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Italian language authors
- Enzo BettizaEnzo BettizaEnzo Bettiza is a Dalmatian-born Italian novelist, journalist and politician.-Biography:Bettiza was born in Dalmatia, in a rich family of the Italian minority. His mother stemmed from a family of the Croatian isle of Brač...
, writer and journalist, born in SplitSplit (city)Split is a Mediterranean city on the eastern shores of the Adriatic Sea, centered around the ancient Roman Palace of the Emperor Diocletian and its wide port bay. With a population of 178,192 citizens, and a metropolitan area numbering up to 467,899, Split is by far the largest Dalmatian city and... - Claudio MagrisClaudio MagrisClaudio Magris is an Italian scholar, translator and writer.Magris graduated from the University of Turin, where he studied German studies, and has been a professor of modern German literature at the University of Trieste since 1978.He is an essayist and columnist for the Italian newspaper...
, writer and essayist - Biagio MarinBiagio MarinBiagio Marin was an Italian poet, best known from his poems in the Venetian-Friulian dialect, which had no literary tradition until then. In his writings he has never obeyed rhetoric or poetics...
, poet (born in GradoGrado, ItalyGrado is a town and comune in the north-eastern Italian region of Friuli-Venezia Giulia, located on a peninsula of the Adriatic Sea between Venice and Trieste....
) - Umberto SabaUmberto SabaUmberto Poli was an Italian poet and novelist, born in the cosmopolitan Mediterranean port of Trieste when it was the fourth largest city of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Poli assumed the nom de plume "Saba" in 1910, and his name was officially changed to Umberto Saba in 1928. From 1919 he was the...
, poet - Scipio SlataperScipio SlataperScipio Slataper was an Italian language writer from Trieste, most famous for his lyrical essay My Karst. He is considered, alongside Italo Svevo, as the initiator of the prolific tradition of Italian literature in Trieste....
, essayist - Giani StuparichGiani StuparichGiani Stuparich was an Italian author.He was born in Trieste, then in the Austrian-Hungarian Empire.In 1948 he won a gold medal in the art competitions of the Olympic Games for his "La Grotta" ....
, writer and essayist - Italo SvevoItalo SvevoAron Ettore Schmitz , better known by the pseudonym Italo Svevo, was an Italian writer and businessman, author of novels, plays, and short stories.- Biography :...
, novelist - Susanna TamaroSusanna TamaroSusanna Tamaro is an Italian novelist. She has also worked as a scientific documentarist and movie maker direction assistant.-Biography:Susanna Tamaro was born in a family of middle class...
, novelist - Fulvio TomizzaFulvio TomizzaFulvio Tomizza was an Italian language writer. He was born in Giurizzani in Kingdom of Italy ....
, writer, born in Istria (now in Croatia)
Slovene language authors
- Vladimir BartolVladimir BartolVladimir Bartol was a Slovene writer, most famous for his novel Alamut. Alamut was published in 1938 and translated into numerous languages, becoming the most popular work of Slovene literature around the world.-Biography:Bartol was born on February 24, 1903 in San Giovanni , a suburb of the...
, writer - Dušan JelinčičDušan JelinčičDušan Jelinčič is an Slovene writer, essayist and mountaineer from Trieste, Italy.He was born in an influential Slovene intellectual family in Trieste; his father, Zorko Jelinčič, was among the co-founders of the militant anti-fascist organization TIGR, and a close personal friend of prominent...
, writer, essayist, and mountain climber - Boris PahorBoris PahorBoris Pahor is a Slovene writer from Italy. He is considered to be one of the most influential living authors in the Slovene language and has been nominated for the Nobel prize for literature by the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts...
, novelist - Alojz RebulaAlojz RebulaAlojz Rebula is a Slovene writer, playwright, essayist and translator, who lives and works in the Province of Trieste, Italy. He is a member of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts.-Life:...
, writer and essayist
German language authors
- Theodor DäublerTheodor DäublerTheodor Däubler was a poet and cultural critic in the German language. He was born in Trieste, then part of Austro-Hungary and has been described as "Trieste's most important German-speaking writer"....
, writer and poet - Robert HamerlingRobert HamerlingRobert Hamerling was an Austrian poet.-Biography:Hamerling was born into a poor family at Kirchberg am Walde in Lower Austria....
