List of Famous people named Francois
François Cros
François Cros is a French rugby union player. His position is back row and he currently plays for Toulouse in the Top 14.
François Deguelt
François Deguelt was a French singer, best known for his participation on behalf of Monaco in the Eurovision Song Contests of 1960 and 1962.
François de La Rochefoucauld
François VI, Duc de La Rochefoucauld, Prince de Marcillac was a noted French moralist and author of maxims and memoirs. He is part of the literary movement of classicism and best known for his maxims. Although he only officially published his Memoirs and his Maxims, his literary production is dense.
François de Roubaix
François de Roubaix was a French film score composer. In a decade, he created a musical style with new sounds, until his accidental death at 36.
François Mansart
François Mansart was a French architect credited with introducing classicism into Baroque architecture of France. The Encyclopædia Britannica cites him as the most accomplished of 17th-century French architects whose works "are renowned for their high degree of refinement, subtlety, and elegance".
François Heisbourg
François Heisbourg is currently Senior Advisor for Europe at the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) and Special Advisor at the Paris-based Fondation pour la Recherche Stratégique. He was director of the IISS from 1987 to 1992 and its chairman from 2001 to 2018.
François Letexier
François Letexier is a French football referee who officiates in the Ligue 1. He has been a FIFA referee since 2017, and is ranked as a UEFA first category referee.
François Simon
François Simon is an author and a food critic, rumored in French press to have been the model for Anton Ego, the food critic in the 2007 animated film Ratatouille . He spent most of his career writing for French daily Le Figaro, which he left at the beginning of 2014.
François Christophe de Kellermann
François-Étienne-Christophe Kellermann or de Kellermann, 1st Duke of Valmy was a French military commander, later the Général d'Armée, a Marshal of the Empire and a freemason. Marshal Kellermann served in varying roles throughout the entirety of two epochal conflicts, the French Revolutionary Wars and the Napoleonic Wars. Kellermann is one of the names inscribed under the Arc de Triomphe, on Column 3.
François Pervis
François "Franck" Pervis is a French track cyclist. He is a former junior world champion in the team sprint and twice European under 23 champion, as well as a seven-time world champion and a holder of two world records. In 2014 he became the first track cyclist to win three individual world titles at one championship, in the keirin, 1 km and sprint.