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Pierluigi Gambetti
Pierluigi Gambetti is an Italian-trained neuropathologist at Case Western Reserve University known for establishing fatal familial insomnia as a prion disease and classifying sporadic prion diseases into molecular subtypes.
Pierluigi Gollini
Pierluigi Gollini, born 1995 in Bologna, Italian goalkeeper; ex-Manchester United youth, Hellas Verona, Aston Villa, Atalanta, Tottenham, Napoli, Genoa, now AS Roma backup.
Piermaria Oddone
Piermaria Oddone is a Peruvian-born American experimental particle physicist who invented the asymmetric B-factory and served as the fifth director of Fermilab, from 2005 to 2013.
Piermont Bank
Piermont Bank is a New York State-chartered, FDIC-insured digital commercial bank founded by Wendy Cai-Lee, the first de novo New York bank charter in a decade, opened in 2019.
Piero Antinori
Piero Antinori, born 1938, is a Florentine wine producer who took over the family's 600-year-old Marchesi Antinori house in 1966 and pioneered the Super Tuscan wines Tignanello and Solaia.
Piero Anversa
Piero Anversa is an Italian-trained cardiologist who directed the Center for Regenerative Medicine at Harvard's Brigham and Women's Hospital and is known for his work on cardiac stem cells.
Piero Boitani
Piero Boitani, born in Rome in 1947, is an Italian literary critic and emeritus professor of Comparative Literature at Sapienza University of Rome, known for work on Chaucer, Dante, and Ulysses.
Piero Codia
Piero Codia, Italian butterfly swimmer born 1989 in Trieste. European 100m butterfly champion (Glasgow 2018, Italian record 50.64), 2022 world champion in the 4x100m medley relay, Rio 2016 Olympian, retired 2024.
Piero della Francesca
Piero della Francesca, born Piero di Benedetto de' Franceschi, was an Italian early Renaissance painter and mathematician from Sansepolcro, Tuscany, known for masterful perspective and works like The Flagellation of Christ.
Piero di Cosimo
Piero di Cosimo (1462–1522) was an Italian Renaissance painter of Florence, known for inventive mythological panels, religious altarpieces, and portraits; he trained under Cosimo Rosselli.
Piero di Cosimo de' Medici
Piero di Cosimo de' Medici, Piero the Gouty (Piero il Gottoso), 1416–1469, eldest son of Cosimo the Elder, ruled Florence 1464–1469, survived the 1466 conspiracy, married Lucrezia Tornabuoni, father of Lorenzo the Magnificent.
Piero Ferrari
Piero Lardi Ferrari (born 1945), son of Enzo Ferrari and Lina Lardi, is vice chairman of Ferrari since 1988, holds about 10 percent via Trust Piero Ferrari, and became a billionaire at Ferrari's 2015 NYSE listing.
Piero Ginori Conti
Piero Ginori Conti, Prince of Trevignano (1865–1939), was an Italian industrialist, senator, and politician who in 1904 became the first person to generate electricity from geothermal steam at Larderello, Tuscany.
Piero Gros
Piero Gros, Italian alpine skier of the Valanga azzurra; 1974 overall and giant slalom World Cup champion and 1976 Innsbruck Olympic slalom gold medalist, rival of Gustav Thöni.
Piero Madau
Piero Madau is an Italian theoretical astrophysicist, Distinguished Professor at UC Santa Cruz, known for measuring the cosmic star-formation history and winning the 2014 Heineman Prize.
Piero Poli
Piero Poli, born 1960, Italian rower and physician; Olympic gold in men's quadruple sculls at Seoul 1988 with Farina, Tizzano, and Abbagnale; fourth at Los Angeles 1984; later an orthopedic and sports-medicine doctor and FISA Sport Medicine Commission member.
Piero Ruggenenti
Piero Ruggenenti, born in Milan in 1958, is an Italian nephrologist who heads renal medicine at the Mario Negri Institute in Bergamo and led landmark kidney trials.
Piero Sanfilippo
Piero Sanfilippo is an Italian-born biologist who studies RNA regulation and Drosophila neurogenetics, and has been a postdoctoral associate in the Zipursky Lab at UCLA since 2017.
Piero the Unfortunate
Piero the Unfortunate (Piero di Lorenzo de' Medici, 1472–1503), Lorenzo the Magnificent's son and lord of Florence 1492–1494, expelled in November 1494 after capitulating to Charles VIII of France; drowned at the Garigliano in 1503.
Piero Toscani
Piero Toscani (Pietro Toscani, 1904-1940), Italian middleweight boxer and 1928 Amsterdam Olympic gold medalist, one of the 'Three Musketeers of Amsterdam' with Tamagnini and Orlandi; controversial points final win over Jan Heřmánek; short pro career.
Pierogi
Pierogi: Polish half-moon boiled dumplings of unleavened dough, filled with potato and twaróg, cabbage and mushrooms, meat, or fruit, related to Ukrainian varenyky and Russian pelmeni; first cookbook recipe 1682.
Pierolism
Pierolism was the Peruvian political movement organized around Nicolás de Piérola and the Democratic Party, founded in 1884 and brought to power by the revolution of 1895.
Pierpaolo Barbieri
Pierpaolo Barbieri is an Argentine entrepreneur and historian who founded the fintech Ualá in 2017, building it into a digital bank with over 11 million clients.
Pierpaolo Cristofori
Pierpaolo Cristofori, born in Rome in 1956, is a retired Italian modern pentathlete and police officer who won team gold at the 1984 Olympics and competed at three Games.
Pierpaolo Ferrazzi
Pierpaolo Ferrazzi, born 1965 in Bassano del Grappa, is an Italian K1 canoe slalom kayaker, first Italian Olympic champion in the discipline (Barcelona 1992 gold) and Sydney 2000 bronze medalist, a four-time Olympian.
Pierpont Davis
Pierpont Davis (Francis Pierpont Davis, 1884-1953), American sailor and architect of the California Yacht Club; won 8-metre class gold at the 1932 Los Angeles Olympics aboard Angelita, his brother-in-law Owen Churchill's boat.
Pierpont syndrome
Pierpont syndrome (plantar lipomatosis-facial dysmorphism-developmental delay syndrome, OMIM 602342) is a rare autosomal dominant disorder caused by the de novo TBL1XR1 p.Tyr446Cys variant, with developmental delay, hearing loss, and heel fat pads.
Pierre (TV series)
Pierre is a 2026 Channel 4 six-part British legal crime drama starring David Harewood as West London duty solicitor Pierre Jeffreys, co-written by Roy Williams and John Donnelly, produced by The Lighthouse, premiered October 5, 2026, with an 80% Tomatometer.
Pierre A. Coulombe
Pierre A. Coulombe is a Canadian-born cell biologist known for linking keratin 14 mutations to the blistering disease epidermolysis bullosa simplex; he chairs Cell & Developmental Biology at Michigan.
Pierre A. Henkart
Pierre A. Henkart is an immunologist at the National Cancer Institute, NIH, known for work on lymphocyte-mediated cytotoxicity and for helping propose the granule exocytosis model.