Riccardo
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Riccardo is a male
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 given name
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, Italian
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 version of Richard
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  • Riccardo Antoniazzi
    Riccardo Antoniazzi
    Riccardo Antoniazzi , Italian violin maker, the sixth child and pupil of Gaetano , was the ablest and most consistent violin maker of his family. Unfortunately he lived somewhat in the shadow of Leandro Bisiach and he did not sign many of the instruments from his best period...

    , Italian violin maker
  • Riccardo Azzoli
    Riccardo Azzoli
    Riccardo Azzoli is an Italian race car driver born in Rome who currently competes in GT Open with Aston Martin DBRS9 of team Villois. He drove for the Target team in the Italian and Germany formula 3 championship in the 2005-2006. Before moving to F3 he drove in Formula Renault 2.0 Italia in 2004,...

     (1984), racecar driver
  • Riccardo Bacchelli
    Riccardo Bacchelli
    Riccardo Bacchelli was an Italian writer.His first novel was Il filo meraviglioso di Lodovico Clo’ . Then he wrote La città degli amanti . He was one of the founders of the Bagutta Prize.His more popular work was Il mulino del Po ,...

     (1891-1985), writer
  • Riccardo Barthelemy
    Riccardo Barthelemy
    Riccardo Barthelemy, also Richard and Barthélemy was an Italian composer and pianist.Barthelemy studied in San Pietro a Majella conservatory in Naples. His compositions included songs and stage works...

    , Italian composer
  • Riccardo Bertazzolo
    Riccardo Bertazzolo
    Riccardo Bertazzolo was an Italian boxer who competed in the 1924 Summer Olympics.He was born in Venice....

    , Italian boxer
  • Riccardo Billi
    Riccardo Billi
    Riccardo Billi was an Italian film actor and comedian.He appeared in around 85 films between 1938 and his death in 1982.- Filmography :-External links:* at Fandango* at Blockbuster...

    , Italian film actor and comedian
  • Riccardo Bocchino
    Riccardo Bocchino
    Riccardo Bocchino is an Italian rugby union player. Bocchino, who is a fly-half, plays his club rugby for Aironi. He made his debut for Italy against Ireland on 6 February 2010....

     (1988), Italian rugby union player
  • Riccardo Bonetto
    Riccardo Bonetto
    Riccardo Bonetto is an Italian football of Bassano Virtus.-Career:He also played at Serie A level with Empoli and Livorno. Bonetto was sold to Empoli in co-ownership deal in 2001 from Juve, for €516K.-External links:...

     (1979), Italian footballer
  • Riccardo Brengola
    Riccardo Brengola
    Riccardo Brengola was an Italian violinist.Brengola was born in Naples. A child prodigy, he made his first studies with his father, and got his violin diploma in the Casablanca Conservatory at the early age of 11. returning to Italy, he studied violin with Arrigo Serato and orchestral conducting...

    , Italian violinist
  • Riccardo Broschi
    Riccardo Broschi
    Riccardo Broschi was a composer of baroque music and the brother of the opera singer Carlo Broschi, known as Farinelli....

     (1698-1795), composer, brother of famous castrato singer Carlo Broschi
  • Riccardo Burchielli
    Riccardo Burchielli
    Riccardo Burchielli is an Italian artist who draws the Vertigo-comic DMZ. This series is his first in the United States....

    , Italian artist
  • Riccardo Calimani
    Riccardo Calimani
    Riccardo Calimani is a renowned writer and historian, specialised on Italian and European Judaism and Jewish history....

    , Italian writer and historian
  • Riccardo Campa
    Riccardo Campa
    Riccardo Campa is Professor of Sociology at the University of Cracow. He possesses two Master of Arts degrees, in Political Science and Philosophy, from the University of Bologna and a Ph.D. in Sociology from the Nicholas Copernicus University in Toruń, Poland...

