Francisco
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This article is about the given name. For other uses, see Francisco (disambiguation).
| Francisco | |
|---|---|
| Gender | generally male |
| Origin | |
| Meaning | free man, javelin, truthful |
| Other names | |
| Related names | Francis, François, Frank, Franklin, Franco, Franz |
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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".[citation needed] Also, in Spanish Latinamerica, people with the name Francisco are called "Pancho". As for in Portuguese, people named Francisco are commonly nicknamed "Chico".
[edit] People with the given name
- Francisco Alves Mendes Filho Cena (1944–1988), known as Chico Mendes, Brazilian rubber tapper, unionist and environmental activist.
- Francisco Anysio de Oliveira Paula Filho (1966–1997), known as Chico Anysio, Brazilian actor, comedian, writer and composer.
- Francisco de Assis França, known as Chico Science, Brazilian singer and composer and one of the founders of the Mangue Beat cultural movement.
- Francisco Ayala (novelist) (1906–2009), Spanish novelist
- Francisco J. Ayala (born 1934), Spanish-American biologist and philosopher
- Francisco de Borja Echeverría (1848–1904), Chilean diplomat and politician
- Francisco Buarque de Hollanda, popularly known as Chico Buarque, Brazilian singer, guitarist, composer, dramatist, writer and poet.
- Francisco Cabrera (cyclist), Chilean track and road cyclist
- Francisco Fonseca, Mexican football (soccer) player
- Francisco Hudson (1826–1859), Chilean navy officer and hydrographer
- Francisco Infante-Arana (b 1943), Russian painter
- Francisco de Jesus, Brazilian boxer
- Francisco Liaño, Spanish footballer
- Francisco Liriano, MLB starting pitcher
- Francisco Marto, Fatima visionary
- Francisco Morales, Argentine judoka
- Francisco de Paula Cândido (1910–2002), known as Chico Xavier, a popular medium in Brazil's spiritism movement.
- Francisco Pizarro, Spanish conquistador
- Francisco Rodríguez (baseball, born 1982), (K-Rod) MLB closing pitcher
- Francisco Rotllán, Mexican football (soccer) player
- Francisco Santos, Angolan swimmer, who represented Angola at the 1980 Summer Olympics
- Francisco Santos, Angolan/Portuguese, plastic artist, musician and writer of poetry, short
[edit] Fiction and Novels
- Francisco d'Anconia, character in Ayn Rand's novel Atlas Shrugged
- Francisco Vidal (disambiguation)
- Juan Francisco de Vidal (1800–1863), 19th century President of Peru
- Francisco Vidal Gormaz (1837–1907), Chilean navy officer and hydrographer
- Francisco Vidal (Chilean politician), Chilean politician
- Francisco González Gómez (1918–1990), Spanish caricaturist, painter and sculptor who used the pseudonym of Francisco
