| Charles Fourier (1772–1837), French socialist writer |
| Jean-Baptiste-Joseph Fourier (1768–1830), French mathematician |
| Étienne Fourmont (1683–1745), French orientalist |
| Joseph Jean Baptiste Xavier Fournet (1801–1869), French geologist and metallurgist |
| Pierre Simon Fournier (1712–1768), French engraver and typefounder |
| Claude Fournier L’Héritier (1745–1825), French revolutionist |
| Charles Fowler (1792–1867), English architect |
| Edward Fowler (1632–1714), English divine |
| John Fowler (1826–1864), English inventor |
| Sir John Fowler (1817–1898), English civil engineer |
| Thomas Fowler (1832–1904), English philosophical writer |
| William Fowler (c. 1560–1612), Scottish poet |
| William Warde Fowler (1847–1921), British classical scholar and ornithologist |
| Charles James Fox (1749–1806), British statesman and orator |
| Edward Fox (c. 1496–1538), Bishop of Hereford |
| George Fox (1624–1691), founder of the “Society of Friends” or “Quakers,” |
| John Fox, Jr. (1863–1919), American writer |
| Richard Fox (c. 1448–1528), successively Bishop of Exeter, Bath and Wells, Durham, and Winchester, Lord Privy Seal, and founder of Corpus Christi College, Oxford |
| Robert Were Fox (1789–1877), English geologist and natural philosopher |
| Sir Stephen Fox (1627–1716), English statesman |
| Sir William Fox (1812–1893), New Zealand statesman |
| William Johnson Fox (1786–1864), English orator and politician |
| John Foxe (1516–1587), author of the famous Book of Martyrs |
| Maximilien Sébastien Foy (1775–1825), French general and statesman |
| Karl Nikolas Fraas (1810–1875), German botanist and agriculturist |
| Girolamo Fracastoro (1478–1553), Italian physician and poet |
| Christian Martin Fraehn (1782–1851), German numismatist and historian |
| Jean-Honoré Fragonard (1732–1806), French painter |
| François-Louis Français (1814–1897), French painter |
| Antoine Français de Nantes (1756–1836), French politician and author |
| Charles Elmé Francatelli (1805–1876), Anglo-Italian cook |
| Anatole France (1844–1924), French critic, essayist and novelist |
| Jean Baptiste, Baron Franceschi (1766–1813), French general |
| Baldassare Franceschini (1611–1690), Italian painter |
| Louis Franchet d’Espérey (1856–1942), French marshal |
| Il Francia (1450–1518), Bolognese painter |
| José Gaspar Rodríguez de Francia (1766–1840), Dictator of Paraguay |
| Franciabigio (1484–1525), Florentine painter |
| Robert Edward Francillon (1841–1919), English novelist |
| Francis I. (1708–1765), Roman Emperor and Grand Duke of Tuscany |
| Francis II. (1768–1835), last Roman Emperor |
| Francis I. (1494–1547), King of France |
| Francis II. (1544–1560), King of France |
| Francis I. (1777–1830), King of the Two Sicilies |
| Francis II. (1836–1894), King of the Two Sicilies |
| Francis IV. (1779–1846), Duke of Modena |
| Francis V. (1819–1875), Duke of Modena |
| Saint Francis of Assisi (1182–1226), founder of the Franciscans |
| Saint Francis of Paola (1416–1507), founder of the Minims |
| Saint Francis de Sales (1567–1622), Bishop of Geneva and Doctor of the Church |
| John Wakefield Francis (1789–1861), American physician and medical writer |
| Philip Francis (1740–1818), English politician and pamphleteer |
| Franciscus de Mayronis (c. 1285–c. 1328), Scholastic philosopher |
| Franck, name given improperly to painters who belong to the families of Francken and Vrancx |
| César Franck (1822–1890), French musical composer |
| Sebastian Franck (1499–1542), German freethinker |
| August Hermann Francke (1663–1727), German Protestant divine |
| Francken, eleven painters of this family cultivated their art in Antwerp during the 16th and 17th centuries |