    , Italian professor
  • Riccardo Campogiani
    Riccardo Campogiani
    Riccardo Campogiani, 16 at the time of death on October 7, was a Swedish teenager who was beaten to death at a party in central Stockholm, Sweden October 6, 2007.Campogiani died at the hospital from severe injuries sustained after multiple kicks to the head....

    , Swedish assault victim
  • Riccardo Carapellese
    Riccardo Carapellese
    Riccardo Carapellese was an Italian football striker and coach.He was born in Cerignola, province of Foggia. He died in Rapallo in 1995 at 73 years of age.-Club:...

     (1922-1995), footballer
  • Riccardo Cassin
    Riccardo Cassin
    Riccardo Cassin was an Italian mountaineer, developer of mountaineering equipment and author.-Life:Born at San Vito al Tagliamento, Friuli, Cassin was one of the leading mountaineers of the inter-war period; in all, Cassin made a total of 2,500 ascents, of which over 100 were first ascents...

     (1909-2009), Italian mountaineer
  • Riccardo Chailly
    Riccardo Chailly
    Riccardo Chailly, Cavaliere di Gran Croce OMRI is an Italian conductor. He started his career as an opera conductor and gradually extended his repertoire to encompass symphonic music.-Biography:...

    , Italian conductor
  • Riccardo Chiarini
    Riccardo Chiarini
    Riccardo Chiarini is an Italian professional road bicycle racer for UCI Professional Continental team . He is a native of Faenza.- External links :...

    , road bicycle racer
  • Riccardo Colombo
    Riccardo Colombo
    Riccardo Colombo is an Italian football player. He currently plays for Reggina.In 2008-09 season, he also played 3 games at Coppa Italia 2008-09....

    , footballer
  • Riccardo Cocciante
    Riccardo Cocciante
    Riccardo Cocciante, also known in French-speaking countries as Richard Cocciante , is an Italian singer-songwriter and actor. His oeuvre includes recordings in Italian, French, and Spanish; he has recorded some of his songs in all three languages.He was born in Saigon, French Indochina, now Ho Chi...

     (1946), Italo-French singer, songwriter and composer
  • Riccardo Corallo
    Riccardo Corallo
    Riccardo Corallo is an Italian footballer. He plays as a defender for Gloria Bistriţa in Liga I.-External links:*...

    , footballer
  • Riccardo Cucciolla
    Riccardo Cucciolla
    Riccardo Cucciolla was an Italian film actor. He appeared in 60 films between 1953 and 1999. He won the Best Actor Award at the 1971 Cannes Film Festival for the film Sacco e Vanzetti....

    , Italian film actor
  • Riccardo Dalmacci
    Riccardo Dalmacci
    Riccardo Dalmacci is an Italian-Mexican actor of film and telenovelas. He is sometimes credited as Ricardo Dalmacci....

    , Mexican actor
  • Riccardo Divora
    Riccardo Divora
    Riccardo Divora was an Italian rower who competed in the 1932 Summer Olympics.In 1932 he won the silver medal as member of the Italian boat in the coxed fours competition.-External links:*...

    , Italian rower
  • Riccardo Drigo
    Riccardo Drigo
    Riccardo Eugenio Drigo , a.k.a. Richard Drigo was an Italian composer of ballet music and Italian Opera, a theatrical conductor, and a pianist....

    , Italian composer of ballet music and Italian Opera, a theatrical conductor and virtuoso pianist
  • Riccardo Ferri
    Riccardo Ferri
    Riccardo Ferri is an Italian former footballer, centre-back.-Club career:Ferri was born in Crema, and debuted in Serie A with Internazionale in October 1981. Soon a titular defender, he became a mainstay of the team, playing for Internazionale for a total of 13 seasons.He won the Scudetto in...

     (1963), Italian footballer
  • Riccardo Fissore
    Riccardo Fissore
    Riccardo Fissore is an Italian footballer who plays for Mantova at Serie B.-Career:Fissore started his career with Torino. In June 2000, he was exchanged to Internazionale along with Franco Semioli in a co-ownership deal for Fabio Galante. After a loan spell at U.S. Lecce, Fissore returned to...

