The Province of

Trieste Trieste ( , ; sl, Trst ; german: Triest ) is a city and seaport in northeastern Italy. It is the capital city, and largest city, of the autonomous region of Friuli Venezia Giulia, one of two autonomous regions which are not subdivided into provi ...

is a province in the autonomous Friuli-Venezia Giulia region of Italy. The following is a list of notable Triestini and some outsiders who either wrote about the city or resided there.

Literature

Many famous authors were born and/or lived many years in Trieste. They include:

Italian-language authors

* Enzo Bettiza, writer and journalist, born in Split *

Nicoletta Costa Nicoletta Costa (; born 1953) is an Italian writer, illustrator and cartoonist, famous for her works of children's literature. She is the creator of characters Olga the Cloud and Julian Rabbit. Costa is renowned for her distinctive drawing style, ...

, children's book writer and illustrator * Claudio Magris, writer and essayist *

Biagio Marin Biagio Marin (1891–1985) was a Venetian poet, best known from his poems in the Venetian language, which had no literary tradition until then. In his writings he never obeyed rhetoric or poetics. He only employed a few hundred words for his po ...

, poet (born in

Grado Grado may refer to: People * Cristina Grado (1939–2016), Italian film actress * Jonathan Grado (born 1991), American entrepreneur and photographer * Francesco De Grado ( fl. 1694–1730), Italian engraver * Gaetano Grado, Italian mafioso * Gra ...

) *

Giorgio Pressburger Giorgio Pressburger (April 21, 1937 – October 5, 2017) was an Italian writer of novels and short stories. Born in Budapest, and saved by Giorgio Perlasca during the second world war, Pressburger settled in Italy in 1956, where he worked as a f ...

, author and director *

Umberto Saba Umberto Saba (9 March 1883 – 26 August 1957) was an Italian poet and novelist, born Umberto Poli in the cosmopolitan Mediterranean port of Trieste when it was the fourth largest city of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Poli assumed the pen name " ...

, poet * Francesco Saba Sardi, author, essayist and translator *

Scipio Slataper Scipio Slataper (14 July 1888 – 3 December 1915) was an Italian writer, most famous for his lyrical essay '' My Karst''. He is considered, alongside Italo Svevo, the initiator of the prolific tradition of Italian literature in Trieste. Biogra ...

, essayist *

Giani Stuparich Giani Stuparich (April 4, 1891 – April 7, 1961) was an Italian writer. He was born in Trieste, then in the Austrian-Hungarian Empire Austria-Hungary, often referred to as the Austro-Hungarian Empire,, the Dual Monarchy, or Austria ...

, writer and essayist *

Italo Svevo Aron Hector Schmitz (19 December 186113 September 1928), better known by the pseudonym Italo Svevo (), was an Italian writer, businessman, novelist, playwright, and short story writer. A close friend of Irish novelist and poet James Joyce, Svevo ...

, novelist *

Susanna Tamaro Susanna Tamaro (; born 12 December 1957) is an Italian novelist and film director. She is an author of novels, stories, magazine articles, and children's literature. Her novel ''Va' dove ti porta il cuore'' (''Follow your Heart'') was a bestseller ...

, novelist *

Fulvio Tomizza Fulvio Tomizza (26 January 1935 – 21 May 1999) was an Italian writer. He was born in Giurizzani di Materada in Istria, to a middle-class family. His mother was Margherita Frank Trento, born into a poor family of Slavic extraction. His father, ...

, writer, born in Istria (now in Croatia)

Slovene-language authors

Vladimir Bartol Vladimir Bartol (24 February 1903 – 12 September 1967) was a writer from the Slovene minority in Italy. He is best known for his 1938 novel ''Alamut'', the most popular work of Slovene literature around the world, which has been translated into ...

, writer * Igo Gruden, poet *

Dušan Jelinčič Dušan Jelinčič (born 1953) is a writer and a journalist from the community of Slovene minority in Italy from Trieste, Italy.Marica Nadlišek Bartol Marica Nadlišek Bartol (February 10, 1867 – January 3, 1940) was a Slovenian writer and editor. From 1897 to 1899, she served as founding editor of the influential women's journal ''Slovenka''. Forced to flee her home city of Trieste in 1919 ...

, writer and editor *

Boris Pahor Boris Pahor, OMRI (; 26 August 1913 – 30 May 2022) was a Slovene novelist from Trieste, Italy, who was best known for his heartfelt descriptions of life as a member of the Slovenian minority in pre–Second World War increasingly fascist It ...

, novelist * Alojz Rebula, writer and essayist

German-language authors

* Theodor Däubler, writer and poet *

Robert Hamerling Robert Hamerling (March 24, 1830July 13, 1889) was an Austrian poet. Biography Hamerling was born into a poor family at Kirchberg am Walde in Lower Austria. He displayed an early genius for poetry; his youthful attempts at drama excited the inte ...

writer * Anna Hilaria Preuß * Elfriede Ehrenfels writer * Ricarda Huch writer * Robert Bazlen writer * Hans Germani journalist * Julius Kugy, writer and essayist (born in

Gorizia Gorizia (; sl, Gorica , colloquially 'old Gorizia' to distinguish it from Nova Gorica; fur, label= Standard Friulian, Gurize, fur, label= Southeastern Friulian, Guriza; vec, label= Bisiacco, Gorisia; german: Görz ; obsolete English ''Gorit ...

) *

Rainer Maria Rilke René Karl Wilhelm Johann Josef Maria Rilke (4 December 1875 – 29 December 1926), shortened to Rainer Maria Rilke (), was an Austrian poet and novelist. He has been acclaimed as an idiosyncratic and expressive poet, and is widely recogni ...

, wrote '' Duino Elegies'' during his stay in

Duino Duino ( sl, Devin, german: Tybein) is today a seaside resort on the northern Adriatic coast. It is a ''hamlet'' of Duino-Aurisina, a municipality (''comune'') of the Friuli–Venezia Giulia region of northeastern Italy. The settlement, picturesque ...

