Gianni is an Italian name (occasionally a

surname In some cultures, a surname, family name, or last name is the portion of one's personal name that indicates one's family, tribe or community. Practices vary by culture. The family name may be placed at either the start of a person's full name ...

), a short form of the Italian Giovanni and a cognate of John meaning God is gracious. Gianni is the most common

diminutive A diminutive is a root word that has been modified to convey a slighter degree of its root meaning, either to convey the smallness of the object or quality named, or to convey a sense of intimacy or endearment. A (abbreviated ) is a word-formati ...

Giovanni Giovanni may refer to: * Giovanni (name), an Italian male given name and surname * Giovanni (meteorology), a Web interface for users to analyze NASA's gridded data * ''Don Giovanni'', a 1787 opera by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, based on the legend of ...

in Italian.

People with this given name

Gianni Agnelli Giovanni "Gianni" Agnelli (; 12 March 192124 January 2003), nicknamed ("The Lawyer"), was an Italian industrialist and principal shareholder of Fiat. As the head of Fiat, he controlled 4.4% of Italy's GDP, 3.1% of its industrial workforce a ...

(industrialist) *

Gianni Alemanno Giovanni "Gianni" Alemanno (born 3 March 1958) is an Italian politician who from April 2008 until June 2013 was Mayor of Rome for the centre-right People of Freedom. He was the Secretary of the National Movement for Sovereignty from 2017 to 201 ...

(politician) * Gianni Amelio (film director) *

Gianni Baget Bozzo Gianni Baget Bozzo (8 March 1925 – 8 May 2009) was an Italian Catholic priest and politician. Baget Bozzo was born in Savona and raised in Genoa where he graduated in law. At one-time Christian-Democrat activist, in 1984 he was elected at ...

(

Roman Catholic Roman or Romans most often refers to: *Rome, the capital city of Italy *Ancient Rome, Roman civilization from 8th century BC to 5th century AD *Roman people, the people of ancient Rome *'' Epistle to the Romans'', shortened to ''Romans'', a lette ...

priest and political expert) *

Gianni Bellocchi Gianni Bellocchi (born July 22, 1969) is a researcher in agricultural and related sciences. He is credited with the development of approaches and tools in Validity (statistics), validation of estimates and measurements. Introduction of fuzzy log ...

(scientist) *

Gianni Brera Giovanni Luigi "Gianni" Brera (8 September 1919 – 19 December 1992) was an Italian sports journalist and novelist. This is a description by himself: "My real name is Giovanni Luigi Brera. I was born on 8 September 1919 in San Zenone Po in the ...

(journalist) *

Gianni Bugno Gianni Bugno (; born 14 February 1964) is a retired Italian professional road racing cyclist. Biography Bugno was a versatile rider, able to do well in different types of races. He won numerous stages in the Tour de France, and the Milan–S ...

(cyclist) *

Gianni Danzi Gianni Danzi (January 25, 1940 – October 2, 2007) was an Italian Catholic Archbishop of the Territorial Prelature of Loreto. He was born in Viggiù, Varese province, Italy. Danzi died in October 2007 at the age of 67 at his parents' house in ...

(

bishop) *

Gianni Davito Gianni Davito (born 19 August 1957) is a retired Italian high jumper. Biography He finished eighth at the 1977 European Indoor Championships. He also competed at the 1983 World Championships without reaching the final. His personal best jump ...

(high jumper) *

Gianni De Biasi Giovanni "Gianni" De Biasi (, sq, Xhovani "Xhani" De Biazi), born 16 June 1956 is an Italian football coach and former player. He holds dual Italian and Albanian citizenship. De Biasi was the first coach of the Albania national team to lead th ...

(Italian football coach) * Gianni De Fraja (economics professor) * Gianni De Michelis (politician) * Gianni Garko (actor, born Giovanni Garcovich) *

Gianni Ghidini Gianni Ghidini (21 May 1930 – 20 June 1995) was a road racing cyclist from Italy Italy ( it, Italia ), officially the Italian Republic, ) or the Republic of Italy, is a country in Southern Europe. It is located in the middle of t ...

(cyclist) *

Gianni Infantino Giovanni Vincenzo Infantino (; born 23 March 1970) is a Swiss football administrator with Italian citizenship and the current president of FIFA. He was elected President of FIFA during the 2016 FIFA Extraordinary Congress in February 2016. He ...

(President of FIFA) * Gianni Letta (politician) * Gianni Mina (tennis player) * Gianni Minà (journalist) * Gianni Morandi (singer) * Gianni Morbidelli (

Formula One Formula One (also known as Formula 1 or F1) is the highest class of international racing for open-wheel single-seater formula racing cars sanctioned by the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA). The World Drivers' Championship, ...

driver) * Gianni Motta (cyclist) * Gianni Pettenati (singer) * Gianni Riotta (journalist) *

Gianni Rivera Giovanni "Gianni" Rivera (; born 18 August 1943) is an Italian politician and former footballer who played as a midfielder. During his career as a footballer he was mostly utilised as an attacking midfielder. Dubbed Italy's "Golden Boy" by the ...