     (1980), Italian footballer
  • Riccardo Francovich
    Riccardo Francovich
    Riccardo Francovich was a pioneering Italian archaeologist and expert on Medieval Italy....

     (1946-2007), Italian archaeologist
  • Riccardo Freda
    Riccardo Freda
    Riccardo Freda was an Egyptian-born Italian film director. Best known for his horror and thriller movies, Freda had no great love for the horror films he was assigned, but rather favored the epic sword and sandal pictures...

     (1909-1999), film director
  • Riccardo Fogli
    Riccardo Fogli
    Riccardo Fogli is an Italian singer.-Early career:Riccardo Fogli was born on 21 October 1947 in Pontedera. He was fond of music since his childhood. In the 1960s, he became a fan of The Beatles, which also influenced his decision to start his career as a singer.In 1964, at the age of 17, Fogli...

    , Italian singer
  • Riccardo Gabbiadini
    Riccardo Gabbiadini
    Riccardo Gabbiadini is a Welsh-born English former footballer. He is the brother of former player Marco Gabbiadini, and played his solitary game for Sunderland alongside his brother in the 1988-89 Second Division season.In January 1994 Gabbiadini signed for Sligo Rovers in the League of Ireland...

    , Welsh footballer
  • Riccardo Galeazzi-Lisi
    Riccardo Galeazzi-Lisi
    Riccardo Galeazzi-Lisi was an Italian medical doctor who served as Pope Pius XII's personal physician from 1939 until his dismissal in 1956. During his service in the Vatican he was officially titled "Archiatra Pontificio". The pope also made him an honorary member of the Pontifical Academy of...

    , medical doctor
  • Riccardo Garrone (1926), Italian actor
  • Riccardo Garrone
    Riccardo Garrone (born 1936)
    Riccardo Garrone is an Italian enterpreneur. He is the owner Serie A association football club U.C. Sampdoria, and honorary chairman and former CEO of Italian oil firm ERG, which is owned by his family....

     (1936), Italian enterpreneur asnd football chairman
  • Riccardo Giacconi
    Riccardo Giacconi
    Riccardo Giacconi is an Italian/American Nobel Prize-winning astrophysicist who laid the foundations of X-ray astronomy. He is currently a professor at the Johns Hopkins University.- Biography :...

     (1931), Italian-born American Nobel Prize-winning astrophysicist
  • Riccardo Illy
    Riccardo 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 businessman
  • Riccardo Ingram
    Riccardo Ingram
    Riccardo Benay Ingram is a former Major League Baseball player for the Detroit Tigers and the Minnesota Twins...

    , US baseball player and coach
  • Riccardo Lione
    Riccardo Lione
    Riccardo Lione, born in Rome, is a beach volleyball player from Italy.He and team mate Eugenio Amore represented Italy at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, China.-External links:*...

    , Italian beach volleyball player
  • Riccardo Magrini
    Riccardo Magrini
    Riccardo Magrini was an Italian professional road bicycle racer. In 1983 Magrini won a stage in the 1983 Giro d'Italia and in the 1983 Tour de France.- Palmarès :19821983*...

    , Italian road bicycle racer
  • Riccardo Maniero
    Riccardo Maniero
    Riccardo Maniero is an Italian football striker, who currently plays for Pescara, in the Italian Serie B.-Juventus:...

    , Italian footballer
  • Riccardo Mantoni (1918-1991), radio author and director, brother of Corrado
    Corrado Mantoni
    Corrado Mantoni was an Italian radio and television host.-Biography:He was born in Rome, where he followed classic studies and in jurisprudence; before finishing university studies he started to work as radio speaker with EIAR, predecessor of RAI, Italian State Television...

  • Riccardo Martin
    Riccardo Martin
    Riccardo Martin was an American tenor.Born Hugh Whitfield Martin in Hopkinsville, Kentucky, Martin was granted an endowment which allowed him, in 1901, to go to Paris to study with Giovanni Sbriglia and Jean de Reszke; he later completed his studies with Vincenzo Lombardi in Florence and Beniamino...