| Nicolas Louis, Count François de Neufchâteau (1750–1828), French statesman and poet |
| Jacob Frank (c. 1726–1791), Jewish theologian |
| Zacharias Frankel (1801–1875), Jewish theologian |
| Ludwig August Frankl (1810–1894), Austrian poet |
| Sir Edward Frankland (1825–1899), English chemist |
| Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790), American diplomat, statesman and scientist |
| Sir John Franklin (1786–1847), English rear-admiral and explorer |
| William Buel Franklin (1823–1903), Federal general in the American Civil War |
| Augustus Wollaston Franks (1826–1897), English antiquary |
| Robert Franz (1815–1892), German composer |
| Frans Mikael Franzén (1772–1847), Swedish poet |
| Franz Ferdinand (1863–1914), Archduke of Austria |
| Franz Joseph I. (1830–1916), Emperor of Austria, King of Bohemia, and apostolic King of Hungary |
| Karl Emil Franzos (1848–1904), German novelist |
| Alexander Campbell Fraser (1819–1914), Scottish philosopher |
| James Fraser (1818–1885), English Bishop |
| James Baillie Fraser (1783–1856), Scottish traveller and author |
| Sir William Augustus Fraser (1826–1898), English politician, author and collector |
| Frauenlob (d. 1318), German poet |
| Abraham Fraunce (fl. 1587–1633), English poet |
| Joseph von Fraunhofer (1787–1826), German optician and physicist |
| Denis Frayssinous (1765–1841), French prelate and statesman |
| Sir James George Frazer (1854–1941), British anthropologist |
| Louis Honoré Fréchette (1839–1908), French-Canadian poet |
| Fredegund (d. 597), Frankish queen |
| Harold Frederic (1856–1898), Anglo-American novelist |
| Frederick I. (c. 1123–1190), Roman Emperor, surnamed “Barbarossa” |
| Frederick II. (1194–1250), Roman Emperor, King of Sicily and Jerusalem |
| Frederick III. (1415–1493), Holy Roman Emperor |
| Frederick III. (1286–1330), German King and Duke of Austria |
| Frederick II. (1534–1588), King of Denmark and Norway |
| Frederick III. (1609–1670), King of Denmark and Norway |
| Frederick VIII. (1843–1912), King of Denmark |
| Frederick I. (1657–1713), King of Prussia, and (as Frederick III.) elector of Brandenburg |
| Frederick the Great (1712–1786), King of Prussia |
| Frederick III. (1272–1337), King of Sicily |
| Frederick I. (1371–1440), Elector of Brandenburg |
| Frederick I. (1425–1476), Elector palatine of the Rhine, surnamed “the Victorious” |
| Frederick II. (1482–1556), Elector palatine of the Rhine |
| Frederick III. (1515–1576), Elector palatine of the Rhine |
| Frederick IV. (1574–1610), Elector palatine of the Rhine |
| Frederick V. (1596–1632), Elector palatine of the Rhine and King of Bohemia |
| Frederick I. (1370–1428), Elector and Duke of Saxony |
| Frederick II. (1411–1464), Elector and Duke of Saxony |
| Frederick III. (1463–1525), Elector of Saxony |
| Frederick III. (1831–1888), King of Prussia and German Emperor |
| Frederick Augustus I. (1750–1827), King of Saxony |
| Frederick Augustus II. (1797–1854), King of Saxony |
| Prince Frederick Charles (1828–1885), Prussian general field marshal |
| Frederick Henry (1584–1647), Prince of Orange |
| Frederick Louis (1707–1751), Prince of Wales |
| Frederick William (1620–1688), Elector of Brandenburg |
| Frederick William I. (1688–1740), King of Prussia |
| Frederick William II. (1744–1797), King of Prussia |
| Frederick William III. (1770–1840), King of Prussia |
| Frederick William IV. (1795–1861), King of Prussia |
| Paul Frédéricq (1850–1920), Belgian historian |
| Edward Augustus Freeman (1823–1892), English historian |
| Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman (1852–1930), American novelist |
| Freidank (Thirteenth Century), Middle High German didactic poet |
