List of Famous people named Franco

Franco dei Russi was an Italian painter, active in field of manuscript illumination.

Franco Andrea Bonelli was an Italian ornithologist, entomologist and collector.

Franco Ghione (1886–1964) was an Italian conductor and violinist. He graduated from the Parma Conservatory and became a violinist for the Parma Theatre and the Augusteo in Rome. He began a conducting career in 1913 and conducted in many opera houses, including La Scala. He conducted the Detroit Symphony Orchestra from 1936-1940, where it was said that, because he could not speak English, he "would explode in frustration" when his instructions were not understood.

Franco Sacchetti, was an Italian poet and novelist.

Franco "Kim" Arcalli was an Italian film editor and screenwriter best known for his work with Bernardo Bertolucci and Michelangelo Antonioni.

Francesco (Franco) Antonio Faccio was an Italian composer and conductor. Born in Verona, he studied music at the Milan Conservatory from 1855 where he was a pupil of Stefano Ronchetti-Monteviti and, as scholar William Ashbrook notes, "where he struck up a lifelong friendship with Arrigo Boito, two years his junior" and with whom he was to collaborate in many ways.