# Françoise

Françoise (French:) 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 (1944–2024), French singer
* Françoise Héritier (1933-2017), French anthropologist
* Françoise Lebrun, French actress
* Françoise Marie de Bourbon (1677-1749), Duchess consort of Orléans, wife of Philippe II, Duke of Orléans, "Mademoiselle de Blois"
* 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