Vittorio is an Italian male given name which has roots from the Byzantine-Bulgarian name
Victor
The name Victor or Viktor may refer to:
* Victor (name), including a list of people with the given name, mononym, or surname
Arts and entertainment
Film
* ''Victor'' (1951 film), a French drama film
* ''Victor'' (1993 film), a French shor ...
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People with the given name Vittorio include:
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Vittorio Emanuele, Prince of Naples
Prince Vittorio Emanuele of Savoy, Prince of Naples (''Vittorio Emanuele Alberto Carlo Teodoro Umberto Bonifacio Amedeo Damiano Bernardino Gennaro Maria di Savoia'';''Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels, Fürstliche Häuser'' XIV. "Haus Italien". C. ...
, pretender to the former Kingdom of Italy
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Vittorio Adorni
Vittorio Adorni (14 November 1937 – 24 December 2022) was an Italian professional road racing cyclist.
Early life and amateur career
Adorni was born in San Lazzaro di Parma on 14 November 1937. , professional road racing cyclist
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Vittorio Alfieri
Count Vittorio Alfieri (, also , ; 16 January 17498 October 1803) was an Italian dramatist and poet, considered the "founder of Italian tragedy." He wrote nineteen tragedies, sonnets, satires, and a notable autobiography.
Early life
Alfieri was b ...
, dramatist and poet
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Vittorio Amandola
Vittorio Amandola (4 November 1952 – 22 July 2010) was an Italian actor and voice actor.
Biography
Born in Perugia, Amandola began his career in the theatre world in the 1970s and found great success starring in various plays and later went ...
(1952–2010), Italian actor and voice actor
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Vittorio De Angelis
Vittorio De Angelis (September 20, 1962 – June 11, 2015) was an Italian voice actor.
Biography
Born in Rome, De Angelis was the son of voice actor Manlio De Angelis and the grandson of voice actor Gualtiero De Angelis. He began his voice actin ...
(1962–2015), Italian voice actor
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Vittorio Brambilla
Vittorio Brambilla (11 November 1937 – 26 May 2001) was a Formula One driver from Italy who raced for the March, Surtees and Alfa Romeo teams. Particularly adept at driving in wet conditions, his nickname was "The Monza Gorilla", due to his o ...
(1937–2001) Italian Formula One racing driver
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Vittorio Caprioli
Vittorio Caprioli (15 August 1921 – 2 October 1989) was an Italian actor, film director and screenwriter. He appeared in 109 films between 1946 and 1990, mostly in French productions.
Biography
Caprioli was born in Naples. Having graduated fr ...
, actor, director and screenwriter
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Vittorio Cecchi Gori
Vittorio Cecchi Gori (; born 27 April 1942) is an Italian film producer and politician.
He pleaded guilty to bankruptcy and was sentenced in February 2020 to 8 years and 5 months of imprisonment.
Born in Florence, Italy he is the son of Mario ...
(born 1942), Italian film producer and politician
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Vittorio Cini
Vittorio Cini, Count of Monselice (20 February 1885 – 18 September 1977) was an Italian industrialist and politician, Senator from 1934 to 1943 and minister of communications of the Kingdom of Italy from February to July 1943. He was among ...
(1885–1977), Italian industrialist and politician
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Vittorio Cottafavi
Vittorio Cottafavi (30 January 1914 – 14 December 1998) was an Italian film director and screenwriter. He directed 70 films between 1943 and 1985. His film '' Il diavolo sulle colline'' was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at th ...
, director and screenwriter
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Vittorio Gallinari
Vittorio Gallinari (born 22 October 1958) is an Italian former basketball player and current sports agent. He is the father of Danilo Gallinari, who plays for the Boston Celtics in the NBA.
He was born in Sant'Angelo Lodigiano. During his play ...
, basketball player
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Vittorio Gassman
Vittorio Gassman (; born Gassmann; 1 September 1922 – 29 June 2000), popularly known as , was an Italian actor, director and screenwriter.
He is considered one of the greatest Italian actors, whose career includes both important productions ...
(1922–2000), Italian actor and director
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Vittorio Giannini
Vittorio Giannini (October 19, 1903 – November 28, 1966) was an American neoromantic composer of operas, songs, symphonies, and band works.
Life and work
Giannini was born in Philadelphia on October 19, 1903. He began as a violinist under the t ...
, neoromantic composer of operas
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Vittorio Guerrieri
Vittorio Guerrieri (born 23 December 1958) is an Italian actor and voice actor, known for being the official dubber of Ben Stiller.
Biography
Born in Rome, Guerrieri made his acting debut at the age of nine on the television show ''Lazarillo'', ...
, Italian voice actor
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Vittorio Giardino
Vittorio Giardino (born December 24, 1946) is an Italian comic artist.
Biography
Giardino was born in Bologna, where he graduated in electrical engineering in 1969. At the age of 30, he decided to leave his job and devote himself to comics. Two ...
, comic artist
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Vittorio Goretti
Vittorio Goretti (born 1939 – 7 July 2016) was an Italian amateur astronomer and a discoverer of minor planets at his observatory in Pianoro, on the outskirts of Bologna, Italy.
Vittorio Goretti is a retired teacher of physics and mathemat ...
, astronomer
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Vittorio Grigolo
Vittorio Grigolo (correctly Vittorio Grigòlo, born 19 February 1977) is an Italian operatic tenor.
