Giorgio is a male Italian given name derived from the Greek

Georgios Georgios (, , ) is a Ancient Greek, Greek name derived from the word ''georgos'' (, , "farmer" lit. "earth-worker"). The word ''georgos'' (, ) is a compound (linguistics), compound of ''ge'' (, , "earth", "soil") and ''ergon'' (, , "task", "underta ...

and sometimes a surname. It is equivalent to the English name George. Notable people with the name include:

Surname

* Eusebio da San Giorgio, Italian painter *

Francesco di Giorgio Francesco di Giorgio Martini (1439–1501) was an Italian architect, engineer, painter, sculptor, and writer. As a painter, he belonged to the Sienese School. He was considered a visionary architectural theorist—in Nikolaus Pevsner's terms ...

, Italian painter * Francesco Giorgio, Italian writer * Frank Di Giorgio, Canadian city councillor *

Gail Brewer-Giorgio Gail Brewer-Giorgio (March 18, 1939 – January 25, 2025) was an American author best known for perpetuating the conspiracy theory that Elvis Presley may have faked his own death. In 1978 she published ''Orion'', a novel based loosely on Presl ...

, American author *

Marchesi di San Giorgio Marchesi is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Marchesi (title), or Marquess * Blanche Marchesi (1863–1940), French opera singer and teacher, daughter of Mathilde Marchesi * Concetto Marchesi (1878–1957), Italian politician * ...

, Maltese nobility *

Marosa di Giorgio Marosa di Giorgio (née María Rosa di Giorgio Médici, Salto, 1932 – Montevideo, 2004) was a Uruguayan poet and novelist. Marosa di Giorgio is considered one of the most singular voices in Latin America. Critics tend to agree that her writing ...

, Uruguayan writer * Pietro De Giorgio (born 1983), Italian footballer

Given name

* Giorgio Ordelaffi, Italian nobility *

Giorgio de' Buondelmonti Giorgio de' Buondelmonti (, 1403–after 1435) was the Despot of Epirus, ruler of Ioannina for twenty days in 1411, under the regency of his mother Jevdokija Balšić. After spending several years in exile, Giorgio reappears in the sources as the ...

, ruler of Ioannina in 1411

Artists and entertainers

* Carlo Giorgio Garofalo, Italian composer * Giorgio Amendola, Italian writer * Giorgio Andreoli, Italian potter * Giorgio Anselmi, Italian painter *

Giorgio Arlorio Giorgio Arlorio (27 February 1929 – 25 July 2019) was an Italian screenwriter and director. Biography Born in Turin, Arlorio began his career in 1951 as an assistant director for Pietro Germi, Mario Soldati and Michelangelo Antonioni, while ...

, Italian screenwriter and director *

Giorgio Armani Giorgio Armani (; born 11 July 1934) is an Italian fashion designer and a billionaire. He first gained renown working for Cerruti 1881. He formed his company, Armani, in 1975, which eventually expanded into music, sport, and luxury hotels. By 200 ...

, Italian fashion designer * Giorgio Baffo, Italian poet * Giorgio Bàrberi Squarotti, Italian literary critic *

Giorgio Bassani Giorgio Bassani (Bologna, 4 March 1916 – Rome, 13 April 2000) was an Italians, Italian novelist, poet, essayist, editor, and international intellectual. Biography Bassani was born in Bologna into a prosperous Jewish family of Ferrara, where h ...

, Italian writer * Giorgio Bianchi, Italian film director * Giorgio Calabrese, Italian songwriter * Giorgio Cantarini, Italian actor *

Giorgio Capitani Giorgio Capitani (29 December 1927 – 25 March 2017) was an Italian film director and screenwriter A screenwriter (also called scriptwriter, scribe, or scenarist) is a person who practices the craft of writing for visual mass media, ...

