Giorgio is a male Italian given name and sometimes a surname. It is equivalent to the English name

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Surname

* Eusebio da San Giorgio, Italian painter *

Francesco di Giorgio Francesco di Giorgio Martini (1439–1501) was an Italian architect, engineer, painter, sculptor, and writer. As a painter, he belonged to the Sienese School. He was considered a visionary architectural theorist—in Nikolaus Pevsner's terms ...

, Italian painter * Francesco Giorgio, Italian writer *

Frank Di Giorgio Frank Di Giorgio ( , ) is a Canadian former politician. He sat on Toronto City Council and represented Ward 12 York South—Weston from 2000 to 2018. Prior to the amalgamation of Toronto, Di Giorgio was a member of the North York City Council fro ...

, Canadian city councillor * Gail Brewer-Giorgio, American author * Marchesi di San Giorgio, Maltese nobility * Marosa di Giorgio, Uruguayan writer * Pietro De Giorgio (born 1983), Italian footballer

Given name

* Giorgio Ordelaffi, Italian nobility * Giorgio de' Buondelmonti, ruler of Ioannina in 1411

Artists and entertainers

* Carlo Giorgio Garofalo, Italian composer *

Giorgio Amendola Giorgio Amendola (21 November 1907 – 5 June 1980) was an Italian writer and politician. He is regarded and often cited as one of the main precursors of the Olive Tree. Born in Rome in 1907, Amendola was the son of Lithuanian intellectual Eva ...

, Italian writer * Giorgio Andreoli, Italian potter * Giorgio Anselmi, Italian painter *

Giorgio Arlorio Giorgio Arlorio (27 February 1929 – 25 July 2019) was an Italian screenwriter and director. Biography Born in Turin, Arlorio began his career in 1951 as an assistant director for Pietro Germi, Mario Soldati and Michelangelo Antonioni, while b ...

, Italian screenwriter and director * Giorgio Armani, Italian fashion designer *

Giorgio Baffo Zorzi (Giorgio) Baffo (11 August 1694 - 30 July 1768) was an Italian poet and senator of the Venetian Republic. Baffo was born in Venice Venice ( ; it, Venezia ; vec, Venesia or ) is a city in northeastern Italy and the capital of the ...

, Italian poet *

Giorgio Bàrberi Squarotti Giorgio Bàrberi Squarotti (; 14 September 1929 – 9 April 2017) was an Italian academic, literary critic and poet. He taught at the University of Turin from 1967 until his death in 2017. He was considered to be one of the most important li ...

, Italian literary critic *

Giorgio Bassani Giorgio Bassani (4 March 1916 – 13 April 2000) was an Italian novelist, poet, essayist, editor, and international intellectual. Biography Bassani was born in Bologna into a prosperous Jewish family of Ferrara, where he spent his childhood wit ...

, Italian writer * Giorgio Bianchi, Italian film director *

Giorgio Calabrese Giorgio Calabrese (28 November 1929 – 31 March 2016) was an Italian songwriter and frequent collaborator with French pop music star Charles Aznavour Charles Aznavour ( , ; born Shahnour Vaghinag Aznavourian, hy, Շահնուր Վաղին� ...

, Italian songwriter *

Giorgio Cantarini Giorgio Cantarini (born 12 April 1992) is an Italian actor who, to date, has appeared in two Academy Award winning films: ''Life Is Beautiful'' (1997) and '' Gladiator'' (2000). Early life Raised in Orvieto, Italy, Giorgio Cantarini was born ...

, Italian actor *

Giorgio Capitani Giorgio Capitani (29 December 1927 – 25 March 2017) was an Italian film director and screenwriter. He directed 40 films between 1954 and 2012. He also wrote for 12 films. He was born in Paris, France. Selected filmography * '' The Flam ...

, Italian film director *

Giorgio Cavaglieri Giorgio Cavaglieri (August 1, 1911 – May 15, 2007) was an Italian architect and a leading figure in the historic preservationist movement in New York City. He is best known for his 1960s restoration of the Jefferson Market Library in Greenw ...

, Italian-American painter *

Giorgio Cavazzano Giorgio Cavazzano (); born 19 October 1947) is an Italian cartoonist, and one of the most famous Disney comics artists in the world. Biography Giorgio Cavazzano was born 19 October 1947 in Venice, Italy. At the age of twelve, Cavazzano started ...

, Italian comic strip artist *

Giorgio Colangeli Giorgio Colangeli (born 14 December 1949) is an Italian stage, television and film actor. Life and career Born in Rome, Colangeli graduated in nuclear physics, then he started a stage career. After several minor roles, Colangeli's breakout r ...

, Italian actor *

Giorgio Chinaglia Giorgio Chinaglia (; 24 January 1947 – 1 April 2012) was an Italian footballer who played as a striker. He grew up and played his early football in Cardiff, Wales, and began his career with Swansea Town in 1964. He later returned to Italy to ...

, Italian soccer player *

Giorgio de Chirico Giuseppe Maria Alberto Giorgio de Chirico ( , ; 10 July 1888 – 20 November 1978) was an Italian artist and writer born in Greece. In the years before World War I, he founded the '' scuola metafisica'' art movement, which profoundly influ ...

