List of people from Trieste

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The Province of Trieste is a province in the autonomous Friuli-Venezia Giulia region of Italy. The following is a list of notable people from there.

Literature

Many famous authors were born and/or lived many years in Trieste. They include:

Italian language authors

• Carlo / Carolus Luigi Cergoly Serini or shorter Carolus L. Cergoly, poet, writer, author, translator, public intellectual and journalist
• Enzo Bettiza, writer and journalist, born in Split
• Claudio Magris, writer and essayist
• Biagio Marin, poet (born in Grado)
• Giorgio Pressburger, Author and director
• Umberto Saba, poet
• Scipio Slataper, essayist
• Giani Stuparich, writer and essayist
• Italo Svevo, novelist
• Susanna Tamaro, novelist
• Fulvio Tomizza, writer, born in Istria (now in Croatia)

Vladimir Bartol.

Slovene language authors

• Vladimir Bartol, writer
• Dušan Jelinčič, writer, essayist, and mountain climber
• Boris Pahor, novelist
• Alojz Rebula, writer and essayist

Monument to James Joyce.

German language authors

• Theodor Däubler, writer and poet
• Robert Hamerling
• Julius Kugy, writer and essayist (born in Gorizia)
• Reiner Maria Rilke

Authors in other languages

• Richard Francis Burton
• James Joyce
• Charles Lever
• Jan Morris
• Juan Octavio Prenz
• Alexander Wheelock Thayer
• Isabel Burton

Architects, designers, and visual artists

• Emilio Ambrosini, architect
• Franca Batich, Italian painter
• Leo Castelli, art dealer
• Tullio Crali, Futurist painter
• Avgust Černigoj, Slovene painter
• Barbara Franchin, Director and Project Supervisor of ITS - International Talent Support and Head of the agency EVE
• Franko Luin, Swedish-Slovene graphic designer
• Michael Manfredi, architect partner of Marion Weiss in New York–based Weiss/Manfredi
• Boris Podrecca, architect
• Ernesto Nathan Rogers, architect
• Romeo Rathmann, sculptor of the Titanic Memorial in Southampton
• Ivan Rendić, Croatian sculptor
• Mila Schön, Fashion designer
• Jožef Tominc, Biedermeier painter

Actors, musicians and performance artists

Barbara Franchin

• Piero Cappuccilli, Italian operatic baritone
• Raffaello de Banfield, British composer
• Antonio Bibalo, Italian pianist and composer
• Federico Agostini, Italian violinist
• Angelo Cecchelin, Italian comedian
• Antonio D'Antoni, Italian opera composer and conductor
• George Dolenz, actor and father of Micky Dolenz of the Monkees
• Alfred Jaëll, Austrian pianist
• Lorenzo Pilat, musician, composer and singer
• Tullio Kezich, actor, playwright, and screenplayer
• Paolo Longo, composer and conductor
• Lelio Luttazzi, musician, composer, showman and presenter
• Alessandro Lotta, former bassist of the bands Rhapsody of Fire and Wingdom
• Mauro Maur, Italian trumpet player and composer
• Alexander Moissi, Austrian stage actor of Albanian descent
• Denis Novato, Slovene musician
• Alberto Randegger, composer
• Enrico Rava, jazz trumpeter
• Victor de Sabata, conductor
• Laura Solari, film actress
• Alex Staropoli, keyboardist of the band Rhapsody of Fire
• Avraham Albert Sternklar, Pianist, composer
• Giorgio Strehler, opera and theater director
• Elisa Toffoli, Nationally renowned singer/songwriter, pianist, and guitarist
• Luca Turilli, guitarist of the band Rhapsody of Fire
• Ivan Rassimov, Italian actor of Serbian descent
• Rada Rassimov, Italian actor of Serbian descent

Entrepreneurs and Business Leaders

• Andrea Illy, Entrepreneur
• Ernesto Illy, Entrepreneur, founder of coffee empire
• Francesco Illy, Entrepreneur, inventor of coffee machinery

Journalists and authors

• Sergio Amidei, screenwriter
• Giovanna Botteri, journalist
• Almerigo Grilz, journalist, freelance war reporter and politician. Was killed during an African reportage
• Leo Negrelli, journalist
• Demetrio Volcic, journalist and politician
• Ann Shulgin, author

