Francis McDonald (August 22, 1891 – September 18, 1968) was an American actor whose career spanned 52 years. Although never really a headlining actor, he made 41 film and television appearances between 1913 and 1965, appearing in films such as The Temptress in 1926 with Greta Garbo. McDonald is interred at the Valhalla Memorial Park Cemetery.

Sometimes mistakenly thought to be a brother of Wallace MacDonald because of close resemblance. However they were both born in 1891, three months apart and spelled their surnames differently.

Donald Pinkston Francis is an American epidemiologist who worked on the Ebola outbreak in Africa in the late 1970s, and researched on HIV and AIDS. He retired from the U.S. Public Health Service in 1992, after 21 years of service. According to him,^{[citation needed]} the White House (then under the administration of George H.W. Bush) wanted him fired, but in order to evade controversy he quietly "retired". He currently lives in San Francisco, California.

He was born October 24, 1942 in the Bay Area of California and grew up in Marin County. His main interest was skiing, and his mother, father and grandfather were physicians. however, was a poor student as a child, suffering from dyslexia. He has said that he gravitated towards science because he had such difficulty with subjects where fluid reading ability was needed.^{[citation needed]}

Francis completed his undergraduate studies at the University of California, Berkeley. He was a member of the California chapter at Delta Upsilon, class of 1966. He received his M.D. from Northwestern University and his Doctor of Science in Virology from Harvard.^{[citation needed]} He did his internship and residency in pediatrics at the University of Southern California Medical Center in Los Angeles and his fellowship in infectious diseases at Harvard. Before beginning his work on AIDS, Francis was involved in epidemic control around the world. He was instrumental in eradicating smallpox from Sudan, India and Bangladesh.^{[citation needed]} He was also on the front line of the cholera epidemic in Nigeria in the early 1970s, the smallpox epidemic in Yugoslavia in 1972 [1], and the Ebola epidemic in Sudan in 1976. Francis also did some of the early developmental work on the hepatitis B vaccine, both in the United States and in the People's Republic of China.^{[citation needed]}

Francis Macdonald (born 11 September 1970) is a drummer and sometime member of British alternative rock band Teenage Fanclub and used to play with BMX Bandits and Eugenius. He is no relation to keyboard player Finlay MacDonald who also played with both bands.

Francis Macdonald has recorded a solo album called "Sauchiehall & Hope - A Pop Opera" under the pseudonym "Nice Man" and "The Art of Hanging Out" as "Nice Man and the Bad Boys". He runs Shoeshine Records / Spit & Polish in Glasgow and manages lots of other bands, such as Camera Obscura and Attic Lights.

Other artists he has worked with include: Kevin Ayers, Kim Fowley, Robert Forster, Dan Penn, Alex Chilton, John Herald, Chip Taylor, Ben Vaughn, Laura Cantrell, Kate Rusby, Camera Obscura, Belle & Sebastian, Looper, Future Pilot A.K.A., The Hermit Crabs, The Pastels, Radio Sweethearts, Michael Shelley, Cheeky Monkey, Frank Blake,Speeder, Astro Chimp, etc.

Francis has produced a (currently unreleased) Jerry Lee Lewis album. He provided the music for the British comedy feature film Zemanovaload starring Ed Byrne. His music has also been used in MTV's Real World, Fashion TV, Queer Eye For the Straight Guy, Sky News, The Mark Thomas Comedy Product, Emilio Estevez's 'smash hit' Late Last Night and a mobile phone ad in South Korea. He wants to keep writing songs while working on music for TV/films/adverts.

Frank McDonald (born 1950) is the Environment Editor of The Irish Times.

He was born in 1950 and educated at Kelly's Private School, Cabra Road; St Vincent’s CBS Glasnevin and University College Dublin, graduating with a BA (History and Politics) in 1971. He was editor of the UCD newspaper, (as a student), from 1970 to 1972, deputy president, Students' Representative Council, UCD, from 1970 to 1971, freelance New York Correspondent for the Irish Press newspaper from 1972 to 1973, sub-editor with the Irish Press from 1973 to 1977 and reporter from 1977 to 1978. He joined the Irish Times in 1979, becoming Environment Correspondent in 1986, a post which he held until he was appointed Environment Editor in 2000. He lives in the Temple Bar area of Dublin.

McDonald has long campaigned against noise from venues in Temple Bar. In 2010, he admitted to hitting a female manager in the River House Hotel in Eustace Street, after becoming frustrated with the high level of noise coming from the hotel's Mezz bar and nightclub. In a subsequent licensing case, the Dublin Circuit Court heard that complaints about the premises dated back over 15 years and the judge said they were "well-grounded". He renewed the licence on the basis that Frank Conway, the licensee, had expended considerable sums of money to prevent further "entertainment noise break-out" and said the rights of residents of Temple Bar "have to be respected".

Mark McDonald (born 7 June 1980) is a Scottish National Party (SNP) politician and Member of the Scottish Parliament for the North East Scotland region.

McDonald was educated at Dyce Primary School and Dyce Academy. He gained an MA in Politics from the University of Dundee (2002) and an MLitt in Strategic Studies from the University of Aberdeen (2003). He is a Life Member of Dundee University Debating Union. From 2003 to 2011 he worked as a Personal Assistant to MSPs Richard Lochhead, Maureen Watt, and Nigel Don. He was elected to Aberdeen City Council in 2007 at the age of 26 representing the Dyce/Bucksburn/Danestone ward having unsuccessfully contested a 2004 by-election in the city. McDonald stood as SNP candidate for Aberdeen South in the 2010 UK general election. coming fourth in the poll.

McDonald was elected to the Scottish Parliament in the 2011 election from the North East Scotland regional list with the SNP taking 52.71% of the vote. As the Scottish National Party had already won all ten constituency seats in the region, it came as a surprise to McDonald who famously appeared at the declaration wearing jeans and a t-shirt. He made his maiden speech on 2 June 2011 during a debate on Green Energy. He currently sits on the Public Audit Committee, the Public Petitions Committee and serves as Parliamentary Liaison Officer to the Cabinet Secretary for Finance, Employment and Sustainable Growth. In September 2011, McDonald announced he was to bring forward a Member's Bill on High Hedge Disputes.