Luigi is a masculine Italian given name. It is the Italian form of the German name Ludwig, through the Latinization Ludovicus, corresponding to the French name

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region. A derived feminine name is ''Luigina''.

People with the given name Luigi

Crime and law

* Luigi Chiatti (born 1968), serial killer *

Luigi de Magistris (politician) Luigi de Magistris (born 20 June 1967) is an Italian politician and a former prosecutor. He served as mayor of Naples from 2011 to 2021, and a member of the European Parliament from 2009 to 2011. He is the leader of the political formation Peop ...

(born 1967), prosecutor * Luigi Ferrari Bravo (1933–2016), jurist * Luigi Giuliano (born 1949), Camorrista of the Giuliano clan * Luigi Lucheni (1873–1910), anarchist and assassin * Luigi Mangione (born 1998), suspect in the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson * Luigi Manocchio (1927-2024), Italian-American mobster * Luigi Riccio (born 1957), pentito and former Camorrista * Luigi Scotti (born 1932), judge * Luigi Vollaro, Camorrista of the Vollaro clan

Engineering and mathematics

* Luigi Bianchi (1856–1928), mathematician * Luigi Colani (1928–2019), German industrial designer *

Luigi Cremona Antonio Luigi Gaudenzio Giuseppe Cremona (7 December 1830 – 10 June 1903) was an Italian mathematician. His life was devoted to the study of geometry and reforming advanced mathematical teaching in Italy. He worked on algebraic curves and alg ...

(1830–1903), mathematician * Luigi Dadda (1923–2012), computer engineer *

Luigi Fantappiè Luigi Fantappiè (15 September 1901 – 28 July 1956) was an Italian mathematician, known for work in mathematical analysis and for creating the theory of analytic functionals: he was a student and follower of Vito Volterra. Later in life, he p ...

(1901–1956), mathematician * Luigi Poletti (mathematician) (1864–1967), mathematician and poet *

Luigi Segre Luigi "Gigi" Segre (8 November 1919 – 28 February 1963) was an Italian automotive designer noted for his business and engineering acumen during his stewardship and ownership of Carrozzeria Ghia (1953–63), one of an Italy's premier automobile ...

(1919–1963), automotive designer and engineer * Luigi Vanvitelli (1700–1773), engineer and architect

Film and television

* Luigi Almirante (1886–1963), film actor * Luigi Batzella, Z-movie director *

Luigi Bonos Luigi Bonos (1910–2000) was an Italian comedian and stage, television and film actor. He appeared in more than 70 films between 1945 and 1992. Born in Berlin, Germany, the son of two Hungarian circus artists, along with his brothers Vitto ...

(1910–2000), film actor *

Luigi Capuano Luigi Capuano (13 July 1904 – 20 October 1979) was an Italian film director and screenwriter. Born in Naples, he directed 43 films between 1947 and 1971. He sometimes used the pseudonym Lewis King. Biography Luigi Capuano was born on July 1 ...

(1904–1979), film director and screenwriter * Luigi Cimara (1891–1962), film actor *

Luigi Comencini Luigi Comencini (; 8 June 1916 – 6 April 2007) was an Italian film director. Together with Dino Risi, Ettore Scola, and Mario Monicelli, he was considered among the masters of the "commedia all'italiana" genre. His daughters Cristina Comencin ...

(1916–2007), film director * Luigi Cozzi (born 1947), movie director and screenwriter * Luigi Filippo D'Amico (1924–2007), director and writer * Luigi Gervasi, set decorator from 1947–68 * Luigi Lo Cascio (born 1967), actor *

Luigi Magni Luigi Magni (21 March 1928 – 27 October 2013) was an Italian screenwriter and film director. Life and career Born in Rome, Italy, Magni started his career as a screenwriter, in 1956, with '' Tempo di villeggiatura''. In 1968 he collabo ...

(1928-2013), screenwriter and film director * Luigi Pane (born 1977), director and video artist *

Luigi Pavese Luigi Pavese (25 October 1897 – 13 December 1969) was an Italian actor and voice actor. Biography Born in Asti, Pavese started his career in 1916 working as a silent film actor at 19 years of age. He then began his theatrical debut in 1 ...

(1896–1969), film actor * Luigi Petrucci (born 1956), film and television actor *

Luigi Pistilli Luigi Pistilli (19 July 192921 April 1996) was an Italian actor of stage, screen, and television. At one time Pistilli was one of Italy's most respected actors of stage, screen, and television. In theater, he was considered one of the country's ...

(1929–1996), actor of stage, screen, and television * Luigi Scaccianoce (1914–1981), production designer, art director, and set decorator *

Luigi Zampa Luigi Zampa (2 January 1905 – 16 August 1991) was an Italian film director. Biography Son of a worker, Zampa studied filmmaking from 1932 to 1937 at the Italian film school in Rome. He directed several Italian neorealism films in the 1940 ...

