List of people from Trieste
The following is a list of notable people from Trieste, Italy.
Literature
Many famous authors were born and/or lived many years in Trieste. They include:
Italian language authors
- Enzo Bettiza, writer and journalist, born in Split
- Claudio Magris, writer and essayist
- Biagio Marin, poet (born in Grado)
- Giorgio Pressburger, Author and director
- Umberto Saba, poet
- Scipio Slataper, essayist
- Giani Stuparich, writer and essayist
- Italo Svevo, novelist
- Susanna Tamaro, novelist
- Fulvio Tomizza, writer, born in Istria (now in Croatia)
Slovene language authors
German language authors
Authors in other languages
Architects, designers, and visual artists
- Emilio Ambrosini, architect
- Franca Batich, Italian painter
- Leo Castelli, art dealer
- Tullio Crali, Futurist painter
- Avgust Černigoj, Slovene painter
- Franko Luin, Swedish-Slovene graphic designer
- Michael Manfredi, architect partner of Marion Weiss in New York–based Weiss/Manfredi
- Boris Podrecca, architect
- Ernesto Nathan Rogers, architect
- Ivan Rendić, Croatian sculptor
- Mila Schön, Fashion designer
- Jožef Tominc, Biedermeier painter
Actors, musicians and performance artists
- Piero Cappuccilli, Italian operatic baritone
- Raffaello de Banfield, British composer
- Antonio Bibalo, Italian pianist and composer
- George Dolenz, actor and father of Micky Dolenz of the Monkees
- Alfred Jaëll, Austrian pianist
- Tullio Kezich, actor, playwright, and screenplayer
- Paolo Longo, composer and conductor
- Lelio Luttazzi, musician, composer, showman and presenter
- Alessandro Lotta, former bassist of the bands Rhapsody of Fire and Wingdom
- Mauro Maur, Italian trumpet player and composer
- Alexander Moissi, Austrian stage actor of Albanian descent
- Denis Novato, Slovene musician
- Alberto Randegger, composer
- Enrico Rava, jazz trumpeter
- Victor de Sabata, conductor
- Laura Solari, film actress
- Alex Staropoli, keyboardist of the band Rhapsody of Fire
- Avraham Albert Sternklar, Pianist, composer
- Giorgio Strehler, opera and theater director
- Elisa Toffoli, Nationally renowned singer/songwriter, pianist, and guitarist
- Luca Turilli, guitarist of the band Rhapsody of Fire
- Ivan Rassimov, Italian actor of Serbian descent
- Rada Rassimov, Italian actor of Serbian descent
Entrepreneurs and Business Leaders
Journalists and authors
Politicians and public servants
- Joseph Fouché, duke of Otranto, spent his last 5 years exiled in Trieste.
- Engelbert Besednjak, Slovene politician
- Josip Ferfolja, Slovenian social-democratic politician and human rights activist
- Riccardo Illy, Italian politician
- Mitja Ribičič, Slovenian Communist leader, President of the Yugoslav Government (1969–1971)
- Vittorio Vidali (aka Enea Sormenti, Jacobo Hurwitz Zender, Carlos Contreras), Communist agent
- Josip Wilfan, Slovene jurist, politician, and human rights activist
Religious figures
Scholars, scientists and intellectuals
- Luisa Accati, historian and femminist theoretician
- Florian Biesik, Silesian linguist, Vilamovian language scholar and poet
- Ludwig Boltzmann, Austrian physicist
- Lavo Čermelj, Slovene physisicist and public intellectual
- Gillo Dorfles, philosopher and historian
- Boris Furlan, Slovenian legal theorist, translator and politician
- Arturo Falaschi, MD, Geneticist
- Guido Goldschmiedt, Austrian chemist
- Boris M. Gombač, Slovenian historian
- Spiridon Gopčević, Serbian astronomer and historian
- Margherita Hack, Italian astronomer
- Fiorella Kostoris, economist
- Doro Levi, archaeologist
- Salvatore Pincherle, Italian mathematician
- Jože Pirjevec, Slovene historian
- Abdus Salam, Pakistani theoretical physicist, Nobel prize laureate
- Denis Sciama, British physicist
- Marta Verginella, Slovene historian
- Ivan Vidav, Slovene mathematician
Sportsmen
- Nino Benvenuti, Italian boxer
- Biaggio Chianese, Italian boxer
- Claudia Coslovich, athlete
- Fabio Cudicini, football player (goalkeeper)
- Umberto De Morpurgo, tennis player
- Giorgio Ferrini, football player
- Livio Franceschini, basketball player
- Sandro Gamba, basketball coach and player
- Matteo Gladig, Italian chess master
- Margherita Granbassi, Italian foil fencer
- Duilio Loi, boxer
- Cesare Maldini, former AC Milan captain, Italian football team manager.
- Giovanni Martinolich, Italian chess master
- Tiberio Mitri, boxer
- Giorgio Oberweger, athlete
- Nicola Princivalli, football player
- Carlo Rigotti, football player
- Nereo Rocco, football legend
- Cesare Rubini, water polo player
- Giovanni Steffè, rower
- Max Tonetto, football player
- Ferruccio Valcareggi, football player and coach
- Renzo Vecchiato, 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 Savoy, Italian princess, born at Miramare Castle in 1933
- Lidia Bastianich, Italian-American chef and TV cooking show host whose family lived in a Triestian refugee camp after their escape from Istria, Yugoslavia (now Croatia)
- Mathilde Bonaparte, Napoleon's niece, daughter of his brother Jérôme Bonaparte, was born here in 1820
- Leo Castelli, New York art dealer who established one of the world's leading vanguard galleries in the 20th century
- Louis Antoine Debrauz de Saldapenna, Austrian diplomat, journalist and author
- Gottfried von Banfield (1890–1986), top Austrian Empire fighter ace in World War I
- Anton Füster, Austrian revolutionary activist, author and pedagogue
- Odilo Globocnik, Nazi war criminal, SS leader
- Albert O. Hirschman, noted economist and political scientist obtained his doctorate from the University of Trieste.
- Jules Verne, French author, lived in Trieste and wrote the novela " La Congiura di Trieste".
- Sigismund Zois, Slovene mecenate and natural scientist'
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