Pietro is an

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masculine given name. Notable people with the name include:

People

Pietro I Candiano Pietro I Candiano ( – 18 September 887) was briefly the sixteenth Doge of Venice in 887. History He followed Orso I Participazio and Giovanni II Participazio as Doge of Venice, elected to the throne at the side of the elderly, and beloved, ...

(c. 842–887), briefly the 16th Doge of Venice *

Pietro Tribuno Pietro Tribuno (died 912) was the Doge of Venice from 887 to his death. History He was the son of Domenico Tribuno and Agnella, the niece of Pietro Tradonico. He succeeded Pietro I Candiano, following a brief period during which the elderly and ...

(died 912), 17th Doge of Venice, from 887 to his death *

Pietro II Candiano Pietro II Candiano ( – 939) was the nineteenth Doge of Venice between 932 and 939. He followed Orso II Participazio (912–932) to become Doge in 932. Career The Candiano family was the most important family of Venice during the tenth century ...

(c. 872–939), 19th Doge of Venice, son of Pietro I

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Pietro Accolti Pietro Accolti (15 March 1455 – 11 December 1532), known as the "cardinal of Ancona", was an Italian Roman Catholic cardinal and judge of the Roman Rota. Life He was born in Florence on 15 March 1455, the son of the famous jurist Benedetto A ...

(1455–1532), Italian Roman Catholic cardinal *

Pietro Aldobrandini Pietro Aldobrandini (31 March 1571 – 10 February 1621) was an Italian Cardinal (Catholic Church), cardinal and patron of the arts. Biography Pietro Aldobrandini was a cousin of Cardinal Cinzio Aldobrandini, and uncle of Cardinals Silvestro a ...

(1571–1621), Italian cardinal and patron of the arts *

Pietro Anastasi Pietro Anastasi (; 7 April 1948 – 17 January 2020), nicknamed by fans, was an Italian footballer who played mainly in the role of a forward. He started his professional club career in Italy with Varese in 1966, helping the club to achieve p ...

(1948–2020), Italian former footballer * Pietro di Antonio Dei, birth name of

Bartolomeo della Gatta Bartolomeo della Gatta (1448–1502), born Pietro di Antonio Dei, was an Italian (Florentine) painter, illuminator, and architect. He was the son of a goldsmith. He was a colleague of Fra Bartolommeo. In 1468, Bartolomeo became a monk in the ...

(1448–1502), Florentine painter, illuminator and architect *

Pietro Aretino Pietro Aretino (, ; 19 or 20 April 1492 – 21 October 1556) was an Italian author, playwright, poet, satire, satirist and blackmailer, who wielded influence on contemporary art and politics. He was one of the most influential writers of his ti ...

(1492–1556), Italian author, playwright, poet, satirist, and blackmailer * Pietro Auletta (1698–1771), Italian composer known mainly for his operas *

Pietro Baracchi Pietro Paolo Giovanni Ernesto Baracchi (25 February 1851 – 23 July 1926) was a Grand Duchy of Tuscany-born astronomer, active in Australia and Government Astronomer of Victoria (Australia) 1900–15.J. L. Perdrix,Baracchi, Pietro Paolo Giovanni ...

(1851–1926), Italian-born astronomer *

Pietro Bellotti Pietro Bellotti (1625–1700) was an Italian painter active in the Baroque period. Life and work Bellotti was born in Volciano di Salò in 1627 (1625 according to Orlandi), he gained fame as a painter of portraits and heads of characters. He was ...

(1625–1700), Italian Baroque painter *

Pietro Belluschi Pietro Belluschi (August 18, 1899 – February 14, 1994) was an Italian-American architect. A leading figure in modern architecture, he was responsible for the design of over 1,000 buildings.Belluschi, Pietro. (2007). In ''Encyclopædia Britanni ...

(1899–1994), Italian architect *

Pietro Bembo Pietro Bembo, (; 20 May 1470 – 18 January 1547) was a Venetian scholar, poet, and literary theory, literary theorist who also was a member of the Knights Hospitaller and a cardinal of the Catholic Church. As an intellectual of the Italian Re ...

