French Baroque composer, organist and harpsichordist (1668–1733)
François Couperin
François Couperin was a French Baroque composer, organist and harpsichordist.
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French author of maxims and memoirs (1613-1680)
François de La Rochefoucauld
François de La Rochefoucauld, 2nd Duke of La Rochefoucauld, Prince de Marcillac was an accomplished French moralist of the era of French Classical literature and author of Maximes and Memoirs, the only two works of his dense literary œuvre published.
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French biologist and geneticist, winner of the Nobel Prize in 1965
François Jacob
François Jacob was a French biologist.
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French writer (1885-1970)
François Mauriac
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.
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21st President of the French Republic from 1981 to 1995 (1916–1996)
François Mitterrand
François Maurice Adrien Marie Mitterrand was President of France from 1981 to 1995.
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16th-century French writer and humanist (1494–1553)
François Rabelais
François Rabelais was a French writer who has been called the first great French prose author.
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French film director (1932–1984)
François Truffaut
François Roland Truffaut was a French filmmaker, actor, and critic.
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French poet and criminal
François Villon
François Villon is the best known French poet of the Late Middle Ages.
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French composer and chess player (1726-1795)
François-André Danican Philidor
François-André Danican Philidor, born François-André Danican and often referred to as André Danican Philidor during his lifetime, was a French composer and chess master.
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