Famous People with Name Francois

François Bordes            Origin/Culture/Country: French

François Bordes: was a French scientist, geologist, and archaeologist. He was a professor of prehistory and quaternary geology at the Science Faculty of Bordeaux. He deeply renewed the approach of prehistoric lithic industries, introducing statistical studies in typology and expanding the use of experimental flint knapping.

François Charpentier            Origin/Culture/Country: French

François Charpentier: was a French archaeologist and man of letters. Charpentier regarded as absurd the use of Latin in monumental inscriptions, and to him was entrusted the task of supplying the paintings of Charles Le Brun in the Versailles Gallery with appropriate legends. His verses were so indifferent that they had to be replaced by others, the work of Jean Racine and Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux, both enemies of his. Charpentier in his Excellence de la langue française (1683) had anticipated Charles Perrault in the famous academical dispute concerning the relative merit of the ancients and moderns. He is credited with a share in the production of the magnificent series of medals that commemorate the principal events of the age of Louis XIV.

François Lenormant            Origin/Culture/Country: French

François Lenormant: was a French assyriologist and archaeologist. In 1858 he visited Italy and in 1859 accompanied his father on a journey of exploration to Greece, during which Charles succumbed to fever at Athens. Lenormant returned to Greece three times during the next six years, supervising excavations at Eleusis and gave up all the time he could spare from his official work to archaeological research.

François De Joyeuse            Origin/Culture/Country: French

François De Joyeuse: was a French churchman and politician.[1] His brothers Anne and Claude were captured in 1587 after the Battle of Coutras and killed in the general massacre that followed. As a result, François became Duke of Joyeuse. In 1590 the title of Duke of Joyeuse was passed to another of his younger brothers, Scipion, who drowned himself in the Tarn after the defeat of Villemur[6] in 1592, then to Henri de Joyeuse, the youngest brother, who died in 1608. The title passed to Henri's daughter Henriette, who had married Henri de Montpensier in 1597.

François De Mailly            Origin/Culture/Country: French

François De Mailly: was a French archbishop and Cardinal[1]. He was Archbishop of Arles from 1697, then Archbishop of Reims from 1710.

Abraham Francois            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Abraham Francois: is a Canadian soccer player who currently plays for Detroit Ignition in the Major Indoor Soccer League. In 2000 he signed for the Montreal Impact of the USL First Division, where the team had a bad start to the season, missing out on the playoffs for the first time since 1993. Francois played futsal by the QCSL World Cup 2010.

Samir-André Yousef Jonatan Al-Ajani Lajoié De Fran            Origin/Culture/Country: French

Samir-André Yousef Jonatan Al-Ajani Lajoié De Fran: is a French model and actor. After gaining fame for winning a French talent quest and playing the role of Jonatan Dupree in the television drama Amor et Perte, Samir went on to have a small television, film and modelling career. He was mostly popular in his home-country of New Caledonia, mainland China and Japan.

Antoine-François            Origin/Culture/Country: French

Antoine-François: was a French general and diplomat of noble origin and Italian descent. Promoted to Brigadier General in November 1797, the following July he commanded the French flotilla on the Nile (see French Revolutionary Wars: Campaigns of 1798), and then served as Louis Alexandre Berthier's assistant in Syria. He returned to France with Napoleon, assisted him during the 18 Brumaire coup, and became Général de Division in 1800.

Arnail François            Origin/Culture/Country: French

Arnail François: was a French aristocrat and politician. A deputy to the Legislative Assembly in 1791, elected by the départment of Seine-et-Marne, he generally voted with the minority. As his views came to be considered too moderate by his colleagues, he resigned in 1792, and was soon after arrested on suspicion of being a reactionary. Madame de Staël obtained his release from Louis Pierre Manuel just before the September Massacres. He subsequently accompanied Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord on his mission to the Kingdom of Great Britain, returning to France after the execution of King Louis XVI.

Roger François            Origin/Culture/Country: French

Roger François: was a French weightlifter who competed in the 1924 Summer Olympics, in the 1928 Summer Olympics, and in the 1932 Summer Olympics.