Famous People with Name Frances

Frances Rose Shore            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Frances Rose Shore: was an American singer, actress, and television personality. She was most popular during the Big Band era of the 1940s and 1950s.After failing singing auditions for the bands of Benny Goodman and both Jimmy Dorsey and his brother Tommy Dorsey, Shore struck out on her own to become the first singer of her era to achieve huge solo success. She enjoyed a long string of over 80 charted popular hits, lasting from 1940 into the late '50s, and after appearing in a handful of films went on to a four-decade career in American television, starring in her own music and variety shows in the '50s and '60s and hosting two talk shows in the '70s

Frances Crews James            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Frances Crews James: an American academic ecologist. She served as a Professor of Biological Sciences at Florida State University. She studied geographic variation in the size and shape of birds, leading to transplant experiments with red-winged blackbirds and to tests of the theoretical assumptions underlying selection models. She is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Frances Elizabeth "Fran" Allen            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Frances Elizabeth "Fran" Allen: is an American computer scientist and pioneer in the field of optimizing compilers. Her achievements include seminal work in compilers, code optimization, and parallelization.

Frances Yeend            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Frances Yeend: was an American lyric soprano opera singer. Yeend was born Frances Leone Lynch in Vancouver, Washington and grew up in Portland, Oregon. She studied voice at Washington State University (then Washington State College) in Pullman, Washington.[1]

Frances Faye            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Frances Faye: was an American cabaret and show tune singer and pianist. She was born to a working-class Jewish family in Brooklyn, NY. She was a second cousin of actor Danny Kaye.