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Ignazio Silone
Silone was born in a rural family, in the town of Pescina in the Abruzzo region. His father, Paolo Tranquilli, died in 1911 and in the 1915 Avezzano earthquake, he lost many of his family members, including his mother, Marianna Delli Quadri. He left his hometown and finished high school. In 1917, Silone joined the Young Socialists group of the Italian Socialist Party (PSI), rising to be their leader.
Luigi Silori
Luigi Silori was born in Rome in 1921, only son. His father, Fernando, was a landowner in Stifone, descendant of an old family of Narni. His mother, Antonietta Pacchelli, was a school teacher, who graduated in Rome in 1901, when such a thing still was for a woman very uncommon in Italy. She was also a piano teacher and writer.
Mario Cipollini
Cipollini was born in Lucca, Tuscany. He came from a cycling family – his father, Vivaldo, had been a successful amateur racer in his youth, whilst his brother Cesare had raced as a professional and his sister Tiziana had also competed as a cyclist. Mario was a prolific winner in his youth career, scoring a total of 125 victories in age group and amateur races before joining the professional peloton in 1989.
Pippo Pollina
Pippo Pollina was born and grew up in Palermo (Italy) where he studied law at the university of Palermo. At the same time, he studied classical guitar at the conservatory “Amici della musica”.
Also, he was engaged in the anti-mafia movement. Being a student, he furthermore worked as a journalist for the monthly journal “I Siciliani” but quit when the editor in chief, Giuseppe Fava, was murdered by Cosa Nostra.
Camila Giorgi
Giorgi was born in Macerata, Italy, to Sergio , Argentinian of Italian descent, and an Italian mother. According to a number of newspaper reports, she is of Jewish descent. Giorgi considered emigrating to Israel in 2012, after her father Sergio opened negotiations with the Israel Tennis Association over the financial terms for her immigration. Her parents are Claudia Gabriella Fullone, a fashion designer, who designs different dresses for every match and Sergio Giorgi. Both moved to Italy from La Plata, Argentina. Sergio Giorgi was drafted in Argentina in 1982, and fought in the Falklands War against the British; he now coaches Camila full-time. As of September 2013, the Giorgi family was based in the Italian city of Pisa.
Frank Stallone Sr.
He was born Francesco Stallone on September 12, 1919, in Gioia del Colle, Italy, to Silvestro Stallone (1883–1963), a barber, and Pulcheria Nicastri (1890–1973). He was born one of four children. His parents moved the family to America from Italy in 1932. Stallone also served in the Army during World War II from 1940–1945.
Simon Gjoni
Simon Gjoni was born on October 28, 1925 in the city of Shkodër, Albania. He was educated in a rank and file urban family and graduated from the "Illyricum" High School of the city. Very soon he learned to play guitar, trombone, the piano and devoted himself with enthusiasm and passion to the art of music. In the years of his youth, he composed over 200 original songs, which were immediately sung in the city of Shkodër and were spread all over Albania, such as "Lule Bore" (), "Syte e tu si drite" (English: Your Eyes Like Light), "Weaving girl".
T. F. Šimon
Simon was born in Železnice (known at that time as Eisenstadtl) near Jičín. As a student at the Academy of Fine Arts, Prague, he received a stipend that allowed him to travel to Italy, Belgium, England and France. He had his first solo exhibition in Prague in 1905, and a Paris exhibition in 1906. His extensive travels would eventually also bring him to New York City, London, the Netherlands, Spain, Morocco, Ceylon (now Sri Lanka), India, and Japan, images of all of which appear in his work.
Pietro Cerone
Cerone was born in Bergamo. While Italian, he spent most of his life in Spanish-dominated Naples, Sardinia, and later in Spain: he did most of his writing in Spanish. He was unusual in being an Italian musician in Spain; far more often in the 16th century, Spanish musicians went to Italy, as in the case of Victoria. In 1603 he returned to Naples, where he was a priest and singer until his death. It was in Naples that he wrote his two most famous treatises.
Giuseppe Siboni
Born in Forlì, Siboni studied singing in his native city with castrato Sebastiano Folicaldi. He made his professional opera debut in 1797 at the age of 17 in Florence. Over the next several years he sang with various Italian opera troupes, making appearances in Genoa, Milan, and Prague among other cities. In Prague he married Louise Veith, the daughter of a local banker. He made his debut at La Scala on 26 December 1805 as Abenamet in the world premiere of Giuseppe Nicolini's "Abenamet e Zoraide". He returned there the following year to sing the role of Marco Orazio in Domenico Cimarosa's "Gli Orazi e i Curiazi".
Gheorghe Sion
He was born in Mamornița to "paharnic" (royal cup-bearer) Ioniță Sion and his wife Eufrosina ("née" Schina), the daughter of Filiki Eteria member Gheorghe Schina. His uncles included Constantin Sion, author of a semi-fictitious noble genealogy ("Arhondologia Moldovei"); and "spătar" Antohi Sion, the rumored author of "Izvodul lui Clănău", an outright forgery. After spending two years (1837-1839) at Saint Sava College in Bucharest, the capital of Wallachia, he returned to his native Moldavia. Entering the Iași-based provincial administration, he became a copyist at the Justice Department in 1842, followed by work as a clerk at the Interior Department. He became a wanted man for his participation in the 1848 revolution, and so fled to Austrian-ruled Transylvania. He returned to Iași in 1849, working as bureau chief at the Department of Church Property and Public Education. From 1855, he worked at the State Archives.
Sandro Angiolini
Sandro Angiolini (June 6, 1920 - October 15, 1985) was an Italian comics creator. 
Angiolini was born in Milan. In 1966 he was the first to illustrate one of Italy's most important adult comics, "Isabella", written by Renzo Barbieri and Giorgio Cavedon. He was also involved in the creation of "Goldrake", "Vartan", "Una", "Belzeba" and "La Poliziotta".
Italo Viglianesi
Viglianesi was born in Caltagirone, Italy. In 1950, he was one of the founder and first general secretary of Italian Labour Union (UIL) one of the biggest Italian trade union centers. He was for two consecutive minister of transport from 27 March 1970 to 17 February 1972 under Mariano Rumor and Emilio Colombo cabinets representing the Italian Socialist Party (PSI). He was senator from 1963 to 1979 when he retired. He was vice President of Italian Senate for 1 year. He died in Rome, aged 79.
Calogero Vizzini
Vizzini was born in Villalba, a village in the Province of Caltanissetta, with a population of approximately 4,000 people at the time. This area in the middle of Sicily, known as the "Vallone", was a poor region where most people lived off subsistence agriculture. His father, Beniamino Vizzini, was a peasant, but managed to marry into a slightly more well-off family that owned some land. A member of his mother's family, Giuseppe Scarlata, had risen to high eminence in the Catholic Church. Calogero's brothers, Giovanni and Giuseppe (not to be confused with the bishop of Noto of the same name), both became priests in Villalba. Calogero Vizzini, however, was semi-literate and did not finish elementary school.
