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Genovese is an
Italian surname
A name in the Italian language consists of a given name ( it, nome), and a surname (); in most contexts, the given name is written before the surname. (In official documents, the Western surname may be written before the given name or names.)
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meaning, properly, someone from
Genoa
Genoa ( ; it, Genova ; lij, Zêna ). is the capital of the Italian region of Liguria and the List of cities in Italy, sixth-largest city in Italy. In 2015, 594,733 people lived within the city's administrative limits. As of the 2011 Italian ce ...
. Its Italian plural form ''
Genovesi
Genovesi is a surname of Italian origin. It is the plural form of Genovese, stemming from old Italian usage of "dei Genovesi" as a family name, meaning "of the Genoveses". Notable people with this name include:
* Alessandro Genovesi (born 1973), I ...
'' has also developed into a surname.
People
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Alfred Genovese (1931–2011), American oboist
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Alfredo Genovese
Alfredo Genovese (born in Buenos Aires, November 24, 1964) is a fileteador and visual artist. He is also recognized as researcher and teacher, author of several books about fileteado ''Buenos Aires, porteño'', a typical popular painting from Buen ...
(born 1964), Argentine artist
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Anthony Vincent Genovese
Anthony Vincent Genovese (born 1932) was an American architect who practiced in the mid to late-twentieth-century New York (state), New York and New Jersey as a partner in the architectural firm name Genovese & Maddalene.
Personal life
Anthony Vi ...
(born 1932), American architect
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Bruna Genovese
Bruna Genovese (born 24 September 1976 in Montebelluna) is an Italian long-distance runner who specializes in the marathon race.
Biography
Genovese won the Italian under 21 half-marathon championship in 1998. She ran her first marathon on 24 Octo ...
(born 1976), Italian long-distance runner
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Damián Genovese
Damián Genovese De Mello (born 10 July 1978) is a Venezuelan actor and model.
Biography
Damián's first television role was in the telenovela '' Hoy te vi'' in 1998. After obtaining small roles in television, he ventured into modelling and wor ...
(born 1978), Venezuelan actor and model
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Domenico Genovese
Domenico Genovese (born 2 February 1961) is an English former professional footballer and manager.
Playing career
Genovese began his career with spells at several non-league sides including two spells with Boston United and one with Kettering ...
(born 1961), English footballer
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Elizabeth Fox-Genovese
Elizabeth Ann Fox-Genovese (May 28, 1941 – January 2, 2007) was an American historian best known for her works on women and society in the Antebellum South. A Marxist early on in her career, she later converted to Roman Catholicism and became ...
(1941–2007), American historian
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Eugene D. Genovese
Eugene Dominic Genovese (May 19, 1930 – September 26, 2012) was an American historian of the American South and American slavery. He was noted for bringing a Marxist perspective to the study of power, class and relations between planters and s ...
(born 1930), American historian
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Fabio Del Genovese (1902–1976), Italian wrestler
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Frank Genovese
Frank Charles "Chick" Genovese (November 23, 1914 – February 12, 1981) was an Americans, American professional baseball baseball player, player, manager (baseball), manager and scout (sport), scout. Genovese was a Minor League Baseball, minor l ...
(1914–1981), American professional baseball player, manager and scout
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George Genovese
George Genovese (February 22, 1922 – November 15, 2015) was a Washington Senators baseball player who played for the team in 1950. He also played in the minor leagues for 15 seasons and managed at that level for over a decade. He was born in St ...
(born 1930), American baseball player and scout
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Leo Genovese
Leo Genovese (born 1979) is an Argentine jazz pianist, keyboardist, and composer. He has played with The Mars Volta.
Life and career
Genovese was born in Venado Tuerto, Argentina, in 1979. (born 1979), Argentine jazz pianist, keyboardist, and composer
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María Noel Genovese
María Noel Genovese Berisso (born 25 December 1943, in Montevideo), better known for her stage name María Noel, is a former Uruguayan model and actress.
In 1962 she took part in Miss Uruguay and Miss World, where she was a runner-up. Afte ...
(born 1943), Uruguayan model and actress
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Michael Genovese (disambiguation) Michael or Mike Genovese may refer to:
* Michael James Genovese (1919–2006), allegedly a leader of the Pittsburgh crime family
* Michael Genovese (artist) (born 1976), American artist
* Mike Genovese
Mike Genovese (born Peter Michael Genov ...
