Giovanni (name)
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Italian: [dʒoˈvanni] |
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| Gender |
male |
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| Word/name |
Italian |
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Giovanni is a male Italian given name (from Latin Iohannes). It is the Italian equivalent of John. Giovanni can also be found as a surname. It is sometimes spelled as Geovanni, Giovonnie or Giovannie.
Given name
- Giovanni Agnelli (1866–1945), Italian entrepreneur and founder of Fiat
- Giovanni Amelino-Camelia (born 1965), Italian physicist
- Giovanni Arnolfini (c.1400 – c.1450), merchant from Lucca
- Giovanni B. Giglioni (1929-2008), American business theorist
- 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 (1778 – 1823), Venetian explorer in Egypt
- 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), Hungarian communist leader later known as János Kádár
- 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
- Giovanni Girolamo Frezza (1506–1561), Italian engraver
- Giovanni Giacometti (1868–1933), Swiss painter
- Giovanni Giorgio Moroder (born 1940), Italian record producer, songwriter, performer, and DJ
- 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
- Giovonnie Samuels (born 1985), American actress
Surname
- 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
Nickname
- Don Manley (born 1945), a compiler of crosswords known as Giovanni
Fictional character
- 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
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