List of people from Trieste

Italo Svevo

The Province of Trieste is a province in the autonomous Friuli-Venezia Giulia region of Italy. The following is a list of notable Triestini (Triestines) and some outsiders who either wrote about the city or resided there.

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## Literature

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

### Italian-language authors

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* Enzo Bettiza (1927–2017), writer and journalist, born in Split.
* Nicoletta Costa (born 1953), children's book writer and illustrator.
* Claudio Magris (born 1939), writer and essayist.
* Biagio Marin (1891–1985), poet (born in Grado).
* Giorgio Pressburger (1937–2017), author and director.
* Umberto Saba (1883–1957), poet.
* Francesco Saba Sardi (1922–2012), author, essayist and translator.
* Scipio Slataper (1888–1915), essayist.
* Giani Stuparich (1891–1961), writer and essayist.
* Italo Svevo (1861–1928), novelist.[1]
* Susanna Tamaro (born 1957), novelist.
* Fulvio Tomizza (1935–1999), writer, born in Istria (now in Croatia).

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### Slovene-language authors

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* Vladimir Bartol (1903–1967), writer.
* Igo Gruden (1893–1948), poet.
* Dušan Jelinčič (born 1953), writer, essayist, and mountain climber.
* Marica Nadlišek Bartol (1867–1940), writer and editor.
* Boris Pahor (1913–2022), novelist.
* Alojz Rebula (1924–2018), writer and essayist.

### German-language authors

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* Theodor Däubler (1876–1934), writer and poet.
* Robert Hamerling (1830–1889), writer.
* Ricarda Huch (1864–1947), writer.
* Julius Kugy (1858–1944), writer and essayist (born in Gorizia).
* Rainer Maria Rilke (1875–1926), wrote Duino Elegies during his stay in Duino.

### Authors in other languages

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* Isabel Burton (1831–1896), English writer, explorer and adventurer.
* Richard Francis Burton (1821–1890), British explorer, writer, orientalist scholar, and soldier.
* James Joyce (1882–1941), Irish novelist, poet, and literary critic.
* D. H. Lawrence (1885–1930), English novelist, short story writer, poet and essayist.
* Charles Lever (1806–1872), Irish novelist and raconteur, whose novels, according to Anthony Trollope, were just like his conversation.
* Jan Morris (1926–2020), Welsh historian, author and travel writer.
* Stendhal (1783–1842), French author and essayist; served as Consul of France in Trieste.
* Alexander Wheelock Thayer (1817–1897), American librarian and journalist.
* Samuel David Luzzatto (1800–1865), Italian Jewish scholar, poet, and a member of the Wissenschaft des Judentums movement.

## Architects, inventors, gallerists, designers, and visual artists

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* Emilio Ambrosini (1850–1912), architect.
* Milko Bambič (1905–1991), illustrator and cartoonist.
* Franca Batich (born 1940), Italian painter.
* Leo Castelli (1907–1999), pioneering gallerist and contemporary art dealer.
* Avgust Černigoj (1898–1985), painter.
* Bruno Chersicla (1937–2013), painter and sculptor.
* Tullio Crali (1910–2000), futurist painter.
* Marcello Dudovich (1878–1962), illustrator.
* Leonor Fini (1907–1996), artist.
* Giuseppe Lorenzo Gatteri (1829–1884), Italian painter.
* Isidoro Grünhut (1862–1896), artist.
* Alexander Kircher (1867–1939), painter.
* Franko Luin (1941–2005), Swedish-Slovene graphic designer.
* Argio Orell (1884–1942), painter.
* Boris Podrecca (born 1940), architect.
* Alessandra Querzola (born 1977), Oscar nominated set designer.
* Stanislav Rapotec (1913–1997), painter.
* Ruggero Rovan (1877–1965), sculptor.
* Felice Schiavoni (1803–1881), artist.
* Ernesto Nathan Rogers (1909–1969), architect.
* Eugenio Scomparini (1845–1913), painter.
* Vito Timmel (1886–1949), painter.
* Jožef Tominc (1790–1866), Biedermeier painter.
* Antonio Valdoni (1834–1890), painter.
* Umberto Veruda (1868–1904), painter.
* Carlo Wostry (1865–1943), painter.

