Giancarlo is an Italian given name meaning "John Charles". It is one of the most common masculine given names in Italy and is often short for "Giovanni Carlo". Notable people with the name include:

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Giancarlo Agazzi Giancarlo Agazzi (August 22, 1932 – September 26, 1995) was an Italian ice hockey player. Considered one of the best Italian hockey players of all time, he played mostly with teams from Milan: HC Amatori Milano, HC Milano, Milan-Inter HC and Di ...

(1933–1995), Italian ice hockey player * Giancarlo Alessandrelli (born 1952), Italian footballer *

Giancarlo Alessandrini Giancarlo Alessandrini (born March 20, 1950) is an Italian comic artist. Biography Born in Iesi, Alessandrini graduated from Ancona's Art Institute and begins drawing comics professionally in 1972 for ''Il Corriere dei Ragazzi'' with the story '' ...

(born 1950), Italian comic artist *

Giancarlo Alvarado Giancarlo Carlos (Martinez) Alvarado (born January 24, 1978) is a professional baseball pitcher. He was raised in Camuy, Puerto Rico. He has played in the Chinese Professional Baseball League and Nippon Professional Baseball as well as in intern ...

(born 1978), Puerto Rican baseball player * Giancarlo Antognoni (born 1954), Italian footballer *

Giancarlo Astrua Giancarlo Astrua (11 August 1927 – 29 July 2010)Addio ...

(1927–2010), Italian road bicycle racer

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* Giancarlo Bacci (1931–2014), Italian footballer * Giancarlo Badessi (1928–2011), Italian actor *

Giancarlo Baghetti Giancarlo Baghetti (25 December 1934 – 27 November 1995) was a Formula One driver who raced for the Ferrari, Automobili Turismo e Sport, BRM, Brabham and Lotus teams. Baghetti is one of only three drivers to have won his first World Champions ...

(1934–1995), Italian Formula One driver * Giancarlo Bellini (born 1945), Italian road bicycle racer *

Giancarlo Berardi Giancarlo Berardi (born 15 November 1949) is an Italian comic book writer. Born in Genoa, he is most famous as creator of comics '' Ken Parker'' (1977) and ''Julia Julia is usually a feminine given name. It is a Latinate feminine form of th ...

(born 1949), Italian comic book writer * Giancarlo Bercellino (born 1941), Italian footballer *

Giancarlo Bergamelli Giancarlo Bergamelli (born 28 October 1974) is a retired Italian alpine skier who competed in the 2002 Winter Olympics. The four Bergamelli ski brothers The Bergamellis were four brothers, Sergio (born 1970), Norman (born 1971), Thomas (born 197 ...

(born 1974), Italian alpine skier * Giancarlo Bergamini (1926–2020), Italian fencer * Giancarlo Bigazzi (1940–2012), Italian music producer * Giancarlo Boriani (1894–1962), Italian sports shooter *

Giancarlo Brusati Giancarlo Brusati (6 March 1910 – 30 June 2001) was an Italian fencer. He won a gold medal in the team épée event at the 1936 Summer Olympics. He was the President of the Fédération Internationale d'Escrime The ''Fédération In ...

(1910–2001), Italian fencer

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* Giancarlo Cadé (1930–2013), Italian footballer and coach *

Giancarlo Caltabiano Giancarlo Caltabiano (born April 6, 1976) is a Canadian actor best known as George S. Goodwin III on '' Radio Active'' and Ben Shaw on ''Fries with That? ''Fries with That?'' is a YTV produced sitcom. It first aired in April 2004. This sitc ...

(born 1967), Canadian actor * Giancarlo Camolese (born 1961), Italian footballer *

Giancarlo Canavesio Giancarlo Canavesio is a neo-culture entrepreneur involved in regenerative content with the online channel Mangu.TV, in regenerative hospitality with the seasonal residence Difuso.net and in regenerative farming with TerraVibaIbiza.com. A former in ...