, Italian film director * Giorgio Cavaglieri, Italian-American painter * Giorgio Cavazzano, Italian comic strip artist * Giorgio Colangeli, Italian actor *

Giorgio Chinaglia Giorgio Chinaglia (; 24 January 1947 – 1 April 2012) was an Italian association football, footballer who played as a striker (association football), striker. He grew up and played his early football in Cardiff, Wales, and began his career with ...

, Italian soccer player *

Giorgio de Chirico Giuseppe Maria Alberto Giorgio de Chirico ( ; ; 10 July 1888 – 20 November 1978) was an Italian artist and writer born in Greece. In the years before World War I, he founded the art movement, which profoundly influenced the surrealists. His ...

, Italian painter * Giorgio Duranti, Italian painter *

Giorgio Faletti Giorgio Faletti (; 25 November 1950 – 4 July 2014) was an Italian writer, musician, actor and comedian. Born in Asti, Piedmont, he lived on Elba Island. His books have been translated into 25 languages and published with great success in Europ ...

, Italian writer * Giorgio Ferrich, Croatian writer *

Giorgio Ferroni Giorgio Ferroni (12 April 1908 – 17 August 1981) was an Italian film director. Life and career Giorgio Ferroni was born in Perugia on 12 April 1908. Ferroni began his career in film with short documentaries during World War II. He directed his ...

, Italian director * Giorgio Gaber, Italian singer-songwriter * Giorgio Gandini del Grano, Italian painter *

Giorgio Gaslini Giorgio Gaslini (; 22 October 1929 – 29 July 2014) was an Italian jazz pianist, composer and conductor. He began performing aged 13 and recorded with his jazz trio at 16. In the 1950s and 1960s, Gaslini performed with his own quartet. He was ...

, Italian jazz pianist * Giorgio Federico Ghedini, Italian composer * Giorgio Ghisi, Italian engraver * Giorgio Gomelsky, Georgian record producer * Giorgio Grassi, Italian architect * Giorgio Lamberti (tenor), Italian tenor *

Giorgio Locatelli Giorgio Locatelli (born 6 April 1963) is an Italian Michelin starred chef and restaurateur working and living in the United Kingdom. Early life Locatelli was brought up in Corgeno in the comune of Vergiate on the banks of Lake Comabbio, northe ...

, Italian television chef *

Giorgio Mainerio Giorgio Mainerio (c. 1530s – 3 or 4 May 1582) was an Italian musician, composer, and occultist. He started his career as a presbyter and would only later start his musical career in the 1560s. Most of the songs he composed were in the 1570s ...

, Italian composer *

Giorgio Manganelli Giorgio Manganelli (15 November 1922 – 28 May 1990) was an Italian journalist, avant-garde writer, translator and literary critic. A native of Milan, he was one of the leaders of the avant-garde literary movement in Italy in the 1960s, Gruppo ...

, Italian writer *

Giorgio Massari Giorgio Massari (13 October 1687 – 20 December 1766) was an Italian late-Baroque architect from Venice. He designed the Villa Lattes near Treviso in 1715, the church of Santo Spritito in Udine, the church of Santa Maria della Pace, Brescia, Sa ...

, Italian architect *

Giorgio Morandi Giorgio Morandi (July 20, 1890 – June 18, 1964) was an Italian painter and printmaker widely known for his subtly muted still-life paintings of ceramic vessels, flowers, and landscapes—their quiet, meditative quality reflecting the artist's ...

, Italian painter *

Giorgio Moroder Giovanni Giorgio Moroder (, ; born 26 April 1940) is an Italian composer and music producer. Dubbed the "Honorific nicknames in popular music, Father of Disco", Moroder is credited with pioneering Euro disco and electronic dance music. His work ...

, Italian record producer *

Giorgio Moser Giorgio Moser (9 October 1923 – 25 September 2004) was an Italian film director and screenwriter. He directed seven films between 1954 and 1996. Selected filmography * '' Romulus and the Sabines'' (1945) * '' Lost Continent'' (1955) *''Un ...

