List of people from Trieste

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.

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

Italian-language authors

 * 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.
 * Susanna Tamaro (born 1957), novelist.
 * Fulvio Tomizza (1935–1999), writer, born in Istria (now in Croatia).



Slovene-language authors

 * 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

 * 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

 * 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

 * 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

 * 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 screenplayer.
 * 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

 * 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

 * 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

 * 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

 * 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

 * 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

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

Scholars, scientists, and intellectuals

 * 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

 * 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 (born 1935), football player (goalkeeper).
 * Aldo Dorigo (born 1929), 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

 * 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