The most famous early practitioner of progressive education was Francis Parker ; its best-known spokesperson was the philosopher John Dewey.

In 1875 Francis Parker became superintendent of schools in Quincy, Massachusetts after spending two years in Germany studying emerging educational trends on the continent.

* 1837 – Francis Wayland Parker, American progressive educational theorist ( d. 1902 )

* Francis Parker Yockey claimed Spengler was a pivotal influence on him and wrote Imperium as a sequel to The Decline of the West.

* 1917 – Francis Parker Yockey, American author ( d. 1960 )

* Imperium by Francis Parker Yockey ( using the pen name Ulick Varange, 1947, ISBN 0-911038-10-8 )

* Dreamer of the Day: Francis Parker Yockey and the Postwar Fascist International by Kevin Coogan, ( Autonomedia, Brooklyn, NY 1998, ISBN 1-57027-039-2 )

* U. S. Navy Captain Francis " Frank " Bartholomew Parker ( Jonathan LaPaglia ), a former Navy SEAL and ex-CIA operative who was brought out of a secret CIA mental institution – due to a mental breakdown he had suffered as a result of being tortured while being a prisoner in Somalia – to be the project's chrononaut.

* Julia DeForest Tiffany ( 1887 – 1973 ), who married Gurdon S. Parker then married Francis Minot Weld ;

Gorey attended a variety of local grade schools and then the Francis W. Parker School.

* 2007: The Bourne Ultimatum-Scott Millan, David Parker and Kirk Francis

Seekonk's current board of selectman are: Francis Cavaco ( Chair ,) Bob Richardson, Michael Brady, John Whelan, and David Parker.

In the 1870s, the city gave its name to the Quincy Method, an influential approach to education developed by Francis W. Parker while he served as Quincy's superintendent of schools.

In the 19th century, the city became an innovator in progressive public education with the Quincy Method, developed by Francis W. Parker while he served as Quincy's superintendent of schools.

However, Devens is the home of the Francis W. Parker Charter Essential School.

Other prominent transcendentalists included Louisa May Alcott, Charles Timothy Brooks, Orestes Brownson, William Ellery Channing, William Henry Channing, James Freeman Clarke, Christopher Pearse Cranch, Walt Whitman, John Sullivan Dwight, Convers Francis, William Henry Furness, Frederic Henry Hedge, Sylvester Judd, Theodore Parker, Elizabeth Palmer Peabody, George Ripley, Thomas Treadwell Stone, Emily Dickinson, and Jones Very.

Many notable actors appeared on the series, including Ed Asner, Mary Astor, Roscoe Ates, Gene Barry, Ed Begley, Barbara Bel Geddes, Charles Bronson, Edgar Buchanan, Macdonald Carey, Art Carney, John Cassavetes, Jack Cassidy, Dabney Coleman, Tom Conway, Joseph Cotten, Bob Crane, Hume Cronyn, Robert Culp, Bette Davis, Francis De Sales, Bruce Dern, Brandon deWilde, Angie Dickinson, Diana Dors, Robert Duvall, Denholm Elliott, Peter Falk, John Forsythe, Anne Francis, Lorne Greene, Edmund Gwenn, Sir Cedric Hardwicke, Charles Herbert, Dame Wendy Hiller, Skip Homeier, Lou Jacobi, Joyce Jameson, Carolyn Jones, Don Keefer, Brian Keith, Jack Klugman, Jessie Royce Landis, Peter Lawford, Christopher Lee, Cloris Leachman, Peter Lorre, John McIntyre, E. G. Marshall, Herbert Marshall, Walter Matthau, Darren McGavin, John McGiver, Lee Majors, Jayne Mansfield, Steve McQueen, Tyler McVey, Audrey Meadows, Joyce Meadows, Vera Miles, Elizabeth Montgomery, Joanna Moore, Roger Moore, Vic Morrow, Leslie Nielsen, Robert Newton, Fess Parker, George Peppard, James Philbrook, Sydney Pollack, Judson Pratt, Robert Redford, Michael Rennie, Burt Reynolds, William Shatner, Dan Sheridan, Henry Silva, Barbara Steele, Jan Sterling, Dean Stockwell, Stella Stevens, Beatrice Straight, Jessica Tandy, Torin Thatcher, Rip Torn, Dick Van Dyke, Robert Vaughn, Richard Waring, Dennis Weaver, Estelle Winwood, Joanne Woodward, Fay Wray, and Keenan Wynn.