, Italian painter * Giorgio Duranti, Italian painter *

Giorgio Faletti Giorgio Faletti (; 25 November 1950 – 4 July 2014) was an Italian writer, musician, actor and comedian. Born in Asti, Piedmont, he lived on Elba Island. His books have been translated into 25 languages and published with great success in Europ ...

, Italian writer * Giorgio Ferrich, Croatian writer *

Giorgio Ferroni Giorgio Ferroni (12 April 1908 – 1981) was an Italian film director. Life and career Giorgio Ferroni was born in Perugia on 12 April 1908. Ferroni began his career in film with short documentaries during World War II World War ...

, Italian director *

Giorgio Gaber Giorgio Gaber (), byname of Giorgio Gaberscik (25 January 1939 – 1 January 2003), was an Italian singer, composer, actor, and playwright. He was also an accomplished guitar player and author of one of the first rock songs in Italian ("Ciao ti ...

, Italian singer-songwriter * Giorgio Gandini del Grano, Italian painter *

Giorgio Gaslini Giorgio Gaslini (; 22 October 1929 – 29 July 2014) was an Italian jazz pianist, composer and conductor. He began performing aged 13 and recorded with his jazz trio at 16. In the 1950s and 1960s, Gaslini performed with his own quartet. He was ...

, Italian jazz pianist *

Giorgio Federico Ghedini Giorgio Federico Ghedini (11 July 189225 March 1965) was an Italian composer. In addition to orchestral works, in 1949 he premiered a one-act opera based on the American novella ''Billy Budd'' by Herman Melville. Life Ghedini was born in Cuneo i ...

, Italian composer *

Giorgio Ghisi Giorgio Ghisi (1520 — 15 December 1582) was an Italian engraver from Mantua who also worked in Antwerp and in France. He made both prints and damascened metalwork, although only two surviving examples of the latter are known. Life He was ...

, Italian engraver *

Giorgio Gomelsky Giorgio Sergio Alessando Gomelsky (28 February 1934 – 13 January 2016) was a filmmaker, impresario, music manager, songwriter (as Oscar Rasputin) and record producer. He was born in Georgia, grew up in Switzerland, and later lived in the Unit ...

, Georgian record producer *

Giorgio Grassi Giorgio Grassi (born 1935) is one of Italy's most important modern architects, and part of the so-called Italian rationalist school, also known as ''La Tendenza'', associated most famously with Carlo Aymonino and Aldo Rossi that emerged in Ital ...

, Italian architect *

Giorgio Locatelli Giorgio Locatelli (born 6 April 1963) is an Italian Michelin starred chef and restaurateur working and living in the United Kingdom. Early life Locatelli was brought up in Corgeno in the comune of Vergiate on the banks of Lake Comabbio, nort ...

, Italian television chef *

Giorgio Mainerio Giorgio Mainerio (c. 1530s – 3 or 4 May 1582) was an Italian musician, composer, and occultist. He started his career as a presbyter and would only later start his musical career in the 1560s. Most of the songs he made were in the 1570s and ...

, Italian composer *

Giorgio Manganelli Giorgio Manganelli (15 November 1922 – 28 May 1990) was an Italian journalist, avant-garde writer, translator and literary critic. A native of Milan, he was one of the leaders of the avant-garde literary movement in Italy in the 1960s, Gruppo 6 ...

, Italian writer *

Giorgio Massari Giorgio Massari (13 October 1687 – 20 December 1766) was an Italian late- Baroque architect from Venice. He designed the Villa Lattes near Treviso in 1715, the church of Santo Spritito in Udine, the church of Santa Maria della Pace 1720–46 in ...

, Italian architect *

Giorgio Morandi Giorgio Morandi (July 20, 1890 – June 18, 1964) was an Italian painter and printmaker who specialized in still life. His paintings are noted for their tonal subtlety in depicting simple subjects, which were limited mainly to vases, bottles, bo ...

, Italian painter * Giorgio Moroder, Italian record producer *

Giorgio Moser Giorgio Moser (9 October 1923 – 25 September 2004) was an Italian film director and screenwriter. He directed seven films between 1954 and 1996. Selected filmography * '' Romulus and the Sabines'' (1945) * '' Lost Continent'' (1955) *'' ...

, Italian film director and screenwriter * Giorgio Orsini, Croatian sculptor *

George Ortuzar George Ortuzar (born August 14, 1961), also known as George O, is a Cuban American actor, comedian, and television host best known for saying uhhhhhhh and his work on Univision, including hosting the shows ''Lente Loco'', ''La Piñata Loca'', an ...

, Cuban-American television personality (nicknamed "Giorgio" on his show ''Giorgiomania'') *

Giorgio Pacchioni Giorgio Pacchioni (born July 16, 1947) is an Italian performer, professor, and composer. Life He has held the chair of recorder at the Conservatorio G.B. Martini in Bologna (Italy) from 1977 to 2006, when he retired and moved to Ubatuba (Brazi ...

