List of Italian Americans

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This is a list of famous Italian Americans.

Lists of Americans
By US state
By ethnicity or nationality

Anarchists

  • Arturo Giovannitti (1884-1959) was an union leader and poet, an immigrant from Italy who entered the United States in 1901. He was born in Ripabottoni, Campobasso, Italy. He and Joseph Ettor led the textile mill strikers at Lawrence, Massachusetts in 1912 at which a woman was shot and killed. Giovannitti and Ettor were arrested and imprisoned on the charge of inciting to a riot leading to the loss of life. They were tried and acquitted in November, 1912. At the time of the trial, a 24-hour general strike was called in Lawrence. Their imprisonment attracted nationwide attention and inspired activists who called for the guaranteeing of free speech. Giovanitti wrote Arrows in the Gale, a volume of verse, which was published in 1914.
  • Nicola Sacco (1891-1927)
  • Carlo Tresca
  • Bartolomeo Vanzetti (1888-1927)

Artists

Composers and conductors

charles dobles-famous porno star.known for gay appearences with micheal jackson.

Digital Artists/ Illustrators

  • Rich DiSilvio (b.1957) Most noted for his surreal and visionary art that has appeared on fantasy and sci-fi book covers, as well as many music CD covers for star performers.

Painters

Comics artists and cartoonists

Photographers

Business

Anthony Sio Riggio President and CEO of Lucky Star Corporation Maryland USA and Liberia

Chairmen

Entrepreneurs

Finance

Publishing

Criminals

Main article: List of Italian American mobsters

Entertainers

Actors

Fashion models

Movie directors and producers

Television

Musicians

See also List of Sicilian-American jazz musicians

Songwriters

Singers

Stand-up comedians

Adult movie stars

Entertainers who can't be categorized

  • Toni Basil (b.1943), born Antonia Christina Basilotta, dancer, actress, singer
  • Judy Canova, born Juliette Canova, (November 20, 1913 - died August 5, 1983) was a comedienne, actress, singer, and radio personality.
  • Fabian (entertainer), (born February 6, 1943 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) was a teen idol of the late 1950s and early 1960s. He rose to national prominence after performing several times on American Bandstand. Born Fabiano Anthony Bonaparte, he adopted the stage name Fabian Forte but has always been known by his first name only.
  • Frank Lentini, born Francesco A. Lentini (1889 - 1966) was born in Siracusa, Sicily into a large family. He was born with three longer legs, two sets of genitals and one rudimentary foot on his third leg. His primary legs also grew into different lengths. At the age of nine, Lentini moved to the United States and entered the sideshow business.
  • Rosina Ferrara (1861-1934) Model to 19th-century American and Britisth painters, muse of American expatriate artist John Singer Sargent.

Inventors

Jurists

Law enforcers

Mathematicians

Media

Military

Politicians

Governors and former governors

Mayors and former mayors

Prelates

Cardinals

Scientists

Academics

Sports

Athletes

Baseball

Basketball

Billiards players

  • Willie Mosconi, born William Joseph Mosconi (June 27, 1913–September 12, 1993), an American billiards player from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, is considered by most who knew him to be one of the best players in the history of the game. Between the years of 1941 and 1956, he won the United States states pool championship eighteen times. He pioneered and regularly employed numerous trickshots, set innumerable records, and helped to popularize the game of billiards as a national recreation activity. Willie Mosconi once ran 526 balls in a row in an exhibition of straight pool, a record that may never be beaten. He continued to dominate pool into the mid 1950s in a manner few have equaled. The Mosconi Cup, an annual pool competition between American and European players, is named in his honor.

Boxers

Figure skaters

Football

Golfers

Horse racers

Ice hockey players

Race car drivers

Skiing

  • Julia Mancuso (1984 - ) alpine skier; won a gold medal in the Giant Slalom race at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin[16]

Soccer

Swimmers

Tennis players

Wrestlers

Writers

Italian Americans who were the first in achieving something

  • Frank Borzage, for his 1927 film, Seventh Heaven he became the first person ever to win the Academy Award for Directing.
  • Anthony Celebrezze, (1910-1998), born in Anzi, Potenza, Italy and the first non-native to be appointed to the U.S.Cabinet as Secretary of the Department of Health, Education and Welfare under the Kennedy and Johnson Administrations.
  • Ella T. Grasso (1919-1981), born Ella Rose Tambussi Grasso, first woman to be elected governor of a state Connecticut without succeeding her husband.
  • Dennis Tito (b.1940), the world's first space tourist. Growing up in Queens, New York, with immigrant parents who truly believed in the American Dream. After his space trip, Tito reflected: "The experience taught me that I could achieve anything if I set my mind to it."
  • Joe Valachi (1904-1971), the first wiseguy to squeal to the senate about organized crime.
  • Rudolph Valentino (1895-1926), born Rodolfo Alfonso Rafaello Piero Filiberto Gugliemi di Valentina d'Antoguolla, Hollywood's first sex symbol and the first "Latin Lover"