Authors in other languages

Isabel Burton Isabel Burton (née Arundell; 20 March 1831 – 22 March 1896), later known as Lady Burton, was an English writer, explorer and adventurer. She was the wife and partner of explorer, adventurer, and writer Sir Richard Francis Burton (1821–1890 ...

Richard Francis Burton Sir Richard Francis Burton (; 19 March 1821 – 20 October 1890) was a British explorer, writer, orientalist scholar,and soldier. He was famed for his travels and explorations in Asia, Africa, and the Americas, as well as his extraordinary kn ...

James Joyce James Augustine Aloysius Joyce (2 February 1882 – 13 January 1941) was an Irish novelist, poet, and literary critic. He contributed to the modernist avant-garde movement and is regarded as one of the most influential and important writers of ...

D. H. Lawrence David Herbert Lawrence (11 September 1885 – 2 March 1930) was an English writer, novelist, poet and essayist. His works reflect on modernity, industrialization, sexuality, emotional health, vitality, spontaneity and instinct. His best-k ...

* Charles Lever *

Jan Morris (Catharine) Jan MorrisJan Morris, Paul Clements, University of Wales Press, 2008, p. 7 (born James Humphry Morris; 2 October 192620 November 2020) was a Welsh historian, author and travel writer. She was known particularly for the ''Pax Brita ...

Stendhal Marie-Henri Beyle (; 23 January 1783 – 23 March 1842), better known by his pen name Stendhal (, ; ), was a 19th-century French writer. Best known for the novels ''Le Rouge et le Noir'' (''The Red and the Black'', 1830) and ''La Chartreuse de P ...

, French author and essayist; served as Consul of France in Trieste *

Alexander Wheelock Thayer Alexander Wheelock Thayer (October 22, 1817 – July 15, 1897) was an American librarian and journalist who became the author of the first scholarly biography of Ludwig van Beethoven, still after many updatings regarded as a standard work of refer ...

Samuel David Luzzatto Samuel David Luzzatto ( he, שמואל דוד לוצאטו, ; 22 August 1800 – 30 September 1865), also known by the Hebrew acronym Shadal (), was an Italian Jewish scholar, poet, and a member of the Wissenschaft des Judentums movement. Early ...

, Italian Jewish scholar, poet, and a member of the Wissenschaft des Judentums movement

Architects, inventors, gallerists, designers, and visual artists

Josip Belušić Josip Belušić (March 12, 1847 - January 8, 1905) was a Croatian people, Croatian inventor and professor of physics and mathematics. He was born in the small settlement of Županići, in the region of Labin, Istria, and schooled in Pazin and Kope ...

, inventor of the

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* Emilio Ambrosini, architect *

Milko Bambič Milko Bambič (26 April 1905 – 20 May 1991) also known by the nicknames Cvetanov and Banetov, was a prolific illustrator, cartoonist, caricaturist, inventor, children's writer, publicist, and painter from the Slovene minority in Ital ...

, illustrator and cartoonist * Franca Batich, Italian painter *

Leo Castelli Leo Castelli (born Leo Krausz; September 4, 1907 – August 21, 1999) was an Italian-American art dealer who originated the contemporary art gallery system. His gallery showcased contemporary art for five decades. Among the movements which ...

, pioneering gallerist and

contemporary art Contemporary art is the art of today, produced in the second half of the 20th century or in the 21st century. Contemporary artists work in a globally influenced, culturally diverse, and technologically advancing world. Their art is a dynamic com ...

dealer *

Avgust Černigoj Avgust Černigoj, also known in Italian as Augusto Cernigoi (August 24, 1898 – November 17, 1985), was a Yugoslav-era Slovenian painter known for his avant-garde experiments in Constructivism. Biography He was born in Trieste, to a Sloven ...

, Slovene painter * Bruno Chersicla, painter and sculptor *

Tullio Crali Tullio Crali (6 December 1910, in Igalo – 5 August 2000, in Milan) was an Italian artist associated with Futurism. A self-taught painter, he was a late adherent to the movement, not joining until 1929. He is noted for realistic paintings ...

, futurist painter * Marcello Dudovich, illustrator *

Leonor Fini Leonor Fini (30 August 1907 – 18 January 1996) was an Argentinian born Italian surrealist painter, designer, illustrator, and author, known for her depictions of powerful and erotic women. Early life Fini was born in Buenos Aires, Argentin ...

, artist *

Isidoro Grünhut Isidoro Grünhut (27 August 1862, Trieste – 5 May 1896, Florence) was an Italian painter of Jewish ancestry; known for genre scenes and portraits. Biography His father, Israel, was originally from Regensburg. His mother, Giuditta née Panzi ...

, artist * Franko Luin, Swedish-Slovene graphic designer *

Argio Orell Argio Orell (17 September 1884 – 10 January 1942) was an Italian painter and engraver. He was one of the most sought-after Italian portraitists in the 1920s and 1930s. Biography He was born in Trieste on 17 September 1884, the son of Giuseppe an ...

, painter *

Boris Podrecca Boris Podrecca (born 30 January 1940 in Belgrade) is a Slovenes, Slovene-Italy, Italian architect and urban designer living in Vienna, Austria. Podrecca is considered by some critics a pioneer of postmodernism. With some of his early works, such a ...

, architect *

Alessandra Querzola Alessandra Querzola is an Italian set decorator born in Trieste. She is best known for her work on the 2017 film '' Blade Runner 2049'' for which she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Production Design. Filmography * 2017: '' Blade Run ...

, Oscar nominated set designer *

Stanislav Rapotec Stanislav Ivan Rapotec (4 October 1913 – 18 November 1997) was a Slovene-Australian artist. Early life Stanislav Rapotec was born in 1913 in Trieste, at that time part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. In 1918 he moved with his family to ...

, painter * Ruggero Rovan, painter *

Felice Schiavoni Felice Schiavoni (1803 – 1881) was an Italian painter, depicting history, genre, and portraits. During his early career, he often collaborated with his father, the painter Natale Schiavoni. Biography Felice was born in Trieste. He was fi ...

, artist *

Ernesto Nathan Rogers Ernesto Nathan Rogers (March 16, 1909 – November 7, 1969) was an Italian architect, writer and educator. Biography Born in Trieste, then in the Austro-Hungarian Empire, he graduated from the Politecnico di Milano, Italy in 1932. He is the cous ...

