List of Famous people named Francisca

Francisca Eugénia da Silva Dias Van Dunem is an Angolan-Portuguese lawyer and politician who has been serving as the Portuguese Minister of Justice since 26 November 2015, in António Costa's XXI and XXII Constitutional Governments. Van Dunem is Portugal's first black government minister in history.

María Francisca Rosa Merino Garrido, known as Pancha Merino, is a Chilean actress and television presenter. Her most prominent roles have been on Canal 13 series, including Adrenalina, Playa Salvaje and Cerro Alegre.

Francisca Valenzuela is an American-born Chilean singer, poet, and multi-instrumentalist. Valenzuela was born and raised in San Francisco, California, where she resided until the age of 12, before moving to Santiago, Chile. She gained to popularity in Chile and Latin America, following the release of her debut album, Muérdete La Lengua in June 2007. Her second album, Buen Soldado followed in March 2011. Valenzuela has earned both gold and platinum album certification in Chile.

María Francisca Gavilán Valladares is a Chilean film, theater, and television actress and singer.

Francisca Mardones is a Chilean wheelchair tennis player. She has competed at both the 2012 and 2016 Summer Paralympics in tennis, before retiring in 2017 to concentrate on athletics.

Francisca Vaz Queiroz is a Brazilian television and film actress. She played the lead role, Catarina, in the television series A Lei e o Crime.

Francisca Ballesteros is a Spanish woman who poisoned to death her first baby, a five month old daughter, in 1990. Fourteen years later, in 2004, she killed her husband and second daughter because she had met a man on the Internet and wanted to run away from her parenting and marriage to be with her new found lover. Ballesteros then tried to poison her twelve-year-old son, although he survived after eight months of recovery. Following her son's poisoning Spanish authorities finally arrested her. She was convicted on three counts of murder and one count of attempted murder and sentenced to eighty-four years in prison in 2005.

Francisca Antonia Lachapel is a Dominican actress, TV host, and beauty pageant titleholder, who was crowned Nuestra Belleza Latina 2015 on 12 April 2015. She is currently a co-host on the popular morning show ¡Despierta América! on the Univision Network.

Francisca Alejandra Lara Lara, known as Pancha Lara, is a Chilean footballer who plays as a midfielder for French Division 1 Féminine club Le Havre AC and the Chile women's national team.

Francisca Aguirre Benito was a Spanish poet and author. Her first poetry collection, Ithaca, published in 1972, won her the Leopoldo Panero Poetry Award. In 2011, she won the National Poetry Prize for her poetry piece Historia de una anatomía. Aguirre also won the National Prize for Spanish Literature in November 2018.