- Julius KugyJulius KugyJulius Kugy was an Austrian - Italian mountaineer and writer of Slovene origin. He wrote mostly in German. He is renowned for his travelogues from the Julian Alps, in which he reflected on the relationship between man, nature, and culture...
, writer and essayist (born in GoriziaGoriziaGorizia is a town and comune in northeastern Italy, in the autonomous region of Friuli Venezia Giulia. It is located at the foot of the Julian Alps, bordering Slovenia. It is the capital of the Province of Gorizia, and it is a local center of tourism, industry, and commerce. Since 1947, a twin...
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Authors in other languages
- Richard Francis BurtonRichard Francis BurtonCaptain Sir Richard Francis Burton KCMG FRGS was a British geographer, explorer, translator, writer, soldier, orientalist, cartographer, ethnologist, spy, linguist, poet, fencer and diplomat. He was known for his travels and explorations within Asia, Africa and the Americas as well as his...
- James JoyceJames JoyceJames Augustine Aloysius Joyce was an Irish novelist and poet, considered to be one of the most influential writers in the modernist avant-garde of the early 20th century...
- Jan MorrisJan MorrisJan Morris CBE is a Welsh nationalist, historian, author and travel writer. She is known particularly for the Pax Britannica trilogy, a history of the British Empire, and for portraits of cities, notably Oxford, Venice, Trieste, Hong Kong, and New York City.With an English mother and Welsh father,...
- StendhalStendhalMarie-Henri Beyle , better known by his pen name Stendhal, was a 19th-century French writer. Known for his acute analysis of his characters' psychology, he is considered one of the earliest and foremost practitioners of realism in his two novels Le Rouge et le Noir and La Chartreuse de Parme...
(as Consul of France in 1831) - Jules VerneJules VerneJules Gabriel Verne was a French author who pioneered the science fiction genre. He is best known for his novels Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea , A Journey to the Center of the Earth , and Around the World in Eighty Days...
Architects, designers, and visual artists
- Emilio AmbrosiniEmilio AmbrosiniEmilio Ambrosini was an Italian architect.-Life:Ambrosini finished a shipbuilding school in Trieste. After a few years spent in the Austro-Hungarian Navy, he went to Graz, Austria, where he enrolled the Higher Technical School, graduating in 1876...
, architect - Franca BatichFranca BatichFranca Batich is an Italian contemporary artist who specializes in oil and mixed technique abstract painting. A student of Giovanni Giordani, Frida de Reya, and Alice Psaconopulo, Batich first began exhibiting her artwork in the 1960s...
, Italian painter - Leo CastelliLeo CastelliLeo Castelli was an American art dealer. He was best known to the public as an art dealer whose gallery showcased cutting edge Contemporary art for five decades...
, art dealer - Tullio CraliTullio CraliTullio Crali was an Italian artist associated with Futurism. A self-taught painter, he was a late adherent to the movement, not joining until 1929...
, Futurist painter - Avgust ČernigojAvgust CernigojAvgust Černigoj, also known in Italian as Augusto Cernigoi was a Italian painter, known for his avant-garde experiments in Constructivism....
, Slovene painter - Franko LuinFranko LuinFranko Luin was a Swedish type designer of Slovene origin. He studied graphic arts at Grafiska Institutet in Stockholm, where he graduated in 1967...
, Swedish-Slovene graphic designer - Michael Manfredi, architect partner of Marion Weiss in New York–based Weiss/ManfrediWeiss/ManfrediWeiss/Manfredi is an architectural firm headquartered in New York City, founded by Marion Weiss and Michael Manfredi. Weiss currently teaches at the University of Pennsylvania School of Design...
- Boris PodreccaBoris PodreccaBoris Podrecca is a Slovene-Italian architect and urban designer living in Vienna, Austria. Podrecca is considered by some critics a pioneer of postmodernism...
, architect - Ernesto Nathan RogersErnesto Nathan RogersErnesto Nathan Rogers was an Italian architect, writer and educator.-Biography:Born in Trieste, Italy he graduated from the Politecnico di Milano, Italy in 1932...
, architect - Ivan RendićIvan RendicIvan Rendić was a Croatian sculptor.He began sculpting early on in life, thanks to the stoneworking tradition of the island of Brač, where he was raised. He finished arts school in Venice in 1871 and afterwards became a part of the Fioretine sculpting atelier...
