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1,666 profilesFrancisco Pizarro
c. 1478 – 26 June 1541
Francisco Pizarro (c. 1478-1541) was a Spanish conquistador who led the conquest of the Inca Empire in the 1530s. After...
Franco Luambo
6 July 1938 – 12 October 1989
Franco Luambo, also known as Luambo Makiadi, was a Congolese guitarist, singer and bandleader who led TPOK Jazz, one of...
François Jacob
17 June 1920 – 19 April 2013
François Jacob was a French biologist who shared the 1965 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discoveries concerni...
François Mitterrand
26 October 1916 – 8 January 1996
François Mitterrand was a French politician who served as President of France from 1981 to 1995, the longest presidentia...
Francois Pienaar
2 January 1967 – present
Francois Pienaar is a South African former rugby union flanker who captained the Springboks in every one of his 29 Test...
François Rabelais
c. 1483 – c. 1553
François Rabelais was a French Renaissance writer, physician, and former monk, famous for the satirical and exuberant no...
François Viète
1540 – 23 February 1603
François Viète (1540-1603) was a French mathematician and lawyer whose work on 'new algebra' introduced systematic symbo...
Françoise Barré-Sinoussi
30 July 1947 – present
Françoise Barré-Sinoussi is a French virologist. Working in Luc Montagnier's laboratory at the Institut Pasteur in Paris...
Frank Lloyd Wright
8 June 1867 – 9 April 1959
Frank Lloyd Wright was an American architect, designer, and writer regarded as one of the most influential figures in mo...
Frank Sinatra
12 December 1915 – 14 May 1998
American singer and actor, one of the best-selling recording artists of the twentieth century. He won an Academy Award f...
Frank Whittle
1 June 1907 – 9 August 1996
Sir Frank Whittle (1907-1996) was a British Royal Air Force engineer air officer who invented the turbojet engine. He pa...
Franklin D. Roosevelt
30 January 1882 – 12 April 1945
The 32nd President of the United States, elected to four terms, who led the country through the Great Depression with th...
Franz Beckenbauer
11 September 1945 – 7 January 2024
Franz Beckenbauer was a German footballer and manager who played as a sweeper for Bayern Munich, Hamburger SV and the Ne...
Franz Kafka
3 July 1883 – 3 June 1924
Prague-born German-language writer whose surreal tales of alienation and inscrutable bureaucracy gave rise to the term K...
Franz Liszt
22 October 1811 – 31 July 1886
Franz Liszt (1811-1886) was a Hungarian composer, virtuoso pianist, conductor, and teacher of the Romantic era. Regarded...
Franz Schubert
31 January 1797 – 19 November 1828
Franz Schubert (1797-1828) was an Austrian composer of the late Classical and early Romantic eras. Despite dying at 31,...
Fred Hoyle
24 June 1915 – 20 August 2001
Sir Fred Hoyle (1915-2001) was an English astronomer best known for his theory of stellar nucleosynthesis, explaining ho...
Freddie Mercury
5 September 1946 – 24 November 1991
British singer and songwriter, the flamboyant frontman of Queen, remembered for his four-octave voice and one of the gre...
Frédéric Chopin
1 March 1810 – 17 October 1849
Polish composer and virtuoso pianist of the Romantic era, renowned for his nocturnes, études, and mazurkas for solo pian...
Frederick Banting
14 November 1891 – 21 February 1941
Sir Frederick Banting was a Canadian medical scientist and physician who co-discovered insulin as a treatment for diabet...
Frederick Barbarossa
c. 1122 – 10 June 1190
Frederick I, known as Frederick Barbarossa (c. 1122-1190), was King of Germany from 1152 and Holy Roman Emperor from 115...
Frederick Douglass
c. 1818 – 20 February 1895
Frederick Douglass (c. 1818-1895) was an American abolitionist, orator, writer, and statesman who escaped from slavery i...
Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor
26 December 1194 – 13 December 1250
Frederick II was King of Sicily from 1198, King of Germany from 1212, and Holy Roman Emperor from 1220 until his death i...
Frederick Sanger
13 August 1918 – 19 November 2013
Frederick Sanger was a British biochemist who twice won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, one of only a few people to do so....