Antonino Arconte
Born in Oristano Sardinia, Italy, in February 1954, from a family of military career, at the age of sixteen years, he enlisted as "sottufficiale" (non-commissioned officer) in the Italian Army. In 1970, he attended the 14th course of the "Scuola Allievi sottufficiali" of Viterbo. In September of the same year, during the course, he was selected together with the other pupils to be part of the new Intelligence Service, SID Service Information Defense, the Italian secret service with military structure, which had begun in 1965 and commanded that year by general Vito Miceli, codename Ulisse. These had been instructed by Aldo Moro to organize the Italian secret paramilitary structure type "stay-behind" with the codename "Operation Gladio" and integrated with other similar organizations in other countries of NATO. Arconte was inserted in the Nucleus G of "Gladio of Centurians", the military part of the Gladio Organization and one of twelve branches in which had been divided for the SID and transit in the Navy.
Nicola Ciccone
Ciccone was born very prematurely, with the doctors giving him just 5% of survival, as he recounts in his autobiography titled "Cuore". Born to Italian parents originating from Abruzzo in south Italy, he lived in the Mile-X quarter of Montreal, at the time a very poor quarter of Montreal's Petite-Italie (Small Italy) region. His father died when he was very young, and he was a victim of bullying at school.
Ignazio Pollice
Ignazio Pollice (also Pulici) (fl. 1684–1705) was an Italian composer of the Baroque era, from Palermo. He is most famous for his "L'innocenza pentita: o vero la Santa Rosalia", which opened the just-built Teatro Santa Cecilia in Palermo in 1693.
Christopher Meloni
Meloni was born in Washington, D.C., the youngest of three children (he has a brother and sister) of Cecile (née Chagnon; 1926–2016), a homemaker, and Charles Robert Meloni (1927–2012), an endocrinologist. His maternal ancestry is French Canadian and his paternal ancestry is Sardinian (from Italy). Meloni attended St. Stephen's School (now St. Stephen's & St. Agnes School) in Alexandria, Virginia, and played quarterback on the football team. He studied acting at the University of Colorado at Boulder and graduated with a degree in history in 1983. After graduation, Meloni went to New York where he continued his studies with Sanford Meisner at the Neighborhood Playhouse, as well as the Center for the Media Arts.
Josephine Silone Yates
Josephine Silone's birth is given variously as 1852, and as November 15, 1859. She was the second daughter of Alexander and Parthenia Reeve Silone, and was born in Mattituck, NY. During her childhood, her family lived with her maternal grandfather, a freed slave, Lymas Reeves. Her mother taught her to read from the Bible. She started school at the age of six, and was rapidly advanced by her teachers.
Ignacio Bailone
Ignacio Bailone was born on January 20, 1994 in the city of Rosario. He started very young in the Club Deportivo Norte city of Mar del Plata, which already insinuated his footballing virtues as a forward scorer . Then he entered the Club Cadets of San Martin of that city, repeating an excellent performance.
Gabriela Silang
Gabriela Silang (March 19, 1731 – September 20, 1763), born Maria Josefa Gabriela Cariño, was born in Barangay Caniogan, Santa, Ilocos Sur to a Spanish Ilocano father Anselmo Cariño, a trader who ferried his wares from Vigan to Abra along the Abra River and a descendant of Ignacio Cariño, the first Galician from Spain to arrive in Candon, Ilocos Sur in late 17th century. Her mother was a Tinguian mother who was from a Tinguian Barrio in San Quintin Abra (now Pidigan).
Italo Rota
Born in Milan in 1953, he obtained a degree in Architecture at Milan Polytechnic University in 1982. Before that, he had started off in the architecture firms of Franco Albini and Vittorio Gregotti. During his four-year apprenticeship with Gregotti, he worked on his project for the Calabria University (1972–1973). He took part in the publishing of the magazine Lotus International in collaboration with architect Pierluigi Nicolin. Following this experience, the press and books became particularly important in Rota’s life, leading him to the development of a personal collection. At the beginning of the 1980s, he moved to Paris, where his two children were born, to work with Gae Aulenti on the project of the Musée d’Orsay, putting the museum at the centre of a wider concept. This experience continued in 1985, when Rota won the competition for the new rooms of the French School of the Cour Carré at the Louvre, inaugurated in 1992, and more recently, of the Museo del Novecento in Milan (2002–2010). During the twenty years he spent in France, he dealt with various aspects of design, from urban projects to layout plans for exhibitions, events and cultural institutions. Still in France, he worked in the theatre when new Italian scenographers. In those years, Rota worked above all with director Bernard Sobel. In 1988 he designed the scenography for Hécube and, using mirrors and back lighting, recreated in a surreal manner the seats of a Greek theatre. He officially came back in Italy in 1996, moving his base from Paris to Milan, where he also served as City Councillor for urban quality (1995–1996). Rota’s studio in Milan is an integral part of his work, there he gathered objets trouvés, books and pieces taken from various collections, from Yuri Gagarin’s helmet to masks from Central Africa, mixed up with material samples, drawings and maquettes. Throughout his career, he has been entrusted with many projects within and without the national boundaries. Between the end of the 1990s and 2005, Italo Rota designed the multimedia libraries in Anzola and San Sito. For Roberto Cavalli, he worked on boutiques and clubs all over the world, as well as on a villa on the hills near Florence. His works include land architecture projects, such as the requalification of the town centre of Nantes (1992–1995) and the Foro Italico promenade in Palermo (2005), and projects for buildings, such as the Boscolo Exedra Hotel in Milan, the Hindu temple of Lord Hanuman, the Ciudades de Agua pavilion for the Expo 2008 in Zaragoza, the Triennale Design Museum in 2007, as well as the above-mentioned Museo del Novecento, inaugurated in December 2010.
Besides working as an architect, he also worked for many design Italian companies. His productions, often the result of the collaboration with Alessandro Pedretti, see the object as an integral part of the designed space.
Camilo Ortega
Camilo Ortega was born on December 13, 1950 in Managua, Nicaragua. He was the youngest child in a family of six children. His father, Daniel Ortega and his mother Lidia Saavedra, were both leftists opposed to the Somoza family regime. Like his brothers, he joined the revolutionary movement which became the Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN), but he died before the FSLN overthrew the Somoza government through armed struggle in 1979.
Sergio Leone
Born in Rome, Leone was the son of the cinema pioneer Vincenzo Leone (known as director Roberto Roberti or Leone Roberto Roberti) and silent film actress Edvige Valcarenghi (Bice Waleran). During his schooldays, Leone was a classmate of his later musical collaborator Ennio Morricone for a time. After watching his father work on film sets, Leone began his own career in the film industry at the age of 18 after dropping out of law studies at the university.
Ignazio Silone
In the 1990s, Italian historians Dario Biocca and Mauro Canali found documents which implicated that Silone acted as an informant for the Fascist police from 1919 until 1930. It is believed that the reason he broke from the Fascist police is because of the torture the inflicted upon his brother. The two historians published the results of their research in a work titled "L'informatore. Silone, i comunisti e la polizia".
Vito Ciancimino
Ciancimino was born in Corleone, a village that became notorious for its powerful Mafia gang, the Corleonesi. Ciancimino's father had lived in America and got a job as interpreter to occupying US forces at the end of WW2. He used the contacts to build up various business enterprises and Vito grew up in what in Corleone was a relatively prosperous home. He was hired to teach Bernardo Provenzano maths early, and had other contacts with fellow townsmen who were to become Mafia bosses in later life. He studied engineering at University of Palermo but did not complete his degree. As a Christian Democrat politician, he became a protégé of Bernardo Mattarella, who supported his political and financial career. In 1950 Ciancimino obtained concessions for all railway transport inside Palermo. The three other firms that had made a bid were put out of the game, because Ciancimino's bid was accompanied by a letter of Mattarella, who was then Minister of Transports. This set the pattern for his career, which consisted of cutting deals to loot public assets for the benefit of himself and associates.,
Antonio Manganelli
Manganelli was born in Avellino. He graduated from Naples University and Modena University. Manganelli was close to Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino during the 1980s in a crime-fighting group. Manganelli's plans helped take down Sicilian Mafiosos, Nitto Santapaola and Giuseppe Lucchese, plus many other Sicilian criminals. In 1995, he was appointed as chief of Palermo and Naples. He served as deputy chief of police in 2000 until he became the official chief of police. He died in Rome, aged 63.
