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Lorenzo Ganganelli
Lorenzo Ganganelli, born Giovanni Vincenzo Antonio Ganganelli, was a Conventual Franciscan and cardinal who reigned as Pope Clement XIV from 1769 to 1774, suppressing the Society of Jesus by the brief Dominus ac Redemptor in 1773.
Lorenzo Ghiberti
Lorenzo Ghiberti (1378–1455) was a Florentine sculptor and goldsmith who won the 1401 Baptistery door competition against Brunelleschi and later made the Gates of Paradise.
Lorenzo Gilyard
Lorenzo Gilyard (born c. 1951), the Kansas City Strangler, an American serial killer who strangled 13 women and girls in Kansas City from 1977 to 1993, identified in 2004 by DNA from a 1987 blood sample and convicted in 2007 of six murders, serving six life terms without parole.
Lorenzo Hervás y Panduro
Lorenzo Hervás y Panduro (1735–1809) was a Spanish Jesuit priest and philologist exiled to Italy who cataloged more than 300 languages and established several language families.
Lorenzo Hunt
Lorenzo "The Juggernaut" Hunt (born 1982) is an American bare-knuckle boxer in BKFC, its first three-division champion (light heavyweight, cruiserweight, ironweight), with a 14-2 bare-knuckle record and a 3-5 MMA record. Not the UFC's Mark Hunt.
Lorenzo Insigne
Lorenzo Insigne, born 1991 in Naples, Italian winger and Euro 2020 winner; Napoli captain with 434 appearances and 122 goals, later Toronto FC Designated Player, now Sampdoria.
Lorenzo Kom'boa Ervin
Lorenzo Kom'boa Ervin, also known as Lorenzo Ervin, is an American Black anarchist who wrote Anarchism and the Black Revolution while serving about fifteen years in prison for hijacking a plane to Cuba in 1969.
Lorenzo Lamas
Lorenzo Lamas (Lorenzo Fernando Lamas, born 1958) is an American actor, son of Fernando Lamas and Arlene Dahl, known as Lance Cumson in Falcon Crest (1981-1990) and Reno Raines in Renegade (1992-1997), also a helicopter pilot and author of Renegade at Heart.
Lorenzo Lotto
Lorenzo Lotto (c. 1480 – 1556 or 1557) was an Italian painter of the Venetian school who worked mainly outside Venice, in Treviso, Bergamo, and the Marches.
Lorenzo M. Polvani
Lorenzo M. Polvani is an atmospheric scientist at Columbia University who studies the stratosphere, ozone depletion's climate effects, and planetary atmospheres, and is a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union.
Lorenzo Mora
Lorenzo Mora (born 1998, Carpi, Italy) is an Italian backstroke swimmer for GS Fiamme Rosse; short-course world record holder in the 4x50m medley relay (1:29.72, Melbourne 2022) and Italian record holder in the 100m backstroke (49.04).
Lorenzo Moretta
Lorenzo Moretta is an Italian immunologist known for discovering natural killer cell receptors, and head of the Department of Immunology at the Ospedale Pediatrico Bambino Gesù in Rome.
Lorenzo Musetti
Lorenzo Musetti, Italian tennis player born 2002 in Carrara, former junior No. 1, career-high ATP No. 5, two 2022 titles, 2024 Olympic bronze, one-handed backhand.
Lorenzo Music
Lorenzo Music (Gerald David Music, 1937-2001), American voice actor and Emmy-winning comedy writer, voice of Garfield 1982-2001 and Carlton the Doorman on Rhoda, also Peter Venkman in The Real Ghostbusters.
Lorenzo Palmisani
Lorenzo Palmisani (born 2004, Alatri) is an Italian goalkeeper for Frosinone, number 22, 1.96 m tall. A former midfielder turned goalkeeper at age 7, he won promotion with 15 clean sheets, debuted in the 2026-27 Serie A, and was called up by Italy under Baldini.
Lorenzo Patrese
Lorenzo Patrese (born 2005) is an Italian GT and endurance racing driver, son of former F1 driver Riccardo Patrese; 2023 GT World Challenge Europe Silver champion, 2026 Le Mans debutant with Kessel Racing Ferrari.
Lorenzo Patta
Lorenzo Patta (born 2000, Oristano) is an Italian sprinter, Fiamme Gialle, lead-off runner of the gold-medal 4x100 m relay at Tokyo 2020 in 37.50 (Italian record) with Jacobs, Desalu, and Tortu; world silver 2023, European gold 2024.
Lorenzo Pellegrini
Lorenzo Pellegrini, born in 1996 in Rome, is an Italian midfielder who came through Roma's academy, captained the club from 2021, and won the 2022 Europa Conference League.
Lorenzo Pucci
Lorenzo Pucci (1458–1531) was a Florentine cardinal of the Medici circle who served as papal Datary under Julius II and Leo X and headed the Apostolic Penitentiary.
Lorenzo Rodríguez
Lorenzo Rodríguez, an Andalusia-born architect who died in Mexico City in 1774, designed the Sagrario Metropolitano and moved the estípite from altarpieces onto church facades in New Spain.
Lorenzo Ruiz
Lorenzo Ruiz, also known as San Lorenzo Ruiz, was a Filipino martyr executed in Nagasaki in 1637 and canonized in 1987 as the first Filipino saint.
Lorenzo Servitje
Lorenzo Servitje (1918–2017) was a Mexican businessman who co-founded Panificación Bimbo in Mexico City in 1945, serving as its first manager and building it into Grupo Bimbo, the world's largest baking company.
Lorenzo Sewell
Lorenzo Sewell, also Pastor Zo, Detroit pastor of non-denominational 180 Church; Trump 2024 ally, RNC 2024 speaker, benediction at Trump's January 2025 inauguration quoting Martin Luther King Jr.
Lorenzo Sironi
Lorenzo Sironi is an astrophysicist at Columbia University who studies the plasma physics of black holes and neutron stars through simulations, and received the 2025 PECASE award.
Lorenzo Sonego
Lorenzo Sonego, Italian tennis player born 1995 in Turin; four ATP singles titles (Antalya, Cagliari, Metz, Winston-Salem), career-high No. 21, 2025 Australian Open quarterfinalist, 2023 Davis Cup winner with Italy.
Lorenzo the Elder
Lorenzo the Elder, born Lorenzo di Giovanni de' Medici, was a Florentine banker and ambassador who oversaw the Medici Bank's affairs at the papal court in Rome from 1435.
Lorenzo Torriani
Lorenzo Torriani (born 2005, Vimodrone) is an Italian goalkeeper for AC Milan. Academy product since 2013, debuted in the 2024 Champions League against Liverpool, contract extended to 2030.
Lorenzo Valla
Lorenzo Valla (c. 1406–1457) was an Italian humanist, philologist, and priest who exposed the Donation of Constantine as a forgery in 1440 and pioneered historical-philological criticism.
Lorenzo Venturino
Lorenzo Venturino (born 2006) is an Italian right-footed right winger for Genoa CFC and Italy U21, a Genoa academy product since age seven who debuted in Serie A in January 2025, scored a brace on his first start against Bologna, and spent 2026 on loan at AS Roma.
Lorenzo Wright
Lorenzo Christopher Wright (1926-1972), Detroit long jumper and Wayne State sprinter, won 1948 Olympic 4x100 m relay gold as Ed Conwell's substitute after a reversed disqualification, and placed fourth in the long jump.