Politicians and public servants

• Joseph Fouché, duke of Otranto, spent his last 5 years exiled in Trieste.
• Engelbert Besednjak, Slovene politician
• Josip Ferfolja, Slovenian social-democratic politician and human rights activist
• Riccardo Illy, Italian politician
• Mitja Ribičič, Slovenian Communist leader, President of the Yugoslav Government (1969–1971)
• Vittorio Vidali (aka Enea Sormenti, Jacobo Hurwitz Zender, Carlos Contreras), Communist agent
• Josip Wilfan, Slovene jurist, politician, and human rights activist

Religious figures

• Pietro Bonomo, humanist and bishop, supporter of the Protestant Reformation

Scholars, scientists and intellectuals

• Luisa Accati, historian and feminist theoretician
• Florian Biesik, Silesian linguist, Vilamovian language scholar and poet
• Ludwig Boltzmann, Austrian physicist
• Lavo Čermelj, Slovene physisicist and public intellectual
• Gillo Dorfles, philosopher and historian
• Boris Furlan, Slovenian legal theorist, translator and politician
• Arturo Falaschi, MD, Geneticist
• Guido Goldschmiedt, Austrian chemist
• Boris M. Gombač, Slovenian historian
• Spiridon Gopčević, Serbian astronomer and historian
• Margherita Hack, Italian astronomer
• Fiorella Kostoris, economist
• Doro Levi, archaeologist
• Salvatore Pincherle, Italian mathematician
• Jože Pirjevec, Slovene historian
• Abdus Salam, Pakistani theoretical physicist, Nobel prize laureate
• Denis Sciama, British physicist
• Marta Verginella, Slovene historian
• Ivan Vidav, Slovene mathematician

Sportspeople

• Nino Benvenuti, Italian boxer
• Biaggio Chianese, Italian boxer
• Claudia Coslovich, athlete
• Fabio Cudicini, football player (goalkeeper)
• Umberto De Morpurgo, tennis player
• Giorgio Ferrini, football player
• Livio Franceschini, basketball player
• Sandro Gamba, basketball coach and player
• Matteo Gladig, Italian chess master
• Margherita Granbassi, Italian foil fencer
• Duilio Loi, boxer
• Cesare Maldini, former AC Milan captain, Italian football team manager.
• Giovanni Martinolich, Italian chess master
• Tiberio Mitri, boxer
• Giorgio Oberweger, athlete
• Nicola Princivalli, football player
• Carlo Rigotti, football player
• Nereo Rocco, football legend
• Cesare Rubini, water polo player
• Giovanni Steffè, rower
• Max Tonetto, football player
• Ferruccio Valcareggi, football player and coach
• Renzo Vecchiato, basketball player

Others

• Maximilian of Habsburg, Emperor of Mexico, Archduke of Austria (Schönbrunn 1832 - Querétaro 1867) built the white castle and park on the riviera. He planted plants in the park from his travels around the world.
• Prince Amedeo, Duke of Aosta, Italian General, resided at Miramare castle and was president of the local football team
• Princess Maria Cristina of Savoy, Italian princess, born at Miramare Castle in 1933
• Lidia Bastianich, Italian-American chef and TV cooking show host whose family lived in a Triestian refugee camp after their escape from Istria, Yugoslavia (now Croatia)
• Mathilde Bonaparte, Napoleon's niece, daughter of his brother Jérôme Bonaparte, was born here in 1820
• Leo Castelli, New York art dealer who established one of the world's leading vanguard galleries in the 20th century
• Louis Antoine Debrauz de Saldapenna, Austrian diplomat, journalist and author
• Gottfried von Banfield (1890–1986), top Austrian Empire fighter ace in World War I
• Anton Füster, Austrian revolutionary activist, author and pedagogue
• Odilo Globocnik, Nazi war criminal, SS leader
• Albert O. Hirschman, noted economist and political scientist obtained his doctorate from the University of Trieste.
• Jules Verne, French author, lived in Trieste and wrote the novela " La Congiura di Trieste".
• Sigismund Zois, Slovene mecenate and natural scientist'