| Ferdinand Freiligrath (1810–1876), German poet |
| John Freind (1675–1728), English physician |
| Johann Freinsheim (1608–1660), German classical scholar and critic |
| Francisco José Freire (1719–1773), Portuguese historian and philologist |
| Frederick Theodore Frelinghuysen (1817–1885), American lawyer and statesman |
| Emmanuel Frémiet (1824–1910), French sculptor |
| John Charles Frémont (1813–1890), American explorer, soldier and political leader |
| Edmond Frémy (1814–1894), French chemist |
| Benjamin Franklin French (1799–1877), American historian |
| Daniel Chester French (1850–1931), American sculptor |
| John Denton Pinkstone French, Earl of Ypres (1852–1925), British field-marshal |
| Lucy Virginia French (1825–1881), American writer and poetess |
| Nicholas French (1604–1678), Bishop of Ferns, an Irish political pamphleteer |
| Philip Freneau (1752–1832), American poet |
| Gustav Frenssen (1863–1945), German author |
| Charles Freppel (1827–1891), French Bishop and politician |
| Bartle Frere (1815–1884), British administrator |
| John Hookham Frere (1769–1846), English diplomatist and author |
| Pierre Édouard Frère (1819–1886), French painter |
| Hubert Joseph Walter Frère-Orban (1812–1896), Belgian statesman |
| Nicolas Fréret (1688–1749), French scholar |
| Élie-Catherine Fréron (1718–1776), French critic and controversialist |
| Louis-Marie Stanislas Fréron (1754–1802), French revolutionist |
| Girolamo Frescobaldi (1583–1643), Italian musical composer |
| Carl Remigius Fresenius (1818–1897), German chemist |
| Augustin Jean Fresnel (1788–1827), French physicist |
| Sigmund Freud (1856–1939), Austrian physician and psychoanalyst |
| Wilhelm Freund (1806–1894), German philologist and lexicographer |
| Accepted Frewen (1588–1664), Archbishop of York |
| Charles Louis de Saulses de Freycinet (1828–1923), French statesman |
| Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Freytag (1788–1861), German philologist |
| Gustav Freytag (1816–1895), German novelist |
| Henry Clay Frick (1849–1919), American manufacturer and philanthropist |
| Charles Friedel (1832–1899), French chemist and mineralogist |
| Ludwig Friedländer (1824–1909), German archæologist and philologist |
| Meir Friedmann (1831–1908), Hungarian Jewish scholar |
| Johann Friedrich (1836–1917), German theologian |
| Elias Fries (1794–1878), Swedish botanist |
| Jakob Friedrich Fries (1773–1843), German philosopher |
| John Fries (c. 1750–1818), American insurgent leader |
| Johan Friis (1494–1570), Danish statesman |
| Johann Maria Philipp Frimont (1759–1831), Austrian general |
| Nicodemus Frischlin (1547–1590), German philologist and poet |
| Paolo Frisi (1728–1784), Italian mathematician and astronomer |
| William Powell Frith (1819–1909), English painter |
| Friedrich Fröbel (1782–1852), German philosopher, philanthropist and educational reformer |
| Julius Fröbel (1805–1893), German politician and author |
| Joannes Froben (c. 1460–1527), German printer and scholar |
| Sir Martin Frobisher (c. 1535–1594), English navigator and explorer |
| Abraham Emanuel Fröhlich (1796–1865), Swiss poet |
| Charles Frohman (1860–1915), American theatrical manager |
| Jakob Frohschammer (1821–1893), German theologian and philosopher |
| Jean Froissart (c. 1337–1410?), French chronicler and raconteur, historian of his own times |
| Eugène Fromentin (1820–1876), French painter |
| Gaston Frommel (1862–1906), Swiss theologian |
| Louis de Buade, Comte de Frontenac (1620–1698), French-Canadian statesman |
| Sextus Julius Frontinus (c. 40–103), Roman soldier and author |
| Marcus Cornelius Fronto (c. 100–170), Roman grammarian, rhetorician and advocate |
