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 people from there.

Literature

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

Italian-language authors

• Enzo Bettiza, writer and journalist, born in Split
• Claudio Magris, writer and essayist
• Biagio Marin, poet (born in Grado)
• Giorgio Pressburger, author and director
• Umberto Saba, poet
• Scipio Slataper, essayist
• Giani Stuparich, writer and essayist
• Italo Svevo, novelist
• Susanna Tamaro, novelist
• Fulvio Tomizza, writer, born in Istria (now in Croatia)

Vladimir Bartol

Slovene-language authors

• Vladimir Bartol, writer
• Igo Gruden, poet
• Dušan Jelinčič, writer, essayist, and mountain climber
• Boris Pahor, novelist
• Alojz Rebula, writer and essayist

German language authors

• Theodor Däubler, writer and poet
• Robert Hamerling
• Veit Heinichen
• Julius Kugy, writer and essayist (born in Gorizia)
• Rainer Maria Rilke, wrote Duino Elegies during his stay in Duino

Authors in other languages

• Isabel Burton
• Richard Francis Burton
• James Joyce
• Charles Lever
• Jan Morris
• Stendhal, French author and essayist; served as Consul of France in Trieste
• Alexander Wheelock Thayer

Architects, gallerists, designers, and visual artists

• Emilio Ambrosini, architect
• Milko Bambič, illustrator and cartoonist
• Franca Batich, Italian painter
• Leo Castelli, pioneering gallerist and contemporary art dealer
• Avgust Černigoj, Slovene painter
• Bruno Chersicla, painter and sculptor
• Tullio Crali, futurist painter
• Marcello Dudovich, illustrator
• Leonor Fini, artist
• Franko Luin, Swedish-Slovene graphic designer
• Boris Podrecca, architect
• Stanislav Rapotec, painter
• Ivan Rendić, Croatian sculptor
• Ernesto Nathan Rogers, architect
• Eugenio Scomparini, painter
• Jožef Tominc, Biedermeier painter

Actors, musicians, and performance artists

• Federico Agostini, violinist
• Antonio Bibalo, pianist and composer
• Piero Cappuccilli, operatic baritone
• Antonio D'Antoni, opera composer and conductor
• Raffaello de Banfield, British composer
• George Dolenz, actor; father of Micky Dolenz of the Monkees
• Paul Henried, actor
• Alfred Jaëll, Austrian pianist
• Tullio Kezich, actor, playwright, and screenplayer
• Paolo Longo, composer and conductor
• Alessandro Lotta, former bassist of the bands Rhapsody of Fire and Wingdom
• Lelio Luttazzi, musician, composer, showman and presenter
• Mauro Maur, trumpet player and composer
• Alexander Moissi, Austrian stage actor of Albanian descent
• Ave Ninchi, actress
• Denis Novato, Slovene musician
• Alberto Randegger, composer
• Ivan Rassimov, Italian actor of Serbian descent
• Rada Rassimov, Italian actress of Serbian descent
• Enrico Rava, jazz trumpeter
• Teddy Reno, singer and producer
• Victor de Sabata, conductor
• Laura Solari, film actress
• Alex Staropoli, keyboardist of the band Rhapsody of Fire
• Giorgio Strehler, opera and theater director
• Elisa Toffoli, singer/songwriter, pianist, and guitarist
• Luca Turilli, guitarist of the band Rhapsody of Fire

TV personalities

• Lidia Bastianich, 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)

Entrepreneurs and business leaders

• Andrea Illy, entrepreneur
• Ernesto Illy, entrepreneur, founder of coffee empire
• Francesco Illy, entrepreneur, inventor of coffee machinery
• Lionello Stock, entrepreneur of liqueurs and beverages, founder of Stock S.p.A (known for the Keglevich brand)

Fashion designers

• Renato Balestra, fashion designer
• Adriano Goldschmied, leading international denim designer; founder of Diesel and Replay jeans
• Ottavio Missoni, fashion designer
• Mila Schön, fashion designer

