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Luigi Fontana
Luigi Fontana is an Italian physician and biogerontologist who studies how diet, fasting, and exercise slow aging, holding a chair at the University of Sydney's Charles Perkins Centre since 2018.
Luigi Galvani
Luigi Galvani, also known as Luigi Aloisio Galvani, was an Italian physician and physicist of Bologna who discovered animal electricity through experiments on frog muscles.
Luigi Gorini
Luigi Gorini (1903–1976) was an Italian-born molecular biologist and Harvard Medical School professor who showed that the ribosome determines how faithfully the genetic code is read.
Luigi Guiso
Luigi Guiso is an Italian economist at the Einaudi Institute in Rome, known for research with Sapienza and Zingales on how culture and trust shape financial behavior.
Luigi Lambruschini
Luigi Lambruschini was an Italian Barnabite cardinal and diplomat who served as Secretary of State to Pope Gregory XVI from 1836 to 1846, and helped prepare the 1854 dogma of the Immaculate Conception.
Luigi Longo
Luigi Longo (pseudonyms Gallo, Italo), Italian communist leader (1900-1980): PCd'I founder, Spanish Civil War international brigades inspector general, Garibaldi brigades commander and CVL vice-commander in the Resistance, PCI secretary-general 1964-1972 after Togliatti, then party president.
Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza
Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza (1922–2018), Italian population geneticist at Stanford, founder of human population genetics and genetic geography; with Edwards built the first human evolutionary tree (1963), co-founded cultural evolution with Feldman, led the HGDP, and wrote The History and Geography of Human Genes (1994).
Luigi Lucheni
Luigi Lucheni (Luccheni), Italian anarchist (born Paris, unknown father), who assassinated Empress Elisabeth of Austria in Geneva on 10 September 1898 with a sharpened file; sentenced to life, found hanged in his cell in 1910.
Luigi Luciani
Luigi Luciani (1840–1919) was an Italian physiologist and neurologist, professor at Rome, who defined the cerebellar triad of atonia, asthenia, and astasia and studied heart rhythm and fasting.
Luigi Luzzatti
Luigi Luzzatti was an Italian statesman, constitutional lawyer, and economist who served as Prime Minister of Italy from 1910 to 1911, the first Jew to hold the office.
Luigi Maiocco
Luigi Maiocco (1892–1965), Italian artistic gymnast from Turin, the only Italian gymnast with three Olympic golds, all in the team event at Stockholm 1912, Antwerp 1920, and Paris 1924.
Luigi Mangione
Luigi Nicholas Mangione, Maryland-born University of Pennsylvania graduate, pleaded guilty 2026 to federal stalking charges in the December 4, 2024 killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson in Manhattan; his New York state murder trial is postponed pending a double jeopardy motion.
Luigi Mannelli
Luigi Mannelli (Gigi, 'la bomba'), Italian water polo player of Circolo Canottieri Napoli; 1956 and 1960 Olympian, gold medalist at Rome 1960, Italian champion 1958 and 1963, died 2017.
Luigi Meneghello
Luigi Meneghello (1922–2007) was an Italian writer, partisan, and University of Reading professor known for his experimental prose and for I piccoli maestri and Libera nos a malo.
Luigi Mino Poggi
Luigi Mino Poggi (1906, Genoa) was an Italian sailor, Yacht Club Italiano member, and brother of Enrico Poggi; he won 1936 Olympic gold in the 8 metre class aboard Italia, Italy's first sailing gold, and placed eighth in the 6 Metre at the 1948 Games.
Luigi Moretti
Luigi Moretti (1822–unknown) was an Italian wholesale merchant from Nespoledo di Lestizza near Udine who founded the Fabbrica di Birra e Ghiaccio brewery in Udine in 1859.
Luigi Mozzi
Luigi Mozzi was an Italian Jesuit and anti-Jansenist polemicist born at Bergamo in 1746. Suppressed with his order in 1773, he wrote against Jansenism for fifteen years and rejoined the restored Jesuits in 1804.
Luigi Naldini
Luigi Naldini, born in Turin in 1959, is an Italian physician-scientist whose HIV-derived lentiviral vectors underpin modern ex vivo gene therapy, including the approved medicines Strimvelis and Libmeldy.
Luigi Pagliaro
Luigi Pagliaro (1931–2020) was an Italian hepatologist, Emeritus Professor of Internal Medicine at the University of Palermo, known as the father of Italian hepatology and for defining the prognostic stages of cirrhosis.
Luigi Pantisano
Luigi Pantisano, born 1979 in Waiblingen, is a German architect, urban planner, and Die Linke politician, Bundestag member for Stuttgart I since 2025 and federal co-chair of his party.
Luigi Pirandello
Luigi Pirandello (1867–1936), Italian playwright, novelist, and short-story writer from Agrigento, Sicily; Nobel Prize in Literature 1934; author of Six Characters in Search of an Author and One, No One and One Hundred Thousand.
Luigi Pulci
Luigi Pulci (1432–1484) was an Italian poet of Florence, best known for Morgante, a comic chivalric poem in ottava rima that preceded Boiardo and Ariosto.
Luigi Rizzi (linguist)
Luigi Rizzi, born in Genoa in 1952, is an Italian linguist known for Relativized Minimality and syntactic cartography, holding a chair at the Collège de France.
Luigi Sbarra
Luigi Sbarra is an Italian politician who serves as Undersecretary of State at the Presidency of the Council of Ministers, with responsibility for the government's policies for the South.
Luigi Scarabello
Luigi Scarabello (1916–2007), Italian midfielder, Olympic football gold medalist with Italy at Berlin 1936, later Genoa player, film actor and assistant director as Sergio Landi, husband of actress Lilia Silvi.
Luigi Suigo
Luigi Suigo (born 2007, Tradate, Italy) is a 7'3", 289-lb Italian center at Villanova, formerly of Olimpia Milano youth and Mega Basket. He withdrew from the 2026 NBA Draft and is a consensus top-15 prospect for 2027.
Luigi Tasselli
Luigi Tasselli (1901–1971) was an Italian track cyclist who won the gold medal in the men's 4,000-meter team pursuit at the 1928 Summer Olympics in Amsterdam.
Luigi Tavazzi
Luigi Tavazzi, born in Cremona, Italy in 1939, is an Italian cardiologist known for the heart-failure trials CARE-HF and SHIFT and for heading cardiology at Policlinico San Matteo in Pavia.
Luigi Tosti
Luigi Tosti (1811–1897) was an Italian Benedictine monk of Montecassino and a historian of the medieval Church and his abbey, who became a major intellectual and political figure of the Risorgimento and the Roman Question.
Luigi Zingales
Luigi Zingales is an Italian financial economist, professor at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business since 1992 and director of its Stigler Center since 2015.