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Luigi
Luigi
is a fictional character, featured in video games and related media released by Nintendo. Created by prominent game designer Shigeru Miyamoto, Luigi is portrayed as the slightly younger fraternal twin brother of Nintendo's mascot Mario, and appears in many games throughout the Mario series,...

is an Italian
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 given name
Given name
A given name, in Western contexts often referred to as a first name, is a personal name that specifies and differentiates between members of a group of individuals, especially in a family, all of whose members usually share the same family name...

, equivalent to the name Louis and Lewis
Lewis (surname)
Lewis is a surname in the English language. It has several independent origins.One of origins of the surname, in England and Wales, is from the Norman personal name Lowis, Lodovicus. This name is composed of the Germanic elements hlod and wig, meaning "fame" and "war"...

.

Crime and law

  • Luigi Chiatti (born 1968), serial killer
  • Luigi de Magistris (magistrate)
    Luigi de Magistris (magistrate)
    Luigi de Magistris is the Mayor of Naples and a former prosecutor. He started his career as a public prosecutor in 1995 and worked in Naples from 1998 to 2002. He was deputy public prosecutor in Catanzaro, Italy, from 2002 to 2009 and was a Member of the European Parliament...

     (born 1967), prosecutor
  • Luigi Ferrari Bravo
    Luigi Ferrari Bravo
    Luigi Ferrari Bravo is an Italian professor and legal expert who served as judge for the International Court of Justice in the 1990s.-Biography:...

    , jurist
  • Luigi Giuliano
    Luigi Giuliano
    Luigi Giuliano is a former Italian Camorrista who was the boss of the powerful Giuliano clan, based in the district of Forcella, Naples. He had multiple nicknames including "'o rre" and "Lovigno", which is an amalgamation of Luigi and love...

     (born 1949), Camorrista of the Giuliano clan
  • Luigi Lucheni
    Luigi Lucheni
    Luigi Lucheni was an Italian anarchist who assassinated the Austrian Empress, Elisabeth of Bavaria , in 1898...

     (1873–1910), anarchist and assassin
  • Luigi Manocchio
    Luigi Manocchio
    Luigi Giovanni "Baby Shanks" Manocchio is an Italian-American mobster from Providence, Rhode Island. He is the former boss of the New England-based Patriarca crime family, which is part of La Cosa Nostra.-Criminal career:...

     (born 1929), Italian-American mobster
  • Luigi Mazzella
    Luigi Mazzella
    Luigi Mazzella is an Italian lawyer and currently a judge for the Constitutional Court of Italy.- Education and career :Mazzella graduated cum laude with a degree in law from the University of Naples in 1954....

     (born 1932), lawyer and judge
  • Luigi Riccio
    Luigi Riccio
    Luigi Ginginiello Riccio is a former Italian Camorrista who is now a pentito. While initially a member of the Nuova Camorra Organizzata, Riccio switched sides and joined the rival Nuova Famiglia only eight months before his collaboration with the Italian Justice department in 1983...

     (born 1957), pentito and former Camorrista
  • Luigi Scotti
    Luigi Scotti
    Luigi Scotti is an Italian judge. Between 6 February 2008 and 8 May 2008 he was Minister of Justice in Romano Prodi's government.-References: . Italian Ministry of Justice. Accessed 2010-03-10....

     (born 1932), judge
  • Luigi Vollaro
    Luigi Vollaro
    Luigi Vollaro is a member of the Camorra and boss of his name-sake, the Vollaro clan from Portici and San Sebastiano a Vesuvio, a small village in the Vesuvius area, east of Naples....

    , Camorrista of the Vollaro clan

Engineering and mathematics

  • Luigi Bianchi
    Luigi Bianchi
    - External links :* offers translations of some of Bianchi's papers, plus a biography of Bianchi.* PDF copy at * * * *...

     (1856–1928), mathematician
  • Luigi Colani
    Luigi Colani
    Luigi Colani, , is a German industrial designer whose father came from Madulain near St. Moritz in Switzerland....

     (born 1928), German industrial designer
  • Luigi Cremona
    Luigi Cremona
    Luigi Cremona was an Italian mathematician. His life was devoted to the study of geometry and reforming advanced mathematical teaching in Italy. His reputation mainly rests on his Introduzione ad una teoria geometrica delle curve piane...

     (1830–1903), mathematician
  • Luigi Dadda
    Luigi Dadda
    Luigi Dadda is an Italian computer engineer. He was born on April 29, 1923 in Lodi. He was among the first researchers on computers in Italy. He has been a rector of the Politecnico di Milano technical university for 12 years, and he still performs research in the same university.He studied...

     (born 1923), computer engineer
  • Luigi Fantappiè
    Luigi Fantappiè
    Luigi Fantappiè was an Italian mathematician, known for work in mathematical analysis and for creating the theory of analytic functionals: he was a student and follower of Vito Volterra. Later in life he proposed scientific theories of sweeping scope.He was born in Viterbo, and studied at the...

     (1901–1956), mathematician
  • Luigi Poletti (mathematician) (1864–1967), mathematician and poet
  • Luigi Segre
    Luigi Segre
    Luigi "Gigi" Segre was an Italian automotive designer and engineer, leading the Carrozzeria Ghia from 1953, when Mario Boano left, until his death in 1963, from complications during surgery....

     (1919–1963), automotive designer and engineer
  • Luigi Vanvitelli
    Luigi Vanvitelli
    Luigi Vanvitelli was an Italian engineer and architect. The most prominent 18th-century architect of Italy, he practiced a sober classicizing academic Late Baroque style that made an easy transition to Neoclassicism.-Biography:Vanvitelli was born at Naples, the son of a Dutch painter of land and...

     (1700–1773), engineer and architect

Film and television

  • Luigi Almirante
    Luigi Almirante
    Luigi Almirante was an Italian film actor. He appeared in 62 films between 1921 and 1955.He was born in Florence, Italy and died in Bracciano, Italy.-Selected filmography:* Beauty of the World...

     (1886–1963), film actor
  • Luigi Batzella
    Luigi Batzella
    Luigi Batzella was an Italian Z-movie director, writer and former actor who used numerous pseudonyms. Some of them were Paolo Solvay, Ivan Kathansky, A.M...

    , Z-movie director
  • Luigi Bonos
    Luigi Bonos
    Luigi Bonos was an Italian film actor. He appeared in 72 films between 1945 and 1992. He was born in Berlin, Germany.-Selected filmography:* Tutta la città canta * Damon and Pythias * And God Said to Cain...

     (1910–2000), film actor
  • Luigi Capuano
    Luigi Capuano
    Luigi Capuano was an Italian film director and screenwriter.Born at Naples, directed 43 films between 1947 and 1971.-Selected filmography:* Vertigine d'amore * Gli amanti di Ravello * The Adventurer of Tortuga...

     (born 1904), film director and screenwriter
  • Luigi Cherubini
    Luigi Cherubini
    Luigi Cherubini was an Italian composer who spent most of his working life in France. His most significant compositions are operas and sacred music. Beethoven regarded Cherubini as the greatest of his contemporaries....

     (1760–1842), Italian-born composer
  • Luigi Cimara
    Luigi Cimara
    Luigi Cimara was an Italian film actor. He appeared in 46 films between 1914 and 1960.He was born and died in Rome, Italy.-Selected filmography:* Lulu * Five Paupers in an Automobile...

     (1891–1962), film actor
  • Luigi Comencini
    Luigi Comencini
    Luigi Comencini was an Italian film director. Together with Dino Risi, Ettore Scola and Mario Monicelli, he was considered among the masters of the commedia all'italiana genre....

     (1916–2007), film director
  • Luigi Cozzi
    Luigi Cozzi
    Luigi Cozzi is an Italian movie director and screenwriter who directed mainly science fiction and horror films in the mid-1970s and throughout the 1980s...

     (born 1947), movie director and screenwriter
  • Luigi Filippo D'Amico
    Luigi Filippo D'Amico
    Luigi Filippo D'Amico was an Italian film director and screenwriter. His 1974 film Il domestico was shown as part of a retrospective on Italian comedy at the 67th Venice International Film Festival....

     (1924–2007), director and writer
  • Luigi Gervasi
    Luigi Gervasi
    Luigi Gervasi was an Italian set decorator. He was nominated for an Academy Award in the category Best Art Direction for the film The Taming of the Shrew.-Selected filmography:* The Taming of the Shrew -External links:...

    , set decorator from 1947–68
  • Luigi Lo Cascio
    Luigi Lo Cascio
    Luigi Lo Cascio is an Italian actor born 20 October 1967 in Palermo.He won David di Donatello for Best actor for his starring role in I cento passi.-Filmography:*2000: I cento passi*2001: Luce dei miei occhi...

     (born 1967), actor
  • Luigi Magni
    Luigi Magni
    Luigi Magni is an Italian screenwriter and film director active since 1959 as a screenwriter and 1968 as a film director.-Screenwriter:*La cambiale *Il corazziere *Gli attendenti...

     (born 1928), screenwriter and film director
  • Luigi Pavese
    Luigi Pavese
    Luigi Pavese was an Italian film actor. He appeared in 173 films between 1916 and 1970.He was born in Asti, Italy and died in Rome, Italy.-Selected filmography:* La Damigella di Bard...

     (1896–1969), film actor
  • Luigi Petrucci
    Luigi Petrucci
    Luigi Petrucci is an Italian film and television actor.Petrucci made ​​his debut in the entertainment world as a stage actor, on stage in numerous Italian cities. By an active career, he finally entered the world of television and films...

     (born 1956), film and television actor
  • Luigi Pistilli
    Luigi Pistilli
    Luigi Pistilli was an Italian actor of stage, screen, and television. In theater, he was considered one of the country's best interpreters of Bertolt Brecht's plays in The Threepenny Opera and St Joan of the Stockyards....

     (1929–1996), actor of stage, screen and television
  • Luigi Scaccianoce (1914–1981), production designer, art director and set decorator
  • Luigi Zampa
    Luigi Zampa
    Luigi Zampa was an Italian film-maker.- Biography :Son of a worker, Zampa studied film making from 1932 to 1937 at the Italian film school Centro sperimentale di cinematografia in Rome....

     (1905–1991), film-maker

Journalism and literature

  • Luigi Alamanni
    Luigi Alamanni
    Luigi Alamanni was an Italian poet and statesman. He was regarded as a prolific and versatile poet. He was credited with introducing the epigram into Italian poetry.-Biography:...

     (1495–1556), poet and statesman
  • Luigi Albertini
    Luigi Albertini
    Luigi Albertini was an influential Italian journalist and politician.Albertini was an outspoken antifascist, even though at one time he did support the National Fascist Party in their opposition to the Left...

     (1871–1941), journalist and antifascist
  • Luigi Ballerini
    Luigi Ballerini
    Luigi Ballerini, born in Milan in 1940, currently living in New York and Los Angeles, is an Italian poet, professor of modern and contemporary Italian Literature at UCLA and a historian of gastronomy. He is the father of actor Edoardo Ballerini....

     (born 1940), poet, professor, and historian of gastronomy
  • Luigi Bartolini
    Luigi Bartolini
    Luigi Bartolini was an Italian painter, writer, and poet. He is most well known for his novel, Bicycle Thieves, upon which the Italian neorealist film directed by Vittorio De Sica and of the same title was based...

