Notable inmates

Fania Fénelon (née Fanja Goldstein; 2 September 1908 – 19 December 1983) was a French pianist, composer and cabaret singer whose 1976 memoir, Sursis pour l'orchestre, about survival in the Women's Orchestra of Auschwitz during the Holocaust was adapted as the 1980 television film, Playing for Time.

Fariba Adelkhah (Persian: فریبا عادلخواه; born 25 April 1959) is a French-Iranian anthropologist and academic at Sciences Po who was imprisoned in Iran from 2019 until 2023.

Fariborz Raisdana (Persian: فریبرز رئیس‌دانا; 19 January 1945 – 16 March 2020) was an Iranian economist, socialist, activist, professor, and a member of the Iranian Writers' Association (Persian: کانون نویسندگان ایران).

Farrell Dobbs (July 25, 1907 – October 31, 1983) was an American Trotskyist, trade unionist, politician, and historian.

Fasia Jansen (June 6, 1929 - December 29, 1997) was a German political singer-songwriter (Liedermacher) and peace activist.

Fateme Ekhtesari, also Fatemeh Ekhtesari, (born 1986) is an Iranian poet and writer.

Joseph Antonio Cartagena (born August 19, 1970), better known by his stage name Fat Joe, is an American rapper.

Fayiz Ahmad Yahia Suleiman is a citizen of Yemen who was held without charge in the Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba for 14 years and 160 days. He was transferred to Italy on July 10, 2016. American intelligence analysts estimate Suleiman was born in 1974 in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.

Mullah Fazal Mohammad is a citizen of Afghanistan and formerly a Taliban militia commander who was captured on November 25, 2001. According to the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC), he was the Taliban militia's "commander in Afghanistan's southern region along the Pakistan border" in 2001.

Fedor Fedorovich Linde (Russian: Фёдор Линде; German: Friedrich Linde; 9 February 1881 – 21 August 1917) was a Russian revolutionary and political commissar.

Fedor Fedorovich Mikhailichenko (Russian: Фёдор Фёдорович Михайличенко; 1927—1993) was a Soviet Righteous Among the Nations.