List of Famous people named Francois

François Vatel was the majordomo of Nicolas Fouquet and prince Louis II de Bourbon-Condé.

François Poullain de la Barre was an author, catholic priest and a Cartesian philosopher.

François Charles Mauriac was a French novelist, dramatist, critic, poet, and journalist, a member of the Académie française, and laureate of the Nobel Prize in Literature (1952). He was awarded the Grand Cross of the Légion d'honneur in 1958. He was a lifelong Catholic.

François Renaud was a French judge whose murder in 1975 led to much speculation, but was never solved. He was the first judge in France to have been assassinated since World War II. His death inspired the French film Le Juge Fayard dit Le Shériff (1977), directed by Yves Boisset.

François Dupeyron was a French film director and screenwriter. He directed 17 films between 1977 and 2015. His film La Chambre des officiers was entered into the 2001 Cannes Film Festival.

François Flohic was a French naval officer and associate of General Charles de Gaulle. Born in Ploubazlanec, Brittany, he joined the Free French Naval Forces during World War II. He saw action escorting Atlantic convoys and took part in the D-day landings at Normandy, and in the course of his career eventually rose to the rank of admiral. After the war, he served as an advisor and aide-de-camp to de Gaulle, whom he had first met in 1943. He published several books of memoirs, including Ni chagrin ni pitié : souvenirs d'un marin de la France libre (1985) and De Gaulle intime (2010).

François Viète, Seigneur de la Bigotière was a French mathematician whose work on new algebra was an important step towards modern algebra, due to its innovative use of letters as parameters in equations. He was a lawyer by trade, and served as a privy councillor to both Henry III and Henry IV of France.

François Weyergans was a Belgian writer and director. His father, Franz Weyergans, was a Belgian and also a writer, while his mother was from Avignon in France. François Weyergans was elected to the Académie française on 26 March 2009, taking the 32nd seat which became vacant with the death of Alain Robbe-Grillet in 2008.

François Ravaillac was a French Catholic zealot who assassinated King Henry IV of France in 1610.

François Villeroy de Galhau is a French civil servant and banker serving as Governor of the Bank of France and ex officio President of the French Prudential Supervision and Resolution Authority since 2015.