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Giaan Rooney
Giaan Rooney (Giaan Leigh Rooney), Australian swimmer and TV presenter born 1982 in Brisbane; Olympic 4x100 medley relay gold and world record 3:57.32 at Athens 2004, 2001 world 200 m freestyle champion, retired 2006, now a commentator and macadamia farmer.
GIAC
GIAC (Global Information Assurance Certification) is an American organization founded in 1999 by the SANS Institute that administers more than 60 certifications for information security practitioners, with over 290,000 issued.
Giac Hai
Giac Hai (Giác Hải) was a Vietnamese Zen master of the Ly dynasty, tenth patriarch of the Vo Ngon Thong lineage and one of its Three Saints.
Giacinto Morera
Giacinto Morera (1856–1909) was an Italian mathematician and rational mechanician, professor at Genoa and Turin, known for Morera's theorem, a converse of Cauchy's integral theorem published in 1886.
Giacinto Scoles
Giacinto Scoles (1935–2024) was an Italian-born physical chemist who pioneered molecular beams, cryogenic bolometer detectors, and helium nanodroplet spectroscopy, and was Donner Professor of Science at Princeton from 1987.
Giacomo Agostini
Giacomo Agostini, "Ago", Italian motorcycle road racer born 1942 in Brescia; record 15 world titles (8x500cc, 7x350cc), 122 GP wins with MV Agusta and Yamaha, 10 Isle of Man TT wins, led the 1972 TT boycott.
Giacomo Albanese
Giacomo Albanese (1890–1947) was an Italian mathematician whose work on algebraic correspondences between surfaces led André Weil to name the Albanese variety after him; he held chairs at Catania, Palermo, Pisa, and São Paulo.
Giacomo Balla
Giacomo Balla (1871–1958) was an Italian painter, a leading Futurist best known for his 1912 motion studies such as Dynamism of a Dog on a Leash.
Giacomo Bonaventura
Giacomo "Jack" Bonaventura, born 1989 in San Severino Marche, is a retired Italian attacking midfielder: Atalanta, AC Milan (184 games, 35 goals), Fiorentina, Al-Shabab; 18 Italy caps, retired March 2026.
Giacomo Boncompagni
Giacomo Boncompagni was an Italian cardinal of the ducal house of Sora who served as Archbishop of Bologna for over forty years and took part in four conclaves.
Giacomo Casanova
Giacomo Casanova (1725-1798), Venetian adventurer and author of the French memoirs Histoire de ma vie; librarian at Dux, escaped the Piombi prison in 1756, and gave his name to the archetype of the seducer.
Giacomo Cavalli
Giacomo Cavalli (born 1965 in Cremona, Italy) is an Italian-French molecular biologist studying epigenetic inheritance and 3D genome organization; he leads the Chromatin and Cell Biology team at CNRS's Institut de Génétique Humaine in Montpellier.
Giacomo Ciamician
Giacomo Luigi Ciamician (1857–1922) was an Italian chemist of Armenian descent who founded organic photochemistry at Bologna, working with Paul Silber, and predicted a solar-powered civilization in 1912.
Giacomo Conti
Giacomo Conti (1918–1992) was an Italian Air Force officer and bobsledder who won gold in the two-man bob at the 1956 Winter Olympics, racing with pilot Lamberto Dalla Costa.
Giacomo da Lentini
Giacomo da Lentini, called il Notaro, was a Sicilian poet and imperial notary at the court of Frederick II, regarded as the central figure of the Sicilian school.
Giacomo De Pieri
Giacomo De Pieri (born 2006) is an Italian right winger, Inter academy product, Champions League debutant January 2025, now on loan at Ascoli.
Giacomo Fornoni
Giacomo Fornoni (1939–2016), nicknamed Il Maestro, Italian cyclist; gold medalist in the 100 km team time trial at the 1960 Rome Olympics with Bailetti, Cogliati, and Trapè; nine seasons with Molteni, 1964 Trofeo Baracchi winner.
Giacomo Gaioni
Giacomo Gaioni (1905-1988), Italian track cyclist, Olympic gold medalist in the 4,000 m team pursuit at Amsterdam 1928 with Tasselli, Facciani, and Lusiani; also set Italian hour and world 50 km records in 1929.
Giacomo Gianniotti
Giacomo Keaton Gianniotti (born 1989, Rome) is an Italian-Canadian actor known as Dr. Andrew DeLuca on Grey's Anatomy (2015–2021), Diabolik in the Manetti Bros. films, and Detective Cole Ellis in The CW's Wild Cards.
Giacomo Leopardi
Giacomo Leopardi (1798–1837), Recanati-born Italian poet, philologist, and philosopher, author of Canti, Operette morali, and the Zibaldone; central figure of Italian pessimism and one of Italy's greatest writers.
Giacomo Perez Dortona
Giacomo Perez Dortona (born 1989, La Seyne-sur-Mer) is a French breaststroke swimmer of CN Marseille; world champion 4x100m medley relay Barcelona 2013, European champion 4x50m medley relay 2012, French 100m breaststroke short-course record 56.78, Olympian London 2012.
Giacomo Puccini
Giacomo Puccini (1858-1924), Italian opera composer of La bohème, Tosca, Madama Butterfly, and Turandot; last great heir to Verdi, verismo leading exponent, closely tied to the Met.
Giacomo Raspadori
Giacomo Raspadori, Italian forward born 2000 in Bentivoglio; Sassuolo, Napoli (two Serie A titles), Atlético de Madrid, then Atalanta; Euro 2020 winner with Italy, 40 caps.
Giacomo Rizzolatti
Giacomo Rizzolatti is an Italian neuroscientist, emeritus professor of Human Physiology at the University of Parma, known for discovering mirror neurons and winning the 2025 International Prize for Biology.
Giacopo Belgrado
Giacopo Belgrado (1704–1789) was an Italian Jesuit mathematician and experimental physicist, court mathematician to Duke Philip of Bourbon-Parma, who founded the astronomical observatory of Parma in 1757.
Giada De Laurentiis
Giada De Laurentiis, born 1970 in Rome, is an Italian-American chef, Food Network host of Everyday Italian and Giada at Home, Emmy winner, author of nine bestselling cookbooks, and Las Vegas restaurateur who left Food Network for Amazon Studios in 2023.
Giada Gerboni
Giada Gerboni is an Italian biomedical engineer and roboticist known for soft robotics for minimally invasive surgery and her 2018 TED talk on flexible, soft robots.
Giải thưởng Hồ Chí Minh
Giải thưởng Hồ Chí Minh, the Ho Chi Minh Prize, is one of Vietnam's highest state honors, awarded to outstanding works of literature, the arts, and science.
Giallo
Giallo (Italian for "yellow") is Italy's term for crime fiction, from Mondadori's yellow-covered detective novels of 1929; abroad it names the stylish Italian murder-mystery thriller film cycle of the 1960s and 1970s, pioneered by Mario Bava and defined by Dario Argento's The Bird with the Crystal Plumage, which influenced the American slasher and survives in neo-giallo homages.
Gialo Oil Field
The Gialo Oil Field, also written Jalu or Gallo, is a giant oil field in Libya's Sirte Basin, operated by the Waha Oil Company and producing since 1961.