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List Of British Italians
This is a list of notable British people of Italian ancestry and of Italians in the United Kingdom, Italians established in the UK. The citizenship and connection to the United Kingdom and Italy is shown in parentheses. Administration Prime ministers *Benjamin Disraeli Secretaries of state and ministers *A. J. Mundella *John Profumo *John Sperni Mayor of St Pancras, London, St Pancras, 1937-1938 Arts Cartoonists *Edward Ardizzone *Barry Fantoni Circus performers *Emilia Arata *Charlie Cairoli *Joseph Grimaldi Composers *Muzio Clementi *Maria Cosway *Gerald Finzi *Felice Giardini *Remo Lauricella *John Marcangelo Designers *John Amabile (interior designer), John Amabile * Antonio Berardi * Benedetta Dubini *John Galliano *Bianca Mosca Education *Anna Hassan Film directors *Ginevra Elkann * Elliott Hasler *Kim Longinotto Hairdressers *Lino Carbosiero *Anthony Mascolo Librarians *Anthony Panizzi Literature *John Florio (1553–1625), known in Italian as Giovanni Fl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
British People
British people or Britons, also known colloquially as Brits, are the citizens of the United Kingdom, the British Overseas Territories, and the Crown dependencies.: British nationality law governs modern British citizenship and nationality, which can be acquired, for instance, by descent from British nationals. When used in a historical context, "British" or "Britons" can refer to the Ancient Britons, the Celtic languages, Celtic-speaking inhabitants of Great Britain during the British Iron Age, Iron Age, whose descendants formed the major part of the modern Welsh people, Cornish people, Bretons and considerable proportions of English people. It also refers to those British subjects born in parts of the former British Empire that are now independent countries who settled in the United Kingdom prior to 1973. Though early assertions of being British date from the Late Middle Ages, the Union of the Crowns in 1603 and the creation of the Kingdom of Great Britain in 1707 triggered ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Antonio Berardi
Antonio Berardi (born 1968) ''Lincolnshire Echo'' 19 March 2009; retrieved 30 April 2011 is a British fashion designer of Sicilian descent, known especially for his dresses. He currently shows his collection at London , but has shown at Milan and Paris in the past. Early life and career Berardi was born in , in . His paren ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James I Of England
James VI and I (James Charles Stuart; 19 June 1566 – 27 March 1625) was King of Scotland as James VI from 24 July 1567 and King of England and Ireland as James I from the union of the Scottish and English crowns on 24 March 1603 until his death in 1625. Although he long tried to get both countries to adopt a closer political union, the kingdoms of Scotland and England remained sovereign states, with their own parliaments, judiciaries, and laws, ruled by James in personal union. James was the son of Mary, Queen of Scots, and a great-great-grandson of Henry VII, King of England and Lord of Ireland, and thus a potential successor to all three thrones. He acceded to the Scottish throne at the age of thirteen months, after his mother was forced to abdicate in his favour. Although his mother was a Catholic, James was brought up as a Protestant. Four regents governed during his minority, which ended officially in 1578, though he did not gain full control of his governmen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lexicographer
Lexicography is the study of lexicons and the art of compiling dictionaries. It is divided into two separate academic disciplines: * Practical lexicography is the art or craft of compiling, writing and editing dictionary, dictionaries. * Theoretical lexicography is the scholarly study of semantic, orthography, orthographic, syntagma (linguistics), syntagmatic and paradigmatic features of lexemes of the lexicon (vocabulary) of a language, developing theories of dictionary components and structures linking the data in dictionaries, the needs for information by users in specific types of situations, and how users may best access the data incorporated in printed and Electronic dictionary, electronic dictionaries. This is sometimes referred to as "metalexicography". There is some disagreement on the definition of lexicology, as distinct from lexicography. Some use "lexicology" as a synonym for theoretical lexicography; others use it to mean a branch of linguistics pertaining to th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Florio
Giovanni Florio (1552 or 1553 – 1625), known as John Florio, was an English linguist, poet, writer, translator, lexicographer, and royal language tutor at the Court of James I. He is recognised as the most important Renaissance humanist in England. Florio contributed 1,149 words to the English language, placing third after Chaucer (with 2,012 words) and Shakespeare (with 1,969 words), in the linguistic analysis conducted by Stanford professor John Willinsky. Florio was the first translator of Montaigne into English, possibly the first translator of Boccaccio into English and he wrote the first comprehensive Italian–English dictionary (surpassing the only previous modest Italian–English dictionary by William Thomas published in 1550). Playwright and poet Ben Jonson was a personal friend, and Jonson hailed Florio as "loving father" and "ayde of his muses". Philosopher Giordano Bruno was also a personal friend; Florio met the Italian philosopher in London, while both ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anthony Panizzi
Sir Antonio Genesio Maria Panizzi (16 September 1797 – 8 April 1879), better known as Anthony Panizzi, was a naturalised British citizen of Italian birth, and an Italian patriot. He was a librarian, becoming the Principal Librarian (i.e. head) of the British Museum from 1856 to 1866. Early life in Italy Panizzi was born at Brescello in the Duchy of Modena and Reggio (now the province of Reggio Emilia), Italy, on 16 September 1797. He studied at the Lyceum of Reggio, then obtained a degree in law from the University of Parma in 1818. He was appointed as Inspector of Public Schools at Brescello. It was during this time that a charge was brought against Panizzi that he was a Carbonaro, that is, a member of a secret society that opposed the political regime of that time. The evidence would suggest that the accusation was true. In October 1822, amid political upheaval in Italy, Panizzi was tipped off that he faced arrest and trial as a subversive. The risk was one faced by ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anthony Mascolo
