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Giovanni Invernizzi
Giovanni Invernizzi: name shared by an Italian Olympic rowing gold medalist (coxless four, London 1948, Canottieri Moto Guzzi), Inter Milan's 1970-71 Scudetto-winning coach, and a Sampdoria midfielder born 1963.
Giovanni Jona-Lasinio
Giovanni Jona-Lasinio, born 1932 in Florence, is an Italian theoretical physicist at Sapienza University of Rome known for the Nambu–Jona-Lasinio model of spontaneous symmetry breaking and the Boltzmann Medal.
Giovanni Landoni
Giovanni Landoni, born in Milan in 1971, is an Italian cardiac anesthesiologist and intensive care physician who leads large randomized trials of perioperative care at San Raffaele.
Giovanni Leone
Giovanni Leone (1908–2001), Italian criminal-law jurist and Christian Democrat, sixth President of the Republic 1971–1978; earlier Chamber President and twice Prime Minister; resigned in 1978 over unproven Lockheed bribery allegations.
Giovanni Leone Reggio
Giovanni Leone Reggio (1888–1971/72), Italian sailor from Genoa; skippered Italia to Italy's first Olympic sailing gold, 8-metre class, Berlin 1936; also raced at Amsterdam 1928 and London 1948.
Giovanni Leoni
Giovanni Leoni (born 2006, Rome) is an Italian centre-back for Liverpool, signed from Parma in August 2025 for £26m plus add-ons on a six-year deal; he tore an ACL on his Liverpool debut in September 2025.
Giovanni Lombardi
Giovanni Lombardi, Italian cyclist born 1969 in Pavia, won the 1992 Barcelona Olympic points race gold with 44 points, then rode professionally for Lampre, Polti, Telekom, Acqua & Sapone, and CSC, winning Giro and Vuelta stages.
Giovanni Lorenzo Berti
Giovanni Lorenzo Berti (1696–1766) was an Italian Augustinian Hermit and theologian whose eight-volume exposition of Augustine's theology, De theologicis disciplinis (Rome, 1739–45), was attacked as Jansenist yet found sound by Benedict XIV.
Giovanni Luca Violante
Giovanni Luca Violante, known as Gianluca, is an Italian macroeconomist who holds a chaired professorship at Princeton and coauthored the influential 2018 HANK paper on monetary policy.
Giovanni Luppis
Giovanni Luppis, in Croatian sources Ivan Blaž Luppis Vukić (1813–1875), was an Austro-Hungarian frigate captain from Rijeka whose unmanned explosive boat, refined by engineer Robert Whitehead, became the first self-propelled torpedo.
Giovanni Macchia
Giovanni Macchia (1912–2001) was an Italian critic and essayist, remembered as a father of Italian francesistica, the scholarly study of French literature, and winner of the 1992 Balzan Prize.
Giovanni Maglia
Giovanni Maglia is an Italian chemical biologist, full professor at the University of Groningen since 2021, known for engineering ClyA nanopores into single-protein sensors and founding Portal Biotech.
Giovanni Mangiante
Giovanni Agostino Generoso Mangiante (Gianni), Italian artistic gymnast (1893-1967) of Gymnasium Brescia; 1912 Stockholm Olympic gold, men's team European system; brother of Renzo Mangiante; WWI pilot, D'Annunzio associate.
Giovanni Manu
Giovanni Manu is a Tongan-born Canadian professional football offensive lineman for the Detroit Lions, selected 126th overall in 2024 and the first player drafted from the University of British Columbia.
Giovanni Marsicano
Giovanni Marsicano is a French neuroscientist and Inserm research director in Bordeaux who leads the Endocannabinoids and Neuroadaptation team and studies CB1 receptors in memory.
Giovanni Monteleone
Giovanni Monteleone (born 1964 in Catanzaro) is an Italian gastroenterologist and immunologist, full professor at the University of Rome Tor Vergata, known for the Crohn's disease drug mongersen.
Giovanni Morone
Giovanni Morone (1509–1580) was an Italian cardinal and diplomat, Bishop of Modena, who was imprisoned for heresy before leading the Council of Trent as papal legate.
Giovanni Paolo Lancelotti
Giovanni Paolo Lancelotti, also spelled Lancellotti, was an Italian canonist and law professor at Perugia whose 1563 Institutiones iuris canonici became the standard textbook for over two centuries.
Giovanni Paolo Panini
Giovanni Paolo Panini (Pannini), 1691-1765, Italian painter of Roman vedute, capricci, and gallery paintings; trained under Galli-Bibiena and Luti, led Roman view painting, painted St Peter's interiors and Ancient/Modern Rome for the duc de Choiseul.
Giovanni Papini
Giovanni Papini (1881–1956) was an Italian writer, critic, and polemicist from Florence who co-founded the avant-garde journals Leonardo and Lacerba, converted to Catholicism, and wrote the bestseller Storia di Cristo.
Giovanni Parisi
Giovanni Parisi, "Flash" (1967-2009), Italian boxer; Seoul 1988 Olympic featherweight gold medalist and two-division WBO world champion (lightweight 1992-94, light welterweight 1996-98); died in a car crash near Voghera.
Giovanni Pascoli
Giovanni Pascoli (1855–1912) was an Italian poet and classical scholar who, with Gabriele D'Annunzio, led Italian Decadentism; his best-known works are Myricae and the Latin Carmina.
Giovanni Peri
Giovanni Peri is an Italian-born economist at the University of California, Davis, whose research on immigration, wages, and productivity has shaped the economics of migration.
Giovanni Pernice
Giovanni Pernice (born 1990, Palermo) is an Italian professional dancer, 2012 Italian Open Latin champion and Guinness record holder, who spent nine series on Strictly Come Dancing, won the 2021 series with Rose Ayling-Ellis, and now stars on Ballando con le Stelle.
Giovanni Peroni
Giovanni Peroni was an Italian brewing industrialist who took over his family's Rome brewery in 1867 at age 18, building Birra Peroni, now owned by Asahi.
Giovanni Perrone
Giovanni Perrone (1794–1876) was an Italian Jesuit priest and dogmatic theologian who taught at the Roman College and led the mid-19th-century Roman School of Catholic theology.
Giovanni Pettenella
Giovanni Pettenella (Vanni), Italian track sprinter, 1964 Tokyo Olympic sprint gold and 1,000 m time trial silver; 1968 world sprint bronze and world trackstand record holder.
Giovanni Pico della Mirandola
Giovanni Pico della Mirandola (1463–1494), Italian Renaissance philosopher and count of Mirandola and Concordia, author of the 900 Conclusions of 1486 and the Oration on the Dignity of Man, founder of Christian Cabala, condemned by Innocent VIII.
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, also known as Pierluigi da Palestrina, was an Italian Renaissance composer of Roman polyphony who spent his career at Rome's basilicas and wrote over 100 Masses.
Giovanni Pisano
Giovanni Pisano (born around 1248, died after 1314) was an Italian sculptor and architect, son of Nicola Pisano, known for his expressive Gothic pulpits at Pistoia and Pisa.