List of Famous people named Francois
François Fulgis Chevallier
François Fulgis Chevallier was a French botanist whose areas of interest included fungi, ferns and algae.
François Beaugendre
François Beaugendre was an early twentieth century French road racing cyclist who participated in the 1903 Tour de France and finished ninth overall. Beaugendre also rode the first four stages of the 1904 Tour de France, where he finished 7th, 11th, 3rd and 3rd, and did not start the fifth stage. Months after this Tour finished, many cyclists were disqualified, and Beaugendre's results were upgraded to 3rd, 6th, 2nd and 1st; Beaugendre was therefore declared winner of the fourth stage, and following the disqualifications he had been leader at the moment he left the race.
François Magendie
François Magendie was a French physiologist, considered a pioneer of experimental physiology. He is known for describing the foramen of Magendie. There is also a Magendie sign, a downward and inward rotation of the eye due to a lesion in the cerebellum. Magendie was a faculty at the College of France, holding the Chair of Medicine from 1830 to 1855.
François Lefebvre de Caumartin
François Lefebvre de Caumartin or Jean François Paul Lefèvre de Caumartin was a French bishop.
François Eudes de Mézeray
François Eudes de Mézeray was a French historian.
François Recanati
François Recanati is a French analytic philosopher and research fellow at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique. Many of his works focus on the philosophy of language and mind.
François Tabar
François Bossuet
François-Antoine Bossuet was a painter and draughtsman of the Belgian school.
François Pétis de la Croix
François Pétis de la Croix (1653–1713) was a French orientalist.
François Letellier
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