, architect * Eugenio Scomparini, painter *

Vito Timmel Vito Timmel (born Viktor von Thümmel; July 19, 1886 – January 1, 1949) was an Italian painter. Biography Viktor von Thümmel was a son of Raphael von Thümmel, a descendant of the Leipzig writer Moritz August von Thümmel, and the Countess Ad ...

, painter *

Jožef Tominc Giuseppe Tominz, also known as Jožef Tominc (6 July 179024 April 1866), was an Italian-Slovene painter from the Austrian Littoral. He worked mostly in the cultural milieu of the upper bourgeoisie in the Austrian Illyrian Kingdom. He was one of ...

Biedermeier The ''Biedermeier'' period was an era in Central Europe between 1815 and 1848 during which the middle class grew in number and the arts appealed to common sensibilities. It began with the Congress of Vienna at the end of the Napoleonic Wars in ...

painter *

Alexander Kircher Alexander Kircher (Trieste, 26 February 1867 – 16 September 1939, Berlin) was an Austrian-German marine and landscape painter and illustrator. Many of his paintings can be seen in museums in Germany, Austria, Croatia, and Slovenia while other ...

, painter *

Carlo Wostry Carlo Wostry (18 February 1865, Trieste - 10 March 1943, Trieste) was an Italian painter and illustrator. Youth and early career Carlo Wostry was the son of Ferdinando Wostry, and a Virginia Artelli. From 1882 to 1885 he studied art at the Ac ...

, painter *

Umberto Veruda Umberto Veruda (6 April 1868, Trieste - 29 August 1904, Trieste) was an Austro-Hungarian painter, known for his portraits and upper-class society scenes. Biography He was born to a family of modest means. He was introduced to the art of painting ...

, painter

Actors, models, musicians, and performance artists

Federico Agostini Federico Agostini (born 1959) is an Italian violinist renowned as a soloist, chamber musician and teacher. Early life Agostini was born in Trieste, Italy. After early training with his grandfather, he studied violin at his hometown's conservatory ...

, violinist * Alda Balestra, fashion and beauty model *

Antonio Bibalo Antonio Gino Bibalo (18 January 1922 – 20 June 2008) was an Italian-Norwegian pianist and composer of contemporary classical music, primarily operas. Biography Bibalo was born in Trieste and studied piano at the conservatory there. His path to ...

, pianist and composer *

Paola Loew Paola Loew (1934–1999) was an Austrian stage and film actress.Goble p.838 Early life and career Born in the Italian city of Trieste she was educated in London and Buenos Aires. She made her screen debut in Argentine cinema, before emigrating to ...

, actress * Hans Herbert Fiedler, opera stage actor * Piero Cappuccilli, operatic baritone *

Antonio D'Antoni Antonio D'Antoni (25 June 1801 – 18 August 1859) was an Italian opera composer and conductor. Life and career D'Antoni was born in Palermo to a musical family and gained local fame when in 1813, at the age of 12, he conducted his own compositio ...

, opera composer and conductor *

Raffaello de Banfield Raffaello de Banfield (2 June 1922 – 7 January 2008), also known as Raphael Douglas, Baron von Banfield Tripcovich, was a British-born Italian composer. Family Raffaello de Banfield was the son of Austro-Hungarian flying ace Gottfried von ...

, British composer *

George Dolenz George Dolenz (born Jure Dolenc; akas: Giorgio Dolenz and George Dolentz; January 5, 1908 February 8, 1963) was an American film actor born in Trieste (then part of Austria-Hungary, now Italy), in the city's Slovene community. Biography Un ...

, actor; father of

Micky Dolenz George Michael Dolenz Jr. (born March 8, 1945) is an American actor, musician, TV producer and businessman. He is best known as the drummer and one of three primary vocalists for the pop-rock band the Monkees (1966–1970, and multiple reunions ...

of the Monkees *

Paul Henreid Paul Henreid (November 10, 1908 – March 29, 1992) was an Austrian-British-American actor, director, producer, and writer. He is best remembered for two film roles; Victor Laszlo in ''Casablanca'' and Jerry Durrance in ''Now, Voyager'', bo ...

, actor *

Alfred Jaëll Alfred Jaëll (5 March 183227 February 1882) was an Austrian pianist. His students included Benjamin Johnson Lang and Samuel Sanford (the eponym of the Sanford Medal). Life He was born in Trieste, then in the Austrian Empire. He studied under Car ...

, Austrian pianist *

Tullio Kezich Tullio Kezich (17 September 1928 in Trieste – 17 August 2009 in Rome) was an Italian screenwriter and playwright, best known as the film critic for ''Corriere della Sera'' and for his award-winning biography of Italian director Federico Fell ...

, actor, playwright, and screenplayer * Paolo Longo, composer and conductor *

Alessandro Lotta Rhapsody of Fire (formerly known as Rhapsody) is an Italian symphonic power metal band formed by Luca Turilli and Alex Staropoli, widely seen as a pioneer of the symphonic power metal subgenre. Since forming in 1993 as Thundercross, the band ...

, former bassist of the bands

Rhapsody of Fire Rhapsody of Fire (formerly known as Rhapsody) is an Italian symphonic power metal band formed by Luca Turilli and Alex Staropoli, widely seen as a pioneer of the symphonic power metal subgenre. Since forming in 1993 as Thundercross, the band h ...

and Wingdom *

Lelio Luttazzi Lelio Luttazzi (27 April 1923 – 8 July 2010) was an Italian composer, musician, actor, singer, conductor, writer, and television and radio presenter. Born in Trieste, Luttazzi began playing the piano at Radio Trieste and composing his first s ...

, musician, composer, showman and presenter *

Mauro Maur Mauro Maur, the Pavarotti of the trumpet, OMRI (born 8 August 1958) is an Italian trumpeter and composer who represents the Italian musician with a pure and unique style. After performing as a soloist at the Carnegie Hall at the age of 20 and tr ...

