Giorgio (name)

Giorgio is a male Italian given name derived from the Greek Georgios and sometimes a surname. It is equivalent to the English name George. Notable people with the name include:

Surname

 * Eusebio da San Giorgio, Italian painter
 * Francesco di Giorgio, Italian painter
 * Francesco Giorgio, Italian writer
 * Frank Di Giorgio, Canadian city councillor
 * Gail Brewer-Giorgio, American author
 * Marchesi di San Giorgio, Maltese nobility
 * Marosa di Giorgio, Uruguayan writer
 * Pietro De Giorgio (born 1983), Italian footballer

Given name

 * Giorgio Ordelaffi, Italian nobility
 * Giorgio de' Buondelmonti, ruler of Ioannina in 1411

Artists and entertainers

 * Carlo Giorgio Garofalo, Italian composer
 * Giorgio Amendola, Italian writer
 * Giorgio Andreoli, Italian potter
 * Giorgio Anselmi, Italian painter
 * Giorgio Arlorio, Italian screenwriter and director
 * Giorgio Armani, Italian fashion designer
 * Giorgio Baffo, Italian poet
 * Giorgio Bàrberi Squarotti, Italian literary critic
 * Giorgio Bassani, Italian writer
 * Giorgio Bianchi, Italian film director
 * Giorgio Calabrese, Italian songwriter
 * Giorgio Cantarini, Italian actor
 * Giorgio Capitani, Italian film director
 * Giorgio Cavaglieri, Italian-American painter
 * Giorgio Cavazzano, Italian comic strip artist
 * Giorgio Colangeli, Italian actor
 * Giorgio Chinaglia, Italian soccer player
 * Giorgio de Chirico, Italian painter
 * Giorgio Duranti, Italian painter
 * Giorgio Faletti, Italian writer
 * Giorgio Ferrich, Croatian writer
 * Giorgio Ferroni, Italian director
 * Giorgio Gaber, Italian singer-songwriter
 * Giorgio Gandini del Grano, Italian painter
 * Giorgio Gaslini, Italian jazz pianist
 * Giorgio Federico Ghedini, Italian composer
 * Giorgio Ghisi, Italian engraver
 * Giorgio Gomelsky, Georgian record producer
 * Giorgio Grassi, Italian architect
 * Giorgio Locatelli, Italian television chef
 * Giorgio Mainerio, Italian composer
 * Giorgio Manganelli, Italian writer
 * Giorgio Massari, Italian architect
 * Giorgio Morandi, Italian painter
 * Giorgio Moroder, Italian record producer
 * Giorgio Moser, Italian film director and screenwriter
 * Giorgio Orsini, Croatian sculptor
 * George Ortuzar, Cuban-American television personality (nicknamed "Giorgio" on his show Giorgiomania)
 * Giorgio Pacchioni, Italian performer
 * Giorgio Pasotti, Italian actor and martial arts athlete
 * Giorgio Pastina, Italian screenwriter and film director
 * Giorgio Pressburger, Italian writer
 * Giorgio Prosperi, Italian screenwriter
 * Giorgio Pullicino, Maltese painter and architect
 * Giorgio Ronconi, Italian baritone
 * Giorgio Sadotti, British conceptual artist
 * Giorgio Saviane, Italian writer
 * Giorgio Scerbanenco, Italian crime writer
 * Giorgio Costantino Schinas, Maltese architect and civil engineer
 * Giorgio Sommer, German-Italian photographer
 * Giorgio Strehler, Italian opera director
 * Giorgio Tirabassi, Italian actor
 * Giorgio Tozzi, American opera singer
 * Giorgio A. Tsoukalos, Swiss-born Greek writer
 * Giorgio Tuinfort, Suriname-born Dutch music composer and producer
 * Giorgio van Straten, Italian writer
 * Giorgio Vasari, Italian painter and architect
 * Giorgio Zancanaro, Italian baritone
 * Pier Giorgio Di Cicco, Italian-Canadian poet

Politicians

 * Giorgio Adorno, doge of the Republic of Genoa
 * Giorgio Almirante, Italian politician
 * Giorgio Borġ Olivier, Maltese politician
 * Giorgio Carbone, Italian "head of state" of Seborga
 * Giorgio Carollo, Italian politician
 * Giorgio de' Buondelmonti, ruler of Epirus
 * Giorgio Giudici, Swiss politician
 * Giorgio La Malfa, Italian politician
 * Giorgio La Pira, Italian politician
 * Giorgio Mammoliti, Canadian city councillor
 * Giorgio Mitrovich, Maltese politician and activist
 * Giorgio Napolitano, Italian president
 * Giorgio Orsoni, Italian politician
 * Giorgio Ruffolo, Italian economist, journalist and politician
 * Giorgio Sonnino, Italian politician
 * Giorgio Tonini (born 1959), Italian journalist and politician
 * Giorgio Vido, Italian politician

Scientists and philosophers

 * Gian Giorgio Trissino, Italian humanist
 * Giorgio Abetti, Italian solar astronomer
 * Giorgio Agamben, Italian philosopher
 * Giorgio Antonucci, Italian physician
 * Giorgio Baglivi, Croatian scientist
 * Giorgio Biandrata, Italian physician
 * Giorgio Buttazzo, Italian engineer
 * Giorgio Ceragioli, Italian engineer and peace activist
 * Giorgio Colli, Italian philosophy professor
 * Giorgio Del Vecchio, Italian legal philosopher
 * Giorgio Jan, Italian zoologist
 * Giorgio Levi Della Vida, Italian Jewish linguist
 * Giorgio Malinverni, Swiss law professor
 * Giorgio Nataletti, Italian musicologist
 * Giorgio Parisi, Italian theoretical physicist
 * Giorgio Pestelli, Italian musicologist
 * Giorgio Samorini, Italian ethnobotanist
 * Giorgio Sideri, Italian cartographer

