Giorgio is a male Italian given name and sometimes a surname. It is equivalent to the English name George. Notable people with the name include:
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Eusebio da San Giorgio
Eusebio da San Giorgio or ''Eusebio di Jacopo di Cristoforo da San Giorgio'' (c. 1470 – c. 1550) was an Italian painter of the Renaissance period.
Biography
Born in Perugia, he was a pupil of the painter Pietro Perugino. In 1494, he was ele ...
Francesco Giorgio
Francesco Giorgi Veneto (1466–1540) was an Italian Franciscan friar, and author of the work ''De harmonia mundi totius'' from 1525. In it Giorgio proposed an idea of the Universe created according to the universal system of proportion, which ma ...
Gail Brewer-Giorgio
Gail Brewer-Giorgio is an American author whose works have speculated about the possibility that singer Elvis Presley may have faked his death in August 1977.
Origin of conspiracy theory work
Giorgio wrote a novel, ''Orion'', in 1978, which descr ...
, American author
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Marchesi di San Giorgio Marchesi can refer to:
* Marchesi (title), or Marquess
* Blanche Marchesi (1863–1940), French opera singer and teacher, daughter of Mathilde Marchesi
* Concetto Marchesi (1878–1957), Italian politician
* Gerald Marchesi (1928–1990), Australia ...
, Maltese nobility
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Marosa di Giorgio
Marosa di Giorgio (née María Rosa di Giorgio Médici, Salto, 1932 – Montevideo, 2004) was a Uruguayan poet and novelist.
Marosa di Giorgio is considered one of the most singular voices in Latin America. Critics tend to agree that her writing ...
, Uruguayan writer
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Pietro De Giorgio
Pietro De Giorgio (born 16 February 1983) is an Italian professional footballer who plays for Este.
Biography
Born in Praia a Mare, Calabria region, De Giorgio spent a season with Serie D club Battipagliese before he was signed by a profession ...
(born 1983), Italian footballer
Given name
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Giorgio Ordelaffi
Giorgio Ordelaffi (died 1423) was lord of Forlì and Papal vicar in Romagna (northern Italy). He was a member of the Ordelaffi family.
The son of Teobaldo Ordelaffi, he married Lucrezia Alidosi of the Alidosi family. He kept the seigniory of Forl ...
, Italian nobility
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Giorgio de' Buondelmonti
Giorgio de' Buondelmonti ( gr, Γεώργιος Μπουοντελμόντι, 1411–53) was briefly the ruler of Ioannina in 1411.
Giorgio was the son of Esau de' Buondelmonti by his third wife, Jevdokija Balšić. When his father died on Fe ...
, ruler of Ioannina in 1411
Artists and entertainers
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Carlo Giorgio Garofalo
Carlo Giorgio Garofalo (5 August 1886 – 6 April 1962) was an Italian composer, conductor and organist.
Garofalo was born in Rome, Italy to Giovanni and Faustina Rinaldi Garofalo. He later attended the Vatican college where he studied orga ...
Giorgio Andreoli
Giorgio Andreoli (between 1465 and 14701553), named also Mastro Giorgio Andreoli or Mastro Giorgio, was born in Intra, on Lake Maggiore, and died in Gubbio, where he spent most of his life, in 1555. He is considered to be one of the most importa ...
, Italian potter
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Giorgio Anselmi
Giorgio Anselmi (5 April 1723 – 30 March 1797) was an Italian painter.
Born in Verona, he studied with Antonio Balestra and worked mainly in Veneto, Lombardy, Emilia and Trentino with frescoes and oil works. He painted the dome of Sant'Andrea a ...
, Italian painter
* Giorgio Arlorio, Italian screenwriter and director
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Giorgio Armani
Giorgio Armani (; born 11 July 1934) is an Italian fashion designer. He first gained notoriety working for Cerruti and then for many others, including Allegri, Bagutta and Hilton. He formed his company, Armani, in 1975, which eventually expande ...
Giorgio Duranti
Giorgio Duranti (1683 – 5 November 1768) was an Italian painter and cleric of the Baroque period, mainly active in Brescia, where he was born. An entry in Dandolo's study of the late Venetian Republic states a 1755 as year of death, and that man ...