| Charles Auguste Frossard (1807–1875), French general |
| Robert Frost (1874–1963), American writer |
| William Edward Frost (1810–1877), English painter |
| Nathaniel Langdon Frothingham (1793–1870), American clergyman and author |
| Octavius Brooks Frothingham (1822–1895), American clergyman and author |
| Richard Frothingham (1812–1880), American historian |
| James Anthony Froude (1818–1894), English historian |
| Carlo Innocenzo Frugoni (1692–1768), Italian poet |
| Frumentius (c. 300–c. 360), founder of the Abyssinian church |
| Georg von Frundsberg (1473–1528), German soldier |
| Philip Fruytiers (1610–1666), Flemish painter and engraver |
| Fry, name of a well-known English Quaker family |
| Sir Edward Fry (1827–1918), English judge |
| Elizabeth Gurney Fry (1780–1845), English philanthropist |
| Charles Fryatt (1872–1916), British sea-captain |
| Pauline Cushman Fryer (1833–1893), actress and spy |
| Anders Fryxell (1795–1881), Swedish historian |
| Fuad Pasha (1815–1869), Turkish statesman |
| Johann Nepomuk von Fuchs (1774–1856), German chemist and mineralogist |
| Leonhart Fuchs (1501–1566), German physician and botanist |
| Fugger, name of a famous German family of merchants and bankers |
| Joseph von Führich (1800–1876), Austrian painter |
| Fulcher of Chartres (1058?–c. 1127), French chronicler |
| Fabius Planciades Fulgentius (fl. Fifth–Sixth Century), Latin grammarian |
| Fulk (d. 900), Archbishop of Reims |
| William Fulke (1538–1589), Puritan divine |
| Fulk Nerra (c. 970–1040), Count of Anjou |
| Georg Gustav Fülleborn (1769–1803), German philosopher, philologist and miscellaneous writer |
| Andrew Fuller (1754–1815), English Baptist divine |
| George Fuller (1822–1884), American figure and portrait painter |
| Margaret Fuller (1810–1850), American author |
| Melville Weston Fuller (1833–1910), American jurist, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States |
| Thomas Fuller (1608–1661), English divine and historian |
| William Fuller (1670–c. 1717), English impostor |
| Lady Georgiana Fullerton (1812–1885), English novelist and philanthropist |
| Robert Fulton (1765–1815), American engineer |
| Fulvia (d. 40 B.C.), a bold and ambitious woman of Rome |
| Antoine Furetière (1619–1688), French scholar and miscellaneous writer |
| Tobias Furneaux (1735–1781), English navigator |
| Christopher, Baron Furness (1852–1912), English shipbuilder and iron-master |
| Horace Howard Furness (1833–1912), American Shakespearian scholar |
| William Henry Furness (1802–1896), American clergyman |
| Harry Furniss (1854–1925), British caricaturist and illustrator |
| Frederick James Furnivall (1825–1910), English philologist and editor |
| Charles Wellington Furse (1868–1904), English painter |
| Dame Katharine Furse (1875–1952), founder of the English V.A.D. force |
| Julius Fürst (1805–1873), German orientalist |
| Fürstenberg, name of two noble houses of Germany |
| Adolf Furtwängler (1853–1907), German archæologist |
| Henry Fuseli (1741–1825), English painter and writer on art |
| Johannes Fust (1400–1466), early German printer |
| Numa Denis Fustel de Coulanges (1830–1889), French historian |
| Johann Joseph Fux (1660–1741), Austrian musician |
| Charles Alan Fyffe (1845–1892), English historian |
| Jan Fyt (1611–1661), Belgian animal painter |
| Kristoffer Gabel (1617–1673), Danish statesman |
| Hans Conon von der Gabelentz (1807–1874), German linguist and ethnologist |
| Aulus Gabinius (d. 48 B.C.), Roman statesman and general |
| Ludwig Karl Wilhelm von Gablenz (1814–1874), Austrian general |
| Georg Andreas Gabler (1786–1853), German Hegelian philosopher |