, Italian performer *

Giorgio Pasotti Giorgio Pasotti (born 22 June 1973) is an Italian actor and former martial arts athlete. Life and career Born in Bergamo, Pasotti started performing martial arts at a very young age, practicing karate and kobudo and became European and World ...

, Italian actor and martial arts athlete *

Giorgio Pastina Giorgio Pastina (1905–1956) was an Italian screenwriter and film director. He directed '' Henry IV'', a 1943 film version of Luigi Pirandello's '' Henry IV''.Anile, Alberto, '' Orson Welles in Italy'' (Indiana University Press, 2013), p. 94 S ...

, Italian screenwriter and film director *

Giorgio Pressburger Giorgio Pressburger (April 21, 1937 – October 5, 2017) was an Italian writer of novels and short stories. Born in Budapest, and saved by Giorgio Perlasca during the second world war, Pressburger settled in Italy in 1956, where he worked as a f ...

, Italian writer * Giorgio Prosperi, Italian screenwriter * Giorgio Pullicino, Maltese painter and architect *

Giorgio Ronconi Giorgio Ronconi (6 August 1810 – 8 January 1890) was an Italian operatic baritone celebrated for his brilliant acting and compelling stage presence. In 1842, he created the title-role in Giuseppe Verdi's ''Nabucco'' at La Scala, Milan. Perso ...

, Italian baritone * Giorgio Sadotti, British conceptual artist * Giorgio Saviane, Italian writer *

Giorgio Scerbanenco Giorgio Scerbanenco (; russian: Владимир Щербаненко, Vladimir Shcherbanenko; uk, Володимир Щербаненко, Volodymyr Shcherbanenko; 18 July 1911 – 27 October 1969) was a Ukrainian-born Italian crime fiction w ...

, Italian crime writer * Giorgio Costantino Schinas, Maltese architect and civil engineer * Giorgio Sommer, German-Italian photographer *

Giorgio Strehler Giorgio Strehler (; ; 14 August 1921 – 25 December 1997) was an actor, Italian opera and theatre director. Biography Strehler was born in Barcola, Trieste; His father, Bruno Strehler, was a native of Trieste with family roots in Vienna and die ...

, Italian opera director *

Giorgio Tirabassi Giorgio Tirabassi (born 1 February 1960) is an Italian film, television, and stage actor, as well as director. Life and career Born in Rome, Tirabassi made his debut as an actor in avant-garde theater and then worked at the Teatro Stabile di Ca ...

, Italian actor *

Giorgio Tozzi Giorgio Tozzi (January 8, 1923 – May 30, 2011) was an American operatic bass. He was a mainstay for many years with the Metropolitan Opera, and sang principal bass roles in nearly every major opera house worldwide. Career Tozzi was born Georg ...

, American opera singer * Giorgio A. Tsoukalos, Swiss-born Greek writer *

Giorgio Tuinfort Giorgio Hesdey Tuinfort is a Dutch record producer and songwriter. Biography Born in Suriname, Tuinfort moved to the Netherlands at 9 months old. His musical career started at age 4, after he attended a special music class for toddlers. After b ...

, Suriname-born Dutch music composer and producer *

Giorgio van Straten Giorgio van Straten (born 1955) is an Italian writer and manager of arts organizations. His first novel ''Generazione'' was published in 1987. In 2000 he won four literary prizes for ''Il mio nome a memoria'', published in English as ''My Name, A ...

, Italian writer *

Giorgio Vasari Giorgio Vasari (, also , ; 30 July 1511 – 27 June 1574) was an Italian Renaissance Master, who worked as a painter, architect, engineer, writer, and historian, who is best known for his work '' The Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculp ...

, Italian painter and architect *

Giorgio Zancanaro Giorgio Zancanaro (born 9 May 1939) is an Italian baritone, particularly associated with the Italian repertory, especially Verdi. He studied in his native Verona with Maria Palanda, and was revealed at the Verdi Competition in Busseto in 196 ...

, Italian baritone *

Pier Giorgio Di Cicco Pier Giorgio Di Cicco (July 5, 1949 - December 22, 2019) was an Italian-Canadian poet. In 2005 he became the second Poet Laureate of Toronto. Born in Arezzo, Italy, his family immigrated to Canada in 1952. Di Cicco was brought up in several North ...

, Italian-Canadian poet

Politicians

* Giorgio Adorno, doge of the Republic of Genoa * Giorgio Almirante, Italian politician *

Giorgio Borġ Olivier Giorgio Borg Olivier, ( mt, Ġorġ Borg Olivier) (5 July 1911 – 29 October 1980) was a Maltese statesman and leading politician. He twice served as Prime Minister of Malta (1950–55 and 1962–71) as the Leader of the Nationalist Party. H ...

, Maltese politician *

Giorgio Carbone The Principality of Seborga ( it, Principato di Seborga) is an unrecognised micronation that claims a area located in the northwestern Italian Province of Imperia in Liguria, near the French border, and about from Monaco. The principality is c ...

