| Immanuel Hermann Fichte (1797–1879), German philosopher |
| Johann Gottlieb Fichte (1762–1814), German philosopher |
| Marsilio Ficino (1433–1499), Italian philosopher and writer |
| August Fick (1833–1916), German philologist |
| Richard Fiddes (1671–1725), English divine and historian |
| Cyrus West Field (1819–1892), American capitalist, projector of the first Atlantic cable |
| David Dudley Field (1805–1894), American lawyer and law reformer |
| Eugene Field (1850–1895), American poet |
| Frederick Field (1801–1885), English divine and biblical scholar |
| Henry Martyn Field (1822–1907), American author and clergyman |
| John Field (1782–1837), English musical composer and pianist |
| Kate Field (1838–1896), American authoress and lecturer |
| Marshall Field (1834–1906), American merchant |
| Nathan Field (1587–1620?), English dramatist and actor |
| Stephen Johnson Field (1816–1899), American jurist |
| Sir William Ventris Field (1813–1907), English judge |
| Copley Fielding (1787–1855), English landscape painter |
| Henry Fielding (1707–1754), English novelist and playwright |
| William Stevens Fielding (1848–1929), Canadian journalist and statesman |
| Annie Adams Fields (1834–1915), American author |
| James Thomas Fields (1817–1881), American publisher and author |
| Nathaniel Fiennes (1607/8–1669), English politician |
| Gian Luigi Fiéschi (1522–1547), Count of Lavagna |
| Joseph Fieschi (1790–1836), chief conspirator in the attempt on the life of Louis Philippe |
| Louis Figuier (1819–1894), French scientific writer |
| Carlo Filangieri (1784–1867), Prince of Satriano, Neapolitan soldier and statesman |
| Gaetano Filangieri (1752–1788), Italian publicist |
| Sir Luke Fildes (1844–1927), English painter |
| Francesco Filelfo (1398–1481), Italian humanist |
| Vincenzo da Filicaia (1642–1707), Italian poet |
| Saint Fillan, name of the two Scottish saints |
| John Comfort Fillmore (1843–1898), American musician and author |
| Millard Fillmore (1800–1874), thirteenth President of the United States of America |
| Sir Robert Filmer (1588?–1653), English political writer |
| Augustin Filon (1841–1916), French man of letters |
| Gaius Flavius Fimbria (d. 84 B.C.), Roman soldier and a violent partisan of Marius |
| Finch, Finch-Hatton, old English family |
| Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea (1661–1720), English author |
| John, Baron Finch of Fordwich (1584–1660), English judge |
| Friedrich August von Finck (1718–1766), Prussian soldier |
| Heinrich Finck (1444/5–1527), German musical composer |
| Hermann Finck (1527–1558), German composer |
| William Finden (1787–1852), English line engraver |
| Andrew Findlater (1810–1885), Scottish editor |
| George Findlay (1829–1893), English railway manager |
| John Ritchie Findlay (1824–1898), Scottish newspaper owner and philanthropist |
| John Frederick Finerty (1846–1908), Irish-American journalist |
| Maso Finiguerra (1426–1464), Florentine goldsmith, draughtsman and engraver |
| George Finlay (1799–1875), British historian |
| Robert Bannatyne, Viscount Finlay (1842–1929), British lawyer and politician |
| Samuel Finley (1715–1766), American educator |
| Otto Finsch (1839–1917), German traveler and scientist |
| Fiorenzo di Lorenzo (c. 1440–1522), Italian painter |
| Johann Dominik Fiorillo (1748–1821), German painter and historian of art |
| Firdawsī (c. 940–1020), Persian poet |
| Agnolo Firenzuola (1493–1545), Italian poet and littérateur |
| Firishtah (1570–1614?), Persian historian |
| Julius Firmicus Maternus (Fourth Century), Latin writer |
| Charles Harding Firth (1857–1936), British historian |
| Mark Firth (1819–1880), English steel manufacturer and philanthropist |
| Fīrūzābādī (1329–1414/5), Arabian lexicographer |
