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 ...
of
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
Italian(s) may refer to:
* Anything of, from, or related to the people of Italy over the centuries
** Italians, an ethnic group or simply a citizen of the Italian Republic or Italian Kingdom
** Italian language, a Romance language
*** Regional Ita ...
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People with this given name
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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)
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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)
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Gianni Amelio
Gianni Amelio (born 20 January 1945) is an Italian film director.
Early life
Amelio was born in San Pietro di Magisano, province of Catanzaro, Calabria. His father moved to Argentina soon after his birth. He spent his youth and adolescence with h ...
(film director)
*
Gianni Baget Bozzo (
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)
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Gianni Bellocchi (scientist)
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Gianni Brera (journalist)
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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†...
(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 ...
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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 ...
bishop)
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Gianni Davito (high jumper)
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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 t ...
(Italian football coach)
*
Gianni De Fraja
Gianni De Fraja is a professor of economics at the University of Nottingham, England and a Research Fellow (CEPR).
He was born in Bologna, where he spent the first five years of his life, before moving to Bassano del Grappa and then on to Mestr ...
(economics professor)
*
Gianni De Michelis
Gianni De Michelis (26 November 1940 – 11 May 2019) was an Italian politician, prominent member of the Italian Socialist Party (PSI), who served as minister in many Italian governments in the 1980s and early 1990s.
Biography
De Michelis was bo ...
(politician)
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Gianni Garko
Gianni Garko (born Giovanni Garcovich; 15 July 1935), often billed as John Garko and occasionally Gary Hudson, is an Italian actor who found fame as a leading man in 1960s Spaghetti Westerns. He is perhaps best known for his lead role as Sartana ...
(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)
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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. H ...
(President of FIFA)
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Gianni Letta
Gianni Letta (born 15 April 1935) is an Italian journalist and politician. He is a close advisor of Silvio Berlusconi and a member of the advisory board of Goldman Sachs International.
Biography
After graduating in law, he started working as a ...
(politician)
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Gianni Mina
Gianni Mina (born 9 February 1992 in Les Abymes, Guadeloupe, France) is a French professional tennis player.
Tennis career Juniors
On the junior circuit, Mina reached the No. 1 combined world ranking in March 2010. He finished runner-up to event ...
(tennis player)
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Gianni MinÃ
Gianni Minà (; Turin, 17 May 1938) is an Italian journalist, writer, magazine editor and television host. He has collaborated with both Italian and International newspapers and magazines; produced hundreds of reports for RAI (''Radiotelevisione ...
(journalist)
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Gianni Morandi
Gianni Morandi (; born 11 December 1944) is an Italian pop singer, actor and entertainer.
Early life
Gian Luigi Morandi was born in a little village called Monghidoro on the Tuscan-Emilian Apennines. His father Renato was active within the ...
(singer)
*
Gianni Morbidelli
Gianni Morbidelli (born 13 January 1968) is an Italian racing driver. He participated in 70 Formula One Grands Prix, debuting on 11 March 1990. He achieved one podium, and scored a total of 8.5 championship points. He currently competes in the T ...
(
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)
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Gianni Motta
Gianni Motta (born 13 March 1943) is an Italian former bicycle racer who won the 1966 Giro d'Italia.
Gianni Motta was born at Cassano d'Adda (Lombardy). His main victories include the Giro d'Italia (1966), a Giro di Lombardia (1964), a Tour ...
(cyclist)
*
Gianni Pettenati
Gianni Pettenati (born in Piacenza, Italy on 29 October 1945) is an Italian singer and musical critic. He is most famous for his Italian cover versions of great international hits. He is also the author of plays and books on the history of Italian ...
(singer)
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Gianni Riotta
Gianni Riotta (born 1954 in Palermo, Italy) is an Italian journalist, a regular contributor for the daily newspaper La Stampa and a former editor-in-chief of the financial newspaper ''Il Sole 24 Ore'', Rai 3 and the news bulletin TG1. He has c ...
