François Catrou was a French historian, translator, and Jesuit priest.

François Chalais was a prominent French reporter, journalist, writer and film historian. The François Chalais Prize at the annual Cannes Film Festival is named after him.

François Charles-Roux was a French businessman, historian and diplomat. He was born in Marseille.

François Charpentier was a French archaeologist and man of letters.

François Cheng is a Chinese-born French academician, writer, poet, and calligrapher. He is the author of essays, novels, collections of poetry and books on art written in the French language, and the translator of some of the great French poets into Chinese.

François Clement was a French historian and member of the Benedictine Congregation of St. Maur.

François Coillard was a French missionary who worked for the Paris Evangelical Missionary Society in southern Africa.

François Edouard Joachim Coppée was a French poet and novelist.

François de Belleforest was a prolific French author, poet and translator of the Renaissance.

François de La Mothe Le Vayer, was a French writer who was known to use the pseudonym Orosius Tubero. He was admitted to the Académie française in 1639, and was the tutor of Louis XIV.