Francesca is an Italian female

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, derived from the

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male name ''

Franciscus Franciscus is a Latin given name, originally an epithet meaning "the Frank, the Frenchman". It was applied to Saint Francis of Assisi (1181/82–1226). Francis had been baptized Giovanni (John); his father was Italian and his mother Prov ...

'' meaning 'the Frenchman' It is widely used in most

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, including

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, French and Catalan, and place of origin is

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. It is derived from the same source as the female name ''

Frances Frances is an English given name or last name of Latin origin. In Latin the meaning of the name Frances is 'from France' or 'the French.' The male version of the name in English is Francis (given name), Francis. The original Franciscus, meaning "F ...

'', and the male names ''

Francesc Francesc () is a masculine given name of Catalan origin. It is a cognate of Francis, Francesco, Francisco, François, and Franz. People with the name include: *Cesc Fàbregas (Francesc Fàbregas i Soler) (born 1987), Spanish professional football ...

'', ''

Francesco Francesco, the Italian language, Italian (and original) version of the personal name "Francis (given name), Francis", is one of the List of most popular given names, most common given name among males in Italy. Notable persons with that name inclu ...

'' and ''

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People named Francesca

* Daniel Francesca, Danish esports player * Francesca Alderisi, Italian television presenter and politician * Francesca Allen (born 2002), British adaptive rower *

Francesca Allinson Francesca Allinson (born Enid Ellen Pulvermacher Allinson; 20 August 1902 – 7 April 1945) was an English writer, musician and puppeteer. She was the youngest child of the pioneering physician and wholemeal bread entrepreneur Dr Thomas Alli ...

, English author and musician *

Francesca Annis Francesca Annis (born 14 May 1945) is an English actress. She is known for television roles in '' Reckless'' (1998), '' Wives and Daughters'' (1999), ''Deceit'' (2000), and '' Cranford'' (2007). A six-time BAFTA TV Award nominee, she won the 1979 ...

, British actress * Julia Francesca Barretto, Filipino actress * Francesca Battistelli, American Christian musician *

Francesca Beard Francesca Beard (born 1968) is a Malaysian writer and performance poet. Born in Kuala Lumpur, she has been based in London for much of her adult life and cites the city as a major inspiration in her work.performance poet Performance poetry is poetry that is specifically composed for or during a performance before an audience. It covers a variety of styles and genres. History The phenomenon of performance poetry, a kind of poetry specifically made for and offer ...

Francesca Caccini Francesca Caccini (; 18 September 1587 – most likely between 1641 and 1645) was an Italian composer, singer, lutenist, poet, and music teacher of the early Baroque era. She was also known by the nickname La Cecchina , given to her by the Floren ...

, Italian composer and singer of the early

Baroque The Baroque ( , , ) is a Western Style (visual arts), style of Baroque architecture, architecture, Baroque music, music, Baroque dance, dance, Baroque painting, painting, Baroque sculpture, sculpture, poetry, and other arts that flourished from ...

Francesca Anna Canfield Francesca Anna Canfield (, Pascalis; pen name, Salonina; August 1803 – May 23, 1833) was a 19th-century American linguist, poet, and translator. In writing, she seemed to have been constantly under the influence of the advice thus given to Pinda ...

, American poet and translator *

Francesca Capaldi Francesca Angelucci Capaldi (born June 8, 2004) is an American actress. She is best known for her roles as Chloe James in the Disney Channel sitcom '' Dog with a Blog'' (2012–15) and Nellie Chambers in the Brat web series '' Crown Lake'' (20 ...

, American child actress *

Frankie Corio Francesca Corio (born 7 July 2010) is a Scottish child actress. She is known for her debut role in the film '' Aftersun'' (2022), for which she received a number of accolades, including Critics Choice and British Independent Film Award nominatio ...

, Scottish child actress *

Francesca Cumani Francesca Cumani is a horse racing presenter working for ''ITV Racing'' and ''Nine's Wide World of Sports''. She has previously been part of the coverage of the Melbourne Cup with Seven Network and 10 Sport. Education Cumani was educated at Tu ...

