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Alessandro Algardi
Alessandro Algardi (1598–1654) was an Italian Baroque sculptor, architect, and designer from Bologna who led the classicist current against Bernini in Rome, becoming papal sculptor under Innocent X.
Alessandro Andrei
Alessandro Andrei, born 1959 in Florence, Italian shot putter, 1984 Los Angeles Olympic champion (21.26 m), set three shot put world records at Viareggio on 12 August 1987 ending at 22.91 m, Italian record until 2024; 1987 world silver; husband of Agnese Maffeis.
Alessandro Argenton
Alessandro Argenton (1937-2024), Italian eventing rider, competed at five Olympics 1960-1976, won team gold at Tokyo 1964 and individual silver on Woodland at Munich 1972, and co-founded the Centro Equestre Veneto.
Alessandro Astolfi
Alessandro Astolfi, born in Rome in 1967, is an Italian control theorist known for the immersion and invariance approach to stabilization and adaptive control of nonlinear systems.
Alessandro Barbero
Alessandro Barbero, born in Turin in 1959, is an Italian medieval historian and novelist who won the Strega Prize in 1996 and became one of Italy's most followed historians.
Alessandro Baricco
Alessandro Baricco (born 1958 in Turin) is an Italian writer and performer whose novel Silk and monologue Novecento, filmed as The Legend of 1900, brought international fame.
Alessandro Bastoni
Alessandro Bastoni (born 1999, Casalmaggiore) is an Italian left-footed centre-back for Inter Milan and Italy, a Euro 2020 winner with 3 Scudetti, 3 Coppa Italia, and 3 Supercoppa titles, 300 Inter appearances, and contract until 2028.
Alessandro Bovo
Alessandro Bovo is an Italian water polo coach and former player who won Olympic gold at the 1992 Games and has coached AN Brescia since 2008.
Alessandro Cagliostro
Alessandro Cagliostro, born Giuseppe Balsamo in Palermo (1743), was an 18th-century occultist and founder of Egyptian Freemasonry, famed for the Diamond Necklace affair acquittal and 1791 Roman Inquisition condemnation.
Alessandro Cescatti
Alessandro Cescatti is a scientist at the European Commission Joint Research Centre in Ispra, Italy, known for research on forest resilience and the European forest carbon sink.
Alessandro Cortini
Alessandro Cortini is an Italian electronic musician and synthesizer designer, best known as a Nine Inch Nails touring member and for ambient solo work on Mute.
Alessandro Costa
Alessandro Costa is a structural biologist and Senior Group Leader at the Francis Crick Institute in London who uses cryo-electron microscopy to study how eukaryotic cells copy their chromosomes.
Alessandro Costacurta
Alessandro Costacurta, nicknamed Billy, Italian central defender born 1966; one-club AC Milan legend 1987-2007, 23 trophies, 59 Italy caps, Baresi's defensive partner, later Sky pundit.
Alessandro de Tullio
Alessandro de Tullio, Argentinian-American racing driver from Miami, AJ Foyt Racing No. 14 rookie in 2026 INDY NXT; eight poles (one shy of O'Ward's record of nine) and wins at Barber and Portland.
Alessandro de' Medici, Duke of Florence
Alessandro de' Medici (1510/1512–1537), first hereditary Duke of Florence, installed under Charles V's protection in 1532, married Margherita of Austria, and assassinated by Lorenzino de' Medici in January 1537, succeeded by Cosimo I.
Alessandro Del Piero
Alessandro Del Piero, Italian forward born 1974 in Conegliano; Juventus record holder (705 games, 290 goals, 19 seasons), 2006 World Cup winner with Italy, later Sydney FC and Delhi Dynamos.
Alessandro Diamanti
Alessandro Diamanti, Italian attacking midfielder born 1983 in Prato; played for Livorno, West Ham, Bologna, Guangzhou, Western United; 17 Italy caps, Euro 2012 winning penalty vs England; now Cesena coach.
Alessandro Florenzi
Alessandro Florenzi, born Rome 1991, Italian right-back for Roma, PSG, Valencia, and Milan; Euro 2021 winner with 49 Italy caps; retired 27 August 2025 at 34.
Alessandro Giuli
Alessandro Giuli, born in Rome in 1975, is an Italian journalist and writer who served as president of the Fondazione MAXXI before becoming Minister of Culture in 2024.
Alessandro Gronchi
Alessandro Gronchi is an Italian surgical oncologist specializing in sarcoma, director of the Department of Surgery at the Istituto Nazionale dei Tumori in Milan since 2022.
Alessandro Guidotti
Alessandro Guidotti is an Italian-born pharmacologist known for work on GABA and benzodiazepine receptors, and a Distinguished Professor of psychiatry at the University of Illinois Chicago.
Alessandro Juliani
Alessandro Juliani, Canadian actor, singer, and composer (born 1975, Montreal per IMDb; some sources say 1978), known for Lt. Felix Gaeta in Battlestar Galactica, voicing L in Death Note, Dr. Emil Hamilton in Smallville, and Sinclair in The 100.
Alessandro Longoni
Alessandro Longoni, Italian goalkeeper born 2008 in Como; AC Milan youth product who joined Paris Saint-Germain free in 2026 on a contract to 2031; 2024 U17 Euro winner and 2025 U17 World Cup bronze medalist with 36 Italy youth caps.
Alessandro M. Gianni
Alessandro M. Gianni, also known as Alessandro Massimo Gianni, is an Italian hematologist-oncologist at the Istituto Nazionale dei Tumori in Milan, known for landmark trials of high-dose chemotherapy in lymphoma.
Alessandro Manzoni
Alessandro Manzoni (1785–1873) was an Italian novelist, poet, and linguistic reformer whose historical novel I promessi sposi, set in seventeenth-century Lombardy, is considered the cornerstone of Italy's linguistic unity.
Alessandro Marcandalli
Alessandro Marcandalli, Italian centre-back born 2002 in Bergamo, plays for Genoa in Serie A, shirt 27. Formerly Atalanta and Giana Erminio youth, loans at Pontedera, Reggiana, and Venezia; contract to June 2029.
Alessandro Matri
Alessandro Matri (born 1984) is a retired Italian striker who won three Serie A titles with Juventus, scored 92 goals in 346 Serie A matches, and earned 7 friendly caps for Italy.
Alessandro Mendini
Alessandro Mendini (1931–2019) was an Italian architect and designer, a central figure of Italian Radical Design, known for the Proust armchair, the Anna G. corkscrew, and the Groninger Museum.
Alessandro Michele
Alessandro Michele (born 1972), Italian designer from Rome; Gucci creative director 2015-2022, whose maximalist, gender-fluid aesthetic roughly tripled revenues, then Valentino creative director from April 2, 2024, succeeding Pierpaolo Piccioli.
Alessandro Miressi
Alessandro Miressi, Italian swimmer born 1998 in Turin, 100 m freestyle specialist. Three Olympic relay medals (Tokyo 2020 silver and bronze, Paris 2024 bronze), European 100 free champion 2018, short-course 4x100 free world record 3:02.75.