List of Famous people named Francois

François Patriat is a French politician of La République En Marche! (LREM) who has been serving as president of the party's group in the Senate since 2017. He has represented the Côte-d'Or department in the Senate since 2008. Patriat also served as Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries in 2002 and President of the Regional Council of Burgundy from 2004 until 2015. He was a member of the Socialist Party before joining La République En Marche! in 2017.

François Budet was a French singer-songwriter, novelist and poet.

François Fortassin was a French politician and a member of the Senate of France. He represented the Hautes-Pyrénées department and was a secretary of the Senate and a member of the Radical Party of the Left.

François Grosdidier is a French politician. He served as mayor of Metz since 2020. He also represented he Moselle department in the Senate and is a member of The Republicans.

François Dagognet was a 20th-century French philosopher.

François Perroux was a French economist. He was named Professor at the Collège de France, after having taught at the University of Lyon and the University of Paris. He founded the Institut de Sciences Economiques Appliquées in 1944. He was an outspoken supporter of corporatism.

François Blondel was a soldier, engineer of fortifications, mathematician, diplomat, military and civil engineer and architect, called "the Great Blondel", to distinguish him in a dynasty of French architects. He is remembered for his Cours d'architecture which remained a central text for over a century. His precepts placed him in opposition with Claude Perrault in the larger culture war known under the heading Querelle des anciens et des modernes. If François Blondel was not the most highly reputed among the académiciens of his day, his were the writings that most generally circulated among the general public, the Cours de Mathématiques, the Art de jetter les Bombes, the Nouvelle manière de fortifier les places and, above all his Cours d'Architecture.

François Digard was a French politician who served as mayor of Saint-Lô between 1995 and 2014.

François Bellot is a Belgian politician. He is a member of the Reformist Movement (MR) party. He served as the Federal Minister for Mobility and Transport in the Wilmès' caretaker Government from April 17, 2016 to October 1, 2020.

François Blanc, nicknamed "The Magician of Homburg" and "The Magician of Monte Carlo", was a French entrepreneur and operator of casinos, including the Monte Carlo Casino in Monaco. His daughter, Marie-Félix, married Prince Roland Bonaparte and had issue.