Sir Francis Edmund Hugh Elliot GCMG GCVO (24 March 1851 – 20 January 1940) was a British diplomat who was envoy to Greece for 14 years.

Events in the Balkans forced the Allies to land troops at Salonika (Thessaloniki) with Venizelos' permission, and in August 1916, followers of Venizelos set up a provisional state in northern Greece with Allied support with the aim of reclaiming the lost regions in Macedonia, effectively splitting Greece into two entities.

After intense diplomatic negotiations and an armed confrontation in Athens between Allied and royalist forces (an incident known as Noemvriana) the king abdicated and left Greece in June 1917, and Elliot left at the same time "on leave",[4] but he was replaced shortly afterwards by Lord Granville who had already been accredited to Venizelos' provisional government at Salonika.

In 1881 Francis Elliot married Henrietta, daughter of Clare Ford who had been his chief in Rio de Janeiro.

Francis Elliot was appointed CMG in January 1904,[6] knighted KCMG in June of the same year[7] and promoted to GCMG in the King's Birthday Honours of 1917.