    , an American tenor
  • Riccardo Maspero
    Riccardo Maspero
    Riccardo Maspero is an Italian footballer who played as an attacking midfielder, most notably with Cremonese.Maspero came to prominence as a teenager at Cremonese, and played in two one-year spells in Serie A...

    , an Italian footballer
  • Riccardo Materazzi
    Riccardo Materazzi
    Riccardo Materazzi is a retired male middle distance runner from Italy. He competed for his home country at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, California. Materazzi won the silver medal in the men's 1,500 metres at the 1984 European Indoor Championships in Gothenburg, Sweden.-References:*...

     (1963), middle distance runner
  • Riccardo Meggiorini
    Riccardo Meggiorini
    Riccardo Meggiorini is an Italian footballer who plays for Novara, on loan from Genoa.He is nicknamed Meggio by his teammates.-Early career:Meggiorini started his career at Bovolone, a team from his native Verona Province....

    , an Italian footballer
  • Riccardo Meili
    Riccardo Meili
    Riccardo Meili is a footballer from Switzerland who last plays as goalkeeper for FC Vaduz in the Swiss Challenge League.- Career :...

     (1982), footballer
  • Riccardo Montolivo
    Riccardo Montolivo
    Riccardo Montolivo is an Italian footballer who plays for Serie A club Fiorentina and the Italian national team. He was appointed club captain during the 2009–10 season.Montolivo is a prototypical "regista" , similar to Andrea Pirlo...

     (1985), footballer
  • Riccardo Morandi
    Riccardo Morandi
    Riccardo Morandi was an Italian civil engineer best known for his interesting use of reinforced concrete. Amongst his best known works were the General Rafael Urdaneta Bridge, an 8 km crossing of Lake Maracaibo incorporating seven cable-stayed bridge spans with unusual piers, and the...

    , an Italian civil engineer
  • Riccardo Moscatelli
    Riccardo Moscatelli
    Riccardo Moscatelli was an Italian race car driver. His career began in 1988 when he took up rallying. Then for the next four years he raced in Italian sports prototypes. In 1993 he raced in Italian Formula Ford and finished 2nd. He then left racing for two years and returned in 1996 in Italian...

    , an Italian race car driver
  • Riccardo Muccioli
    Riccardo Muccioli
    Riccardo Muccioli is an international footballer from San Marino who plays club football for USC Baracca Lugo1909 in Italy. He previously played for SC Fatenao.-External links:**...

    , a footballer from San Marino
  • Riccardo Muti
    Riccardo Muti
    Riccardo Muti, Cavaliere di Gran Croce OMRI is an Italian conductor and music director of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra.-Childhood and education:...

     (1941), conductor
  • Riccardo Nardini
    Riccardo Nardini
    Riccardo Nardini is an Italian Association football defender. He is currently playing for Modena, after having played for Sicilian giants Calcio Catania who play in the Italian Serie A.-External links:* * * *...

    , an Italian footballer
  • Riccardo Nencini
    Riccardo Nencini
    Riccardo Nencini is an Italian politician.Nencini was born at Barberino di Mugello, in the province of Florence. He is the son of Gastone Nencini, a famous cyclist...

    , an Italian politician
  • Riccardo Pacifici
    Riccardo Pacifici
    Riccardo Reuven Pacifici was a rabbi from an Italian Jewish family of ancient Sephardic origins, with roots in the Jewish Spanish and rabbinical traditions.-Life:...

    , an Italian Sephardic Jew deported to Auschwitz during World War II
  • Riccardo Paletti
    Riccardo Paletti
    Riccardo Paletti was an Italian motor racing driver. Paletti's Formula One career was cut short as he fatally crashed on the start grid in only his second Formula One start; it was his first race with a full grid of cars....