, Croatian sculptor - Mila SchönMila SchonMila Schön was an Italian-born fashion designer. Marella Agnelli was one of her early clients.Born Maria Carmen Nutrizio, in Traù – now Croatia – on September 28, 1915 to wealthy Italian aristocratic parents who relocated to the Italian peninsula when Schön was a child, she is known for her...
, Fashion designer - Jožef TomincJožef TomincGiuseppe Tominz, also known as Jožef Tominc was a Italian painter who lived and worked in the Austrian Empire and in Italy. He was one of the most prominent Italian and Austrian portraitists of the Biedermeier period. He became renowned for his realistic portraits,...
, BiedermeierBiedermeierIn Central Europe, the Biedermeier era refers to the middle-class sensibilities of the historical period between 1815, the year of the Congress of Vienna at the end of the Napoleonic Wars, and 1848, the year of the European revolutions...
painter
Actors, musicians and performance artists
- Piero CappuccilliPiero CappuccilliPiero Cappuccilli was an Italian operatic baritone, particularly associated with Verdi roles, especiallyMacbeth and Simon Boccanegra; he was renowned for his extraordinary breath control and smooth legato, and is widely regarded as one of the finest Italian baritones of the second half of the 20th...
, Italian operatic baritone - Raffaello de BanfieldRaffaello de BanfieldRaffaello de Banfield , correctly Raphael Douglas, Baron von Banfield Tripcovich, was a British-born composer.- Family :...
, British composer - Antonio BibaloAntonio BibaloAntonio Gino Bibalo was an Italian-Norwegian pianist and composer of contemporary classical music, primarily operas.-Biography:...
, Italian pianist and composer - George DolenzGeorge DolenzGeorge Dolenz was an American film actor born in Trieste , in the city's Slovene community.-Biography:...
, actor and father of Micky DolenzMicky DolenzGeorge Michael "Micky" Dolenz, Jr. is an American actor, musician, television director, radio personality and theater director, best known as a member of the 1960s made-for-television band The Monkees.-Biography:...
of the Monkees - Alfred JaëllAlfred JaëllAlfred Jaëll was an austrian-ungarick pianist.He was born in Trieste. He studied under Carl Czernyand began his public career at the age of 11, appearing at the Teatro San Benedetto, Venice, in 1843. The following year he studied with Ignaz Moscheles in Vienna. In 1845 and 1846 he lived in...
, Austrian pianist - Tullio KezichTullio KezichTullio Kezich was an Italian film critic, screenwriter, playwright and actor.Kezich was born in Trieste...
, actor, playwright, and screenplayer - Paolo LongoPaolo LongoPaolo Longo is an Italian composer and conductor.-Life:He studied composition, piano and conducting in Trieste, where he graduated in 1990 with highest honors...
, composer and conductor - Lelio Luttazzi, musician, composer, showman and presenter
- Alessandro LottaAlessandro LottaAlessandro Lotta is the former bassist of the Italian symphonic metal band Rhapsody Of Fire, which he joined in 1996. Before joining Rhapsody he played in smaller local bands in Trieste, Italy....
, former bassist of the bands Rhapsody of FireRhapsody of FireRhapsody of Fire is an Italian symphonic power metal band led by Alex Staropoli. Since forming in 1993, the band has released eight studio albums, one live album, two EPs, and a live DVD...
and Wingdom - Mauro MaurMauro Maur- Biography :First Trumpet for the Orchestra of the Opera House in Rome from 1985 to 2009, Mauro Maur has appeared on several popular television shows such as:...
, Italian trumpet player and composer - Alexander Moissi, Austrian stage actor of Albanian descent
- Denis NovatoDenis NovatoDenis Novato is a Slovene musician from Italy, and world champion player of the diatonic accordion.Novato was born in Dolina near Trieste, Italy. From the age of ten he studied for Susanne Zerial. At the international accordion festival in Urbino in 1988 his solo performance won the first prize,...
, Slovene musician - Alberto RandeggerAlberto RandeggerAlberto Randegger was an Italian-born composer, conductor and singing teacher, best known for promoting opera and new works of British music in England during the Victorian era and for his widely-used textbook on singing technique.-Life and career:Randegger was born in Trieste, Italy, the son of...
