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Michele
Michele () is an Italian male given name, akin to the English male name Michael. Michele (usually pronounced ), is also an English female given name that is derived from the French Michèle. It is a variant spelling of the more common (and identically pronounced) name Michelle. Michele can also be a surname. The names are ultimately derived from the Hebrew מִיכָאֵל, through the Greek Μιχαήλ and the Latin Michael meaning " Who is like God?". Men with the given name Michele * Michele (singer) (born 1944), Italian pop singer * Michele Abruzzo (1904–1996), Italian actor * Michele Alboreto (1956–2001), Italian Grand Prix racing driver * Michele Amari (1806–1889), Italian politician and historian * Michele Andreolo (1912–1981), Italian footballer * Michele Bianchi (1883–1930), Italian journalist and revolutionary * Michele Bravi (born 1994), Italian singer * Michele Cachia (1760–1839), Maltese architect and military engineer * Michele Canini (born 1985), It ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michele Bravi
Michele Bravi (born 19 December 1994) is an Italian singer, songwriter, and actor. He rose to fame after winning the X Factor (Italian season 7), seventh season of the X Factor (Italian TV series), Italian ''X Factor''. His coronation song, "La vita e la felicità", was penned by Tiziano Ferro and reached the top spot of the Italian Singles Chart. Bravi's debut album, ''A passi piccoli'', was released in June 2014. In 2015, after parting ways with Sony Music, he released the EP ''I Hate Music'', which entered the Italian Albums chart at number 3. In 2017, Bravi participated at the Sanremo Music Festival, with the song "Il diario degli errori", anticipation of his debut number one album ''Anime di carta''. After acting on Italian TV series ''La compagnia del Cigno,'' he published his second number one album ''La geografia del buio'' in 2021 with the single "Mantieni il bacio". Since his career debut Bravi has sold over 300.000 copies in Italy reaching the Top ten Charts six times ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michele Morrone
Michele Morrone (; born 3 October 1990) is an Italian actor and singer. He gained international recognition after portraying the lead role in the 2020 erotic thriller '' 365 Days'' and its sequels, '' 365 Days: This Day'' and '' The Next 365 Days'' in 2022. Early life Morrone was born on 3 October 1990 in Bitonto, Apulia. He is the youngest of four children, and he has three sisters. His mother, Angela, a seamstress, and his father, Natale, a construction worker, were both from Bitonto, but moved to Melegnano, Lombardy when their children were young in order to find better employment opportunities. His father died in 2003, when Morrone was 12 years old. Morrone decided to become an actor after watching a Harry Potter film at age 11. He began acting in an after school program at his middle school. Morrone repeated his first year of high school after being held back for bad behavior. He then studied professional acting in a theater in the city of Pavia, at the Teatro Fraschini. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michele Alboreto
Michele Alboreto (; 23 December 1956 – 25 April 2001) was an Italian racing driver, who competed in Formula One from to . Alboreto was runner-up in the Formula One World Drivers' Championship in with Scuderia Ferrari, Ferrari, and won five Formula One Grands Prix, Grands Prix across 14 seasons. In endurance racing (motorsport), endurance racing, Alboreto won the 24 Hours of Le Mans in with Joest Racing, Joest, as well as the 12 Hours of Sebring in 2001 12 Hours of Sebring, 2001 with Audi in motorsport, Audi. His career in motorsport began in 1976, racing a car he and a number of his friends had built in the Formula Monza series. The car, however, achieved very little success and two years later Alboreto moved up to Formula Three. Wins in the Italian Formula Three Championship, Italian Formula Three championship and a FIA European Formula 3 Championship (established in 1975), European Formula Three Championship crown in 1980 paved the way for his entrance into Formula One wit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michele Amari
Michele Benedetto Gaetano Amari (7 July 1806 in Palermo – 16 July 1889 in Florence) was a Sicilian patriot, liberal revolutionary and politician of aristocratic background, historian and orientalist. He rose to prominence as a champion of Sicilian independence from the Neapolitan Bourbon rule when he published his history of the War of the Sicilian Vespers in 1842. He was a minister in the Sicilian revolutionary government of 1848–9 and in Garibaldi's revolutionary cabinet in Sicily in 1860. Having embraced the cause of Italian unification, he helped prepare the annexation of Sicily by the Kingdom of Sardinia and was active in his later years as a senator of the Kingdom of Italy. Biography Family background In his memoirs, Amari portrayed his paternal grandfather Michele as a wealthy attorney who lived "on the third floor" of a house in central Palermo, on the corner of Via del Cassaro and Strada della Mercede. But the historian's relation to his cousin and frequen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michele Greco
Michele Greco (; 12 May 1924 – 13 February 2008) was a member of the Sicilian Mafia and a convicted murderer. Greco died in prison while serving multiple life sentences. His nickname was ''Il Papa'' ("The Pope") due to his ability to mediate between different Mafia families.Ascesa, omicidi e sconfitte tutti i segreti del "Papa" '''', 13 February 2008 Greco was the head of the Sicilian Mafia Commission. Rise to power Michele Greco was part of the powerful[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michele Ferrero
