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Frances is a French and English given name of Latin origin. [1]

68 relations: A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (novel), Alfred Hitchcock, Betty Smith, Britannia, Dirty Dancing, Esohe Frances Ikponmwen, Forensic pathology, Frances (film), Frances (musician), Frances Alice Shepherd, Frances Bean Cobain, Frances Benjamin Johnston, Frances Black, Frances Burney, Frances Carr, Countess of Somerset, Frances Conroy, Frances Cornford, Frances Davidson, Viscountess Davidson, Frances Dodge, Frances Eleanor Trollope, Frances Farmer, Frances Fisher, Frances FitzGerald (journalist), Frances Fitzgerald (politician), Frances Folsom Cleveland Preston, Frances Gertrude McGill, Frances Grey, Duchess of Suffolk, Frances Hodgson Burnett, Frances Hyde, Countess of Clarendon, Frances Kirwan, Frances Latham, Frances Lupton, Frances MacDonald, Frances McDormand, Frances Milton Trollope, Frances Nelson, Frances Newton, Baroness Cobham, Frances of Rome, Frances Osborne, Frances Perkins, Frances Rutherford, Frances Scott Fitzgerald, Frances Seymour, Duchess of Somerset, Frances Sidney, Countess of Sussex, Frances Stewart, Duchess of Richmond, Frances Sweeney, Frances T. Sullivan, Frances Talbot, Countess of Tyrconnel, Frances Vane, Viscountess Vane, Frances Waldegrave, ..., Frances Walsingham, Frances Willard, Frances X. Frei, Frances Yip, Frances, South Australia, Francie, Francie Swift, Franklin Bradshaw murder, Frannie, Franny and Zooey, Glass family, Grace Kelly, Hop Along, Russell Hoban, Sonic X, To Catch a Thief, United States Secretary of Labor, Wuthering Heights. Expand index (18 more) »

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (novel)

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn is a semi-autobiographical 1943 novel written by Betty Smith.

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Alfred Hitchcock

Sir Alfred Joseph Hitchcock (13 August 1899 – 29 April 1980) was an English film director and producer, widely regarded as one of the most influential filmmakers in the history of cinema.

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Betty Smith

Betty Smith (December 15, 1896 – January 17, 1972) was an American author.

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Britannia

Britannia has been used in several different senses.

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Dirty Dancing

Dirty Dancing is a 1987 American romantic drama dance film written by Eleanor Bergstein, directed by Emile Ardolino and starring Patrick Swayze and Jennifer Grey in the lead roles, and featuring Cynthia Rhodes and Jerry Orbach.

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Esohe Frances Ikponmwen

Esohe Frances Ikponmwen (born 22 November 1954) is the current chief justice of Edo State in Nigeria.

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Forensic pathology

Forensic pathology is pathology that focuses on determining the cause of death by examining a corpse.

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Frances (film)

Frances is a 1982 American biographical film starring Jessica Lange as actress Frances Farmer.

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Frances (musician)

Sophie Frances Cooke (born 27 June 1993), known mononymously as Frances, is a British singer and songwriter from Newbury, Berkshire, England.

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Frances Alice Shepherd

Frances Alice Shepherd, is a Canadian oncologist recognized for her research on lung cancer and her contributions to the design, development, and conduct of clinical trials.

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Frances Bean Cobain

Frances Bean Cobain (born August 18, 1992) is an American visual artist, model and the only child of Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain and Hole frontwoman Courtney Love.

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Frances Benjamin Johnston

Frances "Fannie" Benjamin Johnston (15 January 1864 – 16 May 1952) was an early American female photographer and photojournalist whose career lasted for almost half a century.

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Frances Black

Frances Black (born 25 June 1960) is an Irish singer and politician.

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Frances Burney

Frances Burney (13 June 17526 January 1840), also known as Fanny Burney and after her marriage as Madame d'Arblay, was an English satirical novelist, diarist and playwright.

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Frances Carr, Countess of Somerset

Frances Carr, Countess of Somerset (31 May 1590 – 23 August 1632), born Frances Howard, was an English noblewoman who was the central figure in a famous scandal and murder during the reign of King James I. She was found guilty but spared execution, and was eventually pardoned by the King and released from the Tower of London in early 1622.

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Frances Conroy

Frances Hardman Conroy (born November 13, 1953) is an American actress.

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Frances Cornford

Frances Crofts Cornford (née Darwin; 30 March 1886 – 19 August 1960) was an English poet; because of the similarity of her Christian name, her father's and her husband's, she was known to her family before her marriage as "FCD" and after her marriage as "FCC" and her husband Francis Cornford was known as "FMC".