| Johann Fischart (1546–1590), German satirist and publicist |
| Emil Fischer (1852–1919), German chemist |
| Kuno Fischer (1824–1907), German philosopher |
| Theobald Fischer (1846–1910), German geographer |
| Hamilton Fish (1808–1893), American statesman |
| Alvan Fisher (1792–1863), American portrait-painter |
| Andrew Fisher (1862–1928), Australian statesman |
| George Park Fisher (1827–1909), American theologian |
| Herbert Albert Laurens Fisher (1865–1940), British man of letters and politician |
| Irving Fisher (1867–1947), American economist |
| John Fisher (c. 1469–1535), English Cardinal and Bishop of Rochester |
| John Arbuthnot, Baron Fisher (1841–1920), British admiral |
| Clinton Bowen Fisk (1828–1890), American soldier and educator |
| James Fisk, Jr. (1835–1872), American financier |
| Wilbur Fisk (1792–1839), American educationist |
| John Fiske (1842–1901), American historical, philosophical and scientific writer |
| Minnie Maddern Fiske (1865–1932), American actress |
| John Fitch (1743–1798), American pioneer of steam navigation |
| Sir Joshua Girling Fitch (1824–1903), English educationist |
| Ralph Fitch (fl. 1583–1606), London merchant |
| Rudolph Fittig (1835–1910), German chemist |
| Mary Fitton (c. 1578–1647), identified by some writers with the “dark lady” of Shakespeare’s sonnets |
| William Henry Fitton (1780–1861), British geologist |
| Edward Fitzball (1792–1873), English dramatist |
| Fitzgerald, name of an historic Irish house |
| Edward Fitzgerald (1809–1883), English writer, the poet of Omar Khayyám |
| Lord Edward Fitzgerald (1763–1798), Irish conspirator |
| Percy Fitzgerald (1834–1925), Irish novelist and lawyer |
| Raymond Fitzgerald (d. c. 1182), soldier |
| Anthony Fitzherbert (1470–1538), English jurist |
| Thomas Fitzherbert (1552–1640), English Jesuit |
| James Fitzmaurice-Kelly (1858–1923), English man of letters |
| Richard Fitzneale (c. 1130–1198), Treasurer and Bishop of London |
| Roger Fitz-Osbern (fl. 1070), Earl |
| William Fitz-Osbern (d. 1071), an intimate friend of William the Conqueror |
| William Fitz Osbert (d. 1196), Londoner of good position who had served in the Third Crusade |
| William John Fitzpatrick (1830–1895), Irish writer |
| Robert Fitzroy (1805–1865), English vice-admiral |
| Robert Fitz Stephen (fl. 1182), soldier |
| William Fitzstephen (d. c. 1190), biographer of Thomas Becket and royal justice |
| Arnold Fitz-Thedmar (1201–1274?), London chronicler and merchant |
| Robert Fitzwalter (d. 1235), leader of the baronial opposition against King John of England |
| Sir William Fitzwilliam (1526–1599), Lord Deputy of Ireland |
| William Wentworth, Earl Fitzwilliam (1748–1833), English statesman |
| Théodore Fix (1800–1846), French journalist and economist |
| Hippolyte Fizeau (1819–1896), French physicist |
| Flaccus, a cognomen in the plebeian gens Fulvia, one of the most illustrious in ancient Rome |
| Jacques Flach (1846–1919), French jurist and historian |
| Matthias Flacius Illyricus (1520–1575), Lutheran reformer |
| Étienne de Flacourt (1607–1660), French governor of Madagascar |
| Benedict Joseph Flaget (1763–1850), French-American Roman Catholic Bishop |
| Edmund Flagg (1815–1890), American author |
| George Whiting Flagg (1816–1897), American artist |
| Isaac Flagg (1843–1931), American classical scholar and educator |
| Wilson Flagg (1805–1884), American naturalist |
| Auguste Charles Joseph, Comte de Flahaut de la Billarderie (1785–1870), French general and statesman |
| Ranulf Flambard (d. 1128), Bishop of Durham and chief minister of William Rufus |
| Nicolas Flamel (c. 1330–1418), reputed French alchemist and scrivener to the university of Paris |
| Titus Quinctius Flamininus (c. 227–174 B.C.), Roman general and statesman |
| Gaius Flaminius (d. 217 B.C.), Roman statesman and general |