| Johann Philipp Gabler (1753–1826), German Protestant theologian |
| Émile Gaboriau (1832–1873), French novelist |
| Giovanni Gabrieli (c. 1554–1612), Italian musical composer |
| Gace Brulé (d. c. 1220), French trouvère |
| Louis-Prosper Gachard (1800–1885), Belgian man of letters |
| Gad, in the Bible, a prophet |
| Gaddi, four painters of the early Florentine school |
| Niels Wilhelm Gade (1817–1890), Danish composer |
| Christopher Gadsden (1724–1805), American patriot |
| James Gadsden (1788–1858), American soldier and diplomat |
| Gaetani, name of the oldest of the Roman princely families |
| Lyman Judson Gage (1836–1927), American financier |
| Matilda Joslyn Gage (1826–1898), American reformer |
| Thomas Gage (1603?–1656), English missionary and author |
| Thomas Gage (1721–1787), British general and governor of Massachusetts |
| Hans Christoph, Baron von Gagern (1766–1852), German statesman and political writer |
| Roger de Gaignières (1642–1715), French genealogist, antiquary and collector |
| Jean-Baptiste Gail (1755–1829), French hellenist |
| Gabriel-Henri Gaillard (1726–1806), French historian |
| Edmund Pendleton Gaines (1777–1849), American soldier |
| Thomas Gainsborough (1727–1788), English painter |
| James Gairdner (1828–1912), English historian |
| Gaiseric (c. 390–477), King of the Vandals |
| Thomas Gaisford (1779–1855), English classical scholar |
| Gaius (Second Century?), celebrated Roman jurist |
| Gaius (d. 296), Pope |
| Servius Sulpicius Galba (Second Century B.C.), Roman general and orator |
| Servius Sulpicius Galba (3 B.C.–69 A.D.), Roman Emperor |
| Benito Pérez Galdós (1843–1920), Spanish novelist |
| Theophilus Gale (1628–1678), English nonconformist divine |
| Thomas Gale (1635?–1702), English classical scholar and antiquarian |
| Christoph Bernhard, Freiherr von Galen (1606–1678), Prince Bishop of Münster |
| Galen (c. 130–c. 200), the most celebrated of ancient medical writers |
| Galerius (c. 260–311), Roman Emperor |
| Galgācus (First Century), Caledonian chief |
| Ferdinando Galiani (1728–1787), Italian economist |
| Giovanni Antonio Galignani (1757–1821), newspaper publisher |
| Galileo Galilei (1564–1642), Italian astronomer and experimental philosopher |
| Franz Joseph Gall (1758–1828), Anatomist, physiologist, and founder of phrenology |
| William Davis Gallagher (1808–1894), American poet and journalist |
| Louis Gallait (1810–1887), Belgian painter |
| Antoine Galland (1646–1715), French orientalist and archæologist |
| Matthias Gallas, Graf von Campo, Herzog von Lucera (1584–1647), Austrian soldier |
| Albert Gallatin (1761–1849), American statesman |
| Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet (1787–1851), American educator of the deaf and dumb |
| Johann Gottfried Galle (1812–1910), German astronomer |
| Antonio Carlo Napoleone Gallenga (1810–1895), Italian author and patriot |
| Joseph-Simon Gallieni (1849–1916), French general and statesman |
| Gallienus (c. 218–268), Roman Emperor |
| Gaston de Galliffet (1830–1909), French general |
| Junius Annaeus Gallio (d. 65 A.D.), son of the rhetorician L. Annaeus Seneca and the elder brother of L. Annaeus Seneca the philosopher |
| Demetrius Augustine Gallitzin (1770–1840), American Roman Catholic priest |
| Tom Gallon (1866–1914), British novelist and dramatist |
| Joseph Galloway (1731–1803), American lawyer and politician |
| Thomas Galloway (1796–1851), Scottish mathematician |
| Pasquale Galluppi (1770–1846), Italian philosopher |
| Cornelius Gallus (69?–26 B.C.), Roman poet, orator and politician |
| Gaius Aelius Gallus (First Century B.C.), Praefect of Egypt |
| Gaius Cestius Gallus (d. 67 A.D.), Governor of Syria |
