List of people from Trieste
The Province of Trieste is a province in the autonomous Friuli-Venezia Giulia region of Italy. The following is a list of notable people from 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
- Claudio Magris, writer and essayist
- Biagio Marin, poet (born in Grado)
- Giorgio Pressburger, author and director
- Umberto Saba, poet
- Scipio Slataper, essayist
- Giani Stuparich, writer and essayist
- Italo Svevo, novelist
- Susanna Tamaro, novelist
- Fulvio Tomizza, writer, born in Istria (now in Croatia)
Slovene-language authors
- Vladimir Bartol, writer
- Igo Gruden, poet
- Dušan Jelinčič, writer, essayist, and mountain climber
- Boris Pahor, novelist
- Alojz Rebula, writer and essayist
German language authors
- Theodor Däubler, writer and poet
- Robert Hamerling
- Veit Heinichen
- Julius Kugy, writer and essayist (born in Gorizia)
- Rainer Maria Rilke, wrote Duino Elegies during his stay in Duino
Authors in other languages
- Isabel Burton
- Richard Francis Burton
- James Joyce
- Charles Lever
- Jan Morris
- Stendhal, French author and essayist; served as Consul of France in Trieste
- Alexander Wheelock Thayer
Architects, gallerists, designers, and visual artists
- Emilio Ambrosini, architect
- Milko Bambič, illustrator and cartoonist
- Franca Batich, Italian painter
- Leo Castelli, pioneering gallerist and contemporary art dealer
- Avgust Černigoj, Slovene painter
- Bruno Chersicla, painter and sculptor
- Tullio Crali, futurist painter
- Marcello Dudovich, illustrator
- Leonor Fini, artist
- Franko Luin, Swedish-Slovene graphic designer
- Boris Podrecca, architect
- Stanislav Rapotec, painter
- Ivan Rendić, Croatian sculptor
- Ernesto Nathan Rogers, architect
- Eugenio Scomparini, painter
- Jožef Tominc, Biedermeier painter
Actors, musicians, and performance artists
- Federico Agostini, violinist
- Antonio Bibalo, pianist and composer
- Piero Cappuccilli, operatic baritone
- Antonio D'Antoni, opera composer and conductor
- Raffaello de Banfield, British composer
- George Dolenz, actor; father of Micky Dolenz of the Monkees
- Paul Henried, actor
- Alfred Jaëll, Austrian pianist
- Tullio Kezich, actor, playwright, and screenplayer
- Paolo Longo, composer and conductor
- Alessandro Lotta, former bassist of the bands Rhapsody of Fire and Wingdom
- Lelio Luttazzi, musician, composer, showman and presenter
- Mauro Maur, trumpet player and composer
- Alexander Moissi, Austrian stage actor of Albanian descent
- Ave Ninchi, actress
- Denis Novato, Slovene musician
- Alberto Randegger, composer
- Ivan Rassimov, Italian actor of Serbian descent
- Rada Rassimov, Italian actress of Serbian descent
- Enrico Rava, jazz trumpeter
- Teddy Reno, singer and producer
- Victor de Sabata, conductor
- Laura Solari, film actress
- Alex Staropoli, keyboardist of the band Rhapsody of Fire
- Giorgio Strehler, opera and theater director
- Elisa Toffoli, singer/songwriter, pianist, and guitarist
- Luca Turilli, guitarist of the band Rhapsody of Fire
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, Yugoslavia (now Croatia)
Entrepreneurs and business leaders
- Andrea Illy, entrepreneur
- Ernesto Illy, entrepreneur, founder of coffee empire
- Francesco Illy, entrepreneur, inventor of coffee machinery
- Lionello Stock, entrepreneur of liqueurs and beverages, founder of Stock S.p.A (known for the Keglevich brand)
Fashion designers
- Renato Balestra, fashion designer
- Adriano Goldschmied, leading international denim designer; founder of Diesel and Replay jeans
- Ottavio Missoni, fashion designer
- Mila Schön, fashion designer
Journalists and authors
- Sergio Amidei, screenwriter
- Giovanna Botteri, journalist
- Almerigo Grilz, journalist, freelance war reporter and politician. Was killed during an African reportage
- Leo Negrelli, journalist