(1905–1991), film-maker

Journalism and literature

* Luigi Alamanni (1495–1556), poet and statesman * Luigi Albertini (1871–1941), journalist and antifascist * Luigi Ballerini (born 1940), poet, professor, and historian of gastronomy * Luigi Bartolini (1892–1963), writer, poet, and painter * Luigi Barzini, Jr. (1908–1984), Italian-American journalist * Luigi Barzini, Sr. (1874–1947), journalist, war correspondent, and writer *

Luigi Capuana Luigi Capuana (May 28, 1839 – November 29, 1915) was an Italian author and journalist and one of the main exponents of '' Verismo''. He was a contemporary of Giovanni Verga, both having been born in the province of Catania within a year of eac ...

(1839–1915), author, journalist, and member of the Verist movement * Luigi Chiarelli (1880–1947), playwright, theatre critic, and writer of short stories * Luigi Da Porto (1485–1529), writer and storiographer * Luigi Fabbri (1877–1935), anarchist, writer, agitator, and propagandist * Luigi Fontanella (born 1943), poet, critic, translator, playwright, and novelist * Luigi Freddi (1895–1977), journalist and politician *

Luigi Malerba Luigi Malerba (11 November 1927 – 8 May 2008), born Luigi Bonardi, was an Italian author known for his short stories, historical novels, and screenplays. He was a prominent figure in the Neoavanguardia movement and co-founded ''Gruppo 63'', a l ...

(1927–2008), author and co-founder of the ''Gruppo 63'' * Luigi Meneghello (1922–2007), contemporary writer and scholar *

Luigi Pirandello Luigi Pirandello (; ; 28 June 1867 – 10 December 1936) was an Italians, 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 bold and ...

(1867–1936), writer *

Luigi Pulci Luigi Pulci (; 15 August 1432 – 11 November 1484) was an Italian diplomat and poet best known for his '' Morgante'', an epic and parodistic poem about a giant who is converted to Christianity by Orlando and follows the knight in many adventu ...

(1432–1484), poet best known for ''Morgante'' *

Luigi Tansillo Luigi Tansillo (15101 December 1568) was an Italian Late Renaissance poet. Tansillo deserves a special place in the history of Italian poetry, for he constitutes the link between the classical lyric of the Cinquecento and the baroque lyric of the ...

(1510–1568), poet of the Petrarchian and Marinist schools * Luigi Ugolini (1891–1980), writer

Military, nobility, and politics

* Luigi Alidosi (died 1430), lord of Imola from 1391 to 1424 * Luigi Amedeo, Duke of the Abruzzi (1873–1933), Italian prince, mountaineer, and explorer * Luigi Antonini (1883–1968), American trade union leader * Luigi Arisio (1926–2020), Italian politician * Luigi Berlinguer (1932–2023), Italian politician * Luigi Bertoldi (1920–2001), Italian politician * Luigi Braschi Onesti (before 1787–1816), nephew of Pope Pius VI * Luigi Cacciatore (1900–1951), Italian politician *

Luigi Cadorna Marshal of Italy Luigi Cadorna, (4 September 1850 – 21 December 1928) was an Italian people, Italian general, Marshal of Italy and Count, most famous for being the Chief of Staff of the Italian Army from 1914 until 1917 during World War I ...

(1850–1928), Italian general and marshal *

Luigi Capello Luigi Capello (14 April 1859 – 25 June 1941) was an Italian general, distinguished in both the Italo-Turkish War (1911–12) and World War I. During the Italo-Turkish War he served in Cyrenaica and took part in operations near Derna, comman ...

(1859–1941), Italian general * Luigi Castagnola (politician) (born 1936), Italian politician * Luigi Cocilovo (born 1947), Member of the European Parliament and University researcher in law * Luigi Cornaro (1464–1566), Venetian nobleman * Luigi, Count Cibrario (1802–1870), statesman and historian * Luigi dal Verme (?–1449), condottiero * Luigi Durand de la Penne (1914–1992), naval diver during World War II *

Luigi Einaudi Luigi Numa Lorenzo Einaudi (; 24 March 1874 – 30 October 1961) was an Italian politician, economist and banker who served as President of Italy from 1948 to 1955 and is considered one of the founding fathers of the 1946 Italian institutional ...

(1874–1961), politician and economist * Luigi R. Einaudi, U.S. career diplomat * Luigi Facta (1861–1930), politician and journalist * Luigi Carlo Farini (1812–1866), Italian physician, statesman, and historian *

Luigi Federzoni Luigi Federzoni (27 September 1878 – 24 January 1967) was an Italian nationalist and later Fascist politician. Biography Federzoni was born in Bologna. Educated at the university there, he took to journalism and literature, and for several ye ...