, Italian film director and screenwriter * Giorgio Orsini, Croatian sculptor * George Ortuzar, Cuban-American television personality (nicknamed "Giorgio" on his show ''Giorgiomania'') * Giorgio Pacchioni, Italian performer * Giorgio Pasotti, Italian actor and martial arts athlete * Giorgio Pastina, Italian screenwriter and film director * Giorgio Pressburger, Italian writer * Giorgio Prosperi, Italian screenwriter * Giorgio Pullicino, Maltese painter and architect * Giorgio Ronconi, Italian baritone * Giorgio Sadotti, British conceptual artist * Giorgio Saviane, Italian writer *

Giorgio Scerbanenco Giorgio Scerbanenco (; ; ; 18 July 1911 – 27 October 1969) was a Ukrainians, Ukrainian-born Italians, Italian crime fiction writer. Life and works Giorgio Scerbanenco was born in Kyiv, in what was then the Russian Empire. At an early age, h ...

, Italian crime writer * Giorgio Costantino Schinas, Maltese architect and civil engineer * Giorgio Sommer, German-Italian photographer *

Giorgio Strehler Giorgio Strehler (; ; 14 August 1921 – 25 December 1997) was an Italian stage director, theatre practitioner, actor, and politician. Strehler was one of the most significant figures in Italian theatre during his lifetime, described by Mel Gu ...

, Italian opera director * Giorgio Tirabassi, Italian actor * Giorgio Tozzi, American opera singer * Giorgio A. Tsoukalos, Swiss-born Greek writer * Giorgio Tuinfort, Suriname-born Dutch music composer and producer * Giorgio van Straten, Italian writer *

Giorgio Vasari Giorgio Vasari (30 July 1511 – 27 June 1574) was an Italian Renaissance painter, architect, art historian, and biographer who is best known for his work ''Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects'', considered the ideol ...

, Italian painter and architect * Giorgio Zancanaro, Italian baritone * Pier Giorgio Di Cicco, Italian-Canadian poet

Politicians

Giorgio Adorno Giorgio Adorno was a statesman who became doge of the Republic of Genoa for two years. His father was Adornino Adorno and his mother Nicolosia della Rocca and his brother, Antoniotto, was elected four times as doge of the Republic. He was born c ...

, doge of the Republic of Genoa * Giorgio Almirante, Italian politician * Giorgio Borġ Olivier, Maltese politician * Giorgio Carbone, Italian "head of state" of Seborga * Giorgio Carollo, Italian politician *

, ruler of Epirus *

Giorgio Giudici Giorgio Giudici (born 29 May 1945) is a Swiss architect and politician A politician is a person who participates in Public policy, policy-making processes, usually holding an elective position in government. Politicians represent the people, m ...

, Swiss politician * Giorgio La Malfa, Italian politician * Giorgio La Pira, Italian politician * Giorgio Mammoliti, Canadian city councillor * Giorgio Mitrovich, Maltese politician and activist *

Giorgio Napolitano Giorgio Napolitano (; 29 June 1925 – 22 September 2023) was an Italian politician who served as President of Italy from 2006 to 2015, the first to be re-elected to the office. In office for 8 years and 244 days, he was the longest-serving pre ...

, Italian president * Giorgio Orsoni, Italian politician * Giorgio Ruffolo, Italian economist, journalist and politician * Giorgio Sonnino, Italian politician * Giorgio Tonini (born 1959), Italian journalist and politician * Giorgio Vido, Italian politician

Scientists and philosophers

Gian Giorgio Trissino Gian Giorgio Trissino (8 July 1478 – 8 December 1550), also called Giovan Giorgio Trissino and self-styled as Giovan Giωrgio Trissino, was a Venetian Renaissance humanist, poet, dramatist, diplomat, grammarian, linguist, and philosopher. ...

, Italian humanist *

Giorgio Abetti Prof Giorgio Abetti HFRSE (5 October 1882 – 24 August 1982) was an Italian solar astronomer.G. GodolABETTI, Giorgio Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (in Italian) Life He was born in Padua, the son of noted astronomer Antonio Abetti. He w ...