     (1892–1963), writer, poet and painter
  • Luigi Barzini, Jr.
    Luigi Barzini, Jr.
    Luigi Barzini Jr. was an Italian journalist, writer and politician most famous for his 1964 book The Italians, delving deeply into the Italian national character and introducing many Anglo-Saxon readers to Italian life and culture.-Early life:Barzini junior was born in Milan, Lombardy, the son of...

     (1908–1984), Italian-American journalist
  • Luigi Barzini, Sr.
    Luigi Barzini, Sr.
    Luigi Barzini Sr was an Italian journalist, war correspondent and fascist politician.-Biography:Born at Orvieto, Barzini started his career as a journalist in 1898, working for minor Italian magazines and was almost immediately noticed and hired by Luigi Albertini, then director of the Corriere...

     (1874–1947), journalist, war correspondent and writer
  • Luigi Capuana
    Luigi Capuana
    Luigi Capuana was an Italian author and journalist and one of the most important members of the Verist movement. He was a contemporary of Giovanni Verga, both having been born in the province of Catania within a year of each other. He was also one of the first authors influenced by the works of...

     (1839–1915), author, journalist, and member of the Verist movement
  • Luigi Chiarelli
    Luigi Chiarelli
    Luigi Chiarelli was an Italian playwright, theatre critic, and writer of short stories who is chiefly known as a founder of the teatro grottesco, or Theatre of the Grotesque, after the subtitle of one of his plays....

     (1880–1947), playwright, theatre critic and writer of short stories
  • Luigi Da Porto
    Luigi Da Porto
    Luigi Da Porto was an Italian writer and storiographer, better known as the author of the novel with the story of Romeo and Juliet, later reprised by William Shakespeare for his famous drama....

     (1485–1529), writer and storiographer
  • Luigi Fabbri
    Luigi Fabbri
    Luigi Fabbri , was an Italian anarchist, writer, agitator and propagandist who was charged with defeatism during the World War I. He was the father of Luce Fabbri....

     (1877–1935), anarchist, writer, agitator and propagandist
  • Luigi Fontanella
    Luigi Fontanella
    Luigi Fontanella is a poet, critic, translator, playwright, and novelist.-Life:He graduated from the Sapienza University of Rome , and Harvard University He has taught at Columbia University, Princeton University, and Wellesley College...

     (born 1943), poet, critic, translator, playwright and novelist
  • Luigi Freddi
    Luigi Freddi
    Luigi Freddi was an Italian journalist and politician, principally notable for being the first vicesegretario of the Fasci italiani all'estero, and later one of those most responsible for Italian political cinema in the second half of the 1930s and the start of the 1940s.As a futurist and a...

     (1895–1977), journalist and politician
  • Luigi Malerba
    Luigi Malerba
    Luigi Malerba was an Italian author who wrote short stories , historical novels, and screenplays, and who co-founded the Gruppo 63, based on Marxism and Structuralism...

     (1927–2008), author and co-founder of the Gruppo 63
  • Luigi Meneghello
    Luigi Meneghello
    Luigi Meneghello was an Italian contemporary writer and scholar.-Biography:Luigi Meneghello was born in Malo, a small town in the countryside near Vicenza, on February 16, 1922. His father was a craftsman and his mother was a teacher. Meneghello entered in 1939 the University of Padua to study...

     (1922–2007), contemporary writer and scholar
  • Luigi Pirandello
    Luigi Pirandello
    Luigi Pirandello was an Italian dramatist, novelist, and short story writer awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1934, for his "bold and brilliant renovation of the drama and the stage." Pirandello's works include novels, hundreds of short stories, and about 40 plays, some of which are written...

     (1867–1936), writer
  • Luigi Pulci
    Luigi Pulci
    Luigi Pulci was an Italian poet best known for his Morgante, an epic story of a giant who is converted to Christianity and follows the knight Orlando....

     (1432–1484), poet best known for Morgante
  • Luigi Tansillo
    Luigi Tansillo
    Luigi Tansillo was an Italian poet of the Petrarchian and Marinist schools. Born in Venosa, he entered the service of Pedro Álvarez de Toledo in 1536 and in 1540 entered the Accademia degli Umidi , afterwards called della Fiorentina.He was associated with the Court of Naples and served as Captain...

     (1510–1568), poet of the Petrarchian and Marinist schools
  • Luigi Ugolini
    Luigi Ugolini
    Luigi Ugolini was an Italian writer. He is best known for his series of fictionalized biographies of Italian leaders in art and science, and for a volume of work that immortalizes traditions, values and ways of life of Tuscany and Florence...

     (1891–1980), writer

Military, nobility and politics

  • Luigi Alidosi
    Luigi Alidosi
    Luigi Alidosi was the lord of Imola from 1391 until 1424, the last ruler of the city from his family. He was the son of Bertrando Alidosi....

     (died 1430), lord of Imola from 1391 to 1424
  • Luigi Amedeo, Duke of the Abruzzi
    Luigi Amedeo, Duke of the Abruzzi
    Prince Luigi Amedeo Giuseppe Maria Ferdinando Francesco di Savoia-Aosta , Duke of the Abruzzi , was an Italian nobleman, mountaineer and explorer of the royal House of Savoy...

     (1873–1933), prince, mountaineer and explorer
  • Luigi Antonini
    Luigi Antonini
    Luigi Antonini was a United States labor leader. Antonini was the first VP of the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union, and organizer of the Italian-American Labor Council...

     (1883–1968), United States labor leader
  • Luigi Braschi Onesti
    Luigi Braschi Onesti
    Luigi Braschi Onesti , duca di Nemi, was a nephew of Pope Pius VI, who granted him his dukedom. Luigi's mother Giulia Braschi was Pius's sister, and his father was conte Girolamo Onesti...

     (before 1787–1816)
  • Luigi Cadorna
    Luigi Cadorna
    Luigi Cadorna GCB was an ItalianField Marshal, most famous for being thechief of staff of the Italian army during the first part of World War I.-Biography:...

     (1850–1928), Field Marshal
  • Luigi Capello
    Luigi Capello
    Luigi Capello was an Italian army officer.He took part to the Italo-Turkish War , where he distinguished himself. During World War I he was the commander of several Army Corps, then, since June 1917, of the II Army, and led the Italian troops that captured Gorizia and the Bainsizza Plateau...

     (1859–1941), army officer
  • Luigi Carlo Farini
    Luigi Carlo Farini
    Luigi Carlo Farini was an Italian statesman and historian.-Biography:Farini was born at Russi, in what is now the province of Ravenna....

     (1812–1866), statesman and historian
  • Luigi Cocilovo
    Luigi Cocilovo
    Luigi Cocilovo is an Italian Member of the European Parliament and a University researcher in Law. He was elected on the Olive Tree ticket and sits with the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe group....

     (born 1947), Member of the European Parliament and University researcher in law
  • Luigi Contratto
    Luigi Contratto
    Luigi Contratto was an Italian soldier who, during the World War I, received the honour of Knight of Vittorio Veneto from King Victor Emmanuel III of Italy in person...

     (1892–1984), World War I soldier
  • Luigi Cornaro
    Luigi Cornaro
    Alvise "Luigi" Cornaro was a Venetian nobleman who wrote treatises on dieting, including Discorsi della Vita Sobria . Finding himself near death at the age of 35, Cornaro modified his eating habits on the advice of his doctors and began to adhere on a calorie restriction diet...

     (1464–1566), Venetian nobleman
  • Luigi, Count Cibrario
    Luigi, Count Cibrario
    Luigi, Count Cibrario was an Italian statesman and historian.-Biography:Born in Usseglio, in what is now the province of Turin, Cibrario was descended from a noble but impoverished Piedmontese family. He won a scholarship at the age of sixteen, and was teaching literature at eighteen...

     (1802–1870), statesman and historian
  • Luigi dal Verme
    Luigi dal Verme
    Luigi dal Verme was an Italian condottiero.The son of the condottiero Jacopo dal Verme, initially he followed the latter's campaigns, then fought in the company of Muzio Attendolo in the war against Joan II of Naples. Later he was hired by the Bolognesi and then by the Republic of Venice...

     (?–1449), condottiero
  • Luigi Durand de la Penne
    Luigi Durand De La Penne
    Luigi Durand de la Penne was an Italian naval diver in Decima MAS during World War II. De la Penne was born in Genoa, where he also died.De la Penne graduated from the Italian Naval Academy in Livorno in 1934...

     (1914–1992), naval diver during World War II
  • Luigi Einaudi
    Luigi Einaudi
    Luigi Einaudi , Cavaliere di Gran Croce decorato di Gran Cordone OMRI was an Italian politician and economist. He served as the second President of the Italian Republic between 1948 and 1955.-Early life:...

     (1874–1961), politician and economist
  • Luigi R. Einaudi
    Luigi R. Einaudi
    Luigi R. Einaudi is an Italian-American U.S. career diplomat. He assumed the post of Acting Secretary General of the Organization of American States in October 2004 upon the resignation of Secretary General Miguel Ángel Rodríguez....

    , U.S. career diplomat
  • Luigi Facta
    Luigi Facta
    Luigi Facta was an Italian politician, journalist and last Prime Minister of Italy before the leadership of Benito Mussolini....

     (1861–1930), politician and journalist
  • Luigi Federzoni
    Luigi Federzoni
    Luigi Federzoni was a twentieth-century Italian nationalist and later Fascist politician....

     (1878–1967), nationalist and later Fascist politician
  • Luigi Ferdinando Marsigli
    Luigi Ferdinando Marsigli
    Count Luigi Ferdinando Marsigli , was an Italian soldier and naturalist.He was born in Bologna. He was a member of an old patrician family and was educated in accordance with his rank...

     (1658–1730), soldier and naturalist
  • Luigi Frusci
    Luigi Frusci
    Luigi Frusci was an officer in the Italian Royal Army during World War II.Frusci fought on the southern front for General Rodolfo Graziani during the Second Italo-Abyssinian War...

     (1879–1949), Royal Army officer during World War II
  • Luigi Gui
    Luigi Gui
    Luigi Gui was an Italian politician and philosopher.Gui was born in Padua . He graduated in philosophy at The Catholic University in Milan. He was an officer of the Alpini corps of the Italian Army, and fought in USSR during World War II...

     (born 1914), politician and philosopher
  • Luigi Lonfernini
    Luigi Lonfernini
    Luigi Lonfernini was Captain Regent of San Marino in 1971 and 2001. He is also a lawyer and banker. He served as a member of the Sammarinese Christian Democratic Party. He received a law degree from the University of Bologna.-References:...

     (born 1938), Captain Regent of San Marino in 1971 and 2001
  • Luigi Longo
    Luigi Longo
    thumb|right|Luigi Longo portrayed on a 1981 [[USSR]] postage stamp.Luigi Longo , also known as Gallo, was an Italian communist politician and secretary of the Italian Communist Party from 1964 to 1972.-Early life:...

     (1900–1980), Communist Politician
  • Luigi Luzzatti
    Luigi Luzzatti
    Luigi Luzzatti was an Italian political figure and served as the 31st Prime Minister of Italy between 1910 and 1911...

