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Francesco Chiesa

Francesco Chiesa (1871–1973) was a Swiss poet, novelist, and teacher in the Italian language who dominated the literary life of Canton Ticino for over half a century.

Francesco Cosentino

Francesco Cosentino is an Italian-born cardiologist and professor of clinical cardiovascular research at Karolinska Institutet, chair of the 2019 ESC diabetes guidelines and ESC vice-president.

Francesco Cossiga

Francesco Cossiga, Italian Christian Democrat statesman, Prime Minister 1979-80 and eighth President of the Republic 1985-1992, resigned early amid the Gladio affair and 'picconate' interventions.

Francesco Crispi

Francesco Crispi (1818-1901), Sicilian statesman, Garibaldi's Thousand organizer, twice Italian prime minister (1887-91, 1893-96), first southern premier, resigned after Adwa defeat.

Francesco Cucca

Francesco Cucca is an Italian physician and geneticist, professor of medical genetics at the University of Sassari, who studies genes shaping immunity and disease in Sardinia.

Francesco D'Ovidio (1849–1925) was an Italian Romance philologist, glottologist, and literary critic who held the chair of comparative Romance languages at the University of Naples for nearly fifty years.

Francesco De Angelis (nanotechnologist)

Francesco De Angelis is an Italian nanotechnologist who leads the Plasmon Nanotechnologies unit at the Italian Institute of Technology in Genoa, applying plasmonics to biosensing and intracellular recording.

Francesco di Paolo Satolli

Francesco di Paolo Satolli (1839–1910) was an Italian Thomist theologian and cardinal who served as the first Apostolic Delegate to the United States, from 1893 to 1896.

Francesco Dieli

Francesco Dieli, born in Prizzi, Sicily, in 1958, is an Italian immunologist and full professor at the University of Palermo known for γδ T-cell research.

Francesco Friedrich

Francesco Friedrich (born 1990, Pirna, Germany), nicknamed Friedrich der Große, is a German bobsleigh pilot with four Olympic golds and two silvers, double 2018 and 2022 champion, and record 16-time world champion.

Francesco Gabrieli

Francesco Gabrieli (1904–1996) was an Italian Arabist and professor of Arabic at the University of Rome who edited the first complete Italian Thousand and One Nights.

Oct 20, 2026

Francesco Gabriotti

Francesco Gabriotti (1914-1987) was an Italian footballer, a left winger for SS Lazio who won gold with Italy in men's football at the 1936 Berlin Olympics; the final was his only cap, and a knee injury soon ended his career.

Sep 19, 2026

Francesco Gaetano Caltagirone

Francesco Gaetano Caltagirone, also known as Francesco G. Caltagirone, is an Italian billionaire entrepreneur, born in Rome in 1943, who founded and leads the Milan-listed holding Caltagirone S.p.A.

Francesco Gargano

Francesco Gargano (5 May 1889 – 29 October 1975), Italian sabre fencer, first Sicilian Olympic gold medalist, won team sabre gold and placed 11th individually at Antwerp 1920, then coached Swedish fencing from 1935.

Francesco Giazotto

Francesco Giazotto is an Italian condensed matter physicist and research director at CNR Nanoscienze in Pisa, known for the first Josephson heat interferometer and phase battery.

Francesco Giordani

Francesco Giordani (1896–1961) was an Italian electrochemist and professor at Naples who built the Giordani-Pomilio electrolyzer and led Italy's CNR, nuclear program, and Accademia dei Lincei.

Francesco Gonzaga

Francesco Gonzaga (1444–1483) was an Italian bishop and cardinal of the ruling house of Mantua, made cardinal-deacon of S. Maria Nuova in 1461 and papal legate of Bologna.

Oct 22, 2026

Francesco Guardi

Francesco Guardi (1712–1793) was an Italian painter, born and died in Venice, known above all for his atmospheric vedute, or view paintings, of the city.

Francesco Guicciardini

Francesco Guicciardini was a Florentine historian and political writer who authored the Storia d'Italia and the Ricordi, earning him the title of father of modern historiography.

Francesco I Sforza

Francesco I Sforza (1401–1466), condottiero and Duke of Milan from 1450, founder of the Sforza dynasty; illegitimate son of Muzio Attendolo, husband of Bianca Maria Visconti, victor of Caravaggio, recognized by the Peace of Lodi.

Francesco Lamon

Francesco Lamon, Italian track cyclist born 1994 in Mirano, team pursuit specialist; Olympic gold Tokyo 2020 with world record 3:42.032, bronze Paris 2024, world champion Roubaix 2021, rides for Fiamme Azzurre.

Sep 27, 2026

Francesco Lollobrigida

Francesco Lollobrigida is an Italian politician of Fratelli d'Italia who serves as Minister of Agriculture, Food Sovereignty and Forestry, and is a leading figure of the party.

Francesco Loy

Francesco Loy (Francesco Emanuele Giovanni Loy, 1891-1977), also spelled Loi, was an Italian gymnast from Cagliari who won men's team gold at the 1912 and 1920 Olympics and 1911 world team bronze.

Francesco Martino

Francesco Martino (1900-1965), Bari-born Italian gymnast of Società Ginnastica Angiulli; double gold medalist at Paris 1924 Olympics in rings and team all-around, first Apulian Olympic champion.

Francesco Mauri

Francesco Mauri is an Italian theoretical solid-state physicist, professor at Sapienza University of Rome, known for first-principles materials methods and theories of NMR and Raman spectroscopy in solids.

Francesco Molinari

Francesco Molinari (born 1982, Turin) is an Italian golfer, 2018 Open champion at Carnoustie and first European to go 5–0 in a Ryder Cup; 2018 Race to Dubai winner, world No. 5 peak, later European vice captain.

Francesco Muntoni

Francesco Muntoni is a pediatric neurologist trained in Italy who has worked in the UK since 1993, known for identifying neuromuscular disease genes and developing Duchenne muscular dystrophy therapies.

Francesco Musso

Francesco Musso (Franco Musso), Italian boxer born 1937 in France, won featherweight gold at the 1960 Rome Olympics, beating Jerzy Adamski 4-1 in the final, then boxed professionally 1960-1966 with 24 wins and 4 losses.

Francesco Orestano

Francesco Orestano (1873–1945) was an Italian philosopher, ethicist, and phenomenologist who taught moral philosophy at the University of Palermo and developed a system he called super-realism.