, Italian solar astronomer *

Giorgio Agamben Giorgio Agamben ( ; ; born 22 April 1942) is an Italian philosopher best known for his work investigating the concepts of the state of exception, form-of-life (borrowed from Ludwig Wittgenstein) and '' homo sacer''. The concept of biopolitic ...

, Italian philosopher * Giorgio Antonucci, Italian physician * Giorgio Baglivi, Croatian scientist *

Giorgio Biandrata Giorgio Biandrata or Blandrata (15155 May 1588) was an Italian-born Transylvanian physician and polemicist, who came from the De Biandrate family, powerful from the early part of the 13th century. He was an antitrinitarian. Biandrata was born i ...

, Italian physician * Giorgio Buttazzo, Italian engineer * Giorgio Ceragioli, Italian engineer and peace activist * Giorgio Colli, Italian philosophy professor * Giorgio Del Vecchio, Italian legal philosopher *

Giorgio Jan Giorgio Jan (21 December 1791 in Vienna – 8 May 1866, Milan) was an Italian taxonomist, zoologist, botanist, herpetologist, and writer. He is also known as Georg Jan or Georges Jan. He was the first director of the natural history museum at Mi ...

, Italian zoologist * Giorgio Levi Della Vida, Italian Jewish linguist *

Giorgio Malinverni Giorgio Malinverni is a Swiss law professor at the University of Geneva. On 27 June 2006, he was elected by the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe as the judge in respect of Switzerland on the European Court of Human Rights. He holds a ...

, Swiss law professor * Giorgio Nataletti, Italian musicologist *

Giorgio Parisi Giorgio Parisi (born 4 August 1948) is an Italian theoretical physicist, whose research has focused on quantum field theory, statistical mechanics In physics, statistical mechanics is a mathematical framework that applies statistical methods ...

, Italian theoretical physicist * Giorgio Pestelli, Italian musicologist *

Giorgio Samorini Giorgio Samorini (born 1957 in Bologna, Italy Italy, officially the Italian Republic, is a country in Southern Europe, Southern and Western Europe, Western Europe. It consists of Italian Peninsula, a peninsula that extends into the Medit ...

, Italian ethnobotanist * Giorgio Sideri, Italian cartographer

Sportsmen

* Giorgio Achterberg, Dutch football player * Giorgio Alverà, Italian bobsledder * Giorgio Anglesio, Italian fencer * Giorgio Avola, Italian fencer * Giorgio Bassi, Italian race car driver * Giorgio Belladonna, Italian bridge player * Giorgio Biasini, Italian bobsledder * Giorgio Bocchino, Italian fencer *

Giorgio Cagnotto Franco Giorgio Cagnotto (; born 2 June 1947) is an Italian former diver, who competed in five consecutive Summer Olympics for his native country, starting in 1964. He is married to fellow diver Carmen Casteiner. Their daughter, Tania Cagnotto ...

, Italian diver * Giorgio Cecchinel, Italian cyclist *

Giorgio Chiellini Giorgio Chiellini (; born 14 August 1984) is an Italian former professional Association football, footballer who played as a Defender (association football)#Centre-back, centre-back or Defender (association football)#Full-back, left-back. Consi ...

, Italian football player *

, Italian football striker * Giorgio Cornacchia, Italian rugby league footballer * Giorgio Corona, Italian football player * Giorgio de Bettin, Italian ice hockey player * Giorgio Di Centa, Italian cross country skier * Giorgio Duboin, Italian bridge player *

Giorgio Ferrini Giorgio Ferrini (; 18 August 1939 – 8 November 1976) was an Italian association football, football manager (association football), manager and former football player who played as a midfielder. Nicknamed ''La Diga'' ('The Dam') for his qualiti ...