Ignazio Silone
In 1969, he was awarded the Jerusalem Prize, a literary award for writers who deal with the theme of individual freedom and society. In 1971, he was the recipient of the prestigious Prix mondial Cino Del Duca.
Xoliswa Sithole
Xoliswa Sithole was born in South Africa and raised in Zimbabwe after 1970. Her mother died from complications related to HIV/AIDS in 1995. Her stepfather's cousin, Ndabaningi Sithole, was a founder of the Zimbabwe African National Union (ZANU), and assassinated lawyer and politician Edison Sithole (1935-1975) was her cousin. She earned a degree in English from the University of Zimbabwe in 1987.
Antonio Salamone
Salamone was born San Giuseppe Jato in the Province of Palermo. After his first wife died, Salamone married Girolama Greco, a sister of Salvatore Greco "l'ingegnere", a cousin of Salvatore Greco "Ciaschiteddu", the boss of the Ciaculli Mafia family and the first secretary of the Sicilian Mafia Commission. His connection with the powerful Greco Mafia clan raised his standing in the Mafia.
Pope Innocent VIII
Giovanni Battista Cybo (or Cibo) was born in Genoa of Greek ancestry, the son of Arano Cybo or Cibo (c. 1375c. 1455) and his wife Teodorina de Mari (c. 1380?), of an old Genoese family. Arano Cybo was viceroy of Naples and then a senator in Rome under Pope Calixtus III (1455–58). Giovanni Battista's early years were spent at the Neapolitan court. While in Naples he was appointed a Canon of the Cathedral of Capua, and was given the Priory of S. Maria d'Arba in Genoa. After the death of King Alfonso, friction between Giovanni Battista and the Archbishop of Genoa decided him to resign his Canonry, and to go to Padua and then to Rome for his education.
Ignazio Lupo
Ignazio Lupo was born in Palermo, Sicily, to parents Rocco Lupo and Onofria Saietta. The word "lupo " means "wolf" in Italian; thus the moniker "Lupo the Wolf" literally translates to "Wolf the Wolf". Ignazio Lupo has sometimes been referred to by his mother's maiden name as Ignazio Saietta, but his actual surname was Lupo. From age 10, he worked in a dry goods store in Palermo. In October 1898, he shot and killed a business rival named Salvatore Morello, according to Lupo in self-defense after Morello attacked him with a dagger during an argument in Lupo's store. Lupo went into hiding after the killing and on the advice of his parents, eventually fled Sicily to escape prosecution. After stops in Liverpool, Montreal and Buffalo he arrived in New York in 1898. On March 14, 1899, Lupo was convicted "in absentia" of 'willful and deliberate murder', reportedly due to the testimony of the clerks who worked in his store. Lupo would never serve out the Sicilian sentence, though he would one day return to Sicily.
Miriam Leone
Leone was born on 14 April 1985 in Catania. She grew up in Aci Catena, where her mother Gabriella, a communal employee, and her father Ignazio, a retired teacher, were originally from. She has lived in Acireale since 1999, and attended the "Gulli and Pennisi" grammar school there. She then went to University of Catania.
Alessandro Siani
Born in Naples, Siani formed at the Tunnel Cabaret's acting laboratory in his hometown. In 1995, shortly after having won the "Charlot Prize" as best comedian, he decided to adopt the stage name Siani in honour of the journalist and camorra victim Giancarlo Siani. After being part of the comedy trio "A Testa in giù" and after having appeared in a number of variety shows, he got his first success in 2004 as a stand-up comedian with the stage show "Fiesta".
Sergio Frusoni
Sérgio was born in Mindelo on the island of São Vicente, the son of Italian immigrants Giuseppe Frusoni and Erminia Bonucci. At the age of 24, he began to work at the "Western Telegraph Company" and changed later on to "Italcable". In 1947, he managed the "O Café Sport" in Mindelo, the main city of São Vicente, where he presented poems and anecdotes in Crioulo. After that he went back to work for Italcable. In the 1960s, he conducted the theatre group "Theatro do Castilho" in Mindelo. For a number of years, he was chronicler at the radio "Barlavento", where he produced the program "Mosaico Mindelense" in Crioulo.
Italo Calvino
Italo Calvino was born in Santiago de las Vegas, a suburb of Havana, Cuba, in 1923. His father, Mario, was a tropical agronomist and botanist who also taught agriculture and floriculture. Born 47 years earlier in Sanremo, Italy, Mario Calvino had emigrated to Mexico in 1909 where he took up an important position with the Ministry of Agriculture. In an autobiographical essay, Italo Calvino explained that his father "had been in his youth an anarchist, a follower of Kropotkin and then a Socialist Reformist". In 1917, Mario left for Cuba to conduct scientific experiments, after living through the Mexican Revolution.
Tiziano Siviero
Tiziano Siviero (born 28 October 1957 in Bassano del Grappa, Veneto) is an Italian rally co-driver. He is most closely associated with Miki Biasion, with whom he won 
the 1983 European Rally Championship on Lancia Rally 037, the 1988 World Rally Championship and the 1989 World Rally Championship on Lancia Delta Integrale.
Diego Silang
Born in Aringay, Pangasinan (an area in present-day Caba or Aringay, La Union), Silang's mother was Ilocano; his father was Pangasinense. He was baptized on January 7, 1731 in Vigan, Ilocos Sur. There, young Diego worked as a messenger for a local Castilian priest. Bright, passionate, and fluent in Spanish, he ferried correspondence from the Ilocos to Manila; journeys that gave him his first glimpse of colonial injustice and that planted the seed of rebellion.
Rodolfo Siviero
He was born at Guardistallo, the son of Giovanni Siviero, a Venetian non commissioned officer in the Carabinieri and commander of its local station, and his Sienese wife Caterina Bulgarini. He moved from the province of Pisa to Florence in 1924 and continued his studies in arts and letters at the University of Florence, with the aim of becoming an art critic. In the 1930s he joined the Servizio Informazioni Militare, Italy's secret service, and became a Fascist in the conviction that only a totalitarian regime could revolutionise and improve the country. In 1937, under the guise of a scholarship in art history, he set out for Berlin to collect information on the Nazi regime there.
After the Badoglio Proclamation on 8 September 1943 announcing the Allied-Italian armistice, Siviero sided with the anti-fascist front. His main work from then on would be monitoring the Nazi military body known as the "Kunstschutz" which had originally been set up to protect cultural heritage during the war years but had under Nazi directives shifted to shipping a large number of artworks from Italy to Germany. From the Jewish art historian Giorgio Castelfranco's house on the Lungarno Serristori in Florence (now the Casa Siviero museum), Siviero also coordinated the Italian partisans' intelligence activities. In April to June 1944 he was imprisoned and tortured in Villa Triste on Florence's via Bolognese by the Fascist militias led by Mario Carità and known as the Banda Carità. Having resisted their interrogation, he was released thanks to the efforts of some Republican officials who were working undercover for the Allies.