     (1841–1927), politician who served as Prime Minister between 1910 and 1911
  • Luigi Miceli
    Luigi Miceli
    Luigi Miceli was born in Longobardi Italy on June 7, 1824 – he died in Rome, on December 30, 1906. He was an Italian patriot, politician and a military figure, a capitan in the conflicts of the Risorgimento and a leading military figure to the Italian Liberation and Unification in...

     (1824–1906), patriot, politician and military figure
  • Luigi Mocenigo (disambiguation), multiple people
  • Luigi Palma di Cesnola
    Luigi Palma di Cesnola
    Luigi Palma di Cesnola , an Italian-American soldier and amateur archaeologist, was born in Rivarolo Canavese, near Turin...

     (1832–1904), Italian-American soldier and amateur archaeologist
  • Luigi Parrilli
    Luigi Parrilli
    Baron Luigi Parrilli was an Italian aristocrat a native of Genoa, who took part in the negotiations between SS leaders and the CIA's future director, Allen Dulles, during Operation Sunrise....

    , aristocrat
  • Luigi Pelloux
    Luigi Pelloux
    Luigi Gerolamo Pelloux was an Italian general and politician, born of parents who retained their Italian nationality when Savoy was annexed to France....

     (1839–1924), general and politician
  • Luigi Perenni
    Luigi Perenni
    Luigi Perenni or Prenn, was an Italian military officer and skier.Perenni was born in Kiens and grew up in Innichen. As a soldier of the Italian Army he placed 3rd in the 18 km cross-country skiing event of the Italian mastership of 1933...

     (1913–1943), military officer and skier
  • Luigi Preti
    Luigi Preti
    Luigi Preti was an Italian politician and minister of Italian Democratic Socialist Party.-Biography:Preti was born in Ferrara. He graduated in law in Bologna and lecturer of public law. He died in Bologna in 2009....

     (1914–2009), politician and minister of Italian Democratic Socialist Party
  • Luigi Rizzo
    Luigi Rizzo
    Luigi Rizzo, Conte di Grado e di Premuda was an Italian naval officer. He is famous for sinking the Austro-Hungarian battleship SMS Szent István in June 1918.-Biography:...

     (1887–1951), naval officer
  • Luigi Settembrini
    Luigi Settembrini
    Luigi Settembrini was a Neapolitan man of letters and politician.-Biography:Aged 22, he was appointed professor at Catanzaro, and married Raffaela Luigia Faucitano...

     (1813–1877), Neapolitan man of letters and politician

Music

  • Luigi Alva
    Luigi Alva
    Luis Ernesto Alva y Talledo, better known as Luigi Alva is a Peruvian operatic tenor, active in the third quarter of the 20th century. He was admired for his purity of tone, the elegance of his phrasing and the clarity of his diction...

    , tenore leggiero
  • Luigi Antinori
    Luigi Antinori
    Luigi Antinori was born at Bologna about 1697. He was one of the best tenorsingers of the beginning of the 18th century, being gifted with a voice of pure and penetratingquality, and having acquired an excellent method of using it....

     (c. 1697–?), tenor
  • Luigi Antonio Sabbatini
    Luigi Antonio Sabbatini
    Luigi Antonio Sabbatini was an Italian composer and music theorist. He studied music at Bologna in the Franciscan Monastery, under Father Giovanni Baptista Martini. He published a textbook on the theoretical elements of music, in 1789, in three volumes, a treatise on fugues, in 1802...

     (1732–1809), composer and music theorist
  • Luigi Arditi
    Luigi Arditi
    Luigi Arditi was an Italian violinist, composer and conductor.Arditi was born in Crescentino, Piemonte . He began his musical career as a violinist, and studied music at the Conservatory of Milan. He made his debut in 1843 as a director at Vercelli, and it was there that he was made an honorary...

     (1822–1903), violinist, composer and conductor
  • Luigi Attademo
    Luigi Attademo
    Luigi Attademo is an Italian classical guitarist born in Naples in 1972.He worked in the archive of the , where he discovered some unknown manuscripts of important composers, such as Jaume Pahissa, Alexandre Tansman, Gaspar Cassadò and others.- External links :***...

     (born 1972), classical guitarist
  • Luigi Bassi
    Luigi Bassi
    Luigi Bassi, Pesaro, 5 September 1766 – Dresden, 13 September 1825, was an Italian operatic baritone.When writing his Life of Rossini, Stendhal tells of the time in 1813 when he met Bassi in Dresden and spoke of "Mr Mozart;" Bassi said he was entranced that someone should still refer to him as "Mr"...

     (1766–1825), operatic baritone
  • Luigi Boccherini
    Luigi Boccherini
    Luigi Rodolfo Boccherini was an Italian classical era composer and cellist whose music retained a courtly and galante style while he matured somewhat apart from the major European musical centers. Boccherini is most widely known for one particular minuet from his String Quintet in E, Op. 11, No...

     (1743–1805), cellist and composer
  • Luigi Creatore
    Luigi Creatore
    Luigi Creatore is a American songwriter and record producer.From a musical family, Creatore began his career as a writer. After serving with the United States military during World War II, in the 1950s he became a writer then partnered with his cousin Hugo Peretti to form the songwriting team of...

     (born 1920), American songwriter and record producer
  • Luigi Dallapiccola
    Luigi Dallapiccola
    Luigi Dallapiccola was an Italian composer known for his lyrical twelve-tone compositions.-Biography:Dallapiccola was born at Pisino d'Istria , to Italian parents....

     (1904–1975), composer known for lyrical twelve-tone compositions
  • Ivan Della Mea
    Ivan Della Mea
    Ivan Della Mea was an Italian novelist, journalist, singer-songwriter and political activist.-Biography:...

     (born as Luigi), singer-songwriter
  • Luigi Denza
    Luigi Denza
    Luigi Denza , was an Italian composer.Denza was born at Castellammare di Stabia, near Naples. He studied music under Saverio Mercadante and Paolo Serrao at the Naples Conservatory. Later, he moved to London and became a professor of singing at the Royal Academy of Music in 1898...

     (1846–1922), composer
  • Luigi Gatti
    Luigi Gatti
    Luigi Gatti was a classical composer. He was born in Lazise in 1740, the son of an organist, Francesco della Gatta. He was ordained a priest in Mantua...

     (1740–1817), classical composer
  • Luigi Illica
    Luigi Illica
    Luigi Illica was an Italian librettist who wrote for Giacomo Puccini , Alfredo Catalani, Umberto Giordano, Baron Alberto Franchetti and other important Italian composers. His most famous opera librettos are those for La bohème, Tosca, Madama Butterfly and Andrea Chénier.Illica was born at...

     (1857–1919), librettist
  • Luigi Infantino
    Luigi Infantino
    Luigi Infantino was an Italian operatic tenor, particularly associated with the lyric Italian and French repertories.Luigi Infantino studied at the Parma Conservatory with Italo Brancucci...

     (1921–1991), operatic tenor
  • Luigi Lablache
    Luigi Lablache
    Luigi Lablache was an Italian opera singer of French and Irish heritage. He was most noted for his comic performances, possessing a powerful and agile bass voice, a wide range, and adroit acting skills: Leporello in Don Giovanni was one of his signature roles.-Biography:Luigi Lablache was born in...

     (1794–1858), bass singer of French and Irish heritage
  • Luigi Legnani
    Luigi Legnani
    Luigi Rinaldo Legnani was an Italian guitarist, singer, composer and luthier.He is not to be confused with the sculptor Luigi Legnani .....

     (1790–1877), guitarist and composer
  • Luigi Marchesi
    Luigi Marchesi
    Luigi Marchesi was an Italian castrato singer, one of the most prominent and charismatic to appear in Europe during the second half of the eighteenth century.-Biography:Luigi Ludovico Marchesi was born in Milan...

     (1754–1829), castrato singer
  • Luigi Marini
    Luigi Marini
    Luigi Marini, was an Italian lyric tenor.Marini was born in Ascoli Piceno, Italy, in 1885. He made his operatic debut in Ravenna as Alfredo in Verdi's La traviata. After his great success, he appeared at Teatro Donizetti in Bergamo as Enzo Grimaldo in Ponchielli's La Gioconda...

     (1885-1942), Italian lyric tenor
  • Luigi Masi
    Luigi Masi
    Luigi Masi is a British singer who lives in London, but was born in Brazil. His first single "Strobelight" was released on 20 October 2008 and was a top 10 UK club hit. His second single "Armed With Love" was released on 25 May 2009 and again reached top 10 on the club chart...

     (born 1990), British singer
  • Luigi Morleo
    Luigi Morleo
    Luigi Morleo is an Italian percussionist and composer of contemporary music, who lives in Bari and teaches in Bari Conservatory of Music - Niccolò Piccinni....

     (born 1970), percussionist and composer of contemporary music
  • Luigi Mostacci
    Luigi Mostacci
    Luigi Mostacci was an Italian pianist.Mostacci was born in Tripoli, Libya. He performed internationally, and taught at the Palermo, Pesaro and Bologna conservatories. He was a Counselor at the Teatro Comunale di Bologna's artistic commission, the artistic director of Bologna's Amici della Musica...

     (1934–2003), pianist
  • Luigi Negri
    Luigi Negri
    Luigi Negri was an Italian double bass virtuoso of the romantic era. Known mostly during his lifetime as a conductor of opera, Negri's reputation as a double bassist has long been overshadowed by his contemporary, Giovanni Bottesini....

     (1837–1891), double bass virtuoso of the romantic era
  • Luigi Nono
    Luigi Nono
    Luigi Nono was an Italian avant-garde composer of classical music and remains one of the most prominent composers of the 20th century.- Early years :Born in Venice, he was a member of a wealthy artistic family, and his grandfather was a notable painter...

     (1924–1990), avant-garde composer of classical music
  • Luigi Otto
    Luigi Otto
    Luigi Otto was an Italian composer.Luigi Otto was once an extremely famous composer but unfortunately, only one of his works remain, Rondino.-Works:...

     (c. 1750–?), composer
  • Luigi Piazza
    Luigi Piazza
    Luigi Piazza , was an Italian operatic baritone, particularly associated with the Italian repertory, especially the role of Rigoletto.Piazza was born in Bologna, where he studied at the Music Conservatory with Alberoni...

     (1884–1967), operatic baritone
  • Luigi Piccioli
    Luigi Piccioli
    Luigi Piccioli was an Italian musician, singer, voice instructor, professor of St. Petersburg conservatory.He was teacher of a composer Peter Tchaikovsky, and many others including Bogomir Korsov ....

     (1812–1862), musician, singer, voice instructor, and professor
  • Luigi Ricci (vocal coach)
    Luigi Ricci (vocal coach)
    Luigi Ricci was an Italian assistant conductor, accompanist, vocal coach, and author.-Career:Luigi Ricci began studying music as a child, and at the age of only twelve, started accompanying voice lessons given by the famous baritone...

     (1893–1981), assistant conductor, accompanist, vocal coach, and author
  • Luigi Ricci (composer) (1805–1859), composer, particularly of operas
  • Luigi Ricci-Stolz
    Luigi Ricci-Stolz
    Luigi Ricci-Stolz was an Italian musician and composer.He was born as Luigino Ricci in Trieste to composer Luigi Ricci and opera singer Francesca Stolz , the elder sister of Teresa Stolz. At the time Luigi Ricci was married to Ludmila Stolz , the identical twin sister of Francesca...

