Frances

Frances or Frances is a female first name.

Variants

• Fran

A

• Frances Adaskin (1900-2001), Canadian pianist
• Frances E. Allen ( born 1932 ), American computer scientist

B

• Frances Baard (1901-1997), South African trade unionist and apartheid opponent
• Frances Bay (1919-2011), Canadian actress
• Frances Bergen (1922-2006), American actress and model
• Frances Brandon (1517-1559), British nobleman
• Frances Brundage (1854-1937), American painter and author
• Frances Hodgson Burnett (1849-1924), British author
• Frances Burney (1752-1840), English writer

C

• Julie Frances Christie ( born 1941 ), British film actress
• Frances Cleveland (1864-1947), American First Lady
• Frances Conroy ( born 1953 ), American actress
• Frances Jane Crosby (1820-1915), American author

D

• Frances Dafoe ( born 1929 ), Canadian figure skater
• Frances de la Tour ( born 1944 ), British actress
• Frances Dee (1909-2004), American actress
• Rita Frances Dove ( born 1952 ), American author
• Frances Drake (1912-2000), American actress

E

• Jane Frances Agnes Elgee (1821-1896), Irish author

F

• Frances Farmer (1913-1970), American actress
• Frances Fisher ( born 1952 ), British actress
• Mary Frances Kennedy Fisher (1908-1991), American essayist
• Frances Fyfield ( born 1948 ), English lawyer and author

G

• Frances Goodrich (1890-1984), American author and actress
• Frances Wilson Grayson (1890-1927), American pilot
• Frances Ethel Gumm (1922-1969), American film actress and singer

B

• Frances Havergal (1836-1879), English poet
• Frances G. Hill (born 1958 ), German author
• Frances Hyland (1927-2004), Canadian actress

I

• Frances Itani ( born 1942 ), Canadian writer and poet

K

• Frances Oldham Kelsey (* 1914), American pharmacologist
• Frances Anne Kemble (1809-1893), English actress and writer
• Frances Kissling ( born 1943 ), American feminist
• Frances Shand Kydd (1936-2004), mother of Diana Spencer, Princess of Wales

L

• Frances Langford (1914-2005), American singer and actress
• Mary Frances Lyons ( born 1925 ), British geneticist

M

• Frances Magnus (1882-1969), German politician
• Debra Frances Manheim ( born 1961 ), American actress
• Frances Marion (1888-1973), American screenwriter and director
• Frances Beatrice Mars Hoff ( born 1957 ), South African politician
• Frances McDormand ( born 1957 ), American actress
• Frances MacDonald McNair (1873-1921), Scottish painter and craftswoman
• Frances Moore Lappé ( born 1944 ), American author

N

• Frances Elaine Newton (1965-2005), American criminal
• William Frances Nichols (1853-1917), American politician

O

• Frances O'Connor (born 1967 ), Australian actress
• Frances Belle O'Connor (1914-1982), American actress and show attraction

P

• Mary Frances Penick (1931-2004), American singer
• Kathleen Frances Daly Pepper (1898-1994), Canadian painter
• Frances Perkins (1882-1965), American politician
• Frances Fox Piven ( born 1932 ), Canadian political scientist and sociologist

R

• Frances Reid (1914-2010), American actress
• Frances Ridste (1919-1948), American actress

S

• Frances Scholz (born 1962 ), American artist
• Frances Thurber Seal, Christin
• Mary Frances Sherwood Hopkins Searles (1818-1891), American millionaire wife
• Diana Frances Spencer (1961-1997), British Crown Princess
• Henrietta Frances Spencer (1761-1821), British nobleman
• Frances Stephens (1851-1915), Canadian philanthropist
• Frances Sternhagen ( born 1930 ), American actress
• Frances Stewart, Duchess of Richmond and Lennox (1648-1702), Scottish nobleman

T

• Frances Trollope (1779-1863), British author

U

• Frances Ann Ulmer ( born 1947 ), American politician

V

• Frances Villiers (1753-1821), English mistress

W

• Frances Walsh ( born 1959 ), New Zealand screenwriter
• Frances Wayne (1919-1978), American singer
• Frances Willard (1839-1898), American women's rights activist and social reformer
• Frances Kay Worthington ( born 1959 ), Canadian rowing athlete

Y

• Frances A. Yates (1899-1981), English historian and author

• Female first name
• English personal name