(born 1968), Italian film producer *

Giancarlo Carloni Giancarlo Carloni (born June 8, 1947 in Civita Castellana) is a retired Italian professional football player. His professional debut in the 1966/67 season for A.S. Roma remained his only Serie A The Serie A (), also called Serie A TIM for n ...

(born 1947), Italian footballer *

Giancarlo Carmona Giancarlo Carmona Maldonado (born 12 October 1985) is a Peruvian footballer who plays as a centre-back. He currently plays for Academia Deportiva Cantolao. Career Carmona played his first professional years for Alianza Atlético and Universitar ...

(born 1985), Peruvian footballer *

Giancarlo Ceccarelli Giancarlo Ceccarelli (born 31 August 1956 in Frascati) is a retired Italian footballer. He played as a midfielder. After playing in Lazio youth teams he went to play in Serie B for 4 years, during which he gained a promotion in Serie A with Avelli ...

(born 1956), Italian footballer *

Giancarlo Cella Giancarlo Cella (born 5 September 1940 in Bobbio) is an Italian former footballer who played as a defender. He made more than 300 appearances in the Italian professional leagues, which included 172 appearances in Serie A, and then became a coach ...

(born 1940), Italian footballer and coach *

Giancarlo Centi Giancarlo Centi (born May 14, 1959, in L'Aquila) is an Italian professional football coach and a former player. Centi played in Inter Milan's youth and senior sides, winning the 1981–82 Coppa Italia The 1981–82 Coppa Italia, the 35th Coppa ...

(born 1959), Italian footballer and coach *

Giancarlo Chiaramello Giancarlo Chiaramello (born 18 February 1939) is an Italian composer, conductor and arranger. Born in Bra, in 1958 Chiaramello graduated in piano, composition and vocal polyphony at the Giuseppe Verdi Conservatory in Turin. He won two internatio ...

(born 1939), Italian composer *

Giancarlo Cobelli Giancarlo Cobelli (12 December 1929 – 16 March 2012) was an Italian actor and stage director. He was considered one of the most important directors of Italian theatre. Early life Born in Milan, Cobelli studied acting at Giorgio Strehler's P ...

(1929–2012), Italian actor and stage director *

Giancarlo Conta Giancarlo Conta (Verona, 9 October 1949) is an Italian architect and politician. He specializes in the restoration of architectural heritage, historic buildings, urban plans and in the design of sports facilities both in Italy and abroad. He joi ...

(born 1949), Italian politician *

Giancarlo Coraggio Giancarlo Coraggio (born 16 December 1940) is an Italian magistrate. He has been Judge of the Constitutional Court of Italy from 28 January 2013 to 28 January 2022 and President of the Constitutional Court from 18 December 2020 to 28 January 2022 ...

(born 1940), Italian judge * Giancarlo Corradini (born 1961), Italian footballer and coach

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Giancarlo da Silva Moro Giancarlo da Silva Moro (born 18 October 1982) is a Brazilian professional footballer who plays for Paraná Clube, as a striker. Career Born in Turvo, Giancarlo has played for America, Londrina, Iraty, Novo Hamburgo, Juventude, Portuguesa, ...

(born 1982), Brazilian footballer * Giancarlo Dametto (born 1959), Italian volleyball player *

Giancarlo Danova Giancarlo Danova (18 November 1938 – 15 June 2014) was an Italian football forward who played for A.C. Milan, Torino F.C., Catania Calcio, Atalanta B.C., Fiorentina F.C. and Mantova Calcio. During his career he played on three Italian Cha ...

(1938–2014), Italian footballer *

Giancarlo de' Medici Giancarlo de' Medici (24 July 1611 – 22 January 1663) was an Italian cardinal of the House of Medici. He was the second son of Grand Duke Cosimo II of Tuscany and his wife, Maria Maddalena of Austria, and the brother of Ferdinando II de' Medi ...

(1611–1663), Italian cardinal * Giancarlo De Carlo (1919–2015), Italian architect *

Giancarlo De Sisti Giancarlo De Sisti (; born 13 March 1943) is a retired Italian footballer and football manager and midfielder player. Club career Best known by his nickname ''Picchio'', during his club career, De Sisti played for his hometown club A.S. Roma on ...

