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 (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 Claudio Ezequiel Mosca (born April 2, 1991 in Bernal, Argentina) is an Argentine footballer A football player or footballer is a sportsperson who plays one of the different types of football. The main types of football are association footb ...

(born 1991), Argentine footballer * Enrique Mosca (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 Jacopo Mosca (born 29 August 1993) is an Italian cyclist, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam . In May 2018, he was named in the startlist for the Giro d'Italia. In August 2019, he was named in the startlist for the 2019 Vuelta a España. M ...

(born 1993), Italian cyclist *

Lino Mosca Lino Baldassarre Giovanni Battista Mosca Cirvella (August 27, 1907 in Campiglia Cervo – February 15, 1992) was an Italian professional football player. Honours * Serie A The Serie A (), also called Serie A TIM for national sponsorship ...

(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 Pierre Mosca (born Pietro Mosca on 24 July 1949) is French former football player and coach who played as a defender for Montpellier and Monaco. After his playing career, he became a coach with Sochaux, Rennes, Montpellier, Toulouse, Toulon, N ...

(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 Rich Mosca (born ) is a former American football player, teacher and coach. He served as the head football coach at Fairleigh Dickinson–Florham (FDU) in Florham Park, New Jersey from 2002 to 2010, compiling a record of 23–67. Early life an ...

(born c. 1948), former American football player and coach * Sal Mosca (1927–2007), American jazz pianist *

Simone Mosca Simone Mosca (1492–1554) was an Italian sculptor who was born in Settignano (part of Florence). His sons were sculptors Francesco Mosca, called ''Il Moschino'' (ca. 1531-1578) and Simone Simoncelli, also known as ''Simone Moschino'' (1533-1 ...

(1492–1554), Italian sculptor *

Stefania Mosca Stefania Mosca (1957–2009) was a Venezuelan writer. Works published *Jorge Luis Borges: Utopia and Reality (1984) *Memory and Forgetting (1986) *Everyday people (1990) *The Last Supper (1991) *Banal (1993) *My little world (1996) *Booklet No. ...

(1957–2009), Venezuelan writer

Fictional characters

* Mosca, of Ben Jonson's 1606 play '' Volpone'' * Mosca, of '' The Godfather Part III'' * Frank Mosca, of '' Miami Vice'' * Gola Mosca, of '' Reborn!'' manga and anime series *

Walter Mosca ''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 ...

, 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 t ...

Places

* Italian name of Moscow * Mosca, Colorado, 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, historic bridge in Turin, region of Piedmont, Italy

Businesses

Mosca's Mosca's is a Louisiana Creole Italian restaurant in Waggaman, Louisiana, near New Orleans. Operated by the same family since it opened in 1946, it has long been regarded as one of New Orleans' best restaurants, known for dishes such as Oysters Mo ...

, a restaurant near New Orleans in Avondale, Louisiana, United States

Aircraft

* Mosca-Bystritsky MBbis, fighter aircraft developed and used by the Imperial Russian Air Service during the First World War * Polikarpov I-16, referred to by republicans during the Spanish Civil War as ''moscas'' {{Disambiguation, surname, geo Italian-language surnames