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Giorgio Consolini
Giorgio Consolini (1920–2012) was an Italian singer from Bologna who won the Sanremo Festival in 1954 with "Tutte le mamme", and was known as the "Cantante nazionale".
Giorgio de Chirico
Giorgio de Chirico (1888–1978), Italian painter born in Volos, Greece, founder of Metaphysical Painting with Carlo Carrà; his enigmatic piazzas and mannequins shaped Surrealism, though he never joined the movement.
Giorgio De Marzi
Giorgio De Marzi (born 2007, Lancaster, Pennsylvania) is an American goalkeeper for AS Roma, shirt number 70, dual US-Italian citizen, USA U19 player, with 42 Roma youth appearances and no senior matches yet.
Giorgio di Centa
Giorgio Di Centa, Italian cross-country skier (born 1972, Tolmezzo), brother of Manuela Di Centa; double gold medalist at Turin 2006 in the 50 km freestyle and 4x10 km relay, plus 2002 relay silver, five Olympics 1998-2014.
Giorgio Lamberti
Giorgio Lamberti, Italian freestyle swimmer born 1969 in Brescia; set the 200 m freestyle world record (1:46.69, Bonn 1989) and won Italy's first male world swimming gold, Perth 1991.
Giorgio Morandi
Giorgio Morandi (1890–1964) was an Italian painter and printmaker who spent nearly his whole life in Bologna painting small still lifes of bottles, jugs, and pots.
Giorgio Moroder
Giorgio Moroder (Giovanni Giorgio Moroder, born 26 April 1940, Ortisei, Italy) is an Italian producer and composer, a founder of disco whose synth productions for Donna Summer and Oscar-winning film scores shaped electronic dance music.
Giorgio Napolitano
Giorgio Napolitano (1925–2023), 11th President of Italy (2006–2015), first former Communist and first re-elected president; PCI leader, Chamber Speaker, interior minister, appointed Monti in 2011, resigned 2015.
Giorgio Parisi
Giorgio Parisi is an Italian theoretical physicist at Sapienza University of Rome, awarded half of the 2021 Nobel Prize in Physics for work on spin glasses.
Giorgio Pessina
Giorgio Pessina (1902-1977), Italian foil fencer from Rome; Olympic team foil gold 1928 Amsterdam, silver 1932 Los Angeles, fourth 1924; later federation head coach and co-author with Ugo Pignotti of the standard Italian texts Il fioretto and La sciabola.
Giorgio Petrosyan
Giorgio Petrosyan, "The Doctor" (Armenian-Italian kickboxer, born 1985), southpaw counter-striker; K-1 World MAX 2009-2010, GLORY 2012, ONE GP 2019; retired November 2025 at 109-3-2 (2 NC, 43 KOs).
Giorgio Santelli
Giorgio Santelli (Santelli György), 1897–1985, Hungarian-born Italian sabre fencer; 1920 Olympic team sabre gold for Italy, then US Olympic fencing coach 1928–1952 and New York salle founder.
Giorgio Scita
Giorgio Scita is an Italian cell biologist and professor of pathology at the University of Milan who studies how endocytosis drives tumor cell migration and invasion.
Giorgio Trinchieri
Giorgio Trinchieri is an immunologist who discovered interleukin-12 at The Wistar Institute in 1989 and now leads the National Cancer Institute's Laboratory of Integrative Cancer Immunology.
Giorgio V. Scagliotti
Giorgio V. Scagliotti is an Italian medical oncologist specializing in lung cancer, Full Professor at the University of Turin and IASLC President from 2017 to 2019.
Giorgio Vanzetta
Giorgio Vanzetta (born 1959, Cavalese) is an Italian former cross-country skier, 1994 Lillehammer Olympic relay gold medalist, with four Olympic medals and two world relay silvers.
Giorgio Vasari
Giorgio Vasari (Arezzo 1511–Florence 1574), Italian Mannerist painter, architect and writer; designed the Uffizi and Vasari Corridor, founded the Accademia del Disegno (1563), and wrote the Lives (1550, 1568), the founding text of art history.
Giorgio Zampori
Giorgio Zampori (1887-1965), Italian artistic gymnast of Società Miani Milan; four Olympic golds and one bronze across 1912, 1920, 1924, including the 1920 individual all-around title with 88.35 points.
Giorgis of Segla
Giorgis of Segla, also spelled Sagla, was an Ethiopian monk and court chaplain who served emperors Dawit I, Tewodros I, and Yeshaq, dying around 1425.
Giorgos Gerapetritis
Giorgos Gerapetritis is a Greek politician serving as Minister for Foreign Affairs of Greece, known for the structured dialogue with Turkey begun with the 2023 Athens Declaration.
Giorgos Giakoumakis (Γιώργος Γιακουμάκης)
Giorgos Giakoumakis (Γιώργος Γιακουμάκης), Greek striker born 1994 in Heraklion; Eredivisie top scorer 2020/21 with VVV-Venlo (26 goals), Celtic Premiership top scorer 2021/22, 2023 MLS Newcomer of the Year with Atlanta United, later Cruz Azul, PAOK, Al Ain.
Giorgos Karagounis (Γιώργος Καραγκούνης)
Giorgos Karagounis (Γιώργος Καραγκούνης), Greek midfielder born 1977 in Pyrgos; record 139 Greece caps, 10 goals; EURO 2004 winner who scored the opener against Portugal; played for Panathinaikos, Inter, Benfica, Fulham.
Giorgos Katris
Giorgos Katris (Γιώργος Κάτρης), born 2005 in Athens, is a Greek centre back for Panathinaikos, number 3, developed in its academy, loaned to Levadiakos 2024-2026, and a Greece U19 international.
Giorgos Sabanis
Giorgos Sabanis (Γιώργος Σαμπάνης) is a Greek pop singer and songwriter born in 1983 in Athens, a former sprinter whose album Logia Pou Kaine topped the Greek charts in 2016.
Giorgos Seferis
Giorgos Seferis (Γιώργος Σεφέρης; born Georgios Seferiades) was a Greek poet and diplomat who won the 1963 Nobel Prize in Literature, the first Greek national to do so.
Giosuè Carducci
Giosuè Carducci (Giosue, 1835-1907), Italian poet, critic, and Bologna professor, author of Inno a Satana and Odi barbare; Italy's first Nobel laureate in Literature (1906), senator, anti-Romantic classicist and anticlerical poeta-vate.
Giotto
Giotto di Bondone (c. 1265-1337), Florentine painter trained under Cimabue, father of European painting; Arena Chapel Padua frescoes for Enrico Scrovegni, Assisi cycle, Bardi and Peruzzi chapels, Ognissanti Madonna.
Giourkas Seitaridis
Giourkas Seitaridis (Γιούρκας Σεϊταρίδης), Greek right back born 1981 in Piraeus; Euro 2004 winner and All-Star selection; played for Panathinaikos, Porto, Dynamo Moscow, and Atlético Madrid; 72 Greece caps; now Panathinaikos academy coach.
Giovanbattista Fazzolari
Giovanbattista Fazzolari is an Italian politician of Fratelli d'Italia who serves as Undersecretary of State at the Presidency of the Council of Ministers in the government of Giorgia Meloni.
Giovane Élber
Giovane Élber (Giovane Élber de Souza), Brazilian striker born 1972 in Londrina; Bayern Munich legend, 2001 Champions League winner, four Bundesliga titles, 133 Bundesliga goals, 2002/03 top scorer; later Lyon, Gladbach, Cruzeiro; now Bayern brand ambassador.