List of Famous people named Luigi
Luigi Pieroni
Luigi Pieroni is a former Belgian professional football, who played as a forward, and current assistant manager of RFC Seraing.
Luigi Colani
Luigi Colani was a German industrial designer.
Luigi Di Maio
Luigi Di Maio is an Italian politician serving as Minister of Foreign Affairs since 5 September 2019. He previously served as Deputy Prime Minister of Italy and Minister of Economic Development, Labour and Social Policies from 2018 to 2019, and as Vice President of the Chamber of Deputies in the XVII Italian legislature. From 2017 to January 2020, he was the leader of the Five Star Movement, an anti-establishment party founded by Beppe Grillo.
Luigi Tenco
Luigi Tenco was an Italian singer-songwriter. After his alleged suicide, he became an icon of love and despair. The true causes of his death have not yet been agreed upon.
Luigi Gatti
Gaspare Antonio Pietro "Luigi" Gatti was an Italian businessman and restaurateur, best known as the manager of the À la Carte restaurant on the RMS Titanic, catering to passengers for whom first-class service was not exclusive enough.
Luigi Zingales
Luigi Zingales is a finance professor at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business and the author of two widely-reviewed books. His book Saving Capitalism from the Capitalists (2003) is a study of "relationship capitalism". In A Capitalism for the People: Recapturing the Lost Genius of American Prosperity (2012), Zingales "suggests that channeling populist anger can reinvigorate the power of competition and reverse the movement toward a 'crony system'."
Luigi Galvani
Luigi Galvani was an Italian physician, physicist, biologist and philosopher, who discovered animal electricity. He is recognized as the pioneer of bioelectromagnetics. In 1780, he and his wife Lucia discovered that the muscles of dead frogs' legs twitched when struck by an electrical spark. This was one of the first forays into the study of bioelectricity, a field that studies the electrical patterns and signals from tissues such as the nerves and muscles.
Luigi Lucheni
Luigi Lucheni (1873–1910) was an Italian anarchist and the assassin of Empress Elisabeth of Austria.
Luigi Vendramini
Luigi Vendramini is a Brazilian professional male mixed martial artist who competes in the Lightweight division of the Ultimate Fighting Championship.
Luigi Datome
Luigi "Gigi" Datome is an Italian professional basketball player for Olimpia Milano of the Lega Basket Serie A (LBA) and the EuroLeague. Standing at 2.03 m, he plays at the small forward and power forward positions. Datome was an All-EuroLeague Second Team selection in 2016.