Michele Ferrero (; 26 April 1925 – 14 February 2015) was an Italian billionaire businessman. He owned the chocolate manufacturer Ferrero SpA, Europe's second-largest confectionery company (at the time of his death), which he developed from the small bakery and café of his father in Alba, Piedmont. His first big success was his work with Francesco Rivella in adding vegetable oil to the traditional '' gianduja'' paste to make the popular spread Nutella. Early life Michele Ferrero was born on 26 April 1925 in Dogliani, the only child of Pietro Ferrero, who founded the Ferrero company, and his wife Piera Cillario. Career Ferrero joined the firm in 1949. He was the richest person in Italy, with a personal wealth of $26 billion surpassing Silvio Berlusconi in March 2008. In May 2014, the Bloomberg Billionaires Index listed Ferrero as the 20th richest person in the world. Ferrero's brands include Nutella, Mon Chéri, Kinder Chocolate, Ferrero Rocher, Tic Tacs and Kinder E ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michele (singer)
Gianfranco Michele Maisano, best known as Michele (born 22 June 1944) is an Italian singer and occasional actor. Background Born in Vigevano, as a child Maisano moved to Genoa, where he attended the Nautical Institute. He recorded his first single at age 14. Abandoned the name Michele Maisano, he obtained his first success as Michele in 1963 with the song " Se mi vuoi lasciare", which won the musical contest Cantagiro and ranked first in the Italian hit parade. In the sixties Michele then achieved some further successes including some cover versions to songs by Elvis Presley. After a less successful period, in 1971, he got one another main success with the song "Susan dei Marinai", with an uncredited contribution to the lyrics by Fabrizio De André. In 1970 Michele entered the competition at the Sanremo Music Festival The Sanremo Music Festival ( ), officially the Italian Song Festival (), is the most popular Italian song contest and awards ceremony, held annually in th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michele Canini
Michele Canini (born 5 June 1985) is an Italian former footballer who played as a defender. Club career Cagliari & early career After a loan spell in Serie C1 team Sambenedettese, his first club Atalanta sold him to Cagliari Calcio in co-ownership deal, for €570,000 (with Simone Loria moved to Atalanta for an undisclosed fee).Atalanta B.C. S.p.A. ''bilancio'' (financial report and accounts) on 30 June 2006 (in Italian)PDF purchased from Italian C.C.I.A.A./ref> He earned a permanent move to Cagliari in June 2006, for an additional €1.5 million, and spent a seven-year spell playing 176 league matches for the team until the 2011–12 season. Genoa On 12 July 2012, Canini joined Genoa on a four-year deal for €2.9 million. Atalanta return He returned to former club Atalanta on 9 January 2013 for €1 million in a co-ownership deal on a -year contract,Atalanta B.C. S.p.A. ''bilancio'' (financial report and accounts) on 31 December 2013 (in Italian)PDF purchased from Italian ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michele Emiliano
Michele Emiliano (born 23 July 1959) is an Italian politician and former judge. He is the incumbent president of Apulia Region since June 2015, and he previously served as mayor of Bari from 2004 to 2014. Emiliano has often been considered a populist and Regionalism (politics), regionalist politician. Early life and career Emiliano's father was a professional football player and small business owner. In 1962, he moved with his family to Bologna. In 1968, they returned to Bari. While growing up there, he spent time playing basketball thanks to his physical size. In 1983, Emiliano graduated in Law at the University of Bari. For some time, he worked as a trainee in a lawyer's office. In 1988, he married his current wife, Elena, with whom he had three children: Giovanni, Francesca and Pietro. At the age of 26, Emiliano quit the practice as a lawyer and passed the test to become a judge. He moved to Agrigento, where he worked in the public prosecutor's office and met Giovanni Falcon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michele Bianchi
Michele Bianchi (22 July 1883 – 3 February 1930) was an Italian revolutionary syndicalist leader who took a position in the Unione Italiana del Lavoro (UIL). He was among the founding members of the Fascist movement. He was widely seen as the dominant leader of the leftist, syndicalist wing of the National Fascist Party. He took an active role in the "interventionist left" where he "espoused an alliance between nationalism and syndicalism." He was one of the most influential politicians of the regime before his succumbing to tuberculosis in 1930. He was also one of the grand architects behind the " Great List" (''il listone'') which secured the parliamentary majority in favor of the fascists. Biography Socialism Bianchi was born in Belmonte Calabro (Calabria), in southern Italy. He studied law at the University of Rome, and dedicated himself from early on to journalism. He became a member of the Italian Socialist Party (PSI), and editor of the Party newspaper ''Avanti!' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ferrero SpA
Ferrero International SpA ( , ), more commonly known as Ferrero Group or simply Ferrero, is an Italian multinational company with headquarters in Alba. Ferrero is a manufacturer of branded chocolate and confectionery products, and the second biggest chocolate producer and confectionery company in the world. Ferrero SpA is a private company owned by the Ferrero family and has been described as "one of the world's most secretive firms". It was founded in 1946 in Alba, Piedmont, Italy, by Pietro Ferrero, a confectioner and small-time pastry maker who laid the groundwork for Nutella. The company saw a period of tremendous growth and success under Pietro's son Michele Ferrero, who in turn handed over the daily operations to his sons, Pietro Jr. and Giovanni Ferrero (the founder's grandsons). Pietro Jr., who oversaw global business, died in 2011 of a heart attack while cycling in South Africa at the age of 47. The Ferrero Group worldwide – now headed by executive chairman ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
