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British molecular biologist, biophysicist, neuroscientist; co-discoverer of the structure of DNA (1916–2004)

Francis Crick

Francis Harry Compton Crick was an English molecular biologist, biophysicist, and neuroscientist.

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French bishop, saint, writer and Doctor of the Church (1567-1622)

Francis de Sales

Francis de Sales was a Catholic prelate from Savoy who served as Bishop of Geneva from 1602 to 1622.

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American filmmaker (born 1939)

Francis Ford Coppola

Francis Ford Coppola is an American filmmaker.

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American political scientist, political economist, and author

Francis Fukuyama

Francis Yoshihiro Fukuyama is an American political scientist, political economist, and international relations scholar.

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British eugenist, polymath, and behavioural geneticist (1822–1911)

Francis Galton

Sir Francis Galton was an English polymath and the originator of eugenics during the Victorian era; his ideas later became the basis of behavioural genetics.

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Italian Catholic saint, friar, deacon and preacher and founder of the Franciscan Order (1181/2–1226)

Francis of Assisi

Giovanni di Pietro di Bernardone, known as Francis of Assisi, was an Italian mystic, poet and Catholic friar who founded the religious order of the Franciscans.

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French composer and pianist (1899–1963)

Francis Poulenc

Francis Jean Marcel Poulenc was a French composer and pianist.

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Spanish Catholic saint and missionary (1506–1552)

Francis Xavier

Francis Xavier, venerated as Saint Francis Xavier, was a Navarrese cleric and missionary.

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Spanish painter (1598–1664)

Francisco de Zurbarán

Francisco de Zurbarán was a Spanish Baroque painter.

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