List of Famous people named Francois

François Pinault is a French billionaire businessman, founder of the luxury group Kering and the investment company Artémis.

François Henri Goullet de Rugy is a French politician who served as President of the National Assembly from 2017 to 2018, and Ecology Minister from 2018 to 2019.

François "Faf" de Klerk is a South African professional rugby union player who plays as a scrum-half for English Premiership club Sale Sharks and the South Africa national team. He was a member of the South Africa team that won the 2019 Rugby World Cup.

François Asselineau is a French politician and an Inspector General for finances.

François Ozon is a French film director and screenwriter whose films are usually characterized by sharp satirical wit and a freewheeling view on human sexuality.

François Bayrou is a French centrist politician and the president of the Democratic Movement (MoDem), who was a candidate in the 2002, 2007 and 2012 French presidential elections. He is also president of the European Democratic Party.

François Bégaudeau is a French writer, journalist, and actor. He is best known for co-writing and starring in Entre les murs (2008), a film based on his 2006 novel of the same name. The film won the Palme d'Or at the 2008 Cannes Film Festival and received an Academy Award nomination for Best Foreign Language Film in 2009.

François Roland Truffaut was a French film director, screenwriter, producer, actor, and film critic. He is widely regarded as one of the founders of the French New Wave. In a career lasting over a quarter of a century, he remains an icon of the French film industry, having worked on over 25 films. Truffaut's film The 400 Blows is a defining film of the French New Wave movement, and has four sequels, Antoine et Colette, Stolen Kisses, Bed and Board, and Love on the Run, between 1958 and 1979.

François Berléand is a French actor.

François Rabelais was a French Renaissance writer, physician, Renaissance humanist, monk and Greek scholar. He has historically been regarded as a writer of satire, the grotesque, bawdy jokes, and songs.