List of Famous people named Francisco

Francisco Montecillo Padilla is a Philippine prelate of the Catholic Church who has worked in the diplomatic service of the Holy See since 1985. He represented the Holy See, either as Apostolic Nuncio or Apostolic Delegate, to the countries of the Arabian Peninsula.As of 17 April 2020, he had been posted to as Apostolic Nuncio to Guatemala

Francisco Javier Clavet González de Castejón, known as Pato Clavet, is a former professional tennis player from Spain. He won eight singles titles, reached the semifinals of the 1992 Indian Wells Masters and the 1999 Miami Masters, and achieved a career-high ranking of world No. 18 in July 1992. He reached No. 16 at the Champions Race, after winning in Scottsdale in 2001.

Francisco Armero Peñaranda, Marquess of Nervión and Grandee of Spain was a Spanish Captain general of the Navy and politician.

Francisco José Pacheco Torres is a former Spanish professional road bicycle racer. In 2005, he became the 3rd in the Spanish time trial championship for amateurs. He also finished third overall in the Vuelta a Cordoba. In the 2006 season he has won two stages at the Vuelta an Alicante and he finished third at the Trofeo Guerrita. Later, he had even won a section in each Vuelta a Navarra, in the Vuelta a León, at the Vuelta a Palencia and Vuelta a Salamanca. In 2007 he made his professional debut with the Portuguese team Barbot-Halcon until 2008. Pacheco took his first year there he won a stage of the Volta a Portugal and he joined Contentpolis-Ampo in 2009. He also took the Greek cycling team Kastro Team in 2010 and Christina Watches-Dana in 2012 until 2013. On 31 December 2013, he announced his retirement from cycling at the end of season after his six-year career.

Francisco José Martínez Pérez is a Spanish former professional cyclist. He rode in 3 editions of the Vuelta a España.

Francisco de Holanda was a Portuguese court painter and sculptor for King João III of Portugal, and later for Sebastian of Portugal. He wrote what is regarded as the first treatise on portrait painting in Europe, Do tirar polo natural (1549). He is considered to be one of the most important figures of the Portuguese Renaissance, also being an essayist, architect and historian. He represented the intelligible reality of the Holy Trinity through a "hypothetical" syntax of geometrical figures. He insisted on the contrast between the ideal plane, the incorporeal form and the "imperfect copy in the terrestrial zone". His visual language demonstrated a mixture of Neoplatonism, Christian Kabbalah and finally Lullism. In education, Francisco de Holanda emphasized mathematics and geometry, subsequently anticipating Clavius's reforms of the late 16th century. Sylvie Deswarte said that "Francisco de Holanda gives a privileged place to cosmography and astrology in the education of the painter. On par with geometry, mathematics and perspective, he recommended them [...] in order to reach the heavens in the hope of one day arriving to the Empyrean and realizing celestial works."

Francisco Igea Arisqueta is a Spanish politician of the Citizens party. A doctor by profession, he led the party in the 2019 Castilian-Leonese regional election, and became vice president of the Junta of Castile and León after forming a government with the People's Party leader Alfonso Fernández Mañueco. In the 2022 election, his party lost all their seats except his own. He was previously a member of the Congress of Deputies (2015–2019) and came runner-up in his party's 2020 leadership election.

Francesco Ribalta , also known as Francisco Ribaltá or de Ribalta, was a Spanish painter of the Baroque period, mostly of religious subjects.

Francisco de Paula del Villar y Lozano was a Spanish architect.

Francisco Sobrino was a Spanish sculptor. His career began in 1959 when he moved to Paris to have a start in his career. His works can be seen in Tel Aviv, Guadalajara, Chicago, Madrid, New York City and Paris. Sobrino was born in Guadalajara, Spain and lived in Paris.