and founded Algoma Steel.
Francis Kao
Francis Kao is a venture capitalist who joined Lightspeed China Partners in Shanghai in 2020 and was promoted to partner in 2021, with investments including Bluepha and METiS Pharmaceuticals.
Francis Yeoh
Francis Yeoh, full name Tan Sri Francis Yeoh Sock Ping, is a Malaysian businessman and executive chairman of YTL Corporation, which he transformed into a global infrastructure group.
Francis Ysidro Edgeworth
Francis Ysidro Edgeworth (1845–1926) was an Irish-born economist and statistician at Oxford who introduced indifference curves, the contract curve, and the term "coefficient of correlation".
Francisco G. Sada Muguerza
Francisco G. Sada Muguerza was a Mexican businessman born and died in Monterrey who led the Cervecería Cuauhtémoc brewery as general manager from 1894 to 1938, helping build a family industrial empire.
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 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.
Franco Lamping
Franco Lamping is a Brazilian software engineer and entrepreneur who co-founded the digital insurer 180 Seguros in São Paulo in 2020, after five years as a Nubank engineer.
Franco-Nevada Corporation
Franco-Nevada Corporation is a Toronto-based gold-focused royalty and streaming company, founded in 1982 and relaunched in 2007 with the largest mining IPO in North America.
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 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-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.
Françoise Bettencourt Meyers
Françoise Bettencourt Meyers is a French heiress, writer, and board director, granddaughter of L'Oréal founder Eugène Schueller, who with her family holds a 34.79% stake in L'Oréal.
Frank Bonsal
Frank Bonsal is an American venture capitalist from Baltimore who co-founded New Enterprise Associates (NEA) in 1978, focusing on life sciences until his retirement in 2003.
Frank DiPascali
Frank DiPascali, Jr. was an American finance executive who served as Bernard Madoff's de facto chief financial officer, running the back office that manufactured the firm's fictitious trading.
Frank Fertitta III
Frank Fertitta III, Las Vegas casino executive, chairman and CEO of Red Rock Resorts and Station Casinos, who with brother Lorenzo bought the UFC for $2 million in 2001 and sold it for $4 billion in 2016.
Frank Fitzsimmons
Frank E. Fitzsimmons was an American labor leader who served as president of the Teamsters from 1967 until his death in 1981, succeeding Jimmy Hoffa.
Frank Holtrup
Frank Holtrup is a molecular-diagnostics executive serving as Chief Technology Officer of Haystack Oncology, a liquid-biopsy company acquired by Quest Diagnostics in 2023, and Managing Director of its Hamburg subsidiary.
Frank Huang
Frank Huang (黄崇仁) was a Taiwanese semiconductor entrepreneur who founded DRAM maker Powerchip Semiconductor in 1994 and rebuilt it as the foundry PSMC, which he chaired until his death in 2026.
Frank Lowy
Frank Lowy, also known as Sir Frank Lowy, is a Slovak-born Australian property developer who co-founded Westfield and built it into the world's largest retail-property group.