, trumpet player and composer *

Alexander Moissi Alexander is a male given name. The most prominent bearer of the name is Alexander the Great, the king of the Ancient Greek kingdom of Macedonia who created one of the largest empires in ancient history. Variants listed here are Aleksandar, Al ...

, Austrian stage actor of Albanian descent * Ave Ninchi, actress *

Denis Novato Denis Novato (born 1976) is a Slovene musician from Italy, and world champion player of the diatonic accordion. He has been a musician since the late 1980s. Novato was born in Dolina near Trieste, Italy. From the age of ten he studied for Susann ...

, Slovene musician *

Alberto Randegger Alberto Randegger (13 April 1832 – 18 December 1911) was an Italian-born composer, conductor and singing teacher, best known for promoting opera and new works of British music in England during the Victorian era and for his widely used textbook o ...

, composer *

Ivan Rassimov Ivan Rassimov (Born Ivan Đerasimović; Serbian Cyrillic: Иван Ђерасимовић) (7 May 1938 – 14 March 2003) was an Italian film actor of Serb descent who appeared in many horror and exploitation films. Biography Born in Trieste ...

, Italian actor of Serbian descent *

Rada Rassimov Rada Rassimov (born Rada Đerasimović (Serbian Cyrillic: Рада Ђерасимовић) on 3 March 1941 in Trieste, Italy) is an Italian actress of Serb origin, who has appeared in film since the early 1960s and television since 1975. Biog ...

, Italian actress of Serbian descent * Enrico Rava, jazz trumpeter *

Teddy Reno Teddy Reno (born 11 July 1926) is an Italian singer, songwriter, actor and record producer. Life and career Born in Trieste as Ferruccio Merk Ricordi, Reno made his debut on Radio Trieste during the Anglo-American administration of the city, la ...

, singer and producer * Victor de Sabata, conductor *

Laura Solari Laura Solari ( Camaur; 5 January 1913 – 13 September 1984) was an Italian film actress. Early and personal life Laura Camaur was born on 5 January 1913, in Trieste, then part of Austria-Hungary. She was the daughter of sculptor and arti ...

, film actress *

Alex Staropoli Alessandro "Alex" Staropoli (born 9 January 1970) is a keyboard player, composer, leader and co-founder (with Luca Turilli) of the Italian symphonic power metal band Rhapsody of Fire. He does the orchestral arrangements in all the band's songs. Fo ...

, keyboardist of the band

Giorgio Strehler Giorgio Strehler (; ; 14 August 1921 – 25 December 1997) was an actor, Italian opera and theatre director. Biography Strehler was born in Barcola, Trieste; His father, Bruno Strehler, was a native of Trieste with family roots in Vienna and died ...

, opera and theater director *

Elisa Toffoli Elisa Toffoli (born 19 December 1977), performing under the mononym Elisa, is an Italian singer-songwriter. She is one of few Italian musicians to write and record mainly in English. She draws inspiration from many genres such as pop, alternati ...

, singer/songwriter, pianist, and guitarist *

Luca Turilli Luca Turilli (born 5 March 1972) is an Italian composer, arranger, producer and multi-instrumentalist constantly engaged in various musical projects. Having always declared to love music at 360 degrees, Turilli has dedicated himself to multip ...

, guitarist of the band

* Carlo Rizzo, stage and film actor *

Loredana Nusciak Loredana Nusciak (born Loredana Cappelletti; 3 May 1942 – 12 July 2006) was an Italian actress and model. Biography Born in Trieste, she won the beauty contest "Miss Trieste" in 1959, while still a high school student. After making her film deb ...

, actress and model *

Fulvia Franco Fulvia Franco (21 May 1931 – 15 May 1988) was an Italian actress, model and beauty pageant titleholder. Life and career Born in Trieste, the daughter of a businessman, Franco won the third edition of the Miss Italia beauty contest held ...

, Italian actress, model and beauty pageant titleholder *

Anita Kravos Anita Kravos (born 2 April 1974) is an Italian actress. Her acting credits include '' Alza la testa'', ''Raise Your Head'' and ''The Great Beauty''. In 2010 she has been nominated to the David di Donatello for Best Supporting Actress thanks to ...

, Italian actress *

Rodolfo Ranni Rodolfo Ranni (born 31 October 1937 in Trieste, Italy) is an Italian Argentine film actor.Rodolfo Ranni
at the

Orazio Bobbio, actor and director * Alessandro Fullin, stage actor and comedian * Angelo Pintus, stand-up comedian and impressionist

TV personalities

Lidia Bastianich Lidia Giuliana Matticchio Bastianich (; born February 21, 1947) is an Italian-American celebrity chef, television host, author, and restaurateur. Specializing in Italian and Italian-American cuisine, Bastianich has been a regular contributor to ...

, Italian-American chef and TV cooking show host whose family lived in a refugee camp in Trieste after their escape from

Istria Istria ( ; Croatian language, Croatian and Slovene language, Slovene: ; ist, Eîstria; Istro-Romanian language, Istro-Romanian, Italian language, Italian and Venetian language, Venetian: ; formerly in Latin and in Ancient Greek) is the larges ...

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(now

Croatia , image_flag = Flag of Croatia.svg , image_coat = Coat of arms of Croatia.svg , anthem = "Lijepa naša domovino"("Our Beautiful Homeland") , image_map = , map_caption = , capit ...

) * Bianca Maria Piccinino, journalist RAI, the first woman to read a

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Entrepreneurs and business leaders

Andrea Illy Andrea Illy (born 7 September 1964) is an Italian businessman. He is the Chairman of illycaffè S.p.A., a family coffee business founded in Trieste in 1933. He has additionally been Chairman of Altagamma since 2013. Life and education Illy was ...

, entrepreneur *

Ernesto Illy Ernesto Illy (July 18, 1925 – February 3, 2008) was an Italian food chemist and businessman, known as the chairman of the Illycaffè S.p.A. coffee manufacturer. He was deeply and widely respected, and is considered "an absolute giant" in the ...