Early life
Grigolo was born in Arezzo and raised in Rome. He began singing by the age of four. When he was nine years old he accompanied his mot ...
, operatic tenor
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Vittorio Grilli
Vittorio Grilli (born 19 May 1957) is an Italian economist and academic. He was Italy's minister of economy and finance from 2012 to 2013 as part of the Monti cabinet.
Education
Grilli was born in Milan on 19 May 1957. He graduated from Bocconi ...
, Italian economist and academic
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Vittorio Gui
Vittorio Gui (14 September 188516 October 1975) was an Italian conductor, composer, musicologist and critic.
Gui was born in Rome in 1885. He graduated in humanities at the University of Rome and also studied composition at the Accademia Naziona ...
, conductor and composer
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Vittorio Iannuzzo
Vittorio Iannuzzo (born 10 May 1982 in Avellino) is an Italian motorcycle racer. He currently competes in the IDM Superbike Championship aboard a Suzuki GSX-R1000.
He was the 2002 European Superstock 1000 champion riding an Alstare Suzuki.
In ...
, motorcycle racer
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Vittorio Marzotto
Vittorio Marzotto (13 June 1922, Valdagno – 4 February 1999) was an Italian racing driver. He drove 16 sports car races between 1948 and 1955, mainly in Ferrari's, his best results being two victories and three second places. He also entered a F ...
, racing driver
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Vittorio Mezzogiorno
Vittorio Mezzogiorno (16 December 1941 – 7 January 1994) was an Italian actor.
Biography
Mezzogiorno was born in Cercola, the youngest of seven children. His older brother Vincenzo, who wanted to become a director, introduced him to the thea ...
, actor
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Vittorio Missoni
Vittorio Missoni (1954 – January 4, 2013; confirmed June 27, 2013) was an Italian CEO of Missoni, the fashion house founded by his parents in 1953. Missoni is credited with expanding Missoni into a global brand after his parents handed control to ...
, Italian fashion designer and former CEO of Missoni
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Vittorio Monti
Vittorio Monti (6 January 186820 June 1922) was an Italian composer, violinist, mandolinist and conductor. His most famous work is his ''Csárdás'', written around 1904 and played by almost every Romani orchestra.
Monti was born in Naples, w ...
, composer, violinist and conductor
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Vittorio Mussolini
Vittorio Mussolini (27 September 1916 – 12 June 1997) was an Italian film critic and producer. He was also the second child of Italian dictator Benito Mussolini. However, he was the first officially acknowledged son of Mussolini, with his secon ...
, film critic and producer
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Vittorio Pozzo
Vittorio Pozzo (; 2 March 1886 – 21 December 1968) was an Italian football player, manager and journalist.
The creator of the ''Metodo'' tactical formation, Pozzo is regarded as one of the greatest managers of all time, and is the only manag ...
, football coach
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Vittorio Di Prima
Vittorio Di Prima (July 19, 1941 – February 9, 2016) was an Italian actor and voice actor.
Biography
Born in Palermo, Di Prima began his career as an actor at some point during the early 1970s. He has acted in two films and appeared in several ...
(1941–2016), Italian voice actor
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Vittorio Sentimenti
Vittorio Sentimenti (; 18 August 1918 – 27 September 2004), also known as Sentimenti III, is a former Italian football player from Bomporto in the Province of Modena who played as an attacking midfielder.
Career
Sentimenti played club football ...
, Italian football player
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Vittorio De Seta
Vittorio De Seta (15 October 1923 – 28 November 2011) was an Italian cinema director and screenwriter, considered Italian cinema's great imaginative realists of the 1960s.[Vittorio De Sica
Vittorio De Sica ( , ; 7 July 1901 – 13 November 1974) was an Italian film director and actor, a leading figure in the neorealist movement.
Four of the films he directed won Academy Awards: ''Sciuscià'' and ''Bicycle Thieves'' (honorary) ...]
(1901–1974), Italian director and actor
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Vittorio Sgarbi
Vittorio Umberto Antonio Maria Sgarbi (born 8 May 1952 in Ferrara) is an Italian art critic, art historian, writer, politician, cultural commentator and television personality. He is President of the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art of Trent ...
, art critic and politician
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Vittorio Storaro
Vittorio Storaro, A.S.C., A.I.C. (born 24 June 1940) is an Italian cinematographer widely recognized as one of the best and most influential in cinema history, for his work on numerous classic films including ''The Conformist,'' ''Apocalypse Now ...
, cinematographer
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Vittorio Taviani
Paolo Taviani (; born 8 November 1931) and Vittorio Taviani (; 20 September 1929 – 15 April 2018), collectively referred to as the Taviani brothers, were Italian film directors and screenwriters who collaborated on film productions.
At the C ...
, director and screenwriter
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Vittorio Vidali
Vittorio Vidali (27 September 1900 – 9 November 1983), also known as Vittorio Vidale, Enea Sormenti, Jacobo Hurwitz Zender, Carlos Contreras, and "Comandante Carlos", was an Italian communist. After being expelled from Italy with the rise ...
, politician
Fictional Characters
* Vittorio Antonio "Vito" Scaletta, from ''
Mafia
"Mafia" is an informal term that is used to describe criminal organizations that bear a strong similarity to the original “Mafia”, the Sicilian Mafia and Italian Mafia. The central activity of such an organization would be the arbitration of d ...
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* Vittorio Veneto, from ''Mudae''
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