     (1958-1982), Formula One driver
  • Riccardo Pampuri
    Riccardo Pampuri
    Riccardo Pampuri , was an Italian medical doctor from Trivolzio and is a canonized saint in the Roman Catholic Church. Born Erminio Filippo Pampuri, he took the name Brother Riccardo when he entered the Brothers Hospitallers of St. John of God...

     (1897-1930)
  • Riccardo Patrese
    Riccardo Patrese
    Riccardo Gabriele Patrese is an Italian former racing driver, who raced in Formula One from to .He became the first Formula One driver to achieve 200 Grand Prix starts when he appeared at the 1990 British Grand Prix, and the first to achieve 250 starts at the 1993 German Grand Prix...

     (1954), Formula One driver
  • Riccardo Pazzaglia
    Riccardo Pazzaglia
    Riccardo Pazzaglia was an Italian actor, film director, screenwriter, songwriter , TV and radio host ....

     (1926-2006), actor, film director, screenwriter and songwriter
  • Riccardo Piacentini
    Riccardo Piacentini
    Riccardo Piacentini is an Italian composer and pianist.- Biography :He graduated in 1980 in Composition and Piano at Turin and Alessandria Conservatories, as well as in Literature and Music History at Turin University with a thesis on the orchestral works of Goffredo Petrassi...

    , an Italian composer and pianist
  • Riccardo Pittis
    Riccardo Pittis
    Riccardo Pittis is a former Italian basketball player. A 2.03 m small forward, Pittis was an excellent all-around player.- Career :...

    , an Italian basketball player
  • Riccardo Riccò
    Riccardo Riccò
    Riccardo Riccò is a professional road bicycle racer from Italy, currently under contract to UCI Continental team Meridiana-Kamen, and suspended from competition. He was ejected from the 2008 Tour de France for doping violations and suspended...

     (1983), road bicycle racer
  • Riccardo Rognoni
    Riccardo Rognoni
    Riccardo Rognoni or Richardo Rogniono is the earliest known member of the Rognoni family which started one of the earliest of all violin schools, based in Milan. His treatise Passaggi per potersi esercitare nel diminuire , Venice 1592, is the first to mention the violino da brazzo, or violin...

     (c. 1550-1620), composer and violinist
  • Riccardo Romagnoli
    Riccardo Romagnoli
    Riccardo Romagnoli is an Italian auto racing driver.-Career:In 2008 he competed in the FIA GT3 European Championship for La Torre Motorsport in a Dodge Viper....

    , an Italian auto racing driver
  • Riccardo Scamarcio
    Riccardo Scamarcio
    Riccardo Scamarcio is an Italian film actor.-Biography:Scamarcio was born in Trani, Apulia.He went to train as an actor at the Scuola Nazionale di Cinema in Rome, where he now lives. His debut acting role was in a TV series in 2000, while his first ever lead role in a feature film was in Tre...

     (1979), actor
  • Riccardo Schicchi
    Riccardo Schicchi
    Riccardo Schicchi is an Italian pornographer who became famous with his photography and films featuring Ilona Staller and Moana Pozzi in the 1980s...

    , an Italian pornographer
  • Riccardo Scimeca
    Riccardo Scimeca
    Riccardo Scimeca is an English former professional footballer who played for Aston Villa, Nottingham Forest, Leicester City, West Bromwich Albion and Cardiff City in a career spanning 16 years, making over 400 appearances...

     (1975), English footballer
  • Riccardo Silva
    Riccardo Silva
    Riccardo Silva is an Italian businessman. He is currently the Chairman of Media Partners & Silva , a leading international television rights company.-References:*...

    , an Italian businessman
  • Riccardo Staglianò
    Riccardo Staglianò
    Riccardo Staglianò is a reporter at Italian newspaper La Repubblica.Born in Viareggio, he has been writing for another Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera about new technologies; he is co-founder of the on-line cultural magazine Caffè Europa...

