List of Famous people named Francis

Francis Perrin was a French physicist, the son of Nobel prize-winning physicist Jean Perrin.

Field Marshal Sir Francis Wogan Festing, was a senior British Army officer. His most important posts were as Commander of British Forces in Hong Kong, General Officer Commanding (GOC) British Troops in Egypt (1952), GOC Eastern Command (1954), Commander-in-Chief Far East Land Forces (1956), and Chief of the Imperial General Staff (1958–61). He saw active service in the Second World War, taking a prominent role in Operation Ironclad and the Arakan offensive of the Burma Campaign, and later advised the British government on ending conscription and reducing the size of the army by fifteen battalions.

Sir Francis Bond Head, 1st Baronet KCH PC, known as "Galloping Head", was Lieutenant-Governor of Upper Canada during the rebellion of 1837.

Francis Thomas Bacon O.B.E. FREng F.R.S. was an English engineer who developed the first practical hydrogen–oxygen fuel cell.

Francis Annesley, 1st Earl Annesley was an Anglo-Irish politician and peer.