Top Celebrity Names Starting With Francis

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   Francis Ford Coppola

   Age 73 Male
   

   Director, Producer, Screenwriter

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   Francis Ford Coppola is an American film director, producer and screenwriter. He is widely acclaimed as one of Hollywood's most innovative and influential film directors. He epitomized the group of filmmakers known as the New Hollywood, that includes Martin Scorsese, Steven Spielberg, Robert Altman, Woody Allen, William Friedkin, Peter Bogdanovich, and Brian De Palma who emerged in the early 1970s with unconventional ideas that challenged contemporary film-making.… read more

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   Francis Dunnery

   Age 49 Male
   

   Musician, Singer, Songwriter

   
   

   Francis Dunnery is an English musician, singer-songwriter, record producer and record label owner. He is best known as a solo performer (since 1990), and for fronting the original lineup of the band It Bites between 1982 and 1990 (including co-writing and singing their #6 UK hit single, "Calling All the Heroes", in 1986).… read more

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   Francis Maude

   Age 58 Male
   

   Politician, General, Member of Parliament

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   Francis Anthony Aylmer Maude is a British politician. A member of the Conservative Party, he currently serves as the Minister for the Cabinet Office and Paymaster General, and as a Member of Parliament (MP) representing the constituency of Horsham. He is the son of the former Conservative Cabinet minister Angus Maude.… read more

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   Francis Magalona

   1964 - 2009 Male
   

   Rapper

   
   

   Francis Michael Durango Magalona, also known as FrancisM, Master Rapper, MC The Mouth and The Man From Manila, was a Filipino rapper, entrepreneur, songwriter, producer, actor, director, and photographer. He was the first Filipino rapper in the Philippines to cross over to the mainstream. He was credited for having pioneered the merging of rap with Pinoy rock, becoming a significant influence to artists in that genre as well.… read more

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   Francis Crick

   1916 - 2004 Male
   

   Molecular Biology

   
   

   Francis Harry Compton Crick OM FRS was an English molecular biologist, biophysicist, and neuroscientist, and most noted for being one of two co-discoverers of the structure of the DNA molecule in 1953, together with James D. Watson.… read more

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   Francis Bacon

   1909 - 1992 Male
   

   Painter

   
   

   Francis Bacon was an Irish figurative painter known for his bold, graphic and emotionally raw imagery. Bacon's painterly but abstract figures typically appear isolated in glass or steel geometrical cages set against flat, nondescript backgrounds. He began painting during his early 20s and worked only sporadically until his mid 30s. Before this time he drifted, earning his living as an interior decorator and designer of furniture and rugs.… read more

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   Francis Cabrel

   Age 58 Male
   

   Singer, Songwriter, Guitarist

   
   

   Francis Cabrel is a French singer-songwriter and guitarist. He has released a number of albums falling mostly within the realm of folk, with occasional forays into blues or country. Several of his songs, such as "L'encre de tes yeux" and "Petite Marie" have become enduring favourites in French music. Others, such as "C'était l'hiver", about the suicide of a young girl, have since been covered by other artists such as Canadian Isabelle Boulay.… read more

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   Francis Parker Yockey

   1917 - 1960 Male
   

   Writer

   
   

   Francis Parker Yockey was an American political thinker and polemicist best known for his neo-Spenglerian book Imperium: The Philosophy of History and Politics, published under the pen name Ulick Varange in 1948. This 600-page book argues for a culture-based, totalitarian path for the preservation of Western culture.… read more

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   Francis W. Sargent

   1915 - 1998 Male
   

   Recipient of the Purple Heart Medal

   
   

   Francis William Sargent was the 64th Governor of Massachusetts from 1969 to 1975. Born in 1915 in Hamilton, Massachusetts, he was known for his sharp wit and self-deprecating manner. A Republican, "Sarge" graduated from Charles River School, Noble & Greenough School and was a student in the architecture program at Massachusetts Institute of Technology where he was a classmate and friend of I.M. Pei, although Sargent never graduated.… read more

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    Francis Bacon

    1561 - 1626 Male
    

    Philosopher and Statesman

    
    

    Francis Bacon, 1st Viscount St Alban(s), KC (22 January 1561 – 9 April 1626) was an English philosopher, statesman, scientist, lawyer, jurist, author and pioneer of the scientific method. He served both as Attorney General and Lord Chancellor of England. Although his political career ended in disgrace, he remained extremely influential through his works, especially as philosophical advocate and practitioner of the scientific method during the scientific revolution.… read more

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    Francis Xavier

    1506 - 1552 Male
    

    Saint

    
    

    Francis Xavier, born Francisco de Jasso y Azpilicueta was a pioneering Roman Catholic missionary born in the Kingdom of Navarre and co-founder of the Society of Jesus. He was a student of Ignatius of Loyola and one of the first seven Jesuits, dedicated at Montmartre in 1534. He led an extensive mission into Asia, mainly in the Portuguese Empire of the time.… read more

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    Francis Urquhart

    1936 - 2003 Male
    

    Politician, King, Prime Minister

    
    

    Francis Ewan Urquhart is a fictional character created by Michael Dobbs. A Conservative politician, he appeared in a trilogy of novels: House of Cards in 1989, To Play the King in 1992 and The Final Cut in 1995. He was portrayed in television versions by Ian Richardson. The "epitome of elegant evil", in the series Urquhart addressed the audience in asides, often quoting Shakespeare, or giving a knowing look to the camera.… read more

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    Francis Amasa Walker

    1840 - 1897 Male
    

    Union Army General

    
    