Giorgio Ferrich Giorgio may refer to:
* Castel Giorgio, ''comune'' in Umbria, Italy
* Giorgio (name), an Italian given name and surname
* Giorgio Moroder, or Giorgio, Italian record producer
** ''Giorgio'' (album), an album by Giorgio Moroder
* "Giorgio" (song), ...
Giorgio Gandini del Grano
Giorgio Gandini del Grano (died 1538) was an Italian painter of the Parma school of painting. He was selected in 1535 to complete decoration of the apse of the Parma Cathedral. He was alleged to have been a pupil of Antonio da Correggio. His maste ...
, Italian painter
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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 ...
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 ...
Giorgio Moroder
Giovanni Giorgio Moroder (, ; born 26 April 1940) is an Italian composer, songwriter, and record producer. Dubbed the "Honorific nicknames in popular music, Father of Disco", Moroder is credited with pioneering euro disco and electronic dance mu ...
, Italian record producer
* Giorgio Moser, Italian film director and screenwriter
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Giorgio Orsini
Giorgio da Sebenico () or Giorgio Orsini or Juraj Dalmatinac (; c. 1410 – 10 October 1473) was a Venetian sculptor and architect from Dalmatia, who worked mainly in Sebenico (now Šibenik, Croatia), and in the city of Ancona, then a maritime ...
, Croatian sculptor
* George Ortuzar, Cuban-American television personality (nicknamed "Giorgio" on his show ''Giorgiomania'')
* Giorgio Pacchioni, Italian performer
* Giorgio Pasotti, Italian actor and martial arts athlete
* Giorgio Pastina, Italian screenwriter and film director
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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 ...
, Italian writer
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Giorgio Prosperi
Giorgio Prosperi (17 February 1911 – 21 January 1997) was an Italian screenwriter. He wrote for 46 films between 1948 and 1967.
Selected filmography
* ''The Angel Wore Red'' (1960)
* ''Everyone's in Love'' (1959)
* ''Estate Violenta'' (19 ...
, Italian screenwriter
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Giorgio Pullicino
Giorgio Pullicino (8 July 1779 – 25 October 1851) was a Maltese painter, architect, and professor of drawing and architecture at the University of Malta. He is known for his harbour views painted in a number of media, and he is also consider ...
, Maltese painter and architect
* Giorgio Ronconi, Italian baritone
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Giorgio Sadotti
Giorgio Sadotti (born 1955 in Manchester, UK) is a conceptual artist based in London.
In 1993, Sadotti exhibited at City Racing, and in 1996 participated in a group show organised by City Racing at Bricks and Kicks in Vienna run by Muntean and ...
, British conceptual artist
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Giorgio Saviane
Giorgio Saviane (16 February 1916 – 18 December 2000) was an Italian author.
He received a Laurea in Giurisprudenza from University of Padua and then moved to Florence to practice as a lawyer.
During his period in Florence he started his caree ...
Giorgio Costantino Schinas
Giorgio Costantino Schinas (1834–1894) was a Maltese architect and civil engineer. He was of Greek descent.
He was born in Valletta in 1834 to Costantino Schinas and his wife Elisabetta Camilleri. He studied at the Royal University of Pavia, ...
, Maltese architect and civil engineer
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Giorgio Sommer
Giorgio Sommer (1834–1914) was one of Europe’s most important and prolific photographers of the 19th century. Active from 1857 to 1888, he produced thousands of images of archeological ruins, landscapes, art objects and portraits.
He was bor ...
Giorgio A. Tsoukalos
Giorgio A. Tsoukalos (, el, Γεώργιος Τσούκαλος; born 14 March 1978) is a Swiss-born writer, and television presenter and producer. He is a ufologist and a promoter of the ancient astronauts hypothesis. He is best known for his ...
, Swiss-born Greek writer
* Giorgio Tuinfort, Suriname-born Dutch music composer and producer
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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 ...
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
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Giorgio Adorno
Giorgio Adorno was a statesman who became doge of the Republic of Genoa for two years. His father was Adornino Adorno and his mother Nicolosia della Rocca and his brother, Antoniotto, was elected four times as doge of the Republic. He was born c ...
, doge of the Republic of Genoa
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Giorgio Almirante
Giorgio Almirante (27 June 1914 – 22 May 1988) was an Italian politician, the founder and leader of neo-fascist Italian Social Movement until his retirement in 1987.
Early life
Almirante was born at Salsomaggiore Terme, in Emilia Romagna, ...
