Francesc Salvans i Armengol (Tarrasa, Barcelona, 1875 - Matadepera, Barcelona, July 24, 1936) was an industrialist and Spanish politician. He spent three years working at Societe Alsacienne de Constructions Mécaniques de Mulhouse and joined the family business Salvans Hermanos, Ponsà and Saus. Soon he became a highlight of the economic life of Tarrasa. In 1919 he was a director of Banca Marsans, a shareholder of the Bank of Terrassa, a member in 1924 and president in 1927 of the Board of the Commercial Bank of Terrassa, correspondent of the Bank of Spain in Tarrasa and director of the Caixa de Terrassa between 1919 and 1936. In addition he was president of the local Red Cross 1903-1907 and of diverse philanthropic entities.
Politically, he was a member of the National Monarchist Union, with which he was councilor of the Tarrasa City Council between 1909-1910, but in 1931 he joined the Regionalist League (later Catalan Lliga), with which he was elected deputy by the province of Barcelona in the Spanish general elections of 1933. On July 24, 1936, shortly after the outbreak of the Spanish civil war, he was assassinated between the forest and the Talamanca road with his son Joan Salvans i Piera, Agustí Prat i Marcet, the industrialists Gaietà Vallès i Pujals, Joaquim Barata i Rocafort, Manuel Vallhonrat i Comerma and Josep Maria Duran i Torres, and the notary Francesc de Paula Badia i Tobella.
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