Famous People with Name Francois

François Vatel            Origin/Culture/Country: French

François Vatel: was a French chef, famous for inventing Chantilly cream, a sweet, vanilla-flavoured whipped cream, for an extravagant banquet for 2,000 people hosted in honour of Louis XIV by Louis, the great Condé in April 1671 at the Château de Chantilly; hence the nam

François Martin            Origin/Culture/Country: French

François Martin: was the first Governor General of Pondicherry. He founded Pondicherry, the future capital of French India in 1674. He was Commissioner of French East India Company before holding this post and was preceded by François Baron and succeeded by Pierre Dulivie

François Caron            Origin/Culture/Country: French

François Caron: was a French Huguenot refugee to the Netherlands who served the Dutch East India Company (the Vereenigde Oostindische Compagnie or VOC, literally "United East India Company") for 30 years, rising from cabin boy to Director-General at Batavia, only one gra

François Berléand            Origin/Culture/Country: French

François Berléand: is a French actor.He plays Gilles Triquet, the officer manager and equivalent of David Brent in Le Bureau, the French version of The Office, produced by Canal+. He released a book about his childhood in 2006, Le fils de l'homme invisible (The son of the i

François Gautier            Origin/Culture/Country: Indian

François Gautier: a writer and journalist based in India. He came to India at the age of 19 and spent his first eight years in the "international city" of Auroville [1] India at the Sri Aurobindo Ashram in Pondicherry. He has been living in India since the 70's and is married to an Indian. He is a practising Hindu.He wrote for a national daily based in Paris. Thereafter after living for a few years in the ashram at Pondicherry, he resumed writing for various national and international papers but this time about Indian affairs.

Claude François            Origin/Culture/Country: French

Claude François: was a French pop singer and songwriter. He wrote "Comme d'habitude," the original version of "My Way."Claude François' mother was very musical and had her son take piano and violin lessons. On his own, the boy learned to play the drums. As a result of the 1956 Suez Crisis, the family returned to live in Monaco, where they struggled financially after Claude's father fell ill and could not work. A young Claude found a job as a bank clerk and at night earned extra money playing drums with an orchestra at the luxury hotels along the French Riviera.

Sandrine François            Origin/Culture/Country: French

Sandrine François: a French singer, born December 1980 in Paris. Whitney Houston, Tracy Chapman and Aretha Franklin were her early inspirations. She was discovered singing in a pub and invited to sing on the television show of Mireille Dumas. This appearance led to a record

Marie Joseph François            Origin/Culture/Country: French

Marie Joseph François: was a French officer and explorer known for his exploration of the Mekong River in Southeast Asia.He was born on July 25, 1839 at Saint-Étienne, and entered the French Navy, and after voyaging in Brazilian waters and the Pacific, he obtained a post on the

André François            Origin/Culture/Country: French

André François: was a Hungarian-born French cartoonist.He worked as a painter, sculptor and graphic designer, but is best remembered for his cartoons, whose subtle humor and wide influence bear comparison to those of Saul Steinberg. François initially worked for French l

Samson Pascal François            Origin/Culture/Country: French

Samson Pascal François: was a French pianist.François was born in Frankfurt where his father worked at the French consulate. His mother, Rose, named him Samson, for strength, and Pascal, for spirit. François discovered the piano early – at the age of two – and his first studies were in Italy, with Mascagni, who encouraged him to give his first concert at the age of six. Moving from country to country with his itinerant family, he studied in Belgrade with Cyril Licar, obtaining a first prize in performance. Licar also introduced him to the works of Bartók.