Francis Hackett (21 January 1883 – 25 April 1962) was an Irish novelist and literary critic.

He emigrated to the United States in 1901 for various reasons, among them being his dissatisfaction with the British Government ruling Ireland, and his family's inability to finance his college education.

When he arrived in New York he published articles in Standish O’Grady's All Ireland Review, Arthur Griffith's United Irishman, and Samuel Richardson's The Gael.

Hackett took a series of jobs as a clerk in a law firm, for the advertising department of Cosmopolitan Magazine, and literary editor of various periodicals, such as the Chicago Evening Post.

As writer and critic, Hackett attacked Chicago's genteel and commercial cultures, racism, and the subordination of women.