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Giovanni Plana
Giovanni Plana (1781–1864) was an Italian astronomer and mathematician who held the chair of astronomy at the University of Turin. He is noted for his summation formula.
Giovanni Raimondo
Giovanni Raimondo (G. Raimondo) is an Italian physician-scientist, full professor of internal medicine at the University of Messina, known for establishing occult hepatitis B virus infection as a major hepatology topic.
Giovanni Reyna
Giovanni Alejandro Reyna (born 2002), American attacking midfielder, son of Claudio Reyna and Danielle Egan; NYCFC academy, Borussia Dortmund, Nottingham Forest loan, Gladbach, Strasbourg; USMNT 2026 World Cup player.
Giovanni Scalzo
Giovanni Scalzo, Italian sabre fencer born 1959 in Messina; four Olympian (1980–1992) with 1 gold (1984 team), 1 silver (1980 team), 2 bronze (1988 individual and team), 1983 European champion.
Giovanni Scatturin
Giovanni Scatturin (1893-1951), Venetian Italian rower, coxed pair specialist; Olympic gold Antwerp 1920 and silver Paris 1924 with Ercole Olgeni, first Italian rowing gold, later emigrated to Argentina.
Giovanni Schiaparelli
Giovanni Schiaparelli (1835–1910) was an Italian astronomer and director of the Brera Observatory in Milan whose 1877 Mars observations introduced the canali and Martian nomenclature still in use.
Giovanni Simeone
Giovanni Simeone (Cholito), Argentine striker born 1995 in Buenos Aires, son of Diego Simeone; River Plate, Genoa, Fiorentina, Cagliari, Verona, Napoli, now Torino; 5 Argentina caps.
Giovanni Targher
Giovanni Targher (born 1966) is an Italian physician and clinical epidemiologist, professor of endocrinology at the University of Verona known for research on fatty liver disease.
Giovanni Testori
Giovanni Testori (1923–1993) was an Italian writer, playwright, poet, painter, and art critic whose cycle I segreti di Milano portrayed Milan's industrial periphery and inspired Visconti's Rocco and His Brothers.
Giovanni Tonon
Giovanni Tonon is an Italian physician-scientist in hematology and cancer genomics, a full professor and director of the Centre for Omics Sciences at Vita-Salute San Raffaele University in Milan.
Giovanni Trapattoni
Giovanni Trapattoni (born 17 March 1939, Cusano Milanino) is an Italian football manager and former Milan midfielder; won 22 trophies including six Juventus scudetti, the 1985 European Cup, and Inter's record 1989 title, and coached Italy and Ireland.
Giovanni Traverso
Giovanni Traverso is a physician-scientist, MIT associate professor of mechanical engineering, and Brigham and Women's gastroenterologist known for ingestible devices that deliver drugs through the gastrointestinal tract.
Giovanni van Bronckhorst
Giovanni van Bronckhorst (born 1975, Rotterdam), Dutch left-back and coach, 'Gio'. Champions League winner with Barcelona 2006; Feyenoord head coach 2015-2019 and again from June 2026; Rangers Europa League finalist 2022.
Giovanni Verga
Giovanni Verga (1840–1922), Catania novelist and short-story writer, leading exponent of Italian verismo; author of I Malavoglia, Mastro-don Gesualdo, Vita dei campi, and Cavalleria rusticana.
Giovanni Vicente Mosquera Serrano
Giovanni Vicente Mosquera Serrano, alias El Viejo or Giovanny San Vicente (born 1988), is an alleged senior Tren de Aragua leader, FBI Ten Most Wanted fugitive, OFAC-sanctioned, indicted in Texas for terrorism support and cocaine trafficking.
Giovanni Villani
Giovanni Villani (died 1348) was a Florentine merchant, banker, and public official who wrote the Nuova Cronica, a twelve-book chronicle famed for its economic data.
Giovanni Vitali
Giovanni Vitali (1876–1963) was an Italian anatomist who discovered the paratympanic organ in birds, still called Vitali's organ, and held the anatomy chair at Pisa from 1926 to 1948.
Giovanni's Room
Giovanni's Room, James Baldwin's 1956 second novel published by Dial Press after Knopf's rejection, tells of David, an American in Paris torn between his fiancée Hella and his lover Giovanni, an Italian bartender; a touchstone of queer literature with an all-white cast.
Giovannino Guareschi
Giovannino Guareschi (1908–1968) was an Italian journalist, cartoonist, and humorist from Parma who created the Don Camillo stories and edited the satirical weeklies Il Bertoldo and Candido.
GIOVE (satellites)
GIOVE, short for Galileo In-Orbit Validation Element, was a pair of ESA experimental satellites launched in 2005 and 2008 to secure Galileo's frequencies and test its atomic clocks.
Gip Capital Solutions
GIP Capital Solutions is the credit and capital-solutions fund family of Global Infrastructure Partners, a New York-based infrastructure investor owned by BlackRock, selling since 2016.
Gip Spectrum
Gip Spectrum is the co-investment fund program of Global Infrastructure Partners, a New York infrastructure manager, comprising several limited partnerships formed between 2018 and 2020.
Gip Strategic Alliance Sma
GIP Strategic Alliance SMA is a pair of Delaware limited-partnership fund vehicles, raised in 2019 and 2020 within Global Infrastructure Partners, whose manager BlackRock acquired in 2024.
GIP V Velocity Co-Invest 3, L.P.
GIP V Velocity Co-Invest 3, L.P. is a Delaware private equity pooled investment fund formed in 2024 to co-invest alongside Global Infrastructure Partners' Fund V flagship.
Giparu
The Giparu, also written Gipar-ku, was the temple-residence complex at Ur serving as the official dwelling of the entu, high priestess of the moon god Nanna, and rebuilt over two millennia.
Gipf
Gipf (GIPF) is a 1997 two-player abstract strategy board game by Kris Burm, first of the GIPF Project series; players push pieces on a hexagonal board to form rows of four and capture, winning by exhausting the opponent's reserve.
Giphy
Giphy is an online database and search engine for animated GIFs and stickers, founded in New York in 2013 and bought by Facebook for $400 million in 2020.
Gippsland
Gippsland is southeastern Victoria's easternmost region, spanning six municipalities from Melbourne's outskirts to the NSW border. Known for Latrobe Valley energy, dairy, the Gippsland Lakes, and Australia's largest offshore wind zone.
Gippsland Basin
The Gippsland Basin is a sedimentary basin in southeastern Australia, extending from onshore Gippsland into Bass Strait, that has supplied most of Victoria's oil and gas since the 1960s.
Gippy Grewal
Gippy Grewal (ਗਿੱਪੀ ਗਰੇਵਾਲ), born Rupinder Singh Grewal, is a Punjabi singer, actor, director, and producer; debut album Chakk Ley (2002), film debut Mel Karade Rabba (2010), Carry On Jatta (2012), founder of Humble Studios.