(born 1943), Italian footballer and coach *

Giancarlo del Monaco Giancarlo del Monaco (born 27 December 1943), Italian stage director, general manager for several opera companies and festivals. Early life Del Monaco was born in Venice to operatic tenor, Mario Del Monaco and operatic soprano, Rina Fedora Fili ...

(born 1943), Italian stage director

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Giancarlo Esposito Giancarlo Giuseppe Alessandro Esposito (; born April 26, 1958) is an American actor and director. He is best known for portraying Gus Fring in the AMC crime drama series ''Breaking Bad'', from 2009 to 2011, and in its prequel series ''Better Ca ...

(born 1958), American actor

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Giancarlo Falappa Giancarlo Falappa (born 30 June 1963) is an Italian former professional motorcycle road racer.

(born 1963), Italian motorcycle road racer * Giancarlo Ferrari (born 1942), Italian archer * Giancarlo Ferretti (born 1941), Italian road bicycle racer and team manager *

Giancarlo Fisichella Giancarlo Fisichella (; born 14 January 1973), also known as Fisico, Giano or Fisi, is an Italian professional racing driver, also captain of the official ''Nazionale Piloti'' association football team (composed of the racing drivers). He has d ...

(born 1973), Italian Formula One driver *

Giancarlo Flati Giancarlo Flati (L'Aquila, May 11, 1953) is an Italian painter, researcher and writer. Biography Flati is born in L'Aquila, in the region of Abruzzo in central Italy. His artistic production began in 1964. Since 1972 he has been doing art ...

(born 1953), Italian painter

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* Giancarlo Galan (born 1956), Italian politician * Giancarlo Gallifuoco (born 1994), Australian footballer *

Giancarlo Genta Giancarlo Genta (born 1948 in Turin, Italy) is Professor of Machine Design and Construction at the Polytechnic University of Turin. His areas of professional interest include vibration, vehicle design, magnetic bearings, and rotordynamics. He has ...

(born 1948), Italian professor of machine design and construction *

Giancarlo Gentilini Giancarlo Gentilini (born 3 August 1929 in Vittorio Veneto, Province of Treviso) has been Deputy Mayor and Mayor, of the city of Treviso, Italy Italy ( it, Italia ), officially the Italian Republic, ) or the Republic of Italy, is a coun ...

(born 1929), Italian politician *

Giancarlo Ghirardi Giancarlo Ghirardi (28 October 1935 – 1 June 2018) was an Italian physicist and emeritus professor of theoretical physics at the University of Trieste. He is well known for the Ghirardi–Rimini–Weber theory (GRW), which he proposed in 1985 t ...

(1935–2018), Italian physicist *

Giancarlo Giammetti Giancarlo Giammetti (born 5 February 1942) is an Italian businessman, known for his professional and personal association with Valentino Garavani. He is the founder with Valentino Garavani of the Valentino fashion house. He is the Honour Presiden ...

, Italian fashion entrepreneur * Giancarlo Giannini (born 1942), Italian actor *

Giancarlo Giorgetti Giancarlo Giorgetti (born 16 December 1966 in Cazzago Brabbia) is an Italian politician and prominent member of the League, of which he became deputy secretary in 2016. Since October 2022, Giorgetti is serving as Minister of Economy and Finance ...

, Italian politician * Giancarlo González (born 1988), Costa Rican footballer *

Giancarlo Gramolazzo Father Giancarlo Gramolazzo (Ortonovo, Italy, 1945 - Rome, 8 November 2010) was an Italian Roman Catholic priest who served as an exorcist. He was the president of the International Association of Exorcists until his death.ABC News, ''Putting Faith ...

(1945–2010), Italian priest and exorcist * Giancarlo Guerrini (born 1939), Italian water polo player *

Giancarlo Guerrero Giancarlo Guerrero (born 1969) is a Costa Rican, Nicaraguan-born, US-based music director. He is the music director of the Nashville Symphony in Nashville, Tennessee. Guerrero is also Music Director of the Wrocław Philharmonic at the National Fo ...