, entrepreneur, founder of coffee empire *

Francesco Illy Francesco Illy ( hu, Illy Ferenc (7 October 1892 – 1956) was a Hungarian accountant, bookkeeper, businessman, philanthropist. He founded illy and invented various coffee machinery. Biography Illy was born to a middle-class family in Temesv ...

, entrepreneur, inventor of coffee machinery *

Lionello Stock Lionello Stock (1866–1948) was an Italian industrialist, businessman and owner of the Camis & Stock company (now Fernet Stock). Family antecedents Born in Split, Croatia, Split on 16 December 1866 to Abramo and Gentile (née Valenzin), Stock ...

, entrepreneur of liqueurs and beverages, founder of Stock S.p.A. (known for the Keglevich brand) *

Mihajlo Vučetić Mihajlo Vučetić ( sr-Cyrl, Михајло Вучетић; c. 1790 – 1882) was a Serbian grain merchant, shipowner and shareholder in Austrian Lloyd. Background Trieste and Venice were of great significance for the cultural history of the ...

, grain merchant, shipowner and shareholder in Austrian Lloyd.

Fashion designers

Renato Balestra Renato Balestra OMRI (3 May 1924 – 26 November 2022) was an Italian fashion designer, the founder of the Balestra brand and company. Life and career Early life Born in Trieste, Renato Balestra grew up immersed in the Mid-European cultura ...

, fashion designer *

Adriano Goldschmied Adriano Goldschmied is an Italian fashion designer who focuses on denim jeans. He is known as "the Godfather of denim" and is the originator of "premium denim". The founder of Diesel, he also created Replay, Gap 1969, Agolde, Goldsign, and AG A ...

, leading international denim designer; founder of

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and Replay jeans * Ottavio Missoni, fashion designer *

Mila Schön Mila Schön (born Maria Carmen Nutrizio; September 28, 1916 – September 5, 2008) was an Italian fashion designer. Her surname was also spelled as Schoen. Early life Born Maria Carmen Nutrizio in Trogir to wealthy Dalmatian Italian a ...

, fashion designer

Journalists and authors

* Sergio Amidei, screenwriter * Giovanna Botteri, journalist *

Almerigo Grilz Almerigo Grilz (11 March 1953 – 19 May 1987) was an Italian right wing politician, and an independent war correspondent. He was born in Trieste, then Zone A of the Free Territory of Trieste, now part of Region Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Italy. H ...

, journalist, freelance war reporter and politician. Was killed during an African reportage * Leo Negrelli, journalist * Ann Shulgin, author *

Demetrio Volcic Demetrio Volcic (22 November 1931 – 5 December 2021), also known in Slovene language, Slovene as Dimitrij Volčič, was an Italian journalist, author, and politician of Slovenian descent. He rose to prominence in the late 1960s and early 1970s ...

, journalist and politician

Political figures

Engelbert Besednjak Engelbert Besednjak (March 14, 1894 – December 21, 1968) was a Slovene Christian Democrat politician, lawyer and journalist. In the 1920s, he was one of the foremost leaders of the Slovene and Croat minority in the Italian-administered Julian M ...

, Slovene politician *

Willer Bordon Willer Bordon (16 January 1949 – 14 July 2015) was an Italian academic, businessman and politician who served in different cabinet posts at the end of the 1990s and 2000s. Early life Bordon was born in Muggia, Province of Trieste, on 16 Januar ...

, Italian politician, Minister of the Environment, 2000-2001 *

Josip Ferfolja Josip Ferfolja (27 September 1880 – 11 December 1958) was a Slovene lawyer and Social democratic politician, and human rights activist from the Province of Gorizia. Although he was an Italian citizen for most of his life, he considered himself f ...

, Slovenian social-democratic politician and human rights activist *

Odilo Globočnik Odilo Lothar Ludwig Globocnik (21 April 1904 – 31 May 1945) was an Austrian Nazi and a perpetrator of the Holocaust. He was an official of the Nazi Party and later a high-ranking leader of the SS. Globocnik had a leading role in Operation Re ...

, Nazi war criminal, SS leader *

Riccardo Illy Riccardo Illy (born 24 September 1955) is an Italian businessman and former politician. Biography Riccardo Illy was born in Trieste, Friuli-Venezia Giulia. His paternal grandfather, Francesco Illy, was of Hungarian origin. He's Waldensian. A ...

, Italian politician * Ezio Mizzan, Italian diplomat, the second Italian Ambassador to Thailand (1959–1965) and the ninth Italian Ambassador to Pakistan (1966–1969) *

Stefano Patuanelli Stefano Patuanelli (born 8 June 1974) is an Italian politician and civil engineer, member of the Five Star Movement. On 5 September 2019 he was appointed Minister of Economic Development in the Conte II Cabinet The second Conte government ...

, Italian politician, minister of economic development *

Mitja Ribičič Mitja Ribičič (19 May 1919 – 28 November 2013) was a Slovene Communist official and Yugoslav politician. He was the only Slovenian prime minister of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (1969–1971). Life and career He was born i ...

, Slovenian Communist leader, Prime Minister of Yugoslavia (1969–1971) *

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 ...

(aka Enea Sormenti, Jacobo Hurwitz Zender, Carlos Contreras), Communist agent * Josip Wilfan, Slovene jurist, politician, and human rights activist * Christian van Singer, politician

Religious figures

Pietro Bonomo Pietro BonomoAlso Petrus. (1458–1546) was an Italian humanist and diplomat, who became bishop of Trieste in 1502 and archbishop of Vienna briefly in 1522. He was born into an important family in Trieste, and studied at the University of Bologna. ...

, humanist and bishop, supporter of the

Protestant Reformation The Reformation (alternatively named the Protestant Reformation or the European Reformation) was a major movement within Western Christianity in 16th-century Europe that posed a religious and political challenge to the Catholic Church and in ...

* Moisè Tedeschi, rabbi and Bible commentator

Scholars, scientists, and intellectuals

Luisa Accati Luisa Accati Levi (born in 1942) is an Italian historian, anthropologist and feminist public intellectual. She taught ethnology and modern history at the University of Trieste. She was born in Turin. After finishing her studies at the Universit ...

