Francesco Petrarca-Geoffrey Chaucer-Thomas Wyatt-Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey-Anne Locke-George Gascoigne-Edmund Spenser-Fulke Greville-Philip Sidney-Walter Ralegh-George Chapman-Henry Constable-Mark Alexander Boyd-Samuel Daniel-Michael Drayton-John Davies of Hereford-Charles Best-William Shakespeare-John Davies-John Donne-Ben Jonson-Lord Herbert of Cherbury-William Drummond of Hawthornden-Mary Wroth-Robert Herrick-George Herbert-John Milton-Charles Cotton-Thomas Gray-Charlotte Turner Smith-William Blake-Robert Burns-William Wordsworth-Samuel Taylor Coleridge-Robert Southey-Mary F. Johnson-Leigh Hunt-George Gordon, Lord Byron-Percy Bysshe Shelley-John Clare-John Keats-Hartley Coleridge-Thomas Lovell Beddoes-Elizabeth Barrett Browning-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow-Charles Tennyson Turner-Edgar Allan Poe-Alfred, Lord Tennyson-Robert Browning-Aubrey Thomas de Vere-George Eliot-Frederick Goddard Tuckerman-Matthew Arnold-George Meredith-Dante Gabriel Rossetti-Christina Rossetti-Algernon Charles Swinburne-Thomas Hardy-Robert Bridges-Gerard Manley Hopkins-Emma Lazarus-Oscar Wilde-W. B. Yeats-Ernest Dowson-Edwin Arlington Robinson-Trumbull Stickney-Rupert Brooke-Alice Dunbar-Nelson-Robert Frost-Edward Thomas-Ezra Pound-Elinor Wylie-Siegfried Sassoon-Robinson Jeffers-Marianne Moore-Edwin Muir-T. S. Eliot-John Crowe Ransom-Claude McKay-Archibald MacLeish-Edna St. Vincent Millay-Wilfred Owen-Dorothy Parker-E. E. Cummings-Jean Toomer-Robert Graves-Edmund Blunden-Louise Bogan-Hart Crane-Roy Campbell-Countee Cullen-Patrick Kavanagh-W. H. Auden-Louis MacNeice-Malcolm Lowry-Stephen Spender-Elizabeth Bishop-George Barker-Robert Hayden-John Berryman-Weldon Kees-Dylan Thomas-Margaret Walker-Gwendolyn Brooks-Charles Causley-Robert Lowell-William Meredith-Amy Clampitt-Howard Nemerov-Hayden Carruth-Marie Ponsot-Richard Wilbur-Philip Larkin-Anthony Hecht-Jane Cooper-Donald Justice-James K. Baxter-James Merrill-John Ashbery-W. S. Merwin-James Wright-Donald Hall-Thom Gunn-John Hollander-Adrienne Rich-Derek Walcott-Geoffrey Hill-Sylvia Plath-John Updike-Jean Valentine-Robert Mezey-Grace Schulman-Charles Wright-June Jordan-Judith Rodriguez-Frederick Seidel-John Fuller-Tony Harrison-Les Murray-Charles Simic-Frank Bidart-Seamus Heaney-Stanley Plumly-Billy Collins-Douglas Dunn-Marilyn Hacker-David Huddle-Charles Martin-William Matthews-Louise Glück-Ellen Bryant Voigt-Eavan Boland-J. D. McClatchy-Leon Stokesbury-Star Black-Marilyn Nelson-Bruce Smith-Molly Peacock-Hugh Seidman-Rachel Hadas-Denis Johnson-Sherod Santos-Julia Alvarez-Dana Gioia-Medbh McGuckian-Paul Muldoon-Rita Dove-Mark Jarman-Elizabeth Macklin-Tom Sleigh-Rosanna Warren-David Baker-Phillis Levin-John Burnside-Carol Ann Duffy-Robin Robertson-Karl Kirchwey-Deborah Laser-Jacqueline Osherow-James Lasdun-Kate Light-Joe Bolton-Rafael Campo-Mike Nelson-Daniel Gutstein-Beth Ann Fennelly-Jason Schneiderman