Anthony Mascolo (born 27 April 1957) is a hairdresser and international creative director of TIGI, a hair care product business. He has won the title "British Hairdresser of the Year" three times. Early years Mascolo was born in London, the son of Italian immigrants, Francesco and Maria Mascolo, the youngest of five brothers, four of whom were to become hairdressers. By the time he left school he was a competent and fully qualified hairdresser. His first job was in the family's Toni & Guy salon in South London, where his father and brother Bruno also worked. Anthony specialised in hairdressing for photographic shoots, and became a photographer himself. TIGI In 2002 when TIGI demerged from its parent company Toni & Guy, Anthony became international creative director . With his wife Pat he opened Bed Head Photographic Studios, in Battersea, London, and founded the TIGI international creative team, and was joined by Nick Irwin and Akos Bodi, as European creative director and Eur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lino Carbosiero
Raffaele Claudio Carbosiero (born 9 June 1964), known as Lino Carbosiero, is a British hair stylist of Italian origin, currently working at the famous Daniel Galvin hair salon in London. He was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 2014 New Year Honours for services to hairdressing. Career In the years of salon ownership, Carbosiero forged a liaison with the 80s pop management team of Stock Aitken Waterman. Through the record company, he began to become notable in the music, television and fashion industries, working with artists such as Jason Donovan, who invited him to appear (as a dustman) in the video for his single "When You Come Back To Me", and Kylie Minogue, for whom he created the look on the cover of her debut album '' Kylie''. In 1993 he began working at the Daniel Galvin salon and has since worked backstage on a variety of films, TV shows, concerts, and West End shows. He was the head stylist for all of the contestants who appeared on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kim Longinotto
Kim Longinotto ( Sally Anne Longinotto-Landseer; born 8 February 1948, London) is a British documentary film maker, well known for making films that highlight the plight of female victims of oppression or discrimination. Longinotto has made more than 20 films, usually featuring inspiring women and girls at their core. Her subjects have included female genital mutilation in Kenya (''The Day I Will Never Forget''), women standing up to rapists in India (''Pink Saris''), and the story of ''Salma'', an Indian Muslim woman who smuggled poetry out to the world while locked up by her family for decades. Early life Born Sally Anne Longinotto-Landseer to an Italian father and a Welsh mother on 8 February 1948; her father was a photographer who later went bankrupt. At the age of 10, she was sent to an all-girls boarding school, where she found it hard to make friends due to the mistress forbidding anyone to talk to her for a term after she became lost during a school trip. She discovere ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elliott Hasler
Elliott Simon Hasler (born 29 July 2000) is an English film director and screenwriter. Hasler is best known for the biopic ''Vindication Swim'', which centres around the story of Mercedes Gleitze and her attempt to become the first British woman to swim the English Channel. Career Having never received any formal teaching in relation to filmmaking, Hasler began his career aged 14 with the production of ''WWII: The Long Road Home''. The film took three years to make and was made while Hasler was still at school. The film centred upon the story of Hasler's great-grandfather who was an escaped prisoner of war in Italy during World War II and was completed in 2017, when Hasler was 16 years old. ''WWII: The Long Road Home'' was released to critical praise, citing the scope and scale of the project in relation to Hasler's age. Critic Graham Fuller described Hasler as "maybe the next Spielberg", calling the film "a miracle achievement for a schoolboy director", and Tim Walker of ''The Ne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ginevra Elkann
Ginevra Elkann (born 24 September 1979) is an Italian film producer and director, heiress and socialite. She is a member of the Agnelli family and granddaughter of Italian industrialist Gianni Agnelli. Early life Elkann was born in London, on 24 September 1979, the daughter of the Italian Margherita Agnelli and the French-Italian writer Alain Elkann. Her father is Jewish and her mother is Catholic, and she was raised Catholic. Her maternal grandparents were princess and socialite Marella Agnelli and the industrialist Gianni Agnelli. She is the great-grandniece of Ettore Ovazza. She has two older brothers, John Elkann, who is chairman of the Fiat group of companies, and Lapo Elkann. Her parents divorced when she was young, and she moved first to Rio de Janeiro and then to Paris with her mother and stepfather, the Russian count Serge de Pahlen. She graduated from the American University of Paris. Career Elkann worked as third assistant director on Bernardo Bertolucci's 1998 fil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anna Hassan
Dame Anna Patricia Lucy Hassan, DBE (née Fusco; born 1946, Northern Ireland) is a British educator. She is Consultant Head at Daubeney Primary School, and a former Executive Head of Millfields Community School (Hilsea Street, Hackney, London). Teaching career 1963: Trains at Coloma College, West Wickham, Kent (a Catholic teacher training school) 1967: Starts teaching at St Joseph's Primary School in Southwark, London 1979: Works in schools throughout Hackney after taking a break to raise her son 1983: Appointed deputy head at Grasmere School, Hackney; later named headteacher 1993: Invited to take charge of Millfields 2009: Retires from Millfields and takes up consultancy Millfields Hassan was credited with turning the Millfields Community School, one of London's worst-performing schools, around academically, although it took a dozen years. Biography Anna Patricia Lucy Fusco was born and raised in Banbridge, County Down, Northern Ireland, by Italian parents, where she initial ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