| Camille Flammarion (1842–1925), French astronomer |
| John Flamsteed (1646–1719), English astronomer |
| Hippolyte Flandrin (1809–1864), French painter |
| Gustave Flaubert (1821–1880), French novelist |
| John Flavel (1630?–1691), English Presbyterian divine |
| Flavian I. (d. 404), Bishop or patriarch of Antioch |
| Flavian II. (d. 518), Bishop or patriarch of Antioch |
| Saint Flavian (d. 449), Bishop of Constantinople, and an adherent of the Antiochene school |
| John Flaxman (1755–1826), English sculptor and draughtsman |
| Esprit Fléchier (1632–1710), French preacher and author, Bishop of Nîmes |
| Alfred Fleckeisen (1820–1899), German philologist and critic |
| James Elroy Flecker (1884–1915), British poet |
| Richard Flecknoe (d. 1678?), English dramatist and poet |
| Charles Fleetwood (d. 1692), English soldier and politician |
| William Fleetwood (1656–1723), English divine |
| Eduard Robert Flegel (1855–1886), German traveller in West Africa |
| Heinrich Leberecht Fleischer (1801–1888), German orientalist |
| Paul Fleming (1609–1640), German poet |
| Richard Fleming (d. 1431), Bishop of Lincoln, and founder of Lincoln College, Oxford |
| Sir Sandford Fleming (1827–1915), Canadian engineer and publicist |
| Thomas Fleming (c. 1544–1613), English judge |
| Alice Cunningham Fletcher (1838–1923), American ethnologist |
| Andrew Fletcher of Saltoun (1655–1716), Scottish politician |
| Giles Fletcher (c. 1549–1611), English author |
| Giles Fletcher (1586?–1623), English poet |
| John Fletcher (1729–1785), English divine |
| Phineas Fletcher (1582–1650), English poet |
| Robert de la Marck, Seigneur de Fleuranges (1491–1537), Marshal of France and historian |
| Fleury (1750–1822), French actor |
| André Hercule de Fleury (1653–1743), French Cardinal and statesman |
| Claude Fleury (1640–1723), French ecclesiastical historian |
| Theodor Fliedner (1800–1864), German Protestant divine |
| Govert Flinck (1615–1660), Dutch painter |
| Matthew Flinders (1774–1814), English navigator, explorer, and man of science |
| Austin Flint (1812–1886), American physician |
| Robert Flint (1838–1910), Scottish divine and philosopher |
| Timothy Flint (1780–1840), American clergyman and writer |
| Flodoard (894–966), French chronicler |
| Henry Flood (1732–1791), Irish statesman |
| Charles-Thomas Floquet (1828–1896), French statesman |
| Roger de Flor (d. 1305), military adventurer |
| William Jermyn Florence (1831–1891), American actor |
| Florence of Worcester (d. 1118), English chronicler, a monk of Worcester |
| Enrique Flórez (1702–1773), Spanish historian |
| Saint Florian (d. 304), martyr honoured in Upper Austria |
| Jean Pierre Claris de Florian (1755–1794), French poet and romance writer |
| Don Jose Moñino y Redondo, Count of Floridablanca (1728–1808), Spanish statesman |
| Floridor (d. c. 1671), French actor |
| John Florio (1553?–1625), English writer |
| Frans Floris (1519/20–1570), Flemish painter |
| Florus (First–Second Century), Roman historian |
| Julius Florus (First Century B.C.), poet, orator and jurist of the Augustan age |
| Publius Annius Florus (Second Century), Roman poet and rhetorician |
| Friedrich von Flotow (1812–1883), German composer |
| Gustave Flourens (1838–1871), French revolutionist and writer |
| Pierre Flourens (1794–1867), French physiologist |
| Benjamin Orange Flower (1858–1918), American journalist |
| Roswell Pettibone Flower (1835–1899), American public man |
| Sir William Henry Flower (1831–1899), English biologist |
| John Floyd (1572–1649), English Jesuit |
| John Buchanan Floyd (1806–1863), American politician |
| William Floyd (1734–1821), signer of the Declaration of Independence |
| Sir John Floyer (1649–1734), English physician and author |
