Famous People with Name Frances

Frances Bean Cobain            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Frances Bean Cobain: the only child of Nirvana frontman, Kurt Cobain and spouse Courtney Love. She was born at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, California at 7:48 AM, weighing 6 lb 1 oz,Frances Bean Cobain was born to musicians Kurt Cobain and Courtney Love on August 18, 1992 in Los Angeles, California. During Courtney Love's pregnancy with Frances, there were rumors suggesting that Courtney used heroin. This scandal intensified when Vanity Fair published Lynn Hirschberg's article "Strange Love" that alleged Love admitted to taking heroin even after learning of her pregnancy. The response to this article caused serious damage to Love's public standing, and many parenting groups called for Frances to be removed from her parents' custody immediately after birth. Along with Cobain

Frances Rose Shore            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Frances Rose Shore: was an American singer, actress, and television personality. She was most popular during the Big Band era of the 1940s and 1950s.After failing singing auditions for the bands of Benny Goodman and both Jimmy Dorsey and his brother Tommy Dorsey, Shore struck out on her own to become the first singer of her era to achieve huge solo success. She enjoyed a long string of over 80 charted popular hits, lasting from 1940 into the late '50s, and after appearing in a handful of films went on to a four-decade career in American television, starring in her own music and variety shows in the '50s and '60s and hosting two talk shows in the '70s

Frances Crews James            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Frances Crews James: an American academic ecologist. She served as a Professor of Biological Sciences at Florida State University. She studied geographic variation in the size and shape of birds, leading to transplant experiments with red-winged blackbirds and to tests of the theoretical assumptions underlying selection models. She is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Frances Elizabeth "Fran" Allen            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Frances Elizabeth "Fran" Allen: is an American computer scientist and pioneer in the field of optimizing compilers. Her achievements include seminal work in compilers, code optimization, and parallelization.

Frances Yeend            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Frances Yeend: was an American lyric soprano opera singer. Yeend was born Frances Leone Lynch in Vancouver, Washington and grew up in Portland, Oregon. She studied voice at Washington State University (then Washington State College) in Pullman, Washington.[1]