     (1852–1906), musician and composer
  • Luigi Rossi (1597–1653), Baroque composer
  • Luigi Sagrati
    Luigi Sagrati
    Luigi Sagrati was an Italian violist.He began studying the violin very young, and graduated cum laude from the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia. In the immediate postwar period he began an intensive concert activity in Italy and abroad...

     (1921–2008), violinist
  • Luigi Tarisio
    Luigi Tarisio
    This page refers to the violin dealer and collector. For the online string instrument auction house, see Tarisio Auctions.Luigi Tarisio was an Italian violin dealer and collector....

     (c. 1790–1854), violin dealer and collector
  • Luigi Tenco
    Luigi Tenco
    Luigi Tenco was an Italian singer, songwriter and actor.-Biography:Tenco was born in Cassine in 1938, the son of Teresa Zoccola and Giuseppe Tenco. He never knew his father, who died in unclear circumstances...

     (1938–1967), singer, songwriter and actor
  • Luigi Verderame
    Luigi Verderame
    Luigi Verderame, usually known just as Luigi, is a Belgian singer, popular internationally in the late 1960s and early 1970s. He sang mainly in French, but he also sang in Italian, Hebrew,Turkish and English...

    , Belgian singer usually known just as Luigi
  • Luigi Verdi
    Luigi Verdi
    Luigi Verdi is an Italian composer, musicologist and orchestra conductor.He studied at the "Martini" Conservatoire in Bologna and "Rossini" Conservatoire in Pesaro, graduating in Composition, Instrumentation, Choir and Orchestra Conducting...

     (born 1958), composer, musicologist and orchestra conductor
  • Luigi von Kunits
    Luigi von Kunits
    Luigi von Kunits was an Austrian conductor, composer, violinist, and pedagogue. He was the founding conductor of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra in 1922....

     (1870–1931), Austrian conductor, composer, violinist, and pedagogue
  • Luigi Waites
    Luigi Waites
    Luigi Waites was a jazz drummer and vibraphonist from Omaha, Nebraska. He performed weekly gigs in the Omaha area both solo and with ensembles such as Luigi, Inc. He served the Omaha music community for over 60 years. He toured Europe twice and performed with jazz legends such as Sarah Vaughan,...

     (born 1927), American jazz drummer and vibraphonist
  • Luigi Zamboni
    Luigi Zamboni
    Luigi Zamboni was an Italian operatic buffo bass-baritone.He was born in Bologna, where he began his singing career in 1791 in a production of Cimarosa's Il fanatico burlato. Engagements followed in Naples, Parma, Venice and Rome, where he sang in operas by Valentino Fioravanti, Paisiello and...

     (1767–1837), operatic buffo bass-baritone
  • Luigi Zenobi
    Luigi Zenobi
    Luigi Zenobi , also known as Luigi del Cornetto, was a virtuoso cornett player. Born in Ancona, Italy, Zenobi moved to Vienna, where he was employed by Maximilian II as the court cornett player. In 1583, he relocated to Ferrara and became the most highly paid musician in the Este Court at the time...

     (1540s – after 1602), virtuoso cornett player

Religion

  • Luigi Amat di San Filippo e Sorso
    Luigi Amat di San Filippo e Sorso
    Luigi Amat di San Filippo e Sorso was the dean of the College of Cardinals during the last part of the record long reign of Pope Pius IX....

     (1796–1878), dean of the College of Cardinals
  • Luigi Bilio
    Luigi Bilio
    Luigi Maria Bilio B was a Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church who among other things was Secretary of the Supreme Sacred Congregation of the Holy Office.Luigi Maria Bilio was born in Alessandria, Piedmont, Italy...

     (1826–1884), Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church
  • Luigi Capotosti
    Luigi Capotosti
    Luigi Capotosti was an Italian Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church who served as Apostolic Datary from 1933 until his death, and was elevated to the cardinalate in 1926.-Biography:...

     (1863–1938), Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church
  • Luigi Ciacchi
    Luigi Ciacchi
    Luigi Ciacchi was an Italian Cardinal and priest of Roman Curia.Born in Pesaro, Marche, he was made Cardinal by Pope Gregory XVI. He also took part in the conclave that elected Pope Pius IX.He died in Rome....

     (1788–1865), Cardinal of the Catholic Church
  • Luigi Ciotti
    Luigi Ciotti
    Luigi Ciotti, born in Pieve di Cadore on September 10, 1945, is an Italian priest belonging to the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Turin, deeply involved in the fight against illegality and organized crime such as Mafia.-Biography:...

     (born 1945), Roman Catholic priest
  • Luigi Dadaglio
    Luigi Dadaglio
    Luigi Dadaglio was a Roman Catholic Cardinal and Major Penitentiary of the Apostolic Penitentiary.He was born in Sezzadio, Italy. He was educated at the Seminary of Acqui. He was ordained on 22 May 1937...

     (1914–1990), Roman Catholic Cardinal and Major Penitentiary of the Apostolic Penitentiary
  • Luigi de Magistris (archbishop)
    Luigi de Magistris (archbishop)
    Luigi de Magistris is a Roman Catholic Archbishop who served as Pro-Major Penitentiary of Apostolic Penitentiary from 2001 until the appointment of James Cardinal Stafford in 2003....

     (born 1926), Roman Catholic Archbishop
  • Luigi d'Este
    Luigi d'Este
    Luigi d'Este was an Italian Catholic cardinal, the second of the five children of Ercole II d'Este, Duke of Modena and Ferrara, and Renée, daughter of Louis XII of France.-Biography:...

     (1538–1586)
  • Luigi Fortis
    Luigi Fortis
    Luigi Fortis was an Italian Jesuit elected 20th Superior-General of the Society of Jesus.- Early life and formation :...

     (1748–1829), Jesuit
  • Luigi Giussani
    Luigi Giussani
    Monsignor Luigi Giovanni Giussani , Italian Catholic priest, educator, public intellectual and founder of the international Catholic movement Communion and Liberation .-Biography:...

     (1922–2005), Catholic priest, educator, and public intellectual
  • Luigi Guanella
    Luigi Guanella
    Luigi Guanella was a Catholic priest from Northern Italy. He is the founder of several religious institutes: Daughters of St Mary of Providence, 1890, Servants of Charity in Como on March 24, 1908, with his friends David Albertario and Giuseppe Toniolo, and the Pious Union of St Joseph in 1914...

     (1842–1912), Catholic priest from Northern Italy
  • Luigi Jacobini
    Luigi Jacobini
    Luigi Jacobini was an Italian Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church who served as Vatican Secretary of State from 1880 until his death and was elevated to the cardinalate in 1879.-Biography:...

     (1832–1887), Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church
  • Luigi Lambruschini
    Luigi Lambruschini
    Luigi Lambruschini was an Italian cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church in the mid nineteenth century.-Biography:...

     (1776–1854), cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church
  • Luigi Lavitrano
    Luigi Lavitrano
    Luigi Lavitrano was an Italian Cardinal of the Catholic Church who served as Archbishop of Palermo from 1928 to 1944, and as Prefect of the Sacred Congregation for Religious from 1945 until his death...

     (1874–1950), Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church
  • Luigi Lippomano
    Luigi Lippomano
    Luigi Lippomano was an Italian cardinal and hagiographer.- Life :Illegitimate son of a Venetian patrician, Lippomano was destined for an ecclesiastical career. He studied at Padua and eventually entered into service at the papal court in Rome...

     (1500–1559), cardinal and hagiographer
  • Luigi Locati
    Luigi Locati
    Luigi Locati was an Italian Catholic missionary and bishop. He was shot to death at the pastoral center of Isiolo, Kenya. Two priests Cyril Mukuchia and Peter Malley Guyo Wako were arrested in connection to his murder....

     (1928–2005), Catholic missionary and bishop
  • Luigi Macchi
    Luigi Macchi
    Luigi Macchi was an Italian Catholic nobleman and a Cardinal. As protodeacon, he announced the election of cardinal Giuseppe Sarto at the end of the conclave of 1903.-External links:**...

     (1832–1907), Catholic nobleman and Cardinal
  • Luigi Maglione (1877–1944), Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church
  • Luigi Mascolo
    Luigi Mascolo
    Luigi Mascolo was an Italian priest who controversially defected to the Brazilian schismatic church the Brazilian Catholic Apostolic Church, founded by Bishop Carlos Duarte Costa in 1945....

    , priest who defected to the Brazilian Catholic Apostolic Church
  • Luigi Mozzi
    Luigi Mozzi
    Luigi Mozzi was an Italian Jesuit controversialist.-Life:He entered the Society of Jesus in 1763, and on its suppression was received into the Diocese of Bergamo, where he was shortly made a canon, and appointed archpriest and examiner of candidates for the priesthood...

     (1746–1813), Jesuit controversialist
  • Luigi Oreglia di Santo Stefano
    Luigi Oreglia di Santo Stefano
    Luigi Oreglia di Santo Stefano was a cardinal of the Catholic Church in the late nineteenth century. He was Bishop of Ostia and Dean of the Sacred College of Cardinals from 1896 until his death.He was educated in Turin and became a priest in 1851...

     (1828–1913), cardinal of the Catholic Church
  • Luigi Orione
    Luigi Orione
    Saint Luigi Orione is an Italian saint.- Life :Luigi Giovanni Orione was born into a poor family at Pontecurone, in the Province of Alessandria, Piedmont on the Vigil of the feast day of the Nativity of St. John the Baptist. He was named after Saint Aloysius Gonzaga and Saint John the Baptist...

     (1872–1940), saint
  • Luigi Poggi
    Luigi Poggi
    Luigi Poggi was an Italian cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church.-Early life:Born in Piacenza, Poggi did all his studies prior to priestly ordination in that city and was sent to Rome in 1944 primarily to study diplomacy at the Pontifical Ecclesiastical Academy...

     (born 1917), cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church
  • Luigi Raimondi
    Luigi Raimondi
    Luigi Raimondi was an Italian Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as Prefect of the Sacred Congregation for the Causes of Saints from 1973 until his death, and was elevated to the cardinalate in 1973....

     (1912–1975), Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church
  • Luigi Sincero
    Luigi Sincero
    Luigi Sincero was a Roman Catholic Cardinal and President of the Pontifical Commission for the Authentic Interpretation of the Code of Canon Law and Secretary of Sacred Congregation for the Oriental Churches, the title of Prefect held by the Popes from 1917 until 1967.He was born in Trino...

     (1870–1936), Roman Catholic Cardinal
  • Luigi Sturzo
    Luigi Sturzo
    Don Luigi Sturzo was an Italian Catholic priest and politician. Known in his lifetime as a "clerical socialist," Sturzo is considered one of the fathers of Christian democracy. Sturzo was one of the founders of the Partito Popolare Italiano in 1919, but was forced into exile in 1924 with the rise...

     (1871–1959), Catholic priest and politician
  • Luigi Taparelli
    Luigi Taparelli
    Luigi Taparelli D’Azeglio was an Italian Catholic scholar of the Society of Jesus who coined the term social justice. He cofounded the journal Civiltà Cattolica in 1850 and wrote for it for twelve years. He was particularly concerned with the problems arising from the industrial revolution...

