List of Famous people named Giuseppe
Giuseppe Conte
Giuseppe Conte is an Italian university professor, jurist, lawyer and politician, who has been serving as Prime Minister of Italy since 1 June 2018. On 26 January 2021, Conte resigned his position as prime minister, which will become effective when a new government will be sworn in.
Giuseppe Rossi
Giuseppe Rossi is an Italian professional footballer who plays as a forward. Born in the United States, Rossi spent most of his career in Europe with Villarreal and Fiorentina, in addition to spells with other clubs in England, Italy, and Spain, before returning to his country of birth to join Real Salt Lake for a single season in 2020.
Giuseppe Ferlini
Giuseppe Ferlini was an Italian soldier turned explorer and treasure hunter, who robbed and desecrated the pyramids of Meroë.
Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa was an Italian writer and the last Prince of Lampedusa. He is most famous for his only novel, Il Gattopardo, which is set in his native Sicily during the Risorgimento. A taciturn and solitary man, he spent a great deal of his time reading and meditating, and used to say of himself, "I was a boy who liked solitude, who preferred the company of things to that of people."
Giuseppe Verdi
Giuseppe Fortunino Francesco Verdi was an Italian opera composer. He was born near Busseto to a provincial family of moderate means, and developed a musical education with the help of a local patron. Verdi came to dominate the Italian opera scene after the era of Vincenzo Bellini, Gaetano Donizetti, and Gioachino Rossini, whose works significantly influenced him.
Giuseppe Garibaldi
Giuseppe Maria Garibaldi was an Italian general, patriot and republican. He contributed to the Italian unification and the creation of the Kingdom of Italy. He is considered to be one of the greatest generals of modern times and one of Italy's "fathers of the fatherland", along with Camillo Benso, Count of Cavour, Victor Emmanuel II of Italy and Giuseppe Mazzini. Garibaldi is also known as the "Hero of the Two Worlds" because of his military enterprises in South America and Europe.
Giuseppe Marco Fieschi
Giuseppe Marco Fieschi was a Corsican and the chief conspirator in an attempted assassination of King Louis-Philippe of France in July 1835. Eighteen people were killed by the attack on the King and his entourage, but the King only received a minor wound and Fieschi was quickly captured. He and two other conspirators were subsequently tried and executed.
Giuseppe Rizza
Giuseppe Rizza was an Italian footballer.
Giuseppe Zangara
Giuseppe "Joe" Zangara was an Italian immigrant and naturalized United States citizen who attempted to assassinate then-President-elect Franklin D. Roosevelt on February 15, 1933, seventeen days before Roosevelt's inauguration. During a night speech by Roosevelt in Miami, Florida, Zangara fired five shots with a handgun he had purchased a couple of days before. He missed his target and instead injured five bystanders, mortally wounding Anton Cermak, the Mayor of Chicago.
Giuseppe Giannini
Giuseppe Giannini is an Italian former professional footballer who played as a midfielder.