List of Famous people named Luigi

Luiz Fernando Pecorari Baricelli is a Brazilian actor and presenter He became known in 1991 as Dom Diogo in the extinct TV Manchete in the series O Guarani. On April 24, 1995 he was nationally known as Romão in the first, second, third and fifth seasons of Malhação (1995–1999). He played Fred in Laços de Família (2000) alongside Giovanna Antonelli. Over the years, he has played numerous characters such as Raul in Alma Gêmea (2005), Alexandre Paixão in Sabor da Paixão (2002), and Flávio in O Profeta (2006).

Ridolfo Luigi Boccherini was an Italian, later Spanish, composer and cellist of the Classical era whose music retained a courtly and galante style even while he matured somewhat apart from the major European musical centers. He is best known for a minuet from his String Quintet in E, Op. 11, No. 5, and the Cello Concerto in B flat major. The latter work was long known in the heavily altered version by German cellist and prolific arranger Friedrich Grützmacher, but has recently been restored to its original version.

Luigi Agnolin was an Italian football referee. He was mostly known for supervising four matches in the FIFA World Cup, one in 1986 and three in 1990. He also refereed the 1988 European Cup Final between PSV Eindhoven and S.L. Benfica.

Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza was an Italian geneticist. He was a population geneticist who taught at the University of Parma, the University of Pavia and then at Stanford University.

Luigi Caccia Dominioni was an Italian architect and furniture designer.

Luigi Ventura is an Italian prelate of the Catholic Church who worked in the diplomatic service of the Holy See, ending his career as Apostolic Nuncio to France from 2009 to 2019. He became a nuncio and archbishop in 1995 and served in several African countries, Chile, and Canada before being posted to Paris.

Luigi Snozzi was a Swiss architect, born in Mendrisio, Ticino. He worked in Locarno and Lugano.

Luigi Pirandello was an Italian dramatist, novelist, poet, and short story writer whose greatest contributions were his plays. He was awarded the 1934 Nobel Prize in Literature for "his almost magical power to turn psychological analysis into good theatre." Pirandello's works include novels, hundreds of short stories, and about 40 plays, some of which are written in Sicilian. Pirandello's tragic farces are often seen as forerunners of the Theatre of the Absurd.

Luigi Durand de la Penne was an Italian Navy admiral who served as naval diver in the Decima MAS during World War II. De la Penne was born in Genoa, where he also died.

Luigi Mino Poggi was an Italian sailor who competed in the 1936 Summer Olympics and in the 1948 Summer Olympics.