Francisco
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Francisco is a Spanish and Portuguese male name form of the name "Francis".
In Spanish, people with the name Francisco sometimes are nicknamed "Paco": San Francisco de Asís
was known as Pater Comunitatis (The Community father) when he founded the Franciscan order, "Paco" is a short form of "Pater Comunitatis". Also, in Spanish Latinamerica, people with the name Francisco are called "Pancho". As for in Portuguese, people named Francisco are commonly nicknamed "Chico".
In Spanish, people with the name Francisco sometimes are nicknamed "Paco": San Francisco de Asís
San Francisco de Asís
San Francisco de Asis is a town within the municipality of the Atotonilco El Alto located in the southeastern part of the state of Jalisco in Mexico. It is named after the Italian Saint Francis of Assisi. At the time of the census of 2005 the town had a population of 5,167 inhabitants...
was known as Pater Comunitatis (The Community father) when he founded the Franciscan order, "Paco" is a short form of "Pater Comunitatis". Also, in Spanish Latinamerica, people with the name Francisco are called "Pancho". As for in Portuguese, people named Francisco are commonly nicknamed "Chico".
People with the given name
- Francisco Alves Mendes Filho Cena (1944–1988), known as Chico MendesChico MendesFrancisco Alves Mendes Filho, better known as Chico Mendes , was a Brazilian rubber tapper, trade union leader and environmentalist. He fought to preserve the Amazon rainforest, and advocated for the human rights of Brazilian peasants and indigenous peoples...
, Brazilian rubber tapper, unionist and environmental activist. - Francisco Anysio de Oliveira Paula Filho (1966–1997), known as Chico AnysioChico AnysioChico Anysio, born Francisco Anysio de Oliveira Paula Filho is a Brazilian actor, comedian, writer and composer. He is the brother of the late actress Lupe Gigliotti. Anysio is considered one of the greatest and most talented names of Brazilian comedy of all time.- Television :* 1973/80 - Chico...
, Brazilian actor, comedian, writer and composer. - Francisco de Assis França, known as Chico ScienceChico ScienceFrancisco de Assis França , better known as Chico Science, was a Brazilian singer and composer and one of the founders of the Mangue Beat cultural movement...
, Brazilian singer and composer and one of the founders of the Mangue Beat cultural movement. - Francisco Ayala (novelist)Francisco Ayala (novelist)Francisco Ayala García-Duarte was a Spanish writer, the last representative of the Generation of '27.- Biography :...
(1906–2009), Spanish novelist - Francisco J. AyalaFrancisco J. AyalaFrancisco José Ayala Pereda is a Spanish-American biologist and philosopher at the University of California, Irvine. He is a former Dominican priest, ordained in 1960, but left the priesthood that same year. After graduating from the University of Salamanca, he moved to the US in 1961 to study for...
(born 1934), Spanish-American biologist and philosopher - Francisco de Borja EcheverríaFrancisco de Borja EcheverríaFrancisco José de Borja Echeverría was a Chilean Conservative Party deputy and diplomat. He finished his secondary education at Instituto Nacional. In 1871 he graduated as lawyer working both as lawyer and teacher...
(1848–1904), Chilean diplomat and politician - Francisco Buarque de Hollanda, popularly known as Chico BuarqueChico BuarqueFrancisco Buarque de Hollanda , popularly known as Chico Buarque , is a singer, guitarist, composer, dramatist, writer and poet...
, Brazilian singer, guitarist, composer, dramatist, writer and poet. - Francisco Cabrera (cyclist)Francisco Cabrera (cyclist)Juan Francisco Cabrera Torres is a male professional track and road cyclist from Chile. He represented his native country at the 1999 Pan American Games in Winnipeg, Canada.-Career:199920002003...
, Chilean track and road cyclist - Francisco FonsecaFrancisco FonsecaJosé Francisco "Kikin" Fonseca Guzmán is a Mexican football striker. He currently plays for Atlante F.C..-Career:...
, Mexican football (soccer) player - Francisco HudsonFrancisco Hudsonthumb|right|250px|Map showing in yellow the main route used to reach [[Punta Arenas]] by sea from [[Ancud]], and in orange Hudson's proposed route. The red dot shows the 20 km wide [[Ofqui Isthmus]] the only obstacle that makes this route intransitable....