Francis Parker Yockey ( September 18, 1917 – June 16, 1960 ) was an American political thinker and polemicist best known for his neo-Spenglerian book Imperium: The Philosophy of History and Politics, published under the pen name Ulick Varange in 1948.

The majority comes from the accounts of those who knew him and from FBI efforts to gain intelligence in regard to his activities, as recorded by his biographer Kevin Coogan in his book Dreamer of the Day: Francis Parker Yockey and the Postwar Fascist International.

* Kevin Coogan, Dreamer of the Day: Francis Parker Yockey and the Postwar Fascist International Brooklyn, NY: Autonomedia, 1998 ISBN 1-57027-039-2 ( publisher's blurb, Table of contents )-The only biography of Yockey ever written, Coogan's work on Yockey's life is definitive, but the ' facts ' he presents regarding other figures should be regarded with caution.

* Francis Parker Yockey, The Proclamation of London, Shamley Green: The Palingenesis Project, 2012.

* The Enemy of Europe: The Enemy of Our Enemies by Francis Parker Yockey and Revilo P. Oliver ISBN 0-942094-00-X Oliver's part 2nd section 3rd 4th 5th and 6th

* The Francis Parker Yockey Collection

Among the observers of the 1946 tsunami at Hilo was Francis P. Shepard of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, one of the world's foremost marine geologists.

This may include such historical figures as St. Francis of Assisi, Henry David Thoreau, John Muir, Albert Schweitzer, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, Rachel Carson, Aldo Leopold, Sigurd F. Olson, Edward Abbey, Carl Sagan, and Paul Shepard.

Other performers who have recorded versions of " Young at Heart " include Jimmy Durante, Connie Francis, Perry Como, Tony Bennett, Shawn Colvin, Rosemary Clooney, Bobby Vinton, Tom Waits, Bing Crosby, Barry Manilow, Landon Pigg and Vonda Shepard.

In all, the astronauts who trained at the planetarium were Buzz Aldrin, Joseph P. Allen, William A. Anders, Neil A. Armstrong, Charles A. Bassett II, Alan L. Bean, Frank Borman, Vance D. Brand, John S. Bull, M. Scott Carpenter, Gerald P. Carr, Eugene A. Cernan, Roger B. Chaffee, Philip K. Chapman, Michael Collins, Charles Conrad Jr., L. Gordon Cooper, R. Walter Cunningham, Charles M. Duke Jr., Donn F. Eisele, Anthony W. England, Joe H. Engle, Ronald E. Evans, Theodore C. Freeman, Edward G. Givens Jr., John H. Glenn Jr., Richard F. Gordon Jr., Virgil I. Grissom, Fred W. Haise Jr., Karl G. Henize, James B. Irwin, Joseph P. Kerwin, William B. Lenoir, Don L. Lind, John A. Llewellyn, Jack R. Lousma, James A. Lovell Jr., Thomas K. Mattingly Jr., Bruce McCandless II, James A. McDivitt, F. Curtis Michel, Edgar D. Mitchell, Story Musgrave, Brian T. O ’ Leary, Robert A. Parker, William R. Pogue, Stuart A. Roosa, Walter M. Schirra Jr., Russell L. Schweickart, David R. Scott, Elliot See, Alan B. Shepard Jr., Donald K. Slayton, Thomas P. Stafford, John L. Swigert Jr., William E. Thornton, Paul J. Weitz, Edward H. White, Clifton C. Williams Jr., Alfred M. Worden, and John W. Young.