François

Given name and surname

FrançoisPronunciation| French: [fʁɑ̃swa]
English: /ˈfrɒ̃swɑː/, /frɒ̃ˈswɑː/, US also /frænˈswɑː/, /ˈfrænswɑː/

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Gender| Male
Origin
Language(s)| French
Other names
Related names| Françoise, Francis, Francesco, Franciscus, Francisco, Franciszek, Francesc, Ferenc, Frank, Franco, Franz, Frans, Franklin

François (French: [fʁɑ̃swa]) is a French masculine given name and surname, equivalent to the English name Francis.

## People with the given name

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* François Amoudruz (1926–2020), French resistance fighter
* François-Marie Arouet (better known as Voltaire; 1694–1778), French Enlightenment writer, historian, and philosopher
* François Beauchemin (born 1980), Canadian ice hockey player for the Anaheim Ducks
* François Blanc (1806–1877), French entrepreneur and operator of casinos
* François Bonlieu (1937–1973), French alpine skier
* François Cevert (1944–1973), French racing driver
* François Chau (born 1959), Cambodian American actor
* François Clemmons (born 1945), American singer and actor
* François Corbier (1944–2018), French television presenter and songwriter
* François Coty (1874–1934), French perfumer
* François Coulomb the Elder (1654–1717), French naval architect
* François Coulomb the Younger (1691–1751), French naval architect
* François Couperin (1668–1733), French Baroque composer, keyboardist
* François Couturier (born 1950), French jazz pianist
* François Henricus Anthonie van Dixhoorn (born 1948), Dutch poet
* François de Klerk (born 1991), South African rugby player
* François "Faf" du Plessis (born 1984), South African cricketer
* François Englert (born 1932), Belgian particle physicist who in 2013 shared the Nobel Prize with Peter Higgs
* François Feldman (born 1958), French singer
* François Gautier (born 1950), French journalist
* François Gernigon (born 1961), French politician
* François Lalande (1930–2020), French actor
* François Lapointe (politician) (born 1971), Canadian politician
* François Lapointe (racewalker) (born 1961), Canadian racewalker
* François Laroque (born 1948), French academic, translator and Shakespeare specialist
* François Lavoie (born 1993), Canadian ten-pin bowler
* François Leterrier (1929–2020), French film director and actor
* François Lionet (born 1963), French computer programmer
* François Pienaar (born 1965), South African rugby player
* François Pinault (born 1936), French billionaire
* François-Henri Pinault (born 1962), French billionaire
* François Prelati, Italian cleric and alchemist
* François Quesnay (1694–1774), French economist
* François Rabbath (born 1931), French double-bass player and composer
* François Rabelais (died 1553), French Renaissance writer, doctor and humanist
* François-Xavier Roth (born 1971), French conductor
* François Rozenthal (born 1975), French ice hockey player
* François Ruffin (born 1975), French journalist, filmmaker, author and politician
* François Sagat (born 1979), French model and porn actor
* François van 't Sant (1883–1966), Dutch spy and police commissioner
* François Steyn (born 1987), South African rugby player
* François Vincent Henri Antoine de Stuers (1792–1881), Dutch general
* François Tracanelli (born 1951), French pole vaulter
* François Trinh-Duc (born 1986), French rugby player
* François Truffaut (1932–1984), French film director, screenwriter, producer, actor and film critic
* François Vérove (1962–2021), French serial killer
* François Vidal (1832–1911), French poet
* François Villon (c. 1431–1463), French poet and outlaw

### Heads of state and government

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#### France

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* Francis I of France (1494–1547), King of France (r. 1515–1547), known as "the Father and Restorer of Letters"
* Francis II of France (1554–1560), King of France and King consort of Scots (r. 1558–1560), known as the husband of Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots
* François Fillon (born 1954), Prime Minister of France 2007–2012
* François Hollande (born 1954), President of France 2012–2017
* François Mitterrand (1916–1996), President of France 1981–1995

#### Haiti

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* François Denys Légitime (1841–1935), President of Haiti from 1888 to 1889
* François Duvalier (1907–1971), President of Haiti from 1957 to 1971

### Fictional characters

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* Francois Turbot, a recurring character in the Canadian television series PAW Patrol

### Further disambiguation

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* François Aubry (disambiguation), several people
* François Baby (disambiguation), several people
* François Boucher (disambiguation), several people
* François Caron (disambiguation), several people
* François Dominique (disambiguation), several people
* François Duval (disambiguation), several people
* François Fournier (disambiguation), several people

## People with the surname

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* Abraham François (born 1977), Canadian soccer player
* Alexandre François, French linguist
* André François (1915–2005), Hungarian-born French cartoonist
* Christian Francois (born 1985), volleyball player from Trinidad and Tobago
* Claude François (1939–1978), French pop singer
* Déborah François (born 1987), Belgian actress
* Deondre Francois (born 1997), Haitian-born American football player
* Elvis Francois (born 1985), American orthopedic surgeon and singer
* Guillaume François (born 1990), Belgian professional footballer
* Hermann von François (1856–1933), German general during WW1
* Hunter J. Francois (1924–2014), Saint Lucian politician
* Jacques François (1920–2003), French actor
* Julien François (born 1979), French footballer
* Kendall Francois (1971–2014), serial killer from Poughkeepsie, New York
* Mark François (born 1965), British politician
* Tony François (born 1971), Mauritian international footballer

## See also

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* "Citizen François", a caricatural personification of Revolutionary France by James Gillray
* François, Deux-Sèvres, a municipality in the Poitou-Charentes region, France
* Francois, Newfoundland and Labrador, a settlement in Canada
* Le François, a town on the island of Martinique, France
* Lefrançois, a French surname
* Saint-François (disambiguation)
* Frànçois & the Atlas Mountains
* françois (language) [fr] (IPA [frãˈs(w)ɛ]), a common name describing the French language before the reform of French orthography in 1835.

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