Ever wondered how many famous people named Giuseppe there are? This list of celebrities named Giuseppe includes photos and information about each person when available. The famous Giuseppes on this list come in all shapes and sizes, but all ended up achieving some kind of fame in their respective fields. This includes singers and musicians named Giuseppe, actors named Giuseppe, and even athletes named Giuseppe. Well-known Giuseppes like Giuseppe Verdi, Giuseppe Meazza, and Giuseppe Rossi are just the start of this list.
Giuseppe Becce
Film Score ComposerGiuseppe Becce (February 3, 1877 – October 5, 1973) was an Italian-born film score composer who enriched the German cinema.- Composer, CellistGiuseppe Maria Jacchini was an Italian cellist and composer.
- Giuseppe Delfino (22 November 1921 – 10 August 1999) was an Italian fencer and Olympic champion in épée competition.
- PianistGiuseppe Andaloro (born 21 January 1982, in Palermo) is an Italian pianist. Andaloro studied at the "Giuseppe Verdi" State Conservatory of Music. He also attended the Academy Mozarteum in Austria. Andaloro won the London World Piano Competition in 2002 and the Bolzano Ferruccio Busoni Competition in 2005, the Hong Kong International Piano Competition in 2008, among others. He has appeared in concert halls around the world, including performances with the London Philharmonic Orchestra, the NHK Symphony Tokyo, and Philharmonische Camerata Berlin.He was presented with the Italian Ministry of Culture's Award of Artistic Merit in 2005.During the Academic Year 2013-2014 he got his first teaching assignment to the "Giuseppe Nicolini" Conservatory of Music, in Piacenza.
- ActorGiuseppe Anatrelli, also known as Geppino Anatrelli, was an Italian film, stage and television actor. Born in Naples, between 1953 and 1959 he was part of the Eduardo De Filippo theatrical company. Later he starred again with De Filippo in the 1963 television series Peppino Girella, and rejoined his company in the first seventies. His film works span different genres, but he's probably best known for his portrait of "Geometra Luciano Calboni" in the first three chapters of the Fantozzi film series.
- Journalist, WriterGiuseppe "Pippo" Fava (Italian pronunciation: [dʒuˈzɛppe ˈpippo ˈfaːva]; September 15, 1925 in Palazzolo Acreide – January 5, 1984 in Catania) was an Italian writer, investigative journalist, playwright and Antimafia activist who was killed by the Mafia. He was the founder of the I Siciliani monthly magazine. His motto in life was: "is there any use in living if you don't have the courage to fight?".
- PhysicistGiuseppe Cocconi (1914–2008) was an Italian physicist who was director of the Proton Synchrotron at CERN in Geneva. He is known for his work in particle physics and for his involvement with SETI.
Giuseppe Lanci
CinematographerGiuseppe Lanci is an Italian cinematographer. Born in Rome, he graduated at the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia. Lanci is probably best known for his long collaboration with director Marco Bellocchio; for Bellocchio's Devil in the Flesh he won the 1986 David di Donatello for Best Cinematography. He also worked, among others, with Paolo and Vittorio Taviani, Nanni Moretti, Lina Wertmüller, Andrej Tarkovskij, Margarethe von Trotta, Mauro Bolognini, Luis Sepúlveda and Roberto Benigni.- ComposerGiuseppe Jannacconi (Janacconi, Gianacconi; 1740 – 16 March 1816) was an Italian composer, one of the last in the style of Palestrina. Jannaconi was born in Rome, and studied under Don Socorso Rinaldini and Giuseppe Carpani. He is known for scoring many of Palestrina's works, aided by his friend Pasquale Pisari, as well as composing many of pieces of church music himself. Among other positions, towards the end of his life in 1811 he succeeded Niccolò Antonio Zingarelli as maestro di cappella at St. Peter's Basilica.
- Opera SingerGiuseppe De Luca (25 December 1876 – 26 August 1950), was an Italian baritone who achieved his greatest triumphs at the Metropolitan Opera in New York City. He notably created roles in the world premieres of two operas by Giacomo Puccini: Sharpless in Madama Butterfly (at La Scala, Milan, 1904) and the title role in Gianni Schicchi (Metropolitan Opera, 1918).
- Actor, Film DirectorGiuseppe de Liguoro was a film director and actor.