     (1968), chief editor
  • Riccardo Stracciari
    Riccardo Stracciari
    Riccardo Stracciari was a leading Italian baritone. His repertoire consisted mainly of Italian operatic works, with Rossini's Figaro and Verdi's Rigoletto becoming his signature roles during a long and distinguished career which stretched from 1899 to 1944.- Life and career :Born near Bologna,...

    , an Italian baritone
  • Riccardo Taddei
    Riccardo Taddei
    Riccardo Taddei is an Italian association footballer who plays for Triestina.Taddei started his career at Pontedera of Province of Pisa. He then signed by AC Fiorentina as backup of Nuno Gomes, Enrico Chiesa, Gabriel Batistuta and Leandro Amaral...

    , an Italian footballer
  • Riccardo Tesi
    Riccardo Tesi
    Riccardo Tesi is an Italian musician. He specializes in folk music. His instrument is the diatonic accordion or melodeon. He has founded or recorded with a number of groups, including Banditaliana and Ritmia...

     (1946), musician
  • Riccardo Tisci
    Riccardo Tisci
    Riccardo Tisci is an Italian fashion designer. He graduated from London's Central Saint Martins Academy in 1999, and in 2005 was named Creative Director for Givenchy womenswear and haute couture...

    , fashion designer
  • Riccardo Torriani, or Bibi Torriani, a Swiss ice hockey player and luger
  • Riccardo Truccolo
    Riccardo Truccolo
    Riccardo Truccolo is an Italian professional basketball player, currently a member of Snaidero Udine of the Italian league ....

    , an Italian professional basketball player
  • Riccardo Ventre
    Riccardo Ventre
    Riccardo Ventre is an Italian politician and Member of the European Parliament for Southern with the Forza Italia, part of the European People's Party and is vice-chair of the European Parliament's Committee on Constitutional Affairs.He is a substitute for the Committee on Regional Development, a...

     (1944), politician
  • Riccardo Zadra
    Riccardo Zadra
    Riccardo Zadra is an Italian pianist.Zadra was awarded the 1988 Sydney Competition's 2nd prize. He has performed and recorded internationally since. He is the founder of the Accademia pianistica internazionale de Padova, presided by Aldo Ciccolini, and teaches at the Vicenza...

    , an Italian pianist
  • Riccardo Zandonai
    Riccardo Zandonai
    Riccardo Zandonai was an Italian composer.-Biography:Zandonai was born in Borgo Sacco, Rovereto, then part of Austria–Hungary....

    , an Italian opera composer
  • Riccardo Zanella
    Riccardo Zanella
    Riccardo Zanella was the only elected president of the short lived Free State of Fiume.Zanella was born to an Italian father and Slovene mother in Rijeka, Austria-Hungary . He attended Hungarian Commercial School in Rijeka and Budapest. Soon he was professor of bookkeeping in the same school in...

     (1896-1947), politician
  • Riccardo Zampagna
    Riccardo Zampagna
    Riccardo Zampagna is an former Italian football striker.After spending most of his career in the lower leagues he finally debuted in Serie A with FC Messina...

     (1974), footballer
  • Riccardo di Segni
    Riccardo di Segni
    Riccardo Di Segni is the chief rabbi of Rome.A specialist in diagnostic radiology, he is descended from three generations of rabbis. He completed his rabbinical studies in 1973 and was elected chief rabbi of Rome in 2001....

    , chief rabbi of Rome

  • Raimondo Vianello
    Raimondo Vianello
    Raimondo Vianello was an Italian film actor, comedian, and television host. He was a well-known Italian television personality.- Biography :...

    , or Riccardo Vianello, an Italian film actor

Other

  • Riccardo Primo
    Riccardo Primo
    Riccardo primo, re d’Inghilterra is an opera in three acts written for the Royal Academy of Music by George Frideric Handel. The Italian-language libretto was by Paolo Antonio Rolli, after Francesco Briani's Isacio tiranno, set by Antonio Lotti in 1710...

    , or Riccardo Primo re d’Inghilterra, an opera in three acts by George Frideric Handel
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