, composer - Enrico RavaEnrico RavaEnrico Rava , is a prolific jazz trumpeter and arguably one of the best known Italian jazz musicians. He originally played trombone, changing to the trumpet after hearing Miles Davis. His first commercial work was as a member of Gato Barbieri's Italian quintet in the mid-1960s; in the late 1960s...
, jazz trumpeter - Victor de SabataVictor de SabataVictor de Sabata was an Italian conductor and composer. He is widely recognized as one of the most distinguished operatic conductors of the twentieth century, especially for his Verdi, Puccini and Wagner. He is also acclaimed for his interpretations of orchestral music...
, conductor - Laura SolariLaura SolariLaura Camaur , known by the stage name Laura Solari, was an Italian film actress.-Early life:Laura Camaur was born on 5 January 5, 1913, in Trieste, then part of Austria-Hungary. She was the daughter of sculptor and artist Antonio Camaur and his wife, Maria Taucer...
, film actress - Alex StaropoliAlex StaropoliAlessandro Staropoli is the keyboard player, composer and co-founder of the Italian symphonic metal band Rhapsody of Fire...
, keyboardist of the band Rhapsody of FireRhapsody of FireRhapsody of Fire is an Italian symphonic power metal band led by Alex Staropoli. Since forming in 1993, the band has released eight studio albums, one live album, two EPs, and a live DVD... - Avraham Albert Sternklar, Pianist, composer
- Giorgio StrehlerGiorgio StrehlerGiorgio Strehler was an Italian opera and theatre director.-Biography:Strehler was born in Barcola, Trieste to an Austrian father and a Franco-Slovene mother; he grew up speaking Italian but spoke French well and his German was passable. He became suddenly fatherless at the age of three, his...
, opera and theater director - Elisa Toffoli, Nationally renowned singer/songwriter, pianist, and guitarist
- Luca TurilliLuca Turilli (musician)Luca Turilli is an Italian musician and composer. He is one of the founders of the symphonic power metal band Rhapsody of Fire. He also worked on a trilogy of solo albums as Luca Turilli...
, guitarist of the band Rhapsody of FireRhapsody of FireRhapsody of Fire is an Italian symphonic power metal band led by Alex Staropoli. Since forming in 1993, the band has released eight studio albums, one live album, two EPs, and a live DVD... - Ivan RassimovIvan RassimovIvan Rassimov was an Italian film actor of Serbian origin who appeared in many horror and exploitation films....
, Italian actor of Serbian descent - Rada RassimovRada RassimovRada Rassimov is an Italian actress who has appeared in film since the early 1960s and television since 1975....
, Italian actor of Serbian descent
Entrepreneurs and Business Leaders
- Andrea IllyAndrea IllyAndrea Illy is an Italian businessman. He is the chairman and CEO of illycaffè S.p.A., a family coffee business founded in Trieste in 1933.-Life and education:...
, Entrepreneur - Ernesto IllyErnesto IllyErnesto Illy was an Italian food chemist and businessman, known as the chairman of the Illycaffè S.p.A coffee manufacturer...
, Entrepreneur, founder of coffee empire - Francesco IllyFrancesco IllyFrancesco Illy – 1956, Trieste, Italy) was a Hungarian financial accountant, bookkeeper and inventor ofcoffee machinery.Illy was brought up in Temesvár where he studied economics...
, Entrepreneur, inventor of coffee machinery
Journalists and authors
- Sergio AmideiSergio AmideiSergio Amidei was an Italian screenwriter and an important figure in Italy's neorealist movement.Amidei was born in Trieste. He worked with famed Italian directors such as Roberto Rossellini and Vittorio De Sica...
, screenwriter - Giovanna BotteriGiovanna BotteriGiovanna Botteri is an Italian journalist.She was born in Trieste. Her father was Guido Botteri, a journalist RAI, and a Montenegrin mother....
, journalist - Almerigo GrilzAlmerigo GrilzAlmerigo Grilz was an Italian right wing politician, and an independent war correspondent.He was born in Trieste, then Zone A of the Free Territory of Trieste, now administrated by Italy...
, journalist, freelance war reporter and politician. Was killed during an African reportage - Leo NegrelliLeo NegrelliLeo Negrelli, born in Trieste, died in Spain in 1974. As a member of the Sursum Corda he was one of the organisers of Gabriele D'Annunzio‘s arrival in Fiume in 1919....
