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Giorge Diaz

Giorge Diaz (Giorge Diaz Loren), Cuban pitcher born 1970 in Manuel Tames, Guantanamo; won baseball gold at Barcelona 1992, going 2-0 with a 0.50 ERA and starting the 11-1 gold medal game win over Taiwan.

Giorgetto Giugiaro

Giorgetto Giugiaro, also known as Giorgio Giugiaro, is an Italian car designer who founded Italdesign in 1968 and designed the Volkswagen Golf, Fiat Panda, and DeLorean DMC-12.

Giorgi Asanidze

Giorgi Asanidze (გიორგი ასანიძე), Georgian weightlifter born 1975 in Sachkhere; 2004 Olympic gold and 2000 bronze at 85 kg, 2001 world champion, later coach of Lasha Talakhadze.

Giorgi Eristavi

Giorgi Eristavi (გიორგი ერისთავი, 1813–1864) was a Georgian playwright and founder of the first Georgian professional theater in Tbilisi in 1850, whose comedies founded Georgian critical realism.

Giorgi Japaridze (გიორგი ჯაფარიძე)

Giorgi Japaridze (გიორგი ჯაფარიძე), also published as Giorgie Dzhaparidze, is a Georgian-born logician and full professor at Villanova University in Pennsylvania, known for creating computability logic and cirquent calculus.

Giorgi Kvinitadze

Giorgi Kvinitadze (გიორგი კვინიტაძე), born Giorgi Chikovani, was a Georgian general who led the army of the Democratic Republic of Georgia during the 1921 Russo-Georgian War.

Giorgi Mamardashvili (გიორგი მამარდაშვილი)

Giorgi Mamardashvili (გიორგი მამარდაშვილი), Georgian goalkeeper born 2000 in Tbilisi; Valencia 2021-2025, Euro 2024 record 21 group-stage saves, joined Liverpool July 2025 for €35m after August 2024 agreement.

Giorgi Mshvenieradze

Giorgi Mshvenieradze (გიორგი მშვენიერაძე), born 1960 in Tbilisi, Soviet water polo center forward; Olympic gold 1980 and bronze 1988; son of Petre Mshvenieradze.

Giorgi Saakadze

Giorgi Saakadze (გიორგი სააკაძე), c. 1570 to 1629, was a Georgian noble commander and Mouravi of Tbilisi who led the 1625 rebellion against Safavid Iran.

Giorgi XI of Kartli

Giorgi XI of Kartli (Shahnavaz Khan) was a Georgian prince who served the Safavid shahs and was killed by the Afghans at Qandahar in 1709.

Giorgia

Giorgia, in private Giorgia Todrani, is an Italian singer from Rome who won the 1995 Festival di Sanremo with "Come saprei" and returned to the contest in 2025.

Giorgia Andriani

Giorgia Andriani, Italian model-actress-dancer from Puglia (Brindisi) working in Indian cinema; known for Karoline Kamakshi (2019), Non-Stop Dhamaal (2023), Martin (2024), and music videos; formerly linked to Arbaaz Khan.

Giorgia Meloni

Giorgia Meloni (born Rome 1977), also called Fratelli d'Italia leader, is Italy's prime minister since 22 October 2022 and its first female and first post-fascist-tradition premier, leading Brothers of Italy after its 2022 election win.

Giorgio A. Tsoukalos

Giorgio A. Tsoukalos, "The Aliens Guy," is a Swiss-born ufologist, writer, and TV producer, star and co-executive producer of History Channel's Ancient Aliens (2009-present), publisher of Legendary Times magazine, and the subject of the "I'm not saying it was aliens" meme.

Giorgio Agamben

Giorgio Agamben (born Rome, 1942) is an Italian philosopher, author of the nine-volume Homo Sacer project on bare life, sovereignty, and the state of exception, and of controversial COVID-19 emergency critiques.

Giorgio Anglesio

Giorgio Anglesio (1922-2007), Italian épée fencer, CS Torino. Olympic team épée gold at Melbourne 1956; six World Championship golds including individual title Rome 1955; Italian champion 1954.

Giorgio Armani

Giorgio Armani (1934–2025) was an Italian fashion designer who founded his Milan ready-to-wear label in 1975 with Sergio Galeotti, pioneered deconstructed unstructured tailoring built on the soft jacket, and built an independent empire worth over $10 billion.

Giorgio Avola

Giorgio Avola is an Italian right-handed foil fencer, born in Modica in 1989, who won Olympic team gold at London 2012 and four World Championship team titles.

Giorgio Bassani

Giorgio Bassani (1916–2000) was an Italian writer and poet whose fiction centers on Ferrara's Jewish community under fascism; his best-known novel is Il giardino dei Finzi-Contini.

Giorgio Belladonna

Giorgio Belladonna (1923-1995), Italian bridge player of the Blue Team (Squadra Azzurra), won 16 world titles (13 Bermuda Bowls, 3 Olympiads), co-invented Roman Club and Super Precision, and ranks first in WBF all-time standings.

Giorgio Bellettini

Giorgio Bellettini is an Italian experimental particle physicist who helped found the CDF experiment at Fermilab and was co-spokesperson when the top quark was discovered in 1995.

Giorgio Bernardi

Giorgio Bernardi (1929–2021) was an Italian molecular biologist best known for discovering isochores, long homogeneous DNA segments, and for a neo-selectionist theory of genome evolution.

Giorgio Blandrata

Giorgio Blandrata, also spelled Biandrata, was an Italian physician from Saluzzo who became a lay leader of Unitarianism in Poland and Transylvania, helping produce the 1568 Edict of Torda.

Giorgio Bocchino

Giorgio Bocchino (1913-1995), Italian foil fencer from Firenze; won team foil gold and individual foil bronze at the 1936 Berlin Olympics, plus four European and two world team titles.

Giorgio Brianti

Giorgio Brianti (1930–2023) was an Italian accelerator engineer who, as CERN Technical Director from 1981 to 1989, led the design of the Large Hadron Collider.

Giorgio Buccellati

Giorgio Buccellati, born in Milan in 1937, is an archaeologist who co-directs the excavations at Tell Mozan in Syria, identified as the Hurrian city of Urkesh.

Giorgio by Moroder

"Giorgio by Moroder" is a nine-minute Daft Punk track, third on Random Access Memories (2013), built around a spoken interview with disco pioneer Giorgio Moroder recounting his life and "I Feel Love."

Giorgio Caproni

Giorgio Caproni (1912–1990) was an Italian poet, critic, and translator, born in Livorno and raised in Genoa, known for formal lyrics probing memory and God's absence.

Giorgio Chiavacci

Giorgio Chiavacci (1899-1969), Italian fencer from Cecina, Livorno, C.S. Fides; won team foil gold at Amsterdam 1928, European foil titles 1926 and 1931, missed Los Angeles 1932 through conjunctivitis.

Giorgio Chiellini

Giorgio Chiellini, born 1984 in Pisa, Italian defender and executive; Juventus 2005-2022 with nine straight Serie A titles, EURO 2020-winning Italy captain, later LAFC player and now Juventus Chief Club Affairs Officer.