, Italian football player * Giorgio Francia, Italian racing driver * Giorgio Frezzolini, Italian football player * Giorgio Frinolli, Italian hurdler * Giorgio Furlan, Italian cyclist *

Giorgio Galimberti Giorgio Galimberti (; born 5 September 1976) is a former Italian professional tennis player. Born in Milan, Galimberti turned professional in 1995. His career-high rankings were World No. 115 (May 2003) in singles and No. 65 (June 2005) in doubl ...

, Italian tennis player * Giorgio Ghezzi, Italian football player * Giorgio Gorla, Italian sailor * Giorgio Lalle, Italian breaststroke swimmer * Giorgio Lamberti, Italian swimmer * Giorgio Lucenti, Italian football player * Giorgio Marras, Italian sprinter * Giorgio Mazza, Italian hurdler * Giorgio Mondini, Swiss racing driver * Giorgio Morini, Italian football player * Giorgio Oberweger, Italian athlete *

Giorgio Pantano Giorgio Pantano (born 4 February 1979) is an Italian former professional racing driver who drove for the Jordan Grand Prix, Jordan Formula One team for much of the 2004 Formula One season, 2004 season before being replaced by Timo Glock. He also ...

, Italian racing driver * Giorgio Perondini, Italian swimmer * Giorgio Pessina, Italian fencer * Giorgio Petrosyan, Italian kickboxer * Giorgio Piantanida, Italian alpine skier * Giorgio Piantella, Italian pole vaulter * Giorgio Pichler, Italian luger * Giorgio Puia, Italian football player * Giorgio Rasulo, English football player * Giorgio Rocca, Italian alpine skier * Giorgio Roselli, Italian football player and coach * Giorgio Rossano, Italian football player * Giorgio Rubino, Italian race walker * Giorgio Santelli, Italian fencer * Giorgio Sbruzzi, Italian canoeist *

Giorgio Scarlatti Giorgio Scarlatti (2 October 1921 – 26 July 1990) was a racing driver from Italy. He participated in 15 Formula One World Championship Grands Prix, debuting on 13 May 1956. Formula One career Scarlatti was born in Rome. He got interested in ra ...

, Italian racing driver * Giorgio Schiavini, Italian football player * Giorgio Sterchele, Italian football player * Giorgio Tavecchio, Italian born gridiron football player * Giorgio Treves de'Bonfili, Italian football player * Giorgio Vanzetta, Italian cross country skier * Giorgio Venturin, Italian footballer * Giorgio Visioli, English boxer * Giorgio Zampori, Italian gymnast

Other professions

Giorgio Basta Giorgio Basta, Count of Huszt, Gjergj Basta or Gheorghe Basta (1550 – 1607) was an Kingdom of Naples, Italian general, diplomat, and writer of Arbëreshë people, Arbëreshë Albanian origin, employed by the Holy Roman Emperor Rudolf II to com ...

, Italian general * Giorgio DeLuca, American entrepreneur * Giorgio Gusmini, Italian cardinal * Giorgio Panto, Italian entrepreneur * Giorgio Perlasca, Italian war hero *

Pier Giorgio Frassati Pier Giorgio Frassati, TOSD (6 April 1901 – 4 July 1925) was an Italian Catholic activist and a member of the Third Order of Saint Dominic. He was dedicated to social justice issues and joined several charitable organizations, including Catholi ...

, Italian Roman Catholic social activist, beatified * Giorgio Banti, Italian linguist

Fictional characters

* Giorgio Bruno, from the video game ''

Time Crisis 4 ''Time Crisis 4'' is a 2006 light-gun shooter video game developed by Namco Bandai Games and Nex Entertainment , formerly known as GAU Entertainment and , was a Japanese video game developer originally established in 1992. It developed games f ...

'' * Giorgio Zott, the main antagonist from the video game '' Time Crisis 3''

Places

"San Giorgio" is the Italian for

Saint George Saint George (;Geʽez: ጊዮርጊስ, , ka, გიორგი, , , died 23 April 303), also George of Lydda, was an early Christian martyr who is venerated as a saint in Christianity. According to holy tradition, he was a soldier in the ...

