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 pr ...

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 Split(s) or The Split may refer to: Places * Split, Croatia, the largest coastal city in Croatia * Split Island, Canada, an island in the Hudson Bay * Split Island, Falkland Islands * Split Island, Fiji, better known as Hạfliua Arts, entertai ...

* Nicoletta Costa, children's book writer and illustrator *

Claudio Magris Claudio Magris (born 10 April 1939) is an Italian scholar, translator and writer. He was a senator for Friuli-Venezia Giulia from 1994 to 1996. Life Magris graduated from the University of Turin, where he studied German studies, and has been a ...

, 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 * ...

) *

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 Trieste ( , ; sl, Trst ; german: Triest ) is a city and seaport in northeastern Italy. It is the capital city, and largest city, of the auto ...

, 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, Svev ...

, 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, writer * Igo Gruden, poet * Dušan Jelinčič, writer, essayist, and mountain climber *

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, novelist *

Alojz Rebula Alojz Rebula (June 21, 1924 – October 23, 2018) was a Slovene writer, playwright, essayist, and translator, and a prominent member of the Slovene minority in Italy. He lived and worked in Villa Opicina in the Province of Trieste, Italy. He was ...

, 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 int ...

writer * Anna Hilaria Preuß * Elfriede Ehrenfels writer *

Ricarda Huch Ricarda Huch (; 18 July 1864 – 17 November 1947) was a pioneering German intellectual. Trained as an historian, and the author of many works of European history, she also wrote novels, poems, and a play. Asteroid 879 Ricarda is named in her hon ...

writer * Robert Bazlen writer * Hans Germani journalist *

Julius Kugy Julius Kugy (19 July 1858 – 5 February 1944) was a mountaineer, writer, botanist, humanist, lawyer and officer of Slovenian descent. He wrote mostly in German. He is renowned for his travelogues from opening up the Julian Alps, in which he refle ...

, 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 ''Gori ...

) *

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 recogn ...

, wrote ''

Duino Elegies The ''Duino Elegies'' (german: Duineser Elegien) are a collection of ten elegies written by the Bohemian-Austrian poet Rainer Maria Rilke. He was then "widely recognized as one of the most lyrically intense German-language poets", and began t ...

'' 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, picturesq ...

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 Modernism, modernist avant-garde movement and is regarded as one of the most influential and important ...

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 Charles James Lever (31 August 1806 – 1 June 1872) was an Irish novelist and raconteur, whose novels, according to Anthony Trollope, were just like his conversation. Biography Early life Lever was born in Amiens Street, Dublin, the second ...

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 ...

, 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 refe ...

* Samuel David Luzzatto, Italian Jewish scholar, poet, and a member of the Wissenschaft des Judentums movement

Architects, inventors, gallerists, designers, and visual artists

* Josip Belušić, inventor of the

speedometer A speedometer or speed meter is a gauge that measures and displays the instantaneous speed of a vehicle. Now universally fitted to motor vehicles, they started to be available as options in the early 20th century, and as standard equipment f ...

* 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 Italy ...

, 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 ...

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 t ...

, futurist painter *

Marcello Dudovich Marcello Dudovich (21 March 1878 – 31 March 1962) was an Italian painter, illustrator, and poster designer. Together with Leonetto Cappiello, Adolfo Hohenstein, Giovanni Maria Mataloni and Leopoldo Metlicovitz he is considered one of ...

, 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 P ...

, artist *

Franko Luin Franko Luin (6 April 1941 in Trieste, Italy – 15 September 2005 in Tyresö, Sweden) was a Swedish type designer of Slovene origin. He studied graphic arts at Grafiska Institutet in Stockholm, where he graduated in 1967. A graphic design ...

, Swedish-Slovene graphic designer * Argio Orell, painter * Boris Podrecca, architect * Alessandra Querzola,

Oscar Oscar, OSCAR, or The Oscar may refer to: People * Oscar (given name), an Irish- and English-language name also used in other languages; the article includes the names Oskar, Oskari, Oszkár, Óscar, and other forms. * Oscar (Irish mythology) ...

nominated set designer * Stanislav Rapotec, painter * Ruggero Rovan, painter * Felice Schiavoni, 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 co ...

, architect *

Eugenio Scomparini Eugenio Scomparini (1 September 1845 – 17 March 1913) was an Italian painter. Biography He was born in Trieste, and initially took lessons there from the engraver Giovanni Moscotto at the School of Design. His mother, Maria Scomparini, h ...

, 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, 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, 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 conservato ...

, 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 Piero Cappuccilli (November 9, 1926 – July 11, 2005) was an Italian operatic baritone. Best known for his interpretations of Verdi roles, he was widely regarded as one of the finest Italian baritones of the second half of the 20th century. He w ...

