List of people from Veneto

Veneto, a region of Italy, has been the native land of many notable people, some of whom are listed below.

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  • Andrea Gabrieli (c. 1510 (Venice) – late 1586 (Venice)) was a late Renaissance composer and organist, the first internationally renowned member of the Venetian School of composers who spread the Venetian style in Italy as well as in Germany.
  • Giovanni Gabrieli (c. 1554–1557 (Venice) – August 12, 1612 (Venice)), composer and organist whose works represent best of the Venetian School; nephew of Andrea Gabrieli.
  • Baldassarre Galuppi (October 18, 1706 – January 3, 1785), was a composer from Venice, noted for his operas, and particularly opera buffa.
  • Sonia Gandhi (born December 9, 1946 Lusiana, Vicenza, Veneto), influential Indian politician who is President of the Indian National Congress and widow of former Indian Prime-minister Rajiv Gandhi.
  • Giorgione (c. 1477 – 1510) is the familiar name of Giorgio Barbarelli da Castelfranco, one of the seminal artists of the High Renaissance in Venice.
  • Carlo Goldoni (February 25, 1707 – February 6, 1793), Along with Luigi Pirandello, Goldoni is probably the most famous name in Italian theatre, in his country and abroad.
  • Gregory XII born "Angelo Correr", in Venice, died (October 18, 1417 Rome), pope from 1406 to 1415 during the Great Western Schism.
  • Gregory XVI born "Bartolomeo Alberto Cappellari" (September 18, 1765 Belluno – June 1, 1846), a Camaldolese monk, reigned as pope from 1831 to 1846.
  • Luigi Groto, also called Cieco d'Adria or Cieco D'Hadria (the blind man of Adria) (born September 7, 1541, died December 13, 1585), a blind Italian poet, lutenist, playwright and actor.
  • John Paul I, (in Latin Ioannes Paulus PP. I), born "Albino Luciani" (October 17, 1912, Forno di Canale, (Province of Belluno) – September 28, 1978, Rome), reigned as pope and as sovereign of Vatican City from August 26, 1978, to September 28, 1978.
  • Titus Livius known as Livy in English (c. 59 BC at Padua – 17 AD ) wrote a monumental history of Rome, Ab Urbe Condita, from its founding (traditionally dated to 753 BC) through the reign of Augustus.
  • Pietro Longhi (November 5, 1701 Venice – May 8, 1785), was a painter of contemporary scenes of life.

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  • Daniele Manin (May 13, 1804 (Venice) – September 22, 1857 (Paris)), patriot and statesman who led Venice in an effort to assert independence from the Austro-Hungarian Empire from 1848 to 1849.
  • Ludovico Manin (May 14, 1725 – October 24, 1802), last Doge of Venice.
  • Andrea Mantegna (c. 1431, Isola di Cartura now Isola Mantegna (Padova), Italy – September 13, 1506, Mantua) was a major Renaissance artist.
  • Benedetto Marcello (born July 31 or August 1, 1686 in Venice – died July 24, 1739 in Brescia) was a composer, writer, advocate, magistrate, and teacher.
  • Maurizio Marchiori (1952 Venice), Former US Head of Marketing and Industry at Diesel Jeans, Founder of TAR Magazine and Emme Emme. Fashion and Marketing Industry expert.
  • Alberto Martini (November 24, 1876 Oderzo – died November 8, 1954, in Milan) was an Italian painter, engraver, illustrator and graphic designer. Critics have described Martini's range of work from "elegant and epic" to "grotesque and macabre" and consider him one of the precursors of Surrealism.
  • Luigi Meneghello (February 16, 1922 – June 26, 2007) was an Italian contemporary writer and scholar.
  • Dino Meneghin (born Alano di Piave January 18, 1950), Italian former basketball player. He was considered the best player for his country for decades, and, for several years, also the best in Europe.
  • Giovanni Miani (1810 Rovigo – 1872 Mombutta), patriot who took part in the defense of Venice against the Austrians in 1849; explorer of the upper Nile in Africa, director of zoological museum in Khartoum.
  • Germano Mosconi (1932 San Bonifacio), journalist
  • Francesco Morosini (1618 Venice – 1694 Nauplia), Doge of Venice, called "il Peloponnesiaco" for his reconquest of Greece and defence of it against the Ottoman Turks.
  • Luigi Nono (born January 29, 1924, in Venice; died May 8, 1990, in Venice) was a composer of classical music and intellectual, one of the most important composers of the 20th century.

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