Italian Famous Names Starting with Letter U

Is a naturalized Maltese football midfielder. He plays for Panthrakikos F.C. in the Greek Super Leag

Is a naturalized Maltese football midfielder. He plays for Panthrakikos F.C. in the Greek Super League.Following the successful spell with Xewkija Tigers, Nwoko found himself back in the Maltese Premier League joining Mosta for the 2005–06 season. He made

Is a former Italian professional road bicycle racer. Agostoni was professional from 1911 to 1924 dur

Is a former Italian professional road bicycle racer. Agostoni was professional from 1911 to 1924 during which time he won the Giro dell'Emilia, a stage in the 1912 Giro d'Italia while he was riding for the Peugeot cycling team and another stage in the 192

Was an Italian footballer.During his club career he played for Pro Vercelli, Fiorentina and Vicenza.

Was an Italian footballer.During his club career he played for Pro Vercelli, Fiorentina and Vicenza. He earned 3 caps for the Italy national football team, and was included in the squad for the 1970 FIFA World Cup.

Was an Italian writer and poet. On the death of his father, a physician in Split/Spalato, today Croa

Was an Italian writer and poet. On the death of his father, a physician in Split/Spalato, today Croatia , the family removed to Venice, and at the University of Padua Foscolo completed the studies begun at the Dalmatian grammar school.

Was an Italian professional golfer.Grappasonni was born in Rome and was one of the leading golfers i

Was an Italian professional golfer.Grappasonni was born in Rome and was one of the leading golfers in Italy, winning his national open twice, in 1950 and 1954, and the National Omnium on four occasions. He also won the French, Dutch and Swiss Opens, the l

Was an international footballer for Italy who won a Gold medal at the 1936 Summer Olympics and a win

Was an international footballer for Italy who won a Gold medal at the 1936 Summer Olympics and a winner's medal at the 1938 FIFA World Cup.Locatelli was born in Toscolano-Maderno, near Brescia, Lombardy. A half-back in Vittorio Pozzo's Italian national teams, he appeared in 22 matches for the azzuri, first playing in the first round match in the 1936 Summer Olympics versus the United States [1] and never appearing on a losing side for the national team. He was also successful in winning the Scudetto with Internazionale in 1938 and 1940. He first played for Brescia between 1933 and 1936 before transferring over to Inter

Was an Italian photographer noted for his portraits of artists and his street photography.Ugo Mulas

Was an Italian photographer noted for his portraits of artists and his street photography.Ugo Mulas began his studies in law in 1948 in Milan, but left to take art courses at the Brera Fine Arts Academy.[1] In 1954 he was asked to cover the Venice Biennale, his first professional assignment. He went on to photograph every Venice Biennale through 1972 and to document his work in an art book.

His career as an artist dates back to the Sixties, the era of Italian Pop Art and the cradle of its

His career as an artist dates back to the Sixties, the era of Italian Pop Art and the cradle of its future conceptual and Arte Povera movements. In the seventies, Nespolo also took over a new medium : the cinema, particularly of the experimental, artistic

Was an Italian Olympic fencer.

Was an Italian Olympic fencer.

Was an Italian naturalist, the moving force behind Bologna's botanical garden, one of the first in E

Was an Italian naturalist, the moving force behind Bologna's botanical garden, one of the first in Europe. Carolus Linnaeus and the comte de Buffon reckoned him the father of natural history studies. He is usually referred to, especially in older literature, as Aldrovandus.In the course of his life he would assemble one of the most spectacular cabinets of curiosities, his "theatre" illuminating natural history comprising some 7000 specimens of the diversità di cose naturali, of which he wrote a description in 1595. Between 1551 and 1554 he organised several expeditions to collect plants for a herbarium, among the first botanizing expeditions. Eventually his herbarium contained aboiut 4760 dried specimens on 4117 sheets in sixteen volumes, preserved at the University of Bologna. He also had various artists, including Jacopo Ligozzi, Giovanni Neri, and Cornelio Schwindt, make illustrations of specimens.

Was an Italian bobsledder who competed in the mid 1950s.

Was an Italian bobsledder who competed in the mid 1950s.

