Ignazio () is a masculine Italian given name. Notable people with the name include:

Arts

Ignazio Collino Ignazio Collino (1724–1793) was an Italian sculptor, active in the late-Baroque period, mainly in the region of the Piedmont. Biography Collino was born in Turin. Up to the age of 14, he worked under his father, Damẻ, from whom he learned w ...

(1736–1793), Italian sculptor *Ignazio Fresu (born 1957), Italian sculptor *

Ignazio Gardella Ignazio Gardella (30 March 1905 in Milan, Lombardy – 16 March 1999) was an Italian architect and designer. Biography Born into a family of architects, the first of whom was his namesake (1803–1867). Gardella graduated in engineering fr ...

(1905–1999), Italian architect and designer *

Ignazio Hugford ''A miracle of St. Francis of Paola'' by Hugford. Ignazio Hugford, or Ignatius Heckford (1703–1778), was an Italian painter active mostly in Tuscany in an early Neoclassic style. Life and work Ignazio Hugford was born in Pisa, the son of a ...

(1703–1777), Italian painter *

Ignazio Marabitti Ignazio Marabitti (6 September 1719La Sicilia nel secolo XVIII e la poesia satiricoburlesca By Giuseppe Leanti, page 163. in Palermo – 1797 in Palermo) was a Sicilian sculptor of the late Baroque period. He trained in Rome in the studio of Fil ...

(1719–1797), Sicilian sculptor *

Ignazio Oliva Ignazio Oliva (17th century) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period, active near his natal city of Orta di Atella. He was a pupil of Domenico Gargiulo. He is known for painting outdoor vedute: seascapes and landscapes A landscape is th ...

(17th century), Italian painter *

Carlo Ignazio Pozzi Carlo Ignazio Pozzi (1786–1842), was a German painter and architect. He was born in Mannheim, Holy Roman Empire, to a Swiss father, Francesco Pozzi (stuccoist). He studied at the Academy of his native city. He traveled through the Netherlands ...

(1786–1842), Italian painter and architect * Ignazio Stern (1679–1748), Austrian painter

Literature

Ignazio Buttitta Ignazio Buttitta (19 September 1899 – 5 April 1997) was an Italian poet who wrote predominantly in Sicilian. Biography Born at Bagheria, Italy into a merchant's family, after having taken part in World War I Buttitta joined the Italian Social ...

(1899–1997), Sicilian dialectal poet *

Ignazio Giorgi Ignazio () is a masculine Italian given name. Notable people with the name include: Arts *Ignazio Collino (1736–1793), Italian sculptor *Ignazio Fresu (born 1957), Italian sculptor *Ignazio Gardella (1905–1999), Italian architect and designer ...

(1675–1737), Italian poet and translator *

Ignazio Silone Secondino Tranquilli (1 May 1900 – 22 August 1978), known by the pseudonym Ignazio Silone (, ), was an Italian political leader, novelist, and short-story writer, world-famous during World War II for his powerful anti-fascist novels. He was no ...

(1900–1978), Italian novelist and poet

Music

Ignazio Albertini Ignazio Albertini (''Albertino'') (c. 1644 – 22 September 1685) was an Italian Middle Baroque violinist and composer. Very little is known about Albertini's life. He may have been born in Milan, but first surfaces in Vienna, in a letter excha ...

(1644–1685), Italian violinist and composer *

Ignazio Cirri Ignazio Cirri or Giacomo Matteo Ignazio Cirri (20 September 1711 – 13 July 1787) was an Italian organist and composer in the 18th century. He was the brother of composer Giovanni Battista Cirri and the father of composer and violoncellist G ...

(1711–1787), Italian organist and composer *

Ignazio Boschetto Il Volo (; Italian for "The Flight") is an Italian operatic pop trio, consisting of baritone Gianluca Ginoble, and tenors Piero Barone and Ignazio Boschetto. They describe their music as "popera". Having won the Sanremo Music Festival 2015, the ...

, Italian singer-songwriter & member of

Il Volo Il Volo (; Italian for "The Flight") is an Italian operatic pop trio, consisting of baritone Gianluca Ginoble, and tenors Piero Barone and Ignazio Boschetto. They describe their music as "popera". Having won the Sanremo Music Festival 2015, the ...

Ignazio Donati Ignazio Donati (c. 1570 – 21 January 1638) was an Italian composer of the early Baroque era. He was one of the pioneers of the style of the concertato motet. Biography Ignazio Donati was born in Casalmaggiore (now in the Province of Cremona ...

(1570–1638), Italian composer *

Ignazio Fiorillo Ignazio Fiorillo (11 May 1715 – June 1787) was an Italian composer. He is known as an author of opera seria, often composed to the libretti of Pietro Metastasio. Biography Fiorillo was born in Naples, Italy. His musical education was supporte ...

