Francis


Gender:
Origin: German, Latin
4738 famous people named Francis found on Wikipedia.
285792 male, 29192 female in US.
Most recent ranking: 480-th in year 2018
Best ranking: 29-th in year 1915
Used in: English, French

Meanings

A male given name: from an Old French word meaning “Frenchman.”.

Francis is a French and English given name of Latin origin.
Francis is a name that has many derivatives in most European languages. The female version of the name in English is Frances, and (less commonly) Francine. (For most speakers, Francis and Frances are homophones or near homophones; a popular mnemonic for the spelling is "i for him and e for her".) The name Frank is a common diminutive for Francis and Franny for Frances.

Masc. proper name, from French François, from Old French Franceis "noble, free," as a noun "a Frenchman, inhabitant of Ile-de-France; the French language," from Late Latin Franciscus, literally "Frankish;" cognate with French and frank (adj.).

From France, frenchman, free man.

Famous People: 4738 found on Wikipedia.
Popularity Name Birth Year Description
1 Francis 1936 266th Pope of the Catholic Church
2 Francis II of France 1544 King of France
3 Francis Ford Coppola 1939 Film director and producer from the United States
4 Francis Gary Powers 1929 American pilot who was shot down while flying a U-2 spy plane over Soviet Union airspace
5 Francis of Assisi 1182 Catholic saint and founder of the Franciscan Order
6 Francis Drake 1540 English sea captain, privateer, navigator, slaver, and politician of the Elizabethan era
7 Francis I of France 1494 King of France
8 Leigh Francis 1973 British actor
9 Francis Bacon 1909 Irish-born British painter
10 Connie Francis 1938 American pop singer
11 Saint Francis Xavier 1506 Spanish saint
12 Francis Scott Key 1779 American lawyer and poet
13 Francis Crick 1916 British molecular biologist, biophysicist, neuroscientist; co-discoverer of the structure of DNA
14 Francis Ouimet 1893 Amateur golfer
15 Francis I of Austria 1768 Deceased Monarch
16 Steve Francis 1977 American basketball player
17 Francis Galton 1822 British polymath: geographer, statistician, pioneer in eugenics
18 Melissa Francis 1972 Former child actress, television business news anchor and journalist
19 Francis Marion 1732 American politician
20 Dillon Francis 1987 DJ and record producer
21 Anne Francis 1930 American actress
22 Francis Coquelin 1991 Footballer
23 Francis Ngannou 1986 French mixed martial artist
24 Joe Francis 1973 American film producer
25 Genie Francis 1962 American actress
26 Francis Fukuyama 1952 American political scientist, political economist, and author
27 Francis Dolarhyde Fictional serial killer
28 Francis Lawrence 1971 American music video, film and television director
29 Black Francis 1965 American singer, songwriter and guitarist
30 Francis Chan 1967 American writer
31 Francis I, Holy Roman Emperor 1708 Holy Roman Emperor and Grand Duke of Tuscany
32 Francis Mallmann 1956 Argentinian cook and cook
33 Francis Capra 1983 Actor
34 Arlene Francis 1907 American actress, radio and television talk show host, and game show panelist
35 Francis Walsingham 1532 English spy, diplomat and politician
36 Francis Poulenc 1899 French composer
37 Francis Collins 1950 Geneticist; Director of the National Institutes of Health
38 Francis Rossi 1949 British musician
39 Trevor Francis 1954 English footballer and manager
40 Francis Jeffers 1981 English footballer
41 Francis de Sales 1567 French bishop, saint, writer and Doctor of the Church
42 Francis Urquhart
43 Francis Magalona 1964 Rapper, songwriter, Producer, actor, director
44 Stacy Francis 1969 American singer
45 Jan Francis 1947 English actress
46 Kay Francis 1905 Actress
47 Francis Picabia 1879 French painter and writer
48 Francis Schaeffer 1912 American theologian
49 Francis Escudero 1969 Filipino politician
50 Dick Francis 1920 English jockey and crime writer
51 Francis Bellamy 1855 American minister
52 Francis Pegahmagabow 1891 World War I sniper