## Actors, models, musicians, and performance artists

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* Federico Agostini (born 1959), violinist.
* Alda Balestra (born 1954), fashion and beauty model.
* Antonio Bibalo (1922–2008), pianist and composer.
* Fedora Barbieri (1920–2003), Italian Mezzo-Soprano/Contralto opera singer.
* Piero Cappuccilli (1926–2005), operatic baritone.
* Antonio D'Antoni (1801–1859), opera composer and conductor.
* Raffaello de Banfield (1922–2008), British composer.
* George Dolenz (1908–1963), actor; father of Micky Dolenz of the Monkees.
* Hans Herbert Fiedler (1907–2004), opera stage actor.
* Fulvia Franco (1931–1988), Italian actress, model and beauty pageant titleholder.
* Paul Henreid (1908–1992), actor.
* Alfred Jaëll (1832–1882), Austrian pianist.
* Tullio Kezich (1928–2009), actor, playwright, and screenwriter.
* Anita Kravos (born 1974), Italian actress.
* Paola Loew (1934–1999), actress.
* Paolo Longo (born 1967), composer and conductor.
* Alessandro Lotta (born 1975), former bassist of the bands Rhapsody of Fire and Wingdom.
* Lelio Luttazzi (1923–2010), musician, composer, showman and presenter.
* Mauro Maur (born 1958), trumpet player and composer.
* Alexander Moissi (1879–1935), Austrian stage actor of Albanian descent.
* Ave Ninchi (1914–1997), actress.
* Denis Novato (born 1976), Slovene musician.
* Loredana Nusciak (1942–2006), actress and model.
* Alberto Randegger (1832–1911), composer.
* Rodolfo Ranni (born 1937), Italian Argentine film actor.
* Ivan Rassimov (1938–2003), Italian actor of Serbian descent.
* Rada Rassimov (born 1941), Italian actress of Serbian descent.
* Enrico Rava (born 1939), jazz trumpeter.
* Teddy Reno (born 1926), singer and producer.
* Carlo Rizzo (1907–1979), stage and film actor.
* Victor de Sabata (1892–1967), conductor.
* Laura Solari (1913–1984), film actress.
* Alex Staropoli (born 1970), keyboardist of the band Rhapsody of Fire.
* Giorgio Strehler (1921–1997), opera and theater director.
* Elisa Toffoli (born 1977), singer-songwriter, pianist, and guitarist.
* Luca Turilli (born 1972), guitarist of the band Rhapsody of Fire.

## TV personalities

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* Lidia Bastianich (born 1947), Italian-American chef and TV cooking show host whose family lived in a refugee camp in Trieste after their escape from Istria, Yugoslavia (now Croatia).
* Bianca Maria Piccinino (born 1924), journalist RAI, the first woman to read a news broadcasting.

## Entrepreneurs and business leaders

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* Andrea Illy (born 1964), entrepreneur.
* Ernesto Illy (1925–2008), entrepreneur, founder of coffee empire.
* Francesco Illy (1892–1956), entrepreneur, inventor of coffee machinery.
* Lionello Stock (1866–1948), entrepreneur of liqueurs and beverages, founder of Stock S.p.A. (known for the Keglevich brand).
* Mihajlo Vučetić (1790–1882), grain merchant, shipowner and shareholder in Austrian Lloyd.

## Fashion designers

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* Renato Balestra (1924–2022), fashion designer.
* Adriano Goldschmied (born 1944), leading international denim designer; founder of Diesel and Replay jeans.
* Ottavio Missoni (1921–2013), fashion designer.
* Mila Schön (1916–2008), fashion designer.