(1878–1967), nationalist and later Fascist politician *

Luigi Ferdinando Marsigli Count (nobility), Count Luigi Ferdinando Marsili (or Marsigli, ; 10 July 1658 – 1 November 1730) was an Italian scholar and natural scientist, who also served as an emissary and soldier. Biography Born in Bologna, he was a member of an an ...

(1658–1730), soldier and naturalist * Luigi Frusci (1879–1949), Royal Army officer during World War II * Luigi Gorrini (1917–2014), Italian fighter pilot during World War II * Luigi Granelli (1929–1999), Italian politician * Luigi Gui (1914–2010), politician and philosopher * Luigi Lonfernini (born 1938), Captain Regent of San Marino in 1971 and 2001 *

Luigi Longo Luigi Longo (15 March 1900 – 16 October 1980), also known as Gallo, was an Italian communist politician and general secretary of the Italian Communist Party from 1964 to 1972. He was also the first foreigner to be awarded an Order of Lenin. E ...

(1900–1980), Italian communist politician and secretary of the

Italian Communist Party The Italian Communist Party (, PCI) was a communist and democratic socialist political party in Italy. It was established in Livorno as the Communist Party of Italy (, PCd'I) on 21 January 1921, when it seceded from the Italian Socialist Part ...

Luigi Luzzatti Luigi Luzzatti (; 11 March 1841 – 29 March 1927) was an Italian financier, political economist, social philosopher, and jurist. He served as the 20th prime minister of Italy between 1910 and 1911. Luzzatti came from a wealthy and cultured Jew ...

(1841–1927), politician who served as Prime Minister between 1910 and 1911 * Luigi Mazzella (born 1932), Italian jurist and politician * Luigi Miceli (1824–1906), patriot, politician, and military figure * Luigi Mocenigo (disambiguation), multiple people * Luigi Nocera (1955–2025), Italian politician * Luigi Palma di Cesnola (1832–1904), Italian-American soldier and amateur archaeologist * Luigi Pantisano (born 1979), German politician * Luigi Parrilli, aristocrat *

Luigi Pelloux Luigi Gerolamo Pelloux (; 1 March 1839 – 26 October 1924) was an Italian general and politician from Savoy, born of parents who retained their Italian citizenship when Savoy was annexed to France. He was the Prime Minister of Italy from 29 Jun ...

(1839–1924), general and politician * Luigi Perenni (1913–1943), military officer and skier * Luigi Razza (1892–1935), Italian journalist and politician * Luigi Rava (1860–1938), Italian politician * Luigi Rizzo (1887–1951), naval officer and torpedo boat commander * Luigi Settembrini (1813–1877), Neapolitan man of letters and politician * Luigi Spaventa (1934–2013), Italian academic and politician * Luigi Viviani (born 1937), Italian politician * Luigi Viviani (soldier) (1903–1943), Italian engineer and soldier

Music

Luigi Alva Luis Ernesto Alva y Talledo (10 April 1927 – 15 May 2025), known professionally as Luigi Alva, was a Peruvian operatic tenor who worked internationally at the major opera houses and festivals. A Mozart and Rossini specialist, Alva achieved f ...

(1927–2025), Peruvian opera singer * Luigi Antinori (c. 1697–?), tenor * Luigi Arditi (1822–1903), violinist, composer, and conductor * Luigi Attademo (born 1972), classical guitarist * Luigi Bassi (1766–1825), operatic baritone *

Luigi Boccherini Ridolfo Luigi Boccherini (, also , ; 19 February 1743 – 28 May 1805) was an Italian composer and cellist of the Classical era whose music retained a courtly and '' galante'' style even while he matured somewhat apart from the major classi ...

(1743–1805), cellist and composer *

Luigi Cherubini Maria Luigi Carlo Zenobio Salvatore Cherubini ( ; ; 8 or 14 SeptemberWillis, in Sadie (Ed.), p. 833 1760 – 15 March 1842) was an Italian Classical and Romantic composer. His most significant compositions are operas and sacred music. Beethov ...

(1760–1842), Italian-born composer * Luigi Creatore (1921–2015), American songwriter and record producer * Luigi Dallapiccola (1904–1975), composer known for lyrical twelve-tone compositions * Ivan Della Mea (born as Luigi), singer-songwriter * Luigi Denza (1846–1922), composer * Luigi Gatti (1740–1817), classical composer *

Luigi Illica Luigi Illica (9 May 1857 – 16 December 1919) was an Italian librettist who wrote for Giacomo Puccini (usually with Giuseppe Giacosa), Pietro Mascagni, Alfredo Catalani, Umberto Giordano, Baron Alberto Franchetti and other important Italian ...