     (1793–1862), Catholic scholar of the Society of Jesus
  • Luigi Traglia (1895–1977), Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church
  • Luigi Tripepi (1836–1906), Roman Catholic cardinal and poet

Science

  • Luigi Aloysius Colla
    Luigi Aloysius Colla
    Luigi Aloysius Colla was an Italian botanist of the late 18th and early 19th Centuries. He was a member of the Provisional Government of Savoy from December 12, 1798 to April 2, 1799, taking his turn as chairman of the government in rotation for a ten-day term...

     (1766–1848), botanist
  • Luigi Amoroso
    Luigi Amoroso
    - References : . The first paper where a set of necessary and sufficient conditions for the solvability of the Dirichlet problem for holomorphic functions of several variables is given....

     (1886–1965), neoclassical economist
  • Luigi Bellardi
    Luigi Bellardi
    Luigi Bellardi was an Italian malacologist and entomologist who specialised in Diptera.Bellardi was born in Genoa and died in Turin...

     (1859–1889), malacologist and entomologist
  • Luigi Bodio
    Luigi Bodio
    Luigi Bodio was an Italian economist and statistician, among the founders of Italian Statistics...

     (1840–1920), economist and statistician
  • Luigi Cagnola
    Luigi Cagnola
    Marchese Luigi Cagnola was an Italian architect.Cagnola was born in Milan. He was sent at the age of fourteen to the Clementine College at Rome, and afterwards studied at the University of Pavia...

     (1762–1833), architect
  • Luigi Canina
    Luigi Canina
    Luigi Canina was an Italian archaeologist and architect.Luigi Canina, Italian architect and archeologist, was born in Casale Monferrato in 1795 and died in Florence in 1856. He was a pupil of F. Bonsignore in Turin, and settled in Rome in 1818...

     (1795–1856), archaeologist and architect
  • Luigi Caponaro
    Luigi Caponaro
    Luigi Caponaro was a healer in Naples and Gaeta, Italy in the late 16th and early 17th centuries. Caponaro received a medical degree in Naples but never practiced medicine per se due to a reported aversion to the sight of blood...

     (1567–1622), healer
  • Luigi Carnera
    Luigi Carnera
    Luigi Carnera was an Italian astronomer.In his early career he worked as Max Wolf's assistant at Heidelberg, Germany and discovered a number of asteroids...

     (1875–1962), astronomer
  • Luigi Corvaglia (born 1965), psychologist
  • Luigi Cossa
    Luigi Cossa
    Luigi Cossa , Italian economist, was born at Milan.Educated at the universities of Pavia, Vienna and Leipzig, he was appointed professor of political economy at Pavia in 1858....

     (1831–1896), economist
  • Luigi di Bella
    Luigi di Bella
    Luigi di Bella was an Italian medical doctor and physiology professor. In the late 1990s, he created a purported treatment for cancer that precipitated an international controversy. Di Bella was born in Linguaglossa, Sicily. He studied medicine at Bari University, and worked as an army doctor in...

     (1912–2003), medical doctor and physiology professor
  • Luigi Ferri
    Luigi Ferri
    Luigi Ferri , Italian philosopher, was born at Bologna.His education was obtained mainly at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris, where his father, a painter and architect, was engaged in the construction of the Théâtre Italien. From his twenty-fifth year he began to lecture in the colleges of...

     (1826–1895), philosopher
  • Luigi Frati
    Luigi Frati
    Luigi Frati is an Italian academic physician and rector of the Sapienza University of Rome.Frati was born in Siena in 1943 and studied in Milan where he obtained a B.A. in medicine from the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore...

     (born 1943), academic physician and rector of the Sapienza University of Rome
  • Luigi Gaetano Marini
    Luigi Gaetano Marini
    Luigi Gaetano Marini was a natural philosopher, jurist, historian and archeologist...

     (1742–1815), natural philosopher, jurist, historian and archeologist
  • Luigi Galvani
    Luigi Galvani
    Luigi Aloisio Galvani was an Italian physician and physicist who lived and died in Bologna. In 1791, he discovered that the muscles of dead frogs legs twitched when struck by a spark...

     (1737–1798), physician and physicist
  • Luigi Guido Grandi (1671–1742), philosopher and mathematician
  • Luigi Hugues
    Luigi Hugues
    Luigi Hugues was an Italian academic geographer and accomplished amateur musician. He is best known today as a composer and arranger of virtuoso works for the flute, and for his contributions to the teaching and history of geography.Hughes was born in Casale Monferrato, today in the Province of...

     (1836–1913), academic geographer and amateur musician
  • Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza
    Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza
    Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza is an Italian population geneticist born in Genoa, who has been a professor at Stanford University since 1970 .-Books:...

     (born 1922), population geneticist
  • Luigi Maria Ugolini
    Luigi Maria Ugolini
    Luigi Maria Ugolini was an Italian archaeologist.Ugolini was born in the small town of Bertinoro in the Italian Romagna, the son of a poor watchmaker. He shone at school and after service in the First World War in the Alpini studied archaeology at Bologna University...

     (1895–1936), archaeologist
  • Luigi Palmieri
    Luigi Palmieri
    Luigi Palmieri was an Italian physicist and meteorologist. He was famous for his scientific studies of the eruptions of Mount Vesuvius, for his researches on earthquakes and meteorological phenomena and for improving the seismographer of the time.- Biography :Palmieri was born in Faicchio,...

     (1807–1896), physicist and meteorologist
  • Luigi Pareyson
    Luigi Pareyson
    Luigi Pareysón was an Italian philosopher.-Biography:Luigi Pareyson was born on 4 February 1918, in Piasco, in the province of Cuneo...

     (1918–1991), philosopher
  • Luigi Pasinetti
    Luigi Pasinetti
    Luigi L. Pasinetti is an Italian economist of the Post-Keynesians school. Pasinetti is considered the heir of the "Cambridge Keynesians" and a student of Piero Sraffa and Richard Kahn. Along with them, as well as Joan Robinson, he was one of the prominent members on the "Cambridge, UK" side of the...

     (born 1930), economist of the Post-Keynesians school
  • Luigi Pernier
    Luigi Pernier
    Luigi Pernier was an Italian archaeologist and academic now best known for his discovery of the Disc of Phaistos.-Career:...

     (1874–1937), archaeologist and academic
  • Luigi Piccinato
    Luigi Piccinato
    Luigi Piccinato was an Italian architect and town planner.-Works:* Urbanistica medioevale, Firenze 1943 Luigi Piccinato (30 October 1899, Legnago, Veneto – 29 July 1983, Rome) was an Italian architect and town planner.-Works:* Urbanistica medioevale, Firenze 1943 Luigi Piccinato (30 October 1899,...

     (1899–1983), architect and town planner
  • Luigi Pigorini
    Luigi Pigorini
    Luigi Pigorini was an Italian palaeoethnologist, archaeologist and ethnographer.-Biography:Pigorini was born at Fontanellato, near Parma....

     (1842–1925), palaeoethnologist, archaeologist and ethnographer
  • Luigi Poletti (architect)
    Luigi Poletti (architect)
    Luigi Poletti was an Italian neoclassical architect.-Biography:He was born in Modena.He studied under Raffaele Stern, and directed the reconstruction of Basilica of San Paolo fuori le Mura...

     (1792–1869), neoclassical architect
  • Luigi Rosselli
    Luigi Rosselli
    Luigi Rosselli is an Italian born architect who practices in Australia. Having first come to Australia to work on the New Parliament house under Romaldo Giurgola, Luigi established his company of Architects Luigi Rosselli pty ltd in 1985 and continues to create his sensitive signature buildings...

    , Italian/Australian practicing architect
  • Luigi Rizzi (born 1952), linguist
  • Luigi Rolando
    Luigi Rolando
    Luigi Rolando was an Italian anatomist.As a University of Turin professor, he devoted his life in studying brain anatomy.The Substantia gelatinosa of Rolando and the fissure of Rolando are named for him.-External links:*...

     (1773–1831), anatomist
  • Luigi Salvatorelli
    Luigi Salvatorelli
    Luigi Salvatorelli was an Italian historian and publicist, born in Marsciano, Perugina Italy, He was a political journalist in 1919 during Benito Mussolini's rise to power and was associated with La Stampa in 1921. Also member of Il Partito d'Azione .-External links:*Partito d'Azione *...

     (1886–1974), historian and publicist
  • Luigi Snozzi
    Luigi Snozzi
    Luigi Snozzi is a Swiss architect from Ticino. He is currently working in Locarno and Lugano.He studied at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich. From 1962 to 1971, Snozzi worked in association with architect Livio Vacchini...

     (born 1932), Swiss architect
  • Luigi Tosti
    Luigi Tosti
    Luigi Tosti was a Benedictine historian.-Life:His father, Count Giovanni Tosti, descended from an ancient Calabrian family, died young, and so his mother, Vittoria Corigliano, entrusted the child to its uncle, a monk at Monte Cassino...

     (1811–1897), Benedictine historian
  • Luigi Zoja
    Luigi Zoja
    Luigi ZojaLuigi Zoja Ph.D. is an Italian psychoanalyst and writer. He took a degree in economics and did research in sociology during the late 1960s. Soon thereafter he studied at the C. G. Jung Institute in Zurich. After taking his diploma, Zoja returned to Zurich to work at a clinic for several...

    , psychoanalyst and writer

Football

  • Luigi Agnolin
    Luigi Agnolin
    Luigi Agnolin . Is a former football referee from Italy. He is mostly known for supervising four matches in the FIFA World Cup. One in 1986 and three in 1990. He also refereed the European Cup final in 1988.-References:...

     (born 1943), former football referee
  • Luigi Allemandi
    Luigi Allemandi
    Luigi Allemandi was an Italian footballer who played as a defender.Born in San Damiano Macra, province of Cuneo, he debuted in 1921 with A.C. Legnano. Later, he played with Juventus F.C., F.C. Internazionale Milano, A.S. Roma, S.S.C. Venezia and S.S. Lazio. He was a member of the Italian national...

     (1903–1978), football defender
  • Luigi Anaclerio
    Luigi Anaclerio
    Luigi Anaclerio is an Italian footballer.He is the elder brother of Michele Anaclerio.-Bari:Anaclerio started his career at Bari at Serie A. He made his debut on 19 November 2000, against Lecce. After the relegation in 2001, Anaclerio played more regular with first team at 2001–02 Serie B season...

     (born 1981), football striker
  • Luigi Apolloni
    Luigi Apolloni
    Luigi Apolloni is a retired Italian football player, who last served as head coach of Serie B club Grosseto.- Club career :...

     (born 1967), football manager and former player
  • Luigi Barbesino
    Luigi Barbesino
    Luigi Barbesino was an Italian association footballer and manager from Casale Monferrato in the region of Piedmont. He was a one club man in the truest sense of the term, spending his eight playing seasons at his home town club Casale, helping them to win their one and only Italian Football...

     (1894–?), footballer and manager from Casale Monferrato
  • Luigi Beghetto
    Luigi Beghetto
    Luigi Beghetto is an Italian footballer.- Career :Beghetto started his career with hometown club Bassano, then in Serie D. He was then signed by Vicenza in July 1994, but was sold to Serie C1's Carpi on October without making a single appearance for his previous club...

