Francesco Bonatelli (1830-1911) was a 19th-century Italian philosopher of the Roman Catholic spiritualist tradition.

Francesco Girolamo Cancellieri was an Italian writer, librarian, and erudite bibliophile.

Francesco Casetti is an Italian naturalized US citizen film and television theorist. He is Sterling Professor of Humanities and Film and Media Studies at Yale University. He has been described as "the best analyst of cinematographic enunciation."

Francesco Cattani da Diacceto was a Florentine Neoplatonist philosopher of the Italian Renaissance.

Francesco M. Cordasco was an American sociologist and bibliographer who wrote and edited over 100 books. He specialized in immigration history and educational sociology.

Francesco di Neri di Ranuccio, known better as Francesco da Barberino (1264–1348), was a Tuscan notary, doctor of law and author.

Francesco Dall'Ongaro was an Italian writer, poet and dramatist.

Francesco de Sanctis was a leading Italian literary critic and scholar of Italian language and literature during the 19th century.

Francesco Domenico Guerrazzi was an Italian writer and politician involved in the Italian Risorgimento.

Francesco the "Florentine" was an Italian renaissance and sculptor from Florence, Italy. His date of birth is unknown. He died on 16 October 1516 in Kraków, Poland.