53 Robert Francis 1930 American actor
54 Ron Francis 1963 Canadian ice hockey player
55 Simon Francis 1985 English footballer
56 Francis Ginibre 1959 French comedian
57 Francis Magee 1959 Irish actor
58 Francis Carmont 1981 Mixed martial artist
59 Willie Francis 1929 American murderer
60 Francis Ng 1961 Hong Kong actor
61 Francis M. Fesmire 1959 American emergency physician
62 Andrew Francis 1985 Canadian actor and voice actor
63 Francis Dereham English courtier
64 Francis Alexander Shields 1941 American businessman
65 Francis Lorenzo 1961 Spanish presenter, actor and journalist
66 Sage Francis 1976 American rapper
67 Francis Bryan 1490 English courtier and diplomat
68 Francis Lenn Taylor 1897 American art dealer
69 Francis Pangilinan 1963 Filipino politician
70 Francis Chichester 1901 New Zealand yacht racer
71 Francis III, Duke of Brittany 1518 Duke of Briittany
72 Francis Thompson 1859 British poet
73 Francis Spellman 1889 American Catholic cardinal
74 Francis X. Bushman 1883 American actor, director, writer
75 Francis Lai 1932 French composer
76 Stu Francis 1951 British comedian
77 Francis Cabot Lowell 1775 An American businessman for whom the city of Lowell, Massachusetts is named. Instrumental in bringing the Industrial Revolution to the United States
78 Francis Maude 1953 British politician
79 Francis Preston Blair 1791 American newspaper editor and presidential advisor
80 Francis Lee 1944 English footballer
81 Francis Rooney 1953 American diplomat
82 Samuel T. Francis 1947 Journalist, historian
83 Francis Lax 1930 French actor
84 Francis Matthews 1927 English actor
85 Francis Ford 1881 Actor, film director
86 Piers Francis 1990 English rugby union player
87 Clive Francis 1946 British actor
88 Francis Folger Franklin 1732 Son of Benjamin Franklin
89 Francis Buchholz 1954 German musician
90 Francis Biddle 1886 United States federal judge
91 Francis II of the Two Sicilies 1836 King of the Two Sicilies
92 Francis Cabrel 1953 French-Occitan singer-songwriter and guitarist
93 Francis Townsend 1867 American politician
94 Francis Hutcheson 1694 Irish philosopher
95 Francis Hopkinson 1737 American politician, judge, and author
96 Francis Parkman 1823 American historian
97 Stewart Francis Canadian actor
98 Francis Rawdon-Hastings, 1st Marquess of Hastings 1754 Governor-General of India
99 Francis Davis 1946 American journalist and writer
100 Francis P. Duffy 1871 Roman Catholic priest and United States Army officer
101 Francis Parker Yockey 1917 American writer
102 Francis Greenway 1777 Architect
103 Francis I of the Two Sicilies 1777 King of the Two Sicilies
104 Francis Tumblety 1833 Charlatan; criminal suspect
105 Francis Josias, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld 1697 Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld
106 Francis Crowley 1911 American criminal who went on a 3-month crime spree in the New York-area in 1931 and captured after a 2-hour standoff with the NYPD.
107 Francis Farewell Starlite 1981 American musician
108 Gerry Francis 1951 English footballer and manager
109 Francis George 1937 Catholic cardinal
110 Francis II Rákóczi 1676 Leader of the Hungarian uprising against the Habsburgs in 1703-11
111 Francis Sheehy-Skeffington 1878 Irish suffragist, pacifist and writer
112 Francis Borgia, 4th Duke of Gandía 1510 Grandee of Spain
113 Jeff Francis 1981 Canadian baseball player
114 Francis Austen 1774 Royal Navy officer
115 Francis Fulford 1953 23rd Fulford of Great Fulford
116 Francis Tolentino 1958 Filipino mayor
117 Francis Asbury 1745 Methodist bishop in America
118 Francis Lederer 1899 Actor
119 Francis W. Eppes 1801 American politician
120 Francis Younghusband 1863 British army explorer
121 Don Francis 1942 American epidemiologist
122 Francis Magundayao 1999 Filipino actor
123 Francis Lightfoot Lee 1734 American politician
124 Francis Crozier 1796 British naval officer
125 Sam Francis 1923 American artist
126 Francis Arinze 1932 Catholic cardinal
