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Angelo L. Vescovi

Angelo L. Vescovi, also known as Angelo Luigi Vescovi, is an Italian stem cell biologist born in Bergamo in 1962, known for the 1999 paper "Turning Brain into Blood".

Angelo Maffucci

Angelo Maffucci (1847–1903) was an Italian pathologist, born in Calitri, who first described Maffucci syndrome in 1881 and later held the chair of pathological anatomy at Pisa.

Angelo Mai

Angelo Mai (1782–1854) was an Italian cardinal and Vatican Library scholar who recovered lost ancient texts from palimpsests, most famously Cicero's long-lost De re publica in 1819.

Angelo Maria Quirini

Angelo Maria Quirini, born Girolamo Quirini (1680–1755), was a Venetian Benedictine monk who became archbishop of Corfù, cardinal and bishop of Brescia, and Vatican Librarian, best known for founding the Biblioteca Queriniana in Brescia.

Angelo Mathews (ඇන්ජලෝ ඩේවිස් මැතිව්ස්)

Angelo Davis Mathews (ඇන්ජලෝ ඩේවිස් මැතිව්ස්), born 1987, Colombo, is a Sri Lankan former all-rounder who captained Sri Lanka in all formats, scored 8,214 Test runs, was the first timed-out dismissal, and retired from international cricket in 2026.

Angelo Mazzoni

Angelo Mazzoni, born in Milan in 1961, is an Italian épée fencer who won Olympic team gold at Atlanta 1996 and Sydney 2000, plus nine World Championship medals.

Angelo Miele

Angelo Miele (1922–2016) was an Italian-born aerospace engineer and applied mathematician at Rice University who specialized in trajectory optimization and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1994.

Angelo Morinello

Angelo J. Morinello is an American politician and retired judge who has represented New York's 145th Assembly district, including Niagara Falls, as a Republican since 2017.

Angelo Mosso

Angelo Mosso (1846–1910) was an Italian physiologist at the University of Turin whose instruments for recording brain blood flow made him the forerunner of functional neuroimaging, anticipating fMRI and PET.

Angelo Ogbonna

Angelo Obinze Ogbonna, Italian centre-back born 1988 in Cassino; Torino, Juventus, then 249 games for West Ham United 2015-24, 13 Italy caps, Euro 2012 and 2016, Conference League 2023, later Watford.

Angelo Paoli

Angelo Paoli (1642–1720), born Francesco Paoli, was an Italian Calced Carmelite priest called Father Charity who founded Rome's first convalescent home and was beatified in 2010.

Angelo Parisi

Angelo Parisi, born 1953 in Arpino, Italy, is a French judoka, also called Le Magnifique, who won four Olympic medals: 1980 heavyweight gold (first French judo Olympic champion), 1980 open and 1984 heavyweight silver, and 1972 open bronze for Britain.

Angelo Poffo

Angelo Poffo (1925–2010), American professional wrestler, promoter, and Navy sit-up record holder (6,033). Father of Randy Savage and Lanny Poffo; founder of International Championship Wrestling in Lexington, Kentucky; WCW Hall of Fame 1995.

Angelo Ruffini

Angelo Ruffini (1864–1929) was an Italian anatomist and embryologist who described the Ruffini corpuscle, a slowly adapting touch receptor in skin, and taught at the universities of Siena and Bologna.

Angelo Ruggiero

Angelo "Quack Quack" Ruggiero, Gambino crime family caporegime, nephew of Aniello Dellacroce and friend of John Gotti; his bugged heroin-trafficking conversations, 1983 indictment with Gene Gotti and Carneglia, refusal to give Paul Castellano his tapes, and death of cancer December 4, 1989.

Angelo Santabarbara

Angelo Santabarbara is an American politician and Democratic member of the New York State Assembly from the 111th district, first elected in 2012 after serving on the Schenectady County Legislature.

Angelo Scalzone

Angelo Scalzone (Don Peppino), Italian trap shooter (1931–1987), won gold at the 1972 Munich Olympics with a world-record 199/200, beating Michel Carrega; also world and European team champion.

Angelo Scola

Angelo Scola, born in 1941, is an Italian cardinal and theologian who served as Patriarch of Venice and Archbishop of Milan and was the leading candidate for pope in the 2013 conclave that elected Pope Francis.

Angelo Scuri

Angelo Scuri, born 1959 in Florence, Italian foil fencer; won team foil gold at Los Angeles 1984 Olympics, four World Championship medals, and CONI Gold Collar 2015.

Angelo Sodano

Angelo Sodano was an Italian cardinal and Vatican diplomat who served as secretary of state under John Paul II and Benedict XVI, then as dean of the College of Cardinals.

Angelo State University

Angelo State University is a public university in San Angelo, Texas, founded in 1928. It is a component of the Texas Tech University System and offers doctoral degrees.

Angelo Taranta

Angelo Taranta was a New York physician-scientist who devoted his career to rheumatic fever and the group A streptococcal infections that trigger it, working at NYU and Irvington House.

Angelo Taylor

Angelo Taylor (born 1978, Albany, Georgia) is an American 400m hurdler, two-time Olympic champion in the event (Sydney 2000, Beijing 2008), with a 2008 4x400m relay gold and 2012 relay silver.

Angelo Vanzin

Angelo Vanzin (1932-2018), Italian rower of the Canottieri Moto Guzzi club; won gold in the men's coxed fours at the 1956 Melbourne Olympics with Sgheiz, Trincavelli, Winkler, and cox Stefanoni, and won nine Italian titles.

Angelo Zorzi

Angelo Zorzi (4 May 1890, Milan – 28 December 1974) was an Italian artistic gymnast of Società Miani who won Olympic team all-around gold at Stockholm 1912 and Antwerp 1920, and was 16th in the 1920 individual all-around.

Angelos Akotantos

Angelos Akotantos (Άγγελος Ακοτάντος) was a Greek icon painter active in Venetian-ruled Crete in the first half of the fifteenth century and the earliest documented painter of the Cretan School.

Angelos Basinas (Άγγελος Μπασινάς)

Angelos Basinas (Άγγελος Μπασινάς), Greek defensive midfielder born 1976; EURO 2004 winner with Greece, 100 caps, 7 goals; Panathinaikos, Mallorca, AEK, Portsmouth, Arles-Avignon; retired 2010.

Angelos Charisteas (Άγγελος Χαριστέας)

Angelos Charisteas (Άγγελος Χαριστέας), Greek centre-forward, scored the 57th-minute winner as Greece beat Portugal 1-0 in the EURO 2004 final; also scored against Spain and France in that tournament, later played for Ajax, Feyenoord, and Nuremberg.

Angelos Michaelides

Angelos Michaelides is an Irish theoretical chemist who studies water and interfaces by computer simulation, and since 2020 has been the 1968 Professor of Chemistry at Cambridge.

Angelos Sikelianos

Angelos Sikelianos (Άγγελος Σικελιανός) was a leading 20th-century Greek lyric poet, born on Leucas in 1884, best known for staging the Delphic Festivals of 1927 and 1930.