Sjaron Minailo
Minailo was born in 1979 in Arad, Israel to Soviet Union immigrants. During his schooling in the Thelma Yelin High School for the Arts, he received initial training as an actor. After completing his graduation, Minailo joined the University of Amsterdam for BA and MA in Theatre Studies. During his time at the University, he created a theatre group with co-students to work on the musical theatre before switching to opera.
After graduating, Minailo started working as a freelance director and was a director in residence for four years at the Dutch Chamber Opera House from 2008 to 2012. During that period and after, he has directed several music-theatre and opera production in commission or through his own studio. In 2016, he received a nomination in the Young Director category at 2016 International Opera Awards. 
Minailo's subsequent opera productions have included:
Diego Maradona
Diego Armando Maradona was born on 30 October 1960, at the Policlínico (Polyclinic) Evita Hospital in Lanús, Buenos Aires Province, but raised in Villa Fiorito, a shantytown on the southern outskirts of Buenos Aires, Argentina, to a poor family that had moved from Corrientes Province. He was the first son after three daughters. He has two younger brothers, Hugo ("el Turco") and Raúl (Lalo), both of whom were also professional football players. 
He was the fifth child and first son of Diego Maradona "Chitoro" (d. 2015) and Dalma Salvadora Franco 'Doña Tota' (1930–2011). Maradona's parents were both born and brought up in the town of Esquina in the north-east province of Corrientes Province, living only two hundred metres from each other on the banks of the Corriente River. In 1950, they left Esquina and settled in Buenos Aires. At age eight, Maradona was spotted by a talent scout while he was playing in his neighbourhood club Estrella Roja. He became a staple of "Los Cebollitas" (The Little Onions), the junior team of Buenos Aires's Argentinos Juniors. As a 12-year-old ball boy, he amused spectators by showing his wizardry with the ball during the halftime intermissions of first division games. He named Brazilian playmaker Rivelino and Manchester United winger George Best among his inspirations growing up.
Gene Simmons
Simmons was born as Chaim Witz on August 25, 1949, at Rambam Hospital, in Haifa, Israel, to Jewish emigrants from Hungary. His mother, Florence Klein (originally Flóra Kovács), was born in Jánd, and survived internment in Nazi concentration camps. She and her brother, Larry Klein, were the only members of the family to survive the Holocaust. His father, Ferenc "Feri" Yehiel Witz, was a carpenter. Simmons spent his early childhood in Tirat Carmel, and was raised in a Jewish household. He practiced playing his guitar for hours on end. He has said that his family was "dirt poor," scraping by on rationed bread and milk. At age seven, he began to pick wild fruit and sell it on roadsides together with a friend.
Pietro Giannone
Pietro Giannone (7 May 1676 – 17 March 1748) was an Italian philosopher, historian and jurist born in Ischitella, in the province of Foggia. He opposed the papal influence in Naples, for which he was imprisoned for twelve years until his death.
Irena Sibley
Her mother Anele and father Zenonas Pauliukonis fled communist-occupied Lithuania in 1946 when Irena was a baby. The Pauliukonis family immigrated to Australia via refugee camps in Freiburg, Germany, where her brother Vidas was born, and Naples, Italy. The family arrived in Sydney, Australia on 31 December 1949 and settled in Bathurst, before establishing their family home in Cabramatta in Sydney’s western suburbs.
Rigoberto Soler
"Rigoberto Soler" was born in the city of Alcoy in the province of Alicante, Spain in 1896. His father, with whom he clashed, was an administrator in the city’s recording office. His father wanted him to pursue a career in banking for his son, but Soler had different ideas. He trained in the School of Arts and Crafts in Valencia, and later at the School of Fine Arts of San Carlos in Valencia. Following the completion of his training, he won a prize in the National Exhibition of Fine Arts in Madrid with a painting entitled "Entre Naranjos". Following his success, Soler became a regular participant in numerous national exhibitions. In 1926, he was granted a silver medal for a painting called "Idyll Ibiza" which is now exhibited in the Museum of Bordeaux.
Fabrizio Anzalone
Born in Genoa, Liguria, Anzalone started his career at Genoa C.F.C.. He made his Serie B debut on 13 April 1997, replacing Filippo Masolini in the final minutes. Since 1997–98 season he was loaned to Serie C2 teams Catanzaro, Fiorenzuola and Imperia. In mid-2000 he was sold to Serie C1 and Ligurian side Spezia. He only played 7 times before transferred to Alzano in January 2002, as the club bought Spezia's half. In June 2002 Genoa gave up the remain 50% registration rights to Alzano. He played 26 times in 2002–03 Serie C1 but the team bankrupted at the end of season.
Ilocano literature
Ilokano writers have also published their works in foreign countries. One of the most popular authors of Ilocano ancestry abroad was the late Carlos Bulosan, a California immigrant born to Ilokano parents in Pangasinan. And currently, the most internationally translated Filipino author is an Ilokano from Rosales, Pangasinan—Francisco Sionil Jose, popularly known as F. Sionil Jose. He is famous for his Rosales saga, a five-novel work about an Ilokano clan, virtually documenting Philippine history from Spanish time to the years of the Marcos administration. The novels, translated in about 22 languages, are circulated and read around the world.
Ignazio Marino
Marino was born in Genoa to a Sicilian father and is the oldest of three children (he has two sisters). He graduated in Medicine and Surgery from the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in Rome. He then trained at the Transplant Center of the University of Cambridge and the University of Pittsburgh's Starzl Transplantation Institute, under the guidance of Thomas Starzl, the pioneer surgeon who performed the first liver transplant in humans in 1963.
Pietro Bernini
Bernini was born in Sesto Fiorentino, Tuscany. He moved to Naples to work on the Certosa di San Martino there, and Gian Lorenzo was born in Naples in 1598. In 1605 the family moved to Rome under the protection of Cardinal Scipione Borghese. In Rome he worked on various projects for Pope Paul V, another Borghese, including the Pauline Chapel in the Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore.
Vince Riolo
Riolo was born at Mosta, Malta, in 1947. He studied philosophy at the University of Malta and the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg in Bavaria, Germany, where he was a student of Paul Lorenzen (March 24, 1915 – October 1, 1994), founder of the "Erlangen School". Riolo teaches logic at various faculties of the University of Malta. At the Department of Philosophy he also teaches philosophy of science.
Ignazio Silone
Ignazio Silone was married to Darina Laracy (1917-2003), an Irish student of Italian literature and journalist. He died in Geneva, Switzerland in 1978.Three of Silone's poems were included by Hanns Eisler in his "Deutsche Sinfonie", along with poetry by Bertolt Brecht.
Elio Ciol
Elio Ciol (born 1929) is an Italian photographer and publisher who was born in Casarsa della Delizia in Friuli-Venezia Giulia, the region where he has principally lived and worked. His father was a photographer who kept a studio in their hometown and Elio was fascinated by the technical aspects and worked in the darkroom as a boy. A formative experience was when, during the Nazi occupation, a German doctor brought in films with photographs of the countryside rather than of people, "photographs that I myself should have been able to do and which I had not done or even imagined." He began practising photography at fifteen, worked full-time in the studio from nineteen, and spent an increasing amount of his free time taking photographs for his own interests. A trip to Assisi in 1951 made a great impression; Ciol subsequently spent much time there, taking many photographs.
