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Francis Davis (born August 30, 1946) is an American author and journalist. He is best known as the jazz critic for The Village Voice , and a contributing editor for The Atlantic Monthly . He has also worked in radio and film, and taught courses on Jazz and Blues at the University of Pennsylvania .
Francis Davis was born the son of a soldier in Ballincollig, County Cork. His father was a Presbyterian from the north of Ireland, probably near Hillsborough , County Down . His mother, Jane MacFee, whose brother Daniel had been a United Irishman , was from Belfast.
Frances Taylor Davis (September 28, 1929 – November 17, 2018) was an American dancer and actress who was a member of the Katherine Dunham Company, and the first African American ballerina to perform with the Paris Opera Ballet.
Francis Davis is an American author and journalist.. Francis Davis may also refer to: . Francis Davis (poet) (1810–1881), Irish poet and editor Sir Francis Boileau Davis, 2nd Baronet (1871–1896), of the Davis baronets
Francis Pierpont Davis, who went by Pierpont Davis, was born in 1884 in Baltimore, Maryland to Frank Earlougher Davis, an architect, and Annie Legate Swindell. He was the eldest of three brothers, William, Walter, and Henry, and one sister, Dorothy. The family also had one servant. [1]
Edmund Francis Davis (April 1845 – 5 September 1889) was a British American solicitor and a businessman who once owned the Westgate Estate, in Kent, and the Granville Hotel, Ramsgate. Biography [ edit ]
Francis Davis "Frank" Chapot (February 24, 1932 – June 20, 2016) was an American equestrian who competed at six consecutive Olympic Games - from 1956 to 1976 - and won two silver medals in team show jumping, at Rome 1960 and Munich 1972.
Sir John Francis Davis, 1st Baronet Bt KCB FRS (16 July 1795 – 13 November 1890) was a British diplomat and sinologist who served as second Governor of Hong Kong from 1844 to 1848. Davis was the first President of Royal Asiatic Society Hong Kong .