, journalist - Demetrio VolcicDemetrio VolcicDemetrio Volcic, also known in Slovene as Mitja Volčič is an Italian journalist, author, and politician of Slovenian descent. He rose to prominence in the late 1960s and early 1970s as foreign correspondent for the Italian television RAI...
, journalist and politician - Ann ShulginAnn ShulginAnn Shulgin is an American author and the wife of chemist Alexander Shulgin.Ann Shulgin grew up in the village Opicina outside the Italian city Trieste where her father was American Consul for six years before World War II. She has worked as a lay therapist with psychedelic substances such as MDMA...
, author
Politicians and public servants
- Joseph FouchéJoseph FouchéJoseph Fouché, 1st Duc d'Otrante was a French statesman and Minister of Police under Napoleon Bonaparte. In English texts his title is often translated as Duke of Otranto.-Youth:Fouché was born in Le Pellerin, a small village near Nantes...
, duke of Otranto, spent his last 5 years exiled in Trieste. - Engelbert BesednjakEngelbert BesednjakEngelbert Besednjak was a Slovene Christian Democrat politician, lawyer and journalist. In the 1920s, he was one of the foremost leaders of the Slovene and Croat minority in the Italian-administered Julian March. In the 1930s, he was one of the leaders of Slovene anti-Fascist émigrés from the...
, Slovene politician - Josip FerfoljaJosip FerfoljaJosip Ferfolja was a Slovene lawyer and Social democratic politician, and human rights activist from the Province of Gorizia...
, Slovenian social-democratic politician and human rights activist - Riccardo IllyRiccardo Illy-Biography:Riccardo Illy was born in Trieste, Friuli-Venezia Giulia. His name shows Hungarian origins.As a young man he worked as a skiing instructor at Piancavallo and a sailing instructor at Monfalcone. He married Rossana Bettini, food and wine journalist, when he was very young...
, Italian politician - Mitja RibičičMitja RibičičMitja Ribičič is a former Slovenian Communist official and Yugoslav politician. He was the only Slovenian prime minister of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia...
, Slovenian Communist leader, President of the Yugoslav Government (1969–1971) - Vittorio VidaliVittorio VidaliVittorio Vidali , also known as Vittorio Vidale, Enea Sormenti, Jacobo Hurwitz Zender, Carlos Contreras, "Comandante Carlos") was an Italian-born Stalinist.- Early life :...
(aka Enea Sormenti, Jacobo Hurwitz Zender, Carlos Contreras), Communist agent - Josip Wilfan, Slovene jurist, politician, and human rights activist
Religious figures
- Pietro BonomoPietro BonomoPietro Bonomo was an Italian humanist and diplomat, who became bishop of Trieste in 1502 and archbishop of Vienna briefly in 1522....
, humanist and bishop, supporter of the Protestant ReformationProtestant ReformationThe Protestant Reformation was a 16th-century split within Western Christianity initiated by Martin Luther, John Calvin and other early Protestants. The efforts of the self-described "reformers", who objected to the doctrines, rituals and ecclesiastical structure of the Roman Catholic Church, led...
Scholars, scientists and intellectuals
- Luisa AccatiLuisa AccatiLuisa Accati Levi is an Italian historian, anthropologist and feminist public intellectual. She currently teaches ethnology and modern history at the University of Trieste....
, historian and femminist theoretician - Florian BiesikFlorian BiesikFlorian Biesik created a literary standard for Vilamovian, trying to prove it did not derive from German origin, but possibly Dutch, Frisian, or Anglo-Saxon....
, SilesiaSilesiaSilesia is a historical region of Central Europe located mostly in Poland, with smaller parts also in the Czech Republic, and Germany.Silesia is rich in mineral and natural resources, and includes several important industrial areas. Silesia's largest city and historical capital is Wrocław...
n linguist, Vilamovian language scholar and poet - Ludwig BoltzmannLudwig BoltzmannLudwig Eduard Boltzmann was an Austrian physicist famous for his founding contributions in the fields of statistical mechanics and statistical thermodynamics...
, Austrian physicist - Lavo ČermeljLavo CermeljLavo Čermelj, Italianized in Lavo Cermeli was a Slovene physicist, political activist, publicist and author...