(1857–1919), librettist * Luigi Infantino (1921–1991), operatic tenor * Luigi Lablache (1794–1858), bass singer of French and Irish heritage * Luigi Legnani (1790–1877), guitarist and composer * Luigi Marchesi (1754–1829), castrato singer * Luigi Marini (1885–1942), Italian lyric tenor * Luigi Morleo (born 1970), percussionist and composer of contemporary music * Luigi Mostacci (1934–2003), pianist * Luigi Negri (disambiguation), multiple people *

Luigi Nono Luigi Nono (; 29 January 1924 – 8 May 1990) was an Italian avant-garde composer of classical music. Biography Early years Nono, born in Venice, was a member of a wealthy artistic family; his grandfather was a notable painter. Nono bega ...

(1924–1990), avant-garde composer of classical music * Luigi Piazza (1884–1967), operatic baritone * Luigi Piccioli (1812–1862), musician, singer, voice instructor, and professor * Luigi Ricci (vocal coach) (1893–1981), assistant conductor, accompanist, vocal coach, and author * Luigi Ricci (composer) (1805–1859), composer, particularly of operas * Luigi Ricci-Stolz (1852–1906), musician and composer * Luigi Rossi (1597–1653), Baroque composer *

Luigi Russolo Luigi Carlo Filippo Russolo (30 April 1885 – 4 February 1947) was an Italian Futurist painter, composer, builder of experimental musical instruments, and the author of the manifesto '' The Art of Noises'' (1913). Russolo completed his second ...

, composer * Luigi Antonio Sabbatini (1732–1809), Italian composer and music theorist * Luigi Sagrati (1921–2008), violinist * Luigi Tarisio (c. 1790–1854), violin dealer and collector * Luigi Tenco (1938–1967), singer, songwriter, and actor * Luigi Verderame, Belgian singer usually known just as Luigi *

Luigi von Kunits Ludwig Paul Maria "Luigi" von Kunits (20 July 1870 – 8 October 1931) was a Canadian conductor, composer, violinist, and pedagogue. Born in Austria, he studied at the Vienna Conservatory. He later moved to Canada where he was the founding con ...

(1870–1931), Austrian conductor, composer, violinist, and pedagogue * Luigi Waites (1927–2010), American jazz drummer and vibraphonist * Luigi Zamboni (1767–1837), operatic buffo bass-baritone * Luigi Zenobi (1540s – after 1602), virtuoso cornett player

Religion

* Luigi Amat di San Filippo e Sorso (1796–1878), dean of the College of Cardinals * Luigi Bilio (1826–1884), Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church * Luigi Capotosti (1863–1938), Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church * Luigi Ciacchi (1788–1865), Cardinal of the Catholic Church * Luigi Ciotti (born 1945), Roman Catholic priest * Luigi Dadaglio (1914–1990), Roman Catholic Cardinal and Major Penitentiary of the Apostolic Penitentiary * Luigi "Ossian" D'Ambrosio (born 1970), modern Druid, musician and jeweler * Luigi De Magistris (cardinal) (1926-2022), Roman Catholic Archbishop *

Luigi d'Este Luigi d'Este (21 December 1538 – 30 December 1586) was an Italian Catholic cardinal, the second son of the five children of Ercole II d'Este, Duke of Modena and Ferrara, and Renée de Valois, daughter of Louis XII of France. Biography Luigi, ...

(1538–1586) * Luigi Fortis (1748–1829), Jesuit * Luigi Giussani (1922–2005), Catholic priest, educator, and public intellectual * Luigi Guanella (1842–1912), Catholic priest from Northern Italy * Luigi Jacobini (1832–1887), Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church * Luigi Lambruschini (1776–1854), Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church *

Luigi Lavitrano Luigi Lavitrano (7 March 1874 – 2 August 1950) was an Italian cardinal of the Catholic Church who served as Archbishop of Palermo from 1928 to 1944, and as prefect of the Sacred Congregation for Religious from 1945 until his death. Lavi ...

(1874–1950), Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church * Luigi Lippomano (1500–1559), cardinal and hagiographer * Luigi Locati (1928–2005), Catholic missionary and bishop * Luigi Macchi (1832–1907), Catholic nobleman and Cardinal * Luigi Maglione (1877–1944), Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church * Luigi Mascolo, priest who defected to the Brazilian Catholic Apostolic Church * Luigi Mozzi (1746–1813), Jesuit controversialist * Luigi Oreglia di Santo Stefano (1828–1913), Cardinal of the Catholic Church * Luigi Orione (1872–1940), saint * Luigi Poggi (1917-2010), Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church * Luigi Raimondi (1912–1975), Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church * Luigi Sincero (1870–1936), Roman Catholic Cardinal *

Luigi Sturzo Luigi Sturzo (; 26 November 1871 – 8 August 1959) was an Italian Catholic priest and prominent politician. He was known in his lifetime as a former Christian socialist turned Popolarismo, popularist, and is considered one of the fathers of th ...

(1871–1959), Catholic priest and politician *

Luigi Taparelli Luigi Taparelli (born Prospero Taparelli d'Azeglio; 24 November 17932 September 1862) was an Italian scholar of the Society of Jesus and counter-revolutionary who coined the term social justice and elaborated the principles of subsidiarity as ...

