Françoise

Françoise
Gender	feminine
Origin
Meaning	Frenchwoman
Other names
Related names	François, Frank

Françoise (French: [fʁɑ̃swaz]) is a French feminine given name (equivalent to the English Frances or Italian Francesca) and may refer to:

Anne Françoise Elizabeth Lange (1772–1816), French actress
Claudine Françoise Mignot (1624–1711), French adventuress
Françoise Adnet (1924-2014), French figurative painter
Françoise Ardré (1931-2010), French phycologist and marine scientist
Françoise Arnoul (1931–2021), French actress
Françoise Atlan (born 1964), Moroccan singer
Françoise Balibar (born 1941), French physicist and science historian
Françoise Ballet-Blu (born 1964), French politician
Françoise Barré-Sinoussi (born 1947), virologist and Nobel Prize winner
Françoise Basseporte (1701–1780), French painter
Françoise Bertaut de Motteville (c. 1621–1689), French memoir writer
Françoise Beaucournu-Saguez (1936–2000), French entomologist
Françoise Bertin (1925-2014), French actress
Françoise Boivin (born 1960), Canadian politician
Françoise Bonnet (born 1957), French long-distance runner
Françoise Bourdin (1952–2022), French novelist
Françoise Briand (born 1951), French politician
Francoise Brun-Cottan (born 1944), French-American voice actor
Françoise Castex (born 1956), French politician
Françoise Chandernagor (born 1945), French writer
Françoise Claustre (1937–2006), French archaeologist
Françoise d'Amboise (1427–1485), Carmelite nun
Françoise d'Aubigné, marquise de Maintenon (1635–1719), morganatic second wife of Louis XIV of France
Françoise d'Eaubonne (1920–2005), French feminist
Françoise de Graffigny (1695–1758), French writer
Françoise David (born 1948), Knight of the National Order of Quebec
Françoise de Cezelli (1558–1615), French chevalier and war hero
Françoise de Foix (c. 1495–1537), mistress of Francis I of France
Françoise Dior (1932–1993), French neo-Nazi
Françoise Dolto (1908–1988), French doctor and psychoanalyst
Françoise Dorin (1928–2018), French actor, comedian, novelist, playwright and songwriter
Françoise Dorléac (1942–1967), popular French actress
Françoise Dubois (born 1947), French politician
Françoise Ducros, Canadian civil servant
Françoise Dunand (born 1934), French Egyptologist and archaeologist
Françoise Dupuy (1925–2022), French dancer and choreographer
Françoise Dürr (born 1942), former tennis player
Françoise Faucher (born 1929), French film actress
Françoise Foning (1949–2015), Cameroonian businessperson and politician
Françoise Forton (1957–2022), Brazilian actress
Françoise Gilot (1921–2023), French born painter
Françoise Giroud (1916–2003), French journalist, screenwriter, writer and politician
Françoise Grossetête (born 1946), French politician
Françoise Hardy (born 1944), French singer, actress and astrologer
Françoise Héritier (1933-2017), French anthropologist
Françoise Lebrun, French actress
Françoise Macchi (born 1951), French former alpine skier
Françoise Mallet-Joris (1930-2016), Belgian writer
Françoise Matraire (19th century), printer
Françoise Mbango Etone (born 1976), track and field athlete
Françoise Meltzer (born 1947), professor of religion
Françoise Mouly (born 1955), Paris-born French artist and designer
Françoise Prévost (c. 1680–1741), French ballerina
Françoise Robertson, actress
Françoise Rosay (1891–1974), French actress
Françoise Sagan (1935–2004), French playwright, novelist and screenwriter
Françoise Thom (born 1951), French historian and Sovietologist
Françoise Yip (born 1972), Canadian actress
Ghislaine Marie Françoise Dommanget (1900–1991), French actress
Jeanne Françoise Julie Adélaïde Récamier (1777–1849), French socialite
Louise Françoise Contat (1760–1813), French actress
Marie Françoise Sophie Gay (1776–1852), French author

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