Frances

People known as Frances

Frances, Countess of Périgord (died 1481)

Frances of Rome (1384–1440), Italian saint, mystic, organizer of charitable services and Benedictine oblate who founded a religious community of oblates

Frances (musician) (born 1993), British singer and songwriter

People with the given name

Frances Abington (1737–1815), English actress

Frances Dorothy Acomb (1907–1984), American historian

Frances Alda (1879–1952), New Zealand-born, Australian-raised operatic lyric soprano

Frances Allitsen (1848–1912), English composer

Frances Allen (1932–2020), American computer scientist and pioneer in the field of optimizing compilers

Frances Arnold (born 1956), American chemical engineer and Nobel Laureate

Dame Frances Ashcroft (born 1952), British ion channel physiologist

Frances Atkins, British chef

Lady Frances Balfour (1858–1931), British aristocrat, author, and suffragist

Frances Barkman (1885–1946), Russian-born Australian schoolteacher and Jewish community worker

Frances Barth (born 1946), American artist

Frances Aviva Blane, British abstract painter

Frances Catherine Barnard (1796–1869), English author

Frances Elizabeth Barrow (1822–1894), American children's writer

Frances Bavier (1902–1989), American stage and television actress

Frances Estill Beauchamp (1860–1923), American temperance activist, social reformer, lecturer

Frances Bergen (1922–2006), American actress and fashion model

Frances Black (born 1960), Irish singer

Frances (Fanny) Brawne (1800–1865), fiancée of Romantic poet John Keats

Frances Brody, English novelist and playwright

Frances Brooke (1724–1789), English novelist, essayist, playwright and translator

Frances Hodgson Burnett (1849–1924), English playwright and author

Frances Burney (1752–1840), English novelist, diarist and playwright

Frances E. Burns (1866–1937), American social leader and business executive

Frances Xavier Cabrini (1850–1917), Italian-American Roman Catholic nun and saint

Frances Boyd Calhoun (1867–1909), American author

Frances Manwaring Caulkins (1795–1869), American historian, genealogist, author

Frances Burke, Countess of Clanricarde (1567–1633), English noblewoman and Irish countess

Frances Hyde, Countess of Clarendon (c. 1617–1667), mother-in-law of King James II of England and maternal grandmother of Mary II and Queen Anne

Frances Cavenaugh, American politician

Frances Bean Cobain (born 1992), American artist, daughter of Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain and singer Courtney Love

Frances Newton, Lady Cobham (1539–1592), one of the closest friends of Queen Elizabeth I of England

Frances Augusta Hemingway Conant (1842–1903), American journalist, editor, businesswoman

Frances Conroy (born 1953), American actress

Frances Cornford (1886–1960), English poet

Frances Lewis Brackett Damon (1857–1939), American poet, writer

Frances Davidson, Viscountess Davidson (1894–1985), British politician and Member of Parliament

Frances Dickinson (1856–1945), American physician, clubwoman

Frances Dodge (1914–1971), American internationally known horsewoman

Frances Egerton, Countess of Bridgewater (May 1583 – 11 March 1636), English noblewoman, art patron and book collector

Frances Ekstam (1914–2005), American founder of the physical therapy program at Indiana University School of Medicine

Frances Adler Elkins (1888–1953), interior designer

Frances Farmer (1913–1970), American actress

Frances Fisher (born 1952), American actress

Frances Scott Fitzgerald (1921–1986), American journalist

Frances FitzGerald (journalist) (born 1940), American journalist and author

Frances Fitzgerald (politician) (born 1950), Irish Fine Gael politician

Frances Forbes-Robertson (1866–1956), British novelist

Frances X. Frei, American academic and businesswoman

Frances Elizabeth Fryatt, American author, editor, specialist in household applied arts

Frances Nimmo Greene (1867–1937), American educator and author

Frances Sarah Guidoboni-Visconti (1804–1883), English socialite in France

Frances Irene Burge Griswold (1826–1900), American poet, author

Frances Harshbarger (1902–1987), American mathematician

Frances Haugen (born 1983 or 1984), American data engineer and scientist, product manager, and whistleblower

Frances Ridley Havergal (1836–1879), English hymnwriter, religious poet

Frances Elizabeth Herring (1851–1916), Canadian journalist and novelist

Frances Holk-Jones, member of the Alabama House of Representatives

Frances Anne Hopkins (1838–1919), British painter

Frances C. Jenkins (1826–1915), American evangelist, Quaker minister, and social reformer

Frances Benjamin Johnston (1864–1952), American photographer and photojournalist

Frances Môn Jones (1919–2000), Welsh harpist and teacher

Frances A. Karnes (1937–2025), American academic and educator

Frances Kirwan (born 1959), British mathematician

Frances Shand Kydd (1936–2004), British viscountess, mother of Diana, Princess of Wales