(1793–1862), Catholic scholar of the Society of Jesus * Luigi Traglia (1895–1977), Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church * Luigi Tripepi (1836–1906), Roman Catholic cardinal and poet

Science

Luigi Aloysius Colla Luigi Aloysius Colla (30 April 1766 – 23 December 1848) was an Italian botanist of the late 18th and early 19th centuries. He was a member of the Provisional Government of Savoy from December 12, 1798, to April 2, 1799, taking his turn as chai ...

(1766–1848), botanist *

Luigi Amoroso Luigi Amoroso (26 March 1886 – 28 October 1965) was an Italian neoclassical economist influenced by Vilfredo Pareto. He provided support for and influenced the Economy of Italy under Fascism, 1922–1943, economic policy during the fascist regim ...

(1886–1965), neoclassical economist * Luigi Bellardi (1859–1889), malacologist and entomologist *

Luigi Bodio Luigi Bodio (born 12 October 1840 in Milan–2 November 1920 in Rome) was an Italian economist and statistician, among the founders of Italian Statistics. He was the first General Secretary of the International Statistical Institute (ISI) and amo ...

(1840–1920), economist and statistician *

Luigi Cagnola Marchese Luigi Cagnola (9 June 1762 – 14 August 1833) was a Neoclassical architecture, Neoclassical Italian architect. Biography Early years and education Cagnola was born in Milan. He was sent at the age of fourteen to the Clementine Colleg ...

(1762–1833), architect *

Luigi Canina Luigi Canina (23 October 1795 – 17 October 1856) was an Italian archaeologist and architect. Together with Giuseppe Valadier, he was a leading figure of archaeologically correct Neoclassicism in early-19 century Rome. He was the second recipient ...

(1795–1856), archaeologist and architect * Luigi Caponaro (1567–1622), healer * Luigi Carnera (1875–1962), astronomer * Luigi Cossa (1831–1896), economist * Luigi di Bella (1912–2003), medical doctor and physiology professor * Luigi Ferri (1826–1895), philosopher * Luigi Frati (born 1943), academic physician and rector of the Sapienza University of Rome * Luigi Gaetano Marini (1742–1815), natural philosopher, jurist, historian, and archeologist *

Luigi Galvani Luigi Galvani ( , , ; ; 9 September 1737 – 4 December 1798) was an Italian physician, physicist, biologist and philosopher who studied animal electricity. In 1780, using a frog, he discovered that the muscles of dead frogs' legs twitched when ...

(1737–1798), physician and physicist * Luigi Guido Grandi (1671–1742), philosopher and mathematician * Luigi Hugues (1836–1913), academic geographer and amateur musician *

Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza (; 25 January 1922 – 31 August 2018) 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. Works Schooling and p ...

(1922–2018), population geneticist * Luigi Maria Ugolini (1895–1936), archaeologist * Luigi Palmieri (1807–1896), physicist and meteorologist * Luigi Pareyson (1918–1991), philosopher *

Luigi Pasinetti Luigi L. Pasinetti (12 September 1930 – 31 January 2023) was an Italian economist of the post-Keynesian school. Pasinetti was considered the heir of the " Cambridge Keynesians" and a student of Piero Sraffa and Richard Kahn. Along with them, ...

(1930–2023), economist of the Post-Keynesians school *

Luigi Pernier Luigi Pernier (23 November 1874 – 18 August 1937) was an Italian archaeologist and academic now best known for his discovery of the Disc of Phaistos.Luigi Piccinato (1899–1983), architect and town planner * Luigi Pigorini (1842–1925), palaeoethnologist, archaeologist, and ethnographer *

Luigi Poletti (architect) Luigi Poletti (28 October 1792 – 2 August 1869) was an Italian people, Italian architect, active in a Neoclassical architecture, neoclassical style. Biography He was born in Modena. He initially obtained a doctorate in Mathematics and Phil ...

(1792–1869), neoclassical architect * Luigi Rosselli, Italian/Australian practicing architect * Luigi Rizzi (born 1952), linguist *

Luigi Rolando Luigi Rolando (16 June 1773, Turin – 20 April 1831, Turin) was an Italian anatomist known for his pioneering research in brain localization of function. He studied medicine in Turin, later continuing his education in Florence, where he studie ...

(1773–1831), anatomist * Luigi Salvatorelli (1886–1974), historian and publicist *

Luigi Snozzi Luigi Snozzi (29 July 1932 – 29 December 2020) was a Swiss architect, born in Mendrisio, Ticino. He worked in Locarno and Lugano. Life He studied at the ETH Zurich, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich. From 1962 to 1971, Snozzi work ...

