List of Famous people named Francois

François Paul Louis Pollen (1842–1886) was a Dutch naturalist and merchant. He made major contributions to the study of the Malagasy fauna.

François le Métel de Boisrobert was a French poet, playwright, and courtier.

François Auguste Péron was a French naturalist and explorer.

François Abou Mokh, BS was a Curial Bishop in the Melkite Patriarchate of Antioch in Syria.

François Benjamin Courvoisier was a Swiss-born valet who was convicted of murdering his employer Lord William Russell in London, England, and hanged outside Newgate Prison on 6 July 1840. A crowd of around 40,000 witnessed his death, including Charles Dickens and William Makepeace Thackeray.

François Arnaud was a French clergyman, writer, and philologist.

François Norbert Blanchet was a French Canadian-born missionary priest and prelate of the Catholic Church who was instrumental in establishing the Catholic Church presence in the Pacific Northwest. He was one of the first Catholic priests to arrive in what was then known as the Oregon Country and subsequently became the first bishop and archbishop of the Archdiocese of Oregon City.