, historian and feminist theoretician *

Florian Biesik Florian Biesik (March 4, 1849 in Wilamowice – March 13, 1926 in Trieste) created a literary standard for Vilamovian, trying to prove it did not derive from German, but possibly Frisian, Anglo-Saxon or Dutch. An Austro-Hungarian civil servant, ...

Silesia Silesia (, also , ) is a historical region of Central Europe that lies mostly within Poland, with small parts in the Czech Republic and Germany. Its area is approximately , and the population is estimated at around 8,000,000. Silesia is split ...

n linguist, Wymysorys language scholar and poet * Ludwig Boltzmann, Austrian physicist *

Paolo Budinich Paolo Budinich (28 August 1916 – 14 November 2013) was an Italian theoretical physicist. Born in Lussingrande to a family of sailors, he grew up and studied in Trieste, where the family resided and his father Antonio Budini taught in the local ...

, physicist *

Sir Richard Burton Sir Richard Francis Burton (; 19 March 1821 – 20 October 1890) was a British explorer, writer, orientalist scholar,and soldier. He was famed for his travels and explorations in Asia, Africa, and the Americas, as well as his extraordinary kn ...

, British explorer, geographer, writer, orientalist, cartographer, linguist, poet, fencer, and diplomat; discovered

Lake Tanganyika Lake Tanganyika () is an African Great Lake. It is the second-oldest freshwater lake in the world, the second-largest by volume, and the second-deepest, in all cases after Lake Baikal in Siberia. It is the world's longest freshwater lake. ...

Lavo Čermelj Lavo Čermelj, Italianized in ''Lavo Cermeli'' (10 October 1889 – 26 January 1980) was a Slovene physicist, political activist, publicist and author. In the 1930s, he was one of the foremost representatives of Slovene anti-Fascist émigrés ...

, Slovene physicist and public intellectual * Joseph Straus, property law intellectual *

Giacomo Ciamician Giacomo Luigi Ciamician (; hy, Հակոբ (Ջակոմո) Լուիջի Չամիչյան; 27 August 1857 – 2 January 1922) was an Italian chemist and senator of Armenian descent. He was a pioneer in photochemistry and green chemistry. Edu ...

, chemist * Laura Dallapiccola, Italian librarian and translator * Alessandro Ferrara, philosopher and author *

Pietro Kandler Pietro Paolo Kandler (23 May 1804 – 18 January 1872) was an Italian historian, archaeologist and jurist. Biography Kandler was born in Trieste to a family who moved there from Vienna in the 17th century (but of Scottish descent: the original su ...

, historian, archaeologist and jurist * Erich B. Kusch, journalist *

Gillo Dorfles Angelo Eugenio "Gillo" Dorfles (12 April 1910 – 2 March 2018) was an Italian art critic, painter, and philosopher. Biography Born in Trieste to a Gorizian father of Jewish descent and a Genoese mother, Dorfles graduated in medicine, specializ ...

, philosopher and historian * Simon Spierer, art historian *

Arturo Falaschi Arturo Falaschi (21 January 1933, Rome – 1 June 2010, Montopoli in Val d'Arno) was an Italian geneticist. Biography He graduated in Medicine in 1957 from University of Milan and undertook two post doctoral studies. Firstly, with J. Adler and ...

, MD, geneticist *

Boris Furlan Boris Furlan (10 November 1894 – 10 June 1957)Brecelj, Marijan. 1978. "Borut Furlan." ''Primorski slovenski biografski leksikon'', vol. 5. Gorizia: Goriška Mohorjeva družba, p. 394.Jevnikar, Martin. 1989. "Boris Furlan." ''Enciklopedija Slovenij ...

, Slovenian legal theorist, translator and politician *

Anton Füster Anton Füster, also spelled as Fister (5 January 1808 – 12 March 1881) was an Austrian Empire, Austrian Roman Catholic priest, theologian, pedagogue, Radicalism (historical), radical political activist and author of Slovenes, Slovene origin. ...

, Austrian revolutionary activist, author and pedagogue *

Guido Goldschmiedt Guido Goldschmiedt (May 29, 1850 – August 6, 1915) was an Austrian chemist. During his career, he collaborated with Bunsen in Heidelberg and Baeyer in Straßburg. In 1891, he became full professor at the University of Vienna and later at the Un ...

, Austrian chemist *

Boris M. Gombač Boris M. Gombač (born 15 September 1945) is a Slovene historian from Italy. He was born to a middle class Slovene family in Trieste, Italy. He studied history at the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia (then part of former Yugoslavia). Between 19 ...

, Slovenian historian * Spiridon Gopčević, Serbian astronomer and historian *

Margherita Hack Margherita Hack (; 12 June 1922 – 29 June 2013) was an Italian astrophysicist and scientific disseminator. The asteroid 8558 Hack, discovered in 1995, was named in her honour. Biography Hack was born in Florence. Her father Roberto Hack was ...

, Italian astronomer *

Albert O. Hirschman Albert Otto Hirschman (born ''Otto-Albert Hirschmann''; April 7, 1915 – December 10, 2012) was a German economist and the author of several books on political economy and political ideology. His first major contribution was in the area of de ...

, economist and political scientist; obtained his doctorate from the University of Trieste *

Fiorella Kostoris Fiorella Kostoris Padoa-Schioppa (born 5 May 1945) is an Italian economist who is Professor at the University of Rome (La Sapienza). She is also a professor at the College of Europe in Bruges. She has published approximately a hundred articles a ...

, economist *

Doro Levi Teodoro "Doro" Levi (1 June 1899 – 3 July 1991) was an Italian archaeologist who practiced in the Mediterranean countries in the 20th century. Specifically, Levi conducted excavations in Italy, Greece, and Turkey. From 1938 to 1945, Levi wa ...

archaeologist Archaeology or archeology is the scientific study of human activity through the recovery and analysis of material culture. The archaeological record consists of artifacts, architecture, biofacts or ecofacts, sites, and cultural landscap ...

* Salvatore Pincherle, Italian mathematician *

Jože Pirjevec Jože Pirjevec (born 1 June 1940), registered at birth Giuseppe Pierazzi because of the Italianization#Istria, Julian March and Dalmatia, Italianization policy under the Fascist regime, is a Slovenes, Slovene–Italy, Italian historian and a promi ...