(1470–1547), Italian scholar, poet, literary theorist, member of the Knights Hospitaller and cardinal *

Pietro Bernini Pietro Bernini (6 May 1562 – 29 August 1629) was an Italian sculptor. He was the father of one of the most famous artists of Baroque, Gian Lorenzo Bernini, as well as the sculptor-architect Luigi Bernini. Biography Bernini was born in Sesto ...

(1562–1629), Italian sculptor *

Pietro Borghese Pietro Borghese (also called Pietro della Francesca; 1398–1484) was an Italian painter of the early Renaissance period. He is described as being born in Borgo San Sepolcro, painting battle-scenes, and influencing Melozzo da Forlì. This may in ...

(1398–1484), also called Pietro della Francesca, Italian painter of the early Renaissance *

Pietro Bianchi (disambiguation) Pietro Bianchi may refer to: * Pietro Bianchi (gymnast) (1883–1965), Italian gymnast * Pietro Bianchi (painter) (1694–1740), Italian painter * Pietro Bianchi (weightlifter) (1895–1962), Italian weightlifter * Pietro Bianchi (basketball), see ...

Pietro Campilli Pietro Campilli (1891–1974) was an Italian economist and politician who held several cabinet posts during the 1940s and 1950s. He was the first president of the European Investment Bank and served in the post between 1958 and 1959. Early life ...

(1891–1974), Italian economist and politician *

Pietro Carnesecchi Pietro Carnesecchi (24 December 1508 – 1 October 1567) was an Italian humanist. Biography Born in Florence, he was the son of a da Andrea Carnesecchi, a merchant who under the patronage of the Medici, and especially of Giulio de' Medici ...

(1508–1567), Italian humanist *

Pietro Cascella Pietro Cascella (February 2, 1921 – May 18, 2008) was an Italian sculpture, sculptor. His principal work consisted of large monumental sculptures, including the ''International Monument to the Victims of Fascism'' in the Auschwitz concentrati ...

(1921–2008), Italian painter and sculptor *

Pietro Cataldi Pietro Antonio Cataldi (15 April 1548, Bologna – 11 February 1626, Bologna) was an Italian mathematician. A citizen of Bologna, he taught mathematics and astronomy and also worked on military problems. His work included the development of simple ...

(1548–1626), Italian mathematician * Pietro Crinito (1475–1507), known as

Crinitus Pietro Crinito (22 May 1474 – 5 July 1507), known as Crinitus, or Pietro Del Riccio Baldi (derived from Riccio, 'curly', translated into Latin as ''crinitus''), was a Florentine humanist scholar and poet who was a disciple of Poliziano. He i ...

or Pietro Del Riccio Baldi, Florentine humanist scholar and poet *

Pietro Dusina Pietro Dusina was an Italian Roman Catholic priest from Brescia who was the inquisitor and apostolic delegate to Malta between 1574 and 1575. Dusina was nominated inquisitor of Malta by Pope Gregory XIII on 3 July 1574, and he arrived on the isl ...

, Italian priest and inquisitor *

Pietro Erardi Fra Pietro Erardi (1644–1727) was a Maltese chaplain and painter. He was a cleric and became a chaplain of obedience of the Order of St. John in 1669, and joined the Wignacourt College in Rabat Rabat (, also , ; ) is the Capital (politica ...

(1644–1727), Maltese chaplain and painter

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Pietro Facchetti Pietro Facchetti (1539 – 27 February 1613) was an Italian painter of the late Renaissance, mainly active in Rome. Born to a poor family in Mantua. Facchetti initially trained with Lorenzo Costa the younger, but then moved to Rome and joined th ...

(1539–1613), Italian painter of the late Renaissance *

Pietro Ferrari (footballer, born 1906) Pietro Ferrari (; April 6, 1906 – ?) was an Italian professional football player. He played for 3 seasons (27 games, 3 goals) in the Serie A The Serie A (), officially known as Serie A Enilive in Italy and Serie A Made in Italy abroad ...

