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List of people from Trieste
The Province of Trieste is a province in the autonomous Friuli-Venezia Giulia region of Italy. The following is a list of notable Triestini and some outsiders who either wrote about the city or resided there.
Literature
Many famous authors were born and/or lived many years in Trieste. They include:
Italian-language authors
- Enzo Bettiza, writer and journalist, born in Split
- Nicoletta Costa, children's book writer and illustrator
- Claudio Magris, writer and essayist
- Biagio Marin, poet (born in Grado)
- Giorgio Pressburger, author and director
- Umberto Saba, poet
- Francesco Saba Sardi, author, essayist and translator
- Scipio Slataper, essayist
- Giani Stuparich, writer and essayist
- Italo Svevo, novelist[1]
- Susanna Tamaro, novelist
- Fulvio Tomizza, writer, born in Istria (now in Croatia)
Slovene-language authors
- Vladimir Bartol, writer
- Igo Gruden, poet
- Dušan Jelinčič, writer, essayist, and mountain climber
- Marica Nadlišek Bartol, writer and editor
- Boris Pahor, novelist
- Alojz Rebula, writer and essayist
German-language authors
- Theodor Däubler, writer and poet
- Robert Hamerling writer
- Anna Hilaria Preuß
- Elfriede Ehrenfels writer
- Ricarda Huch writer
- Robert Bazlen writer
- Hans Germani journalist
- Julius Kugy, writer and essayist (born in Gorizia)
- Rainer Maria Rilke, wrote Duino Elegies during his stay in Duino
Authors in other languages
- Isabel Burton
- Richard Francis Burton
- James Joyce
- D. H. Lawrence
- Charles Lever
- Jan Morris
- Stendhal, French author and essayist; served as Consul of France in Trieste
- Alexander Wheelock Thayer
- Samuel David Luzzatto, Italian Jewish scholar, poet, and a member of the Wissenschaft des Judentums movement
Architects, inventors, gallerists, designers, and visual artists
- Josip Belušić, inventor of the speedometer
- Emilio Ambrosini, architect
- Milko Bambič, illustrator and cartoonist
- Franca Batich, Italian painter
- Leo Castelli, pioneering gallerist and contemporary art dealer
- Avgust Černigoj, Slovene painter
- Bruno Chersicla, painter and sculptor
- Tullio Crali, futurist painter
- Marcello Dudovich, illustrator
- Leonor Fini, artist
- Isidoro Grünhut, artist
- Franko Luin, Swedish-Slovene graphic designer
- Argio Orell, painter
- Boris Podrecca, architect
- Alessandra Querzola, Oscar nominated set designer
- Stanislav Rapotec, painter
- Ruggero Rovan, painter
- Felice Schiavoni, artist
- Ernesto Nathan Rogers, architect
- Eugenio Scomparini, painter
- Vito Timmel, painter
- Jožef Tominc, Biedermeier painter
- Alexander Kircher, painter
- Carlo Wostry, painter
- Umberto Veruda, painter
Actors, models, musicians, and performance artists
- Federico Agostini, violinist
- Alda Balestra, fashion and beauty model
- Antonio Bibalo, pianist and composer
- Paola Loew, actress
- Hans Herbert Fiedler, opera stage actor
- Piero Cappuccilli, operatic baritone
- Antonio D'Antoni, opera composer and conductor
- Raffaello de Banfield, British composer
- George Dolenz, actor; father of Micky Dolenz of the Monkees
- Paul Henreid, actor
- Alfred Jaëll, Austrian pianist
- Tullio Kezich, actor, playwright, and screenplayer
- Paolo Longo, composer and conductor
- Alessandro Lotta, former bassist of the bands Rhapsody of Fire and Wingdom
- Lelio Luttazzi, musician, composer, showman and presenter
- Mauro Maur, trumpet player and composer
- Alexander Moissi, Austrian stage actor of Albanian descent
- Ave Ninchi, actress
- Denis Novato, Slovene musician
- Alberto Randegger, composer
- Ivan Rassimov, Italian actor of Serbian descent
- Rada Rassimov, Italian actress of Serbian descent
- Enrico Rava, jazz trumpeter
- Teddy Reno, singer and producer
- Victor de Sabata, conductor
- Laura Solari, film actress
- Alex Staropoli, keyboardist of the band Rhapsody of Fire
- Giorgio Strehler, opera and theater director
- Elisa Toffoli, singer/songwriter, pianist, and guitarist
- Luca Turilli, guitarist of the band Rhapsody of Fire
- Carlo Rizzo, stage and film actor
- Loredana Nusciak, actress and model
- Fulvia Franco, Italian actress, model and beauty pageant titleholder
- Anita Kravos, Italian actress
- Rodolfo Ranni, Italian Argentine film actor.