127 Francis Obikwelu 1978 Nigerian-born Olympic sprinter who competed for Portugal
128 Francis Wheen 1957 British journalist, writer and broadcaster
129 Francis Benali 1968 English footballer
130 Francis Rocard 1957 French astrophysicist
131 Francis Weston 1511 English knight
132 Francis Lemarque 1917 French singer
133 Julius Francis 1964 British boxer
134 Francis V, Duke of Modena 1819 Italian politician
135 Francis Nash 1742 American general
136 Francis Egerton, 7th Duke of Sutherland 1940 Duke of Sutherland
137 Francis William Aston 1877 British chemist
138 Francis Hughes 1956 Volunteer in the Provisional Irish Republican Army
139 Francis P. Hammerberg 1920 United States Navy Medal of Honor recipient
140 Francis Ysidro Edgeworth 1845 Irish economist
141 Francis Darwin 1848 Son of Charles Darwin
142 Francis Pryor 1945 British archaeologist
143 Francis Boulle 1963 British reality television participent
144 Francis Lewis 1713 Signatory of the US Declaration of Independence, from Wales
145 Russ Francis 1953 Player of American football
146 Bev Francis 1955 Australian bodybuilder, powerlifter, and national shot put champion
147 Francis Dashwood, 11th Baron le Despencer 1708 British politician
148 Francis Davis Millet 1848 American painter, sculptor, and writer who died in the sinking of the RMS Titanic
149 Francis Dunnery 1962 English musician, singer-songwriter and record producer
150 Francis A. Nixon 1878 American businessman
151 Francis de Wolff 1913 English actor
152 Francis Yeoh 1954 Malaysian businessman
153 Francis Szpiner 1954 French screenwriter and lawyer
154 Wil Francis 1982 American musician
155 Tomas Francis 1992 British rugby union player
156 Francis Light 1740 Royal Navy officer
157 Francis Brennan 1955 Irish hotelier
158 Francis Ormsby-Gore, 6th Baron Harlech 1954 British peer
159 Freddie Francis 1917 Cinematographer, film director
160 Francis Veber 1937
161 Francis Doe 1985 Liberian footballer
162 Francis Beaufort 1774 Anglo-Irish hydrographer and naval officer
163 Francis Cooke 1583 An original settler of Plymouth Colony
164 Francis Newton Souza 1924 Indian artist
165 Francis of Paola 1416 Italian mendicant friar
166 Francis Kurkdjian 1969 American businessman
167 Francis L. Sullivan 1903 Actor
168 Francis Bebey 1929 Cameroonian artist, musician and writer
169 Francis Peyton Rous 1879 American scientist
170 Francis Alÿs 1959 Belgian artist
171 Francis II, Duke of Brittany 1435 Duke of Brittany
172 Francis Lovell, 1st Viscount Lovell 1454 English nobleman
173 Francis Zégut 1953 French radio host
174 Francis Daniel Pastorius 1651 German-born American educator, lawyer, poet, and public official
175 Francis Ledwidge 1887 Irish poet
176 Francis Saili 1991 Rugby player
177 Juliana Francis American actress
178 Francis Lieber 1798 German-American jurist, gymnast and political philosopher
179 Francis I, Duke of Lorraine 1517 Duke of Lorraine
180 Francis C. Barlow 1834 Lawyer, politician, and Union General during the American Civil War
181 Francis McDonald 1891 Actor
182 Francis Beaumont 1584 British dramatist
183 Francis James Child 1825 American folklorist
184 Francis Amasa Walker 1840 Union Army general and a Commissioner of Indian Affairs
185 Francis Tresham 1567 English conspirator
186 Geff Francis 1960 Black British Actor
187 Francis Browne 1880 Irish photographer
188 Francis Boyle 1950 American academic
189 Francis Seow 1928 Singaporean former politician and lawyer
190 Francis Dickens 1844 Member of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, child of Victorian-era novelist Charles Dickens
191 Francis Heaulme 1959 French murderer
192 Bevo Francis 1932 American basketball player
193 Francis Spufford 1964 British writer
194 Francis Letellier 1964 French journalist
195 Francis Hong Yong-ho 1906 Catholic bishop
196 A. J. Francis 1990 American Football player
197 Francis Cheka 1982 Tanzanian boxer
198 Francis Guinan 2000 American actor
199 Francis Rattenbury 1867 Canadian architect
200 Francis Marion Crawford 1854 Novelist, short story writer, essayist