## Journalists and authors

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* Sergio Amidei (1904–1981), screenwriter.
* Giovanna Botteri (born 1957), journalist.
* Almerigo Grilz (1953–1987), journalist, freelance war reporter and politician. Was killed during an African reportage.
* Leo Negrelli (born in Trieste, died in Spain in 1974), journalist.
* Ann Shulgin (1931–2022), author.
* Demetrio Volcic (1931–2021), journalist and politician.

## Political figures

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* Engelbert Besednjak (1894–1968), Slovene politician.
* Willer Bordon (1949–2015), Italian politician, Minister of the Environment, 2000-2001.
* Gualtiero Driussi (1920–1996), Italian politician
* Josip Ferfolja (1880–1958), Slovenian social-democratic politician and human rights activist.
* Odilo Globočnik (1904–1945), Nazi war criminal, SS leader.
* Riccardo Illy (born 1955), Italian politician.
* Ezio Mizzan (1905–1969), Italian diplomat, the second Italian Ambassador to Thailand (1959–1965) and the ninth Italian Ambassador to Pakistan (1966–1969).
* Ilda Mizzan (1885–1922), Italian irredentist and painter, wife of Francesco Salata.
* Stefano Patuanelli (born 1974), Italian politician, minister of economic development.
* Mitja Ribičič (1919–2013), Slovenian Communist leader, Prime Minister of Yugoslavia (1969–1971).
* Vittorio Vidali (aka Enea Sormenti, Jacobo Hurwitz Zender, Carlos Contreras) (1900–1983), Communist agent.
* Josip Wilfan (1878–1955), Slovene jurist, politician, and human rights activist.

## Religious figures

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* Pietro Bonomo (1458–1546), humanist and bishop, supporter of the Protestant Reformation.
* Moisè Tedeschi (1821–1898), rabbi and Bible commentator.

## Scholars, scientists, and intellectuals

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* Luisa Accati (born 1942), historian and feminist theoretician.
* Florian Biesik (1849–1926), Silesian linguist, Wymysorys language scholar and poet.
* Ludwig Boltzmann (1844–1906), Austrian physicist.
* Paolo Budinich (1916–2013), physicist.
* Sir Richard Burton (1821–1890), British explorer, geographer, writer, orientalist, cartographer, linguist, poet, fencer, and diplomat; discovered Lake Tanganyika.
* Lavo Čermelj (1889–1980), Slovene physicist and public intellectual.
* Giacomo Ciamician (1857–1922), chemist.
* Laura Dallapiccola (1911–1995), Italian librarian and translator.
* Gillo Dorfles (1910–2018), philosopher and historian.
* Arturo Falaschi (1933–2010), MD, geneticist.
* Alessandro Ferrara (born 1953), philosopher and author.
* Boris Furlan (1894–1957), Slovenian legal theorist, translator and politician.
* Anton Füster (1808–1881), Austrian revolutionary activist, author and pedagogue.
* Guido Goldschmiedt (1850–1915), Austrian chemist.
* Boris M. Gombač (born 1945), Slovenian historian.
* Spiridon Gopčević (1855–1928), Serbian astronomer and historian.
* Margherita Hack (1922–2013), Italian astronomer.
* Albert O. Hirschman (1915–2012), economist and political scientist; obtained his doctorate from the University of Trieste.
* Pietro Kandler (1804–1872), historian, archaeologist and jurist.
* Fiorella Kostoris (born 1945), economist.
* Doro Levi (1899–1991), archaeologist.
* Salvatore Pincherle (1853–1936), Italian mathematician.
* Jože Pirjevec (born 1940), Slovene historian.
* Alessandro Pizzorno (1924–2019), political scientist and sociologist.
* Abdus Salam (1926–1996), Pakistani theoretical physicist, Nobel prize laureate.
* Denis Sciama (1926–1999), British physicist.
* Joseph Straus (born 1938), property law intellectual.
* Marta Verginella (born 1960), Slovene historian.
* Ivan Vidav (1918–2015), Slovene mathematician.
* Edoardo Weiss (1889–1970), Jewish psychoanalyst.
* Guido Weiss (1928–2021), mathematician.
* Sigismund Zois (1747–1819), Slovene mecenate and natural scientist.

