List of Famous people born in Veneto, Italy

Giorgio Abetti

First Name Giorgio
Last Name Abetti
Born on October 5, 1882
Died on August 24, 1982 (aged 99)
Born in Italy, Veneto

Prof Giorgio Abetti HFRSE was an Italian solar astronomer.

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Stefania Bonfadelli

First Name Stefania
Last Name Bonfadelli
Born on April 27, 1967 (age 59)
Born in Italy, Veneto

Stefania Bonfadelli is an Italian operatic soprano.

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Enrico Fabris

First Name Enrico
Last Name Fabris
Born on October 5, 1981 (age 44)
Born in Italy, Veneto
Height 189 cm | 6'2

Enrico Fabris is an Italian former long track speed skater who has won three World Cup races and became the first European Allround Champion from Italy when he won the 2006 European Championships one month before the Winter Olympics in Turin. In 2007 he won also the silver medal and in 2008 the bronze medal. Fabris is also a six-time Italian Allround Champion.

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Federico Faggin

First Name Federico
Last Name Faggin
Born on December 1, 1941 (age 84)
Born in Italy, Veneto

Federico Faggin is an Italian-American physicist, engineer, inventor and entrepreneur. He is best known for designing the first commercial microprocessor, the Intel 4004. He led the 4004 (MCS-4) project and the design group during the first five years of Intel's microprocessor effort. Faggin also created, while working at Fairchild Semiconductor in 1968, the self-aligned MOS (metal–oxide–semiconductor) silicon-gate technology (SGT), which made possible MOS semiconductor memory chips, CCD image sensors, and the microprocessor. After the 4004, he led development of the Intel 8008 and 8080, using his SGT methodology for random logic chip design, which was essential to the creation of early Intel microprocessors. He was co-founder and CEO of Zilog, the first company solely dedicated to microprocessors, and led the development of the Zilog Z80 and Z8 processors. He was later the co-founder and CEO of Cygnet Technologies, and then Synaptics.

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Mike Wieringo

Michael Lance Wieringo
First Name Mike
Last Name Wieringo
Born on June 24, 1963
Died on August 12, 2007 (aged 44)
Born in Italy, Veneto

Michael Lance Wieringo, who sometimes signed his work under the name Ringo, was an American comics artist best known for his work on DC Comics' The Flash, Marvel Comics' Spider-Man and Fantastic Four, as well as his own creator-owned series, Tellos. In 2017, the Ringo Award was created in honor of Wieringo. It is presented at the Baltimore Comic-Con to recognize achievement in the comics industry.

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Rino Passigato

First Name Rino
Born on March 29, 1944 (age 82)
Born in Italy, Veneto

Rino Passigato, GCC, GCSE is an Italian prelate of the Catholic Church, who was the Apostolic Nuncio to Portugal from 2008 to 2019 and is the current Apostolic Nuncio Emeritus to Portugal.

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Antonio Canova

First Name Antonio
Last Name Canova
Born on November 1, 1757
Died on October 13, 1822 (aged 64)
Born in Italy, Veneto

Antonio Canova was an Italian Neoclassical sculptor, famous for his marble sculptures. Often regarded as the greatest of the Neoclassical artists, his sculpture was inspired by the Baroque and the classical revival, and has been characterised as having avoided the melodramatics of the former, and the cold artificiality of the latter.

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Gian Paolo Gobbo

First Name Gian
Born on April 1, 1949 (age 77)
Born in Italy, Veneto

Gian Paolo Gobbo is an Italian politician. He is the President of Liga Veneta, the "national" section of Lega Nord in Veneto.

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Giovanni Battaglin

First Name Giovanni
Last Name Battaglin
Born on July 22, 1951 (age 74)
Born in Italy, Veneto

Giovanni Battaglin is an Italian professional road racing cyclist. The highlight of his career was his overall win in the 1981 Giro d'Italia. He also won the 1981 Vuelta a España.

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Mario Capecchi

First Name Mario
Last Name Capecchi
Born on October 6, 1937 (age 88)
Born in Italy, Veneto

Mario Ramberg Capecchi is an Italian-born molecular geneticist and a co-winner of the 2007 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discovering a method to create mice in which a specific gene is turned off, known as knockout mice. He shared the prize with Martin Evans and Oliver Smithies. He is currently Distinguished Professor of Human Genetics and Biology at the University of Utah School of Medicine.

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