Francesca (first name)

Francesca [franˈt͡ʃɛska] is the feminine variant of the first name Francesco and can adequately express the French national origin as a feminine adjective in medieval Italian as the male name form . The German form of the name is Franziska . A short form of the name is Fran and also Franci.

Well-known namesake

• Francesca Annis (born 1944), British actress
• Francesca Arundale (1847–1924), English Freemason and theosophist
• Francesca Bertini (1892–1985), Italian film actress
• Francesca Caccini (1587–1640), Italian singer and composer
• Francesca Cuzzoni (1696–1770), Italian soprano, Handel interpreter
• Francesca Dellera (* 1965), Italian film actress
• Francesca Farago (* 1993), Canadian influencer and reality TV actress
• Francesca Halsall (* 1990), British swimmer
• Francesca Lé (* 1970), American porn actress
• Francesca Lubiani (* 1977), Italian tennis player
• Francesca Martinelli (* 1971), ski mountaineer
• Francesca Neri (* 1964), Italian actress and producer
• Francesca Piccinini (* 1979), Italian volleyball player
• Francesca da Rimini (1255–1285), daughter of Guido da Polenta from Ravenna
• Francesca Rettondini (* 1971), Italian actress
• Francesca Scanagatta (1776–1865), female Austrian officer
• Francesca Schiavone (* 1980), Italian tennis player
• Francesca Woodman (1958–1981), American photographer
• Jane Francesca Elgee (1821-1896), Irish writer and mother of Oscar Wilde
• Maria Francesca Rossetti (1827–1876), British author
• Maria Francesca Tiepolo (* 1925), head of the Venice State Archives
• Sally Francesca Hayfron (1931–1992), politician in Zimbabwe and wife of the President