Giorgio de' Buondelmonti
Giorgio de' Buondelmonti ( gr, Γεώργιος Μπουοντελμόντι, 1411–53) was briefly the ruler of Ioannina in 1411.
Giorgio was the son of Esau de' Buondelmonti by his third wife, Jevdokija Balšić. When his father died on Fe ...
, ruler of Epirus
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Giorgio Giudici
Giorgio Giudici (born 29 May 1945) is a Swiss architect and politician. He was mayor of Lugano
This is a list of mayors of Lugano, Ticino, Switzerland. The mayor of the city of Lugano (''sindaco di Lugano'') chairs the municipal council (''muni ...
Giorgio Mitrovich
Giorgio Mitrovich (27 August 179513 March 1885) was a Maltese patriot and politician known for his role in the struggle for freedom of the press in Malta. He was one of the founders of the ''Comitato Generale Maltese'', and he co-authored a petit ...
, Maltese politician and activist
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Giorgio Napolitano
Giorgio Napolitano (; born 29 June 1925) is an Italian politician who served as president of Italy from 2006 to 2015, the first Italian president to be re-elected to the presidency. Due to his dominant position in Italian politics, some critics ...
, Italian president
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Giorgio Orsoni
Giorgio Orsoni (born 29 August 1946) is an Italian lawyer, politician and a former List of Mayors of Venice, mayor of Venice.
Biography
Orsoni has been a lawyer by profession since 1972 and is Professor of administrative law at the University Ca ...
, Italian politician
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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 minister of environment for five years between 1987 and 1992 in four successive cabinets. He ...
, Italian economist, journalist and politician
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Giorgio Sonnino
Giorgio Sonnino (17 February 1844 – 29 November 1921) was a senator of the Kingdom of Italy. He was born at Alexandria, Egypt, and died in Rome. He was a Jew, but converted to Anglicanism
Anglicanism is a Western Christian trad ...
, Italian politician
* Giorgio Tonini (born 1959), Italian journalist and politician
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Giorgio Vido
Giorgio Vido (born 1 April 1941 in Padua) is an Italian politician. Elected to the Italian Chamber of Deputies for the Liga Veneta-Lega Nord, he left the party in 1994.
In 2000 he contributed to the foundation of the Fronte Marco Polo with Fabio ...
Giorgio Agamben
Giorgio Agamben ( , ; born 22 April 1942) is an Italian philosopher best known for his work investigating the concepts of the state of exception, form-of-life (borrowed from Ludwig Wittgenstein) and '' homo sacer''. The concept of biopolitics ( ...
Giorgio Buttazzo
Giorgio Buttazzo from the Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies
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, Italian engineer
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Giorgio Ceragioli
Giorgio Ceragioli (June 24, 1930 – July 17, 2008) was an Italian engineer, professor and a leader in the pro-''Third World'' movement in Italy.
Biography
Giorgio Ceragioli was born in Torino the 24 June 1930. His grandfather was a well known ...
, Italian engineer and peace activist
* Giorgio Colli, Italian philosophy professor
* Giorgio Del Vecchio, Italian legal philosopher
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Giorgio Jan
''Tantilla'' is a large genus of harmless New World snakes in the family Colubridae. The genus includes 66 species, which are commonly known as centipede snakes, blackhead snakes, and flathead snakes.Wilson, Larry David. 1982. Tantilla. ...
Giorgio Nataletti
Giorgio Nataletti (1907-1972) was an Italian musicologist, the first director of the Ethnomusicological Archives at the National Academy of Santa Cecilia in Rome.
He was in charge of a vast project from 1948–72 to record traditional Italian ...
Giorgio Achterberg
Giorgio Achterberg (born 1 February 1990) is a Dutch footballer who plays for RKAVV.
Club career
Born in The Hague, Achterberg started playing football at a young age for local side VCS before joining the Ajax youth academy in 1998. Due to i ...
, Dutch football player
* Giorgio Alverà, Italian bobsledder
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Giorgio Anglesio
Giorgio Anglesio (13 April 1922 – 24 July 2007) was an Italian fencer. He won a gold medal in the team épée event at the 1956 Summer Olympics. He also competed at the 1951 Mediterranean Games
The 1951 Mediterranean Games, officially k ...
, Italian fencer
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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 ...