* Richards Martin, Macaulay Vincent, Hickey Eileen, Vega Emilce, Sykes Bryan, Guida Valentina, Rengo Chiara, Sellitto Daniele, Cruciani Fulvio, Kivisild Toomas, Villerns Richard, Thomas Mark, Rychkov Serge, Rychkov Oksana, Rychkov Yuri, Golge Mukaddes, Dimitrov Dimitar, Hill Emmeline, Bradley Dan, Romano Valentino, Cail Francesco, Vona Giuseppe, Demaine Andrew, Papiha Surinder, Triantaphyllides Costas, Stefanescu Gheorghe, Hatina Jiri, Belledi Michele, Di Rienzo Anna, Novelletto Andrea, Oppenheim Ariella, Norby Soren, Al-Zaheri Nadia, Santachiara-Benerecetti Silvana, Scozzari Rosaria, Torroni Antonio, & Bandelt Hans Jurgen.

The composer Francesco Bianchi and the librettist Lorenzo da Ponte together created a Cantata first performed in London on 11 March 1797 & called Le nozze del Tamigi e Bellona, ( The Wedding of the Thames and Bellona ), to mark the British naval victory over the French at the Battle of Cape St Vincent.

Frank Russell Capra ( born Francesco Rosario Capra ; May 18, 1897September 3, 1991 ) was a Sicilian-born American film director.

Capra was born Francesco Rosario Capra in Bisacquino, Sicily, a village near Palermo.

Francesco Sforza was born in San Miniato, Tuscany, one of the seven illegitimate sons of the condottiero Muzio Sforza and Lucia da Torsano.

Saint Francis of Assisi ( born Giovanni Francesco di Bernardone ; 1181 died: October 3, 1226 ) was an Italian Catholic friar and preacher.

A second grandchild, Francesco, was born in 1366, but died before his second birthday.

Pope Benedict XIII ( 2 February 1650 – 21 February 1730 ), born Pietro Francesco Orsini, later Friar Vincenzo Maria Orsini, O. P., was pope from 1724 until his death.

Pope Pius III ( 29 May 1439 – 18 October 1503 ), born Francesco Todeschini Piccolomini, was Pope from 22 September to 18 October 1503.

Pope Clement XI ( 23 July 1649 – 19 March 1721 ), born Giovanni Francesco Albani, was Pope from 1700 until his death in 1721.

Pope Sixtus IV ( 21 July 1414 – 12 August 1484 ), born Francesco della Rovere, was Pope from 1471 to 1484.

Francesco was born to a family of modest means from Liguria, Italy, the son of Leonardo della Rovere and Luchina Monleoni.

* August 12 – Francesco Crispi, Italian Prime Minister ( born 1819 )

They had three children: Francesco Quinn ( March 22, 1963 – August 5, 2011 ), Danny ( born April 16, 1964 ), and Lorenzo Quinn ( born May 7, 1966 ).

* Francesco Marino Mannoia ( born 1951 ) started to collaborate in October 1989.

Notable people born here include the former presidents of the Italian Republic, Antonio Segni and Francesco Cossiga, and Enrico Berlinguer, secretary of the Italian Communist Party.

* Francesco Panetta ( born 1963 ), former long-distance runner

Pope Leo XII ( 22 August 1760 – 10 February 1829 ), born Annibale Francesco Clemente Melchiore Girolamo Nicola Sermattei della Genga, was Pope from 1823 to 1829.

Girolamo Maria Francesco Matteo Savonarola was born on September 21, 1452 in Ferrara.

Muzio Filippo Vincenzo Francesco Saverio Clementi ( baptized Mutius Philippus Vincentius Franciscus Xaverius ), was born in Rome, Italy on January 24, 1752, and the following day baptized in the local church of S. Lorenzo in Damaso.

* Francesco Maurolico, astronomer and mathematician, of Greek origin, born in Messina in 1494.

* Francesco Vescovi known as “ Cecco ” ( born 1964 ), a former basketball player who grew up in Varese.

* Archduke Francesco Leopoldo of Austria, born 15 December 1794 ;

Pope Pius VIII ( 20 November 1761 – 30 November 1830 ), born Francesco Saverio Castiglioni was Pope in 1829 and 1830.