(1826–1859), Chilean navy officer and hydrographer - Francisco Infante-AranaFrancisco Infante-AranaFrancisco Infante-Arana is a Russian painter.-Background:...
(b 1943), Russian painter - Francisco de JesusFrancisco de JesusFrancisco de Jesus is a retired boxer from Brazil, who competed in the men's light-middleweight division during the late 1970s and early 1980s....
, Brazilian boxer - Francisco LiañoFrancisco LiañoFrancisco Liaño Fernández is a retired Spanish footballer who played as a goalkeeper.Although he represented four clubs during 14 years as a senior, his professional career was closely associated to Deportivo de La Coruña, during the club's rise to Super Depor in the early 1990s...
, Spanish footballer - Francisco LirianoFrancisco LirianoFrancisco Liriano y Casillas is a left-handed Major League Baseball starting pitcher for the Minnesota Twins.-Professional career:...
, MLB starting pitcher - Francisco Marto, Fatima visionary
- Francisco Morales, Argentine judoka
- Francisco de Paula Cândido (1910–2002), known as Chico XavierChico XavierChico Xavier, born Francisco de Paula Cândido was a popular medium in Brazil's spiritism movement who wrote 413 books, ostensibly using a process known as "psychography"....
, a popular medium in Brazil's spiritism movement. - Francisco PizarroFrancisco PizarroFrancisco Pizarro González, Marquess was a Spanish conquistador, conqueror of the Incan Empire, and founder of Lima, the modern-day capital of the Republic of Peru.-Early life:...
, Spanish conquistador - Francisco Rodríguez (baseball, born 1982), (K-Rod) MLB closing pitcher
- Francisco RotllánFrancisco RotllánFrancisco Rotllán Zavala is a retired professional footballer from Mexico, who played as a forward during his career. He was a member of the Mexico national football team competing at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain.-References:***...
, Mexican football (soccer) player - Francisco SantosFrancisco SantosXeskoFrancisco Santos's primary nom d'art or alter ego.Alan J. BantaThe heteronym Alan J. Banta is described as a civil engineer, born in the year of 1952 in Kakamas, a village located in the Northern Cape, South Africa but living and working in Angola. After independence, in 1975, remained in the...
, Angolan swimmer, who represented Angola at the 1980 Summer Olympics - Francisco SantosFrancisco SantosXeskoFrancisco Santos's primary nom d'art or alter ego.Alan J. BantaThe heteronym Alan J. Banta is described as a civil engineer, born in the year of 1952 in Kakamas, a village located in the Northern Cape, South Africa but living and working in Angola. After independence, in 1975, remained in the...
, Angolan/Portuguese, plastic artist, musician and writer of poetry, short
Fiction and Novels
- Francisco d'Anconia, character in Ayn Rand's novel Atlas ShruggedAtlas ShruggedAtlas Shrugged is a novel by Ayn Rand, first published in 1957 in the United States. Rand's fourth and last novel, it was also her longest, and the one she considered to be her magnum opus in the realm of fiction writing...
- Francisco Vidal (disambiguation)
- Juan Francisco de Vidal (1800–1863), 19th century President of Peru
- Francisco Vidal GormazFrancisco Vidal GormazFrancisco Vidal Gormaz was a Chilean naval officer and hydrographer who explored the coasts of Chile including some river systems and lakes. During the 1850s he explored and surveyed several times Maullín River with Francisco Hudson...
(1837–1907), Chilean navy officer and hydrographer
- Francisco Vidal (Chilean politician)Francisco Vidal (Chilean politician)Francisco Javier Vidal Salinas is a Chilean politician and Minister of National Defense from March 2009 to March 2010. Before this position he served as Minister Secretary General of Government of Chile during the administrations of Ricardo Lagos and Michelle Bachelet and Interior Minister during...
, Chilean politician - Francisco González GómezFrancisco González GómezFrancisco González Gómez , also known as Francisco, was a Spanish caricaturist, painter and sculptor, considered in his time as having re-invented caricature in Spain.- Notes :...
(1918–1990), Spanish caricaturist, painter and sculptor who used the pseudonym of Francisco