, Slovene physisicist and public intellectual - Boris FurlanBoris FurlanBoris Furlan was a Slovenian jurist, philosopher of law, translator and liberal politician. During World War II, he worked as a speaker on Radio London, and was known as the "London's Slovene voice". He served as a Minister in the Tito-Šubašić coalition government...
, Slovenian legal theorist, translator and politician - Arturo FalaschiArturo FalaschiArturo Falaschi was an Italian geneticist. He led a very successful life as a student, teacher and a science administrator. He graduated in Medicine in 1957 from Milan University and undertook two post doctoral studies. Firstly, with J...
, MD, Geneticist - Guido GoldschmiedtGuido GoldschmiedtGuido Goldschmiedt was an Austrian chemist. During his career, he collaborated with Bunsen in Heidelberg and Baeyer in Straßburg. In 1891, he became full professor at the University of Vienna and later at the University of Prague...
, Austrian chemist - Boris M. GombačBoris M. GombacBoris M. Gombač is a Slovene historian from Italy.He was born to a middle class Slovene family in Trieste, Italy. He studied history at the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia...
, Slovenian historian - Spiridon GopčevićSpiridon GopcevicSpiridon Gopčević or Leo Brenner was a Serbian-Austrian astronomer and historian born in Trieste.His father, also named Spiridon, was a great shipowner in Trieste , but had originated from the village of Podi near Herceg Novi in Boka Kotorska in present-day Montenegro...
, Serbian astronomer and historian - Margherita HackMargherita HackMargherita Hack is an Italian astrophysicist and popular science writer. The asteroid 8558 Hack, discovered in 1995, was named in her honor.-Biography:...
, Italian astronomer - Fiorella KostorisFiorella KostorisFiorella Kostoris Padoa-Schioppa is an Italian economist who is currently Professor at the University of Rome . She is also a professor at the College of Europe in Bruges...
, economist - Doro LeviDoro LeviDoro Levi was an archaeologist who practiced in the Mediterranean countries in the 20th century. Specifically, Levi conducted excavations in Italy, Greece, and Turkey. From 1938 to 1945, Levi was a member of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey...
, archaeologist - Salvatore PincherleSalvatore PincherleSalvatore Pincherle was an Italian mathematician. He contributed significantly to the field of functional analysis, established the Italian Mathematical Union , and was president of the Third International Congress of Mathematicians...
, Italian mathematician - Jože PirjevecJože PirjevecJože Pirjevec is a Slovene historian from Italy. He is one of the most prominent diplomatic historians of the west Balkans region, and member of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts....
, Slovene historian - Abdus SalamAbdus SalamMohammad Abdus Salam, NI, SPk Mohammad Abdus Salam, NI, SPk Mohammad Abdus Salam, NI, SPk (Urdu: محمد عبد السلام, pronounced , (January 29, 1926– November 21, 1996) was a Pakistani theoretical physicist and Nobel laureate in Physics for his work on the electroweak unification of the...
, Pakistani theoretical physicist, Nobel prize laureate - Denis Sciama, British physicist
- Marta VerginellaMarta VerginellaMarta Verginella is a Slovenian-Italian historian from Trieste, and one of the most prominent contemporary Slovene historians.- Biography :She was born in Trieste, Italy, where she attended Slovene language schools...
, Slovene historian - Ivan VidavIvan VidavIvan Vidav is a Slovenian mathematician.Ivan Vidav was born in Opčine near Trieste , Italy. He is Josip Plemelj's student. Vidav got his Ph.D...
, Slovene mathematician
Sportsmen
- Nino Benvenuti, Italian boxer
- Biaggio ChianeseBiaggio ChianeseBiaggio Chianese is a retired boxer from Italy, who won the bronze medal at both the 1986 World Amateur Boxing Championships and the 1987 European Amateur Boxing Championships in the men's heavyweight division.-References:...
, Italian boxer - Claudia CoslovichClaudia Coslovich-Career:Claudia Coslovich is an Italian athlete who specializes in the javelin throw. Her personal best was 65.30 metres, achieved in June 2000 in Ljubljana. She is a member of the Slovene ethnic minority of Friuli - Venezia Giulia.-Achievements:-External links:...
, athlete - Fabio CudiciniFabio CudiciniFabio Cudicini is an Italian former professional football goalkeeper, who played from 1955 to 1973. With his he was one of the tallest goalkeepers of his time....