Journalists and authors

• Sergio Amidei, screenwriter
• Giovanna Botteri, journalist
• Almerigo Grilz, journalist, freelance war reporter and politician. Was killed during an African reportage
• Leo Negrelli, journalist
• Ann Shulgin, author
• Demetrio Volcic, journalist and politician

Political figures

• Engelbert Besednjak, Slovene politician
• Willer Bordon, Italian politician, Minister of the Environment, 2000-2001
• Josip Ferfolja, Slovenian social-democratic politician and human rights activist
• Odilo Globocnik, Nazi war criminal, SS leader
• Riccardo Illy, Italian politician
• Mitja Ribičič, Slovenian Communist leader, Prime Minister of Yugoslavia (1969–1971)
• Vittorio Vidali (aka Enea Sormenti, Jacobo Hurwitz Zender, Carlos Contreras), Communist agent
• Josip Wilfan, Slovene jurist, politician, and human rights activist

Religious figures

• Pietro Bonomo, humanist and bishop, supporter of the Protestant Reformation

Scholars, scientists, and intellectuals

• Luisa Accati, historian and feminist theoretician
• Florian Biesik, Silesian linguist, Wymysorys language scholar and poet
• Ludwig Boltzmann, Austrian physicist
• Sir Richard Burton, British explorer, geographer, writer, orientalist, cartographer, linguist, poet, fencer, and diplomat; discovered Lake Tanganika
• Lavo Čermelj, Slovene physicist and public intellectual
• Giacomo Ciamician, chemist
• Gillo Dorfles, philosopher and historian
• Arturo Falaschi, MD, geneticist
• Alessandro Ferrara, philosopher and author
• Boris Furlan, Slovenian legal theorist, translator and politician
• Anton Füster, Austrian revolutionary activist, author and pedagogue
• Guido Goldschmiedt, Austrian chemist
• Boris M. Gombač, Slovenian historian
• Spiridon Gopčević, Serbian astronomer and historian
• Margherita Hack, Italian astronomer
• Albert O. Hirschman, economist and political scientist; obtained his doctorate from the University of Trieste
• Fiorella Kostoris, economist
• Doro Levi, archaeologist
• Salvatore Pincherle, Italian mathematician
• Jože Pirjevec, Slovene historian
• Abdus Salam, Pakistani theoretical physicist, Nobel prize laureate
• Denis Sciama, British physicist
• Marta Verginella, Slovene historian
• Ivan Vidav, Slovene mathematician
• Sigismund Zois, Slovene mecenate and natural scientist

Sportspeople

• Nino Benvenuti, boxer
• Biaggio Chianese, boxer
• Claudia Coslovich, athlete
• Fabio Cudicini, football player (goalkeeper)
• Umberto De Morpurgo, tennis player
• Giorgio Ferrini, football player
• Livio Franceschini, basketball player
• Sandro Gamba, basketball coach and player
• Matteo Gladig, chess master
• Margherita Granbassi, foil fencer
• Duilio Loi, boxer
• Cesare Maldini, former AC Milan captain, Italian football team manager
• Giovanni Martinolich, chess master
• Tiberio Mitri, boxer
• Giorgio Oberweger, athlete
• Nicola Princivalli, football player
• Carlo Rigotti, football player
• Nereo Rocco, football legend
• Cesare Rubini, water polo player
• Giovanni Steffè, rower
• Max Tonetto, football player
• Fabio Tuiach, boxer
• Ferruccio Valcareggi, football player and coach
• Renzo Vecchiato, basketball player
• Ambrogio Fogar, sailor and adventurer

Statesmen and aristocracy

• Prince Amedeo, Duke of Aosta, Italian General, resided at Miramare castle and was president of the local football team
• Mathilde Bonaparte, Napoleon's niece, daughter of his brother Jérôme Bonaparte; born in Trieste in 1820
• Joseph Fouché, duke of Otranto, spent his last 5 years exiled in Trieste
• Maximilian of Habsburg, 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, legendary 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 Maria Cristina of Savoy, Italian princess, born at Miramare Castle in 1933
• Louis Antoine Debrauz de Saldapenna, Austrian diplomat, journalist and author
• Gottfried von Banfield (1890–1986), top Austrian Empire fighter ace in World War I