| Gaius Sulpicius Gallus (Second Century B.C.), Roman general, statesman and orator |
| Évariste Galois (1811–1832), French mathematician |
| John Galsworthy (1867–1933), English novelist and playwright |
| Sir Alexander Tilloch Galt (1817–1893), Canadian statesman |
| John Galt (1779–1839), Scottish novelist |
| Francis Galton (1822–1911), English anthropologist |
| Baldassare Galuppi (1706–1785), Italian musical composer |
| Luigi Galvani (1737–1798), Italian physiologist |
| Vasco da Gama (c. 1460–1524), Portuguese navigator and discoverer of the sea-route to India |
| Gamaliel, biblical name |
| Léon Gambetta (1838–1882), French statesman |
| James, Baron Gambier (1756–1833), English admiral |
| Gambrinus, mythical Flemish king who is credited with the first brewing of beer |
| Mahatma Gandhi (1869–1948), Indian political leader |
| Charles Ganilh (1758–1836), French economist and politician |
| Jean-Nicolas Gannal (1791–1852), French chemist |
| William Channing Gannett (1840–1923), American Unitarian clergyman |
| Eduard Gans (1797–1839), German jurist |
| Johann Baptist Gänsbacher (1778–1844), Austrian musical composer |
| Ilija Garašanin (1812–1874), Servian statesman |
| Dominique-Joseph Garat (1749–1833), French writer and politician |
| Pierre-Jean Garat (1762–1823), French singer |
| János Garay (1812–1853), Hungarian poet and author |
| Pedro António Joaquim Corrêa Garção (1724–1772), Portuguese lyric poet |
| Manuel García (1775–1832), Spanish singer and composer |
| Vicente Antonio García de la Huerta (1734–1787), Spanish dramatist |
| Diego García de Paredes (1466–1534), Spanish soldier and duellist |
| Antonio García Gutiérrez (1813–1884), Spanish dramatist |
| Joseph Héliodore Sagesse Vertu Garcin de Tassy (1794–1878), French orientalist |
| Claude Mathieu, Count Gardane (1766–1818), French general and diplomatist |
| James Gardiner (1688–1745), Scottish soldier |
| Samuel Rawson Gardiner (1829–1902), English historian |
| Stephen Gardiner (c. 1483–1555), English Bishop and Lord Chancellor |
| Percy Gardner (1846–1937), English classical archæologist |
| Harry Augustus Garfield (1863–1942), American educator |
| James Abram Garfield (1831–1881), twentieth President of the United States |
| Quintus Gargilius Martialis (Third Century), Latin writer on horticultural subjects |
| Giuseppe Garibaldi (1807–1882), Italian patriot |
| Giuseppe Garibaldi II. (1879–1950), Italian general |
| Garin le Loherain, French epic hero |
| Hamlin Garland (1860–1940), American writer |
| François-Xavier Garneau (1809–1866), Canadian historian |
| Henry Garnet (1555–1606), English Jesuit |
| Henry Highland Garnet (1815–1882), American negro clergyman |
| James Mercer Garnett (1840–1916), American Anglo-Saxon scholar |
| Richard Garnett (1835–1906), English librarian and author |
| Charles Garnier (1825–1898), French architect |
| Germain Garnier (1754–1821), French politician and economist |
| Joseph Garnier (1813–1881), French economist |
| Robert Garnier (1544–1590), French tragic poet |
| Étienne-Joseph-Louis Garnier-Pagès (1801–1841), French politician |
| Edward Garrett (Isabella Fyvie Mayo) (1843–1914), British writer |
| David Garrick (1717–1779), English actor and theatrical manager |
| William Lloyd Garrison (1805–1879), American antislavery leader |
| Sir Samuel Garth (1661–1719), English physician and poet |
| Charles Garvice (1850–1920), British novelist |
| James Louis Garvin (1868–1947), British journalist |
| Elbert Henry Gary (1846–1927), American businessman |
| George Gascoigne (d. 1577), English poet |
| Sir William Gascoigne (c. 1350–1419), Chief Justice of England
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