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Fon people
Fon people, also called Dahomeans, a Gbe people of southern Benin and Togo; founders and core of the Kingdom of Dahomey (1625-1894), speakers of Fongbe, practitioners of Vodun, and Benin's largest ethnic group.
Footman
Footman: a liveried male domestic servant of grand British and European households, serving at table, at the door, and behind the family carriage; known for elaborate livery, wages of about £17–21 around 1829, and survival in the Royal Household.
Forbes 30 Under 30
Forbes 30 Under 30, also styled Forbes Under 30, is Forbes magazine's annual list of 600 US honorees under 30 across 20 categories, launched in 2011 by Randall Lane, with regional Asia and Europe editions, judge-based selection, and notable alumni and fraud controversies.
Foreign-born population of the United Kingdom
Foreign-born population of the United Kingdom: residents born outside the UK, also called the non-UK born population. Estimated 13.12 million (19%) in 2024; top 2021 countries of birth India, Poland, Pakistan, Romania, Ireland.
Forms of address in the United Kingdom
Forms of address in the United Kingdom: titles and honorifics from Mr, Mrs, Ms and Mx to peerage (Duke to Baron, 'Your Grace'), judiciary ('My Lord') and royals, as enforced in passports and codified by Debrett's and Bloomsbury guides.
Forward caste
Forward caste: Indian caste communities outside the SC, ST, OBC, and EWS schedules; "forward" and "upper" are not legally recognized terms but common scholarly labels for the unreserved, historically privileged groups competing as general category.
Foundation (nonprofit)
Foundation (nonprofit): a nonprofit corporation or charitable trust making grants for charitable purposes; in US tax law usually a private foundation under 501(c)(3), subject to a 5% payout, 1.39% investment excise tax, and public Form 990-PF filings, distinct from donor-advised funds.
Foundational Black Americans
Foundational Black Americans (FBA), a term coined by Tariq Nasheed, describes Black Americans descended from people enslaved in the United States, related to ADOS, and central to lineage-based reparations eligibility debates.
Franco-Mauritian
Franco-Mauritians are the French-speaking descendants of French settlers who colonized Mauritius from 1715, a white minority of roughly 2% of the population that has historically dominated the island's sugar industry and economic life.
Frank Armstrong Crawford Vanderbilt
Frank Armstrong Crawford Vanderbilt (1839–1885), Mobile-born second wife of Cornelius Vanderbilt, married him in 1869 and is credited with inspiring his $1 million 1873 founding gift to Vanderbilt University.
Frank Stallone Sr.
Frank Stallone Sr. (Francesco Stallone, 1919–2011) was an Italian-American barber, beauty-salon owner, and polo player from Gioia del Colle, Puglia, father of Sylvester and Frank Jr., and timekeeper in Rocky (1976).
Fraternal Order of Eagles
Fraternal Order of Eagles (F.O.E.), fraternal order founded 1898 in Seattle as the Order of Good Things; bald-eagle emblem, motto Liberty, Truth, Justice and Equality; social-legislation campaigns and charities such as its Diabetes Research Center distinguish it from the NFL team and other Eagles groups.
Fraternity
Fraternity: a fraternal organization bound by ritual and mutual aid, covering American college Greek-letter fraternities (Phi Beta Kappa 1776, Kappa Alpha 1825), sororities, and fraternal benefit societies.
Fred Trump III
Fred Trump III (born 1962, Manhattan), also Frederick Crist Trump III, is a New York real estate professional, son of Fred Trump Jr., nephew of Donald Trump, and author of the 2024 memoir All in the Family.
Free Nutritious Meals
Free Nutritious Meals: no-charge school meals, chiefly US universal free school meal policies via the National School Lunch Program and Community Eligibility Provision, with state programs in nine states and Finland's free school meal tradition.
Free people of color
Free people of color, French gens de couleur libres, were legally free people of African or mixed ancestry in American slave societies; prominent in Spanish America and New Orleans, where they were nearly a quarter of the city by 1830.
Freemasonry
Freemasonry, a fraternal society using stonemason-derived ritual and symbolism, was organized as a Grand Lodge in London in 1717; the United Grand Lodge of England now counts about 170,000 members, with separate women's Grand Lodges.
French Americans
French Americans, also known as Franco-Americans, are people in the United States of French ancestry, about 6.3 million in 2022, concentrated in California and New England.
French Canadians
French Canadians: descendants of New France's settlers in Canada, chiefly the Québécois of Quebec and the Acadians of the Maritimes; 21.4% of Canadians had French as first official language in 2021.
French nobility
French nobility (noblesse française): hereditary legal status of the Second Estate under the Ancien Régime, acquired by birth, ennobling office, or royal letters; feudal privileges abolished 1789, with about 3,000 descendant families remaining today.
French people
French people (les Français) are holders of French nationality, defined civically rather than ethnically. About 68.6 million residents in 2025, 2.5 million French abroad, no ethnic census permitted since a 2007 Constitutional Council decision.
Frieda Vizel
Frieda Vizel (born 1985) is an American YouTuber, blogger, and licensed NYC tour guide, formerly Satmar Hasidic of Kiryas Joel, known for her Williamsburg walking tours, YouTube interviews, and blog on Hasidic life.
Frisians
Frisians are a Germanic people of the North Sea coast in the Netherlands and Germany, first recorded by Tacitus, known for medieval Frisian freedom, Old Frisian law, and the West, East, North, and Sater Frisian languages.
Front organization
Front organization: an entity posing as independent while serving a hidden sponsor's agenda; also called front group. Uses the third-party technique and astroturfing; legal in the US but ethically questioned; examples include tobacco and dark money nonprofits.
Fula people
Fula people (Fulɓe, Fulani, Peul), a West African pastoralist people from Senegal to Sudan speaking Pulaar/Fulfulde (Niger-Congo Atlantic); founded Sokoto, Hamdullahi, Fuuta Tooro, and Fuuta Jalon Islamic states; population estimates 5–65 million.
Fur people
The Fur are an ethnic group of the Marra Mountains in Darfur, Sudan, founders of the Keira Sultanate of Dar Fur (c. 1640–1916) and speakers of the Fur language, a Nilo-Saharan tongue; they were systematically targeted in the 2003 Darfur conflict and the RSF war since 2023.
Gaels
Gaels (Gaeil, Gàidheil) are the Goidelic-speaking ethnolinguistic group of Ireland, the Scottish Highlands and Islands, and the Isle of Man; key facts include the Gall-Ghaidheil of the 850s annals, the medieval Kingdom of the Isles, the 18th-century "Celtic" label, and 130,161 people with Gaelic skills in Scotland's 2022 census.
Gagauz people
Gagauz (Gagauzlar): Turkic-speaking Orthodox Christian people of southern Moldova (Gagauzia), Ukraine's Budjak, Bulgaria, and Greece; Oghuz-branch language, debated Seljuk/Oghuz origins, autonomy since 1994.
Gaijin (外人)
Gaijin (外人), Japanese for outsider or foreigner, is the casual contraction of gaikokujin (外国人). Unlike the neutral administrative full form, gaijin marks social placement, is often used for white residents, and is debated as potentially derogatory.
Gangneung Kim clan
The Gangneung Kim clan (강릉 김씨) is a Korean clan whose ancestral seat is Gangneung, traced to Kim Ju-won of the Silla royal line of King Muyeol.