Frances

People known as Frances

• Frances, Countess of Périgord
• Frances of Rome, Italian saint, mystic, organizer of charitable services and Benedictine oblate who founded a religious community of oblates
• Frances (musician), British singer and songwriter

People with the given name

• Frances Abington, English actress
• Frances Dorothy Acomb, American historian
• Frances Alda, New Zealand-born, Australian-raised operatic lyric soprano
• Frances Allitsen, English composer
• Frances Allen, American computer scientist and pioneer in the field of optimizing compilers
• Frances Arnold, American chemical engineer and Nobel Laureate
• Dame Frances Ashcroft, British ion channel physiologist
• Frances Atkins, British chef
• Frances Barkman, Russian-born Australian schoolteacher and Jewish community worker
• Frances Aviva Blane, British abstract painter
• Frances Catherine Barnard, English author
• Frances Elizabeth Barrow, American children's writer
• Frances Bavier, American stage and television actress
• Frances Estill Beauchamp, American temperance activist, social reformer, lecturer
• Frances Bergen, American actress and fashion model
• Frances Black, Irish singer
• Frances (Fanny) Brawne, fiancée of Romantic poet John Keats
• Frances Brody, English novelist and playwright
• Frances Brooke, English novelist, essayist, playwright and translator
• Frances Hodgson Burnett, English playwright and author
• Frances Burney, English novelist, diarist and playwright
• Frances E. Burns, American social leader and business executive
• Frances Xavier Cabrini, Italian-American Roman Catholic nun and saint
• Frances Boyd Calhoun, American author
• Frances Manwaring Caulkins, American historian, genealogist, author
• Frances Burke, Countess of Clanricarde, English noblewoman and Irish countess
• Frances Hyde, Countess of Clarendon, mother-in-law of King James II of England and maternal grandmother of Mary II and Queen Anne
• Frances Cavenaugh, American politician
• Frances Bean Cobain, American artist, daughter of Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain and singer Courtney Love
• Frances Newton, Lady Cobham, one of the closest friends of Queen Elizabeth I of England
• Frances Augusta Hemingway Conant, American journalist, editor, businesswoman
• Frances Conroy, American actress
• Frances Cornford, English poet
• Frances Lewis Brackett Damon, American poet, writer
• Frances Davidson, Viscountess Davidson, British politician and Member of Parliament
• Frances Dickinson, American physician, clubwoman
• Frances Dodge, American internationally known horsewoman
• Frances Egerton, Countess of Bridgewater, English noblewoman, art patron and book collector
• Frances Ekstam, American founder of the physical therapy program at Indiana University School of Medicine
• Frances Adler Elkins, interior designer
• Frances Farmer, American actress
• Frances Fisher, American actress
• Frances Scott Fitzgerald, American journalist
• Frances FitzGerald (journalist), American journalist and author
• Frances Fitzgerald (politician), Irish Fine Gael politician
• Frances Forbes-Robertson, British novelist
• Frances X. Frei, American academic and businesswoman
• Frances Elizabeth Fryatt, American author, editor, specialist in household applied arts
• Frances Nimmo Greene, American educator and author
• Frances Irene Burge Griswold, American poet, author
• Frances Haugen, American data engineer and scientist, product manager, and whistleblower
• Frances Ridley Havergal, English hymnwriter, religious poet
• Frances Elizabeth Herring, Canadian journalist and novelist
• Frances Holk-Jones, member of the Alabama House of Representatives
• Frances Anne Hopkins, British painter
• Frances C. Jenkins, American evangelist, Quaker minister, and social reformer
• Frances Benjamin Johnston, American photographer and photojournalist
• Frances Môn Jones, Welsh harpist and teacher
• Frances Kirwan, British mathematician
• Frances Shand Kydd, British viscountess, mother of Diana, Princess of Wales
• Frances Lanitou, Cypriot diplomat
• Frances Latham, colonial woman in Rhode Island known as "the Mother of Governors" for having 10 governors among her direct descendants
• Frances Lupton, English reformer for female education
• Frances MacDonald, Scottish artist
• Frances Laughton Mace, American poet
• Frances Harrison Marr, American poet
• Frances McDormand, American actress
• Frances Gertrude McGill, pioneering Canadian forensic pathologist and criminologist
• Frances McKee, Scottish musician, guitarist for Scottish indie band The Vaselines
• Frances Margaret Milne, Irish-born American writer and librarian
• Frances Trego Montgomery, American children's book writer
• Frances Nelson, wife of Admiral Horatio Nelson
• Frances North, American politician
• Frances Osborne, British author
• Frances Perkins, the U.S. Secretary of Labor from 1933 to 1945, the longest serving in that position, and the first woman appointed to the U.S. Cabinet
• Frances Folsom Cleveland Preston, wife of US President Grover Cleveland
• Frances Quinlan, American musician
• Frances Stewart, Duchess of Richmond, as known as 'La Belle Stuart', the face of Britannia
• Frances Rutherford, New Zealand artist and occupational therapist
• Frances Schreuder, American murderer in the Franklin Bradshaw murder
• Frances Alice Shepherd, Canadian academic
• Frances Simpson, English writer, journalist, cat show judge, and cat breeder
• Frances Carr, Countess of Somerset, central figure in a famous scandal and murder
• Frances Seymour, Duchess of Somerset, English noblewoman
• Frances Lee Strong or Grandma Lee, American comedian
• Frances Grey, Duchess of Suffolk, granddaughter of Henry VII of England and mother of Queen Jane Grey
• Frances T. Sullivan, New York State assemblywoman 1991–2002
• Frances Radclyffe, Countess of Sussex, Lady of the Bedchamber to Queen Elizabeth I
• Frances Sweeney, American journalist and anti-fascist activist
• Frances L. Swift, American church and temperance leader
• Francie Swift, born Frances Swift, American actress
• Frances Tiafoe, American tennis player
• Frances Christine Fisher Tiernan, American novelist and author under the pen name Christian Reid
• Frances E. Townsley, American Baptist minister
• Frances Trollope, English novelist and writer, mother of novelist and writer Anthony Trollope
• Frances Eleanor Trollope, sister of Ellen Ternan and sister-in-law of Anthony Trollope
• Frances Talbot, Countess of Tyrconnell, English courtier and Irish countess
• Frances Vane, Viscountess Vane, British memoirist known for her highly public adulterous relationships
• Frances Waldegrave, Countess Waldegrave, British heiress and society hostess
• Frances Wessells, American dancer, choreographer, and associate professor
• Frances Willard, American educator, temperance reformer and women's suffragist
• Frances Williams (disambiguation), multiple people
• Frances Yip, Hong Kong singer

Fictional characters

• Frances "Frankie" Foster, from the 2004 Cartoon Network series Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends
• Frances Badger, the title character in the children's book series by Russell Hoban
• Frances Buffay, Phoebe Buffay's adoptive grandmother in NBC sitcom Friends
• Frances Earnshaw, from the novel Wuthering Heights
• Frances "Baby" Houseman, from the movie Dirty Dancing
• Frances, in the anime Sonic X
• Frances "Franny" Glass, from Franny and Zooey
• Mary Frances "Francie" Nolan, from A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
• Frances Stevens, played by Grace Kelly in Hitchcock's To Catch a Thief
• Frances Ha, the title character, played by Greta Gerwig, in the 2012 American black and white comedy-drama film, Frances Ha
• Frances "Frankie" Heck, played by Patricia Heaton on the ABC sitcom The Middle
• Frances the Firefly, the protagonist in a fire safety public information film
• Frances Flynn, the protagonist of the novel Conversations with Friends. Played by Alison Oliver in the TV adaptation of the same name.