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        | F - 247 biographies |  
        | Faber, Heinrich - (before 1500-1552), music theorist, composer Faberge, Carl - (1846-1920), jewelery designer
 Fabian, John - astronaut
 Fabian, Pope - (236-250)
 Fabio - (born 1961), model
 Fabra, Pompeu - (1868-1948), grammarian
 Fabre, Jean Henri - (1823-1915), entomologist
 Fabriano, Gentile da - (c.1370-1427), Italian painter
 Fabricius, David - (1564-1617), astronomer
 Fabricius, Georg - (1516-1571), German poet, historian, archaeologist
 Fabritius, Carel - (1622-1654), painter
 Facchetti, Giacinto - athlete
 Fagen, Donald - (born 1948), keyboardist
 Fahd, King - (born 1921)
 Fahey, Siobhan - (born 1957), British singer
 Fahrenheit, Daniel Gabriel - (1686-1736), scientist
 Fahrni, Gordon S. - (1887-1995), physician
 Fair, Lorrie - (born 1978), soccer player
 Fairbanks, Charles W. - US Vice President
 Fairbanks, Douglas, Jr. - (1909-2000), US actor
 Fairbanks, Douglas, Sr. - (1883-1939), US actor, cofounder of United Artists
 Fairchild, Morgan - (born 1950), actress
 Faith, Adam - (1940-2003), British singer and actor
 Faith, Percy - (1908-1976), band leader
 Faithfull, Marianne - (born 1946), British singer-songwriter
 Falco - (1957-1998), Austrian rock musician
 Falco, Edie - (born 1963), actress, The Sopranos
 Falconer, Lord - (born 1951), British lawyer and politician
 Fallaci, Oriana - (born 1929)
 Fallada, Hans - (1893-1947), writer
 Fallersleben, August Heinrich Hoffmann von - (born 1798)
 Fallon, Jimmy - (born 1974), comedian
 Fangio, Juan Manuel - (1911-1995), Formula 1 driver
 Fantin Latour, Henri - (1836-1904), French painter
 Fanu, J. Sheridan le - (1814-1873), US fantasy writer
 Faraday, Michael - (1791-1867), scientist
 Fargue, Leon Paul - (1876-1947), poet
 Fariscal, Aida D. - former Manila police officer
 Farish, William Stamps II - (1881-1942), Standard Oil executive
 Farjeon, Eleanor - English writer
 Farley, Chris - (1964-1997), US comedian
 Farman, Henry - (1874-1958)
 Farmer, Art - (born 1928), trumpet player
 Farmer, Frances - (1913-1970), actress
 Farmer, Graham - Australian Rules football player
 Farmer, Philip Jose - (born 1918), US science fiction author
 Farner, Mark - (born 1948), musician
 Farnsworth, Philo - (1906-1971), inventor
 Farnsworth, Richard - (1920-2000), actor
 Farouk of Egypt - (1920-1965), king
 Farquhar, George - (died 1707), Irish dramatist
 Farr, Bruce - (born 1948), boat designer
 Farr, William - (1807-1883), epidemiologist
 Farragut, David - (1801-1870), naval commander
 Farrand, Beatrix - landscape architect
 Farrar, Geraldine - (1882-1967) US opera diva
 Farrell, Brian - historian
 Farrell, Colin - (born 1976), US actor
 Farrell, Mike - (born 1939), actor
 Farrell, Perry - (born 1959), musician
 Farrow, Mia - (born 1945), US actress
 Fassbinder, Rainer Werner - (1945-1988), German movie director
 Fast, Howard - (born 1914), novelist
 Fat Joe - rapper
 Fatou, Pierre - mathematician
 Faubus, Orval - (1955-1967), US politician
 Faulds, Andrew - (1923-2000), English actor and politician
 Faulkner, Sanford - (1806-1874), US composer
 Faulkner, William - (1897-1962), US author
 Fauset, Jessie - Harlem Renaissance writer
 Favila of Asturias - Asturian monarch
 Favre, Brett - (born 1969), US football player
 Favreau, Jon - (born 1966), actor, writer, director
 Fawcet, Farrah - (born 1947), US actress
 Fawcett, Brian - Canadian writer
 Fawcett, Quinn - author
 Fawkes, Guy - (1570-1606), English would-be-bomber
 Faye, Alice - (1915-1998), actress
 Fayed, Dodi - (1955-1997), film producer
 Fea, Carlo - (1753-1836), archaeologist
 Febles, Magali - (born c. 1965) Puerto Rican beauty pagent director
 Febvre, Lucien - historian
 Federer, Roger - Switzerland
 Fefferman, Charles - mathematician
 Feiffer, Jules - (born 1929), dramatist
 Feininger, Lyonel - (1871-1956), artist & cartoonist
