Testa is a surname that literally means "head" in Italian. Notable people with the surname include:
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Alberto Testa (dancer) (1922–2019), Italian dancer
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Alberto Testa (lyricist)
Alberto Testa (11 April 1927 – 19 October 2009) was an Italian composer, lyricist, singer, and writer for television.
Born at Santos, São Paulo, Brazil, he was known primarily for his work as a lyricist. His words were set by such songwrite ...
(1927–2009), Italian composer and lyricist
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Anthony Joseph Testa (born 1987), American choreographer, creative director, educator, and dancer
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Augusto Testa
Augusto Testa (born 1950) is an Italian amateur astronomer and a discoverer of minor planets
This is a list of minor-planet discoverers credited by the Minor Planet Center with the discovery of one or several minor planets (such as near-Eart ...
(born 1950), Italian astronomer
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Armando Testa (1917–1992), Italian graphic designer
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Chicco Testa
Chicco Testa (born 5 January 1952 in Bergamo) is an Italian politician. He graduated in philosophy at the Università Statale in Milan (1976). He lives in Rome and has two sons.
Environmentalist and politician for PCI and PDS
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(born 1952), managing director of Rothschild Spa
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Chuck Testa, American taxidermist and Internet meme
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Clorindo Testa
Clorindo Manuel José Testa (December 10, 1923 – April 11, 2013) was an Italian-Argentine architect and artist.
Testa was one of the leaders of the Argentine rationalist movement and one of the pioneers of the brutalist movement in Argen ...
(1923–2013), Italian-Argentine architect and artist
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Dante Testa
Dante Testa (24 August 1861 – 3 March 1923) was an Italian stage and film actor and theatre and film director whose career began in the 1880s.
Biography
Born in Turin, Dante Testa became one of great exponents of theatre in the Piedmontese lan ...
(1861-1923), Italian actor and director
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Eugenio Testa (1892–1957), Italian actor and film director
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Ezio Testa (writer) (born 1961), Italian fiction author and poet
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Federica Testa
Federica Testa (born 27 August 1993) is an Italian-born former competitive ice dancer who is best known for her partnership with Lukáš Csölley for Slovakia. Together, they won four ISU Challenger Series medals and three Slovak national titl ...
(born 1993), Italian-born former competitive ice dancer
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Franco Testa
Franco Testa (born 7 February 1938) is a retired Italian cyclist. He won a gold medal in the team pursuit at the 1960 Summer Olympics and a silver medal at the 1964 Summer Olympics
The , officially the and commonly known as Tokyo 1964 ( j ...
(born 1938), Italian cyclist
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Franco Testa (water polo) (born 1982), Argentine water polo player
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Gianmaria Testa (1958–2016), Italian singer-songwriter
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Gustavo Testa
Gustavo Testa (28 July 1886 – 28 February 1969) was an Italian prelate of the Catholic Church, who was made a cardinal in 1959. He spent his career in the Roman Curia. He entered the diplomatic service of the Holy See in 1920 and held several ...
(1886–1969), Italian Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church
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Joseph Testa
Joseph is a common male given name, derived from the Hebrew Yosef (יוֹסֵף). "Joseph" is used, along with "Josef", mostly in English, French and partially German languages. This spelling is also found as a variant in the languages of the mo ...
(born 1955), New York city mobster
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Karina Testa
Karina Testa (born 5 August 1981) is a French actress. She appeared in more than twenty films since 2001 including the lead role in '' Frontier(s)''.
Selected filmography
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1981 births
Living people
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(born 1981), French actress
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Mary Testa
Mary Testa (born June 4, 1955) is an American stage and film actress. She is a three-time Tony Award nominee, for performances in revivals of Leonard Bernstein's '' On the Town'' (1998), '' 42nd Street'' (2001) and'' Oklahoma'' (2019).
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(born 1955), American stage actress
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Nick Testa (1928–2018), American baseball player and coach
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Olivier Testa
Olivier Testa (born April 1, 1977) is a cave explorer, known for his discovery of the orange cave-dwelling crocodiles of Gabon, the Iroungou burial cave in Gabon, the discovery of unexpected caves in the volcanic Bamboutos mountains in Cameroo ...
(born 1977), French speleologist and explorer
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Philip Testa
Philip Charles Testa (April 21, 1924 – March 15, 1981), also known as "The Chicken Man", was an Italian-American mobster known for his brief leadership of the Philadelphia crime family of the Italian-American Mafia. He became boss of the Phila ...
(1924–1981), American Mafia figure
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Pietro Testa
Pietro Testa (1611–1650) was an Italian High Baroque artist active in Rome. He is best known as a printmaker and draftsman.
Biography
He was born in Lucca, and thus is sometimes called ''il Lucchesino''. He moved to Rome early in life. O ...
(1611–1650), Italian High Baroque artist
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Salvatore Testa
Salvatore "Salvie" Testa (March 31, 1956 – September 14, 1984), nicknamed "The Crowned Prince of the Philadelphia Mob", was an Italian-American mobster who served as a caporegime and later acting underboss for the Philadelphia crime family. Te ...
(1956–1984), hitman for the Philadelphia crime family
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Serge Testa
Serge Testa is an Australian yachtsman who holds the world record for the circumnavigation in the smallest boat, completing the voyage in 1987. His boat, the ''Acrohc Australis'', was designed so that all controls could be operated from inside e ...
(born 1950), Australian yachtsman
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Tony Testa (born 1987), American choreographer
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Italian-language surnames