List of Famous people named Francois

François Doubin was a French politician and cabinet minister. He was a member and leader of the Radical Party of the Left.

François Tombalbaye, also known as N'Garta Tombalbaye, was a Chadian teacher and a trade union activist who served as the first President of Chad. The head of Chad's colonial government and its ruling party, the Chadian Progressive Party, after 1959, Tombalbaye was appointed the nation's head of government after its independence on 11 August 1960. He ruled as a dictator until his deposition and assassination by members of the Chadian military in 1975.

François Guérin (1927–2003) was a French film and television actor.

François Lalande was an Algerian-born French actor. He had performed in the theatre, on television, and films.

François Dubanchet was a French politician.

François de Gaulle was a French Catholic priest and missionary.

François Hussenot was a French engineer, credited with the invention of one of the early forms of the flight data recorder.

François Pyrard de Laval was a French navigator who is remembered for a personal written account of his adventures in the Maldives Islands from 1602 to 1607, which was part of a ten-year sojourn (1601–1611) in South Asia, et al. He was a native of Laval, and was a cousin to theologian Pierre Pyrard (1581–1667).

François Athanase de Charette de la Contrie was a Breton Royalist soldier and politician. He served in the French Royal Navy during the American Revolutionary War and was one of the leaders of the Revolt in the Vendée against the revolutionary regime. His nephew Athanase-Charles-Marie Charette de la Contrie was a noted military leader and grandson of Charles X the last king of France.

François Burgat, born April 2 1948 in Chambéry, is a French political scientist and arabist, Research Fellow at the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) posted at IREMAM in Aix-en-Provence. He has been the Principal Investigator of the European Research Council research program "When Autoritarism Fails in the Arab World WAFAW" (2013-2017).