Sportsmen

 * Giorgio Achterberg, Dutch football player
 * Giorgio Alverà, Italian bobsledder
 * Giorgio Anglesio, Italian fencer
 * Giorgio Avola, Italian fencer
 * Giorgio Bassi, Italian race car driver
 * Giorgio Belladonna, Italian bridge player
 * Giorgio Biasini, Italian bobsledder
 * Giorgio Bocchino, Italian fencer
 * Giorgio Cagnotto, Italian diver
 * Giorgio Cecchinel, Italian cyclist
 * Giorgio Chiellini, Italian football player
 * Giorgio Chinaglia, Italian football striker
 * Giorgio Cornacchia, Italian rugby league footballer
 * Giorgio Corona, Italian football player
 * Giorgio de Bettin, Italian ice hockey player
 * Giorgio Di Centa, Italian cross country skier
 * Giorgio Duboin, Italian bridge player
 * Giorgio Ferrini, Italian football player
 * Giorgio Francia, Italian racing driver
 * Giorgio Frezzolini, Italian football player
 * Giorgio Frinolli, Italian hurdler
 * Giorgio Furlan, Italian cyclist
 * Giorgio Galimberti, Italian tennis player
 * Giorgio Ghezzi, Italian football player
 * Giorgio Gorla, Italian sailor
 * Giorgio Lalle, Italian breaststroke swimmer
 * Giorgio Lamberti, Italian swimmer
 * Giorgio Lucenti, Italian football player
 * Giorgio Marras, Italian sprinter
 * Giorgio Mazza, Italian hurdler
 * Giorgio Mondini, Swiss racing driver
 * Giorgio Morini, Italian football player
 * Giorgio Oberweger, Italian athlete
 * Giorgio Pantano, Italian racing driver
 * Giorgio Perondini, Italian swimmer
 * Giorgio Pessina, Italian fencer
 * Giorgio Petrosyan, Italian kickboxer
 * Giorgio Piantanida, Italian alpine skier
 * Giorgio Piantella, Italian pole vaulter
 * Giorgio Pichler, Italian luger
 * Giorgio Puia, Italian football player
 * Giorgio Rasulo, English football player
 * Giorgio Rocca, Italian alpine skier
 * Giorgio Roselli, Italian football player and coach
 * Giorgio Rossano, Italian football player
 * Giorgio Rubino, Italian race walker
 * Giorgio Santelli, Italian fencer
 * Giorgio Sbruzzi, Italian canoeist
 * Giorgio Scarlatti, Italian racing driver
 * Giorgio Schiavini, Italian football player
 * Giorgio Sterchele, Italian football player
 * Giorgio Tavecchio, Italian born gridiron football player
 * Giorgio Treves de'Bonfili, Italian football player
 * Giorgio Vanzetta, Italian cross country skier
 * Giorgio Venturin, Italian footballer
 * Giorgio Zampori, Italian gymnast

Other professions

 * Giorgio Basta, Italian general
 * Giorgio DeLuca, American entrepreneur
 * Giorgio Gusmini, Italian cardinal
 * Giorgio Panto, Italian entrepreneur
 * Giorgio Perlasca, Italian war hero
 * Pier Giorgio Frassati, Italian Roman Catholic social activist, beatified

Fictional characters

 * Giorgio Bruno, from the video game Time Crisis 4
 * Giorgio Zott, the main antagonist from the video game Time Crisis 3

Places
"San Giorgio" is the Italian for Saint George. Placenames with Giorgio or San Giorgio include:

Municipalities and towns

 * Castel Giorgio
 * Castel San Giorgio
 * Monforte San Giorgio
 * Porto San Giorgio
 * San Giorgio a Cremano
 * San Giorgio Albanese
 * San Giorgio a Liri
 * San Giorgio Canavese
 * San Giorgio della Richinvelda
 * San Giorgio delle Pertiche
 * San Giorgio del Sannio
 * San Giorgio di Lomellina
 * San Giorgio di Mantova
 * San Giorgio di Nogaro
 * San Giorgio di Pesaro
 * San Giorgio di Piano
 * San Giorgio in Bosco
 * San Giorgio Ionico
 * San Giorgio La Molara
 * San Giorgio Lucano
 * San Giorgio Monferrato
 * San Giorgio Morgeto
 * San Giorgio Piacentino
 * San Giorgio Scarampi
 * San Giorgio su Legnano
 * Torre San Giorgio

Others

 * Monte San Giorgio, Swiss mountain
 * Palazzo San Giorgio, palace in Genoa
 * Pieve di San Giorgio, church in Argenta
 * San Giorgio al Palazzo, church in Milan
 * San Giorgio in Velabro, church in Rome
 * San Giorgio Maggiore, island of Venice
 * Church of San Giorgio Maggiore, Palladian church on the island
 * San Giorgio Maggiore at dusk, painting by Claude Monet
 * San Giorgio Monastery, monastery on the island
 * San Giorgio (Siena), church in Siena
 * Stadio Giorgio Ascarelli, Italian sports stadium

Other uses

 * San Giorgio class, Italian type of amphibious transport dock
 * San Giorgio-class cruiser, class of Italian armoured cruisers
 * Yes, Giorgio, musical with Luciano Pavarotti