- Orazio Bobbio, actor and director
- Alessandro Fullin, stage actor and comedian
- Angelo Pintus, stand-up comedian and impressionist
TV personalities
- Lidia Bastianich, Italian-American chef and TV cooking show host whose family lived in a refugee camp in Trieste after their escape from Istria, Yugoslavia (now Croatia)
- Bianca Maria Piccinino, journalist RAI, the first woman to read a news broadcasting
Entrepreneurs and business leaders
- Andrea Illy, entrepreneur
- Ernesto Illy, entrepreneur, founder of coffee empire
- Francesco Illy, entrepreneur, inventor of coffee machinery
- Lionello Stock, entrepreneur of liqueurs and beverages, founder of Stock S.p.A. (known for the Keglevich brand)
- Mihajlo Vučetić, grain merchant, shipowner and shareholder in Austrian Lloyd.
Fashion designers
- Renato Balestra, fashion designer
- Adriano Goldschmied, leading international denim designer; founder of Diesel and Replay jeans
- Ottavio Missoni, fashion designer
- Mila Schön, fashion designer
Journalists and authors
- Sergio Amidei, screenwriter
- Giovanna Botteri, journalist
- Almerigo Grilz, journalist, freelance war reporter and politician. Was killed during an African reportage
- Leo Negrelli, journalist
- Ann Shulgin, author
- Demetrio Volcic, journalist and politician
Political figures
- Engelbert Besednjak, Slovene politician
- Willer Bordon, Italian politician, Minister of the Environment, 2000-2001
- Josip Ferfolja, Slovenian social-democratic politician and human rights activist
- Odilo Globočnik, Nazi war criminal, SS leader
- Riccardo Illy, Italian politician
- Ezio Mizzan, Italian diplomat, the second Italian Ambassador to Thailand (1959–1965) and the ninth Italian Ambassador to Pakistan (1966–1969)
- Stefano Patuanelli, Italian politician, minister of economic development
- Mitja Ribičič, Slovenian Communist leader, Prime Minister of Yugoslavia (1969–1971)
- Vittorio Vidali (aka Enea Sormenti, Jacobo Hurwitz Zender, Carlos Contreras), Communist agent
- Josip Wilfan, Slovene jurist, politician, and human rights activist
- Christian van Singer, politician
Religious figures
- Pietro Bonomo, humanist and bishop, supporter of the Protestant Reformation
- Moisè Tedeschi, rabbi and Bible commentator
Scholars, scientists, and intellectuals
- Luisa Accati, historian and feminist theoretician
- Florian Biesik, Silesian linguist, Wymysorys language scholar and poet
- Ludwig Boltzmann, Austrian physicist
- Paolo Budinich, physicist
- Sir Richard Burton, British explorer, geographer, writer, orientalist, cartographer, linguist, poet, fencer, and diplomat; discovered Lake Tanganyika
- Lavo Čermelj, Slovene physicist and public intellectual
- Joseph Straus, property law intellectual
- Giacomo Ciamician, chemist
- Laura Dallapiccola, Italian librarian and translator
- Alessandro Ferrara, philosopher and author
- Erich B. Kusch, journalist
- Gillo Dorfles, philosopher and historian
- Simon Spierer, art historian
- Arturo Falaschi, MD, geneticist
- Boris Furlan, Slovenian legal theorist, translator and politician
- Anton Füster, Austrian revolutionary activist, author and pedagogue
- Guido Goldschmiedt, Austrian chemist
- Boris M. Gombač, Slovenian historian