(journalist)
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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)
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Gianni Rodari
Giovanni Francesco "Gianni" Rodari (; 23 October 1920 – 14 April 1980) was an Italian writer and journalist, most famous for his works of children's literature, notably '' Il romanzo di Cipollino''. For his lasting contribution as a children's ...
(writer)
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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)
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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 repri ...
(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 nation ...
(footballer)
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Gianni Togni (singer)
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Gianni Vattimo
Gianteresio Vattimo (born 4 January 1936) is an Italian philosopher and politician.
Biography
Gianteresio Vattimo was born in Turin, Piedmont. He studied philosophy under the existentialist Luigi Pareyson at the University of Turin, and graduat ...
(philosopher)
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Gianni Vella
Gianni Vella (9 May 1885 – 3 September 1977) was a Maltese artist. After studying in Rome, he produced many religious works which can be found in many churches in the Maltese Islands, but he also produced some secular works including landscape ...
(artist)
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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)
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Gianni Versace
Giovanni Maria "Gianni" Versace (; 2 December 1946 – 15 July 1997) was an Italian fashion designer, socialite and businessman. He was the founder of Versace, an international luxury-fashion house that produces accessories, fragrances, make-u ...
(fashion designer)
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Gianni Vignaduzzi (track cyclist)
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Gianni Zuiverloon (footballer)
People with this surname
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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
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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
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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
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Lapo Gianni (died after 1328), Italian poet
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Mario Gianni
Mario Gianni (; 19 November 1902 – July 1967) was an Italian professional football player and coach, who played as a goalkeeper. He was nicknamed ''Gatto Magico'' (Magic Cat) for his acrobatic skill.
Career
Gianni played most of his career w ...
(1902–1967), Italian footballer
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Matthieu Gianni
Matthieu Gianni (born January 2, 1985 in Bastia) is a French professional football player, who currently plays for Sainte Lucie Football Club of Corsica.
Career
Gianni played eight games in the Ligue 2 for Grenoble Foot 38 and twenty five in the ...
(born 1985), Italian footballer
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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
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Paul Gianni, Australian paralympic athlete
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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
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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.
See also
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Gianni di Parigi
''Gianni di Parigi'' is an 1839 ''melodramma comico'' (''opera buffa'') in two acts with music by Gaetano Donizetti to a libretto by Felice Romani, which had previously been set by Francesco Morlacchi in 1818 and by Giovanni Antonio Speranza in 1 ...
(opera)
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Gianni Schicchi
() is a comic opera in one act by Giacomo Puccini to an Italian libretto by Giovacchino Forzano, composed in 1917–18. The libretto is based on an incident mentioned in Dante's ''Divine Comedy''. The work is the third and final part of Puccin ...
(opera)
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Janni Janni is both a given name and a surname. Notable people with the name include:
* Janni Arnth Jensen (born 1986), Danish football player
* Janni Howker, British author
* Janni Lee Simner, American author
* Janni Spies, Danish businesswoman
* Antoni ...
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Yianni (disambiguation)
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Yanni (disambiguation) Yanni is the stage name of Greek composer and musician Yiánnis Hryssomállis.
Yanni may also refer to:
People:
* Yanni Gourde (born 1991), Canadian ice hockey player
*Yanni Hufnagel (born 1982), American college basketball coach
* Yanni Regäsel ...
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Johnny (disambiguation)
Johnny (also spelled Johnnie) is a given name.
Johnny or Johnnie may also refer to:
Films
* ''Johnny'' (1980 film), an Indian Tamil language film
* ''Johnny'' (1983 film), a 1983 film by Arun Roy
* ''Johny'' (film), a 1993 Indian Malayalam la ...
*
Alternate forms for the name John
Other language forms for the name John:
* Chon
* Dzon, Džon (Congolese, Serbian)
* Ean ( Manx)
* Eóin ( Irish)
* Evan (Welsh)
* Ganix (Basque)
* Giăng ( Vietnamese, Protestant )
* Giannina (Italian)
* Gioan ( Vietnamese, Catholic )
* G ...
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Italian masculine given names
Italian-language surnames
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