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Giuseppe Delfino

Giuseppe Delfino (1921–1999) was an Italian épée fencer who won four Olympic golds and two silvers from 1952 to 1964, including individual épée gold at Rome 1960, plus six world team titles.

Giuseppe Di Capua (Peppiniello), born 1958 in Salerno, is Italy's most decorated rowing coxswain: two Olympic golds (1984, 1988) and a silver (1992) steering the Abbagnale brothers' coxed pair, plus seven world titles and a para-rowing comeback.

Giuseppe Domenichelli

Giuseppe Domenichelli (1887-1955), Italian artistic gymnast of S.G. Fortitudo Bologna; won men's team Olympic gold at Stockholm 1912 and Antwerp 1920, later a 1932 Olympic jury member and 1936 national coach.

Giuseppe Gabrielli

Giuseppe Gabrielli (1903–1987) was an Italian aeronautical engineer who led aircraft design at Fiat Aviazione from 1931, designing 142 aircraft including the Fiat G.91, winner of NATO's light strike fighter competition.

Giuseppe Garampi

Giuseppe Garampi (1725–1792) was an Italian churchman, historian, and diplomat who led the Vatican Secret Archive and served as papal nuncio in Warsaw and Vienna before becoming a cardinal in 1785.

Giuseppe Garibaldi

Giuseppe Garibaldi (1807–1882), Italian patriot and soldier of the Risorgimento, the Hero of the Two Worlds; led the Redshirts and the Expedition of the Thousand in 1860, conquering Sicily and Naples to help unify Italy under the House of Savoy.

Giuseppe Gentile

Giuseppe Gentile (born 1943, Rome) is an Italian triple jumper, great-grandson of philosopher Giovanni Gentile, who set two triple jump world records (17.10, 17.22) at the 1968 Mexico City Olympics yet won bronze, later played Jason in Pasolini's Medea; distinct from the 1879–1959 diplomat of the same name.

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Giuseppe Giaccone

Giuseppe Giaccone is an Italian-born medical oncologist specializing in lung cancer, thymic tumors, and mesothelioma, who led the National Cancer Institute's Medical Oncology Branch from 2007 to 2012.

Giuseppe Gigli

Giuseppe Gigli (born 1970 in Rome) is an Italian physicist and nanotechnologist, full professor at the University of Salento and founder of the CNR Institute of Nanotechnology in 2015.

Giuseppe Gradenigo

Giuseppe Gradenigo (1859–1926) was an Italian otolaryngologist who founded one of Italy's first university ENT clinics in Turin and in 1904 described Gradenigo's syndrome, the triad of otitis media, trigeminal pain, and abducens palsy.

Giuseppe Inesi

Giuseppe Inesi was an Italian-born American biochemist who spent his career defining how the muscle calcium pump SERCA uses ATP to move calcium ions against a gradient.

Giuseppe Levi

Giuseppe Levi (1872–1965) was an Italian anatomist and histologist, professor at Turin from 1919, who pioneered in vitro cell culture and trained three Nobel laureates.

Giuseppe Maddaloni

Giuseppe 'Pino' Maddaloni, born 1976 in Naples, Italian judoka, Olympic gold medalist in -73 kg at Sydney 2000, beating Tiago Camilo by ippon; European champion 1998 and 1999; son of coach Gianni Maddaloni of Scampia's Star Judo Club.

Giuseppe Mancia

Giuseppe Mancia is an Italian hypertension researcher, Professor Emeritus at the University of Milano-Bicocca, who chaired the ESH/ESC hypertension guidelines and edited the Journal of Hypertension.

Giuseppe Marchi

Giuseppe Marchi (1795–1860) was an Italian Jesuit priest and archaeologist, a founder of Christian archaeology who proved the Roman catacombs were dug by Christians and taught Giovanni Battista de Rossi.

Giuseppe Maria Bernini

Giuseppe Maria Bernini (1709–1761) was an Italian Capuchin friar, missionary, and Orientalist who served in Patna, Lhasa, and Bettiah and wrote a Hindu-Christian dialogue of about 1751, among the earliest prose in Hindustani.

Giuseppe Maria Tomasi

Giuseppe Maria Tomasi (1649–1713) was a Sicilian Theatine religious, cardinal, and liturgical scholar who edited ancient Roman sacramentaries and antiphonaries, called the Prince of Liturgists and canonized in 1986.

Giuseppe Marrucci

Giuseppe (Pino) Marrucci, born 1937 in Naples, is an Italian chemical engineer at the Università di Napoli Federico II known for reshaping the theory of entangled polymer dynamics.

Giuseppe Masera

Giuseppe Masera, born 1937 in Busto Arsizio, is an Italian pediatric hemato-oncologist who founded the University of Milano-Bicocca pediatric clinic in Monza and led the La Mascota twinning program with Nicaragua.

Giuseppe Matarese

Giuseppe Matarese, born in Naples in 1970, is an Italian immunologist and professor at Federico II Naples known for arguing that overnutrition can break immunological self-tolerance.

Giuseppe Mazzini

Giuseppe Mazzini (1805-1872), Genoa-born Italian republican revolutionary, founder of Young Italy (Giovine Italia) in 1831 and triumvir of the 1849 Roman Republic; apostle of duty-based democratic nationalism and a founding father of Italian unification.