, English racing presenter for ITV *

Francesca Cuzzoni Francesca Cuzzoni (2 April 1696 – 19 June 1778) was an Italian operatic soprano of the Baroque era. Early career Cuzzoni was born in Parma. Her father, Angelo, was a professional violinist, and her singing teacher was Francesco Lanzi. She ma ...

, Italian operatic soprano *

Francesca da Rimini Francesca da Rimini or Francesca da Polenta (died between 1283 and 1286) was an Italian noblewoman of Ravenna, who was murdered by her husband, Giovanni Malatesta, upon his discovery of her affair with his brother, Paolo Malatesta. She was a ...

, 13th-century Italian adulterer * Francesca Dani, Italian cosplay model * Francesca Gagnon, Canadian singer and performer for

Cirque du Soleil Cirque du Soleil (, ; ) is a Canadian entertainment company and the largest contemporary circus producer in the world. Located in the inner-city area of Saint-Michel, Montreal, Saint-Michel, Montreal, it was founded in Baie-Saint-Paul on 16 Jun ...

* Francesca Galli, Italian road racing cyclist *

Francesca Gino Francesca Gino (born April 18, 1978) is an Italian Americans, Italian behavioral scientist who formerly served as Tandon Family Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School (HBS), with her research focusing on "honesty and ethi ...

, Italian-American behavioral scientist * Francesca Hayward, English ballerina * Francesca Henry, English actress * Francesca Iossi (born 1977), Italian bobsledder * Francesca Lancellotti, Italian layperson declared venerable * Francesca Le, American pornographic actress *

Francesca Lia Block Francesca Lia Block (born December 3, 1962) is an American writer of adult and young-adult literature. She wrote the '' Weetzie Bat'' series, which she began while a student at UC Berkeley. Early life and education Block was born in Los Angele ...

, American author of the Weetzie Bat series *

Francesca Lubiani Francesca Lubiani (born 12 July 1977) is a former professional tennis player Tennis is a List of racket sports, racket sport that is played either individually against a single opponent (singles (tennis), singles) or between two teams of ...

, Italian tennis player * Francesca Martiradonna, Italian basketball player * Francesca Martinez, British comedian * Francesca Petitjean, French former bodybuilder and pornographic actress *

Francesca Piccinini Francesca Piccinini (born 10 January 1979 in Massa, Tuscany, Massa) is an former Italian volleyball player who has represented Italy four times (2000, 2004, 2008 and 2012) at the Summer Olympics. She was a member of the Italy women's national vol ...

, Italian volleyball player * Francesca Salvalajo, Italian backstroke swimmer * Francesa Sarah of Safed, 16th-century Jewish mystic * Francesca Scorsese, American actress and filmmaker *

Francesca Schiavone Francesca Schiavone (; born 23 June 1980) is an Italian former professional tennis player. She had career-high rankings of world No. 4 in women's singles and No. 8 in women's doubles by the Women's Tennis Association (WTA). Schiavone won eight W ...

, Italian tennis player * Francesca Semoso, Papuan politician and broadcaster from Bougainville * Francesca Simon, American author of the Horrid Henry series *

Francesca Stavrakopoulou Francesca Stavrakopoulou ( ; ; born 3 October 1975) is a British biblical scholar and broadcaster. She is currently Professor of Hebrew Bible and Ancient Religion at the University of Exeter. The main focus of her research is on the Hebrew Bible ...

, British theologian and broadcaster *

Francesca Torrent Francesca Torrent Boschdemont (Agullana, Alt Empordà, April 18, 1881 – Barcelona, April 15, 1958) was a Spanish writer in the Catalan language. She sometimes used the pseudonym Miosotis. Early life and education Francesca Torrent Boschdemont ...

(1881-1958), Spanish writer * Francesca Velicu, Romanian ballet dancer * Francesca Woodman, American photographer *

Piero della Francesca Piero della Francesca ( , ; ; ; – 12 October 1492) was an Italian Renaissance painter, Italian painter, mathematician and List of geometers, geometer of the Early Renaissance, nowadays chiefly appreciated for his art. His painting is charact ...