(footballer) * Gianni Rodari (writer) *

Gianni Romme Gianni Petrus Cornelis Romme (born 12 February 1973) is a Dutch marathoner and a former long track speed skater. He won two gold medals at the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano and was the World all-round champion in 2000 and 2003. Romme has been a ...

(skater) *

Gianni Russo Gianni Vito Russo is an American actor and singer. He is best known for his role as Carlo Rizzi in the 1972 film ''The Godfather''. Life and career Russo was born in Manhattan in 1943 and raised in Little Italy and Staten Island. After reprisi ...

(actor) *

Gianni Stensness Gianni Ryan Stensness (born 7 February 1999) is an Australian professional soccer player who plays as a centre-back for Norwegian Eliteserien club Viking FK. A former youth international for New Zealand, Stensness plays for the Australia nationa ...

(footballer) *

Gianni Togni Gianni Togni (born 24 July 1956 in Rome) is an Italian singer. He begins his musical experience with the album ''In una simile circostanza'' (1975), he obtained a notable success in 1980 with the single "Luna", from the album ''... E in quel mom ...

(singer) * Gianni Vattimo (philosopher) * Gianni Vella (artist) *

Gianni Vernetti Gianni Vernetti (born 27 November 1960) is a writer and Italian politician. Early life Gianni Vernetti was born in Torino, Italy. In 1985 he graduated in Architecture at the Polytechnic University of Turin. In 1987 he was awarded a PhD in Urban ...

(politician) * Gianni Versace (fashion designer) *

Gianni Vignaduzzi Gianni Vignaduzzi (born 27 August 1966) is a retired track cyclist from Canada who represented his country at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea, where he finished in 17th place in the Men's Points Race and at the 1992 Summer Olympics ...

(track cyclist) *

Gianni Zuiverloon Gianni Michel Eugene Zuiverloon (; born 30 December 1986) is a Dutch former footballer who plays as a centre back. Club career Early career Zuiverloon was born in Rotterdam, Netherlands. He started his football career at the age of six at Feye ...

(footballer)

People with this surname

Alberto Gianni Alberto is the Romance languages, Romance version of the Latinized form (''Albertus'') of Germanic languages, Germanic ''Albert (given name), Albert''. It is used in Italian language, Italian, Portuguese language, Portuguese and Spanish language, ...

(1891–1930), Italian diver *

Dimitrie Gianni Dimitrie Gianni (nicknamed Tache Gianni; 15 July 1838–27 June 1902) was a Wallachian-born Romanian lawyer and politician. Born in Bucharest, he descended from a Greek family that had settled in Wallachia. After attending gymnasium in Berlin, ...

(1838–1902), Romanian politician *

Gary Gianni Gary Gianni (born 1954) is an American comics artist best known for his eight years illustrating the syndicated newspaper comic ''Prince Valiant''. After Gianni graduated from the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts in 1976, he worked for the ''Chicag ...

(born 1954), American comics artist *

Lapo Gianni Lapo Gianni (died after 1328) was an Italian poet who lived in Florence in the 13th-14th centuries. He was a member of the Florentine circle of the Italian movement called Dolce Stil Novo, and was probably a notary. His composition are distinguish ...

(died after 1328), Italian poet *

Mario Gianni Mario Gianni (; 19 November 1902 – July 1967) was an Italian professional Association football, football player and coach, who played as a Goalkeeper (association football), goalkeeper. He was nicknamed ''Gatto Magico'' (Magic Cat) for his acr ...

(1902–1967), Italian footballer * Matthieu Gianni (born 1985), Italian footballer *

Nicolás Gianni Nicolás Andrés Gianni (born 27 September 1982 in Villa Lugano) is an Argentine footballer. Club career Gianni started his career at Argentinos Juniors aged 18 in 2000, making his professional debut in a 1–0 loss against Rosario Central. In ...

(born 1982), Italian footballer *

Paul Gianni Paul Gianni is an Australian Paralympic athlete. He was a B-classified competitor at the 1976 Summer Paralympics The 1976 Summer Paralympics (french: Jeux paralympiques d'été de 1976), branded as Torontolympiad – 1976 Olympiad for the P ...

, Australian paralympic athlete *

Patrizia Gianni Patrizia M. Gianni (born 1952) is an Italian mathematician specializing in computer algebra. She is known for her early research on Gröbner bases including her discovery of the FGLM algorithm for changing monomial orderings in Gröbner bases, ...

(born 1952), Italian mathematician

Fictional people with this name

Gianni di Marco Gianni di Marco is a fictional character from the BBC serial drama ''EastEnders'', played by Marc Bannerman from 1998 to 2000. Throughout his time on the show, the character mostly contributed to his family's story arc since their first arrival ...

, a character on the British TV show ''Eastenders'', portrayed by actor Marc Bannerman.

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