 Feist, Raymond E. - US fantasy author and computer game designer
 Felber, Rene - Swiss Federal Councilor
 Feldenkrais, Moshe - (1904-1984), Creator of Feldenkrais Method
 Feldman, Andrea - (1948-1972) Actor
 Feldman, Marty - (1933-1982), British comedian
 Feldman, Morton - (1926-1987), composer
 Feldmann, Markus - (1897-1958), Swiss Federal Councilor
 Feliciano, Jose - (born 1945), Puerto Rican singer
 Felix I, Pope - (269-274)
 Felix III, Pope - (483-492)
 Felix IV, Pope - (526-530)
 Felix, Maria - actress
 Feller, Bob - (born 1918), baseball star
 Fellini, Federico - (1920-1993), Italian film director
 Fellows, Charles - (1799-1860), archaeologist
 Felsen, Henry Gregor - (1916-1995), author
 Fenech, Jeff - (born 1964), world champion boxer
 Fenelon, Francois - (1651-1715)
 Fenton, Reuben E. - Union, 1865-1868
 Feoktistov, Konstantin - (born 1926), astronaut
 Ferber, Edna - (1885-1968), author
 Ferdinand , Duke of Brunswick - (died 1792)
 Ferdinand I of Austria - (1793-1875), Bohemian aristocrat
 Ferdinand I of Bulgaria - monarch
 Ferdinand I of Leon - (died 1065), Castilian monarch
 Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor - (1526-1564), king 1531, emperor 1558-1564
 Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor - (1578-1637), emperor 1619-1637
 Ferdinand III of Castile - the Saint 1217-1252
 Ferdinand III, Holy Roman Emperor - (1637-1646), king 1636, emperor 1637-1657
 Ferdinand IV of Castile - the Summoned 1285-1312
 Ferdinand of Portugal - (1367-1383), Portuguese monarch
 Ferdinand of Romania - (1865-1927), King of Romania (1924-1927)
 Ferdinand, Franz - (1863-1914), Archduke of Austria-Hungary
 Ferdowsi - (935-1020 AD), poet
 Ferguson, Alex - (born 1941), British footballer and manager of Manchester United F.C.
 Ferguson, Barry - athlete
 Ferguson, Maynard - (born 1928), band leader, trumpet
 Ferguson, Miriam A. - American Governor of Texas (1933-35)
 Ferguson, Patrick - (1744-1780), British Major killed in the American Revolution
 Ferguson, Sarah - (1931-2003), British aristocrat
 Ferguson, Trevor - (b. 1947) Canadian writer
 Ferlinghetti, Lawrence - (born 1919), poet
 Fermat, Pierre de - (1601-1665), French mathematician
 Fermi, Enrico - (1901-1954), Italian physicist
 Fernanda, Luisa - (born c. 1969), television entertinment reporter
 Fernandel - (1903-1971), French comedian
 Fernandez, Angelines - (1922-1994), actress
 Fernandez, Gigi - (born 1966) Tennis player
 Ferneyhough, Brian - (born 1943), composer
 Ferrara, Domenico Maria Novara da - (died 1504), Astronomer and teacher of Nicolaus Copernicus
 Ferrari, Enzo - (1898-1988), Italian car designer
 Ferrari, Lodovico - (1522-1565), mathematician
 Ferrari, Luc - (born 1929), composer
 Ferraro, Geraldine - (born 1935), U.S. Vice Presidential candidate in 1984
 Ferrary, Philipp von - (1850-1917), philatelist
 Ferre, Leo - Singer
 Ferre, Sor Isolina - (1914-2001), Puerto Rican nun
 Ferrell, Will - (born 1967), comedian
 Ferrer, Jose - (1912-1992), actor
 Ferrero, Juan Carlos - (Spain)
 Ferro, Scipione dal - (1465-1526), mathematician
 Ferron, Marcelle - (1924-2001), glazier
 Ferry, Bryan - (born 1945), US singer-songwriter
 Ferry, Jules - (1832-1893)
 Fersen, Axel von - (1755-1810), Swedish politician
 Fessenden, Reginald - two-way radio
 Fetchit, Stepin - (1902-1985), actor, dancer
 Fettman, Martin - astronaut
 Feuerbach, Karl Wilhelm - (1800-1827), euclidean geometry
 Feuerbach, Ludwig - (1804-1872), philosopher
 Feuillade, Louis - film director
 Fey, Tina - (born 1970), comedian
 Feydeau, Georges - (1862-1921), French playwright
 Feyerabend, Paul - (1924-1994), philosopher
 Feynman, Richard - (1918-1988), US quantum physicist
 Fibak, Wojtek - (Poland)
 Fibonacci - (c. 1175-1250)
 Fichte, Gottlieb - (1762-1814), philosopher
 Fichte, Immanuel Hermann - (1797-1879), philosopher
 Ficino, Marsilio - (1433-1499), Italian philosopher
 Fiedler, Arthur - (1894-1979), orchestra conductor