The two brothers were born in Venice and were sons of Baron Francesco Bandiera, an admiral in the Austro-Hungarian Navy, and were themselves members of that service.

Ermolao Barbaro was born in Venice, the son of Zaccaria Barbaro, and the grandson of Francesco Barbaro.

* April 2 – Francesco Maria Grimaldi, Italian mathematician and physicist ( d. 1663 )

* April 9 – Treaty of Lodi: Francesco Sforza forms a triple alliance between the duchy of Milan, the republic of Florence and kingdom of Naples.

Ruggero ( or Ruggiero ) Giacomo Maria Giuseppe Emmanuele Raffaele Domenico Vincenzo Francesco Donato Leoncavallo (; 23 April 18579 August 1919 ) was an Italian opera composer.

For this production, he wrote two new arias with corresponding recitatives: Don Ottavio's aria " Dalla sua pace " ( K. 540a, composed on April 24 for the tenor Francesco Morella ), Elvira's aria " In quali eccessi ... Mi tradì quell ' alma ingrata " ( K. 540c, composed on April 30 for the soprano Caterina Cavalieri ) and the duet between Leporello and Zerlina " Per queste tue manine " ( K. 540b, composed on April 28 ).

* April 25 – Francesco Patrizi, Italian philosopher and scientist ( d. 1597 )

The military engineer Francesco Laparelli de Carotona designed the original gate, known as Porta San Giorgio, which was erected between April 1566 and 1569.

Born in Florence, Italy at the Palazzo Pitti on 26 April 1575, Marie was the sixth daughter of Francesco I de ' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany, and Joanna, Archduchess of Austria, daughter of Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor, and Anna of Bohemia and Hungary.

* Gloria by Francesco Cilea – Milan, April 15, 1907

** 18 April 1941 – 1942 Francesco Saverio Grazioli ( b. 1869 – d. 1951 )

* April 26 – Francesco Graziani ( baritone ), operatic baritone ( d. 1901 )

: April 22 Francesco Jacomoni di San Savino is appointed the king's lieutenant-general ( viceroy ) in Albania.

Franciscus Patricius ( Italian: Francesco Patrizi, Croatian: Frane Petrić ; 25 April 1529 – 6 February 1597 ) was a philosopher and scientist from the Republic of Venice.

As the opening stroke of the Pazzi Conspiracy, he was assassinated on Sunday, 26 April 1478 in the Duomo of Florence, Santa Maria del Fiore, by Francesco de ' Pazzi and Bernardo Bandini.

Cable & Wireless acquired Energis for £ 674 million in August 2005, resulting in a reverse takeover in terms of senior management, with John Pluthero appointed from Energis to head the UK business and Francesco Caio departing by April 2006.

* April 1-Antonio Lazzaro Volpinari and Giovanni Francesco Ugolini take office as captains-regent of San Marino.

Franz von Suppé or Francesco Suppé Demelli ( April 18, 1819May 21, 1895 ) was an Austrian composer of light operas who was born in what is now Croatia during the time his father was working in this outpost of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.

Franz von Suppé's parents named him Francesco Ezechiele Ermenegildo Cavaliere di Suppé-Demelli when he was born on April 18, 1819, in Split, Dalmatia, Austrian Empire.

Saint Francis of Paola, O. M., ( or: Francesco di Paola or Saint Francis the Fire Handler, March 27, 1416 – April 2, 1507 ) was an Italian mendicant friar and the founder of the Roman Catholic Order of Minims.

Pizzardo received his episcopal consecration on 27 April of that same year from Eugenio Cardinal Pacelli, with Archbishop Giuseppe Palica and Francesco Marchetti-Selvaggiani serving as co-consecrators.

* April 2 – Francesco Maria Grimaldi, Italian physicist, discoverer of the diffraction of light ( died 1663 )

Marco Francesco Andrea Pirroni ( born 27 April 1959, Camden Town, North London, England ) is an English guitarist, songwriter and record producer.

Tommaso Michele Francesco Saverio Traetta ( 30 March 1727 – 6 April 1779 ) was an Italian composer.