Frederick the Great
24 January 1712 – 17 August 1786
Frederick II (1712-1786), known as Frederick the Great, was King of Prussia from 1740 until his death. A brilliant milit...
Freeman Dyson
15 December 1923 – 28 February 2020
Freeman Dyson (1923-2020) was a British-American theoretical physicist and mathematician known for his work in quantum e...
Frida Kahlo
6 July 1907 – 13 July 1954
Mexican painter known for her unflinching self-portraits blending realism, symbolism and Mexican folk culture, created t...
Fridtjof Nansen
10 October 1861 – 13 May 1930
Fridtjof Nansen (1861-1930) was a Norwegian polar explorer, scientist, diplomat, and humanitarian. He led the first cros...
Friedrich Engels
28 November 1820 – 5 August 1895
Friedrich Engels (1820-1895) was a German philosopher, social scientist, and businessman who co-founded Marxist theory a...
Friedrich Nietzsche
15 October 1844 – 25 August 1900
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) was a German philosopher, philologist, and cultural critic whose writings on morality, r...
Friedrich Schiller
10 November 1759 – 9 May 1805
Friedrich Schiller (1759-1805) was a German playwright, poet, philosopher, and historian, regarded alongside Goethe as o...
Fritz Haber
9 December 1868 – 29 January 1934
Fritz Haber was a German chemist who received the 1918 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for developing the Haber-Bosch process f...
Fukuzawa Yukichi
10 January 1835 – 3 February 1901
Fukuzawa Yukichi (1835-1901) was a Japanese author, educator, and reformer who became one of the most influential intell...
Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti
25 October 1900 – 13 April 1978
Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti was a Nigerian educator, political campaigner, and women's rights activist. A leading figure in t...
Fyodor Dostoevsky
11 November 1821 – 9 February 1881
Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky was a Russian novelist regarded as one of the greatest writers in world literature, autho...
G. H. Hardy
7 February 1877 – 1 December 1947
Godfrey Harold Hardy was an English mathematician known for his work in analysis and number theory. He is remembered for...
Gabriel García Márquez
6 March 1927 – 17 April 2014
Colombian novelist and master of magical realism whose One Hundred Years of Solitude became one of the most celebrated n...
Gabriela Mistral
7 April 1889 – 10 January 1957
Gabriela Mistral was the pen name of Chilean poet, educator, and diplomat Lucila Godoy Alcayaga, the first Latin America...
Gajah Mada
c. 1290 – c. 1364
Gajah Mada (c. 1290 - c. 1364) was the powerful mahapatih (prime minister) of the Javanese Majapahit Empire, credited wi...
Galileo Galilei
15 February 1564 – 8 January 1642
Italian astronomer and physicist whose telescopic discoveries and defense of heliocentrism made him a central figure of...
Gamal Abdel Nasser
15 January 1918 – 28 September 1970
Gamal Abdel Nasser was an Egyptian military officer and politician who served as the second president of Egypt. A leadin...
Gary Player
1 November 1935 – present
Gary Player is a South African professional golfer, born in Johannesburg in 1935. He won nine major championships on the...
Gebre Mesqel Lalibela
c. 1162 – c. 1221
Gebre Mesqel Lalibela (reigned c. 1181 - c. 1221) was Emperor of Ethiopia and the most celebrated ruler of the Zagwe dyn...
Genghis Khan
c. 1162 – August 1227
Genghis Khan (c. 1162-1227), born Temujin, was the founder and first great khan of the Mongol Empire. After unifying the...
Geoffrey Chaucer
c. 1343 – 25 October 1400
English poet and civil servant, author of The Canterbury Tales and often called the father of English literature.
Georg Cantor
3 March 1845 – 6 January 1918
Georg Cantor (1845-1918) was a German mathematician who created set theory and established the mathematics of infinity,...
Georg Philipp Telemann
24 March 1681 – 25 June 1767
Georg Philipp Telemann was a German Baroque composer and multi-instrumentalist, one of the most prolific composers in hi...
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
27 August 1770 – 14 November 1831
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770-1831) was a German philosopher and a central figure of German idealism. His systemat...