, Slovene historian * Alessandro Pizzorno, Political Scientist and Sociologist * Guido Weiss, mathematician *

Abdus Salam Mohammad Abdus Salam Salam adopted the forename "Mohammad" in 1974 in response to the anti-Ahmadiyya decrees in Pakistan, similarly he grew his beard. (; ; 29 January 192621 November 1996) was a Punjabi Pakistani theoretical physicist and a ...

, Pakistani theoretical physicist, Nobel prize laureate * Denis Sciama, British physicist * Dietmar Bittrich, journalist * Vanda Shrenger Weiss, Italy's first female psychoanalyst *

Marta Verginella Marta Verginella (born 20 June 1960) is a Slovenian historian from the Slovene minority in Italy in Trieste, notable as one of the most prominent contemporary Slovene historians. Together with Alenka Puhar, she is considered a pioneer in the h ...

, Slovene historian *

Ivan Vidav Ivan Vidav (January 17, 1918 – October 6, 2015) was a Slovenian mathematician. Ivan Vidav was born in Villa Opicina near Trieste, Italy. He was a student of Josip Plemelj. Vidav received his Ph.D. with Plemelj as his advisor in 1941 at the Uni ...

, Slovene mathematician *

Edoardo Weiss Edoardo Weiss (1889-1970) was the earliest Italian psychoanalyst, and the founder of psychoanalysis in Italy. His most important theoretical contributions were perhaps to the development of Ego-state therapy, ego state theory. Weiss's first art ...

, Jewish psychoanalyst *

Sigismund Zois Sigmund Zois Freiherr von Edelstein, usually referred as Sigmund Zois ( sl, Žiga Zois, formerly Slovenized as ''Cojs'' or ''Cojz''; ) (23 November 1747 – 10 November 1819) was a Carniolan nobleman, natural scientist and patron of the arts. He ...

, Slovene mecenate and natural scientist

Sportspeople

* Nino Benvenuti, boxer *

Biaggio Chianese Biaggio Chianese (born October 28, 1961 in giugliano (naples)) is a retired boxer from Italy, who won the bronze medal at both the 1986 World Amateur Boxing Championships and the 1987 European Amateur Boxing Championships in the men's h ...

, boxer *

Claudia Coslovich Claudia Coslovich (born 26 April 1972 in Trieste) is a former Italian athlete who specialized in the javelin throw. Her personal best was 65.30 metres, achieved in June 2000 in Ljubljana. She is a member of the Slovene ethnic minority of Friuli ...

, athlete *

Fabio Cudicini Fabio Cudicini (; born 20 October 1935) is an Italian former professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper from 1955 to 1972. Standing at , he was one of the tallest goalkeepers of his time. Despite never playing for the Italy national footba ...

, football player (goalkeeper) * Aldo Dorigo, football player *

Giorgio Ferrini Giorgio Ferrini (; 18 August 1939 – 8 November 1976) was an Italian football manager and former football player who played as a midfielder. Nicknamed ''La Diga'' ('The Dam') for his qualities as a defensive midfielder, Ferrini played for Torin ...

, football player *

Ambrogio Fogar Ambrogio Fogar (; 13 August 1941 – 24 August 2005) was an Italian sailor, writer, rally driver and all-round adventurer and television presenter. He was a Commander of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic, gold medal for athletic value, go ...

, sailor, rally driver, and adventurer *

Livio Franceschini Livio Franceschini (14 April 1913 – 20 November 1975) was an Italian basketball player who competed in the 1936 Summer Olympics. He was born and died in Trieste Trieste ( , ; sl, Trst ; german: Triest ) is a city and seaport in north ...

, basketball player *

Sandro Gamba Alessandro "Sandro" Gamba (born 3 June 1932) is an Italian former professional basketball player and coach. Gamba was a finalist for induction into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 2005, and was elected as a member in 2006. He ...

, basketball coach and player *

Matteo Gladig Matteo Gladig (1880, Triest – 1915, Ljubljana) was an Italian chess master. Born in Triest (then Austria-Hungary Empire), he won at Triest 1905 (''torneo sociale della Società Scacchistica Triestina''), took 2nd, behind Giovanni Martinolich, a ...

, chess master *

Margherita Granbassi Margherita Granbassi (; born 1 September 1979 in Trieste) is an Italian foil fencer. Granbassi won the gold medal at the foil 2006 World Fencing Championships after beating Valentina Vezzali 7–6 in the final. Later in the tournament she also w ...

, foil fencer *

Duilio Loi Duilio Loi (19 April 1929 – 20 January 2008) was an Italian Boxing, boxer who held the Italian and European lightweight and welterweight titles, as well as the World Junior Welterweight Championship. Loi fought from 1948 to 1962, and retired w ...

, boxer *

Cesare Maldini Cesare Maldini (; 5 February 1932 – 3 April 2016) was an Italian professional football manager and player who played as a defender. Father to Paolo Maldini and grandfather to Daniel Maldini, Cesare began his career with Italian side Triestin ...

, former AC Milan captain, Italian football team manager *

Giovanni Martinolich Giovanni Martinolich (22 June 1884 – 25 July 1910) was a chess master from the Austro-Hungarian Empire. He was born in Trieste (then Austria-Hungary Empire), the son of Dr Giovanni Martinolich (Padrincich or Padrinzi of Lussinpiccolo), a lawyer ...

, chess master *

Mauro Milanese Mauro Milanese (born 17 September 1971) is an Italian former footballer and manager, who played as a left back. In 2014, he was manager of Leyton Orient. He is the current CEO (''amministratore unico'') of hometown club Triestina. Playing car ...

, football player *

Mario Milano Mario Bulfone (15 May 1935 – 9 December 2016), better known by his ring name Mario Milano, was a professional wrestler. Milano got his start in wrestling in Venezuela and later competed in Australia, Hong Kong, Japan, South Africa, Mex ...