(1932–2020), Swiss architect * Luigi Tosti (1811–1897), Benedictine historian *

Luigi Zoja Luigi Zoja (born August 19, 1943) is an Italian psychoanalyst and writer. He took a degree in economics and did research in sociology during the late 1960s. Soon thereafter he studied at the C. G. Jung Institute in Zurich. After taking his diplo ...

(born 1943), psychoanalyst and writer

Sports

* Luigi "Geno" Auriemma (born 1954), Italian-born American women's basketball coach

Football

* Luigi Agnolin (1943–2018), football referee *

Luigi Allemandi Luigi Allemandi (; 8 November 1903 – 25 September 1978) was an Italian association football, footballer who played as a Defender (association football), defender, usually as a left back. He was a member of the Italy national football team, Ita ...

(1903–1978), football defender * Luigi Anaclerio (born 1981), football striker * Luigi Apolloni (born 1967), football manager and former player *

Luigi Barbesino Luigi Barbesino (; 1 May 1894 – 20 April 1941) was an football in Italy, Italian association footballer and manager from Casale Monferrato in the region of Piedmont. A midfielder, he was a List of one-club men in association football, one club ...

(1894–1941), footballer and manager from Casale Monferrato * Luigi Beghetto (born 1973), football striker *

Luigi Bertolini Luigi Bertolini (; 13 September 1904 – 11 February 1977) was an Italian Association football, footballer who played as a midfielder. Club career Born in Busalla, province of Genoa, Bertolini played in the 1920s for Savona, U.S. Alessandria C ...

(1904–1977), football midfielder *

Luigi Bruins Luigi Bruins (born 9 March 1987) is a football manager and a retired Dutch professional association football, footballer. Bruins played in the position of Midfielder#Attacking midfielder, attacking midfielder. After being declined by Feyenoord ...

(born 1987), Dutch football midfielder * Luigi Brunella (1914–1993), football manager and former defender * Luigi Burlando (1899–1967), football midfielder * Luigi Cagni (born 1950), football manager and former player * Luigi Cevenini (1895–1968), football player * Luigi De Agostini (born 1961), football defender *

Luigi De Canio Luigi "Gigi" De Canio (born 26 September 1957) is an Italian association football, football manager and a former player who played as a Defender (association football)#Full-back, full-back. Career Player De Canio, a Defender (football)#Full-back ...

(born 1957), football manager and former player * Luigi Della Rocca (born 1984), football striker *

Luigi Delneri Luigi Delneri (born 23 August 1950), often incorrectly written as Del Neri, is an Italian football manager and a former player. After a playing career as a midfielder including for several Serie A clubs, he began managing in the lower leagues, a ...

(born 1950), football manager and former player *

Luigi Di Biagio Luigi Di Biagio (; born 3 June 1971) is an Italian professional football manager and former player who is currently managing Saudi Arabia U23. A former midfielder, Di Biagio last played for Ascoli in 2007, and previously also played for seve ...

(born 1971), football defensive midfielder * Luigi Ferrero (1904–1984), football manager and former player * Luigi Garzja (born 1979), football player *

Luigi Giuliano (footballer) Luigi Giuliano (; 16 August 1930 – 23 December 1993) was an Italian professional footballer who played as a midfielder. Club career He had the distinction of scoring in each of his first three Serie A games in the 1948/49 season. He was th ...

(1930–1993), football player * Luigi Glombard (born 1984), football striker * Luigi Grassi (born 1983), football midfielder * Luigi Griffanti (1917–2006), football player * Luigi Lavecchia (born 1981), football defender/midfielder *

Luigi Maifredi Luigi Maifredi (born 20 April 1947), commonly known as Gigi Maifredi, is an Italian association football, football manager. Career Born in Lograto (Province of Brescia), started out playing in Brescia Calcio, his hometown club's youth system, ...

(born 1947), football manager * Luigi Martinelli (footballer) (born 1970), football defender * Luigi Perversi (1906–1991), football defender * Luigi Piangerelli (born 1973), football midfielder * Luigi Pieroni (born 1980), Belgian football striker * Luigi Radice (1935–2018), football coach and former player * Luigi Riccio (footballer) (born 1977), football midfielder * Luigi Riva (1944–2024), football forward *

Luigi Sala Luigi Sala (born 21 February 1974) is a former Italian football defender. He played as a central defender. Club career In June 2001, Sala was sold to Atalanta for 7 billion lire, along with Gianni Comandini (30 billion) and Luca Saudati (18 ...

(born 1974), football defender * Luigi Sartor (born 1975), football defender *

Luigi Scarabello Luigi Scarabello (; 17 June 1916 – 2 July 2007) was an Italian footballer who played as a midfielder, and who competed in the 1936 Summer Olympics. He was a member of the Italian team, which won the gold medal in the 1936 Olympic football to ...

