Salvatore
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Salvatore is an Italian
(especially Southern Italian) name that means "savior".
Italian language
Italian is a Romance language spoken mainly in Europe: Italy, Switzerland, San Marino, Vatican City, by minorities in Malta, Monaco, Croatia, Slovenia, France, Libya, Eritrea, and Somalia, and by immigrant communities in the Americas and Australia...
(especially Southern Italian) name that means "savior".
People
- Dominic Salvatore GentileDominic Salvatore GentileMajor Dominic Salvatore "Don" Gentile was a World War II USAAF pilot who was the first to break Eddie Rickenbacher's World War I record of 26 downed aircraft.-Biography:...
(1920−1951), United States Army Air Forces officer - John Romita, Jr.John Romita, Jr.John Salvatore Romita, Jr. is an American comic book artist best known for his extensive work for Marvel Comics from the 1970s to the 2000s...
(middle name Salvatore) (born 1956), comic artist - R. A. Salvatore (born 1959), fiction writer
- Sal RinauroSal RinauroSalvatore "Sal" Rinauro is an American professional wrestler. He is best known for his work in Ring of Honor and Full Impact Pro in addition to being a member of The Embassy.-Ring of Honor:...
(born 1982), professional wrestler - Salvatore "Bill" Bonanno (1932–2008), son of Mafia boss Joseph Bonanno
- Salvatore AccardoSalvatore AccardoSalvatore Accardo is an Italian violin virtuoso and conductor.He is highly regarded for his interpretations of Paganini, J. S. Bach, Antonio Vivaldi, contemporary works, chamber music, and opera conducting....
(born 1941), Italian violin virtuoso and conductor - Salvatore AdamoSalvatore AdamoSalvatore, Knight Adamo, simply known as Adamo is a Belgian – Italian composer and singer of ballads, mainly in French, but also in other languages such as German, Italian and Spanish. He had commercial success during the 1960s and 1970s, mostly in Europe, the Middle East and Latin America, but...
(born 1943), singer, composer - Salvatore AllegraSalvatore AllegraSalvatore Allegra was an Italian composer.Allegra was born in Palermo. He composed a number of operettas in the 1920s, including Il gatto in cantina , which is still performed sometimes, passing then to operas, such as the dark "verista" drama Ave Maria, which was first staged at La Scala in...
(1898–1993), Italian composer - Salvatore AntiboSalvatore AntiboSalvatore Antibo is a former long distance runner from Italy.-Career:Antibo was born on February 7, 1962 in Altofonte, within the province of Palermo ....
(born 1962), Italian long-distance runner - Salvatore BettiolSalvatore BettiolSalvatore Bettiol is a retired long-distance runner from Italy, who represented his native country twice at the Summer Olympics. He is best known for finishing in fourth place at the 1990 European Championships in Split, FR Yugoslavia.-Achievements:-References:*...
(born 1961), Italian long-distance runner - Salvatore BrunoSalvatore BrunoSalvatore Bruno is an Italian football striker who plays for Modena F.C..Bruno started his career at Serie A team Napoli, but most of his career has been spent in the lower division....
(born 1979), Italian football (soccer) striker - Salvatore CassanoSalvatore CassanoSalvatore Joseph "Sal" Cassano is the New York City Fire Commissioner. His appointment by New York City Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg to succeed Nicholas Scoppetta was announced on 21 December 2009 and became effective on 1 January 2010...
(born 1945), fire chief of New York City, New York - Salvatore ContornoSalvatore ContornoSalvatore "Totuccio" Contorno is a former member of the Sicilian Mafia who turned into a state witness against Cosa Nostra in October 1984, following the example of Tommaso Buscetta. He gave detailed accounts of the inner-workings of the Sicilian Mafia...
(born 1946), former Mafioso and state witness - Salvatore CuffaroSalvatore CuffaroSalvatore "Totò" Cuffaro is an Italian politician, former President of Sicily, currently serving a 7 years sentence for aiding the Mafia...
(born 1958), Italian politician - Salvatore D'AquilaSalvatore D'AquilaSalvatore "Toto" D'Aquila was a New York City mobster from the Mustache Pete-era and the first boss of the Gambino crime family....
(1877–1928), New York City Mafia boss - Salvatore da Horta (1520-1567), Spanish saint
- Salvatore FerragamoSalvatore FerragamoSalvatore Ferragamo was a Florentine and Italian shoe designer. He worked with many Hollywood stars in the 1920s, before returning to Italy to found the eponymous company making unique hand-made footwear. His scientific and creative approach to shoes spawned many innovations such as the wedge heel...
(1898–1960), fashion designer - Salvatore GiulianoSalvatore GiulianoSalvatore Giuliano was a Sicilian peasant. It has been suggested that the subjugated social status of his class led him to become a bandit and separatist. He was mythologised during his life and after his death...
(1922-1950) - Salvatore GiuntaSalvatore GiuntaSalvatore Giunta is a retired Italian football player who played for, among others, AC Milan and Albacete Balompié, as well as the Italian under-21 side.Giunta played for AS Cannes in French Ligue 2 during the 1998-99 season....
(born 1985), US Army staff sergeant and a recipient of the Medal of Honor - Salvatore Greco (disambiguation)
- Salvatore InzerilloSalvatore InzerilloSalvatore Inzerillo was an Italian criminal, a member of the Sicilian Mafia, also known as Totuccio . He rose to be a powerful boss of Palermo's Passo di Rigano family...