, Italian "head of state" of Seborga *

Giorgio Carollo Giorgio Carollo (born 30 March 1944 in Vicenza) is an Italian politician. He is a Member of the European Parliament for North-East, elected with the Forza Italia, part of the European People's Party and sits on the European Parliament's Co ...

, Italian politician * Giorgio de' Buondelmonti, ruler of Epirus * Giorgio Giudici, Swiss politician *

Giorgio La Malfa Giorgio La Malfa (born 13 October 1939 in Milan) is an Italian politician. Biography La Malfa was born in Milan, the son of Ugo La Malfa, a long-time Italian political leader and minister. La Malfa served as secretary of the Italian Republican ...

, Italian politician *

Giorgio La Pira Giorgio La Pira, TOSD (Raimondo in religious life; 9 January 1904 – 5 November 1977) was an Italian Catholic politician who served as the Mayor of Florence. He also served as deputy of the Christian Democrats and participated in the assemb ...

, Italian politician *

Giorgio Mammoliti Giorgio Mammoliti ( , ; born George Mammoliti on September 20, 1961) is a former Canadian politician who represented Ward 7 York West on the Toronto City Council from 2000 to 2018. He ran for mayor of Toronto in 2010. Mammoliti previously repre ...

, Canadian city councillor * Giorgio Mitrovich, Maltese politician and activist * Giorgio Napolitano, Italian president * Giorgio Orsoni, Italian politician *

Giorgio Ruffolo Giorgio Ruffolo (14 August 1926 – 16 February 2023) was an Italian economist, journalist and politician who held several government posts and was the Italian Minister of the Environment, minister of environment for five years between 1987 and 1 ...

, Italian economist, journalist and politician * Giorgio Sonnino, Italian politician *

Giorgio Tonini Giorgio Tonini (born 5 January 1959) is an Italian journalist and politician. He served in the Italian Senate from 2001 to 2018. References External links Official website Senators of Legislature XIV of Italy Senators of Legislatur ...

(born 1959), Italian journalist and politician * Giorgio Vido, Italian politician

Scientists and philosophers

Gian Giorgio Trissino Gian Giorgio Trissino (8 July 1478 – 8 December 1550), also called Giovan Giorgio Trissino and self-styled as Giovan Giωrgio Trissino, was a Venetian Renaissance humanist, poet, dramatist, diplomat, grammarian, linguist, and philosopher. ...

, Italian humanist *

Giorgio Abetti Prof Giorgio Abetti H FRSE (5 October 1882 – 24 August 1982) was an Italian solar astronomer.G. GodolABETTI, Giorgio Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (in Italian) Life He was born in Padua, the son of noted astronomer Antonio Abetti. He ...

, Italian solar astronomer * Giorgio Agamben, Italian philosopher *

Giorgio Antonucci Giorgio Antonucci (Lucca, 24 February 1933 – Florence, 18 November 2017) was an Italian physician, known for his questioning of the basis of psychiatry. Biography In 1963 Antonucci studied psychoanalysis with Roberto Assagioli, the founder ...

, Italian physician *

Giorgio Baglivi Giorgio Baglivi ( la, Georgius Baglivus; hr, italic=yes, Gjuro Baglivi; September 8, 1668 – June 15, 1707), born and sometimes anglicized as was a Croatian-Italian physician and scientist. He made important contributions to clinica ...

, Croatian scientist *

Giorgio Biandrata Giorgio Biandrata or Blandrata (15155 May 1588) was an Italian-born Transylvanian physician and polemicist, who came of the De Biandrate family, powerful from the early part of the 13th century. He was a Unitarian. Biandrata was born at Saluzz ...

, Italian physician * Giorgio Buttazzo, Italian engineer * Giorgio Ceragioli, Italian engineer and peace activist *

Giorgio Colli Giorgio Colli (1917 – 6 January 1979) was an Italian philosopher, philologist and historian. A native of Turin, he taught ancient philosophy at Pisa's university for thirty years; he edited and translated Aristotle's ''Organon'' and Kant's '' ...

, Italian philosophy professor *

Giorgio Del Vecchio Giorgio Del Vecchio (August 26, 1878 – November 28, 1970) was a prominent Italy, Italian legal philosopher of the early 20th century. Among others he influenced the theories of Norberto Bobbio. He is famous for his book ''Justice''. Biography ...

, Italian legal philosopher * Giorgio Jan, Italian zoologist *

Giorgio Levi Della Vida Giorgio Levi Della Vida (22 August 1886 in Venice – 25 November 1967 in Rome) was an Italian Jewish linguist whose expertise lay in Hebrew, Arabic, and other Semitic languages, as well as on the history and culture of the Near East. Biography Bo ...

, Italian Jewish linguist *

Giorgio Malinverni Giorgio Malinverni is a Swiss law professor. On 27 June 2006, he was elected by the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe as the judge in respect of Switzerland on the European Court of Human Rights. He holds a PhD from the Graduate Insti ...

, Swiss law professor * Giorgio Nataletti, Italian musicologist *

Giorgio Parisi Giorgio Parisi (born 4 August 1948) is an Italian theoretical physicist, whose research has focused on quantum field theory, statistical mechanics and complex systems. His best known contributions are the QCD evolution equations for parton de ...