(1916–2007), football player * Luigi Sepe (born 1991), football goalkeeper * Luigi Simoni (1939–2020), football manager and former player * Luigi Turci (born 1970), football goalkeeper * Luigi Vitale (born 1987), football wingback

Racing

* Luigi Arcangeli (1902–1931), motorcycle racer and race car driver * Luigi Arienti (1937–2024), racing cyclist * Luigi Cavalieri (1914–date of death unknown), bobsledder * Luigi Cecchini (born 1944), sports doctor, active in road bicycle racing * Luigi Chinetti (1901–1994), Italian-born racecar driver * Luigi de Bettin, bobsledder * Luigi De Manincor (1910–1986), sailor * Luigi Fagioli (1898–1952), motor racing driver * Luigi Figoli, bobsledder * Luigi Ganna (1883–1957), road racing cyclist * Luigi Giacobbe (1907–1995), cyclist who raced from 1926 to 1937 * Luigi Lucotti (1893–1980), road bicycle racer * Luigi Marchisio (1909–1992), road racing cyclist * Luigi Marfut (1904–1980), boxer * Luigi Musso (1924–1958), racing driver * Luigi Piotti (1913–1971), racing driver * Luigi Poggi (sailor) (1906–1972), sailor * Luigi Taramazzo (1932–2004), racing driver * Luigi Taveri (1929–2018), Swiss motorcycle road racer *

Luigi Villoresi Luigi "Gigi" Villoresi (16 May 1909 – 24 August 1997) was an Italian racing driver, who competed in Formula One from to . Villoresi contested 34 Formula One Grands Prix across seven seasons for Italian teams Ferrari, Maserati, Lancia, and C ...

(1909–1997), Grand Prix motor racing driver

Other

Luigi Beccali Luigi Beccali (19 November 1907 – 29 August 1990) was the first Italian to win an Olympic gold medal in running, in the 1500 metres at the 1932 Summer Olympics, and the first Italian to win a European Championship title in athletics. Biograp ...

(1907–1990), athlete, Olympic winner of 1500 metres * Luigi Bosatra (1905–1981), track and field athlete who competed in racewalking * Luigi Cambiaso (1895–1975), gymnast *

Luigi Cantone Luigi Cantone (July 21, 1917 – November 6, 1997) was an Italian fencer and Olympic champion in épée competition. He received a gold medal in ''épée individual'' at the 1948 Summer Olympics in London London is the Capital ...

(1917–1997), fencer *

Luigi Castiglione Luigi "Gino" Castiglioni (born April 8, 1967, in San Severo, Apulia) is a former professional boxer from Italy, who won the silver medal at the 1991 European Amateur Boxing Championships in Gothenburg, Sweden. In the final of the light flywe ...

(born 1967), boxer * Luigi Contessi (1894–1967), gymnast * Luigi Costigliolo (1892–1939), gymnast *

Luigi Datome Luigi "Gigi" Datome (born 27 November 1987) is an Italian former professional basketball player. Standing at , he played at the small forward and power forward (basketball), power forward positions. Datome was an All-EuroLeague Team, All-EuroLeag ...

(born 1987), basketball player * Luigi Fioravanti (born 1981), American mixed martial artist * Luigi Gaudiano (born 1965), boxer * Luigi Guido (born 1968), judoka * Luigi Maiocco (1892–1965), gymnast * Luigi Mannelli (1939–2017), water polo player * Luigi Mastrangelo (born 1975), volleyball player * Luigi Rovati (1904–1989), boxer * Luigi Samele (born 1987), Italian Olympic sabre fencer * Luigi Tarantino (born 1972), fencer * Luigi Troiani (born 1964), rugby player * Luigi Ulivelli (1935–2010), long jumper * Luigi Weiss (born 1951), ski mountaineer and biathlete

Visual arts

Luigi Acquisti Luigi Acquisti (1745–1823) was an Italian sculptor mainly known for his works in the neoclassical architecture, neoclassical style. He was born in Forlì the 29 March 1747 and died in Bologna in 1823. His works are distributed throughout Italy ...

(1745–1823), sculptor * Luigi Anichini, engraver of seals and medals * Luigi Basiletti (1780–1860), painter * Luigi Benfatto (1551–1611), late-Renaissance painter *

(1743–1805), classical era composer and cellist * Luigi Borgomainerio, engraver and caricaturist *

Luigi Calamatta ] Luigi Calamatta, also known as Louis Antoine Joseph Calamatta (21 June 1801 – 8 March 1869) was an Italian painter and engraver. He was born at Civitavecchia, in the Papal States and died in Milan. Biography He was the son of a port engineer, ...

(1801–1868), painter and engraver * Luigi Crosio (1835–1915), Turin-based Italian painter * Luigi De Giudici (1887–1955), painter * Luigi Diamante (1904–1971), painter * Luigi Fontana (1827–1908), sculptor, painter, and architect * Luigi Frisoni (1760–1811), painter * Luigi Ghirri (1943–1992), photographer *

Luigi Garzi Luigi Garzi (1638–1721) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period whose style was strongly influenced by the work of the Bolognese painter Guido Reni. Biography He was born in Pistoia. He started learning from a poorly known landscape paint ...