Giorgio Bocchino
Giorgio Bocchino (14 July 1913 – 4 December 1995) was an Italian fencer. He won a gold and bronze medal at the 1936 Summer Olympics
The 1936 Summer Olympics (German: ''Olympische Sommerspiele 1936''), officially known as the Games of ...
, Italian fencer
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Giorgio Cagnotto
Franco Giorgio Cagnotto (; born 2 June 1947 in Turin, Piedmont) is a former diver from Italy, who competed in five consecutive Summer Olympics for his native country, starting in 1964.
Biography
Cagnotto's wife Carmen Casteiner and daughter T ...
Giorgio Cornacchia
Giorgio Cornacchia (born c.1925) is an Italian professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1950s. He played at representative level for Italy, and at club level for Torino XIII, as a , or , i.e. number 8 or 10, or 9, during the era of ...
, Italian rugby league footballer
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Giorgio Corona
Giorgio Corona (born 15 May 1974) is an Italian former professional footballer who played as a forward.
Career
Corona joined Brindisi in 2002 in co-ownership deal, from Messina. In 2003 Brindisi acquired the remain 50% registration rights. He ...
, Italian football player
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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 of the Alps Hockey League (AlpsHL).
de Bettin played in Italian Hockey League - S ...
, Italian ice hockey player
* Giorgio Di Centa, Italian cross country skier
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Giorgio Duboin
Giorgio Duboin (born September 30, 1959 in Turin, Italy) is an Italian professional Contract bridge, bridge player. He has won four world teams championships along with six consecutive European teams championships and a seventh European in 2010. Fo ...
Giorgio Frinolli
Giorgio "Tito" Frinolii (born 12 July 1970) is a former Italian hurdler. He is the son of the 1966 European champion, Roberto Frinolli, and the coach of the Italian sprinter Jessica Paoletta.
Biography
He won one medals, at senior level, at t ...
Giorgio Gorla
Giorgio Gorla (born 7 August 1944 in Novara) is an Italian sailor
A sailor, seaman, mariner, or seafarer is a person who works aboard a watercraft as part of its crew, and may work in any one of a number of different fields that are re ...
Giorgio Marras
Giorgio Marras (born 15 October 1971 in Marrubiu) is a retired Italian sprinter who specialized in the 200 metres.
Biography
He won a bronze medal in 4 x 100 metres relay at the 1994 European Championships, together with teammates Ezio Madonia ...
, Italian sprinter
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Giorgio Mazza
Giorgio Mazza (born 23 September 1939) is a retired Italian hurdler. He competed at the 1964 Olympics in the 110 m hurdles and finished in eighth place.Giorgio Mondini, Swiss racing driver
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Giorgio Morini
Giorgio Morini (; born 11 October 1947) is an Italian former football manager and player, who played as a midfielder. As a player, Morini was part of the A.C. Milan team that won the 1978–79 Serie A title. He also coached the Italian football ...
, Italian football player
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Giorgio Oberweger
Giorgio Oberweger (22 December 1913 – 14 October 1998) was an Italian discus thrower who won a bronze medal at the 1936 Olympics and a silver at the 1938 European Champsionships. He placed sixth at the 1934 European Championships and 15th at th ...
Giorgio Pessina
Giorgio Pessina (16 June 1902 – 18 July 1977) was an Italian fencer. He won a gold medal at the 1928 Summer Olympics and a silver at the 1932 Summer Olympics
The 1932 Summer Olympics (officially the Games of the X Olympiad and also kno ...
Giorgio Piantella
Giorgio Piantella (Camposampiero, 6 July 1981) is an Italian pole vaulter.
Biography
He has 14 caps in national team from 2005 to 2012.
Achievements
National titles
Giorgio Piantella has won 15 times the individual national championship.
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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 car ...
, Italian football player
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Giorgio Rasulo
Giorgio Antonio Rasulo (born 23 January 1997) is an English semi-professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Southern League Premier Central club Banbury United.
Rasulo has also previously represented England at U16 and U17 levels ...
, English football player
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Giorgio Rocca
Giorgio Rocca (born 6 August 1975) is an Italian former alpine skier, a specialist in slalom skiing. Together with Marc Girardelli, Ingemar Stenmark and Marcel Hirscher, he is one of four skiers to have won 5 Alpine Skiing World Cup slaloms in a ...