, Italian retired footballer *

Pietro Ferraris Pietro Ferraris (; 15 February 1912 – 11 October 1991) was an Italian footballer who played as a forward. Throughout his career, he won six Serie A titles with Ambrosiana-Inter and Torino, and the 1938 FIFA World Cup with the Italy nation ...

(1912–1991), Italian footballer *

Pietro Ferrero (disambiguation) Pietro Ferrero may refer to: * Pietro Ferrero (1898–1949), Italian businessman * Pietro Ferrero Jr. (1963–2011), Italian businessman * Pietro Ferrero (anarchist) (1892–1922), Italian anarchist * Pietro Ferrero (footballer) (1905–?), ...

* Pietro Fontana (engraver) (1762–1837), Italian engraver *

Pietro Fontana (engineer) Pietro Fontana (22 April 1638 – 16 February 1714) was an early 18th-century engineer and architect. He was secretary of the Accademia degli Ottusi di Spoleto (known later as the Accademia Spoletina) and founded the Società Agraria Spoletina. ...

, early 19th century Italian engineer and agronomist *

Pietro Germi Pietro Germi (; 14 September 1914 – 5 December 1974) was an Italian film director, screenwriter, and actor, noted for his development of the Italian neorealism, neorealist and genres. His 1961 film ''Divorce Italian Style'' earned him a Ac ...

(1914–1974), Italian actor, screenwriter and director * Pietro Lanza di Scalea (1863–1938), Italian noble and politician * Pietro Lesana, Italian bobsledder * Pietro Locatelli (1695–1764), Italian Baroque composer and violinist *

Pietro Lombardi (architect) Pietro Lombardi (30 July 1894 – 5 February 1984) was an Italian architect. At the beginning of his career, Lombardi worked in the studios of Armando Brasini and Marcello Piacentini. With his design for the '' Fontana delle Anfore'', a fountain ...

(1894–1984), Italian architect *

Pietro Lombardi (wrestler) Pietro Lombardi (4 June 1922 – 5 October 2011)Pietro Lombardi (singer) Pietro Lombardi (born 9 June 1992) is a German singer and television personality. He was the winner of season 8 of ''Deutschland sucht den Superstar ''Deutschland sucht den Superstar'' (''DSDS''; "Germany is looking for the Superstar") is a ...

(born 1992), German singer * Pietro Loredan (1372–1438), Venetian nobleman and military commander on sea and land *

Pietro Antonio Lorenzoni Pietro Antonio Lorenzoni ( Cles in Tyrol, 1721 – Salzburg, 1782) was an Austrian painter who is believed to have painted several portraits of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and his family: "The Boy Mozart" (1763), his sister Maria Anna Mozart in "Nanne ...

(1721–1782), Austrian painter *

Pietro Magni (sculptor) Pietro Magni (October 21, 1817January 20, 1877) was an Italian sculptor. He is best known for his ''Girl Reading'', first carved in 1856; today the original may be seen in Galleria d'Arte Moderna, Milan, while copies exist in numerous other museu ...

(1817–1877), Italian sculptor *

Pietro Magni (engineer) Piero Magni (Genoa, December 22, 1898 – April 17, 1988) was an Italian aeronautical engineer. He was heavily involved with the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics later in his career. Magni contributed to the development of variable i ...

(1898–1988), Italian aeronautical engineer *

Pietro Magni (footballer) Pietro Magni (20 March 1919 – 24 September 1992) was an Italian Association football, football player and Manager (association football), manager. As a player, Magni made 193 appearances in Serie A, the highest level of Italian football league ...

(1919–1992), Italian footballer and football manager *

Pietro Melchiorre Ferrari Pietro Melchiorre Ferrari (1735 - 1787) was an Italian painter, active mainly in Parma in a late-Baroque and early Neoclassical style. He was born in Sissa in the Province of Parma; his father, Paolo, was a painter in the Ducal court. Pietro stu ...

