List of Famous people named Francois

François, Baron Englert is a Belgian theoretical physicist and 2013 Nobel prize laureate.

François Varillon (1905–1978) was a French Jesuit and theologian. He was also a writer of some significance. He entered the Society of Jesus, as a novitiate, at 22 and was ordained in 1937. He won the Grand prix catholique de littérature in 1974 for L’humilité de Dieu.

François Debret was a 19th-century French architect and Freemason. He was one of a group of influential academic architects in the 1820s and 1830s that furthered the precepts of Percier and Fontaine, although little of his own work survives.

François Robert Bacqué is a French prelate of the Catholic Church who spent his career in the diplomatic service of the Holy See, fulfilling several assignments as an apostolic nuncio.

Baron François Joseph Bosio was a Monegasque sculptor who achieved distinction in the first quarter of the nineteenth century with his work for Napoleon and for the restored French monarchy.

François Tallement was a French churchman and translator. He is often known as l'Aîné to distinguish him from his cousin Paul Tallement le Jeune.

François Loeser is a French mathematician. He is Professor of Mathematics at the Pierre-and-Marie-Curie University in Paris. From 2000 to 2010 he was Professor at École Normale Supérieure. Since 2015, he is a senior member of the Institut Universitaire de France.

François Mahé was a French professional road bicycle racer. He was professional from 1950 to 1965. Highlights from his career include one day in the yellow jersey as leader of the general classification in the 1953 Tour de France, a stage win in 1954 Tour de France as well as a stage win in Vuelta a España, Paris–Nice, Tour de Luxembourg and the Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré and coming second in the 1952 edition of the GP Ouest-France and the 1954 edition of Tour of Flanders.