Simone Villanova
Born in Valdobbiadene, Veneto, Villanova started his career at Veneto club Cittadella. In 2003-04 season, he was loaned to Internazionale, ahead Nathan Coe, Alex Cordaz (promoted to first team) and Giacomo Bindi (promoted from "Allievi Nazionali" U-17 team) as first choice goalkeeper of "Primavera" Team (U20 Youth Team).
Gerolamo Bollini
Gerolamo Bollini was born in Rome, Italy in 1593 and ordained a priest in the Order of Saint Benedict. On 9 June 1653, he was appointed during the papacy of Pope Innocent X as Bishop of Isernia. On 22 June 1653, he was consecrated bishop by Marcantonio Franciotti, Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria della Pace, with Giambattista Spada, Titular Patriarch of Constantinople, and Ranuccio Scotti Douglas, Bishop Emeritus of Borgo San Donnino, serving as co-consecrators. He served as Bishop of Isernia until his death in 1660. While bishop, he was the principal co-consecrator of Giuseppe Battaglia, Bishop of Montemarano (1657).
Sigolène Vinson
Vinson was born at Sainte-Foy-lès-Lyon. Her family moved shortly afterwards to Clamart and then Meudon near Paris, before leaving for Djibouti because of her father's job in 1981. She returned to France in 1987. She studied for the stage but later retrained at the Sorbonne to become a lawyer.
Simion Stoilow
He was born in Bucharest, and grew up in Craiova. His father, Colonel Simion Stoilow, fought at Smârdan in the Romanian War of Independence. After studying at the Obedeanu elementary school and the Carol I High School, Stoilow went in 1907 to the University of Paris, where he earned a B.S. degree in 1910 and a Ph.D. in Mathematics in 1916. His doctoral dissertation was written under the direction of Émile Picard.
Andrea Sironi
Andrea Sironi was born on 13 May 1964 in Milan, Italy. He graduated from Bocconi University with a degree in economics.
Siron Franco
Gessiron Alves de Franco, known as Siron Franco (born July 26, 1947) Brazilian painter, designer and sculptor, Siron Franco was born in Goiás Velho, GO, on July 26, 1947. 
Siron Franco spent his childhood and adolescence in Goiânia, taking his first painting lessons under the guidance of the artists DJ Cleber Oliveira and Cleber Gouveia. 
He started making a living at the age of 13, painting and selling portraits of the cities´ bourgeoise. In 1965, he focused on drawings, following the unreal and grotesque sketches he had in mind. In 1968 he won the National Biennal of Bahia.
Between 1969 and 1971, Siron lived in São Paulo, frequented the studios of Bernardo Cid and Walter Lewy in São Paulo and was one of the members of the group that participated in the exhibition Surrealism and Fantastic Art at Seta Gallery. In 1973, Siron Franco won the prestigious Salao Global da Primavera in Rio de Janeiro. Afterwards he spent a year living in Mexico City. After winning the International prize of São Paulo´s Biennal Exhibition in 1975, Siron toured Europe between 1976 and 1978 living mainly in Toledo and Madrid in Spain. In 1982, his Exhibition at Bonino Gallery was considered the best of the year in Brazil and Siron received the distinguished title of the best Brazilian Painter of 1982 by APCA, São Paulo's Painters & Critics Association.
Giordano Bruno
Born Filippo Bruno in Nola (in Campania, then part of the Kingdom of Sicily, known as the Kingdom of Naples) in 1548, he was the son of Giovanni Bruno, a soldier, and Fraulissa Savolino. In his youth he was sent to Naples to be educated. He was tutored privately at the Augustinian monastery there, and attended public lectures at the Studium Generale. At the age of 17, he entered the Dominican Order at the monastery of San Domenico Maggiore in Naples, taking the name Giordano, after Giordano Crispo, his metaphysics tutor. He continued his studies there, completing his novitiate, and became an ordained priest in 1572 at age 24. During his time in Naples he became known for his skill with the art of memory and on one occasion traveled to Rome to demonstrate his mnemonic system before Pope Pius V and Cardinal Rebiba. In his later years Bruno claimed that the Pope accepted his dedication to him of the lost work "On The Ark of Noah" at this time.
Girolamo Sarriano
Girolamo Sarriano was born in Naples, Italy in 1580 and ordained a priest in the Congregation of Clerics Regular of the Divine Providence. On 31 January 1611, he was appointed during the papacy of Pope Paul V as Bishop of Vico Equense. He served as Bishop of Vico Equense until his death on 23 July 1627. While bishop, he was the principal co-consecrator of Cristoforo Caetani, Coadjutor Bishop of Foligno (1623).
Frank Stallone
Stallone was born in New York City. He is the younger son of Jacqueline Stallone (née Labofish), an astrologer, former dancer, and promoter of women's professional wrestling, and Frank Stallone Sr., a hairdresser. His father was an Italian immigrant, and his mother's family was from Brittany (France) and Ukraine. Stallone's brother is actor Sylvester Stallone. In his teen years, he went to Lincoln High School in Northeast Philadelphia.
Jose Maria Sison
Sison was born on February 8, 1939 in Cabugao to a prominent landowning family with ancestry from Spanish-Mexican-Malay mestizos and from Fujian, China and with connections to other prominent clans such as the Crisologos, the Azcuetas, the Sollers, the Serranos, and the Singsons. His great grandfather Don Leandro Serrano was the biggest landlord of Northern Luzon at the end of the 19th century. His grandfather Don Gorgonio Soller Sison was the last gobernadorcillo of Cabugao under Spanish colonial rule, the municipal president under the Philipine revolutionary government and first mayor under the US colonial rule. His grand uncle Don Mena Crisiologo was the first governor of his Ilocos Sur. His uncle Teófilo Sison was a governor of Pangasinan and the first defense secretary in the Commonwealth government. He was convicted in 1946 of having collaborated with the Japanese occupation forces but was covered by amnesty in 1947. During his childhood in Ilocos, he learned about the Huk rebellion in Central Luzon from Ilocano farm workers and from his mother who belonged to a landlord family in Mexico, Pampanga. In his early high school years in Manila, he talked to his barber about the Hukbalahap activity. Unlike his elder siblings, he attended a public school before entering Ateneo de Manila University and later studying at Colegio de San Juan de Letran.
Diego Silang
Diego Silang y Andaya ( : December 16, 1730 – May 28, 1763) was a Filipino revolutionary leader who conspired with British forces to overthrow Spanish rule in the northern Philippines and establish an independent Ilocano state. His revolt was fueled by grievances stemming from Spanish taxation and abuses, and by his belief in self-government, that the administration and leadership of the Roman Catholic Church and government in the Ilocos be invested in trained Ilocano officials. He met an Itneg woman with the name of Gabriela Cariño. He married her and raised a family in the Ilocos Province.
Simone Cavalli (musician)
Simone was born in Tuscany (Italy) in 1994.