    Francis Amasa Walker was an American economist, statistician, journalist, educator, academic administrator, and military officer in the Union Army. Walker was born into a prominent Boston family, the son of the economist and politician Amasa Walker, and he graduated from Amherst College at the age of 20. He received a commission to join the 15th Massachusetts Infantry and quickly rose through the ranks as an assistant adjutant general.… read more

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    Francis of Assisi

    1182 - 1226 Male
    

    Catholic Saint and Founder of the Franciscan Order

    
    

    Saint Francis of Assisi was an Italian Catholic friar and preacher. He founded the men's Franciscan Order, the women’s Order of St. Clare, and the lay Third Order of Saint Francis. St. Francis is one of the most venerated religious figures in history. Francis was the son of a wealthy cloth merchant in Assisi, and he lived the high-spirited life typical of a wealthy young man, even fighting as a soldier for Assisi.… read more

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    Francis Drake

    1540 - 1596 Male
    

    Privateer; Circumnavigator of the World

    
    

    Sir Francis Drake, Vice Admiral was an English sea captain, privateer, navigator, slaver, and politician of the Elizabethan era. Elizabeth I of England awarded Drake a knighthood in 1581. He was second-in-command of the English fleet against the Spanish Armada in 1588. He also carried out the second circumnavigation of the world, from 1577 to 1580. He died of dysentery in January 1596 after unsuccessfully attacking San Juan, Puerto Rico.… read more

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    Francis E. Dec

    1926 - 1996 Male
    

    Cult U.S. Conspiracy Theorist

    
    

    Francis E. Dec was a U.S. lawyer from Hempstead Village, New York, disbarred for fraud in 1959, and later known for the bizarre socio-political tracts of conspiracy theories he mass-mailed to the media. Often denouncing a "Worldwide Mad Deadly Communist Gangster Computer God" mind-controlling mankind, Dec is considered to have been a paranoid schizophrenic of the influencing-machine delusion kind, and is often referred to as a "kook".… read more

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    Francis Nicholson

    1655 - 1727 Male
    

    Lieutenant Governor, Administrator, Military Person

    
    

    Francis Nicholson was a British military officer and colonial administrator. His military service included time in Africa and Europe, after which he was sent as leader of the troops supporting Sir Edmund Andros in the Dominion of New England. There he distinguished himself, and was appointed lieutenant governor of the dominion in 1688. After news of the Glorious Revolution reached the colonies in 1689, Andros was overthrown in the Boston Revolt.… read more

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    Francis William Reitz

    1844 - 1934 Male
    

    South African Politician and Statesman

    
    

    Francis William Reitz, Jr. was a South African lawyer, politician, statesman, publicist and poet, member of parliament of the Cape Colony, Chief Justice and fifth State President of the Orange Free State, State Secretary of the South African Republic at the time of the Second Boer War, and the first president of the Senate of the Union of South Africa.… read more

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    Francis Rimbert

    Age 59 Male
    

    Musician, Composer

    
    

    Francis Rimbert is a French musician and composer.

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    Francis Galton

    1822 - 1911 Male
    

    Anthropologist and Polymath

    
    

    Sir Francis Galton /ˈfrɑːnsɪs ˈgɔːltn̩/ FRS, cousin of Douglas Strutt Galton, cousin of Charles Darwin, was an English Victorian polymath: anthropologist, eugenicist, tropical explorer, geographer, inventor, meteorologist, proto-geneticist, psychometrician, and statistician. He was knighted in 1909. Galton had a prolific intellect, and produced over 340 papers and books.… read more

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    Francis Walsingham

    1532 - 1590 Male
    

    Spy, Diplomat and Politician

    
    

    Sir Francis Walsingham was Principal Secretary to Elizabeth I of England from 1573 until 1590, and is popularly remembered as her "spymaster". Walsingham is frequently cited as one of the earliest practitioners of modern intelligence methods both for espionage and for domestic security.… read more

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    Francis I of France

    1494 - 1547 Male
    

    King, Emperor, Prince

    
    

    Francis I was King of France from 1515 until his death. During his reign, huge cultural changes took place in France and he has been called France's original Renaissance monarch. His permanent rivalry with the Emperor Charles V for hegemony in Europe was the origin of a long and ruinous military conflict that gave rise to the Protestant revolution. Francis was an ally of Suleiman the Magnificent, with whom he formed the Franco-Ottoman alliance.… read more

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    Francis Petre

    1847 - 1918 Male
    

    New Zealand-born Architect

    
    

    Francis William "Frank" Petre was a prominent New Zealand-born architect based in Dunedin. He was an able exponent of the Gothic revival style, one of its best practitioners in New Zealand. He followed the Roman Church's initiative to build Catholic places of worship in Anglo-Saxon countries in Romance forms of architecture. Despite these constraints his buildings reveal him as an artist.… read more

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    Francis C. Thompson

    Age 70 Male
    

    Developer, Politician, Elder

    
    

    Francis Coleman Thompson is a wealthy developer from Delhi in Richland Parish, Louisiana, U.S. , where he served as a senior Democratic member of the Louisiana House of Representatives. He served continuously from 1975 until 2007. Because of state term limits, Thompson was ineligible to have sought a ninth four-year term in the jungle primary on October 20, 2007.… read more

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    Francis Hutcheson

    1694 - 1746 Male
    

    Philosopher, Thinker, Scientist

    
    

    Francis Hutcheson was a philosopher born in Ireland to a family of Scottish Presbyterians who became one of the founding fathers of the Scottish Enlightenment. Hutcheson was an important influence on the works of several significant Enlightenment thinkers, including David Hume and Adam Smith.… read more