     (born 1973), football striker
  • Luigi Bertolini
    Luigi Bertolini
    Luigi Bertolini was an Italian football midfielder.-Biography:Born in Busalla, province of Genoa, he played in the 1920s for Savona, Alessandria and Juventus. He played 135 matches for Juventus, scoring five goals, helping the team to win four Serie A tournaments...

     (1904–1977), football midfielder
  • Luigi Bruins
    Luigi Bruins
    Luigi Bruins is a Dutch footballer who currently plays for FC Red Bull Salzburg.After being declined by Feyenoord at the age of six, the Rotterdam-born went through the complete Excelsior youth academy. Bruins made his first team debut in the season 2004–05 and managed to win the Eerste Divisie...

     (born 1987), Dutch football midfielder
  • Luigi Brunella
    Luigi Brunella
    Luigi Brunella was an Italian football defender and manager from Garlasco. He spent the largest majority of his playing career at Torino and Roma , before going on to management, taking over at clubs such as Roma.-Honours:*1935–36 Coppa Italia *1941–42 Serie A -References:...

     (born 1914), football manager and former defender
  • Luigi Burlando
    Luigi Burlando
    Luigi Burlando was an Italian football midfielder and manager from Genoa. He played all of his career in his hometown, starting off with Doria before spending a decade with Genoa....

     (1899–1967), football midfielder
  • Luigi Cagni
    Luigi Cagni
    Luigi "Gigi" Cagni is an Italian football former player and current manager of Vicenza in Serie B.- Player :Cagni, a defender, made his Serie A debut for Brescia in 1970, in a league match lost 4-0 to Cagliari...

     (born 1950), football manager and former player
  • Luigi Cevenini
    Luigi Cevenini
    Luigi Cevenini was an Italian football player and coach.He played 190 times for Internazionale and scored 156 goals...

     (1895–1968), football player
  • Luigi De Agostini
    Luigi De Agostini
    Luigi de Agostini is an Italian former football defender, who represented the Italian national football team at Euro 1988 and the 1990 FIFA World Cup....

     (born 1961), football defender
  • Luigi De Canio
    Luigi De Canio
    Luigi "Gigi" De Canio is an Italian football manager and former player.-Player:De Canio, a full back, played mostly with Serie C1 and Serie C2 teams, his lone season in Serie B being 1979–80 with Matera, marking his debut in the division on September 16, 1979 against Genoa...

     (born 1957), football manager and former player
  • Luigi Della Rocca
    Luigi Della Rocca
    Luigi Andrea Della Rocca is an Italian football striker. He currently plays for U.S. Triestina Calcio.As of the 2005/06 season, he has played 22 Serie A games, 38 Serie B games and 12 Serie C1 games....

     (born 1984), football striker
  • Luigi Delneri (born 1950), football manager and former player
  • Luigi Di Biagio
    Luigi Di Biagio
    Luigi Di Biagio , is an Italian former football defensive midfielder, who last played for Ascoli Calcio 1898 .Di Biagio was born in Rome. Prior to joining Ascoli, he played for Lazio , Monza , Foggia , Roma , Internazionale , and Brescia Calcio . He was capped 31 times for Italy, scoring two goals...

     (born 1931), football defensive midfielder
  • Luigi Ferrero
    Luigi Ferrero
    Luigi Ferrero was an Italian football manager and former player from Turin. As a player he spent time with some of the top clubs in his country such as Inter and others.-References:...

     (1904–?), football manager and former player
  • Luigi Garzja
    Luigi Garzja
    Luigi Garzja is an Italian professional footballer. During his career, he has played for A.S. Roma, A.S. Bari and Torino F.C.-References:...

     (born 1979), football player
  • Luigi Giuliano (footballer)
    Luigi Giuliano (footballer)
    Luigi Giuliano was an Italian professional football player.He had a distinction of scoring in each of his first 3 Serie A games in the 1948/49 season. He was the only youth team player who was playing regularly on the first squad of A.C...

     (1930–1993), football player
  • Luigi Glombard
    Luigi Glombard
    Luigi Glombard is a French football striker currently playing for Championnat National side Chamois Niortais.-Club career:Glombard joined the Nantes academy in 2000 and made his senior debut in 2002...

     (born 1984), football striker
  • Luigi Grassi
    Luigi Grassi
    Luigi Grassi is an Italian footballer. He plays as a striker. He is currently playing for Italian Serie C2 team San Marino Calcio.-External links:...

     (born 1983), football midfielder
  • Luigi Griffanti
    Luigi Griffanti
    Luigi Griffanti was an Italian footballer. Nicknamed "Saracinesca", he was goalkeeper for Vigevano, Fiorentina, Torino, Venezia in 1930s and 1940s. He earned two caps for the Italy national football team in 1942....

     (1917–2006), football player
  • Luigi Lavecchia
    Luigi Lavecchia
    Luigi Lavecchia is an Italian footballer currently playing for Torres in the Italian Eccellenza Sardinia.-Career:Lavecchia was born in Turin and started out as a youth player with home-town club Juventus...

     (born 1981), football defender/midfielder
  • Luigi Maifredi
    Luigi Maifredi
    Luigi Maifredi , commonly known as Gigi Maifredi, is an Italian football manager from Lograto in the Province of Brescia...

     (born 1947), football manager
  • Luigi Martinelli
    Luigi Martinelli
    Luigi Martinelli is an Italian footballer who plays for Serie C1 team Hellas Verona in the role of defender.-External links:...

     (born 1970), football defender
  • Luigi Perversi
    Luigi Perversi
    Luigi Perversi was an Italian professional footballer, who played as a defender. He made 341 appearances for A.C. Milan, during the late 1920s and 1930s.- External links :* at MagliaRossonera.it...

     (1906–1991), football defender
  • Luigi Piangerelli
    Luigi Piangerelli
    Luigi Piangerelli is an Italian former football player.He was a key player for A.C. Cesena at Serie B. After Cesena relegated, he joined Lecce, which newly promoted to Serie A....

     (born 1973), football midfielder
  • Luigi Pieroni
    Luigi Pieroni
    Luigi Pieroni is a Belgian football striker, currently playing for French club AC Arles-Avignon.-Career:He finished the Jupiler League 2003-04 season as topscorer with 28 goals while he was playing for R.E. Mouscron. He previously played with R.F.C...

     (born 1980), Belgian football striker
  • Luigi Radice (born 1935), football coach and former player
  • Luigi Riccio (footballer)
    Luigi Riccio (footballer)
    Luigi Riccio is an Italian association footballer who plays for Sassuolo.He began his career as a professional in Giarre, before moving to Perugia. In 1997 he moved abroad to Rangers. He made only one appearance as a substitute during a league match against Motherwell on 15 May 1999. He left for...

     (born 1977), football midfielder
  • Luigi Riva
    Luigi Riva
    Luigi Riva , best known as Gigi Riva or by his nickname Rombo di Tuono , is a former Italian footballer, the all-time leading scorer for the Italian national team...

     (born 1944), football forward
  • Luigi Sala
    Luigi Sala
    Luigi Sala is an Italian football defender. He is a central defender.In June 2001, Sala was sold to Atalanta for 7 billion lire, along with Gianni Comandini and Luca Saudati , as part of Cristian Zenoni and Massimo Donati's deal to Milan, for 60 billion Italian lire.In 2002-03 season, he was the...

     (born 1974), football defender
  • Luigi Sartor
    Luigi Sartor
    Luigi Sartor is a retired Italian footballer. Usually a fullback on either flank, he can also appear as a central defender....

     (born 1975), football defender
  • Luigi Scarabello
    Luigi Scarabello
    Luigi Scarabello was an Italian football player who competed in the 1936 Summer Olympics.He was a member of the Italian team, which won the gold medal in the football tournament.-External links:*...

     (1916–2007), football player
  • Luigi Sepe
    Luigi Sepe
    Luigi Sepe is an Italian footballer who plays for Lega Pro Prima Divisione side Pisa in the role of a goalkeeper on loan from Napoli.-Career:...

     (born 1991), football goalkeeper
  • Luigi Simoni
    Luigi Simoni
    Luigi "Gigi" Simoni is an Italian football manager, currently in office with Gubbio of Serie B, and a former player.-Biography:Luigi Simoni was born at Crevalcore ....

     (born 1939), football manager and former player
  • Luigi Turci
    Luigi Turci
    Luigi Turci is a former Italian football goalkeeper. He retired after the 2006–2007 season. His last club was Cesena in Serie B. He is currently active as goalkeeping coach of Padova.-Football career:...

     (born 1970), football goalkeeper
  • Luigi Vitale
    Luigi Vitale
    Luigi Vitale is an Italian football defender who currently plays for Serie A club Bologna, on loan from Napoli.-External links:* on Napoli's official website...

     (born 1987), football wingback

Racing

  • Luigi Arcangeli
    Luigi Arcangeli
    Luigi Arcangeli was an Italian motorcycle racer and race car driver, his first notable appearance was a win in 1928 at the Circuito di Senigallia with a 2 litre Bugatti. After Bugatti he drove...

     (1902–1931), motorcycle racer and race car driver
  • Luigi Arienti
    Luigi Arienti
    Luigi Arienti is an Italian former racing cyclist. At the 1960 Summer Olympics, he and teammates Marino Vigna, Mario Vallotto and Franco Testa won an Olympic gold medal in the team pursuit, with a time of 4:30.90....

     (born 1937), racing cyclist
  • Luigi Cavalieri
    Luigi Cavalieri
    Luigi Cavalieri was an Italian bobsledder who competed from the late 1940s to the early 1950s. Competing in two Winter Olympics, he earned his best finish of sixth in the four-man event at St. Moritz in 1948....

     (born 1914), bobsledder
  • Luigi Cecchini
    Luigi Cecchini
    Luigi Cecchini is an Italian sports doctor that is active in road bicycle racing. He is well known as maker of training schemes that he writes for his clients as well as use of the SRM cycle computer....

     (born 1944), sports doctor, active in road bicycle racing
  • Luigi Chinetti
    Luigi Chinetti
    Luigi Chinetti was an Italian-born racecar driver, who emigrated to the United States during World War II and became an American citizen....

     (1901–1994), Italian-born racecar driver
  • Luigi de Bettin
    Luigi de Bettin
    Luigi de Bettin was an Italian bobsledder who competed during the 1960s. He won the silver medal in the four-man event at the 1963 FIBT World Championships in Igls.-References:*...

    , bobsledder
  • Luigi De Manincor
    Luigi De Manincor
    Luigi De Manincor was an Italian sailor who competed in the 1936 Summer Olympics and in the 1948 Summer Olympics....

     (1910–1986), sailor
  • Luigi Fagioli
    Luigi Fagioli
    Luigi Fagioli , nicknamed "the Abruzzi robber", was an Italian motor racing driver.-Career:Born in the small city of Osimo, Ancona Province in the Marche region of central Italy, as a boy Luigi Fagioli was fascinated by the relatively new invention of the automobile and the ensuing racing...

     (1898–1952), motor racing driver
  • Luigi Figoli
    Luigi Figoli
    Luigi Figoli is an Italian bobsledder who competed in the mid 1950s. He won a silver medal in the two-man event at the 1954 FIBT World Championships in Cortina d'Ampezzo.-References:*...