(1715–1787), Italian composer *

Ignazio Marini Ignazio Marini (28 November 1811 – 29 April 1873) was a celebrated Italian operatic bass. He sang in the world premieres of several operas by Gaetano Donizetti, Saverio Mercadante, and Giuseppe Verdi and appeared as a guest artist in major ...

(1811–1873), Italian operatic bass *

Carlo Ignazio Monza Carlo Ignazio Monza (c. 1680 – 9 May 1739) was an Italian composer. He was born in Milan and died in Vercelli. Works of his were possibly among the music that formed the basis for the ''Pulcinella'' score by Igor Stravinsky. There are recordings ...

(1680–1739), Italian composer *

Ignazio Pollice Ignazio Pollice (also Pulici) ( fl. 1684–1705) was an Italian composer of the Baroque era, from Palermo. He is most famous for his ''L'innocenza pentita: o vero la Santa Rosalia'', which opened the just-built Teatro Santa Cecilia in Palermo ...

(1684–1705), Sicilian composer *

Ignazio Prota Ignazio Prota (15 September 1690 – January 1748) was an Italian composer and music educator. He was the father of composer Tommaso Prota and the grandfather of composer Gabriele Prota. Prota was born and died in Naples. He taught for many yea ...

(1690–1748), Italian composer

Politics

Ignazio Calvi Ignazio Calvi (Reggio Emilia, 21 January 1797 — Finale Emilia, 17 August 1872) was an Italian patriot and chess player. After taking part to a popular insurrection in Modena and participating to a military campaign of the Savoy army, he was for ...

(1797–1872), Italian patriot and chess player *

Ignazio Cassis Ignazio Daniele Giovanni Cassis (; born 13 April 1961) is a Swiss physician and politician who has served as President of the Swiss Confederation since 1 January 2022. A member of FDP.The Liberals, FDP. The Liberals, he has been a List of member ...

(born 1961), Swiss physician and politician *

Paolo Ignazio Maria Thaon di Revel Paolo Ignazio Maria Thaon di Revel (2 May 1888 – 1 June 1973) was an Italian politician and fencer. He was the son of Count Vittorio Thaon di Revel and Elfrida Maria Atkinson. He fought in the First World War. He was also Mayor of Torino ( ...

(1888–1973), Italian politician *

Ignazio La Russa Ignazio Benito Maria La Russa (born 18 July 1947) is an Italian politician who is serving as President of the Senate of the Republic since 13 October 2022. He is the first politician with a neo-fascist background to hold the position of Presid ...

(born 1947), Italian politician *

Ignazio Marino Ignazio Roberto Maria Marino (; born 10 March 1955) is an Italian transplant surgeon who was Mayor of Rome from 2013 to 2015. As a surgeon, he trained with Thomas Starzl, who had pioneered liver transplantion in humans. In 1992–1993, as ...

(born 1955), Italian surgeon and politician

Religion

Ignazio Arnoz Ignatius Arnoz,M.H.M. (1 April 1885 – 26 February 1950) was a Czech prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. Ignatius Arnoz was born in Bodenbach, Bohemia, and ordained a priest on 25 July 1910 from the religious order of the Mill Hill Mission ...

(1885–1950), Czech prelate *

Ignazio Bedini Ignazio Bedini, S.D.B., is a former Roman Catholic archbishop emeritus of Ispahan (Isfahan), Iran. Bedini was born in Sassomorello, near Modena, Italy, on 27 June 1939 and ordained as a priest of the Order of the Salesians of Saint John Bosco o ...

(born 1939), Italian archbishop *

Ignazio Busca Ignazio Busca (31 August 1731 in Milan – 12 August 1803 in Rome) was an Italian cardinal and Secretary of State of the Holy See. He was the last son of Lodovico Busca, marquess of Lomagna and Bianca Arconati Visconti. he took a degree in '' ut ...

(1731–1803), Italian cardinal *

Ignazio Cannavò Ignazio Cannavò (;12 December 1921 – 18 October 2015) was an Italian Prelate of Roman Catholic Church. Cannavò was born in Fiumefreddo di Sicilia, Italy and was ordained a priest on 5 November 1944. He was appointed auxiliary bishop of t ...

(born 1921), Italian archbishop *

Ignazio Persico Ignazio Camillo Guglielmo Maria Pietro Persico (30 January 1823, Naples – 7 December 1895) was an Italian Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church who served multiple assignments including as Vicar Apostolic, bishop, Apostolic delegate to Ire ...

(1823–1896), Italian cardinal

Sports

Ignazio Abate Ignazio Abate (; born 12 November 1986) is an Italian former professional footballer who played as a full-back and manager of AC Milan's under-19 side. On early stage deployed as a winger, he was also capable of playing as a wide midfielder or ...

(born 1986), Italian professional footballer *

Ignazio Arcoleo Ignazio Arcoleo (born 15 February 1948 in Palermo) is an Italian footballer and manager. Playing career Arcoleo, born in Mondello, a Palermo maritime ''frazione'', to a fishermans' family, started his professional career in 1966/1967 for his ...