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Frances Davidson, Viscountess Davidson

Frances Joan Davidson, Viscountess Davidson, Baroness Northchurch, DBE (née Dickinson; 29 May 1894 – 25 November 1985), styled Lady Davidson between 1935 and 1937 and as Viscountess Davidson between 1937 and 1985, was a British Conservative Party politician.

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Frances Dodge

Frances Dodge (November 27, 1914 – January 24, 1971) was an internationally known horsewoman.

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Frances Eleanor Trollope

Frances Eleanor Trollope (née Ternan) (August 1835 – 14 August 1913) was an English novelist.

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Frances Farmer

Frances Elena Farmer (September 19, 1913 – August 1, 1970) was an American actress and television host.

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Frances Fisher

Frances Louise Fisher (born 11 May 1952) is a British-American actress.

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Frances FitzGerald (journalist)

Frances FitzGerald (born October 21, 1940) is an American journalist and historian, who is primarily known for Fire in the Lake: The Vietnamese and the Americans in Vietnam (1972), an account of the Vietnam War.

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Frances Fitzgerald (politician)

Frances Mary Fitzgerald (née Ryan; born 1 August 1950) is an Irish Fine Gael politician who served as Tánaiste from 2016 to 2017, and Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation from June 2017 to November 2017.

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Frances Folsom Cleveland Preston

Frances Clara Cleveland Preston (July 21, 1864 – October 29, 1947) was married to the President of the United States Grover Cleveland and was the First Lady of the United States from 1886 to 1889 and again from 1893 to 1897.

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Frances Gertrude McGill

Frances Gertrude McGill (November 18, 1882 – January 21, 1959) was a pioneering Canadian forensic pathologist, criminologist and allergologist.

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Frances Grey, Duchess of Suffolk

Frances Grey, Duchess of Suffolk (née Brandon; 16 July 1517 – 20 November 1559), was an English noblewoman, the second child and eldest daughter of King Henry VIII's younger sister, Princess Mary, and Charles Brandon, 1st Duke of Suffolk.

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Frances Hodgson Burnett

Frances Eliza Hodgson Burnett (24 November 1849 – 29 October 1924) was a British novelist and playwright.

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Frances Hyde, Countess of Clarendon

Frances Hyde, Countess of Clarendon (25 August 1617 (baptised) – 8 August 1667), born Frances Aylesbury, was an English peeress.

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Frances Kirwan

Dame Frances Clare Kirwan, (born 1959) is a British mathematician, currently Savilian Professor of Geometry at the University of Oxford.

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Frances Latham

Frances Latham (1610 - 1677), was a colonial American woman who settled in Rhode Island, and is known as "the Mother of Governors." Having been widowed twice, she had three husbands, and became the ancestor of at least ten governors and three deputy/lieutenant governors, and is related by marriage to an additional six governors and one deputy governor.

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Frances Lupton

Frances Elizabeth Lupton (née Greenhow; 20 July 1821 – 9 March 1892) was an Englishwoman of the Victorian era who worked to open up educational opportunities for women.

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Frances MacDonald

Frances Macdonald MacNair (1873 – 1921) was a Scottish artist whose design work was a prominent feature of the "Glasgow Style" during the 1890s.

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Frances McDormand

Frances Louise McDormand (born Cynthia Ann Smith, June 23, 1957) is an American actress.

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Frances Milton Trollope

Frances Milton Trollope (10 March 1779 – 6 October 1863) was an English novelist and writer who published as Mrs.

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Frances Nelson

Frances "Fanny" Nelson, Viscountess Nelson (17584 May 1831), is best known as the wife of Horatio Nelson, the British naval officer who won several victories over the French during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars.

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Frances Newton, Baroness Cobham

Frances Newton, Baroness Cobham (1539 – 17 October 1592) was an English aristocratic woman who served Queen Elizabeth I of England as a Lady of the Bedchamber, and was one of her closest female friends.

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Frances of Rome

Frances of Rome, Obl.S.B., (Santa Francesca Romana) (1384 – March 9, 1440) is an Italian saint who was a wife, mother, mystic, organizer of charitable services and a Benedictine oblate who founded a religious community of oblates, who share a common life without religious vows.

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Frances Osborne

Frances Victoria Osborne (née Howell; born 18 February 1969) is a British author.

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Frances Perkins

Frances Perkins (born Fannie Coralie Perkins; April 10, 1880 – May 14, 1965) was an American sociologist and workers-rights advocate who served as the U.S. Secretary of Labor from 1933 to 1945, the longest serving in that position, and the first woman appointed to the U.S. Cabinet.