, Italian theoretical physicist *

Giorgio Pestelli Giorgio Pestelli (born 1938) is an Italian musicologist. His 1967 edition of the 555 keyboard sonatas of Domenico Scarlatti purports to correct some anachronisms and provides an alternative numbering system (distinguished by P numbers) to th ...

, Italian musicologist *

Giorgio Samorini Giorgio Samorini (born 1957 in Bologna, Italy) is a psychedelics researcher. He has published many essays and monographs regarding the use of psychoactive A psychoactive drug, psychopharmaceutical, psychoactive agent or psychotropic drug i ...

, Italian ethnobotanist *

Giorgio Sideri Giorgio Sideri called Callapoda (fl. 1537–1565) was a 16th-century cartographer, born in Candia (Crete), who worked in Venice, where map-making skills were essential to the mercantile economy and to protection and control of the far-flung Vene ...

, Italian cartographer

Sportsmen

* Giorgio Achterberg, Dutch football player * Giorgio Alverà, Italian bobsledder * Giorgio Anglesio, Italian fencer *

Giorgio Avola Giorgio Avola (born 8 May 1989) is an Italian right-handed foil fencer. Avola is a three-time team European champion, 2011 individual European champion, and four-time team world champion. A three-time Olympian, Avola is a 2012 team Olympic c ...

, Italian fencer * Giorgio Bassi, Italian race car driver *

Giorgio Belladonna Giorgio Belladonna (7 June 1923 – 12 May 1995) was an Italian bridge player, one of the greatest of all time. He won 16 world championship titles with the Blue Team, playing with Walter Avarelli from 1956 to 1969 and later with Benito Garozzo. ...

, Italian bridge player * Giorgio Biasini, Italian bobsledder * Giorgio Bocchino, Italian fencer * Giorgio Cagnotto, Italian diver * Giorgio Cecchinel, Italian cyclist *

Giorgio Chiellini Giorgio Chiellini (; born 14 August 1984) is an Italian professional footballer who plays as a centre-back for Major League Soccer club Los Angeles FC. Considered one of the best defenders of his generation, Chiellini is known for his stren ...

, Italian football player *

, Italian football striker * Giorgio Cornacchia, Italian rugby league footballer * Giorgio Corona, Italian football player *

Giorgio de Bettin Giorgio de Bettin (born 7 August 1972 in Pieve di Cadore, Italy) is an Italian former professional ice hockey player. He is currently the head coach for SG Cortina Sportivi Ghiaccio Cortina is an ice hockey team from Italy. They play their home ...

, Italian ice hockey player *

Giorgio Di Centa Giorgio Di Centa (born 7 October 1972 in Tolmezzo, Province of Udine) is an Italian former cross-country skier who won two gold medals at the 2006 Winter Olympics, including the individual 50 km freestyle race. He is the younger brother of ...

, Italian cross country skier * Giorgio Duboin, Italian bridge player *

Giorgio Ferrini Giorgio Ferrini (; 18 August 1939 – 8 November 1976) was an Italian football manager and former football player who played as a midfielder. Nicknamed ''La Diga'' ('The Dam') for his qualities as a defensive midfielder, Ferrini played for Torin ...

, Italian football player *

Giorgio Francia Giorgio Francia (born November 8, 1947) is a former racing driver from Italy. He was the Polifac Formel 3 Trophy champion in 1974. Francia unsuccessfully entered two Formula One Grands Prix. The first was in a works Brabham BT45B, in Martini Raci ...

, Italian racing driver *

Giorgio Frezzolini Giorgio Frezzolini (born 21 January 1976) is a retired Italian footballer who played as a goalkeeper. Career A Lazio youth system product, Frezzolini never played for the '' biancocelesti'' and was instead sent on loan to several minor league te ...

, Italian football player * Giorgio Frinolli, Italian hurdler *

Giorgio Furlan Giorgio Furlan (born 9 March 1966 in Treviso) is an Italian former road bicycle racer, who currently works as a directeur sportif for UCI Continental team . Major results ;1986 : 1st Stage 4 Tour de Luxembourg ;1990 : 1st Road race, National ...

, Italian cyclist *

Giorgio Galimberti Giorgio Galimberti (; born 5 September 1976) is a former Italian professional tennis player. Born in Milan, Galimberti turned professional in 1995. His career-high rankings were World No. 115 (May 2003) in singles and No. 65 (June 2005) in doubl ...

, Italian tennis player *

Giorgio Ghezzi Giorgio Ghezzi (; 11 July 1930 – 12 December 1990), nicknamed "Kamikaze", was an Italian football manager and player who played as a goalkeeper. Club career Born in Cesenatico, Ghezzi started his career at Rimini in 1947 and later played for ...

, Italian football player * Giorgio Gorla, Italian sailor * Giorgio Lalle, Italian breaststroke swimmer *

Giorgio Lamberti Giorgio Lamberti (born 28 January 1969) is an Italian former swimmer. In 1991 he became the first swimmer of Italy to win a world title, and gold medal, at a FINA World Aquatics Championships. He formerly held world records in the short course ...

