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Giovanni is an Italian given name (from Latin:Iohannes), the Italian equivalent of John. It may also refer to:
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- Pope Gelasius II, whose given name was Giovanni Coniulo
- Pope John Paul II, known in Italian language as Giovanni Paolo II
- Giovanni Adamo, an Italian violinist
- Giovanni Agnelli, Italian entrepreneur, who founded Fiat car manufacturing in 1899
- Giovanni Arnolfini, a merchant from Lucca
- Giovanni Becatti, an Italian archaeologist
- Giovanni Bononcini, an Italian Baroque composer and cellist
- Giovanni Boccaccio, an Italian Renaissance writer
- Giovanni Boldini, an Italian painter
- Giovanni Bosco, an Italian saint
- Giovanni (crossword compiler)
- Giovanni Csermanek, later János Kádár, Hungarian communist leader
- Giovanni d'Aleo, an Italian long-distance runner
- Giovanni da Verrazzano, an Italian explorer
- Giovanni de Macque, late Renaissance Franco-Flemish composer
- Giovanni di Giovanni, an Italian youth executed for practising sodomy
- Giovanni Evangelisti, an Italian long jumper
- Giovanni Facchini, an Italian economist
- Giovanni Giacometti, a Swiss painter
- Giovanni Gieco, an Italian/American actor and poet.
- Giovanni Gozzadini, an Italian archaeologist
- Giovanni Girolamo Frezza, an Italian engraver
- Giovanni Frezza, an Italian actor
- Giovanni Papini, an Italian journalist, essayist, literary critic, poet, and novelist
- Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, an Italian philosopher
- Giovanni Ribisi, an American actor
- Giovanni Rocco, A Chilean Enginner
- Giovanni Salvatore Abruzzese, an Italian-American novelist
- Giovani dos Santos, a Mexican football player
- Giovanni Schiaparelli, an Italian astronomer
- Giovanni Silva de Oliveira, usually known as Giovanni, Brazilian soccer player
- Giovanni Semerano, an Italian philologist
- Giovanni Trapattoni, an Italian football coach and former player
- Giovanni Visconti, an Italian Roman Catholic cardinal
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