, Costa Rican music director

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* Giancarlo Ibarguen (born 1963), Guatemalan businessman and academic * Giancarlo Improta (born 1987), Italian footballer

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* Giancarlo Judica Cordiglia (born 1971), Italian actor

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Giancarlo Ligabue Giancarlo Ligabue (30 October 1931 – 25 January 2015) was an Italian paleontologist, scholar, politician and businessman. Born in Venice, Ligabue graduated in Economics at the Ca' Foscari University of Venice and in Geology at la Sorbonne, and ...

(1931–2015), Italian palaeontologist and politician *

Giancarlo Livraghi Giancarlo Livraghi (25 November 1927 – 22 February 2014) was an Italian author and advertising executive. Born in Milan and graduated in philosophy at the University of Milan, while studying he had started working as a reporter, an editor and a ...

(1927–2014), Italian author and advertising executive *

Giancarlo Luzzani Giancarlo Luzzani (12 May 1912 – 3 November 1991) was a Swiss field hockey player who competed in the 1936 Summer Olympics The 1936 Summer Olympics (German: ''Olympische Sommerspiele 1936''), officially known as the Games of the XI Olym ...

(1912–date of death unknown), Swiss field hockey player

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Giancarlo Magalli Giancarlo Magalli (born 5 July 1947) is an Italian television writer, presenter, actor and voice actor. Life and career Born in Rome, Magalli studied at the Istituto Massimiliano Massimo, having Mario Draghi and Luca Cordero di Montezemolo as ...

(born 1947), Italian television writer and presenter *

Giancarlo Maldonado Giancarlo Gregorio Maldonado Marrero (, born 29 June 1982) is a Venezuelan footballer who plays as a striker. Club career River Plate Maldonado began his footballing career in Uruguay, where he started out in the youth teams of Montevideo c ...

(born 1982), Venezuelan footballer *

Giancarlo Marinelli Giancarlo Marinelli (4 December 1915 – 12 May 1987) was an Italian basketball player who competed in the 1936 Summer Olympics and the 1948 Summer Olympics. He was born in Bologna Bologna (, , ; egl, label=Emilian language, Emi ...

(1915–1987), Italian basketball player * Giancarlo Marocchi (born 1965), Italian footballer *

Giancarlo Martini Giancarlo Martini (16 August 1947 – 26 March 2013) was a racing driver from Italy. He participated in two non-championship Formula One Grands Prix driving a Ferrari 312T for Giancarlo Minardi. He was the uncle of the racing drivers Pierl ...

(1947–2013), Italian Formula One driver * Giancarlo Mazzanti (born 1963), Colombian architect * Giancarlo Meo, Italian record producer *

Giancarlo Minardi Giancarlo Minardi (born 18 September 1947) is the founder and managing director of the now-defunct Minardi Formula One team. Early life Minardi was born in Faenza (Ravenna), Italy and has spent his life with cars. As a young boy, his family ma ...

(born 1947), Italian car racer and founder of the Formula One team

Minardi Minardi was an Italian automobile racing team and constructor founded in Faenza in 1979 by Giancarlo Minardi. It competed in the Formula One World Championship from 1985 until 2005 with little success, nevertheless acquiring a loyal followin ...

Giancarlo Monsalve Giancarlo Monsalve Leyton (born 4 March 1982) is a Chilean spinto tenor. He is the Cultural Ambassador of his home town Valparaíso, a UNESCO World Heritage site. He is known for his portrayal as Don José in ''Carmen'', Cavaradossi in ''Tosca'' ...

(born 1982), Chilean tenor *

Giancarlo Morolli Dr. Ing. Giancarlo Morolli is an Italian philatelist who signed the Roll of Distinguished Philatelists in 2010. Profession Morolli is a management advisor in information technologies, a freelance journalist A journalist is an individual that ...