(1944–1981), Sicilian Mafioso - Salvatore LimaSalvatore LimaSalvatore Lima was an Italian politician from Sicily who was murdered by the Mafia. He is often just referred to as Salvo Lima....
(1928–1992), Italian politician - Salvatore Lo PiccoloSalvatore Lo PiccoloSalvatore Lo Piccolo , also known as the Baron , is a Sicilian mafioso and one of the most powerful bosses of Palermo, Sicily. Lo Piccolo rose through the ranks of the Palermo mafia throughout the 1980s and he became the capo-mandamento of the San Lorenzo district in the early 1990s, replacing...
(born 1942), also known as the Baron (il Barone), Sicilian mafioso - Salvatore MaranzanoSalvatore MaranzanoSalvatore Maranzano was an organized crime figure from the town of Castellammare del Golfo, Sicily, and an early Cosa Nostra boss in the United States. He instigated the Castellammarese War to seize control of the American Mafia operations, and briefly became the Mafia's "Boss of Bosses"...
(1886–1931), Sicilian-American Mafioso - Salvatore MontagnaSalvatore MontagnaSalvatore "Sal the Iron Worker" Montagna was an acting boss of the Bonanno crime family of the New York City mafia families, and the Sicilian faction-leader of the Bronx section. At the time of his death, he had been associated with the Rizzuto crime family of Montreal...
(born 1971) as of 2006, the reputed acting boss of the Bonanno crime family - 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...
(1853-1936), Italian mathematician - Salvatore QuasimodoSalvatore QuasimodoSalvatore Quasimodo was an Italian author and poet. In 1959 he won the Nobel Prize for Literature "for his lyrical poetry, which with classical fire expresses the tragic experience of life in our own times". Along with Giuseppe Ungaretti and Eugenio Montale, he is one of the foremost Italian poets...
(1901-1968), Italian author and poet - Salvatore RiinaSalvatore RiinaSalvatore "Totò" Riina is a member of the Sicilian Mafia who became the most powerful member of the criminal organization in the early 1980s. Fellow mobsters nicknamed him The Beast due to his violent nature, or sometimes The Short One due to his diminutive stature...
(born 1930), Sicilian mafioso - Salvatore SchillaciSalvatore SchillaciSalvatore Schillaci , commonly referred to by his nickname Totò is a former Italian football player. During his career, he played for Messina , Juventus , Internazionale and Júbilo Iwata...
(born 1964), Italian football (soccer) player - Salvatore VasapolliSalvatore VasapolliSalvatore Marchese-Vasapolli is a nationally acclaimed artist best known for his art photographic prints of the American landscape....
(born 1955), photographer, artist - Salvatore ViganòSalvatore ViganòSalvatore Viganò , was an Italian choreographer, dancer and composer.He was born in Naples. He studied composition with Luigi Boccherini and by the mid-1780s was composing original music. In 1788 he appeared as a dancer on the stage in Venice. He performed in the coronation festivities of...
(1769-1821), Italian choreographer, dancer and composer - Salvatore Lucania Lucky LucianoLucky LucianoCharlie "Lucky" Luciano was an Italian mobster born in Sicily. Luciano is considered the father of modern organized crime in the United States for splitting New York City into five different Mafia crime families and the establishment of the first commission...
(1897–1962), also known as Charle Luciano, Sicilian-American mafioso - Salvatore Massaro (Eddie LangEddie LangEddie Lang was an American jazz guitarist, regarded as the Father of Jazz Guitar. He played a Gibson L-4 and L-5 guitar, providing great influence for many guitarists, including Django Reinhardt.-Biography:...
) (1902–1933), jazz guitarist - Salvatore Mineo (Sal MineoSal MineoSalvatore "Sal" Mineo, Jr. , was an American film and theatre actor, best known for his performance as John "Plato" Crawford opposite James Dean in the film Rebel Without a Cause...
) (1939–1976), actor - Salvatore Renuga (born 1987 - ...) working as admin staff
- Salvatore Vanitha (born nov 5th 1990) aka theru naayae, para naayae or sori naayae.
- Salvatore Indira (born 1995, still alive) partner of a awesome person.
Other
- Salvatore, a character in the novel The Name of the RoseThe Name of the RoseThe Name of the Rose is the first novel by Italian author Umberto Eco. It is a historical murder mystery set in an Italian monastery in the year 1327, an intellectual mystery combining semiotics in fiction, biblical analysis, medieval studies and literary theory...
- Salvatore Leone, one of the characters featured in video games of Grand Theft Auto (series)Grand Theft Auto (series)Grand Theft Auto is a multi-award-winning British video game series created in the United Kingdom by Dave Jones, then later by brothers Dan Houser and Sam Houser, and game designer Zachary Clarke. It is primarily developed by Edinburgh based Rockstar North and published by Rockstar Games...
- Salvatore "Sal" Romano, Sterling Cooper's art director in the AMC dramatic television series Mad MenMad MenMad Men is an American dramatic television series created and produced by Matthew Weiner. The series premiered on Sunday evenings on the American cable network AMC and are produced by Lionsgate Television. It premiered on July 19, 2007, and completed its fourth season on October 17, 2010. Each...
- Damon and Stefan Salvatore, vampires from The Vampire Diaries (novel series)
- Salvatore "Sal" Paradise, protagonist in the novel On the RoadOn the RoadOn the Road is a novel by American writer Jack Kerouac, written in April 1951, and published by Viking Press in 1957. It is a largely autobiographical work that was based on the spontaneous road trips of Kerouac and his friends across mid-century America. It is often considered a defining work of...
by Jack Kerouac