. Placenames with Giorgio or San Giorgio include:

Municipalities and towns

Castel Giorgio Castel Giorgio is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Terni in the Italian region Umbria, located about southwest of Perugia and about 60 km northwest of Terni on the Alfine Highland, facing the Lake Bolsena. The municipality of Cast ...

* Castel San Giorgio *

Monforte San Giorgio Monforte San Giorgio ( Sicilian: ''Munforti'') is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Metropolitan City of Messina in the Italian region Sicily, located about east of Palermo and about west of Messina. It is home to the remains of a castle bu ...

* Porto San Giorgio *

San Giorgio a Cremano San Giorgio a Cremano is a ''city'' in the Metropolitan City of Naples, in Italy. It is located on the foothills of Mount Vesuvius to the west of the volcano and the Tyrrhenian sea, and is five kilometres to the south east of the centre of Naples ...

* San Giorgio Albanese *

San Giorgio a Liri San Giorgio a Liri is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Province of Frosinone in the Italy, Italian region Lazio, located about southeast of Rome and about southeast of Frosinone. Geography The little town is located in the southernmost part ...

* San Giorgio Canavese * San Giorgio della Richinvelda * San Giorgio delle Pertiche * San Giorgio del Sannio * San Giorgio di Lomellina *

San Giorgio di Mantova San Giorgio Bigarello, until 2018 as San Giorgio di Mantova (Emilian language#Dialects, Mantovano: ) is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Province of Mantua in the Italy, Italian region Lombardy, located about east of Milan and about east of Man ...

San Giorgio di Nogaro San Giorgio di Nogaro (, locally ) is a (municipality) in the Regional decentralization entity of Udine in the Italian region of Friuli-Venezia Giulia, located about northwest of Trieste and about south of Udine. As of 31 December 2004, it had ...

* San Giorgio di Pesaro * San Giorgio di Piano * San Giorgio in Bosco * San Giorgio Ionico * San Giorgio La Molara * San Giorgio Lucano * San Giorgio Monferrato * San Giorgio Morgeto *

San Giorgio Piacentino San Giorgio Piacentino (, or ) is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Province of Piacenza in the Italian region Emilia-Romagna, located about northwest of Bologna and about south of Piacenza. San Giorgio Piacentino borders the following municip ...

* San Giorgio Scarampi * San Giorgio su Legnano * Torre San Giorgio

Others

Monte San Giorgio Monte San Giorgio is a Swiss mountain and UNESCO World Heritage Site near the border between Switzerland and Italy. It is part of the Lugano Prealps, overlooking Lake Lugano in the Swiss Canton of Ticino. Monte San Giorgio is a wooded mountai ...

, Swiss mountain *

Palazzo San Giorgio The Palazzo San Giorgio or Palace of St. George (also known as the Palazzo delle Compere di San Giorgio) is one of the most important and well-known historic buildings in Genoa. It currently houses the headquarters of the Port System Authority of ...

, palace in Genoa * Pieve di San Giorgio, church in Argenta * San Giorgio al Palazzo, church in Milan * San Giorgio in Velabro, church in Rome *

San Giorgio Maggiore San Giorgio Maggiore () is one of the islands of Venice, northern Italy, lying east of the Giudecca and south of the main island group. The island, or more specifically its Palladian church, is an important landmark. It has been much painted, ...

, island of Venice ** Church of San Giorgio Maggiore, Palladian church on the island ** San Giorgio Maggiore at dusk, painting by Claude Monet ** San Giorgio Monastery, monastery on the island * San Giorgio (Siena), church in Siena * Stadio Giorgio Ascarelli, Italian sports stadium

Other uses

* ''San Giorgio'' class, Italian type of amphibious transport dock * San Giorgio-class cruiser, class of Italian armoured cruisers * '' Yes, Giorgio'', musical with Luciano Pavarotti