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Giuseppe Olmo

Giuseppe Olmo (Gepin), Italian cyclist (1911-1992): 1932 Olympic team road race gold, 1935 hour record of 45.090 km, two Milano-Sanremo wins, and founder of the Olmo bicycle and polyurethane industrial group.

Giuseppe Ottaviani Live 3.0

Giuseppe Ottaviani Live 3.0 is the third live trance show format of Italian producer Giuseppe Ottaviani, debuted at A State of Trance 950 in Utrecht in February 2020.

Giuseppe Ottaviani presents Live 2.0

Giuseppe Ottaviani presents Live 2.0 is the live performance concept of Italian trance DJ and producer Giuseppe Ottaviani, debuted at EDC Mexico in February 2016.

Giuseppe Pantaleo

Giuseppe Pantaleo, born 1956 in Bari, Italy, is an Italian immunologist at the University of Lausanne known for showing that lymphoid organs are a major HIV reservoir.

Giuseppe Parini

Giuseppe Parini (1729–1799) was an Italian poet, satirist, and priest of the Lombard Enlightenment, best known for Il Giorno and the Odi, satirizing the idle Milanese aristocracy.

Giuseppe Paris

Giuseppe Paris (1895-1968), nicknamed Pinin, Italian artistic gymnast from Milan; two Olympic team golds (Antwerp 1920, Paris 1924), sixth with the team in 1928, later coach and 1948 Olympic judge.

Giuseppe Peano

Giuseppe Peano (1858–1932) was an Italian mathematician and logician at the University of Turin who formulated the Peano axioms and found the first space-filling curve.

Giuseppe Porzio

Giuseppe Porzio, known as Pino, is an Italian water polo player and coach, born in 1967 in Napoli, who won Olympic gold with Italy at Barcelona 1992.

Giuseppe Ravano

Giuseppe Ravano (born 1943, Rapallo) is an Italian eventing rider, Olympic team gold medalist at Tokyo 1964 on Royal Love; DNF at Mexico City 1968 on Lord Jim; CONI Collare d'Oro 2015.

Giuseppe Remuzzi

Giuseppe Remuzzi is an Italian nephrologist born in Bergamo in 1949 who directs the Mario Negri Institute and led trials showing drugs can slow kidney damage.

Giuseppe Rossi

Giuseppe Rossi, born 1987 in Teaneck, New Jersey, Italian striker of Manchester United, Villarreal (82 goals), Fiorentina and Italy (30 caps, 7 goals); four ACL ruptures; retired 22 July 2023, later New York Cosmos sporting director.

Giuseppe Sanarelli

Giuseppe Sanarelli (1865–1940) was an Italian bacteriologist known for a discredited 1897 claim that a bacillus causes yellow fever, for discovering rabbit myxomatosis virus, and for the Sanarelli–Shwartzman reaction.

Giuseppe Sansone

Giuseppe Sansone (born 1977) is an Italian physicist working on isolated attosecond pulses, and full professor of experimental physics at the University of Freiburg in Germany since 2016.

Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa

Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa (1896–1957) was a Sicilian aristocrat, duke of Palma and prince of Lampedusa, whose only novel, Il Gattopardo, won the 1959 Strega Prize after his death.

Giuseppe Tonani

Giuseppe Tonani (Ercole Proletario), Italian weightlifter, 1890-1971; 1924 Paris Olympic heavyweight gold medalist (517.5 kg) and 1920 Antwerp tug-of-war competitor; eight-time Italian champion.

Giuseppe Tornatore

Giuseppe Tornatore, born 1956 in Bagheria, Sicily, is an Italian director and screenwriter. Known for Nuovo Cinema Paradiso (Oscar 1990), Il camorrista, Malèna, and the Ennio Morricone documentary Ennio.

Giuseppe Tucci

Giuseppe Tucci (1894–1984) was an Italian orientalist and the leading Tibetologist of his time, who led eight expeditions to Tibet and founded the Italian Institute for the Middle and Far East.

Giuseppe Ungaretti

Giuseppe Ungaretti (1888–1970) was an Italian poet, forerunner of the Hermetic poets, who reinvented Italian verse with minimal, fragmented poems, beginning with the 1916 trench collection Il porto sepolto.

Giuseppe Vaiana

Giuseppe Vaiana (died 1991) was an Italian astrophysicist who led solar and stellar X-ray astronomy at AS&E, directed Skylab's S-054 telescope, and rebuilt the Palermo Observatory.

Giuseppe Valditara

Giuseppe Valditara is an Italian politician and professor of Roman law serving as Minister of Education and Merit, known for the school mobile phone ban and new national curricula.

Giuseppe Verdi

Giuseppe Verdi (1813–1901), leading Italian opera composer of the 19th century, wrote 28 operas including Rigoletto, La traviata, Aida, and Otello; his music became tied to the Risorgimento and Casa Ricordi's publishing business.

Giuseppe Veronese

Giuseppe Veronese (1854–1917) was an Italian mathematician, professor of geometry at Padua from 1881, who founded the projective geometry of spaces of more than three dimensions.

Giuseppe Viale

Giuseppe Viale, born in Turin in 1952, is an Italian pathologist and professor at the University of Milan known for breast cancer biomarkers and HER2 testing.

Giuseppe Vitali

Giuseppe Vitali (1875–1932) was an Italian mathematician who in 1905 constructed the first nonmeasurable set of real numbers, and proved the Vitali covering and convergence theorems.

Giuseppe Zangara

Giuseppe Zangara, Italian immigrant bricklayer, tried to assassinate President-elect Franklin D. Roosevelt in Miami's Bayfront Park on February 15, 1933; he missed, killed Chicago mayor Anton Cermak, and was executed March 20, 1933.

Giuseppe Zocco

Giuseppe Zocco is an Italian venture capital investor who co-founded Index Ventures in Geneva in 1996 with David and Neil Rimer, and later co-founded Medicxi, Index's life-sciences spinout.

Giuseppina Castiello

Giuseppina Castiello, often called Pina Castiello, is an Italian politician of Lega who serves as Undersecretary of State at the Presidency of the Council of Ministers, handling Relations with Parliament.

Giusi Malato

Giusi Malato (Giusi Letizia Malato, born 1971, Catania) is an Italian water polo centre forward, 2004 Athens Olympic gold medalist with the Setterosa, 14-time Italian champion with Orizzonte, and later a pioneering coach.

Giusi Princi

Giusi Princi is an Italian politician of Forza Italia who has been a Member of the European Parliament since 2024, chairing the Delegation for relations with Central Asia.

Givairo Read

Givairo Read (born 2006, Amsterdam) is a Dutch right-back for Feyenoord, number 26, formerly of FC Volendam; Netherlands U19 European champion, contract to 2029, linked with Bayern and Roma.