, Italian philatelist *

Giancarlo Morresi Giancarlo Morresi (18 September 1944 – 30 July 2019) was an Italian modern pentathlon, modern pentathlete. He finished 24th individually and ninth with the team at the 1968 Summer Olympics. References External links

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(1944–2019), Italian modern pentathlete

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* Giancarlo Neri (born 1955), Italian sculptor

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* Giancarlo Pagliarini (born 1942), Italian politician *

Giancarlo Pajetta Giancarlo Pajetta (24 June 1911 – 13 September 1990) was an Italian communist politician. Biography Pajetta was born in a working-class district of Turin to Carlo, a bank employee, and Elvira Berrini, an elementary schoolteacher. He attended ...

(1911–1990), Italian politician *

Giancarlo Pallavicini Giancarlo Pallavicini (Desio, February 12, 1931) is an Italians, Italian writer and academic.Encyclopedic Treccani Institute, Enciclopedia Biografica Universale, Rome, 2007, Volume 14, Page 617; Treccani-Portale Scienze/Biografie; Who's Who in Ita ...

(born 1931), Italian economist * Giancarlo Pantano (born 1977), Italian footballer *

Giancarlo Parretti Giancarlo Parretti (born 23 October 1941) is an Italian financier. In 1989, he took over Cannon Film Group Inc. from Menahem Golan and Yoram Globus. Almost immediately, he made plans to take over the storied French studio Pathé, and changed Ca ...

(born 1941), Italian financier *

Giancarlo Pasinato Giancarlo Pasinato (born 20 September 1956 in Cittadella) is an Italian professional football coach and a former player, who played as a midfielder. Style of play Although he was initially often deployed in the centre of the pitch as a defensive ...

(born 1956), Italian footballer and coach *

Giancarlo Perini Giancarlo Perini (born 2 December 1959 in Carpaneto Piacentino) is a former Italian cyclist. Major results ;1979 :Gran Premio Industria e Commercio Artigianato Carnaghese ;1987 :2nd stage Tour de France (TTT) ;1992 :2nd Coppa Bernocchi :8th 1992 ...

(born 1959), Italian road bicycle racer *

Giancarlo Peris Giancarlo Peris (born 4 November 1941), an Italian track athlete of Greek descent, was the final bearer of the Olympic torch for the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome, Italy. Biography Peris was born in Civitavecchia, a port city on the Tyrrhenian Se ...

(born 1941), Italian track athlete *

Giancarlo Petrazzuolo Giancarlo Petrazzuolo (born 7 August 1980) is an Italian former professional tennis player. ...

(born 1980), Italian tennis player *

Giancarlo Polidori Giancarlo Polidori (born 30 October 1943 in Sassoferrato, Italy) is a former Italian professional road bicycle racer. His career highlights include stage wins in Tirreno–Adriatico, the Giro d'Italia and the Tour de Romandie as well as wins in ...

(born 1943), Italian road bicycle racer *

Giancarlo Politi Giancarlo Politi (born 1937 in Trevi, Italy) is an art critic and publisher, mainly known for being the founder of ''Flash Art'' magazine. Magazine Politi was born in Trevi, in Umbria. He had a brief spell as an artist and poet before turning to ...

(born 1937), Italian art critic and publisher *

Giancarlo Prete Giancarlo Prete (5 February 1943 – 9 March 2001) was an Italian actor. After he worked in the cinema as stuntman, Prete went to Alessandro Fersen Alessandro Fersen (5 December 1911 – 3 October 2001) was a Polish-born Italian dramatist, a ...

(1943–2001), Italian actor * Giancarlo Previato (born 1993), Brazilian footballer * Giancarlo Primo (1924–2005), Italian basketball player and coach

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Giancarlo Rastelli Giancarlo Rastelli (1933–1970) was a cardiac surgeon. He was the creator of the Rastelli procedure. He died of cancer at 36 years of age. At the time of his death, he was the head of cardiovascular surgical research at the Mayo Clinic in Roche ...

