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Giovani Bernard

Giovani Bernard, NFL running back (born 1991), played 2013-2020 for the Cincinnati Bengals and 2021-2022 for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers; drafted 37th overall in 2013 from North Carolina, retired April 2023 with 3,783 rushing and 2,989 receiving yards.

Giovani dos Santos

Giovani dos Santos (Giovani Álex dos Santos Ramírez, born 1989) is a Mexican ex-footballer from Barcelona's La Masia who played for Tottenham, Villarreal, LA Galaxy, and América, won 107 Mexico caps, 19 goals, the 2012 Olympic gold, and three Gold Cups.

Giovani Lo Celso

Giovani Lo Celso, Argentine midfielder born 1996 in Rosario; Rosario Central, PSG, Tottenham, Villarreal, Real Betis. Copa América 2021 and 2024 winner with Argentina; most productive at Betis.

Giovani Versini

Giovani Versini is a French forward, born in Marseille in 2004, who plays for Ligue 1 club Stade Brestois 29 and has been capped twice by France's under-21 team.

Giovanna Barbarella

Giovanna Barbarella is an Italian chemist at the CNR Institute of Organic Synthesis and Photoreactivity in Bologna who introduced oligothiophene S,S-dioxides in 1998 and applied thiophene-based materials to light-emitting devices and fluorescent probes.

Giovanna Fletcher

Giovanna Fletcher (nee Falcone, born 1985) is an English author, actress, presenter, and podcast host, winner of I'm a Celebrity 2020, author of Billy and Me and Happy Mum, Happy Baby, and wife of McFly's Tom Fletcher.

Giovanna Liuzzo

Giovanna Liuzzo is an Italian cardiologist and physician-scientist at the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in Rome, known for establishing that inflammation and T-cell immunity destabilize coronary plaques.

Giovanna Tosato

Giovanna Tosato is an American-based physician-scientist studying virus-associated cancer and blood vessel growth, a Senior Investigator at the National Cancer Institute since 1999 after directing an FDA division.

Giovanna Trillini

Giovanna Trillini (born 1970, Jesi) is an Italian foil fencer with 4 Olympic golds, 1 silver, 3 bronze (8 total, 1992-2008), double 1992 champion, world champion 1991 and 1997, now a coach at Club Scherma Jesi.

Giovanni Agnelli

Giovanni Agnelli, known as "il Senatore" (the Senator), was an Italian industrialist who co-founded Fiat in 1899 and served as its president from 1920 until his 1945 removal.

Giovanni Amelino-Camelia

Giovanni Amelino-Camelia, born 1965 in Naples, is an Italian quantum-gravity physicist at the University of Naples Federico II who proposed doubly special relativity and helped establish quantum-gravity phenomenology.

Giovanni Andrea Cortese

Giovanni Andrea Cortese, in religion Gregorio Cortese, was an Italian Benedictine monk, humanist, and cardinal born at Modena in 1483 who helped prepare the Council of Trent.

Giovanni Angelo Arcimboldi

Giovanni Angelo Arcimboldi (1485–1555) was a Milanese papal diplomat who served as Bishop of Novara from 1526 and Archbishop of Milan from 1550 until his death.

Giovanni Astarita

Giovanni Astarita, known as Gianni Astarita, was an Italian chemical engineer and professor at Naples Federico II and the University of Delaware who worked on rheology and mass transfer.

Giovanni Battista Grassi

Giovanni Battista Grassi (1854–1925) was an Italian zoologist and physician who proved that human malaria is transmitted by Anopheles mosquitoes, refuting Robert Koch, and lost the 1902 Nobel Prize to Ronald Ross.

Giovanni Battista Guarini

Giovanni Battista Guarini was an Italian poet, diplomat, and literary theorist of the Ferrarese court, known for Il pastor fido, which developed the pastoral tragicomedy genre.

Giovanni Battista Migliori

Giovanni Battista Migliori (G.B. Migliori) is an Italian physician-scientist known for work on multidrug-resistant tuberculosis, directing the WHO Collaborating Centre for TB and Lung Diseases in Tradate, Italy.

Giovanni Battista Moroni

Giovanni Battista Moroni (about 1521-1578) was an Italian Lombard Renaissance painter and the leading portrait specialist of sixteenth-century Lombardy, known for portraits of unusual psychological realism, including The Tailor.

Giovanni Battista Pergolesi

Giovanni Battista Pergolesi, also known as Giambattista Pergolesi, was an Italian composer from Jesi whose comic intermezzo La serva padrona (1733) became a model for Italian opera.

Giovanni Battista Piranesi

Giovanni Battista Piranesi (Giambattista Piranesi, 1720-1778), Venetian-born etcher, architect, and archaeologist active in Rome; over 1,000 engravings including Vedute di Roma and Carceri d'invenzione; built only Santa Maria del Priorato.

Giovanni Battista Re

Giovanni Battista Re, also known as Giambattista Re, is an Italian cardinal who served as Prefect of the Congregation for Bishops from 2000 to 2010.

Giovanni Battista Rizza

Giovanni Battista Rizza (1924–2018) was an Italian mathematician at the University of Parma who worked on quasi-complex, quasi-Hermitian, and Kähler manifolds; the Rizza manifold is named for him.

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, also called Giambattista Tiepolo (1696–1770), was a Venetian painter celebrated as Europe's leading master of decorative fresco, with great cycles at Würzburg and the Royal Palace in Madrid.

Giovanni Battista Tubino

Giovanni Battista Tubino (1900–1989), Italian artistic gymnast of Ginnastica Sampierdarenese, Genova; won gold in the men's team all-around for Italy at the 1920 Antwerp Olympics, later a judge and CONI Gold Medal recipient.

Giovanni Bellini

Giovanni Bellini (c. 1430/1435–1516), Venetian Renaissance painter, son of Jacopo, brother of Gentile, brother-in-law of Mantegna; official painter of Venice from 1483, pioneer of oil painting, master of Giorgione and Titian.

Giovanni Berchet

Giovanni Berchet (1783–1851) was an Italian poet, critic, and patriot whose 1816 Lettera semiseria became the manifesto of Italian Romanticism; he lived in exile until joining Milan's 1848 government.

Giovanni Boccaccio

Giovanni Boccaccio (1313–1375), Italian novelist and early humanist of the Three Crowns with Dante and Petrarch. Born illegitimate in Florence or Certaldo, wrote the Decameron after the 1348 plague; late Latin works include Genealogia deorum gentilium.

Giovanni Bona

Giovanni Bona (1609–1674) was an Italian Cistercian monk of the Italian Feuillants, twice its general abbot, a cardinal from 1669, and a leading liturgical writer of his era.

Giovanni Bongiorni

Giovanni Bongiorni is an Italian sprinter and coach, born 1956 in Pisa, who ran in the 1984 Olympic 4 × 100 m relay final, finishing fourth.

Giovanni Brusca

Giovanni Brusca, nicknamed u verru and lo scannacristiani, is a Sicilian Cosa Nostra boss born 1957 in San Giuseppe Jato who detonated the 1992 Capaci bomb killing Falcone, confessed to over 150 murders, became a justice collaborator, and was fully released in 2025.