## Sportspeople

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* Andrea de Adamich (born 1941), former Formula 1 driver.
* Nino Benvenuti (born 1938), boxer.
* Biaggio Chianese (born 1961), boxer.
* Claudia Coslovich (born 1972), athlete.
* Fabio Cudicini (1935–2025), football player, goalkeeper.
* Gabriele De Nuzzo (born 1999), football player
* Aldo Dorigo (1929–2025), football player.
* Giorgio Ferrini (1939–1976), football player.
* Ambrogio Fogar (1941–2005), sailor, rally driver, and adventurer.
* Livio Franceschini (1913–1975), basketball player.
* Sara Gama (born 1989), Italian footballer, defender and captain of both Serie A club Juventus and the Italian national team.
* Sandro Gamba (born 1932), basketball coach and player.
* Matteo Gladig (1880–1915), chess master.
* Margherita Granbassi (born 1979), foil fencer.
* Duilio Loi (1929–2008), boxer.
* Cesare Maldini (1932–2016), former AC Milan captain, Italian football team manager.
* Giovanni Martinolich (1884–1910), chess master.
* Mauro Milanese (born 1971), football player.
* Mario Milano (1935–2016), professional wrestler.
* Tiberio Mitri (1926–2001), boxer.
* Uberto De Morpurgo (1896–1961), Austrian-born Italian tennis player.
* Giorgio Oberweger (1913–1998), athlete.
* Nicola Princivalli (born 1979), football player.
* Giovanni Raicevich (1881–1957), professional wrestler.
* Carlo Rigotti (1906–1983), football player.
* Nereo Rocco (1912–1979), football player and manager.
* Licio Rossetti (1925–1993), football player.
* Cesare Rubini (1923–2011), water polo player.
* Matteo Scozzarella (born 1988), football player.
* Giovanni Steffè (1928–2016), rower.
* Caterina Stenta (born 1987), Windsurf and Standup paddleboarding athlete.
* Max Tonetto (born 1974), football player.
* Fabio Tuiach (born 1980), boxer.
* Ferruccio Valcareggi (1919–2005), football player and coach.
* Renzo Vecchiato (born 1955), basketball player.

## Statesmen and aristocracy

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* Mathilde Bonaparte (1820–1904), Napoleon's niece, daughter of his brother Jérôme Bonaparte; born in Trieste in 1820.
* Joseph Fouché (1759–1820), duke of Otranto, spent his last 5 years exiled in Trieste.
* Maximilian of Habsburg (1832–1867), Emperor of Mexico, Archduke of Austria (Schönbrunn 1832 - Querétaro 1867); built the white castle and park on the riviera; planted plants in the park from his travels around the world.
* Fiorello La Guardia (1882–1947), 99th Mayor of New York City, son of Trieste-born Irene Coen, of the Luzzatto family. Spent part of his 20s in Trieste with his family, also working for the US Consulate.
* Princess Marie Adélaïde de France (1732–1800), Madame de France, daughter of King Louis XV of France, died in Trieste in 1800 and was buried at San Giusto Cathedral.
* Princess Marie Louise Thérèse Victoire de France (1733–1799), Madame de France, daughter of King Louis XV of France, died in Trieste in 1799.
* Manto Mavrogenous (1796–1848), Greek princess and heroine of the Greek War of Independence.
* Louis Antoine Debrauz de Saldapenna (1811–1871), Austrian diplomat, journalist and author.
* Gottfried von Banfield (1890–1986), top Austrian Empire fighter ace in World War I.
* Stefano Černetić (born 1960), journalist and royal pretender.

## References

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1. ^ "Italo Svevo | Biography, Books and Facts". www.famousauthors.org. Retrieved 2016-05-24.