Frances Wilson Huard was an American-born writer, translator, and lecturer who wrote memoirs of life during World War I in France.

Frances Wright, widely known as Fanny Wright, was a Scottish-born lecturer, writer, freethinker, feminist, utopian socialist, abolitionist, social reformer, and Epicurean philosopher, who became a US citizen in 1825. The same year, she founded the Nashoba Commune in Tennessee as a utopian community to demonstrate how to prepare slaves for eventual emancipation, but the project lasted only five years.

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

Francis Aidan Cardinal Gasquet was an English Benedictine monk and historical scholar. He was created Cardinal in 1914.

Francis Amasa Walker was an American economist, statistician, journalist, educator, academic administrator, and an officer in the Union Army.

Francis Bacon, 1st Viscount St Alban , also known as Lord Verulam, was an English philosopher and statesman who served as Attorney General and Lord Chancellor of England under King James I. Bacon led the advancement of both natural philosophy and the scientific method and his works remained influential even in the late stages of the Scientific Revolution.

Francis Barton Gummere was a Professor of English, an influential scholar of folklore and ancient languages, and a student of Francis James Child.

Francis Brett Young was an English novelist, poet, playwright, composer, doctor and soldier.

Francis Davy Longe was an English first-class cricketer, lawyer, anti-classical economist and inspector for the Local Government Board.

Francis Ellingwood Abbot was an American philosopher and theologian who sought to reconstruct theology in accord with scientific method.