Frances Lanitou, Cypriot diplomat

Frances Latham (1610–1677), colonial woman in Rhode Island known as "the Mother of Governors" for having 10 governors among her direct descendants

Frances Lupton (1821–1892), English reformer for female education

Frances MacDonald (1873–1921), Scottish artist

Frances Laughton Mace (1836–1899), American poet

Frances Harrison Marr (1835–1918), American poet

Frances McDormand (born 1957), American actress

Frances Gertrude McGill (1882–1959), pioneering Canadian forensic pathologist and criminologist

Frances McKee (born 1966), Scottish musician, guitarist for Scottish indie band The Vaselines

Frances Margaret Milne (1846–1910), Irish-born American writer and librarian

Frances Trego Montgomery (1858–1925), American children's book writer

Frances Charlotte Naish (1908–1959), British physician who pioneered aspects of infant health research

Frances Nelson (1761–1831), wife of Admiral Horatio Nelson

Frances North (1919–2003), American politician

Frances Osborne (born 1969), British author

Frances Perkins (1880–1965), the U.S. Secretary of Labor from 1933 to 1945, the longest serving in that position, and the first woman appointed to the U.S. Cabinet

Frances E. L. Preston (1844–1929), African-American activist

Frances Folsom Cleveland Preston (1864–1947), wife of US President Grover Cleveland

Frances Quinlan (born 1986), American musician

Frances Stewart, Duchess of Richmond (1647–1702), as known as 'La Belle Stuart', the face of Britannia

Frances Rutherford (1912–2006), New Zealand artist and occupational therapist

Frances Schreuder (1938–2004), American murderer in the Franklin Bradshaw murder

Frances Alice Shepherd, Canadian academic

Frances Simpson (ca. 1857–1926), English writer, journalist, cat show judge, and cat breeder

Frances Carr, Countess of Somerset (1590–1632), central figure in a famous scandal and murder

Frances Seymour, Duchess of Somerset (1599–1674), English noblewoman

Frances Lee Strong or Grandma Lee (1934–2020), American comedian

Frances Grey, Duchess of Suffolk (1517–1559), granddaughter of Henry VII of England and mother of Queen Jane Grey

Frances T. Sullivan, New York State assemblywoman 1991–2002

Frances Radclyffe, Countess of Sussex (1531–1589), Lady of the Bedchamber to Queen Elizabeth I

Frances Sweeney (1908–1944), American journalist and anti-fascist activist

Frances L. Swift (1837–1916), American church and temperance leader

Francie Swift (born 1969 or 1970), born Frances Swift, American actress

Frances Tiafoe (born 1998), American tennis player (male)

Frances Christine Fisher Tiernan (1846–1920), American novelist and author under the pen name Christian Reid

Frances E. Townsley (1850–1909), American Baptist minister

Frances Trollope (1779–1863), English novelist and writer, mother of novelist and writer Anthony Trollope

Frances Eleanor Trollope (1835–1913), sister of Ellen Ternan (Charles Dickens' mistress) and sister-in-law of Anthony Trollope

Frances Talbot, Countess of Tyrconnell (c. 1647–1730), English courtier and Irish countess

Frances Vane, Viscountess Vane (1715–1788), British memoirist known for her highly public adulterous relationships

Frances Waldegrave (1821–1879), Countess Waldegrave, British heiress and society hostess

Frances Wessells (1919–2024), American dancer, choreographer, and associate professor

Frances Willard (1839–1898), American educator, temperance reformer and women's suffragist

Frances Williams (disambiguation), multiple people

Frances Yip (born 1947), Hong Kong singer

Fictional characters

Frances "Frankie" Foster, from the 2004 Cartoon Network series Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends

Frances Badger, the title character in the children's book series by Russell Hoban

Frances Buffay, Phoebe Buffay's adoptive grandmother in NBC sitcom Friends

Frances Earnshaw, from the novel Wuthering Heights

Frances "Baby" Houseman (portrayed by Jennifer Grey), from the movie Dirty Dancing

Frances, in the anime Sonic X

Frances "Franny" Glass, from Franny and Zooey

Mary Frances "Francie" Nolan, from A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith

Frances Stevens, played by Grace Kelly in Hitchcock's To Catch a Thief

Frances Ha, the title character, played by Greta Gerwig, in the 2012 American black and white comedy-drama film, Frances Ha

Frances "Frankie" Heck, played by Patricia Heaton on the ABC sitcom The Middle

Frances the Firefly, the protagonist in a fire safety public information film

Frances Flynn, the protagonist of the novel Conversations with Friends. Played by Alison Oliver in the TV adaptation of the same name.