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Giovanni Caforio
Giovanni Caforio, born in 1964, is an Italian-American physician and pharmaceutical executive who has chaired the Novartis board since 2025, after leading Bristol Myers Squibb.
Giovanni Camussi
Giovanni Camussi, born in Turin in 1947, is an Italian nephrologist and Professor Emeritus at the University of Turin known for showing that stem cell microvesicles protect the kidney from injury.
Giovanni Canova
Giovanni Canova (1880-1960), Italian épée fencer of CS Torino; Olympic team épée gold at Antwerp 1920 (preliminary rounds only) and bronze at Paris 1924 as captain; individual épée joint 7th in 1920; 1928 jury president.
Giovanni Capriglione
Giovanni Capriglione is an American politician, a Republican member of the Texas House of Representatives for District 98, first elected in 2012; he chairs the House Delivery of Government Efficiency Committee.
Giovanni Cernogoraz
Giovanni Cernogoraz, nicknamed Gianni, is a Croatian sports shooter in trap, born in 1982 in Koper, Slovenia, who won Olympic gold in men's trap at London 2012.
Giovanni Ciraolo
Giovanni Ciraolo (1873–1954) was an Italian lawyer, journalist, and senator who founded the International Relief Union, the League of Nations body created in 1927 to coordinate aid after natural disasters.
Giovanni da Verrazzano
Giovanni da Verrazzano (Janus Verrazanus, 1485-1528), Florentine navigator for Francis I of France, explored the Atlantic coast from South Carolina to Nova Scotia in 1524 aboard the Dauphine, first European to describe New York Harbor; died 1528 on a second voyage.
Giovanni Davı̀
Giovanni Davì, also known as G Davì, was an Italian internist and professor at the University of Chieti whose research linked platelet activation to atherothrombosis in diabetes.
Giovanni de Gennaro
Giovanni De Gennaro, born 1992 in Brescia, is an Italian canoe slalom paddler, Olympic K1 gold medalist at Paris 2024 (88.22 s), three-time Olympian, and World and European championship medalist.
Giovanni De Micheli
Giovanni De Micheli is an Italian electrical engineer and professor at EPFL, a pioneer of electronic design automation and inventor of the Network on Chip paradigm.
Giovanni Delise
Giovanni Delise (1907–1947), Italian rower born in Izola, Istria; Olympic gold medalist in the men's coxed four at Amsterdam 1928 with the SN Pullino crew, also European champion in 1929 and 1931.
Giovanni di Bicci de' Medici
Giovanni di Bicci de' Medici (c. 1360–1429) was a Florentine banker who founded the Medici Bank in 1397, built it into an international banking house, and left his family the richest in Florence.
Giovanni Di Lorenzo
Giovanni Di Lorenzo (born 1993, Castelnuovo di Garfagnana) is an Italian right-back and SSC Napoli captain; two-time Scudetto winner, 2020 Coppa Italia winner, and Euro 2020 champion with Italy, 50 caps.
Giovanni di Paolo
Giovanni di Paolo (Giovanni di Paolo di Grazia) was an Italian painter and illuminator of Siena, active there from about 1420 until his death in 1482.
Giovanni Diodati
Giovanni Diodati (1576–1649) was a Genevan Reformed theologian and pastor whose Italian Bible translation, made directly from Hebrew and Greek, became the standard Bible of Italian Protestantism.
Giovanni Domenico De Cupis
Giovanni Domenico De Cupis, also spelled Gian Domenico, was an Italian Roman cardinal from 1517 who rose to Cardinal-Bishop of Ostia and Dean of the Sacred College.
Giovanni Dominici
Giovanni Dominici, in secular life Giovanni Banchini, was a Florentine Dominican friar and observant reformer who became a cardinal in 1408 and a writer against humanism.
Giovanni Dosi
Giovanni Dosi, born in 1953, is an Italian economist at the Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna in Pisa, a leading figure in evolutionary economics known for the 1982 concept of technological paradigms.
Giovanni Falcone
Giovanni Falcone (1939–1992), Italian antimafia magistrate of Palermo; creator of the 'follow the money' Falcone method, leader of the maxiprocesso di Palermo (360 convictions, 19 life sentences), killed in the Capaci bombing on 23 May 1992.
Giovanni Ferrero
Giovanni Ferrero (born 1964), Italian billionaire businessman and novelist, President of Ferrero International S.A., maker of Nutella, Kinder, and Tic Tac; co-CEO from 1997, Executive Chairman from 2017, led acquisitions including Nestlé US confectionery and WK Kellogg.
Giovanni Francesco Commendone
Giovanni Francesco Commendone was an Italian cardinal and papal diplomat, born in Venice, who served as nuncio to Poland and legate to the Holy Roman Empire from 1560 to 1573.
Giovanni Frattini
Giovanni Frattini (1852–1925) was an Italian group theorist who taught in Roman schools and is known for the Frattini subgroup and the Frattini argument, which he took from Capelli.
Giovanni Gentile
Giovanni Gentile (1875-1944) was an Italian neo-Hegelian philosopher, founder of actualism (attualismo), and minister of Public Instruction 1922-1924 whose 1923 school reform still underlies Italian schooling; he wrote the Manifesto of the Fascist Intellectuals and directed the Enciclopedia Italiana.
Giovanni Giambelli
Giovanni Giambelli, also known as Giovanni Zeno Giambelli, was an Italian mathematician trained under Corrado Segre in Turin, remembered for the Giambelli determinantal formula in Schubert calculus.
Giovanni Giolitti
Giovanni Giolitti (1842–1928), Italian liberal statesman from Mondovì, five-time prime minister (1892–93, 1903–05, 1906–09, 1911–14, 1920–21); dominated the 'età giolittiana' (1901–14), championed WWI neutrality, and opposed Mussolini from 1924.
Giovanni Giustiniani (Ιωάννης Λόγγος Ιουστινιάνης)
Giovanni Giustiniani Longo (Ιωάννης Λόγγος Ιουστινιάνης), c. 1418–1453, Genoese nobleman, corsair, and consul of Caffa who commanded Constantinople's land walls as protostrator in 1453, was wounded in the final assault, and died at Chios.
Giovanni Giustino Ciampini
Giovanni Giustino Ciampini (1633–1698) was a Roman curial official, scientist, and ecclesiastical historian who founded an academy of ecclesiastical history in 1671 and a scientific academy in Rome.
Giovanni Gozzi
Giovanni Gozzi (1902-1976), Italian Greco-Roman wrestler; featherweight gold at Los Angeles 1932 and bantamweight bronze at Amsterdam 1928; also European champion 1927; missed Berlin 1936 through injury.
Giovanni Guida
Giovanni Guida, born 1992 in Acerra, Italy, is an Italian painter and illustrator known for the Surrealist grattage technique, lapis lazuli blue, Caesarius Diaconus, and Dante and Covid-19 works; distinct from the 1837-1885 painter of the same name.
Giovanni Inghirami
Giovanni Inghirami (1779–1851) was an Italian Piarist priest, astronomer, and cartographer who directed Florence's Osservatorio Ximeniano and produced the first geometric map of the Grand Duchy of Tuscany.