(born 1948), Italian footballer and manager *

Ignazio Belluardo Ignazio Belluardo (born 2 August 1986, in Syracuse) is an Italian racing driver. He has competed in such series as International Formula Master International Formula Master, also known as Formula Super 2000, was a European-based junior single s ...

(born 1986), Italian racing driver *

Ignazio Fabra Ignazio Fabra (25 April 1930 – 13 April 2008) is a flyweight Greco-Roman wrestler from Italy. He won a world title in 1955 and finished second at the 1952 and 1956 Olympics and 1962 and 1963 world championships. He placed fourth-fifth at the 1 ...

(1930–2008), Italian wrestler *

Ignazio Giunti Ignazio Francesco Giunti (30 August 1941 – 10 January 1971) was an Italian racing driver. He competed in Formula One as well as in saloon and Sports Car Racing. Giunti was born in Rome. In 1968, driving for Alfa Romeo, he finished second in the ...

(1941–1971), Italian racing driver

Others

* Ignazio Cardini (1566–1602), Corsican doctor and humanist *

Ignazio Cerio Ignazio Cerio (1841 – 1921) was an influential but eccentric physician and amateur philosopher on the island of Capri, in Italy. His father, imprisoned for his liberal beliefs, had spent his time in jail devising chemical concoctions and mechanic ...

(1841–1921), Italian physician and philosopher *

Ignazio Danti Ignazio (Egnation or Egnazio) Danti, O.P. (April 1536 – 10 October 1586), born Pellegrino Rainaldi Danti, was an Italian Roman Catholic prelate, mathematician, astronomer, and cosmographer, who served as Bishop of Alatri (1583–1586). ''(in ...

(1536–1586), Italian mathematician and astronomer *

Johnny Dio Giovanni Ignazio Dioguardi (; April 29, 1914 – January 12, 1979), known as John "Johnny Dio" Dioguardi, was an Italian-American organized crime figure and a labor racketeer. He is known for being involved in the acid attack which led to the bli ...

(1914–1979), Italian-American gangster *

Ignazio Guidi Ignazio Guidi (1844 – 18 April 1935) was an Italian orientalist. He became professor at the University of Rome. He is known as a Hebraist and for many translations. He learned semitic languages from Pius Zingerle and Father Vincenti, and ...

(1844–1935), Italian orientalist *

Ignazio Leone Ignazio Leone (19 April 1923 – 30 December 1976) was an Italian film actor. He appeared in 105 films between 1952 and 1976. Selected filmography * '' The Walk'' (1953) * ''I Chose Love'' (1953) * ''Amici per la pelle'' (1955) * '' A Woma ...

(1923–1976), Italian film actor *

Ignazio Lupo Ignazio Lupo (; March 21, 1877 – January 13, 1947), also known as Ignazio Saietta and Lupo the Wolf, was a Sicilian American Black Hand leader in New York City during the early 1900s. His business was centered in Little Italy, Manhattan, wh ...

(1877–1947), Sicilian-American gangster * Giovanni Ignazio Molina (1740–1829), Chilean naturalist and historian *

Ignazio Porro Ignazio Porro (25 November 1801 – 8 October 1875) was an Italian inventor of optical instruments. Porro's name is most closely associated with the prism system which he invented around 1850 and which is used in the construction of Porro prism ...

(1801–1875), Italian optician *

Ignazio Salvo Ignazio () is a masculine Italian given name. Notable people with the name include: Arts *Ignazio Collino (1736–1793), Italian sculptor *Ignazio Fresu (born 1957), Italian sculptor *Ignazio Gardella (1905–1999), Italian architect and designer ...

(1932–1992), Italian businessman *

Ignazio Visco Ignazio Visco (; born 21 November 1949) is an Italian economist and central banker and the current Governor of the Bank of Italy. Early life and education Visco was born in Naples on 21 November 1949. He obtained a '' summa cum laude'' degree ...

(born 1949), Italian economist *

Ignazio Vella Ignazio A. "Ig" Vella (July 13, 1928 – June 9, 2011) was an American businessman and cheese maker who served on the Sonoma County, California, Sonoma County Board of Supervisors. Biography Vella was born on July 13, 1928, to Gaetano "Tom ...

(1928–2011), American businessman *

Prince Sixtus of Bourbon-Parma Prince Sixtus of Bourbon-Parma (; 1 August 1886 – 14 March 1934) was a member of the House of Bourbon-Parma, a Belgian officer in World War I, and the central figure in the Sixtus Affair, an attempt to negotiate a treaty to end Austria-Hungary's ...

(1886–1934), Italian nobleman *

Prince Gabriel of Bourbon-Two Sicilies , image = Gabriel de Borbón Franzen.jpg , caption = Portrayed wearing a cavalry uniform of the Spanish Army, c. 1914 , spouse = Princess Malgorzata Izabella Czartoryska Princess Cecylia Lubomirska , issue = Prince Ant ...

(1897–1975), Italian nobleman