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Gianluigi Buffon

Gianluigi Buffon, Italian goalkeeper (born 1978), Parma, Juventus, and PSG; 176 Italy caps, 2006 World Cup winner, record 10 Serie A titles; retired 2023 at 45, later national team Head of Delegation.

Gianluigi Ciovati

Gianluigi Ciovati is an accelerator physicist at Jefferson Lab who studies superconducting radiofrequency cavities, received a 2009 PECASE award, and designs compact accelerators for cleaning wastewater.

Gianluigi Donnarumma

Gianluigi Donnarumma, Italian goalkeeper born 1999, AC Milan, PSG, and Manchester City; Euro 2020 Player of the Tournament, 2025 Champions League winner, Italy captain, penalty-saving specialist.

Gianluigi Saccaro

Gianluigi Saccaro (Giovanni Luigi Saccaro, 1938–2021) was an Italian épée fencer: Olympic team gold Roma 1960, team silver Tokyo 1964, individual bronze Mexico City 1968, and world team titles 1957–58.

Gianluigi Veglia

Gianluigi Veglia is a biochemist and biophysicist, a professor at the University of Minnesota since 2000, known for NMR studies of membrane proteins and protein kinases.

Gianmarco I.p. Ottaviano

Gianmarco I.p. Ottaviano is an Italian economist at Bocconi University, born in Milan in 1967, known for the Melitz–Ottaviano trade model and research on immigration's wage effects.

Gianmarco Mazzi

Gianmarco Mazzi is an Italian politician of Fratelli d'Italia who has served as Minister of Tourism since 2026, after serving as Undersecretary of Culture and a long career in the entertainment industry.

Gianmarco Tamberi

Gianmarco Tamberi, nicknamed "Gimbo", is an Italian high jumper who shared the Tokyo 2020 Olympic gold with Mutaz Barshim and won the 2023 World Championships in Budapest.

Gianna Beretta Molla

Gianna Beretta Molla (1922–1962), Italian pediatrician, wife, and mother from Magenta; died 1962 after choosing her unborn child's life over her own; beatified 1994, canonized 2004, feast April 28.

Gianna Bryant

Gianna Maria-Onore "Gigi" Bryant (2006-2020), nicknamed Mambacita, was Kobe Bryant's 13-year-old daughter and a youth basketball player who died with him in the January 26, 2020 Calabasas helicopter crash.

Gianna Dior

Gianna Dior, birth name Emily Katherine Correro, is an American adult film actress and director, born in 1997, who won the AVN Best New Starlet award in 2020.

Gianna Kneepkens

Gianna Kneepkens (born 2003) is an American basketball guard from Duluth, Minnesota, a 2026 WNBA first-round pick (15th overall, Connecticut Sun), former Utah Utes star (1,621 points) and 2026 NCAA champion with UCLA.

Gianna Nannini

Gianna Nannini, born 1954 in Siena, is an Italian rock singer-songwriter, debut album 1976; breakthrough California (1979), hits Fotoromanza and Bello e impossibile, and the Italia '90 anthem Un'estate italiana with Edoardo Bennato.

Giannelli Imbula

Giannelli Imbula (Gilbert Giannelli Imbula Wanga), born 1992 in Vilvoorde, Belgium, is a retired Congolese defensive midfielder. Record signings for FC Porto (€20m, 2015) and Stoke City (£18.3m, 2016); France youth international, later 2 DR Congo caps; retired February 2024.

Gianni Agnelli

Gianni Agnelli, born Giovanni Agnelli and known as L'Avvocato Agnelli, was an Italian industrialist who chaired Fiat from 1966 to 1996 and was made a senator for life in 1991.

Gianni Astarita

Gianni Astarita (Giovanni Astarita) was an Italian chemical engineer at the University of Naples and Delaware, elected to the US National Academy of Engineering in 1994.

Gianni Berengo Gardin

Gianni Berengo Gardin (1930–2025) was an Italian photographer, born in Santa Margherita Ligure, who was a leading Italian photojournalist and published over 250 photographic books.

Gianni Bonadonna

Gianni Bonadonna (1934–2015) was an Italian medical oncologist at the Istituto Nazionale Tumori in Milan who designed the CMF breast cancer and ABVD Hodgkin lymphoma regimens.

Gianni Cesareni

Gianni Cesareni (G. Cesareni) is an Italian molecular biologist, Full Professor of Genetics at the University of Rome Tor Vergata, who founded the MINT protein interaction database.

Gianni Fiorellino

Gianni Fiorellino is a Neapolitan singer-songwriter of the neomelodico scene, born in 1982, active since 1993 and one of the few of his genre to appear at Sanremo.

Gianni Infantino

Gianni Infantino (Giovanni Vincenzo Infantino) is a Swiss-Italian football administrator who has served as President of FIFA since February 2016, as the ninth president in its history.

Gianni Lonzi

Gianni Lonzi (born 1938, Florence) is an Italian water polo player, coach, and administrator: Olympic gold 1960 as player, 1978 World Championship gold as Italy coach, FINA Technical Water Polo Committee chairman 1996-2017, ISHOF inductee 2009.

Gianni Morandi

Gianni Morandi (Gian Luigi Morandi) is an Italian singer, actor, and television presenter born near Bologna in 1944 who has sold over 50 million records and won the Sanremo Festival in 1987.

Gianni Rivera

Gianni Rivera (Giovanni Rivera, born 1943), Italian midfielder nicknamed Golden Boy; AC Milan 1960-79, first Italian Ballon d'Or winner (1969), three scudetti, two European Cups, Euro 1968 champion, 1970 World Cup runner-up.

Gianni Romme

Gianni Romme (born 1973, Lage Zwaluwe) is a Dutch former speed skater, double 1998 Nagano Olympic champion at 5,000 and 10,000 m in world records, 2002 silver medalist, seven-time single distance world champion.

Gianni Russo

Gianni Russo (born 1943, New York City) is an American actor, singer, and entrepreneur who played Carlo Rizzi in The Godfather (1972) and Part II (1974), his first role, obtained through Paramount's détente with Joe Colombo's Italian-American Civil Rights League; later a 40-film character actor and memoirist.

Gianni Schicchi

Gianni Schicchi: Puccini's only comic opera, one act with libretto by Giovacchino Forzano after Dante's Inferno Canto XXX; premiered 14 December 1918 at the Metropolitan Opera as the third panel of Il Trittico.

Gianni Tognoni

Gianni Tognoni, born 1941, is an Italian clinical epidemiologist who led clinical-epidemiological research at the Mario Negri Institute in Milan for 40 years, known for the GISSI trials.

Gianni Versace

Gianni Versace (1946–1997), Italian fashion designer from Reggio Calabria who founded his Milan house in 1978, created the Medusa-logo luxury brand, pioneered the supermodel era, and was killed in Miami in 1997.

Giannina Braschi

Giannina Braschi is a Puerto Rican poet and novelist, born in San Juan in 1953, credited with writing Yo-Yo Boing!, the first novel in Spanglish.