- Spiridon Gopčević, Serbian astronomer and historian
- Margherita Hack, Italian astronomer
- Albert O. Hirschman, economist and political scientist; obtained his doctorate from the University of Trieste
- Fiorella Kostoris, economist
- Doro Levi, archaeologist
- Salvatore Pincherle, Italian mathematician
- Jože Pirjevec, Slovene historian
- Alessandro Pizzorno, Political Scientist and Sociologist
- Guido Weiss, mathematician
- Abdus Salam, Pakistani theoretical physicist, Nobel prize laureate
- Denis Sciama, British physicist
- Dietmar Bittrich, journalist
- Vanda Shrenger Weiss, Italy's first female psychoanalyst
- Marta Verginella, Slovene historian
- Ivan Vidav, Slovene mathematician
- Edoardo Weiss, Jewish psychoanalyst
- Sigismund Zois, Slovene mecenate and natural scientist
Sportspeople
- Nino Benvenuti, boxer
- Biaggio Chianese, boxer
- Claudia Coslovich, athlete
- Fabio Cudicini, football player (goalkeeper)
- Aldo Dorigo, football player
- Giorgio Ferrini, football player
- Ambrogio Fogar, sailor, rally driver, and adventurer
- Livio Franceschini, basketball player
- Sandro Gamba, basketball coach and player
- Matteo Gladig, chess master
- Margherita Granbassi, foil fencer
- Duilio Loi, boxer
- Cesare Maldini, former AC Milan captain, Italian football team manager
- Giovanni Martinolich, chess master
- Mario Milano, professional wrestler
- Tiberio Mitri, boxer
- Uberto De Morpurgo (1896–1961), Austrian-born Italian tennis player
- Giorgio Oberweger, athlete
- Nicola Princivalli, football player
- Giovanni Raicevich, professional wrestler
- Carlo Rigotti, football player
- Nereo Rocco, footballer
- Licio Rossetti, footballer
- Cesare Rubini, water polo player
- Matteo Scozzarella, football player
- Giovanni Steffè, rower
- Caterina Stenta, Windsurf and Standup paddleboarding athlete
- Max Tonetto, footballer
- Fabio Tuiach, boxer
- Ferruccio Valcareggi, football player and coach
- Renzo Vecchiato, basketball player
- Andrea de Adamich, former Formula 1 driver
- Sara Gama, Italian footballer, defender and captain of both Serie A club Juventus and the Italian national team.
Statesmen and aristocracy
- Mathilde Bonaparte, Napoleon's niece, daughter of his brother Jérôme Bonaparte; born in Trieste in 1820
- Joseph Fouché, duke of Otranto, spent his last 5 years exiled in Trieste
- Maximilian of Habsburg, Emperor of Mexico, Archduke of Austria (Schönbrunn 1832 - Querétaro 1867); built the white castle and park on the riviera; planted plants in the park from his travels around the world
- Fiorello La Guardia, 99th Mayor of New York City, son of Trieste-born Irene Coen, of the Luzzatto family. Spent part of his 20s in Trieste with his family, also working for the US Consulate.
- Princess Marie Adélaïde de France, Madame de France, daughter of King Louis XV of France, died in Trieste in 1800 and was buried at San Giusto Cathedral
- Princess Marie Louise Thérèse Victoire de France, Madame de France, daughter of King Louis XV of France, died in Trieste in 1799
- Louis Antoine Debrauz de Saldapenna, Austrian diplomat, journalist and author
- Gottfried von Banfield (1890–1986), top Austrian Empire fighter ace in World War I