List of Famous people named Francois

François Zocchetto is French lawyer and politician who served as a member of the Senate of France from 2001 until 2017, representing the Mayenne department. He is a member of the Centrist Alliance and caucuses with the Centrist Union. In 2019, he joined independent law firm De Gaulle Fleurance & Associés in Paris as a partner.

François-Adrien Boieldieu was a French composer, mainly of operas, often called "the French Mozart".

François Thureau-Dangin was a French archaeologist, assyriologist and epigrapher. He played a major role in the deciphering of Sumerian and Akkadian languages.

François de Bassompierre was a French courtier.

François Joseph Charles Simiand was a French sociologist and economist best known as a participant in the Année Sociologique. As a member of the French Historical School of economics, Simiand predicated a rigorous factual and statistical basis for theoretical models and policies. His contribution to French social science was recognized in 1931 when, at the age of 58, he was elected to the faculty of the Collège de France and accepted the chair in labor history.