Italian Americans who cannot be categorized

References

Footnotes

  1. ^ Gamba - [1] "From San Francisco - She is a self described "a good Italian woman.""
  2. ^ [2] "Miss November Raquel Gibson is half Italian, half Filipino and 100 percent proof that beauty is the universal language."
  3. ^ a b c [3] "Currently living in their Long Island, New York mansion, these Italian-American, hair gel-loving fashionistas..."
  4. ^ [4]"Suzette Charles, born Suzette De Gaetano, was the first Italian American to win the Miss America title as the second runner up and replaced Vanessa Williams in the 1984 contest."
  5. ^ [5]"ITALIAN AMERICANS IN POPULAR MUSIC...Born Alfred Cucozza in Philadelphia in 1921, Mario Lanza, took his mother's name as his stage name and became the first vocalist to sell 2.5 million albums and the first singer to receive a gold disc for his recording of "Be My Love.""
  6. ^ [6]"ITALIAN AMERICANS IN POPULAR MUSIC ...Four-time Academy Award and 20-time Grammy and Gold Record winner Henry Mancini is remembered for his classic "Moon River" from Breakfast at Tiffany's. He also wrote the scores for 80 other movies, including the Pink Panther series, The Days of Wine and Roses and Victor-Victoria. Born in 1924 in Ohio, he was a child prodigy who mastered the piccolo, flute, and piano by the time he was 12. His break came when he scored the theme music to Peter Gunn, a popular TV series of the early1960s. Mancini died of pancreatic cancer in 1994. He was 70 years old. "
  7. ^ [7] "Dino Paul Crocetti, (a.k.a. Dean Martin 1917-1995) was born to Italian immigrants, Gaetano and Angela Barra-Crocetti. Like many young Italian-Americans, the young Dino spoke only Italian until he started school at age 5."
  8. ^ Noted as one of several Italian Americans at [8]; [9] "Russ Columbo was born January 14, 1908, in Camden, New Jersey, the twelfth child of Italian immigrants Nicola and Giulia"
  9. ^ (half Italian)[10] "Nationality: Mexican/Italian"
  10. ^ [11] "I would love to go to Italy, cuz I'm Italian." [12] "TVG: So you're ready to become a Mafia princess? Mikalah: I am. I'm a good Italian girl!"
  11. ^ [13] "This place was a fair reflection of her Irish-Italian Catholic family's fortunes at this point." [14] "She says, "I was on the phone with my grandmother when I got it because she's Italian and I wasn't sure."
  12. ^ [15] "But no matter. Jason Grilli apparently is as Italian as a plate of linguine. "The way the rules are written," Jason said the other day, "my heritage allows me to be a member of the team.""
  13. ^ Lo Duca - [16] "When Paul Lo Duca became a Met in the offseason, he made an attempt to seek his roots as an Italian-American"
  14. ^ [17] "Italian American boxer Tony Canzoneri"
  15. ^ [18] "'Cus' D'Amato (an eccentric Italian/American..."
  16. ^ Mancuso - [19] "Italian-American Mancuso skis like she's home at Tahoe... Both her father and mother, long-divorced, are of Italian descent"
  17. ^ Ianni - [20] "ITALIAN IANNI: U.S. defender Patrick Ianni told reporters that this game will be interesting for him as he has a 75 percent Italian background. His grandparents are from Milan and Turin and he grew up an Italian soccer fan, cheering for AC Milan. “When I found out we were playing Italy I thought it was cool because of my background. It will be interesting, but the truth is it doesn’t really matter who we play really at this point. We just want to win.”"
  18. ^ [21]"I'm Italian...born and raised in California's Central Valley! In our family, my father made the wine (actually, Mom made the wine and Dad took the credit), and my mom made the vinegar and baked bread in an outdoor oven. Their lifestyle grew directly out of their land and what it produced. They ate what they could as it ripened, and preserved the rest. Food — its cultivation, preservation, and preparation — centered our family life."
  19. ^ [22]"Ray's mother is Sicilian. She describes her father as "Cajun Creole." As though that combination weren't enough to seal her fate as a foodie, she also spent time working in the family's restaurant in Cape Cod, Mass. When they moved to New York, she continued to watch and learn from her mother -- "the head chef of the only cooking school I've ever attended," said Ray."

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