, football player (goalkeeper) - Umberto De MorpurgoUmberto De MorpurgoBaron Umberto Louis De Morpurgo was a male tennis player from Italy.De Morpurgo was born in Trieste when it was part of Austria, but became an Italian citizen when the city changed hands after World War I. He was ranked in the World’s Top 10 1928-30 —- 9th in 1928, 10th in 1929, and 8th in 1930...
, tennis player - Giorgio FerriniGiorgio FerriniGiorgio Ferrini was an Italian footballer.Ferrini was born at Trieste. He started his career at A.S. Varese 1910 , and moved to Torino F.C. in 1959, where he played until 1975, making 443 appearances and scoring 42 goals...
, football player - Livio FranceschiniLivio FranceschiniLivio Franceschini was an Italian basketball player who competed in the 1936 Summer Olympics. He was born in Trieste....
, basketball player - Sandro GambaSandro GambaAlessandro Gamba , better known as Sandro Gamba, is an Italian basketball coach and former professional basketball player....
, basketball coach and player - Matteo GladigMatteo GladigMatteo Gladig was an Italian chess master.Born in Triest , he won at Triest 1905 , took 2nd, behind Giovanni Martinolich, at Triest 1909 , and drew a short match with Oldřich Duras at Triest 1909...
, Italian chess master - Margherita GranbassiMargherita GranbassiMargherita Granbassi is an Italian foil fencer.Granbassi won the gold medal at the foil 2006 World Fencing Championships after beating Valentina Vezzali 7-6 in the final. Later in the tournament she also won a silver in the team's foil event together with her team mates Elisa Di Francisca,...
, Italian foil fencer - Duilio LoiDuilio LoiDuilio Loi was an Italian boxer who held the Italian and European lightweight and welterweight titles, as well as the world junior welterweight championship. Loi fought from 1948 to 1962, and retired with a record of 115 wins , 3 losses and 8 draws...
, boxer - Cesare MaldiniCesare MaldiniCesare Maldini is an Italian football manager and former player. He played as a centre back and spent the majority of his career with AC Milan. Maldini also represented Italy at international level in the 1962 and 1966 World Cups. His son Paolo, also a defender, previously held the record for the...
, former AC Milan captain, Italian football team manager. - Giovanni MartinolichGiovanni MartinolichGiovanni Martinolich was an Italian chess master.Born in Trieste , The son of Dr Giovanni Martinolich , a lawyer, Sec. of the Austrian Association of Maritime law and legal advisor to the British and US Consulates and of Anna Gerolimich of Lussinpiccolo a ship owner, he studied in Vienna...
, Italian chess master - Tiberio MitriTiberio MitriTiberio Mitri was an Italian boxer who fought from 1946 to 1957. During his career, Mitri was the Italian and European middleweight champion....
, boxer - Giorgio OberwegerGiorgio OberwegerGiorgio Oberweger was an Italian athlete who competed mainly in the discus throw and in the 110 hs....
, athlete - Nicola PrincivalliNicola PrincivalliNicola Princivalli is an Italian footballer. He currently plays for Triestina in Serie B. He made his Serie B debut in a 3-1 win over Vicenza, on 13 October 2002....
, football player - Carlo RigottiCarlo RigottiCarlo Rigotti was an Italian football player and manager from Trieste. Over the course of his career, Rigotti played for three Serie A clubs; he started his career with hometown side Triestina, then going on to play for Milan and Novara.After retiring from the playing field, he became a manager at...
, football player - Nereo RoccoNereo RoccoNereo Rocco was an Italian football player and manager. He is famous for having been one of the most successful head coaches in Italy, and the first proponent of catenaccio in the country.-Playing career:...
, football legend - Cesare RubiniCesare RubiniCesare Rubini was an Italian basketball player and coach, and water polo player. One of the greatest European coaches of all time, Rubini was inducted intto the Basketball Hall of Fame in 1994, the first and to this day one of the few Italian basketball figures to receive such an honour, together...
, water polo player - Giovanni SteffèGiovanni SteffèGiovanni Steffè is an Italian rower who competed in the 1948 Summer Olympics.He was born in Trieste.In 1948 he was a crew member of the Italian boat which won the silver medal in the coxed pairs event.-External links:*...
, rower - Max TonettoMax TonettoMax Tonetto is an Italian football defender. Naturally left footed, his preferred position is the left midfielder position...