Giuseppe Maria Scotese
Screenwriter, Film DirectorGiuseppe Maria Scotese was a film director, screenwriter and film producer.- Screenwriter, WriterGiuseppe Pontiggia (Italian pronunciation: [dʒuˈzɛppe ponˈtiddʒa]; September 25, 1934 - June 27, 2003) was an Italian writer and literary critic.
Giuseppe Guarino
Screenwriter, Film DirectorGiuseppe Guarino is a film director and screenwriterGiuseppe Gioacchino Belli
Giuseppe Belli redirects here; for the singer see Giuseppe Belli (singer)Giuseppe Francesco Antonio Maria Gioachino Raimondo Belli (7 September 1791 – 21 December 1863) was an Italian poet, famous for his sonnets in Romanesco, the dialect of Rome.Giuseppe M. Gaudino
Film Art Director, Production Designer, Film ProducerGiuseppe M. Gaudino is a film director, screenwriter, film editor, production designer and film producer.Giuseppe Orlandini
Screenwriter, Film DirectorGiuseppe Orlandini (born 1922) is an Italian film director and screenwriter. He directed ten films between 1940 and 1967.- Librettist, Musicologist, Writer
Giuseppe Occhialini
PhysicistGiuseppe Paolo Stanislao "Beppo" Occhialini ForMemRS (Italian pronunciation: [dʒuˈzɛppe okkjaˈliːni]; 5 December 1907 – 30 December 1993) was an Italian physicist, who contributed to the discovery of the pion or pi-meson decay in 1947, with César Lattes and Cecil Frank Powell (Nobel Prize for Physics). At the time of this discovery, they were all working at the H. H. Wills Laboratory of the University of Bristol. The X-ray satellite SAX was named BeppoSAX in his honour after its launch in 1996.Giuseppe Colombo
Mathematician, EngineerGiuseppe "Bepi" Colombo (Padua, October 2, 1920 – Padua, February 20, 1984) was an Italian scientist, mathematician and engineer at the University of Padua, Italy.Giuseppe Valadier
ArchitectGiuseppe Valadier was an Italian architect and designer, urban planner and archeologist, a chief exponent of Neoclassicism in Italy.Giuseppe Ruzzolini
CinematographerGiuseppe Ruzzolini is an Italian cinematographer. Ruzzolini is known for lensing such films as Stephen King's Firestarter, Oedipus Rex, Sergio Leone's Duck, You Sucker!, and My Name is Nobody.- PhysicistGiuseppe Zamboni (June 1, 1776 – July 25, 1846) was an Italian Roman Catholic priest and physicist who invented the Zamboni pile, an early electric battery similar to the voltaic pile.
Giuseppe Vasi
ArchitectGiuseppe Vasi was an Italian engraver and architect, best known for his vedute.Giuseppe di Salvatore
Giuseppe di Salvatore is a Canadian sport shooter. He is a bronze medalist in men's trap shooting at the 2007 Pan American Games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.Giuseppe Pagano
ArchitectGiuseppe Pagano was an Italian architect, notable for his involvement in the movement of rationalist architecture in Italy up to the end of the Second World War. He also designed exhibitions, furniture and interiors and was an amateur photographer.Giuseppe Marotta
Screenwriter, WriterGiuseppe Marotta was a screenwriter and a writer.Giuseppe Terragni
ArchitectGiuseppe Terragni was an Italian architect who worked primarily under the fascist regime of Benito Mussolini and pioneered the Italian modern movement under the rubric of Rationalism. His most famous work is the Casa del Fascio built in Como, northern Italy, which was begun in 1932 and completed in 1936; it was built in accordance with the International Style of architecture and frescoed by abstract artist Mario Radice. In 1938, at the behest of Mussolini's fascist government, Terragni designed the Danteum, a monument to the Italian poet Dante Alighieri structured around the formal divisions of his greatest work, the Divine Comedy.Giuseppe Papadopulo
CoachGiuseppe Papadopulo (born 2 February 1948 in Casale Marittimo, Pisa) is an Italian football manager and former player of Greek descent, who played as a defender. He was last in charge as head coach of Torino.- CoachGiuseppe Iachini (Italian pronunciation: [dʒuˈzɛppe jaˈkiːni]; born 7 May 1964) is an Italian football coach and former player who played as a midfielder; he was last in charge of Empoli.