, Italian swimmer * Giorgio Lucenti, Italian football player * Giorgio Marras, Italian sprinter * Giorgio Mazza, Italian hurdler *

Giorgio Mondini Giorgio Mondini (Born July 19, 1980) is an automobile racing driver from Geneva, Switzerland. Career Mondini began his competitive racing career at the age of 21, when he came 26th in the Formula Renault 2000 Eurocup series. In 2002 he made his ...

, Swiss racing driver * Giorgio Morini, Italian football player * Giorgio Oberweger, Italian athlete *

Giorgio Pantano Giorgio Pantano (born 4 February 1979) is an Italian professional racing driver who drove for the Jordan Formula One team for much of the 2004 season before being replaced by Timo Glock. He also raced in Formula 3000. He retired from racing at ...

, Italian racing driver * Giorgio Perondini, Italian swimmer * Giorgio Pessina, Italian fencer *

Giorgio Petrosyan Gevorg "Giorgio" Petrosyan ( hy, Գևորգ Պետրոսյան; born December 10, 1985) is an Armenian-Italian kickboxer who competes in the middleweight division. Nicknamed "The Doctor" and noted for his supreme technical skills, ringsmanship a ...

, Italian kickboxer * Giorgio Piantella, Italian pole vaulter *

Giorgio Pichler Giorgio Pichler was an Italian luger who competed during the 1950s and early 1960s. He won the gold medal in the doubles event at the 1961 FIL World Luge Championships in Girenbad, Switzerland, and the silver medal in the same discipline ...

, Italian luger *

Giorgio Puia Giorgio Puia (; 8 March 1938) is an Italian football manager and former player who played as a defender. Club career During his club career, Puia played for A.S. Pro Gorizia, U.S. Triestina Calcio, Vicenza and Torino. International career ...

, Italian football player * Giorgio Rasulo, English football player * Giorgio Rocca, Italian alpine skier *

Giorgio Roselli Giorgio Roselli (born 1 October 1957) is an Italian professional football coach and a former player, who played as a midfielder. Career Born in Montone, Roselli began playing football with local side Spoleto. In 1975, he signed with Internazio ...

, Italian football player and coach *

Giorgio Rossano Giorgio Rossano (20 March 1939 – 13 February 2016) was an Italian professional footballer who played as a striker. He represented Italy at the 1960 Summer Olympics. Honours Club ;Juventus * Serie A The Serie A (), also called Serie A TI ...

, Italian football player * Giorgio Rubino, Italian race walker *

Giorgio Santelli ''Maestro'' Giorgio Santelli (25 November 1897 – 8 October 1985) was a fencer and fencing master who was part of the Italian team that won the gold medal in Men's team sabre at the 1920 Summer Olympics and was the largest mid-20th century ...

, Italian fencer * Giorgio Sbruzzi, Italian canoeist *

Giorgio Scarlatti Giorgio Scarlatti (2 October 1921 – 26 July 1990) was a racing driver from Italy. He participated in 15 Formula One World Championship Grands Prix, debuting on 13 May 1956. Scarlatti's best season in Formula One was as a works Maserati driver ...

, Italian racing driver * Giorgio Schiavini, Italian football player *

Giorgio Sterchele Giorgio Sterchele (born 8 January 1970 in Schio) is an Italian former footballer who played as a goalkeeper. Career In his early years, Sterchele played with Vicenza Calcio, the team of his province. He played regularly for the club as of 1991 an ...

, Italian football player *

Giorgio Tavecchio Giorgio Tavecchio (born July 16, 1990), nicknamed "Italian Ice", is a placekicker for the Barcelona Dragons of the European League of Football. He was born in Milan, Italy and was signed as an undrafted free agent by the San Francisco 49ers in 2 ...

, Italian born gridiron football player * Giorgio Treves de'Bonfili, Italian football player *

Giorgio Vanzetta Giorgio Vanzetta (born 9 October 1959 in Cavalese) is an Italian former cross-country skier who competed from 1980 to 2002. His best known victory was part of the 4 × 10 km relay team that upset Norway at the 1994 Winter Olympics in Lille ...

, Italian cross country skier * Giorgio Venturin, Italian footballer *

Giorgio Zampori Giorgio Zampori (4 June 1887 – 7 December 1965) was an Italian gymnast who competed in the Summer Olympic Games in 1912, 1920 and 1924 Events January * January 12 – Gopinath Saha shoots Ernest Day, whom he has mistaken for ...

, Italian gymnast

Other professions

Giorgio Basta Giorgio Basta, Count of Huszt, Gjergj Basta or Gheorghe Basta (1550 – 1607) was an Italian general, diplomat, and writer of Arbëreshë origin, employed by the Holy Roman Emperor Rudolf II to command Habsburg forces in the Long War of 1591– ...

, Italian general * Giorgio DeLuca, American entrepreneur *

Giorgio Gusmini Giorgio Gusmini (9 December 1855 – 24 August 1921) was a Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church who served as Archbishop of Bologna. Biography Giorgio Gusmini was born in Gazzaniga, Italy as the son of Santo Gusmini and Maddalena Cagnoni. H ...

