List of Famous people named Francois

François III d’Orléans, Duke of Château-Thierry and of Fronsac, Count of Saint-Pol was governor of Orléans, Blois and Tours and a general of the French Wars of Religion. He was the second born son of Eleonor of Neuchâtel.

François Jacob was a French biologist who, together with Jacques Monod, originated the idea that control of enzyme levels in all cells occurs through regulation of transcription. He shared the 1965 Nobel Prize in Medicine with Jacques Monod and André Lwoff.

François Bondy was a Swiss journalist and novelist.

François Emmanuel Joseph Bazin was a well-known French opera composer during the nineteenth century.

François III de Longueville (1535–1551) was the eldest son of Louis II d'Orléans, Duke of Longueville and Marie de Guise. He succeeded his father, who died on 9 June 1537, to the duchy of Longueville.

François Aman-Jean, real name François Henri Amand Jean, was a French writer and playwright.