Famous People with Name Luigi

Luigi (Gino) Castiglione            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Luigi (Gino) Castiglione: 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 flyweight (– 48 kg) he was defeated by Bulgaria's Ivailo Marinov.

Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza: an American-Italian population geneticist born in Genoa, who has been a professor at Stanford University since 1970 (now emeritus).One of the more distinguished geneticists of the 20th century, he has summed up his work for laymen under five topics covered in Genes, Peoples, and Languages (2000). Physiologist and evolutionary biologist Jared Diamond praised the work for "demolishing scientists' attempts to classify human populations into races in the same way that they classify birds and other species into races."[citation needed] According to an article published in The Economist, the work of Cavalli-Sforza "challenges the assumption that there are significant genetic differences between human races, and indeed, the idea that 'race' has any useful biological meaning at all." (The Human Genome Survey, 1 July 2000, pg. 11)

Luigi Giuseppe D'Ambrosio            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Luigi Giuseppe D'Ambrosio: aka Lou Ambers, was a lightweight boxer who fought from 1932 to 1941. Managed by Al Weill and trained by Charley Goldman, the "Herkimer Hurricane", as he was known, began his career losing only once in more than three years when he faced future hall of fa

Luigi "Lou" Moro            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Luigi "Lou" Moro: was an Italian-born Canadian professional soccer and lacrosse coach. Moro was in charge of the Vancouver Whitecaps for three seasons of the North American Soccer League. He then became a coach of the Whitecaps as they continued in the Canadian Soccer Leag

Guido De Luigi            Origin/Culture/Country: Italian

Guido De Luigi: is an Italian former volleyball player who competed in the 1984 Summer Olympics.

Alexandre Clement Leon Joseph Luigini            Origin/Culture/Country: French

Alexandre Clement Leon Joseph Luigini: was a French composer and conductor. In 1897 he left Lyon to take up the conductorship of the Opéra-Comique in Paris, and led a busy life until his sudden death in 1906. At the Opéra-Comique he notably conducted the world premiere of Jules Massenet's Cendrillon on 24 May 1899.