, Italian cardinal * Giorgio Panto, Italian entrepreneur *

Giorgio Perlasca Giorgio Perlasca (31 January 1910 – 15 August 1992) was an Italian businessman and former Fascist who, with the collaboration of official diplomats, posed as the Spanish consul-general to Hungary in the winter of 1944, and saved 5,218 Jews fr ...

, Italian war hero *

Pier Giorgio Frassati Pier Giorgio Frassati (6 April 1901 – 4 July 1925) was an Italian Catholic activist and a member from the Third Order of Saint Dominic. He was dedicated to social justice issues and joined several charitable organizations, including Catholic Ac ...

, Italian Roman Catholic social activist, beatified

Fictional characters

* Giorgio Bruno, from the video game ''

Time Crisis 4 ''Time Crisis 4'' is a rail shooter and the fourth installment in the main series. It was released as an arcade game in 2006, and was ported with the GunCon 3 light gun peripheral for PlayStation 3 in 2007. It features a new first-person shooter ...

'' * Giorgio Zott, the main antagonist from the video game ''

Time Crisis 3 ''Time Crisis 3'' is a rail shooter, released for the arcade in 2002 (JP) and 2003 (NA), the third instalment of the ''Time Crisis'' series. Like its predecessor, ''Time Crisis II'', it allows for two players to cooperate in a link play environmen ...

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"San Giorgio" is the Italian for

Saint George Saint George (Greek: Γεώργιος (Geórgios), Latin: Georgius, Arabic: القديس جرجس; died 23 April 303), also George of Lydda, was a Christian who is venerated as a saint in Christianity. According to tradition he was a soldie ...

. Placenames with Giorgio or San Giorgio include:

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* Castel Giorgio *

Castel San Giorgio Castel San Giorgio (Campanian: ) is a town and '' comune'' in the province of Salerno in the Campania region of south-western Italy. In 2011, it had a population of 13,411. History The town, founded in 1810 and located near the site of the anci ...

* Monforte San Giorgio *

Porto San Giorgio Porto San Giorgio is a ''comune'' (town or municipality) in the Province of Fermo, in the Marche region of Italy. It has approximately 15,700 inhabitants (2021) and it is located on the coast of the Adriatic Sea. History Already famous at the tim ...

San Giorgio a Cremano San Giorgio a Cremano is a primarily residential town and ''comune'' in the Metropolitan City of Naples, in Italy. It is located on the foothills of Mount Vesuvius to the west of the volcano, and is six kilometres to the south east of the centre ...

* San Giorgio Albanese * San Giorgio a Liri *

San Giorgio Canavese San Giorgio Canavese is a town and ''comune'' in the Metropolitan City of Turin in the region of Piedmont, northern Italy. The main attraction is the castle, once a possession of the Novarese counts of Biandrate. Near San Giorgio in San Giusto t ...

San Giorgio della Richinvelda San Giorgio della Richinvelda ( Standard Friulian: ; Western Friulian: ) is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Province of Pordenone in the Italian region Friuli-Venezia Giulia, located about northwest of Trieste and about northeast of Porden ...

San Giorgio delle Pertiche San Giorgio delle Pertiche is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Province of Padua in the Italian region Veneto, located about northwest of Venice and about northeast of Padua. As of 31 December 2004, it had a population of 8,617 and an area of . ...

San Giorgio del Sannio San Giorgio del Sannio (formerly '' San Giorgo alla Montagna'' or '' San Giorgio la Montagna'') is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Province of Benevento in the Italian region Campania, located about 60 km northeast of Naples and about 9&nbs ...

San Giorgio di Lomellina San Giorgio di Lomellina is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Province of Pavia in the Italian region Lombardy, located about 45 km southwest of Milan and about 30 km west of Pavia. As of 31 December 2004, it had a population of 1,196 ...

San Giorgio di Mantova San Giorgio Bigarello, until 2018 as San Giorgio di Mantova ( Mantovano: ) is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Province of Mantua in the Italian region Lombardy, located about east of Milan and about east of Mantua. The municipality of San G ...

San Giorgio di Nogaro San Giorgio di Nogaro ( fur, Sant Zorç di Noiâr, Central Eastern Friulian: ''San Zorz'') is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Province of Udine in the Italian region Friuli-Venezia Giulia, located about northwest of Trieste and about south o ...

* San Giorgio di Pesaro *

San Giorgio di Piano San Giorgio di Piano ( Northern Bolognese: ; "St. George of the Plain") is a town and ''comune ''located in the Metropolitan City of Bologna, Emilia-Romagna, northern Italy. It is the birthplace of actress Giulietta Masina Giulia Anna "Giuliett ...

San Giorgio in Bosco San Giorgio in Bosco is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Province of Padua in the Italian region Veneto, located about northwest of Venice and about northwest of Padua. San Giorgio in Bosco borders the following municipalities: Campo San Mar ...

* San Giorgio Ionico *

San Giorgio La Molara San Giorgio La Molara is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Province of Benevento in the Italian region Campania, located about 70 km northeast of Naples and about 20 km northeast of Benevento. San Giorgio La Molara borders the followin ...