, operatic baritone * Antonio D'Antoni, opera composer and conductor * Raffaello de Banfield, British composer * George Dolenz, 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 reunion ...

of the

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* Paul Henreid, actor * Alfred Jaëll, 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 ...

and Wingdom * Lelio Luttazzi, 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 t ...

, 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 Ave Maria Ninchi (14 December 1914 – 10 November 1997) was an Italian supporting actress who played character roles on stage, television, and in over 98 feature films that included ''Tomorrow Is Too Late'' (1949) and Louis Malle's ''Murmur ...

, actress * Denis Novato, 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 ...

, 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. Bio ...

, Italian actress of Serbian descent *

Enrico Rava Enrico Rava (born 20 August 1939), is an Italian jazz trumpeter. He started on trombone, then changed to the trumpet after hearing Miles Davis. Career He was born in Trieste, Italy. His first commercial work was as a member of Gato Barbieri' ...

, 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 Victor de Sabata (10 April 1892 – 11 December 1967) was an Italian conductor and composer. He is widely recognized as one of the most distinguished operatic conductors of the twentieth century, especially for his Verdi, Puccini and Wagner. D ...

, 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 art ...

, 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. ...

, 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 Carlo Rizzo (April 30, 1907 – July 26, 1979) was an Italian stage and film actor.Chiti & Poppi p.333 He was the brother of the actor Alfredo Rizzo. A regular in post-war Italian cinema he also featured in several American films produced in I ...

, stage and film actor * Loredana Nusciak, 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 t ...

, Italian actress *

Rodolfo Ranni Rodolfo Ranni (born 31 October 1937 in Trieste, Italy) is an Italian Argentine film actor An actor or actress is a person who portrays a character in a performance. The actor performs "in the flesh" in the traditional medium of the th ...

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

TV personalities

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

Istria Istria ( ; Croatian and Slovene: ; ist, Eîstria; Istro-Romanian, Italian and Venetian: ; formerly in Latin and in Ancient Greek) is the largest peninsula within the Adriatic Sea. The peninsula is located at the head of the Adriatic betwe ...

Yugoslavia Yugoslavia (; sh-Latn-Cyrl, separator=" / ", Jugoslavija, Југославија ; sl, Jugoslavija ; mk, Југославија ;; rup, Iugoslavia; hu, Jugoszlávia; rue, label= Pannonian Rusyn, Югославия, translit=Juhoslavij ...

(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 = , capi ...

) * 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, entrepreneur of liqueurs and beverages, founder of Stock S.p.A. (known for the Keglevich brand) * Mihajlo Vučetić, grain merchant, shipowner and shareholder in Austrian Lloyd.

Fashion designers

* Renato Balestra, 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 ...

, leading international denim designer; founder of

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and Replay jeans * Ottavio Missoni, fashion designer * Mila Schön, fashion designer

Journalists and authors

Sergio Amidei Sergio Amidei (30 October 1904 – 14 April 1981) was an Italian screenwriter and an important figure in Italy's neorealist movement. Amidei was born in Trieste. He worked with famed Italian directors such as Roberto Rossellini and Vittorio ...

, screenwriter * Giovanna Botteri, journalist * Almerigo Grilz, journalist, freelance war reporter and politician. Was killed during an African reportage * Leo Negrelli, journalist *

Ann Shulgin Anne, alternatively spelled Ann, is a form of the Latin female given name Anna. This in turn is a representation of the Hebrew Hannah, which means 'favour' or 'grace'. Related names include Annie. Anne is sometimes used as a male name in the ...

, author * Demetrio Volcic, 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 Ma ...

, 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 Janu ...

, Italian politician, Minister of the Environment, 2000-2001 * Josip Ferfolja, Slovenian social-democratic politician and human rights activist * Odilo Globočnik, 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 ris ...

(aka Enea Sormenti, Jacobo Hurwitz Zender, Carlos Contreras), Communist agent *

Josip Wilfan Josip Vilfan or Wilfan (30 August 1878 – 8 March 1955) was a Slovene lawyer, politician, and human rights activist from Trieste. In the early 1920s, he was one of the political leaders of the Slovene and Croatian minority in the Italian-admini ...

, 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 i ...

* Moisè Tedeschi, rabbi and Bible commentator

Scholars, scientists, and intellectuals

* Luisa Accati, historian and feminist theoretician * Florian Biesik,

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n linguist,

Wymysorys language Wymysorys (, or ), also known as Vilamovian or Wilamowicean, is a West Germanic language spoken by the ethnic Vilamovian minority in the small town of Wilamowice, Poland ( in Wymysorys, ), on the border between Silesia and Lesser Poland, nea ...

scholar and poet *

Ludwig Boltzmann Ludwig Eduard Boltzmann (; 20 February 1844 – 5 September 1906) was an Austrian physicist and philosopher. His greatest achievements were the development of statistical mechanics, and the statistical explanation of the second law of ther ...