 Field, Eugene - Love Affairs of a Bibliomaniac
 Field, John - (1782-1837), composer (creator of the nocturne
 Field, Patricia - (born c. 1961) US fashion designer
 Field, Sally - (born 1946), US actor
 Fielding, Henry - (1707-1754), English novelist
 Fielding, Yvette - (born 1968), Television presenter
 Fields, Gracie - (1898-1979), English music hall/vaudeville performer
 Fields, Terri - Award winning teacher and book writer
 Fields, W.C. - (1880-1946), US comedian
 Fiennes, Joseph - (born 1970), actor
 Fiennes, Ralph - (born 1962), British actor
 Fierstein, Harvey - (born 1954), actor
 Fiesole, Mino da - (c.1429-1484), sculptor
 Figo, Luis - athlete
 Fillmore, Abigail - (born 1798), First Lady of the United States
 Fillmore, Millard - (1800-1874), 13th President of the United States
 Finch, Peter - (1916-1977), actor
 Fincher, David - (born 1962), film director
 Finck, Werner - (1902-1978), German comedian
 Fincke, Thomas - (1561-1656), Danish mathematician
 Findley, Timothy - (1930-2002), Canadian author
 Fine, Anne - Goggle Eyes
 Fine, Larry - (1902-1975), actor (The Three Stooges)
 Finetti, Bruno de - (1906-1985), Italian mathematician, statistician
 Finkielkraut, Alain - (born 1949), essayist
 Finlay, Ian Hamilton - (born 1925), poet
 Finn, Neil - (born 1958), singer
 Finn, Tim - singer
 Finney, Albert - (born 1936), actor
 Finney, Jack - (1911-1995), author
 Finney, Tom - (born 1922), English association footballer
 Finsen, Niels Ryberg - (1860-1904)
 Finzi, Gerald - (1901-1956), composer
 Firestone, Harvey - (1868-1938), manufacturer
 Firpo, Luis - (1894-1960), boxer
 Firth, Colin - (born 1960), actor
 Firth, Peter - (born 1953), actor
 Fischel, Danielle - US actress
 Fischer, Edwin - (1886-1960), pianist and conductor
 Fischer, Martin - (1867-1947), Swiss automobile designer
 Fischer, Robert James Bobby - (born 1943), US chess player
 Fischer, Scott - (1956-1996), mountain guide, died on Mount Everest
 Fischer, Tim - (born 1946), Australian political leader
 Fish - (born 1958), singer
 Fish, Hamilton - (1808-1893), U.S. politician
 Fish, Mardy - (born 1981), U.S. professional tennis player
 Fish, Matt - U.S. basketball player
 Fish, Michael - (born 1944), BBC weather presenter
 Fish, Stanley - (born 1938), literary theorist
 Fish, Stuyvesant - (1851-1923), U.S. railroad executive
 Fishburne, Laurence - (born 1961), US actor
 Fisher, Anna - astronaut
 Fisher, Carrie - (born 1956), US actress & writer
 Fisher, Doris - (1915-2003), singer & songwriter
 Fisher, Eddie - (born 1928), US singer
 Fisher, Geoffrey Francis - Archbishop of Canterbury
 Fisher, Jackie - (1841-1920), British
 Fisher, William - astronaut
 Fisk, Carlton - baseball player
 Fisk, James - (1834-1872), entrepreneur
 Fitch, Bill - (born 1940), NBA coach and US Marine
 Fitch, Sheree - Canadian writer
 Fittipaldi, Emerson - Formula 1 driver
 Fitzalan Howard, Edmund - Viscount Fitzalan of Derwent, the last Lord Lieutenant of Ireland
 Fitzgerald, Barry - (1888-1966), Abbey Theatre actor turned Hollywood star
 Fitzgerald, Edward - (1809-1883), poet
 Fitzgerald, Ella - (1918-1996), US singer
 Fitzgerald, F. Scott - (1896-1940), US author
 FitzGerald, George Francis - (1851-1901), physicist
 Fitzgerald, John D. - (1907-1988), American author
 Fitzgerald, John F. - American politician
 Fitzgerald, Judith - Canadian writer
 FitzGerald, Lord Edward - (1763-1798), aristocratic rebel in 1798 rebellion
 Fitzgerald, Robert - poet
 Fitzgerald, Zelda - (died 1948), (Mrs. F. Scott Fitzgerald)
 Fitzmaurice, William Petty - (1737-1805), British statesman
 Fitzsimmons, Bob - (1863-1917), world boxing champion,first boxer to win world titles in three divisions
 Fitzsimmons, Cotton - (1931-2004), NBA basketball coach
 Fizeau, Hippolyte - (1819-1896), physicist
 France, Anatole - (1844-1924), French author, Nobel Prize winner
 
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