, Italian painter *

Francheska Yarbusova Francheska Alfredovna Yarbusova (; born 13 October 1942), often credited as F. Yarbusova, is a Russian artist and the wife and collaborator of Yuri Norstein. Her father was Alfred L. Yarbus, a scientist famous for understanding how eye movements ...

, Russian artist

Fictional characters

* Francesca, a character from the Rankin/Bass classic '' Mad Monster Party'' * Francesca ("Frankie"), the eponymous main character from

Melina Marchetta Carmelina Marchetta (born 25 March 1965) is an Australian writer and teacher. Marchetta is best known as the author of teen novels, '' Looking for Alibrandi'', '' Saving Francesca'' and '' On the Jellicoe Road''. She has twice been awarded the ...

's ''Saving Francesca'' * Francesca Lucchini, a character from the anime/manga series ''

Strike Witches is a Japanese media mix franchise originally created by Fumikane Shimada via a series of magazine illustration columns. The illustrations have since inspired several official light novel, manga, and anime series and v ...

'' * Francesca, a character from the series by Lauren Kate: '' Fallen'' * Francesca or Franky, a character from ''

Freaky Green Eyes ''Freaky Green Eyes'' (2003) is the third young adult fiction novel written by Joyce Carol Oates. The story follows the life of 15-year-old Francesca "Franky" Pierson as she reflects on the events leading to her mother's mysterious disappearance ...

'' * Francesca da Rimini or da Polenta, a character from Dante's ''Inferno'' * Francesca Russo, a character from '' The Wizards Return: Alex vs. Alex'' * Francesca Caviglia, a character from '' Violetta'' * Francesca Hollingsworth (Frankie), a character from the Degrassi franchise * Francesca Danelli, a character from '' Bride of Re-Animator'' * Francesca "Cesca" Montoya, a character from '' Waterloo Road'' * Francesca Moretti, a character from '' Argentina, tierra de amor y venganza'' * Francesca Johnson, a character from ''

The Bridges of Madison County ''The Bridges of Madison County'' (also published as ''Love in Black and White'') is a 1992 best-selling Romance novel, romance novel by American writer Robert James Waller that tells the story of an Italian-American World War II war bride livi ...

'' * Francesca Hathaway, a character from ''

The Haunted Hathaways ''The Haunted Hathaways'' is an American television supernatural sitcom that began airing on Nickelodeon July 13, 2013, and ended on March 5, 2015. It tells the story of a single mother and her two daughters who move into a home occupied by thre ...

* Francesca 'Frankie' Dart, a character in the TV show ''

Community A community is a social unit (a group of people) with a shared socially-significant characteristic, such as place, set of norms, culture, religion, values, customs, or identity. Communities may share a sense of place situated in a given g ...

'' * Francesca Bridgerton, a character in ''

Bridgerton ''Bridgerton'' is an American alternative history regency romance television series created by Chris Van Dusen for Netflix. Based on the book series Bridgerton (novel series), of the same name by Julia Quinn, it is Shondaland's first scripted ...

'' * Francesca Terwilliger, a character from ''

The Simpsons ''The Simpsons'' is an American animated sitcom created by Matt Groening and developed by Groening, James L. Brooks and Sam Simon for the Fox Broadcasting Company. It is a Satire (film and television), satirical depiction of American life ...

Translations

* * * * zh, 弗朗西斯卡 (''Fúlǎngxīsīkǎ''), 弗朗西斯 (''Fúlǎngxīsī'') or 弗朗切斯卡 (''Fúlǎngqièsīkǎ'') * * * * * (''Frangískī'') or less originally Greek versions Φραντζέσκα (''Frantzéska'') and Φραντσέσκα (''Frantséska'') * * * * * (''Furanchesuka'') * (''Peulancheseuka'') * (shortened ''Pancha'') * * * (''Frančeska'') * * (shortened ''Paca'' or ''Pancha'') *Maltese: Frangiska (shortened ''Cikka'')

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People named Francesca

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