List of Famous people named Giovanni

Giovanni Andrés Moreno Cardona is a Colombian footballer who plays for and captains Chinese Super League club Shanghai Shenhua F.C. where he primarily operates as an attacking midfielder.

Jan Václav Stich, better known as Giovanni Punto was a Czech horn player and a pioneer of the hand-stopping technique which allows natural horns to play a greater number of notes.

Giovanni da Verrazzano was a Florentine explorer of North America, in the service of King Francis I of France.

Giovanni di Bicci de' Medici was an Italian banker and founder of the Medici Bank. While other members of the Medici family, such as Chiarissimo di Giambuono de' Medici, who served in the Signoria of Florence in 1201, and Salvestro de' Medici, who was implicated in the Ciompi Revolt of 1378, are of historical interest, it was Giovanni's founding of the family bank that truly initiated the family's rise to power in Florence. He was the father of Cosimo de' Medici and of Lorenzo the Elder; grandfather of Piero di Cosimo de' Medici; great-grandfather of Lorenzo de' Medici ; and the great-great-great-grandfather of Cosimo I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany.

Giovanni Guidetti is an Italian volleyball coach. He's been coaching Turkish side Vakıfbank Spor Kulübü since 2008 and also coaches the Turkey women's national team.

Giovanni Melluso was an Italian criminal. He became a significant informant against the Nuova Camorra Organizzata (NCO), a Camorra organization in Naples. He would be used by the Italian Justice Department to testify about the NCO's show business connections in Northern Italy, during the three-year-long Maxi Trial which began in 1983. However, many of his accusations were later proven to be unfounded.

Giovanni Augusto Oliveira Cardoso, known as Giovanni Augusto, is a Brazilian footballer who plays as an attacking midfielder for Mazatlán.

Giovanni Graziano is an Italian professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Fermana.

Giovanni Francesco Grossi was one of the greatest Italian castrato singers of the baroque age. He is better known as Siface.

Giovanni Silva de Oliveira, better known as Giovanni, is a Brazilian football manager and former player. He played as either an attacking midfielder or a forward.