(1735–1787), painter from Parma *

Pietro Mennea Pietro Paolo Mennea (; 28 June 1952 – 21 March 2013), nicknamed ("the Arrow of the South"), was an Italian sprinter and politician. He was most successful in the 200 m event, winning a gold medal at the 1980 Moscow Olympics, and setting a wor ...

(1952–2013), Italian sprinter and politician *

Pietro Metastasio Pietro Antonio Domenico Trapassi (3 January 1698 – 12 April 1782), better known by his pseudonym of Pietro Metastasio (), was an Italian poet and Libretto, librettist, considered the most important writer of ''opera seria'' libretti. Early ...

, pseudonym of Pietro Antonio Domenico Trapassi (1698–1782), Italian poet and librettist

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Pietro Negroni Pietro Negroni, also called Il Giovane Zingaro (''the young gypsy'') and Lo zingarello di Cosenza (''the little gypsy from Cosenza'')Marisa Reale, Pietro Negroni - Lo zingarello di Cosenza, , FPE Franco Pangallo Editore, 2011 ( – 1565), was a ...

(c. 1505–1565), Italian painter of the Renaissance * Pietro Pastore (1908–1969), Italian footballer and actor * Pietro Pedranzini (1826-1903), Italian Lieutenant * Pietro Perti or Peretti (1648–1714), Italian Baroque sculptor and architect * Peter S. Pezzati (1902–1993), aka Pietro Pezzati, American portrait painter * Pietro Pezzati (artist) (1828–1898), Italian mural painter *

Pietro Porcinai Pietro Porcinai (Fiesole, Italy 1910 – Florence, Italy 1986) is renowned as one of the most outstanding Italian landscape architects of the twentieth century. He designed a wide variety of projects on the most diverse scales: gardens and public ...

(1910–1986), Italian landscape architect *

Pietro Scalia Pietro Scalia (born March 17, 1960) is an Italian-American film editor. He won the Best Film Editing award at the 64th Academy Awards for his work on the film '' JFK'', sharing the award with Joe Hutshing, and at the 74th Academy Awards for ...

(born 1960), Italian-American film editor * Pietro Scarcella (born 1950), Italian-Canadian mobster *

Pietro Antonio Solari Pietro Antonio Solari (;Z. Davidov. Stars on the towers. (Звезды на башнях) Moscow, 1963 – May 1493), also known as Pyotr Fryazin (), was an Italian Renaissance architect and sculptor, who worked in Moscow. Biography He was b ...

(c. 1445–1493), Italian architect and sculptor * Pietro or

Pier Paolo Vergerio Pier Paolo Vergerio ( 1498 – 4 October 1565), the Younger, was an Italian papal nuncio and later Protestant reformer. Life He was born at Capodistria (Koper), Istria, then part of the Venetian Republic and studied jurisprudence in Padua, ...

(c. 1498–1565), Italian religious reformer *

Pietro De Vico Pietro De Vico (1 February 1911 – 10 December 1999) was an Italian film actor. He appeared in 70 films between 1948 and 1991. He was married, from 1937 until his death in 1999, to actress Anna Campori. Selected filmography * '' Christma ...

(1911–1999), Italian film actor *

Pietro Vierchowod Pietro Vierchowod (, born 6 April 1959) is an Italian former professional footballer who played as a centre-back, and a manager. He represented the Italy national side during his career and was in the Italian squad that won the 1982 FIFA World ...

(born 1959), Italian football manager and former player * Pietro Vinci (c. 1525–1584), Italian composer * Pietro Ziani (died 1230), 42nd Doge of Venice

Fictional characters

Pietro Maximoff Quicksilver (Pietro Django Maximoff) is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. The character first appeared in the comic book ''The Uncanny X-Men'' #4 (March 1964) and was created by Stan Lee and Jack ...

, fictional Marvel Comics superhero known as Quicksilver * Pietro, the main character in the '' PopoloCrois'' game series

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