, 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. T ...

* Lavo Čermelj, Slovene physicist and public intellectual * Joseph Straus, property law intellectual * Giacomo Ciamician, chemist *

Laura Dallapiccola Laura Coen Luzzatto Dallapiccola (9 February 1911 – 26 March 1995) was an Italian librarian and translator. Biography Laura Domitilla Maria Coen Luzzatto was born in Trieste (now part of Italy) into a Jewish family. Her father was Raffaele Mo ...

, Italian librarian and translator * Alessandro Ferrara, philosopher and author * Pietro Kandler, 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, 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 U ...

, Austrian chemist * Boris M. Gombač, Slovenian historian * Spiridon Gopčević, Serbian astronomer and historian * Margherita Hack, 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,

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 landsca ...

* Salvatore Pincherle, Italian mathematician * Jože Pirjevec, Slovene historian * Alessandro Pizzorno, Political Scientist and Sociologist *

Guido Weiss Guido Leopold Weiss (born 29 December 1928 in Trieste, died 25 December 2021 in St. Louis) was an American mathematician, working in analysis, especially Fourier analysis and harmonic analysis. Childhood Weiss was born in Trieste Italy int ...

, 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 Punjabis, Punjabi Pakistani theoretical physici ...

, 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, 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 theory. Weiss's first article, on the psych ...

, Jewish psychoanalyst * Sigismund Zois, Slovene mecenate and natural scientist

Sportspeople

Nino Benvenuti Giovanni "Nino" Benvenuti (born 26 April 1938) is an Italian former professional boxer and actor. He held world titles in two weight classes, having held the undisputed super-welterweight championship from June 1965 to June 1966 and the undisput ...

, boxer * Biaggio Chianese, 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, football player (goalkeeper) * Aldo Dorigo, football player * Giorgio Ferrini, 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, g ...

, 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 northe ...

, 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, 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 ...

, foil fencer * Duilio Loi, 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 Tries ...

, former

AC Milan Associazione Calcio Milan (), commonly referred to as AC Milan or simply Milan, is a professional football club in Milan, Italy, founded in 1899. The club has spent its entire history, with the exception of the 1980–81 and 1982–83 seaso ...

captain, Italian football team manager * Giovanni Martinolich, 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, Mexi ...

, professional wrestler *

Tiberio Mitri Tiberio Mitri (12 July 1926 in Trieste – 12 February 2001 in Rome) was an Italian boxer who fought from 1946 to 1957. During his career, Mitri was the Italian and European middleweight champion. Mitri's professional debut, was 1 August 1946, ...

, 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. H ...

(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, 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), It ...

, water polo player * Matteo Scozzarella, football player *

Giovanni Steffè Giovanni Steffè (8 March 1928 – 19 October 2016) was an Italian rower who competed in the 1948 Summer Olympics. He was born in Trieste Trieste ( , ; sl, Trst ; german: Triest ) is a city and seaport in northeastern Italy. It is the c ...

, 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 Standup paddleboarding (SUP) is a water sport born from surfing with modern roots in Hawaii. Stand up paddleboarders stand on boards that are floating on the water, and use a paddle to propel themselves through the water. The sport was doc ...

athlete * Max Tonetto, 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 Ferruccio Valcareggi (; 12 February 1919 – 2 November 2005) was an Italian football player and coach, who played as a midfielder. Playing career Valcareggi was born in Trieste, on 12 February 1919. A right–sided, offensive–minded, centra ...

, 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 Andrea Lodovico de Adamich (born 3 October 1941) is a former racing driver from Italy. He participated in 34 World Championship Formula One Grands Prix, making his debut on 1 January 1968. He scored a total of six championship points. He also p ...

, 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 Fémini ...

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

Statesmen and aristocracy

* Mathilde Bonaparte,

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 wh ...

'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 18 ...

; 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 fr ...

, 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 Chevalier Louis Antoine Debrauz de Saldapenna (2 June 1811 – 18 January 1871) was an Austrian secret diplomat and journalist, founder and editor of the ''Mémorial diplomatique'', a noted statistical expert of his time and the author of numerous ...

, Austrian diplomat, journalist and author *

Gottfried von Banfield Gottfried Freiherr von Banfield (6 February 1890 – 23 September 1986) was the most successful Austro-Hungarian naval aeroplane pilot in the First World War. He was known as the 'Eagle of Trieste' and was the last person in history to wear the ...

(1890–1986), top Austrian Empire fighter ace in World War I

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