(1638–1721), Baroque painter * Luigi Guardigli (1923–2008), painter and mosaicist * Luigi Kasimir (1881–1962), Austro-Hungarian-born etcher, painter, printmaker, and landscape artist * Luigi Lanzi (1732–1810), art historian and archaeologist *

Luigi Lucioni Luigi Lucioni (born Giuseppe Luigi Carlo Benevenuto Lucioni; November 4, 1900 – July 22, 1988) was an Italian American Painting, painter known for his still lifes, Landscape art, landscapes, and portraits. Early life Early years and immigration ...

(1900–1988), Italian-born American painter * Luigi Malice (born 1937), artist * Luigi Manini (1848–1936), European set designer and architect * Luigi Mascelli (1804-1825), Italian goldsmith * Luigi Melchiorre (1859 – c. 1908), Italian sculptor * Luigi Miradori (1600s – c. 1656), Baroque painter * Luigi Mussini (1813–1888), painter * Luigi Nono (painter) (1850–1918), Italian painter * Luigi Pellegrini Scaramuccia (1616–1680), Baroque painter and artist biographer * Luigi Primo (c. 1605–1667), Flemish Baroque painter * Luigi Quaini (1643–1717), Baroque painter * Luigi Rados (1773–1840), engraver * Luigi Riccardi (1807–1877), painter *

(1885–1947), Futurist painter and composer * Luigi Sabatelli (1772–1850), Neoclassical painter * Luigi Schiavonetti (1765–1810), reproductive engraver and etcher * Luigi Serafini (artist) (born 1946), artist, architect, and designer * Luigi Trinchero (1862–1944), sculptor

Other fields

* Luigi Bertoni (1872–1947), Italian-born anarchist writer and typographer * Luigi Borrelli, Naples-based shirts maker *

Luigi Calabresi Luigi Calabresi (14 November 1937 – 17 May 1972) was an Italian ''Polizia di Stato'' officer in Milan. Responsible for investigating far-left political movements, Calabresi was assassinated in 1972 by members of ''Lotta Continua'', who blamed ...

(1937–1972), commissioner of Italian police in Milan * Luigi Carrel (1901–1983), mountain climber, mountain guide, and ski mountaineer * Luigi D'Albertis (1841–1901), naturalist and explorer *

Luigi Galleani Luigi Galleani (; 12 August 1861 – 4 November 1931) was an Italian insurrectionary anarchism, insurrectionary anarchist and Communism, communist best known for his advocacy of "propaganda of the deed", a strategy of political assassinations ...

(1861–1931), anarchist *

Luigi Lavazza Luigi Lavazza (; 24 April 1859 – 16 August 1949) was an Italian businessman. In 1895, he founded the Lavazza coffee company in Turin. Biography Lavazza was born in Murisengo, a small town in the province of Alessandria (Piedmont). The origin ...

(1859–1949), businessman * Luigi Manzotti (1835–1905), choreographer *

Luigi Ossoinack Luigi Ossoinack (26 June 1849 – 29 October 1904). Born in Fiume, studied in Ljubljana, Graz and Vienna, where he graduated at the commercial academy. He practised trade in Trieste, Odessa, London and North America. In 1873 he came back to Fiume ...

(1849–1904), Hungarian businessman and politician * Luigi Puccianti (1875–1952), Italian physicist * Luigi Veronelli (1926–2004), gastronome and intellectual * Luigi Villa, backgammon player * Luigi Voltan, the founder of the eponymous shoe company

Fictional characters

Luigi Luigi (; ) is a character created by Japanese video game designer Shigeru Miyamoto. Part of Nintendo's ''Mario'' franchise, he is a kind-hearted, cowardly Italian plumber, and the younger fraternal twin brother and sidekick of Mario. Like ...

, a Fiat 500 car from Pixar's ''Cars'' franchise *

, a Nintendo video game character and the younger twin brother of

Mario Mario (; ) is a Character (arts), character created by the Japanese game designer Shigeru Miyamoto. He is the star of the ''Mario (franchise), Mario'' franchise, a recurring character in the ''Donkey Kong'' franchise, and the mascot of the Ja ...

from the ''

Super Mario (also known as and is a platform game series created by Nintendo starring their mascot, Mario. It is the central series of the greater Mario (franchise), ''Mario'' franchise. At least one ''Super Mario'' game has been released for every ma ...

'' franchise * Luigi Risotto, from the animated sitcom ''

The Simpsons ''The Simpsons'' is an American animated sitcom created by Matt Groening and developed by Groening, James L. Brooks and Sam Simon for the Fox Broadcasting Company. It is a Satire (film and television), satirical depiction of American life ...

'' * Luigi Vendetta, in ''Kick Buttowski''

References

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