He started to play piano at the age of 8 and he grew up listening to a big variety of music including punk, post hard core, rap, dance, and pop music. He played in many different bands in his teen days till he started his own project in 2010 with Michele Scheveger creating The C.I.P. After finishing highschool Simone was introduced to Michele by common friends and he realised they were sharing same visione. Being introduced to electronic music 3 years before, Simone started to play and write for what would have become "The C.I.P". It took approximately two years to get things ready, after changing line up a few times, Simone and Michele came to the conclusion that the two formed a perfect balance and that was the best line up they've ever had.
in 2013 Simone got in touch with Antonio Filippelli, producer and big name in the music industry, having played for "Vanilla Sky" in the World Tour and working for Emi and Sony. 2013 has seen Simone living in Rome (Italy) and Dublin (Irland) where he produced "Daydream" collaborating with MTV and Sony.
Giuseppe Zigaina
Born in Cervignano del Friuli, Udine, as a child Zigaina showed an early propensity for drawing. He studied at the College of Tolmino, and at 19 he held his first exhibition. In 1946 he met Pier Paolo Pasolini, with whom he established a solid artistic collaboration which included the illustration of some books and the involvement in some films as an actor and as a writer. After the death of Pasolini Zigaina wrote several books about his art.
Nicola Gentile
Nicola Gentile (June 12, 1885 – November 6, 1976), also known as Nick Gentile, was a Sicilian mafioso and an organized crime figure in New York City during the 1920s and 1930s. He was also known for publishing his memoirs which, violating the mafiosi code known as "omerta", revealed many details of the Sicilian and American underworld. Gentile was born in Siculiana, a small village on the south coast of Sicily in the province of Agrigento. He immigrated to the United States arriving in New York at age 18, in 1903. Gentile fled the country in 1937 while out on $15,000 bail after an arrest for heroin trafficking and returned to Sicily to become a boss in the Sicilian Cosa Nostra. In the US, he was known as "Nick" and in Sicily as "Zu Cola" (Uncle Cola).
Giacomo Gaglione
Gaglione was born in Marcianise, in the Province of Caserta from a wealthy family. At the age of sixteen, in June 1912, just as he was about to graduate from high school, he felt the first symptoms of the disease that immobilize him in bed with paralyzed legs: ankylosing spondylitis. Treatment with boiling mud, surgery, orthopedic traction, electrotherapy were all useless.
Michele Pantaleone
Pantaleone was born in Villalba, a village in a poor region of Sicily, where most people lived of subsistence agriculture, which was also the home town of the prominent Mafia boss Calogero Vizzini. Pantaleone came from a relatively well off family and was trained as a land surveyor. Initially a leading member of the Italian Socialist Party ("Partito Socialista Italiano", PSI) in Villalba he later switched to the Italian Communist Party ("Partito Comunista Italiano", PCI).
Ignazio Silone
He was a founding member of the breakaway Communist Party of Italy (PCd'I) in 1921, and became one of its covert leaders during the Fascist regime. Ignazio's brother Romolo Tranquilli was arrested in 1928 for being a member of the PCI and died in prison in 1931 as a result of the severe beatings he received.
Sylvester Stallone
Michael Sylvester Gardenzio Stallone was born in the Hell's Kitchen neighborhood of Manhattan, New York, on July 6, 1946, the elder son of Francesco "Frank" Stallone Sr., a hairdresser and beautician, and Jacqueline "Jackie" Stallone ("née" Labofish; born 1921), an astrologer, dancer, and promoter of women's wrestling. His Italian father was born in Gioia del Colle and moved to the U.S. in the 1930s, while his American mother is of French (from Brittany) and Ukrainian-Jewish (from Odessa) descent. His younger brother is actor and musician Frank Stallone.
Silouan the Athonite
He was born Simeon Ivanovich Antonov, of Russian Orthodox parents who came from the village of Sovsk in Imperial Russia's Tambov Governorate. At the age of twenty-seven, after a period of military service, he left his native Russia and came to the monastic state of Mt. Athos (an autonomous peninsula in Greece) where he became a monk at the Monastery of St Panteleimon, known as "Rossikon", an Orthodox monastery that houses Russian monks yet is, as all the Athonite monasteries, under the jurisdiction of the Patriarch of Constantinople. There, was given the name "Silouan" (the Russian version of the Biblical name Silvanus.)
Giuseppe Nicolini (sculptor)
Nicolini was born in Palermo, Sicily. He was orphaned as a child. By six years of age, he was able to study decoration and designs, including relief sculpture at the Scuola Tecnica Serale (Night Technical School) of Palermo. Nicolini then became artistic director of the commercial (industrial sculpture) studio of Salvatore Coco. One of his brothers was a decorator (painter), and his nephew Giovanni (1872-1956), was a sculptor He learned how to carve ivory and bone, as well as model in wax. He worked on the decoration of furniture, including painted pieces. He then established a studio for sculpting in marble, wood, and cement. He won a prize for the design of the reliefs for the Royal School and Museum of Artistic Industry in Palermo. He completed the decoration of the Communal Theater of Siracusa, alongside the architect professor G. Damiani Almeyda, director of that opera house. He also sculpted a Monument to Francesco Ferrara.
Nicolò Gabrielli
Born in Naples, at the time when the city was capital of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies, Nicolò Gabrielli was the scion of a distinguished yet decayed aristocratic family originally from Gubbio and settled thereafter in Tropea and Palermo. He showed since his early childhood a talent for music that led him to enter the Naples conservatory where he studied under the supervision of Nicola Zingarelli and Gaetano Donizetti. He dedicated himself especially to musical composition, and debuted in August 1835 with a melodrama in Neapolitan dialect, "I dotti per fanatismo".
Francisco Chavez
Born Francisco Ibrado-Chavez in Bateria, Sagay, Negros Occidental on February 6, 1947. A member of one of the country’s biggest clans, the Locsin family of Negros Occidental (the original origin of the clan is from Iloilo City). Their forebear Wo Sin Lok, a peddler from Amoy, had himself baptised into the Catholic Church as Agustín Locsin and married Cecilia Sayson of Molo.[3]
Danyo Ilunga
Ilunga was born in the Democratic Republic of Congo as one of seven children. The son of a prominent politician and the grandson of a local chief, the family had to flee due to the recurring conflict in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, resettling in Germany. A fan of martial arts films starring actors such as Jean-Claude Van Damme and Jackie Chan, Ilunga's main motivation to compete in kickboxing was watching the legendary Remy Bonjasky's fights. In 2007 at the age of 19, Ilunga took up kickboxing under the tutelage of K-1 Germany 2003 Champion and now trainer, Asmir Burgic. Ilunga would go on to train with Bonjasky himself. Ilunga's father, who later became a pastor, did not initially approve of Ilunga's career path, but his viewpoint switched after seeing his son win multiple titles and have a wealth of success in the sport.
Ignazio Silone
Following his contribution to the anti-communist anthology "The God That Failed" (1949), Silone joined the Congress of Cultural Freedom and edited "Tempo Presente". In 1967, with the discovery that the journal received secret funds from the United States Central Intelligence Agency, Silone resigned and devoted all his energies to the writing of novels and autobiographical essays.
Susanna Maiolo
Maiolo was born in Frauenfeld, Switzerland. Authorities said that Maiolo is mentally unwell and she was held for a week's evaluation at a psychiatric hostel in Subiaco near Rome. It was reported that she did not want to injure the Pope, and the Pope has forgiven her.