| Robert Fludd (1574–1637), English physician and mystical philosopher |
| Gustav Flügel (1802–1870), German orientalist |
| Johann Gottfried Flügel (1788–1855), German lexicographer |
| Emilie Flygare-Carlén (1807–1892), Swedish novelist |
| Ferdinand Foch (1851–1929), French marshal |
| Antonio Fogazzaro (1842–1911), Italian novelist and poet |
| Bengt Erland Fogelberg (1786–1854), Swedish sculptor |
| Counts of Foix |
| Paul de Foix (1528–1584), French prelate and diplomatist |
| Jean Charles de Folard (1669–1752), French soldier and military author |
| Teofilo Folengo (1496–1544), one of the principal Italian macaronic poets |
| Allan James Foley (1837–1899), Irish bass singer |
| John Henry Foley (1818–1874), Irish sculptor |
| Sir Thomas Foley (1757–1833), British admiral |
| Charles James Folger (1818–1884), American politician |
| Peter Folger (1617?–1690), colonial clergyman and writer |
| Gilbert Foliot (d. 1188), Bishop of Hereford, and of London |
| Martin Folkes (1690–1754), English antiquary |
| August Adolf Ludwig Follen (1794–1855), German poet |
| Charles Theodore Christian Follen (1796–1840), German poet and patriot |
| Sir William Webb Follett (1798–1845), English lawyer |
| Joseph Libbey Folsom (1817–1855), California pioneer and soldier |
| Nathaniel Folsom (1726–1790), American Revolutionary statesman and soldier |
| Albany Fonblanque (1793–1872), English journalist |
| Juan Rodríguez de Fonseca (1451–1524), Spanish statesman and Archbishop, the enemy of Columbus |
| Manoel Deodoro da Fonseca (1827–1892), first President of the United States of Brazil |
| Pierre François Léonard Fontaine (1762–1853), French architect |
| Louis-Marie Fontan (1801–1839), French man of letters |
| Domenico Fontana (1543–1607), Italian architect and mechanician |
| Lavinia Fontana (1552–1614), Italian portrait-painter |
| Prospero Fontana (1512–1597), Italian painter |
| Theodor Fontane (1819–1898), German poet and novelist |
| Louis, Marquis de Fontanes (1757–1821), French poet and politician |
| Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle (1657–1757), French author |
| Samuel Augustus Foot (1780–1846), American public man |
| Andrew Hull Foote (1806–1863), American admiral |
| Henry Stuart Foote (1804–1880), American public man |
| Mary Hallock Foote (1847–1938), American author and illustrator |
| Samuel Foote (1720–1777), English dramatist and actor |
| Vincenzo Foppa (Fifteenth Century), Italian painter |
| Jean Louis Forain (1852–1931), French painter and illustrator |
| Joseph Benson Foraker (1846–1917), American political leader |
| Alexander Penrose Forbes (1817–1875), Scottish divine |
| Archibald Forbes (1838–1900), British war correspondent |
| David Forbes (1828–1876), British mineralogist, metallurgist and chemist |
| Duncan Forbes (1685–1747), Scottish statesman |
| Edward Forbes (1815–1854), British naturalist |
| James David Forbes (1809–1868), Scottish physicist |
| Sir John Forbes (1787–1861), British physician |
| Sir Johnston Forbes-Robertson (1853–1937), English actor |
| Claude de Forbin (1656–1733), French naval commander |
| Peter Force (1790–1868), American historian |
| Egidio Forcellini (1688–1768), Italian philologist |
| Johan Georg Forchhammer (1794–1865), Danish mineralogist and geologist |
| Peter Wilhelm Forchhammer (1801–1894), German classical archæologist |
| Edward Onslow Ford (1852–1901), English sculptor |
| Henry Ford (1863–1947), American manufacturer |
| John Ford (1586–c. 1640), English dramatist |
| Paul Leicester Ford (1865–1902), American author |
| Richard Ford (1796–1858), English author of one of the earliest and best of travellers’ Handbooks |
| Thomas Ford (c. 1580–1648), English musician |
| Worthington Chauncey Ford (1858–1941), American historical writer and statistician |