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Frances Rutherford

Frances Rutherford (1912–2006) was a New Zealand artist and occupational therapist.

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Frances Scott Fitzgerald

Frances Scott "Scottie" Fitzgerald (October 26, 1921 – June 18, 1986) was the only child of novelist F. Scott Fitzgerald and Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald.

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Frances Seymour, Duchess of Somerset

Frances Seymour, Duchess of Somerset (née Devereux; 30 September 1599 – 24 April 1674), was an English noblewoman who lived during the reigns of Elizabeth I, James I, Charles I and Charles II.

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Frances Sidney, Countess of Sussex

Frances Radclyffe (née Sidney), Countess of Sussex (1531–1589) was a Lady of the Bedchamber to Queen Elizabeth I and the founder of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge.

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Frances Stewart, Duchess of Richmond

Frances Teresa Stewart, Duchess of Richmond and Lennox (8 July 1647–15 October 1702) was a prominent member of the Court of the Restoration and famous for refusing to become a mistress of Charles II of England.

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Frances Sweeney

Frances Sweeney (c. 1908 – June 19, 1944) was a journalist and activist who campaigned against fascism, antisemitism, and political corruption in 1940s Boston.

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Frances T. Sullivan

Frances T. Sullivan is an American politician from New York.

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Frances Talbot, Countess of Tyrconnel

Frances Talbot, Countess of Tyrconnel (née Jennings, previously Hamilton; – 9 March 1730) was a prominent figure in the Restoration court, together with her younger sister, Sarah Jennings.

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Frances Vane, Viscountess Vane

Frances Anne Vane, Viscountess Vane (formerly Hamilton, née Hawes; c. January 1715 – 31 March 1788),was a British memoirist known for her highly public adulterous relationships.

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Frances Waldegrave

Frances Elizabeth Anne Waldegrave, Countess Waldegrave (1821–1879) was the daughter of John Braham, the singer.

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Frances Walsingham

Frances Walsingham, Countess of Essex and Countess of Clanricarde (1567 – 17 February 1633) was an English noblewoman.

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Frances Willard

Frances Elizabeth Caroline Willard (September 28, 1839 – February 17, 1898) was an American educator, temperance reformer, and women's suffragist.

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Frances X. Frei

Frances X. Frei is an American academic.

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Frances Yip

Frances Yip Lai-yee (born 1947) is a Hong Kong English pop and Cantopop singer.

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Frances, South Australia

Frances is a locality in the Australian state of South Australia located about south-east of the state capital, Adelaide and about north-east of the municipal seat of Naracoorte in the state's Limestone Coast region and adjoining the border with the State of Victoria.

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Francie

Francie is a given name, often a shortened form of Francis (male) or Frances (female).

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Francie Swift

Francie Swift (born March 27, 1969) is an American actress best known for her versatility and the wide variety of roles she has played.

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Franklin Bradshaw murder

The Franklin Bradshaw murder was a 1978 criminal case in which Utah industrialist Bradshaw was killed by his grandson at the instigation of his daughter Frances Berenice Schreuder.

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Frannie

Frannie is a given name.

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Franny and Zooey

Franny and Zooey is a book by American author J. D. Salinger which comprises his short story "Franny" and novella Zooey.

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Glass family

The Glass family is a group of fictional characters that have been featured in a number of J. D. Salinger's short stories.

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Grace Kelly

Grace Patricia Kelly (November 12, 1929September 14, 1982) was an American film actress who became Princess of Monaco after marrying Prince Rainier III, in April 1956.

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Hop Along

Hop Along is an American indie folk-rock band from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, formerly known as Hop Along, Queen Ansleis.

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Russell Hoban

Russell Conwell Hoban (February 4, 1925 – December 13, 2011) was an American expatriate writer.

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Sonic X

is a Japanese anime television series created by TMS Entertainment and based on the Sonic the Hedgehog video game series published by Sega.

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To Catch a Thief

To Catch a Thief is a 1955 American romantic thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, from a screenplay by John Michael Hayes based on the 1952 novel To Catch a Thief by David Dodge.

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United States Secretary of Labor

The United States Secretary of Labor is a member of the Cabinet of the United States, and as the head of the U.S. Department of Labor, exercises control over the department, and enforces and suggests laws involving unions, the workplace, and all other issues involving any form of business-person controversies.

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Wuthering Heights

Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë's only novel, was published in 1847 under the pseudonym "Ellis Bell".

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frances

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