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Amerigo Anton Camillo Tanio Boccia (15 June 1911 – 12 March 1982), was an Italian film director and screenwriter active between the 1950s and the early 1970s. From 1960 onwards, he was regularly credited as Amerigo Anton. Career Born in Potenza, Basilic ...

, alias of Tanio Boccia, Italian film director and screenwriter * Amerigo (Amico) Aspertini, Italian painter and sculptor * Amerigo Bartoli Natinguerra, Italian painter, caricaturist, and writer *

Amerigo Cacioni Amerigo Cacioni (3 May 1908 – 12 December 2005) was an Italian racing cyclist Cycle sport is competitive physical activity using bicycles. There are several categories of bicycle racing including road bicycle racing, cyclo-cross, ...

, Italian cyclist * Amerigo Castrighella, Italian actor *

Amerigo Corsanego Amerigo Corsanego was an Italian wrestler. He competed in the Greco-Roman middleweight event at the 1920 Summer Olympics The 1920 Summer Olympics (; ; ), officially known as the Games of the VII Olympiad (; ; ) and commonly known as Antwerp ...

, Italian wrestler *

Amerigo Dumini Amerigo Dumini (; January 3, 1894 – December 25, 1967) was an American-born Italian fascist hitman who led the group responsible for the 1924 assassination of Unitary Socialist Party leader Giacomo Matteotti. Biography ...

(1894–1967), Italian fascist activist *

Amerigo Gazaway Amerigo Gazaway (born November 9, 1985) is an American producer, emcee and DJ known for remixes, original instrumentals and digital sampling. He is best known for his documentary style conceptual collaboration albums which have incorporated the ...

(born 1986), American musician * Amerigo Paradiso (born 1962), Italian footballer * Amerigo Petrucci (1922–1983), Italian politician * Amerigo Salvetti, alias of Alessandro Antelminelli, Italian diplomat, adventurer and conspirator *

Amerigo Sbigoli Americo (Amerigo) Sbigoli (died January 1822) was an Italian tenor. He is best known for the unusual manner of his death, as documented by the composer Giovanni Pacini. Singing the second tenor part in a performance of Pacini's opera ''Cesare in ...

, Italian tenor * Amerigo Serrao, birth name of Arthur Varney, American screenwriter and film director * Amerigo Severini, Italian cyclist *

Amerigo Thodé Amerigo Constantino Maria Thodé (27 July 1950 – 14 December 2023) was a Curaçaoan politician of the Movement for the Future of Curaçao (MFK). He served as President of the Parliament of Curaçao between November and December 2012 and once a ...

(born 1950), Curaçaoan politician *

Amerigo Tot Amerigo Tot (born Imre Tóth; 27 September 1909 – 13 December 1984) was a Hungarian sculptor and occasional actor. Born in Fehérvárcsurgó, Austria-Hungary he moved to Rome towards the end of the 1920s, where he lived for the rest of his life ...

(1909–1984), Hungarian sculptor and actor *

Amerigo Vespucci Amerigo Vespucci ( , ; 9 March 1454 – 22 February 1512) was an Italians, Italian explorer and navigator from the Republic of Florence for whom "Naming of the Americas, America" is named. Vespucci participated in at least two voyages of the A ...

(1454–1512), Italian merchant, explorer and cartographer after whom the American continents were named *

Francisco Javier Amérigo Francisco Javier Amérigo y Aparici (2 June 1842, Valencia - 28 March 1912, Madrid) was a Spanish painter who specialized in historical scenes. Biography He began his studies at the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Carlos in Valencia, wh ...

, Spanish painter

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* ''Amerigo'', a 1978 LP by Italian singer-songwriter

Francesco Guccini Francesco Guccini (; born 14 June 1940) is an Italian singer-songwriter, actor, and writer. During the five decades of his music career he has recorded 16 studio albums and collections, and 6 live albums. He is also a writer, having published ...

* "Amerigo", a song from the 2012 album '' Banga'' by Patti Smith * Amerigo,

Sinterklaas Sinterklaas () or Sint-Nicolaas () is a legendary figure based on Saint Nicholas, patron saint of children. Other Dutch names for the figure include ''De Sint'' ("The Saint"), ''De Goede Sint'' ("The Good Saint") and ''De Goedheiligman'' (derive ...

's white horse *

Amerigo Bonasera Amerigo may refer to: People * Amerigo Anton, alias of Tanio Boccia, Italian film director and screenwriter * Amerigo (Amico) Aspertini, Italian painter and sculptor * Amerigo Bartoli Natinguerra, Italian painter, caricaturist, and writer * A ...

, a fictional character from ''The Godfather'' by Mario Puzo * Prince Amerigo, a fictional character in the 1904 novel ''

The Golden Bowl ''The Golden Bowl'' is a 1904 novel by Henry James. Set in England, this complex, intense study of marriage and adultery completes what some critics have called the "major phase" of James's career. ''The Golden Bowl'' explores the tangle of in ...

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