** Francis I ( 1515 – 1547 )

** Francis II ( 1559 – 1560 )

** Francis I ( 1825 – 1830 )

** Francis II ( 1859 – 1860 )

** Francis I ( 1442 – 1450 )

** Francis II ( 1458 – 1488 )

** Francis IV ( 1524 – 1532 )

** Francis Darwin ( 1848 – 1925 ), botanist

** Francis Sacheverel Darwin ( 1786 – 1859 ), physician and traveler

** Francis Xavier ( Roman Catholic Church and Anglican communion )

** Francis I, 1515 – 1547

** Francis II, 1559 – 1560

** Francis de Sales

** Francis of Girolama

** Francis of Assisi

** Blessed Francis Xavier Seelos ( Roman Catholic Church )

** Francis turbine, a type of widely used water turbine.

** Kaplan turbine, a variation of the Francis Turbine.

** Paul Francis Webster, American lyricist ( b. 1907 )

** Francis L. Kellogg, U. S. diplomat and prominent socialite ( d. 2006 )

** Francis Ledwidge, Irish poet ( b. 1887 )

** An earthquake strikes the Italian regions of Umbria and Marche, causing part of the Basilica of St. Francis at Assisi to collapse.

** Francis Marion Smith, American businessman ( b. 1846 )

** Dean Francis Alfar, Filipino author

Mission San Francisco Solano was founded on July 4, 1823, and named for Francis Solanus, a missionary to the Indians of Peru born in Montilla, Spain, known as the " Wonder Worker of the New World.

In 1588 – 89 St. Francis Solanus crossed the Chaco wilderness from Peru and stopped at Asunción, but gave no attention to the Guaraní.

Francis Solanus, Alcazar, Seville

* Saint Francis Solanus ( 1549 – 1610 ), Spanish Franciscan missionary to South America

In 1860, they founded the institution as St. Francis Solanus College, receiving a formal charter from the state in 1873.

Established in 1823 and named to honor St. Francis Solanus, Mission Solano was the sole California mission established under the rule of a newly-independent Mexico.

The convent originally included seven cloisters ( the main courtyard, St. Bonaventure, St. Francis Solanus, Pepper Yard, the Infirmary, the Novitiate and the Third Order ).

Saint Francis Solanus, O. F. M., () ( 10 March 1549 – 14 July 1610 ) was a Spanish friar and missionary in South America, belonging to the Order of Friars Minor ( the Franciscans ), who is honored as a saint in the Roman Catholic Church.

Saint Francis Solanus and the Bull, by Bartolomé Esteban Murillo | Murillo

Mission San Francisco Solano, the northernmost mission along California's El Camino Real, was named in 1823 for Francis Solanus.

Tolton graduated from St. Francis Solanus College ( now Quincy University ) and attended the Pontifical Urbaniana University, where he became fluent in Italian as well as studying Latin and Greek.