    , bobsledder
  • Luigi Ganna
    Luigi Ganna
    Luigi Ganna was an Italian professional road racing cyclist. The highlight of his career was his overall win in the first Giro d'Italia, held in 1909.He was born in Induno Olona, near Varese, in Lombardy....

     (1883–1957), professional road racing cyclist
  • Luigi Giacobbe
    Luigi Giacobbe
    Luigi Giacobbe was an Italian professional cyclist, who raced from 1926 to 1937.He was born in Bosco Marengo, Piedmont. He won the Tre Valli Varesine in 1931 and a stage in the 1931 Giro d'Italia. At the Giro, he was second overall in 1930 and 1931. He took part to three Tour de France in 1931,...

     (1907–1995), cyclist who raced from 1926 to 1937
  • Luigi Lucotti
    Luigi Lucotti
    Luigi Lucotti was an Italian road bicycle racer who has won three stages in the Tour de France and a stage at the Giro d'Italia.- Major achievements :1914...

     (1893–1980), road bicycle racer
  • Luigi Marchisio
    Luigi Marchisio
    Luigi Marchisio was an Italian professional road racing cyclist.Marchisio was born at Castelnuovo, Piedmont. The highlight of his career was his overall win in the 1930 Giro d'Italia, the youngest victor ever at the time...

     (1909–1992), professional road racing cyclist
  • Luigi Marfurt
    Luigi Marfurt
    Luigi Marfurt was an Italian boxer who competed in the 1924 Summer Olympics.In 1924 he was eliminated in the second round of the lightweight class after losing his fight to the upcoming silver medalist Alfredo Copello.-External links:*...

     (1904–?), boxer
  • Luigi Musso
    Luigi Musso
    Luigi Musso was an Italian racing driver.-Racing career:Musso began his racing career driving sports cars before debuting on the Formula One circuit on 17 January 1954, driving a Maserati. In 1954 he won the Coppa Acerbo, a non-championship Formula One race. At Zandvoort, in the 1955 Dutch Grand...

     (1924–1958), racing driver
  • Luigi Piotti
    Luigi Piotti
    Luigi Piotti was a racing driver from Italy. He participated in 8 Formula One World Championship Grands Prix, debuting on January 22, 1956. He scored no championship points....

     (1913–1971), racing driver
  • Luigi Poggi (sailor)
    Luigi Poggi (sailor)
    Luigi Mino Poggi was an Italian sailor who competed in the 1936 Summer Olympics and in the 1948 Summer Olympics....

     (1906–1972), sailor
  • Luigi Taramazzo
    Luigi Taramazzo
    Luigi Taramazzo was a racing driver from Italy. His single Formula One World Championship entry was at the 1958 Monaco Grand Prix, where he shared the Maserati 250F of Ken Kavanagh. Neither driver qualified the car, so Taramazzo did not start the race.-Complete Formula One World Championship...

     (1932–2004), racing driver
  • Luigi Taveri
    Luigi Taveri
    Luigi Taveri is a Swiss former motorcycle road racer. He was three times world champion in the 125 cc class of the Grand Prix road racing championship, in 1962, 1964, and 1966....

     (born 1929), Swiss motorcycle road racer
  • Luigi Villoresi
    Luigi Villoresi
    Luigi Villoresi was an Italian Grand Prix motor racing driver who continued racing on the Formula One circuit at the time of its inception.-Biography:...

     (1909–1997), Grand Prix motor racing driver

Other

  • Luigi
    Luigi
    is a fictional character, featured in video games and related media released by Nintendo. Created by prominent game designer Shigeru Miyamoto, Luigi is portrayed as the slightly younger fraternal twin brother of Nintendo's mascot Mario, and appears in many games throughout the Mario series,...

     (1983), Video Game character
  • Luigi Beccali
    Luigi Beccali
    Luigi Beccali was an Italian athlete, winner of 1500 metres at the 1932 Summer Olympics.Born in Milan, Luigi Beccali, as a youth, was fascinated by cycling and track and field athletics, but choose the latter, when he met the coach Dino Nai.Luigi Beccali, an Italian champion in 1500 m from 1928 to...

     (1907–1990), athlete, Olympic winner of 1500 metres
  • Luigi Bosatra
    Luigi Bosatra
    Luigi Bosatra was an Italian track and field athlete who competed in racewalking in the 1924 Summer Olympics.In 1924 he finished eighth in the 10 km competition at the Paris Games.-External links:*...

     (born 1905), track and field athlete who competed in racewalking
  • Luigi Cambiaso
    Luigi Cambiaso
    Luigi Cambiaso was an Italian gymnast who competed in the 1920 Summer Olympics and in the 1924 Summer Olympics....

     (1895–1975), gymnast
  • Luigi Cantone
    Luigi Cantone
    Luigi Cantone was an Italian fencer and Olympic champion in épée competition.He received a gold medal in épée individual at the 1948 Summer Olympics in London. He received a silver medal in épée team....

     (born 1917), fencer
  • Luigi Castiglione
    Luigi Castiglione
    Luigi "Gino" Castiglioni is a former professional boxer from Italy, who won the silver medal at the 1991 European Amateur Boxing Championships in Gothenburg, Sweden. In the final of the light flyweight he was defeated by Bulgaria's Ivailo Marinov. He turned professional in 1993, and retired in...

     (born 1967), boxer
  • Luigi Contessi
    Luigi Contessi
    Luigi Contessi was an Italian gymnast who competed in the 1920 Summer Olympics.He was part of the Italian team, which was able to win the gold medal in the gymnastics men's team, European system event in 1920....

     (1894–1967), gymnast
  • Luigi Costigliolo
    Luigi Costigliolo
    Luigi Costiglioli was an Italian gymnast who competed in the 1920 Summer Olympics.He was part of the Italian team, which was able to win the gold medal in the gymnastics men's team, European system event in 1920. In the Individual all-round he finished eighth.-External links:*...

     (1892–1939), gymnast
  • Luigi Datome
    Luigi Datome
    Luigi Datome is an Italian basketball player currently signed with Pallacanestro Virtus Roma.At 202 cm, he plays the small forward position.-References:...

     (born 1987), basketball player
  • Luigi Fioravanti
    Luigi Fioravanti
    Luigi Fioravanti is an American mixed martial artist who fights out of Orlando, Florida with American Top Team. He was released by the UFC shortly after his first round TKO defeat to Anthony Johnson at UFC Fight Night 17...

     (born 1981), American mixed martial artist
  • Luigi Gaudiano
    Luigi Gaudiano
    Luigi Gaudiano is a former amateur boxer from Italy. He is best known for winning the bronze medal at the 1987 European Championships in Turin, Italy in the Men's Heavyweight division. He represented his native country at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea.-References:*...

     (born 1965), boxer
  • Luigi Guido
    Luigi Guido
    Luigi Guido is an Italian judoka.-Achievements:-References:* on JudoInside.com...

     (born 1968), judoka
  • Luigi Maiocco
    Luigi Maiocco
    Luigi Maiocco was an Italian gymnast who competed in the 1912, 1920 and 1924 Summer Olympics.He was part of the Italian team, which won three consecutive gold medal in the gymnastics men's team event....

     (1892–1965), gymnast
  • Luigi Mannelli
    Luigi Mannelli
    Luigi Mannelli is an Italian water polo player who competed in the 1956 Summer Olympics and in the 1960 Summer Olympics.He was born in Naples....

     (born 1939), water polo player
  • Luigi Mastrangelo
    Luigi Mastrangelo
    Luigi "Gigi" Mastrangelo is an Italian volleyball player. Standing at 202 cm, he plays as middle hitter/blocker for Stamplast Martina Franca.He played 212 times for the Italian national volleyball team...

     (born 1975), volleyball player
  • Luigi Rovati
    Luigi Rovati
    Luigi Rovati was an Italian boxer who competed in the 1932 Summer Olympics.In 1932 he won the silver medal in the heavyweight class after losing the final against Santiago Lovell.-References:* *...

     (1904–1989), boxer
  • Luigi Tarantino
    Luigi Tarantino
    Luigi Tarantino is an Italian fencer and Olympic medalist in the sabre competition. He was the 1998 World Champion for men's sabre.-References:...

     (born 1972), fencer
  • Luigi Troiani
    Luigi Troiani
    Luigi Rosario Troiani is an Italian rugby player. He usually played as a fullback and sometimes as a scrum-half....

     (born 1964), rugby player
  • Luigi Ulivelli
    Luigi Ulivelli
    Luigi Ulivelli was a track and field athlete from Italy, who mainly competed in the men's long jump. He represented his native country at the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome, Italy. He was born in Corazzano, Pisa....

     (born 1935), long jumper
  • Luigi Weiss
    Luigi Weiss
    Luigi "Gigi" Weiss is an Italian ski mountaineer and former biathlete.Weiss was born in Vattaro. Together with Angelo Genuin and Bruno Bonaldi, he placed first in the military team category in the 1975 Trofeo Mezzalama edition, which was carried out as the first World Championship of...

     (born 1951), ski mountaineer and biathlete

Visual art

  • Luigi Acquisti
    Luigi Acquisti
    Luigi Acquisti was an Italian sculptor mainly known for his works in the neoclassical style.He was born in Forlì the 29 March 1747 and died in Bologna in 1823. His works are distributed throughout Italy...

     (1745–1823), sculptor
  • Luigi Anichini
    Luigi Anichini
    The Anichini family were leading carvers of engraved gems for seals, and medals in Renaissance Italy.The first known member is Francesco Anichini , who had four sons who followed him in the art...

    , engraver of seals and medals
  • Luigi Basiletti
    Luigi Basiletti
    Luigi Basiletti was an Italian painter. He was born in Brescia. He painted a Cascade at Tivoli for the Brera Academy at Milan. He is also represented at the Galleria Tosio Martinengo in Brescia.-Sources:...

     (1780–1860), painter
  • Luigi Benfatto
    Luigi Benfatto
    Luigi Benfatto was an Italian painter of the late-Renaissance period. He was born at Verona, was the nephew and pupil of Paolo Veronese. He painted Glory of the saint for the church of St. Nicholas and pictures of St. Marta for the Chiesa di Santa Marta. He is also called Luigi Alvise dal...

     (1551–1611), late-Renaissance painter
  • Luigi Boccherini
    Luigi Boccherini
    Luigi Rodolfo Boccherini was an Italian classical era composer and cellist whose music retained a courtly and galante style while he matured somewhat apart from the major European musical centers. Boccherini is most widely known for one particular minuet from his String Quintet in E, Op. 11, No...

     (1743–1805), classical era composer and cellist
  • Luigi Borgomainerio
    Luigi Borgomainerio
    Luigi Borgomainerio was an Italian engraver and caricaturist, who was active in the late 19th century.Born at Como in 1836, Borgomainerio was one of the cleverest caricaturists in the Spirito Folletto, and the founder of the Mefistofele...

    , engraver and caricaturist
  • Luigi Calamatta
    Luigi Calamatta
    Luigi Calamatta was an Italian painter and engraver. He was born at Civitavecchia. Orphaned early, he went to live with an uncle, then move to Rome to live in the l'Ospizio San Michele. He was expelled from the hospice, and became the ward of fellow artists.He studied drawing at Rome under...

