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