Mosca may refer to:

People

Alessia Mosca Alessia Mosca (born 23 May 1975) is the Secretary General of Italy-ASEAN association. She is a former Italian politician who was a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from 2014 to 2019 and a member of the Italian Chamber of Deputies from 200 ...

(born 1975), Italian politician *

Angelo Mosca Angelo Valentino Mosca (February 13, 1937 – November 6, 2021) was an American professional football player and professional wrestler. He was a defensive lineman in the Canadian Football League (CFL). As a wrestler, Mosca was known by the nick ...

(1937–2021), Canadian Football League player and professional wrestler * Antonio Mosca (1870–1951), Italian painter *

Bianca Mosca Bianca Mosca, born Bianca Lea Rosa Mottironi,England & Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations), 1858-1995 was a London-based fashion designer who rose to prominence during the 1940s and was the only woman member of th ...

(dead 1950), London-based fashion designer * Claudio Mosca (born 1991), Argentine footballer *

Enrique Mosca Enrique Mosca (July 15, 1880 – July 22, 1950) was an Argentine lawyer and politician prominent in the centrist Radical Civic Union (UCR). Life and times Enrique Mosca was born in Santa Fe, in 1880. He enrolled at the Jesuit College of the Immac ...

(1880-1950), Argentine lawyer and politician * Frank Mosca (born 1976), American film producer *

Gaetano Mosca Gaetano Mosca (; 1 April 1858 – 8 November 1941) was an Italian political scientist, journalist and public servant. He is credited with developing the elite theory and the doctrine of the political class and is one of the three members constitu ...

(1858–1941), Italian political scientist, journalist and public servant *

Giuseppe Mosca Giuseppe Mosca (1772 in Naples – 1839 in Messina) was an Italian opera composer, the older brother of Luigi Mosca, also an opera composer. He is mainly remembered as the composer who said that Rossini copied in '' La pietra del paragone'' th ...

(1772–1839), Italian opera composer * Jacopo Mosca (born 1993), Italian cyclist * Lino Mosca (1907−1992), Italian professional football player *

Luigi Mosca Luigi Mosca (1775 – 30 November 1824) was Italian composer of operas and sacred music and a noted singing teacher. He composed eighteen operas, most of which were originally for theatres in Naples, but played throughout Italy in their day. Biog ...

(1775–1824), Italian composer of operas and sacred music and singing teacher *

Maurizio Mosca Maurizio Mosca (Rome, 24 June 1940 – Pavia, 3 April 2010) was an Italian sports journalist and TV presenter. Career In print Son of the humorist, journalist and writer Giovanni Mosca, and brother of Antonello, Benedetto and the writer Pa ...

(1940–2010), Italian sports journalist and television presenter *

Michele Mosca Michele Mosca is co-founder and deputy director of the Institute for Quantum Computing at the University of Waterloo, researcher and founding member of the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, and professor of mathematics in the department ...

, Italian physics researcher and professor of mathematics *

Paolo Mosca Paolo Mosca (20 October 1943 – 30 November 2014) was an Italian journalist, writer, singer and television presenter. Born in Verbania, Pallanza, Mosca graduated in political science, and he attended the drama school of the Piccolo Teatro (Milan ...

(1943–2014), Italian journalist, writer, singer and television presenter * Pierre Mosca (born 1949), Italian born French former footballer and coach *

Rafael Mosca Rafael Motta Bacêllo Mósca (born 13 May 1982, in Rio de Janeiro) is a freestyle swimmer from Brazil. Trying to prevent some respiratory problem, Mósca began to practice swimming. His mother enrolled him in a swim school at two years of age. A ...

(born 1982), Brazilian swimmer * Rich Mosca (born c. 1948), former American football player and coach *

Sal Mosca Salvatore Joseph Mosca (April 27, 1927 – July 28, 2007) was an American jazz pianist who was a student of Lennie Tristano. Mosca was born in Mount Vernon, New York, United States, to Italian Americans, Italian American parents. He worked in co ...

(1927–2007), American jazz pianist * Simone Mosca (1492–1554), Italian sculptor * Stefania Mosca (1957–2009), Venezuelan writer

Fictional characters

* Mosca, of Ben Jonson's 1606 play ''

Volpone ''Volpone'' (, Italian for "sly fox") is a comedy play by English playwright Ben Jonson first produced in 1605–1606, drawing on elements of city comedy and beast fable. A merciless satire of greed and lust, it remains Jonson's most-perform ...

'' * Mosca, of ''

The Godfather Part III ''The Godfather Part III'' is a 1990 American crime film produced and directed by Francis Ford Coppola from the screenplay co-written with Mario Puzo. The film stars Al Pacino, Diane Keaton, Talia Shire, Andy García, Eli Wallach, Joe Mantegna, ...

'' * Frank Mosca, of ''

Miami Vice ''Miami Vice'' is an American crime drama television series created by Anthony Yerkovich and produced by Michael Mann (director), Michael Mann for NBC. The series stars Don Johnson as James "Sonny" Crockett and Philip Michael Thomas as Ricardo ...

'' * Gola Mosca, of ''

Reborn! ''Reborn!'', known in Japan as , is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Akira Amano. It follows Tsunayoshi Sawada, a young boy who discovers that he is next in line to become boss of the Vongola family, a powerful Mafia organi ...

'' manga and anime series * Walter Mosca, of Mario Puzo's novel ''

The Dark Arena ''The Dark Arena'' is the first novel by Mario Puzo, published in 1955. The book follows Walter Mosca, an American World War II veteran who returns to Germany for his girlfriend, Hella. The novel explores life in post-war Germany, a place where ...

Places

* Italian name of

Moscow Moscow ( , US chiefly ; rus, links=no, Москва, r=Moskva, p=mɐskˈva, a=Москва.ogg) is the capital and largest city of Russia. The city stands on the Moskva River in Central Russia, with a population estimated at 13.0 million ...

Mosca, Colorado Mosca is an unincorporated community and a U.S. Post Office in Alamosa County, Colorado, United States. It was named for the nearby Mosca Pass, which was named for the Spanish explorer, Luis de Moscoso Alvarado. The Mosca Post Office has the Z ...

, United States *

Mosca Pass Mosca Pass, elevation , is a mountain pass in Alamosa and Huerfano counties in the Sangre de Cristo Range in southern Colorado. The pass lies on the eastern border of the Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve about 40 miles west of Walsenb ...

, mountain pass in Alamosa County in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado in the United States *

Ponte Mosca, Turin The Ponte Mosca is a historic bridge in Turin, region of Piedmont, Italy. It was the first stone bridge built in the city by the Sabauda dynasty. The bridge was erected over the Dora Riparia The Dora Riparia (; pms, Dòira Rivaira; french: Doi ...

, historic bridge in Turin, region of Piedmont, Italy

Businesses

* Mosca's, a restaurant near New Orleans in Avondale, Louisiana, United States

Aircraft

Mosca-Bystritsky MBbis The Mosca-Bystritsky MBbis was a fighter aircraft developed and used by the Imperial Russian Air Service during the First World War. Design and development After being persuaded to move to Russia, the Italian aircraft designer Francesco E. Mosca ...

, fighter aircraft developed and used by the Imperial Russian Air Service during the First World War *

Polikarpov I-16 The Polikarpov I-16 (russian: Поликарпов И-16) is a Soviet single-engine single-seat fighter aircraft of revolutionary design; it was the world's first low-wing cantilever monoplane fighter with retractable landing gear to attain ope ...

, referred to by republicans during the Spanish Civil War as ''moscas'' {{Disambiguation, surname, geo Italian-language surnames