Francis Jardine Bell (January 28, 1840 – February 13, 1927) was a British North American-born American politician who was the sixth governor of Nevada.

Bell was born on January 28, 1840, in Toronto, in the province of Upper Canada (a British colony at the time; Confederation would not be achieved until another 27 years after his birth).

[1] Bell came to Nevada in 1858, to supervise the construction of a transcontinental telegraph line though the state from Utah to California.

Bell did not seek a full term, serving until the inauguration of Roswell K. Colcord in 1891.

[3] Bell died on February 13, 1927, in his daughter's home in Oakland, California, at the age of 87.