(1934–1970), Italian cardiac surgeon *

Giancarlo Rebizzi Giancarlo Rebizzi (born October 5, 1933 in Milan) is a retired Italian professional football player. Honours * Serie B The Serie B (), currently named Serie Balkrishna Industries, BKT for sponsorship reasons, is the second-highest divisio ...

(born 1933), Italian footballer * Giancarlo Ronchetti (1913–unknown), Italian bobsledder * Gian-Carlo Rota (1932–1999), Italian born-American mathematician and philosopher

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Giancarlo Santi Giancarlo Santi (7 October 1939 – 22 February 2021) was an Italian filmmaker. Born in Rome, Santi began his career as production assistant of Gian Vittorio Baldi, later became assistant director of Marco Ferreri ('' L'ape regina'', '' La Donna ...

(1939–2021), Italian director and screenwriter * Giancarlo Sbragia (1926–1994), Italian actor *

Giancarlo Scottà Giancarlo Scottà (born 11 April 1953, in Vittorio Veneto) is an Italian politician from Veneto. A member of Liga Veneta-Lega Nord, Scottà was Mayor of Vittorio Veneto from 1999 to 2009. At the 2009 European election he was elected to the Europe ...

(born 1953), Italian politician *

Giancarlo Schiaffini Giancarlo Schiaffini is an Italian jazz trombonist and tubist most associated with avant-garde music, free improvisation and free jazz. A member of the Italian Instabile Orchestra, Schiaffini has worked with such artists as Mario Schiano, Lol Coxh ...

, Italian jazz trombonist *

(born 1953), Italian politician *

Giancarlo Serenelli Giancarlo "Gato" Serenelli Pellechia (born 10 July 1981 in Caracas) is a Venezuelan racing driver. Career After karting, Serenelli raced in Formula Ford in his native Venezuela, winning his first title in 2000. After racing in the Italian Formul ...

(born 1981), Venezuelan racing driver *

Giancarlo Siani Giancarlo Siani (; Naples, September 19, 1959, - Naples, September 23, 1985) was an Italian crime reporter from Naples, who was killed by the Camorra, the Neapolitan mafia. He started to write in the magazine ''Osservatorio sulla camorra'', and l ...

(1959–1985), Italian crime reporter * Giancarlo Snidaro (born 1954), Italian footballer * Giancarlo Stanton (born 1989), American baseball player

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Giancarlo Tesini Giancarlo Tesini (born 5 February 1929) is an Italian Christian Democrat politician and sports director. He was a deputy from 1972 to 1992 and served as minister without portfolio for scientific and technological research in the first and second ...

(born 1929), Italian politician

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* Giancarlo Venturini, Italian fashion designer and artist * Giancarlo Vilarinho (born 1992), Brazilian race car driver * Giancarlo Vitali (1926–2011), Italian footballer and manager * Giancarlo Vitali (painter) (1929–2018), Italian painter *

Giancarlo Volpe Giancarlo Volpe is an Italian-born American animator, director, producer and comic creator. Volpe directed, wrote, and storyboarded for the Disney Channel animated series '' Star vs. the Forces of Evil'' from 2015 to 2017. On February 14, 20 ...

(born 1974), American animator and director

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Gian-Carlo Wick Gian Carlo Wick (15 October 1909 – 20 April 1992) was an Italian theoretical physicist who made important contributions to quantum field theory. The Wick rotation, Wick contraction, Wick's theorem, and the Wick product are named after him.

(1909–1992), Italian theoretical physicist

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Giancarlo Zagni Giancarlo Zagni (4 November 1926 – 21 March 2013) was an Italian director and screenwriter. Born in Bologna, Zagni attended the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Bologna, then collaborated with ''L'avvenire d'Italia'' and other newspap ...

(1926–2013), Italian director and screenwriter *

Giancarlo Zolezzi Giancarlo Zolezzi Seoane (born August 27, 1981) is a Chilean former swimmer, who specialized in long-distance freestyle events. He is a multiple-time Chilean swimming champion and record holder in the 200, 400, 800, and 1500 m freestyle. Zolezzi ...

(born 1981), Chilean swimmer

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