Giovanni (name)

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Giovanni is a male Italian given name (from Latin Iohannes), Giovanni is the Italian equivalent of John. Giovanni is occasionally spelled (outside Italy) Geovanni, Giovonnie or Giovannie; however, this deviates from the original Italian, and, in this manner, is made a unisex name (i.e. the actress Giovonnie Samuels). Giovanni can be a surname as well.

List of people with the given name Giovanni

• Pope Gelasius II (c. 1060 – 1119), whose given name was Giovanni Coniulo
• Pope John Paul II (1920–2005), known in Italian language as Giovanni Paolo II
• Don Manley (born 1945), long-serving compiler of crosswords in the UK using the pseudonym Giovanni
• Giovanni Agnelli (1866–1945), Italian entrepreneur, who founded Fiat car manufacturing in 1899
• Giovanni Amelino-Camelia (born 1965), Italian physicist
• Giovanni Arnolfini (c. 1400 – c. 1450), merchant from Lucca
• Giovanni Báez (born 1981), Colombian road cyclist
• Giovanni Battaglin (born 1951), Italian professional road racing cyclist
• Giovanni Becatti (1912–1973), Italian archaeologist
• Giovanni Bellini (c. 1430 – 1516), Italian Renaissance painter
• Giovanni Battista Belzoni (born 1778, died 1823), Venetian explorer in Egypt and discoveror of the tomb of Pharaoh Seti I
• Giovanni di Bernardone (c. 1181 – 1226), better known as Saint Francis of Assisi
• Giovanni Bononcini (1670–1747), Italian Baroque composer and cellist
• Giovanni Boccaccio (1313–1375), Italian Renaissance writer
• Giovanni Boldini (1842–1931), Italian painter
• Giovanni Borgia (1475–1497), son of Pope Alexander VI
• Giovanni Bosco (1815–1888), Italian saint
• Giovani Casillas (born 1994), Mexican footballer
• Giovanni Csermanek (1912–1989), later János Kádár, Hungarian communist leader
• Giovanni d'Aleo (born 1959), Italian long-distance runner
• Giovanni da Verrazzano (c. 1480 – c. 1520), Italian explorer
• Giovanni Dandolo (died 1289), 48th Doge of Venice
• Giovanni de Macque (c. 1540 – 1614), late Renaissance Franco-Flemish composer
• Giovanni di Giovanni (c. 1350 – 1365), Italian youth executed for practising sodomy
• Giovanni Evangelisti (born 1961), Italian long jumper
• Giovanni Ferrari (1907–1982), Italian football (soccer) player
• Giovanni Frezza (born 1972), Italian actor
• Giovanni Galbaio (8th-century–804), eighth Doge of Venice (787–804)
• Giovanni Girolamo Frezza (1506–1561), Italian engraver
• Giovanni Giacometti (1868–1933), Swiss painter
• Giovanni Gozzadini (1810–1887), Italian archaeologist
• Giovanni Jona-Lasinio (born 1932), influential Italian theoretical physicist
• Giovanni Lapentti (born 1983), Ecuadorian tennis player
• Giovanni Lavaggi (born 1958), racing driver from Italy
• Giovanni Marradi (1852–1922), Italian poet
• Giovanni Marradi (musician) (born 1952), pianist, composer and arranger
• Giovanni Paisiello (1740–1816), Italian composer of the Classical era
• Giovanni Papini (1881–1956), Italian journalist, essayist, literary critic, poet, and novelist
• Giovanni I Participazio (died 837), tenth (historical) or twelfth (traditional) Doge of Venice
• Giovanni Passannante (1849–1910), Italian anarchist
• Giovanni Pico della Mirandola (1463–1494), Italian philosopher
• Giovanni Pisano (c. 1250 – c. 1315), Italian sculptor, painter and architect
• Giovanni Pittella (born 1958), Italian politician and Member of the European Parliament
• Giovanni Ribisi (born 1974), American actor
• Giovonnie Samuels (born 1985), Actress
• Giovani dos Santos (born 1989), Mexican football player
• Giovanni Schiaparelli (1835–1910), Italian astronomer
• Giovanni Antonio Scopoli (1723–1788), Italian physician and naturalist
• Giovanni Semerano (1913–2005), Italian philologist
• Giovanni Silva de Oliveira (born 1972), usually known as Giovanni, Brazilian soccer player
• Giovanni Spadolini (1925–1994), liberal Italian politician, the 45th Prime Minister of Italy
• Giovanni Targioni Tozzetti (1712–1783), Italian naturalist
• Giovanni Targioni-Tozzetti (1863–1934), Italian librettist
• Giovanni Trapattoni (born 1939), Italian football coach and former player
• Giovanni van Bronckhorst (born 1975), Dutch football player
• Giovanni Vemba-Duarte (born 1991), Dutch-Angolan footballer
• Giovanni Visconti (1290–1354), Italian Roman Catholic cardinal

Fictional characters

• Giovanni (Pokémon), boss of Team Rocket in the fictional world of Pokémon
• Giovanni Auditore, father of player character Ezio in the Assassin's Creed series of video games
• Giovanni Zito, character from the Eoin Colfer novel Artemis Fowl: The Opal Deception

List of people with the surname Giovanni

• Aria Giovanni (born 1977), model and adult film actress, Penthouse Pet for the month of September 2000
• Joy Giovanni (born 1978), actress and former WWE Diva
• Nikki Giovanni (born 1943), American poet, activist and author

See also

• Geovani
• Giovanni Battista

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