, several people
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Mike Genovese
Mike Genovese (born Peter Michael Genovese on April 26, 1942 in St. Louis, Missouri) is an American actor.
Career
Genovese was born and raised in St. Louis, Missouri to an Italian American family. Genovese earned a master's degree in drama at ...
(born 1942), American actor
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Pablo Genovese (born 1977), Argentine footballer
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Paolo Genovese
Paolo Genovese (born 20 August 1966) is an Italian director and screenwriter.
Life and career
Born in Rome, after graduating in Economics and Business Genovese started his career at McCann Erickson, directing over one hundred commercials and w ...
(born 1966), Italian film director
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Richard Genovese
Richard Misiano-Genovese (born 1947) is a collagist, photographer, painter, and theorist, and practitioner of transgressive art.
Misiano-Genovese is the surrealist initiator of the Altered Lithograph, Excavation Collage and Novel, plus Superimp ...
(born 1947), American painter
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Rino Genovese
Rino Genovese (1905–1967) was an Italian film actor.Pruzzo & Lancia p.129
Selected filmography
* '' Naples of Former Days'' (1938)
* '' Malaspina'' (1947)
* '' Madunnella'' (1948)
* ''The City Stands Trial'' (1952)
* ''Perdonami!'' (1953)
* '' ...
(1905–1967), Italian film actor
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Vito Genovese
Vito Genovese (; November 21, 1897 – February 14, 1969) was an Italian-born American mobster who mainly operated in the United States. Genovese rose to power during Prohibition as an enforcer in the American Mafia. A long-time associate and ch ...
(1897–1969), prominent New York City Mafia Boss
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William Genovese
William Genovese is a former greyhat hacker turned security professional, who goes by the alias illwill.
History
In the early 2000s, Genovese was a former figure in a loose-knit group of computer hackers who called themselves illmobillmob.org t ...
, American computer criminal
Fictional characters
* Phillip Genovese, a character on the television series ''
Crossing Lines
''Crossing Lines'' is a German-French-Italian-American action crime thriller television series created by Edward Allen Bernero and Rola Bauer. The series premiered on June 9, 2013, at the screening for the Opening Ceremonies of the 53rd editio ...
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See also
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Murder of Kitty Genovese
In the early hours of March 13, 1964, Kitty Genovese, a 28-year-old bartender, was raped and stabbed outside the apartment building where she lived in the Kew Gardens neighborhood of Queens in New York City, New York, United States. Two weeks ...
, widely publicized murder in New York City, 1964
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Genovese syndrome
The bystander effect, or bystander apathy, is a social psychological theory that states that individuals are less likely to offer help to a victim when there are other people present. First proposed in 1964, much research, mostly in the lab, has f ...
, or bystander effect, named for the Kitty Genovese case
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Genovese crime family
The Genovese crime family, () also sometimes referred to as the Westside, is an Italian-American Mafia crime family and one of the "Five Families" that dominate organized crime activities in New York City and New Jersey as part of the American M ...
, one of the "Five Families" of New York City's Mafia
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Genovese Drug Stores
Genovese Drug Stores was a pharmacy chain located in the New York City- Long Island area of the United States, including northern New Jersey, along with Fairfield County, Connecticut and Hartford County, Connecticut. It was acquired by JCPenney i ...
, a defunct pharmacy chain in the NYC area
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Genovese sauce
Genovese sauce is a slow-cooked onion and meat sauce associated with Italy's Campania region, especially Naples — typically served with paccheri, ziti or candele pasta — and sprinkled with grated cheese.
Genovese may be prepared w ...
, a meat sauce from Napoli
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Genoese (disambiguation)
Genoese may refer to:
* a person from Genoa
* Genoese dialect, a dialect of the Ligurian language
* Republic of Genoa (–1805), a former state in Liguria
See also
* Genovese
Genovese is an Italian surname meaning, properly, someone from Geno ...
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Genovesi
Genovesi is a surname of Italian origin. It is the plural form of Genovese, stemming from old Italian usage of "dei Genovesi" as a family name, meaning "of the Genoveses". Notable people with this name include:
* Alessandro Genovesi (born 1973), I ...
References
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Italian-language surnames
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Italian toponymic surnames