| Francis Forde (d. 1770), British soldier |
| John of Fordun (d. c. 1384), Scottish chronicler |
| Élie Frédéric Forey (1804–1872), Marshal of France |
| Johann Nikolaus Forkel (1749–1818), German musician |
| Andrew Forman (c. 1465–1521), Scottish ecclesiastic |
| Harry Buxton Forman (1842–1917), British man of letters and civil servant |
| Simon Forman (1552–1611), English physician and astrologer |
| Jean-Henri-Samuel Formey (1711–1797), Franco-German author |
| Formosus (c. 816–896), Pope |
| Juan Pablo Forner (1756–1797), Spanish satirist and scholar |
| Edwin Forrest (1806–1872), American tragedian |
| John, Baron Forrest (1847–1918), Australian statesman and explorer |
| Nathan Bedford Forrest (1821–1877), Confederate cavalry general in the American Civil War |
| Alfred Henry Forrester (Alfred Crowquill) (1804–1872), English humorist and artist |
| Hans Ludvig Forssell (1843–1901), Swedish historian and political writer |
| Peter Forsskål (1732–1763), Swedish traveller and naturalist |
| Ernest Joachim Förster (1800–1885), German painter and art-writer |
| François Forster (1790–1872), French engraver |
| Friedrich Christoph Förster (1791–1868), German historian and poet |
| Georg Forster (1754–1794), German traveller and author |
| John Forster (1812–1876), English biographer and critic |
| John Cooper Forster (1823–1886), British surgeon |
| William Edward Forster (1818–1886), British statesman |
| Peter Taylor Forsyth (1848–1921), British Nonconformist divine |
| William Forsyth (1812–1899), English barrister |
| Sir John Fortescue (c. 1394–1476), English lawyer |
| Sir John Fortescue (c. 1531–1607), English statesman |
| Alessandro Fortis (1841–1909), Italian statesman |
| Carl Fortlage (1806–1881), German philosopher |
| Atilius Fortunatianus (Fourth Century), Latin grammarian |
| Venantius Honorius Clementianus Fortunatus (c. 540–c. 600), Bishop of Poitiers, and the chief Latin poet of his time |
| Robert Fortune (1813–1880), Scottish botanist and traveller |
| Mariano Fortuny (1838–1874), Spanish painter |
| Thomas Dudley Fosbroke (1770–1842), English antiquary |
| Francesco Foscari (1373–1457), Doge of Venice |
| Ugo Foscolo (1778–1827), Italian writer |
| Edward Foss (1787–1870), English lawyer and biographer |
| Vittorio Fossombroni (1754–1844), Tuscan statesman and mathematician |
| Sir Clement le Neve Foster (1841–1904), English geologist and mineralogist |
| Sir George Eulas Foster (1847–1931), Canadian statesman |
| John Foster (1770–1843), English author and dissenting minister |
| John Watson Foster (1836–1917), American statesman |
| Lafayette Sabine Foster (1806–1880), American statesman |
| Sir Michael Foster (1836–1907), English physiologist |
| Myles Birket Foster (1825–1899), English painter |
| Stephen Collins Foster (1826–1864), American song- and ballad-writer |
| John Fothergill (1712–1780), English physician |
| Léon Foucault (1819–1868), French physicist |
| Joseph Fouché, duc d’Otrante (1759–1820), French statesman |
| Simon Foucher (1644–1696), French philosopher |
| Alfred Fouillée (1838–1912), French philosopher |
| Achille Fould (1800–1867), French financier and politician |
| Andrew (1712–1775) and Robert (1707–1776) Foulis, Scottish printers and publishers |
| Henry (1766–1854) and Sealy (1773–1847) Fourdrinier, British paper-makers |
| Joseph-François Foullon (1715–1789), French administrator |
| Foulque (1092–1143), King of Jerusalem |
| Ferdinand Fouqué (1828–1904), French geologist and petrologist |
| Jean Fouquet (c. 1420–c. 1480), French painter |
| Nicolas Fouquet (1615–1680), Superintendent of finance in France |
| Antoine Quentin Fouquier-Tinville (1746–1795), French revolutionist |
| Antoine-François Fourcroy (1755–1809), French chemist
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