Isaiah Sonne
Isaiah Sonne, sometimes also Isaia Sonne, (1887–1960) was a Jewish historian and bibliographer. Born in Galicia in 1887, he was educated in Switzerland and Italy, spending much of his career in the latter country as a teacher at Jewish colleges. After the implementations of the Italian Racial Laws in 1938, Sonne migrated to the United States where he taught at the Hebrew Union College in Cincinnati, where he died in 1960.
Otto Miguel Cione
Otto Miguel Cione was born in Asunción, Paraguay on 15 August 1875.
His parents were Italian.
His father was Pascual M. Cione and his mother was Angela Flacone.
He moved to Uruguay at an early age, and became a citizen of that country.
His father was a leading doctor, and insisted that he attend university, but he did not finish his studies.
For some time he was Consul of Uruguay in Concordia, Entre Ríos, Argentina.
Later he was Section Head of the National Labor Office, and then Librarian in the Secondary Education Section of the Universidad de Montevideo.
In 1942 he was Librarian of the "Alfredo Vázquez Acevedo" Institute, the University's Section of Secondary and Higher Education.
Paolo Borsellino
Borsellino was born in a middle-class Palermo neighbourhood, Kalsa, a neighborhood of central Palermo which suffered extensive destruction by aerial attacks during the Allied invasion of Sicily in 1943. His father was a pharmacist and his mother ran a pharmacy in the Via della Vetriera, next to the house were Paolo was born. As boys Borsellino and Falcone – who was born in the same neighbourhood – played soccer together on the Piazza Magione. The Mafia was present in the area but quiescent. Both had classmates who ended up as "mafiosi". The house where he was born was declared unsafe and the family was forced to move out in 1956. The pharmacy remained, while the neighbourhood around it crumbled.
Severina (Silone)
Severina, or La speranza di suor Severina, is the last work of Italian writer Ignazio Silone. Written 1977-78, it was edited and completed by Darina Silone and published posthumously in 1981.
Pescina
Museum that was built in the birthplace of the writer. Home Silone was one of the few houses to escape the earthquake of 1915. The museum devoted to Ignazio Silone contains several manuscripts and original letters of the author.
Giuseppe Picone
Picone was born in Naples, Italy and trained at the Ballet School of the Teatro di San Carlo. At the age of twelve he was chosen by Beppe Menegatti to dance the role of the young Nijinsky in the world première of the ballet "Nijinsky", with Carla Fracci and Vladimir Vasiliev. He also trained at the Accademia Nazionale di Danza in Rome and won both competitions of Rieti and Positano.
Franco Scaglione
Franco Scaglione was born in Florence to Vittorio Scaglione, a chief army doctor, and to Giovanna Fabbri, captain of the Italian Red Cross service. His was a well-to-do family of noble ancestry (count of Martirano San Nicola and of Mottafilocastro). At the age of 6, he and his younger brother became fatherless.
His studies were of humanistic leanings, but he entered the university of Aeronautical Engineering. His favourite hobbies were reading, tennis, riding and rowing. He went into military service with the rank of sub-lieutenant in the sappers, the Genio Pontieri. He continued his studies, but at the outbreak of the Second World War he volunteered to be assigned to a more destructive unit, the Genio Guastatori and was sent to the Libyan front. On Christmas Eve 1941, he was taken prisoner by the English at El Duda, a village to the south of Tobruk. He was to be interned at the Yol detention camp in India, where he remained until the end of 1946. He returned to Italy on Boxing Day that year with the last boat used for the carrying of prisoners. He rejoined his mother (his brother Eugenio was killed during the war) in Carolei, near Cosenza, and stayed with her for almost a year.
At the beginning of 1948 he went to Bologna in search of a job; he already had it in mind to work as a stylist in the automobile field, his real passion. Initially he devoted his time to sketching clothing for fashion houses, which was very profitable, but his vocation was automobile coachwork design. On 25 September 1948 he married Maria Luisa Benvenuti and two years later, on 10 September, his daughter Giovanna was born.
In April, 1951, he moved to Turin, where there were the major coachbuilding firms, and he contacted Battista Pinin Farina, who very much appreciated his renderings. However, this did not result in collaboration, as Pinin Farina did not allow his models to be linked to the designer’s name. He met Nuccio Bertone and finally an association was born, which led him to create automobiles such as the Alfa Romeo B.A.T.s, the Giulietta Sprint and Sprint Speciale and many others. In 1959 he broke off the exclusive relationship with the Bertone coachworks and worked on his own. His first collaboration was with Carlo Abarth and Porsche, and he designed the Porsche 356 B Abarth Carrera GTL, the acclaimed design forerunner of the 911. Then Scaglione conceived the Lamborghini 350 GTV, the ATS 2500 GT, the 1900 Skyline Sprint for the Japanese Prince company (later to merge in 1966 with Nissan), the Titania Veltro GTT, and various models for Intermeccanica such as the Apollo, Torino, Italia GFX, Italia IMX, Indra. In 1967, he designed for Alfa Romeo Autodelta the legendary Alfa Romeo 33 Stradale, said by many to be one of the most beautiful cars ever made.
Alas, Intermeccanica became bankrupt and the entrepreneur owner, Frank Reisner, moved to Canada. Franco Scaglione, having put his own savings in the production of the Indra, was disillusioned and retired from work.
In 1981 he moved to Suvereto, a little village in the province of Livorno, where he lived a very secluded life. In July, 1991, he was diagnosed with lung cancer. He died two years later.
Benigno Aquino III
Benigno Simeon "Noynoy" Aquino III was born at 10:28 am on February 8, 1960 at Far Eastern University Hospital in Sampaloc, Manila. He is the third of the five children of Benigno S. Aquino, Jr., who was then the Vice Governor of Tarlac province, and Corazon Cojuangco, daughter of a prominent Tarlac businessman. He has four sisters, namely: Maria Elena (Ballsy), Aurora Corazon (Pinky), Victoria Elisa (Viel), and Kristina Bernadette (Kris). He attended Ateneo de Manila University in Quezon City for his elementary, high school, and college education. Aquino finished his Bachelor of Arts (major in economics) from Ateneo de Manila University in 1981, He was one of the students of former professor of economics at Ateneo de Manila University, former President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo.
Ignacio Corsini
Andrea Corsini, such his real name, was born in Agira, a village in the Enna Province of Sicily, in 1891. He was foster son of Soccorza Salomone. Ms. Salomone left Italy for Buenos Aires, Argentina in 1901, and settled in the middle-class Almagro section of the city. They settled in Carlos Tejedor, then a small pampas town where Corsini would spend the remainder of his childhood, finding work as an ox cart driver and herdsman.
Giulio Paolini
Paolini was born in Genoa. After a childhood spent in Bergamo, he moved with his family to Turin where he still lives today. He attended the Giambattista Bodoni State Industrial Technical School of Graphics and Photography, graduating in the Graphics department in 1959. He had been interested in art from an early age, visiting museums and galleries and reading art periodicals. Towards the end of the 1950s he approached painting, trying some pictures of an abstract nature, close to monochrome. The discovery of modern graphics during his studies and the fact that there were architecture magazines around the house – his elder brother Cesare (1937–1983) was an architect – contributed to orienting him towards a line of research aimed at zeroing the image.