, football player - Ferruccio Valcareggi, football player and coach
- Renzo VecchiatoRenzo VecchiatoRenzo Vecchiato is a former basketball player from Italy, who won the silver medal with his national team at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow.-References:...
, basketball player
Others
- Maximilian of Habsburg, Emperor of Mexico, Archduke of Austria (Schönbrunn 1832 - Querétaro 1867) built the white castle and park on the riviera. He planted plants in the park from his travels around the world.
- Prince Amedeo, Duke of Aosta, Italian General, resided at Miramare castle and was president of the local football team
- Princess Maria Cristina of SavoyPrincess Maria Cristina of SavoyMaria Cristina of Savoy-Aosta is a Princess of Savoy-Aosta by birth and a Princess of Bourbon-Two Sicilies by marriage to Prince Casimir of Bourbon-Two Sicilies.-Family:...
, Italian princess, born at Miramare Castle in 1933 - Lidia BastianichLidia BastianichLidia Matticchio Bastianich is an American chef, author, and restaurateur....
, Italian-American chef and TV cooking show host whose family lived in a Triestian refugee camp after their escape from IstriaIstriaIstria , formerly Histria , is the largest peninsula in the Adriatic Sea. The peninsula is located at the head of the Adriatic between the Gulf of Trieste and the Bay of Kvarner...
, YugoslaviaYugoslaviaYugoslavia refers to three political entities that existed successively on the western part of the Balkans during most of the 20th century....
(now CroatiaCroatiaCroatia , officially the Republic of Croatia , is a unitary democratic parliamentary republic in Europe at the crossroads of the Mitteleuropa, the Balkans, and the Mediterranean. Its capital and largest city is Zagreb. The country is divided into 20 counties and the city of Zagreb. Croatia covers ...
) - Mathilde BonaparteMathilde BonaparteMathilde Laetitia Wilhelmine Bonaparte, Princesse Française , was a French princess and Salon holder. She was a daughter of Napoleon's brother Jérôme Bonaparte and his second wife, Catharina of Württemberg, daughter of King Frederick I of Württemberg.- Biography :Born in Trieste, Mathilde Bonaparte...
, Napoleon's niece, daughter of his brother Jérôme BonaparteJérôme BonaparteJérôme-Napoléon Bonaparte, French Prince, King of Westphalia, 1st Prince of Montfort was the youngest brother of Napoleon, who made him king of Westphalia...
, was born here in 1820 - Leo CastelliLeo CastelliLeo Castelli was an American art dealer. He was best known to the public as an art dealer whose gallery showcased cutting edge Contemporary art for five decades...
, New York art dealer who established one of the world's leading vanguard galleries in the 20th century - Louis Antoine Debrauz de SaldapennaLouis Antoine Debrauz de SaldapennaChevalier Louis Antoine Debrauz de Saldapenna ; originally Alois Anton Dobrauz Ritter di Saldapenna, was an Austrian secret diplomat and journalist, founder and editor of the Mémorial diplomatique, a noted statistical expert of his time and the author of numerous books on politics, law and...
, Austrian diplomat, journalist and author - Gottfried von BanfieldGottfried von BanfieldFreiherr Gottfried von Banfield was the most successful Austro-Hungarian naval aeroplane pilot in the First World War. He was known as the 'Eagle of Trieste' and was the last person in history to wear the Military Order of Maria Theresa...
(1890–1986), top Austrian Empire fighter ace in World War I - Anton FüsterAnton FüsterAnton Füster, also spelled as Fister was an Austrian Roman Catholic priest, theologian, pedagogue, radical political activist and author of Slovene origin. He was one of the leaders of the Viennese March Revolution of 1848....
, Austrian revolutionary activist, author and pedagogue - Odilo GlobocnikOdilo GlobocnikOdilo Lotario Globocnik was a prominent Austrian Nazi and later an SS leader. He was an acquaintance of Adolf Eichmann, who played a major role in the extermination of Jews and others during the Holocaust...
, Nazi war criminal, SS leader - Jules VerneJules VerneJules Gabriel Verne was a French author who pioneered the science fiction genre. He is best known for his novels Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea , A Journey to the Center of the Earth , and Around the World in Eighty Days...
, French author, lived in Trieste and wrote the novela " La Congiura di Trieste". - Sigismund Zois, Slovene mecenate and natural scientist