, Italian alpine skier
* Giorgio Roselli, Italian football player and coach
* Giorgio Rossano, Italian football player
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Giorgio Rubino
Giorgio Rubino (born 15 April 1986 in Rome) is an Italian race walker, bronze medal in the 20 km walk at the 2009 World Championships in Berlin.
Biography
The medals of some of the athletics world championship races in 2009 were otherwise aw ...
Giorgio Sbruzzi
Giorgio Sbruzzi (born 13 March 1955) is an Italian sprint canoer who competed from the mid to late 1970s. He won a silver medal in the K-2 10000 m event at the 1975 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in Belgrade.
Sbruzzi also competed in th ...
Giorgio Schiavini
Giorgio Schiavini (born 29 October 1990) is an Football Coach as assistant coach of Inter women first team.
Club career
Internazionale
Born in Crema, Lombardy, Schiavini started his career at F.C. Internazionale Milano. Schiavini had played fo ...
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
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Giorgio Venturin
Giorgio Venturin (; born 9 July 1968) is an Italian former professional footballer who played as a central or defensive midfielder.
Career
Venturin started his playing career in the Torino youth system, and was subsequently loaned to Serie ...
Giorgio DeLuca
Giorgio DeLuca is a founder of the gourmet grocery store Dean & DeLuca ("a landmark for culinary adventurers") with his partner Joel Dean. Before that, DeLuca owned a cheese shop on Prince Street in New York City which he opened in 1973, after a b ...
, American entrepreneur
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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. ...
, Italian cardinal
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Giorgio Panto
Giorgio Panto (1 October 1941 – 26 November 2006) was an Italian entrepreneur and politician.
Panto was born at Meolo, in the Province of Venice. After being a long-time supporter of the Liga Veneta–Lega Nord, in 2004 he founded a new Ve ...
"San Giorgio" is the Italian for Saint George. Placenames with Giorgio or San Giorgio include:
Municipalities and towns
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Castel Giorgio
Castel Giorgio is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Terni in the Italy, Italian region Umbria, located about southwest of Perugia and about 60 km northwest of Terni on the Alfine Highland, facing the Lake Bolsena.
The municipality ...
Monforte San Giorgio
Monforte San Giorgio ( Sicilian: ''Munforti'') is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Metropolitan City of Messina in the Italian region Sicily, located about east of Palermo and about west of Messina.
It is home to the remains of a castle bui ...
San Giorgio Albanese
San Giorgio Albanese ( aae, Mbuzati) is a town and ''comune'' in the province of Cosenza in the Calabria region of southern Italy.
It is one of the Arbëreshë Arbën/Arbër, from which derived Arbënesh/Arbëresh originally meant all Albanians, ...
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San Giorgio a Liri
San Giorgio a Liri is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Province of Frosinone in the Italy, Italian region Lazio, located about southeast of Rome and about southeast of Frosinone.
Geography
The little town is located in the southernmost part ...
San Giorgio di Pesaro
San Giorgio di Pesaro frazione of Terre Roveresche , in the Province of Pesaro e Urbino in the Italian region Marche
Marche ( , ) is one of the twenty regions of Italy. In English, the region is sometimes referred to as The Marches ( ). The ...
San Giorgio Ionico
San Giorgio Ionico is a town and ''comune'' in the province of Taranto, in the northern Salento, part of the Apulia region of southeast Italy. San Giorgio Ionico was historically an Arbëreshë settlement. After the inhabitants abandoned the A ...
Pieve di San Giorgio
250px, The Pieve di San Giorgio.
The Pieve di San Giorgio is a church in the ''comune'' of Argenta, northern Italy. It is the most ancient church in the province of Ferrara and one of the most ancient ones in Emilia-Romagna region.
Located on th ...
San Giorgio (Siena)
San Giorgio is a Baroque style, Roman Catholic church located on Via di Pantaneto #113 in the Terzo San Martino of the city of Siena, region of Tuscany, Italy.
History
A church at the site existed since the 11th century. Tradition holds that the ...
, church in Siena
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Stadio Giorgio Ascarelli
Stadio Partenopeo, also known as Stadio Giorgio Ascarelli, was a multi-use stadium in Naples, Italy. It was used mostly for football matches, and it was also the home ground of S.S.C. Napoli. The stadium was able to hold 40.000 people. During ...