, professional wrestler * Tiberio Mitri, boxer *

Uberto De Morpurgo Uberto De Morpurgo (12 January 1896 – 26 February 1961) was a male tennis player from Italy. Uberto De Morpurgo was born in Trieste when it was part of Austria, but became an Italian citizen when the city changed hands after World War I. His ...

(1896–1961), Austrian-born Italian tennis player *

Giorgio Oberweger Giorgio Oberweger (22 December 1913 – 14 October 1998) was an Italian discus thrower who won a bronze medal at the 1936 Olympics and a silver at the 1938 European Champsionships. He placed sixth at the 1934 European Championships and 15th at th ...

, athlete *

Nicola Princivalli Nicola Princivalli (born 29 September 1979) is an Italian football coach and a former player. He is the head coach of Cjarlins Muzane. Biography He made his Serie B debut in a 3–1 win over Vicenza, on 13 October 2002. In July 2006 he joined ...

, football player * Giovanni Raicevich, professional wrestler * Carlo Rigotti, football player *

Nereo Rocco Nereo Rocco (; 20 May 1912 – 20 February 1979) was an Italian association football player and manager. Regarded as one of the greatest managers of all time, he is famous for having been one of the most successful head coaches in Italy, winning s ...

, footballer * Licio Rossetti, footballer *

Cesare Rubini Cesare, the Italian version of the given name Caesar, may refer to: Given name * Cesare, Marquis of Beccaria (1738–1794), an Italian philosopher and politician * Cesare Airaghi (1840–1896), Italian colonel * Cesare Arzelà (1847–1912), I ...

, water polo player *

Matteo Scozzarella Matteo Scozzarella (born 5 June 1988) is an Italian professional footballer who plays as a midfielder. Club career Atalanta and Portogruaro Scozzarella played youth football at and Italia San Marco, before joining Atalanta's youth setup in ...

, football player * Giovanni Steffè, rower * Caterina Stenta,

Windsurf Windsurfing is a wind propelled water sport that is a combination of sailing and surfing. It is also referred to as "sailboarding" and "boardsailing", and emerged in the late 1960s from the aerospace and surf culture of California. Windsurfing ga ...

and Standup paddleboarding athlete *

Max Tonetto Max Tonetto (; born 18 November 1974) is a retired Italian footballer who played as a midfielder. A versatile naturally left-footed player, his preferred position was on the left flank in midfield, although he was often used as a left-back, and ...

, footballer *

Fabio Tuiach Fabio Tuiach (born 4 June 1980) is an Italian professional boxer and former kickboxer. Early life and amateur career Tuiach was born in Trieste, Italy and he grew up in Rozzol Melara, a quartier in the north of the city. He began boxing at 16 ye ...

, boxer * Ferruccio Valcareggi, football player and coach *

Renzo Vecchiato Renzo Vecchiato (born August 8, 1955 in Trieste) is a former basketball player from Italy, who won the silver medal with his national team at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow Moscow ( , US chiefly ; rus, links=no, Мос ...

, basketball player * Andrea de Adamich, former Formula 1 driver *

Sara Gama Sara Gama (born 27 March 1989) is an Italian professional footballer who plays as a centre back and captains both Serie A club Juventus FC and the Italy women's national team. Club career Gama has also played for PSG of Division 1 Féminine ...

, Italian footballer, defender and captain of both Serie A club Juventus and the Italian national team.

Statesmen and aristocracy

Mathilde Bonaparte Mathilde Laetitia Wilhelmine Bonaparte, Princesse Française, Princess of San Donato (27 May 1820 – 2 January 1904), was a French princess and salonnière. She was a daughter of Napoleon's brother Jérôme Bonaparte and his second wife, Cathar ...

Napoleon Napoleon Bonaparte ; it, Napoleone Bonaparte, ; co, Napulione Buonaparte. (born Napoleone Buonaparte; 15 August 1769 – 5 May 1821), later known by his regnal name Napoleon I, was a French military commander and political leader who ...

's niece, daughter of his brother

Jérôme Bonaparte Jérôme-Napoléon Bonaparte (born Girolamo Buonaparte; 15 November 1784 – 24 June 1860) was the youngest brother of Napoleon I and reigned as Jerome Napoleon I (formally Hieronymus Napoleon in German), King of Westphalia, between 1807 and 1 ...

; born in Trieste in 1820 *

Joseph Fouché Joseph Fouché, 1st Duc d'Otrante, 1st Comte Fouché (, 21 May 1759 – 25 December 1820) was a French statesman, revolutionary, and Minister of Police under First Consul Napoleon Bonaparte, who later became a subordinate of Emperor Napoleon. He ...

, duke of Otranto, spent his last 5 years exiled in Trieste *

Maximilian of Habsburg Maximilian I (german: Ferdinand Maximilian Josef Maria von Habsburg-Lothringen, link=no, es, Fernando Maximiliano José María de Habsburgo-Lorena, link=no; 6 July 1832 – 19 June 1867) was an Austrian archduke who reigned as the only Emperor ...

, Emperor of Mexico, Archduke of Austria (Schönbrunn 1832 - Querétaro 1867); built the white castle and park on the riviera; planted plants in the park from his travels around the world *

Fiorello La Guardia Fiorello Henry LaGuardia (; born Fiorello Enrico LaGuardia, ; December 11, 1882September 20, 1947) was an American attorney and politician who represented New York in the House of Representatives and served as the 99th Mayor of New York City fro ...

, 99th Mayor of

New York City New York, often called New York City or NYC, is the List of United States cities by population, most populous city in the United States. With a 2020 population of 8,804,190 distributed over , New York City is also the L ...

, son of Trieste-born Irene Coen, of the Luzzatto family. Spent part of his 20s in Trieste with his family, also working for the US Consulate. * Princess Marie Adélaïde de France, Madame de France, daughter of King Louis XV of France, died in Trieste in 1800 and was buried at San Giusto Cathedral * Princess Marie Louise Thérèse Victoire de France, Madame de France, daughter of King Louis XV of France, died in Trieste in 1799 * Louis Antoine Debrauz de Saldapenna, Austrian diplomat, journalist and author * Gottfried von Banfield (1890–1986), top Austrian Empire fighter ace in World War I

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