     (1801–1868), painter and engraver
  • Luigi Crosio
    Luigi Crosio
    Luigi Crosio was an Italian painter who lived and worked in Turin, Italy. He died in Turin and is recorded as having been born in Alba, but the town of Aqua a few miles north of Alba claims Crosio was born there....

     (1835–1915), Turin-based Italian painter
  • Luigi De Giudici
    Luigi De Giudici
    Luigi De Giudici was an Italian painter of the Venetian anti-academic movement in the first years of the twentieth century. His works were exhibited at Ca' Pesaro between 1912 and1920 and at the Internation Exposition of Paris .He was born in Pavia di Udine of Friuli origins on his father's side...

     (1887–1955), painter
  • Luigi Fontana
    Luigi Fontana
    Luigi Fontana was an Italian sculptor, painter and architect. He is the father of Lucio Fontana.He was born at Monte San Pietrangeli, in the Marche, and was a pupil of Gaetano Palmaroli...

     (1827–1908), sculptor, painter and architect
  • Luigi Frisoni
    Luigi Frisoni
    Luigi Frisoni was an Italian painter, born in Verona. He initially apprenticed with Antonio Pachera. He taught in the local academy of painters.-Sources:...

     (1760–1811), painter
  • Luigi Ghirri
    Luigi Ghirri
    Luigi Ghirri was an Italian photographer. Born in Scandiano, Ghirri began taking photographs in 1970, mostly working in a milieu of conceptual artists. From 1983 he focussed primarily on photographing architecture and the Italian landscape...

     (1943–1992), photographer
  • Luigi Garzi
    Luigi Garzi
    Luigi Garzi was an Italian painter of the Baroque period. Born in Pistoia, and died in Rome, where he was one of the main pupils of Andrea Sacchi. He is also often referred to as Ludovico Garzi. In 1680 Garzi was appointed Regent of the Congregazione dei Virtuosi al Pantheon, the papal honor...

     (1638–1721), Baroque painter
  • Luigi Guardigli
    Luigi Guardigli
    Luigi Guardigli was an Italian painter and mosaicist.-Biography:Guardigli was born in Ravenna. At 18 he enrolled in and attended the School of Fine Arts of Ravenna. During World War II he was drafted and served from 1943 until 1946 in the Regia Marina at La Spezia)...

     (1923–2008), painter and mosaicist
  • Luigi Kasimir
    Luigi Kasimir
    Luigi Kasimir was an Austro-Hungarian-born etcher, painter, printmaker and landscape artist.-Personal life:Kasimir was born in 1881 at Ptuj , today Slovenia, then a part of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy...

     (1881–1962), Austro-Hungarian-born etcher, painter, printmaker and landscape artist
  • Luigi Lanzi
    Luigi Lanzi
    Luigi Lanzi was an Italian art historian and archaeologist.Born in Treia, Lanzi was educated as a priest. He entered the Order of the Jesuits, resided at Rome and in 1773 was appointed keeper of the galleries of Florence, where he became president of the Accademia della Crusca...

     (1732–1810), art historian and archaeologist
  • Luigi Lucioni
    Luigi Lucioni
    Luigi Lucioni was an Italian-born American painter. He lived and worked mainly in New York City, but also spent time working in Vermont. His still lifes, landscapes, and portraits were known for their realism, precisely drawn forms and smooth paint surface...

     (1900–1988), Italian-born American painter
  • Luigi Malice
    Luigi Malice
    Luigi Malice is an Italian abstract artist.Malice studied at Naples Academy of Fine Arts as a pupil of Emilio Notte, later studying under avant-guard and Informal Art painter Domenico Spinosa ....

     (born 1937), artist
  • Luigi Manini
    Luigi Manini
    Luigi Manini, Count of Fagagna was a European set designer and architect. He was born in Crema, Italy, and studied at the Brera Academy before becoming an assistant to Carlo Ferrario, the professor of stage design at La Scala...

     (1848–1936), European set designer and architect
  • Luigi Miradori
    Luigi Miradori
    Luigi Miradori was an Italian painter of the Baroque period, active mainly in Cremona.Miradori was born in Genoa, thus also called il Genovese or Genovesino. He was a pupil of the painter Panfilo Nuvolone or il Tanzio or Pietro Martire Neri...

     (1600s – c. 1656), Baroque painter
  • Luigi Mussini
    Luigi Mussini
    Luigi Mussini , was an Italian painter. He was born in Berlin, and died in Siena....

     (1813–1888), painter
  • Luigi Pellegrini Scaramuccia
    Luigi Pellegrini Scaramuccia
    Luigi Pellegrini Scaramuccia was an Italian painter and artist biographer of the Baroque period. He was a pupil, along with Giovanni Domenico Cerrini of the painter Guido Reni....

     (1616–1680), Baroque painter and artist biographer
  • Luigi Primo
    Luigi Primo
    Luis Primo was a Flemish painter of the Baroque period, active mainly in Rome, painting portraits and altarpieces.Primo was born at Brussels, and went when young to Rome, where he spent thirty years. He was also nicknamed Luigi Gentile on account of his gentle manners...

     (c. 1605–1667), Flemish Baroque painter
  • Luigi Quaini
    Luigi Quaini
    Luigi Quaini was an Italian painter of the Baroque period.He first learned the art of architectural perspective painting from his father, Francesco Quaini, a pupil of Agostino Mitelli. After some training with his father, he became a pupil of Guercino, then of Carlo Cignani . There he met a...

     (1643–1717), Baroque painter
  • Luigi Rados
    Luigi Rados
    Luigi Rados was an Italian engraver. He was born in Parma and was educated in the Academy of that city. His principal engravings are those depicting the Emperor Francis II after Jean-François Bosio and King Ferdinand after the same....

     (1773–1840), engraver
  • Luigi Riccardi
    Luigi Riccardi
    Luigi Riccardi was an Italian painter. He created landscapes and watercolors. Dipinse, non senza finezza, marine e paesaggi. Insegnò a Brera . Sue opere si trovano soprattutto a Milano .-References:Enciclopedia La Piccola Treccani rsondata...

     (1807–1877), painter
  • Luigi Russolo
    Luigi Russolo
    Luigi Russolo was an Italian Futurist painter and composer, and the author of the manifesto The Art of Noises . He is often regarded as one of the first noise music experimental composers with his performances of "noise concerts" in 1913-14 and then again after World War I, notably in Paris in 1921...

     (1885–1947), Futurist painter and composer
  • Luigi Sabatelli
    Luigi Sabatelli
    Luigi Sabatelli was an Italian painter of the Neoclassic period, active in Milan, Rome, and his native city of Florence....

     (1772–1850), Neoclassical painter
  • Luigi Schiavonetti
    Luigi Schiavonetti
    Luigi Schiavonetti , Italian reproductive engraver and etcher, was born at Bassano in Venetia.After having studied art for several years he was employed by Testolini, an engraver of very indifferent abilities, to execute imitations of Bartolozzi's works, which he passed off as his own...

     (1765–1810), reproductive engraver and etcher
  • Luigi Serafini
    Luigi Serafini
    Luigi Serafini is an Italian artist, architect and designer. He is best known for creating the Codex Seraphinianus, an illustrated encyclopedia of imaginary things in a constructed language...

     (born 1946), artist, architect and designer
  • Luigi Trinchero
    Luigi Trinchero
    Luigi Trinchero was an Italian sculptor, most active in Argentina after 1888, most notably the bas-reliefs and busts on the facade of the Teatro Colón.- Biography :...

     (1862–1944), sculptor

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  • Luigi Bertoni
    Luigi Bertoni
    Luigi Bertoni was an Italian-born anarchist writer and typographer.Bertoni was born in Milan. In July 1900 he founded the anarchist bilingual periodical Il Risveglio/Le Réveil Geneva. He was the editor of the journal until his death in 1947...

     (1872–1947), Italian-born anarchist writer and typographer
  • Luigi Borrelli
    Luigi Borrelli
    Luigi Borrelli is a high quality shirt maker in Naples, Italy. Luigi Borrelli started the company in 1957 after learning the trade from his mother, Anna Borrelli, in 1940s....

    , Naples-based shirts maker
  • Luigi Calabresi
    Luigi Calabresi
    Luigi Calabresi , recipient of a gold medal of the Italian Republic for civil valor, was a commissioner of Italian police in Milan....

     (1937–1972), commissioner of Italian police in Milan
  • Luigi Carrel
    Luigi Carrel
    Luigi Carrel aka "Carrelino" was an Italian mountain climber, mountain guide and ski mountaineer.Luigi Carrel was the son of the mountain guide Jean-Joseph Carrel and his wife Joséphine Pellissier. He was born in Cheneil, village of Valtournanche...

     (1901–1983), mountain climber, mountain guide and ski mountaineer
  • Luigi D'Albertis
    Luigi D'Albertis
    Luigi Maria D'Albertis was a flamboyant Italian naturalist and explorer who, in 1876, became the first person to chart the Fly River in Papua New Guinea. He took eight weeks to steam some 580 miles up the Fly River in an Australian launch, the Neva. On board as engineer was young Lawrence...

     (1841–1901), naturalist and explorer
  • Luigi Galleani
    Luigi Galleani
    Luigi Galleani was an Italian anarchist active in the United States from 1901 to 1919, viewed by historians as an anarchist communist and an insurrectionary anarchist. He is best known for his enthusiastic advocacy of "propaganda of the deed", i.e...

     (1861–1931), anarchist
  • Luigi Lavazza
    Luigi Lavazza
    Luigi Lavazza was an Italian businessman. He was the founder, in 1895, of the Lavazza coffee company in Turin.-Biography:Lavazza was born in Murisengo, a small city in the province of Turin ....

     (1859–1949), businessman
  • Luigi Manzotti
    Luigi Manzotti
    Luigi Manzotti was an Italian mime dancer and choreographer.Born in Milan, Manzotti created his first ballet in 1858 and his subsequent productions were performed around the world. Today he is best remembered for his choreography of the ballet Excelsior , music by Romualdo Marenco.-External links:...

     (1835–1905), choreographer
  • Luigi Miraglia (born 1965), Latinist and pedagogue
  • Luigi Ossoinack
    Luigi Ossoinack
    Luigi Ossoinack . Born in Fiume, studied in Ljubljana, Graz and Vienna, where he graduates at the commercial academy. He practised trade in Trieste, Odessa, London and “North America”....

     (1849–1904)
  • Luigi Puccianti
    Luigi Puccianti
    Luigi Puccianti is notable for having constructed a highly sensitive spectrograph, with which he studied the infrared absorption of many compounds and attempted to correlate the spectra with molecular structure...

     (1875–1952)
  • Luigi Veronelli
    Luigi Veronelli
    Luigi Veronelli was an Italian gastronome and intellectual. He is remembered as one of the central figures in the appreciation and promotion of Italy's gastronomic heritage...

     (1926–2004), gastronome and intellectual
  • Luigi Villa
    Luigi Villa
    Luigi Villa is a backgammon player from Milan, Italy. In 1979, he was the winner of the World Championship held in Monte Carlo.The same year, he was defeated in a 7-point match by Hans Berliner's computer program BKG 9.8, becoming the first world champion in any board game to be defeated by a...

    , backgammon player
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