Namesakes
François Villon
(m) c. 1431-c. 1463 
Notable Writers
François Rabelais
(m) c. 1494-1553
Notable Writers
François I
(m) 1494-1547
Frankish and French Kings 1515-1547
François II
(m) 1544-1560
Frankish and French Kings 1559-1560
Franciscus Gomarus
(a.k.a. François) (m) 1563-1641
Notable Philosophers and Thinkers
François de Sales
(m) 1567-1622
Saints
Jean-François Régis
(m) 1597-1640
Saints
François de La Rochefoucauld
(m) 1613-1680
Notable Writers
François-Xavier of Montmorency-Laval
(m) 1623-1708
Saints
François Couperin
(m) 1668-1733
Notable Musicians
François-Marie Arouet "Voltaire"
(m) 1694-1778
Notable Philosophers and Thinkers
Notable Writers
François Boucher
(m) 1703-1770
Notable Artists
François-Joseph Gossec
(m) 1734-1829
Notable Musicians
Marquis de Sade
(a.k.a. François) (m) 1740-1814
Notable Writers
Jean François de Galaup
(m) 1741-1788
Notable Explorers and Adventurers
François-Régis Clet
(m) 1748-1820
Saints
François-Noël Babeuf
(m) 1760-1797
Notable Activists and Revolutionaries
Pierre-François Jamet
(m) 1762-1845
Saints
François-René de Chateaubriand
(m) 1768-1848
Notable Writers
Eugène François Vidocq
(m) 1775-1857
Other Notables criminology
François Arago
(m) 1786-1853
French Presidents and Prime Ministers 1848 (prime minister)
François Guizot
(m) 1787-1874
French Presidents and Prime Ministers 1847-1848 (prime minister)
Jean-François Champollion
(m) 1790-1832
Notable Philosophers and Thinkers
François Isidore Gagelin
(m) 1799-1833
Saints
Fromental Halévy
(a.k.a. François) (m) 1799-1862
Notable Musicians
Oscar I
(a.k.a. François) (m) 1799-1859
Swedish Kings and Queens 1844-1859
Norwegian Kings and Queens (Oskar I) 1844-1859
Jules Grévy
(a.k.a. François) (m) 1807-1891
French Presidents and Prime Ministers 1879-1887 (president)
Frédéric Chopin
(a.k.a. François) (m) 1810-1849
Notable Musicians
Pierre de Decker
(a.k.a. François) (m) 1812-1891
Belgian Prime Ministers 1855-1857
Siméon-François Berneux
(m) 1814-1866
Saints
Jean-François Millet
(m) 1814-1875
Notable Artists
Jules Simon
(a.k.a. François) (m) 1814-1896
French Presidents and Prime Ministers 1876-1877 (prime minister)
Charles Gounod
(a.k.a. François) (m) 1818-1893
Notable Musicians
Auguste Marie François Beernaert
(m) 1829-1912
Belgian Prime Ministers 1884-1894
Nobel Prize Winners 1909 (peace)
Jules Ferry
(a.k.a. François) (m) 1832-1893
French Presidents and Prime Ministers 1880-1881; 1883-1885 (prime minister)
Marie François Sadi Carnot
(m) 1837-1894
French Presidents and Prime Ministers 1887-1894 (president)
François Jaccard
(m) ?-1838
Saints
Émile Loubet
(a.k.a. François) (m) 1838-1929
French Presidents and Prime Ministers 1892; 1899-1906 (prime minister/president)
Félix Faure
(a.k.a. François) (m) 1841-1899
French Presidents and Prime Ministers 1895-1899 (president)
François Denys Légitime
(m) 1841-1935
Haitian Presidents 1888-1889 (president)
Jules Vandenpeereboom
(a.k.a. François) (m) 1843-1917
Belgian Prime Ministers 1899
François C. Antoine Simon
(m) 1843-1923
Haitian Presidents 1908-1911 (president)
Gérard Cooreman
(a.k.a. François) (m) 1852-1926
Belgian Prime Ministers 1918
Louis Borno
(a.k.a. Francois) (m) 1865-1942
Haitian Presidents 1922-1930 (president)
Albert François Lebrun
(m) 1871-1950
French Presidents and Prime Ministers 1932-1940 (president)
François Mauriac
(m) 1885-1970
Nobel Prize Winners 1952 (literature)
Notable Writers
Jean Bouin
(a.k.a. François) (m) 1888-1914
Olympic Medalists 1912 5000 m (silver)
Corneille Heymans
(a.k.a. François) (m) 1892-1968
Nobel Prize Winners 1938 (medicine)
Frank Boucher
(m) 1901-1977
Hall-of-Famers 1958 (ice hockey)
Notable Athletes (ice hockey)
Gaston Eyskens
(a.k.a. François) (m) 1905-1988
Belgian Prime Ministers 1949-1950; 1958-1961; 1968-1973
François-Didier Gregh
(m) 1906-1992
Other Leaders 1969-1972 Monaco (prime minister)
François Duvalier
(m) 1907-1971
Haitian Presidents 1957-1971 (president)
François Mitterrand
(m) 1916-1996
French Presidents and Prime Ministers 1981-1995 (president)
Paul Vanden Boeynants
(a.k.a. François) (m) 1919-2001
Belgian Prime Ministers 1966-1968; 1978-1979
François Jacob
(m) 1920-2013
Nobel Prize Winners 1965 (medicine)
François Truffaut
(m) 1932-1984
Notable Actors and Entertainers (actor)
Notable Filmmakers
François Englert
(m) 1932-
Nobel Prize Winners 2013 (physics)
Notable Scientists and Inventors
Betico Croes
(a.k.a. François) (m) 1938-1986
Notable Politicians and Statespeople
François Cevert
(m) 1944-1973
Notable Athletes (driving)
Francis Goya
(a.k.a. François) (m) 1946-
Notable Musicians
Dominique de Villepin
(a.k.a. François) (m) 1953-
French Presidents and Prime Ministers 2005-2007 (prime minister)
François Fillon
(m) 1954-
French Presidents and Prime Ministers 2007-2012 (prime minister)
Pierre Dartout
(a.k.a. François) (m) 1954-
Other Leaders 2020-2024 Monaco (prime minister)
François Hollande
(m) 1954-
French Presidents and Prime Ministers 2012-2017 (president)
François Chau
(m) 1959-
Notable Actors and Entertainers (actor)
Jean-Claude Van Damme
(a.k.a. François) (m) 1960-
Notable Actors and Entertainers (actor)
Frankie Brady
(a.k.a. François) (m)
Fictional Characters from Television 1965 Days of Our Lives
Francois Pienaar
(m) 1967-
Notable Athletes (rugby)
Jean-François Gillet
(m) 1979-
Notable Athletes (soccer)
René Artois
(a.k.a. François) (m)
Fictional Characters from Television 1982 'Allo 'Allo!
Faf du Plessis
(a.k.a. Francois) (m) 1984-
Notable Athletes (cricket)
Francois Louw
(m) 1985-
Notable Athletes (rugby)
François Moubandje
(m) 1990-
Notable Athletes (soccer)
Frans Malherbe
(a.k.a. Francois) (m) 1991-
Notable Athletes (rugby)
Emmanuel of Belgium
(a.k.a. François) (m) 2005-
Other Royalty 2005- Belgium (prince)