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Gitte Sunesen
Gitte Sunesen (born 1971), Danish handball goalkeeper, full name Gitte Jensby Sunesen Vilhelmsen; Olympic gold 1996, European gold 1994 and 1996, world gold 1997; entire club career at GOG, 135 caps.
Giubiasco
Giubiasco necropolis: large prehistoric burial ground near Bellinzona, Ticino, Switzerland, with 565 graves from the late Bronze Age (11th century BC) to the Roman Imperial period, excavated from 1900, held at the Swiss National Museum, republished 2004-2010.
Giugliano in Campania
Giugliano in Campania (Giugliàn) is a town of about 125,000 in the Metropolitan City of Naples on the Campanian plain, near the Roman colony of Liternum; largest non-provincial-capital comune in Italy, historically Iulianum, fief of the Pinelli.
GIUK gap
The GIUK gap, or Greenland-Iceland-UK Gap, is the North Atlantic passage between Greenland, Iceland, and the United Kingdom through which ships and submarines from Arctic waters enter the Atlantic.
Giulia (ジュリア) (wrestler)
Giulia, also known as Eimi Matsudo, is a Japanese professional wrestler born in London who starred in STARDOM before joining WWE in 2024 and winning the NXT Women's Championship.
Giulia Be
Giulia Be is a Brazilian pop singer-songwriter from Rio de Janeiro, born in 1999, whose 2019 single "Menina Solta" became a triple-platinum hit in Portugal.
Giulia Farnese
Giulia Farnese, also known as Julia Farnese, was a Roman noblewoman known as la Bella who was the mistress of Pope Alexander VI and advanced her family's fortunes.
Giulia Galli
Giulia Galli is a condensed matter physicist known for first-principles simulations of solids and liquids; she is a University of Chicago professor and directs MICCoM at Argonne.
Giulia Galli (footballer)
Giulia Galli, born 2008 in Rome, is an Italian forward who debuted for AS Roma's women's team as its youngest ever player, won the 2025 U-17 World Cup FIFA Bronze Boot, and transferred to FC Barcelona in 2026. Not the physicist Giulia Galli.
Giulia Grancini
Giulia Grancini is an Italian chemist working on hybrid perovskite solar cells; she has been full professor of Physical Chemistry at the University of Pavia since 2025.
Giulia Manfrini
Giulia Manfrini (1988-2024), Italian surfer and AWAVE Travel co-founder from Venaria Reale; former Italian Big Air snowboard champion; died 18 October 2024 when an imperial needlefish pierced her chest at Beng Bengs, Mentawai Islands, Indonesia.
Giulia Mantilli
Giulia Mantilli, Italian barebow archer (born 1985) of Arcieri Romani Rome; barebow women's 18 m world record 559/600 (2026), five-time Italian indoor champion, 2026 Nimes Indoor World Series winner.
Giulia Rizzi
Giulia Rizzi, born 1989 in Udine, is an Italian right-handed épée fencer, Olympic team champion at Paris 2024 and world team champion in 2026, with European team gold in 2024.
Giulia Tofana
Giulia Tofana, actually Giulia Mangiardi, was the legendary 17th-century Sicilian-born poisoner associated with Aqua Tofana, an arsenic poison; archival research shows she died in Rome in 1651 and was never prosecuted.
Giuliana Rancic
Giuliana Rancic, née DePandi, Giuliana DePandi, Italian-born American E! News anchor and managing editor (2005–2015, co-host 2018), 20-year red-carpet host, Fashion Police co-star, HSN fashion entrepreneur, breast-cancer advocate.
Giuliana Salce
Giuliana Salce (born 1955) is an Italian race walker, 1985 World Indoor 3000 m walk winner (12:53.42) and 1987 silver medallist (12:36.76), holder of the Italian 5000 m walk best 21:35.25 and a pioneer of Italian women's race walking.
Giuliano Alesi
Giuliano Alesi (ジュリアーノ・アレジ), born 1999, French racing driver, son of Jean Alesi; ex-Ferrari Academy, F2 2019-2020, Super GT GT500 winner with TOM'S, 2026 KCMG Super Formula and Le Mans debutant.
Giuliano Cesarini
Giuliano Cesarini was a Roman cardinal and canon lawyer who presided over the Council of Basel. He later joined the Council of Florence before vanishing in 1444.
Giuliano de' Medici
Giuliano de' Medici names two Florentines: Giuliano di Piero (1453–1478), Lorenzo the Magnificent's brother killed in the 1478 Pazzi conspiracy, and Giuliano di Lorenzo (1479–1516), Duke of Nemours and Machiavelli's first intended dedicatee of Il principe.
Giuliano Razzoli
Giuliano Razzoli, "Razzo del circo bianco", Italian alpine skier born 1984; 2010 Vancouver Olympic slalom gold (1:39.32), third Italian Olympic slalom champion after Gros and Tomba; 2014 DNF, 2022 8th.
Giuliano Simeone
Giuliano Simeone (Giuliano Simeone Baldini), Argentine winger born 2002 in Rome, son of Diego Simeone; Atlético Madrid academy graduate, loaned to Zaragoza and Alavés, first-team regular since 2024, Argentina 2026 World Cup squad member.
Giulietta Masina
Giulietta Masina (Giulia Anna Masina, 1921-1994) was an Italian actress and Federico Fellini's wife, famous for Gelsomina in La Strada and Cabiria in Nights of Cabiria, Cannes best actress 1957.
Giulio Alberoni
Giulio Alberoni was an Italian cardinal and statesman, the son of a gardener, who directed Spain's recovery as de facto chief minister from 1716 to 1719.
Giulio Andreotti
Giulio Andreotti (1919–2013) was an Italian Christian Democratic politician who served seven times as Prime Minister of Italy between 1972 and 1992, and twenty-one times as a minister.
Giulio Basletta
Giulio Basletta (1890-1975) was an Italian épée fencer from Vigevano who won team épée bronze at Paris 1924 and gold at Amsterdam 1928, was Italian individual champion in 1922, and led the Italian Fencing Federation 1940-1943.
Giulio Cantoni
Giulio Cantoni was an Italian-born American biochemist who discovered S-adenosylmethionine, worked out the mechanism of biological methylation, and directed a National Institute of Mental Health laboratory from 1954 to 1994.
Giulio Cappelli
Giulio Cappelli (1911-1995), Italian left-winger and coach; captain of Italy's all-amateur gold-medal football squad at the 1936 Berlin Olympics; scored once against Japan before a knee injury ended his tournament; later coached Inter Milan twice.
Giulio Cerullo
Giulio Cerullo (born 1965) is an Italian physicist and full professor at the Politecnico di Milano, known for inventing the non-collinear optical parametric amplifier producing 5-femtosecond light pulses.
Giulio Cesare Cordara
Giulio Cesare Cordara was an Italian Jesuit historian and satirical poet, official historiographer of the Society of Jesus, whose 1750 Latin history covered the order through 1632.
Giulio Cossu
Giulio Cossu, born in Rome in 1953, is an Italian developmental biologist and regenerative-medicine scientist known for mesoangioblast stem cells and the first cell therapy trial for Duchenne muscular dystrophy.