- Ann Shulgin, author
- Demetrio Volcic, journalist and politician
Political figures
- Engelbert Besednjak, Slovene politician
- Willer Bordon, Italian politician, Minister of the Environment, 2000-2001
- Josip Ferfolja, Slovenian social-democratic politician and human rights activist
- Odilo Globocnik, Nazi war criminal, SS leader
- Riccardo Illy, Italian politician
- Mitja Ribičič, Slovenian Communist leader, Prime Minister of Yugoslavia (1969–1971)
- Vittorio Vidali (aka Enea Sormenti, Jacobo Hurwitz Zender, Carlos Contreras), Communist agent
- Josip Wilfan, Slovene jurist, politician, and human rights activist
Religious figures
- Pietro Bonomo, humanist and bishop, supporter of the Protestant Reformation
Scholars, scientists, and intellectuals
- Luisa Accati, historian and feminist theoretician
- Florian Biesik, Silesian linguist, Wymysorys language scholar and poet
- Ludwig Boltzmann, Austrian physicist
- Paolo Budinich, physicist
- Sir Richard Burton, British explorer, geographer, writer, orientalist, cartographer, linguist, poet, fencer, and diplomat; discovered Lake Tanganika
- Lavo Čermelj, Slovene physicist and public intellectual
- Giacomo Ciamician, chemist
- Gillo Dorfles, philosopher and historian
- Arturo Falaschi, MD, geneticist
- Alessandro Ferrara, philosopher and author
- Boris Furlan, Slovenian legal theorist, translator and politician
- Anton Füster, Austrian revolutionary activist, author and pedagogue
- Guido Goldschmiedt, Austrian chemist
- Boris M. Gombač, Slovenian historian
- Spiridon Gopčević, Serbian astronomer and historian
- Margherita Hack, Italian astronomer
- Albert O. Hirschman, economist and political scientist; obtained his doctorate from the University of Trieste
- Fiorella Kostoris, economist
- Doro Levi, archaeologist
- Salvatore Pincherle, Italian mathematician
- Jože Pirjevec, Slovene historian
- Abdus Salam, Pakistani theoretical physicist, Nobel prize laureate
- Denis Sciama, British physicist
- Marta Verginella, Slovene historian
- Ivan Vidav, Slovene mathematician
- Sigismund Zois, Slovene mecenate and natural scientist
Sportspeople
- Nino Benvenuti, boxer
- Biaggio Chianese, boxer
- Claudia Coslovich, athlete
- Fabio Cudicini, football player (goalkeeper)
- Umberto De Morpurgo, tennis player
- Giorgio Ferrini, football player
- Livio Franceschini, basketball player
- Sandro Gamba, basketball coach and player
- Matteo Gladig, chess master
- Margherita Granbassi, foil fencer
- Duilio Loi, boxer
- Cesare Maldini, former AC Milan captain, Italian football team manager
- Giovanni Martinolich, chess master
- Tiberio Mitri, boxer
- Giorgio Oberweger, athlete
- Nicola Princivalli, football player
- Carlo Rigotti, football player
- Nereo Rocco, football legend
- Cesare Rubini, water polo player
- Giovanni Steffè, rower
- Max Tonetto, football player
- Fabio Tuiach, boxer
- Ferruccio Valcareggi, football player and coach
- Renzo Vecchiato, basketball player
- Ambrogio Fogar, sailor and adventurer
- Matteo Scozzarella, football player
Statesmen and aristocracy
- Prince Amedeo, Duke of Aosta, Italian General, resided at Miramare castle and was president of the local football team
- Mathilde Bonaparte, Napoleon's niece, daughter of his brother Jérôme Bonaparte; born in Trieste in 1820
- Joseph Fouché, duke of Otranto, spent his last 5 years exiled in Trieste
- Maximilian of Habsburg, 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, legendary 99th Mayor of New York City, 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 Maria Cristina of Savoy, Italian princess, born at Miramare Castle in 1933
- Louis Antoine Debrauz de Saldapenna, Austrian diplomat, journalist and author
- Gottfried von Banfield (1890–1986), top Austrian Empire fighter ace in World War I
References
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