Battista
Battista is an Italian given name. The name is of Greek origin and means: the Baptist . It is therefore mostly used in combination with the name Giovanni or Gian , the Italian or Graubünden Romance form of the name Johannes.
Name bearer
First name
Battista / Batista
- Battista Guarino (1434–1513), humanist and educator of the Italian Renaissance
- Battista Lena (* 1960), Italian jazz guitarist
- Battista Mantovano (1447–1516), Italian poet and humanist
- Battista Monti (* 1944), former Italian road cyclist
- Battista Pininfarina (1893–1966), Italian coachbuilder and car designer
- Batista Vinatzer (1912–1993), South Tyrolean mountaineer
Female
- Battista Sforza (* around 1446 in Pesaro; † July 6, 1472) was the Duchess of Urbino
Giambattista
- Giambattista Basile (1575–1632), Italian man of letters and writer
- Giambattista Bassi (1784-1852), Italian painter
- Giambattista Bodoni (1740–1813), Italian engraver, printer, typographer and publisher
- Giambattista Castello (1509–1569), Italian builder
- Giambattista Dall'Olio (1739–1823), Italian musician
- Giambattista Donati (1826–1873), Italian astronomer
- Giambattista Dufort (~ 1680 – after 1728), French dancer, dance master and choreographer
- Giambattista Giraldi (1504–1573; called Cinzio ), Italian poet, writer, philosopher and physician
- Giambattista Giusti (1758–1829), Italian engineer and translator
- Giambattista Grazioli (1746–1820), Italian organist and composer
- Giambattista Lolli (1698–1769), Italian chess player
- Giambattista Marino (1569-1625), Italian poet
- Giambattista della Porta (1535-1615), Neapolitan physician, polymath and playwright
- Giambattista Vico (1668–1744), Italian philosopher of history and law
Gian Battista / Gianbattista
- Gianbattista Baronchelli (* 1953), Italian racing cyclist
- Gian Battista Frizzoni (1727–1800), Swiss Reformed pastor and hymn poet
- Gian Battista Mantegazzi (1889–1958), Swiss composer and conductor
Giovanni Battista
- Giovan Battista Strozzi (1489–1538), Italian patrician, see Filippo Strozzi the Younger
- Giovanni Battista Amici (1786–1863), Italian astronomer, optician and physicist
- Giovanni Battista Belzoni (1778–1823), Italian adventurer, engineer, weightlifter, and acrobat
- Giovanni Battista Bononcini (1670–1747), Italian cellist and composer
- Giovanni Battista Brocchi (singer) (around 1750 – after 1807), Italian opera singer (bass, baritone)
- Giovanni Battista Brocchi (naturalist) (1772–1826), Italian naturalist and poet
- Giovanni Battista Caprara (1733–1810), apostolic nuncio and cardinal legate
- Giovanni Battista Casanova (1730–1795), Italian painter and draftsman
- Giovanni Battista Castagna (1521–1590), Pope from 1590 to 1590, see Urban VII.
- Giovanni Battista Ciampoli (1589–1643), Italian clergyman and friend of Galileo Galilei
- Giovanni Battista Cibo (1432–1492), Pope from 1484 to 1492, see Innocent VIII.
- Giovanni Battista Cima (called Cima da Conegliano ; ~ 1460–1517 / 1518), Italian painter
- Giovanni Battista Coletti (* 1948), Italian fencer
- Giovanni Battista Enrico Antonio Maria Montini (1897–1978), Pope from 1963 to 1978, see Paul VI.
- Giovanni Battista Foggini (1652–1725), Italian sculptor and architect
- Giovanni Battista Fontana (painter) (~ 1524–1587), Italian artist
- Giovanni Battista Fontana (composer) (* ~ 1571; † ~ 1630), Italian composer and violinist
- Giovanni Battista Grassi (1854–1925), Italian anatomist, zoologist and parasitologist
- Giovanni Battista Martini (1706–1784), Italian composer and music theorist
- Giovanni Battista Morgagni (1682–1771), Italian medic and anatomist
- Giovanni Battista Nasalli Rocca di Corneliano (1872–1952), Archbishop of Bologna
- Giovanni Battista Pamphilj (1574–1655), Pope from 1644 to 1655, see Innocent X.
- Giovanni Battista Pergolesi (1710–1736), Italian composer
- Giovanni Battista Pioda (1808–1882), Swiss politician
- Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720–1778), Italian engraver, archaeologist, architect and architectural theorist
- Giovanni Battista Re (* 1934), Italian cardinal
- Giovanni Battista de Rossi (1822-1894), Italian Christian archaeologist and epigraphist
- Giovanni Battista Sammartini (1700 / 1701–1775), Italian composer
- Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (1696–1770), Venetian Baroque artist
- Giovanni Battista Velluti (1780–1861), Italian opera singer, is considered the last of the great castrati
- Giovanni Battista Venturi (1746–1822), Italian physicist
- Giovanni Battista Viassolo (1749–1802), Italian comedy poet, see Camillo Federici
- Giovanni Battista Viotti (1755–1824), Italian violinist and composer
- Giovanni Battista Vitali (1632–1692), Italian violonist, singer and composer
Intermediate name
- Marques Batista de Abreu (* 1973), Brazilian soccer player
- Leon Battista Alberti (1404–1472), Italian humanist, writer, mathematician, cryptologist and architect
- Leone Giovanni Battista Nigris (1884–1964), Italian bishop and papal diplomat
- Artur Sérgio Batista de Souza (* 1994), Brazilian soccer player
family name
- Éric Battista (* 1933), French triple jumper
- Gérard de Battista (* 1946), French cameraman
- Hans Battista (1915–1995), Austrian medic and SS leader
- Lloyd Battista (born 1937), American actor
- Miriam Battista (1912–1980), American actress, singer, composer, writer and television presenter
- Stefano Di Battista (* 1969), Italian jazz saxophonist