Ilona Staller
Naturalized by marriage and settled in Italy, Staller met pornographer Riccardo Schicchi in the early 1970s, and, beginning in 1973, achieved fame with a radio show called "Voulez-vous coucher avec moi?" on Radio Luna. For that program she adopted the name "Cicciolina". She referred to her male fanbase, and later the male members of the Italian parliament, as "cicciolini", translating loosely as "little tubby boys". Although she appeared in several films from 1970, she made her debut under her own name in 1975 with "La liceale" (aka "The Teasers") by playing with Gloria Guida as her lesbian classmate.
Raffaele Conflenti
Conflenti was born in Cosenza, then part of the Kingdom of Italy, on 4 December 1889. He graduated in engineering and in 1912 he started working for Società Italiana Transaerea (Italian Trans-Aeronautical Company, or SIT) in Turin. He then worked for Domenico Santoni's Società Costruzioni Aeronautiche Savoia (Savoia Aeronautical Works Company) in Milan and later he became the technical director of SIAI (Società Idrovolanti Alta Italia, Italian for Seaplane Company of Northern Italy), the company Santoni had founded in 1914 together with businessman Luigi Capè. SIAI was headquartered in Sesto Calende, on Lake Maggiore.
Angelo Nicolini
Angelo Nicolini was born in Florence in 1505, the son of Matteo Nicolini. He attended the University of Pisa, becoming a doctor of both laws in 1523. In 1530, he married Alessandra di Vincenzo Ugolini; the couple had four children before his wife's death in 1550. He was a counselor to Cosimo I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany, who entrusted him with many important missions and made him a senator. He was the ambassador of Duchy of Florence to the court of Pope Paul III, and then, in 1538, to Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor. He became governor of Siena in 1557.
Camillo Sitte
Camillo Sitte was born and died in Vienna. He was an art historian and architect. He traveled around the towns of Europe and tried to identify aspects that made towns feel warm and welcoming. Architecture was a process of culturization for him. Sitte received a lot of attention in 1889 with the publication of his book "Der Städtebau nach seinen künstlerischen Grundsätzen" ("City Planning According to Artistic Principles"). The richly illustrated book pointed out that the urban room around the experiencing man should be the leading motif of urban planning, thus turning away from the pragmatic, hygienic planning procedures of the time. Sitte emphasized the creation of an irregular urban structure, spacious plazas, enhanced by monuments and other aesthetic elements.
Claudio Cirigliano
Cirigliano is the son of Nicola Cirigliano, who was born in Vaglio Basilicata, Italy, and moved to Argentina at age 18. After working as a laborer and truck driver, Nicola borrowed money from a friend and bought a bus route. This was the beginning of a transport firm, originally called Transporte Automotor Plaza, which he founded in 1959. Claudio, born in 1964 or 1965 (in September 2009, he was 44 years old), was Nicola's last-born son. Claudio grew up in Parque Patricios and studied at a technical college.
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Ignatius of Loyola
Íñigo López de Loyola (sometimes erroneously called Íñigo López de Recalde) was born in the municipality of Azpeitia at the castle of Loyola in today's Gipuzkoa, Basque Country, Spain. He was baptized Íñigo, after St. Enecus (Innicus) (; ) Abbot of Oña, a Basque medieval, affectionate name meaning "My little one". It is not clear when he began using the Latin name "Ignatius" instead of his baptismal name "Íñigo". It seems he did not intend to change his name, but rather adopted a name which he believed was a simple variant of his own, for use in France and Italy where it was better understood.
Eduardo Lalo
Eduardo Lalo (born 1960) is a Puerto Rican novelist, best known for his novel "Simone", who won the Romulo Gallegos Prize.
Nicolò Lolli
Born in Forlì, Emilia–Romagna region, Lolli started his career at Romagnol club Cesena. Lolli made his Serie A debut on 29 April 2012, as a substitute of Adrian Mutu. Lolli wore no.45 shirt that season. At the end of season Cesena relegated. Lolli played the last 3 games of 2012–13 Serie B season. That season he picked no.28 shirt previously owned by Yohan Benalouane. On 5 August 2013 he was signed by San Marino Calcio, another team border Romagna region. The club also signed Saša Čičarević, Yago Del Piero (Cesena/Inter), Marco Paolini (Parma/Cesena) and Stefano Sensi from Cesena. San Marino finished as the 15th (out of 16th) of Group A of 2013–14 Lega Pro Prima Divisione. However, due to the merger of the two divisions of Lega Pro, the club did not relegate. That season Cesena also promoted to Serie A.
Siniša Mihajlović
Mihajlović was born in Vukovar, SR Croatia, near the border of SR Serbia. He was raised in Borovo Naselje, into a working-class family of a Serb father from Bosnia, and a Croat mother. He himself identifies as Serb, but has said that he views Croatia as his country as well. His father Bogdan (d. 2011) was a truck driver, while his mother Viktorija was a shoe factory worker. He has a younger brother, Dražen (b. 1973).
Matteo Garrone
Matteo Garrone (born 15 October 1968) is an Italian filmmaker. Born in Rome, the son of a theatre critic, Nico Garrone and a photographer, in 1996 Garrone won the "Sacher d'Oro", an award sponsored by Nanni Moretti, with the short film "Silhouette", that became one of the three episodes that are on his first long feature, "Terra di Mezzo" in 1997. He won Best Director at the European Film Awards and at the David di Donatello Awards for "Gomorrah". His film "Reality" competed in competition at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival and won the Grand Prix.
Darina Laracy
Born in Rathgar, Dublin, Laracy had three sisters Cecily, Moira and Eithne, she graduated in 1937 in history and political science from University College Dublin. By 1939 Laracy had an MA. She went to France where she had a scholarship to study for her doctorate at the Sorbonne. In 1940 she moved to Italy, visiting Milan briefly and then settling in Rome where she got work as a correspondent for the Herald Tribune and the International News Service. This brought her attention from the fascist regime who wanted her to collaborate with them. When she refused she was forced to flee to Switzerland.
Laracy was initially based in Berne where she gave a full account to the chief intelligence officer. However her visa was for 15 days and eventually she could not get a further extension. She moved to Zurich when an English publisher commissioned her to write a book on the situation in Italy. It was in the libraries there that she met Ignazio Silone, who was also in exile. She convinced Silone to let her assist him in his work against the fascist regime in Italy and eventually, in October 1944, they returned to Rome. They were married two months later.
Mario Simioni
Born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Simioni was drafted by the Calgary Flames in the 1981 NHL Draft (5th round, 99th overall), but never played in the National Hockey League. However, he saw action for the Colorado Flames, then Calgary’s CHL affiliate, in 1982-83 and 1983-84. He split the 1984-85 season between the Salt Lake Golden Eagles of the IHL and the Moncton Hawks of the AHL, before continuing his pro career in Europe. Simioni signed with Asiago of the Italian Serie A and would dominate the league in scoring during his seven-year stint. A Canadian of Italian descent, he was named to the Italian national team, representing the country at three World Championships (two in Group B, 1992 in the highest division).
Diodorus Siculus
According to his own work, he was born at Agyrium in Sicily (now called Agira). With one exception, antiquity affords no further information about his life and doings beyond in his work. Only Jerome, in his "Chronicon" under the "year of Abraham 1968" (49 BC), writes, "Diodorus of Sicily, a writer of Greek history, became illustrious". However, his English translator, Charles Henry Oldfather, remarks on the "striking coincidence" that one of only two known Greek inscriptions from Agyrium ("Inscriptiones Graecae" XIV, 588) is the tombstone of one "Diodorus, the son of Apollonius".