Was an Italian entrepreneur and politician. He served as a CEO of Fiat from 1970-1976[1] and senator

Was an Italian entrepreneur and politician. He served as a CEO of Fiat from 1970-1976[1] and senator of the Italian Republic, from 1976 to 1979, and was the honorary chairman of the Juventus soccer team, the past president of the Italian Football Association and later chairman of Italian carmaker Fiat from early 2003 until his death from cancer aged 69.

Was a painter and a sculptor. Like other Futurists, his work centered on the portrayal of Reggio Cal

Was a painter and a sculptor. Like other Futurists, his work centered on the portrayal of Reggio Calabria, Italy.Umberto Boccioni studied art through the Scuola Libera del Nudo at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Rome, beginning in 1901. He also studied des

Is an Italian politician and former singer, leader of the Northern League, a party seeking autonomy

Is an Italian politician and former singer, leader of the Northern League, a party seeking autonomy or independence for Northern Italy. He is married to Manuela Marrone[1] and has four sons (one of which was from his first wife).

Is an Italian weightlifter. In the 1936 Summer Olympics, he finished ninth in the featherweight clas

Is an Italian weightlifter. In the 1936 Summer Olympics, he finished ninth in the featherweight class.

Was an Italian international footballer who played, normally at left back, for A.S. Casale and Juven

Was an Italian international footballer who played, normally at left back, for A.S. Casale and Juventus. His 59 caps for the Italian national team stood as a record for many years.The Italian national team, however, did provide scope for his talents. He received his first cap in 1922 against Austria, selected in place of Virginio Rosetta as right back flanking the great Genoese left back Renzo De Vecchi (“Son of God” to the fans), who had been playing for Italy since 1910. From then until De Vecchi’s retirement from international football in March 1925, Rosetta and Caligaris were in competition for the right ba

An Italian football player. He currently plays for Foggia.Del Core started his career at CND for Bis

An Italian football player. He currently plays for Foggia.Del Core started his career at CND for Bisceglie, Altamura and Renato Curi. He then played for Tricase of Serie C2, before spotted by Ancona of Serie B in summer 2001. But he moved to Taranto (Serie C1) on loan, and to Foggia (Serie C2) in January 2002.

Is an Italian medievalist, semiotician, philosopher, literary critic and novelist, best known for hi

Is an Italian medievalist, semiotician, philosopher, literary critic and novelist, best known for his novel The Name of the Rose (Il nome della rosa, 1980), an intellectual mystery combining semiotics in fiction, biblical analysis, medieval studies and literary theory. His 1988 novel Foucault's Pendulum (re-issued by Harcourt in March 2007) has been described as a "thinking person's Da Vinci Code"[1].

Was an Italian bobsledder who competed from the late 1930s to the early 1950s.

Was an Italian bobsledder who competed from the late 1930s to the early 1950s.

Is an Italian politician and a former ESA astronaut. He is a veteran of two NASA space shuttle missi

Is an Italian politician and a former ESA astronaut. He is a veteran of two NASA space shuttle missions. He is a Member of the European Parliament, belonging to the Party of Italian Communists.

Was a male tennis player from Italy. De Morpurgo was born in Trieste when it was part of Austria, bu

Was a male tennis player from Italy. De Morpurgo was born in Trieste when it was part of Austria, but became an Italian citizen when the city changed hands after World War I. He was ranked in the World’s Top 10 1928-30 —- 9th in 1928, 10th in 1929, and 8t

Was an early Italian football player from Turin. He was one of the thirteen men who founded Juventus

Was an early Italian football player from Turin. He was one of the thirteen men who founded Juventus in 1897.[3] After several years of playing as a striker for Juventus, he moved to rivals AC Milan and won the Italian Football Championship in 1906.

Is a retired water polo player from Italy, who competed in two consecutive Summer Olympics for his n

Is a retired water polo player from Italy, who competed in two consecutive Summer Olympics for his native country, starting in 1976.

Is an Italian freediver, widely considered among the best of all times. Of his era, he is the sole t

Is an Italian freediver, widely considered among the best of all times. Of his era, he is the sole to have established world records in all the then existing disciplines of freediving. At 1.89 metres (6 ft 2 in) and 84 kilograms (190 lb), In 1990 Pelizzar

Is an Italian boxer who competed in the 1936 Summer Olympics.In 1936 he was eliminated in the first

Is an Italian boxer who competed in the 1936 Summer Olympics.In 1936 he was eliminated in the first round of the welterweight class after losing his fight to Imre Mándi.