San Giorgio Lucano San Giorgio Lucano is a town and ''comune'' in the province of Matera The province of Matera ( it, Provincia di Matera; Materano: ) is a province in the Basilicata region of Italy. Its capital is the city of Matera. It has an area of and a tot ...

San Giorgio Monferrato San Giorgio Monferrato (in Piedmontese ''San Giòrs Monfrà'') is a ''comune'' of the Province of Alessandria in the Italian region Piedmont. It is about east of the regional capital Turin and about northwest of Alessandria. The territory of ...

San Giorgio Morgeto San Giorgio Morgeto ( Calabrian: or simply ) is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Province of Reggio Calabria in the Italian region Calabria, located about southwest of Catanzaro and about northeast of Reggio Calabria. As of 31 December 200 ...

San Giorgio Piacentino San Giorgio Piacentino ( egl, label= Piacentino, San Zorz, or ) is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Province of Piacenza in the Italian region Emilia-Romagna, located about northwest of Bologna and about south of Piacenza. San Giorgio Piac ...

San Giorgio Scarampi San Giorgio Scarampi is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Province of Asti in the Italian region Piedmont, located about southeast of Turin and about south of Asti. San Giorgio Scarampi borders the following municipalities: Olmo Gentile, Per ...

San Giorgio su Legnano San Giorgio su Legnano (Legnanese: ) is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Metropolitan City of Milan in the Italian region Lombardy, located about northwest of Milan. San Giorgio su Legnano borders the following municipalities: Legnano, Villa Co ...

Torre San Giorgio Torre San Giorgio is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Province of Cuneo in the Italian region Piedmont, located about southwest of Turin and about north of Cuneo. As of 31 December 2004, it had a population of 696 and an area of .All demographi ...

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Monte San Giorgio Monte San Giorgio is a mountain and UNESCO World Heritage Site on the border between Switzerland and Italy. It is part of the Lugano Prealps, overlooking Lake Lugano in the Swiss Canton of Ticino. Monte San Giorgio is a wooded mountain, rising ...

, Swiss mountain *

Palazzo San Giorgio The Palazzo San Giorgio or Palace of St. George (also known as the Palazzo delle Compere di San Giorgio) is a palace in Genoa, Italy. It is situated in the Piazza Caricamento. The palace was built in 1260 by Guglielmo Boccanegra, uncle of Simo ...

, palace in Genoa * Pieve di San Giorgio, church in Argenta *

San Giorgio al Palazzo San Giorgio al Palazzo is a baroque-style, Roman Catholic church in central Milan, region of Lombardy, Italy. History The church was founded around 750 by archbishop Natalis, and was modernized in Baroque style by Francesco Maria Richini in 162 ...

, church in Milan *

San Giorgio in Velabro San Giorgio in Velabro is a church in Rome, Italy, dedicated to St. George. The church is located next to the Arch of Janus in the rione of Ripa in the ancient Roman Velabrum. According to the founding legend of Rome, the church was built ...

, church in Rome *

San Giorgio Maggiore San Giorgio Maggiore ( vec, San Zorzi Mazor) is one of the islands of Venice, northern Italy, lying east of the Giudecca and south of the main island group. The island, or more specifically its Palladian church, is an important landmark. It ha ...

, island of Venice **

Church of San Giorgio Maggiore San Giorgio Maggiore (San Zorzi Mazor in Venetian) is a 16th-century Benedictine church on the island of the same name in Venice, northern Italy, designed by Andrea Palladio, and built between 1566 and 1610. The church is a basilica in the class ...

, Palladian church on the island **

San Giorgio Maggiore at dusk ''Saint-Georges majeur au crépuscule'' (Eng: ''Dusk in Venice'', ''San Giorgio Maggiore by Twilight'' or ''Sunset in Venice'') refers to an Impressionist painting by Claude Monet, which exists in more than one version. It forms part of a serie ...

, painting by Claude Monet **

San Giorgio Monastery The San Giorgio Monastery (St. George Monastery) was a Benedictine monastery in Venice, Italy, located on the island of San Giorgio Maggiore. It stands next to the Church of San Giorgio Maggiore, which serves the monastic community. The old monas ...

, monastery on the island * San Giorgio (Siena), church in Siena * Stadio Giorgio Ascarelli, Italian sports stadium

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* ''San Giorgio'' class, Italian type of amphibious transport dock *

San Giorgio-class cruiser The ''San Giorgio'' class consisted of two armored cruisers built for the Royal Italian Navy (''Regia Marina'') in the first decade of the 20th century. The second ship, , was used to evaluate recently invented steam turbines in a large ship and ...

, class of Italian armoured cruisers * ''

Yes, Giorgio ''Yes, Giorgio'' is a 1982 American musical–comedy film starring Luciano Pavarotti. The film is based on the 1961 novel by Anne Piper. ''Yes, Giorgio'' also stars Kathryn Harrold, Eddie Albert, Paola Borboni, James Hong, Joseph Mascolo, Leon ...

'', musical with Luciano Pavarotti

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