Giovanni

Giovanni [ d͡ʒo'van-ni ] is a first name and family name .

Origin and meaning

Giovanni is the Italian form of the given name Johann or Johannes and means "God is gracious". A short form of the name is Nanni .

Well-known namesake

First name

Giovan

• Giovan Battista Caporali (1476–1560), Italian painter and architect of the Renaissance
• Giovan Battista Carpi (1927–1999), Italian comic artist
• Giovan Pietro Maffei (1533–1603), holder of the chair of eloquence in Genoa and secretary of the Republic of Genoa
• Giovan Battista Moroni (1525–1578), Italian Renaissance painter
• Giovan Battista Perasso , folk hero of Genoa
• Giovan Battista Ramusio (1485–1557), Italian humanist, historian and geographer
• Giovan Battista Strozzi (1489–1538), see Filippo Strozzi the Younger

Giovanni

• Giovanni Battista Abiosi , Italian mathematician
• Giovanni Battista Amici (1786–1863), Italian astronomer
• Giovanni da Grado († 802), Patriarch of Grado
• Giovanni Arrighi (1937–2009), Italian professor of sociology
• Giovanni di Balduccio , Italian sculptor who worked in the first half of the 14th century
• Giovanni Battista Bassani (around 1647–1716), Italian violinist and composer
• Giovanni Bellini (around 1430–1516), Italian painter
• Giovanni Battista Belmonte , Italian painter
• Giovanni Belzoni (1778–1823), Italian adventurer, engineer, weightlifter, and acrobat; Egyptology pioneer
• Giovanni Battista Benedetti (1530–1590), Italian mathematician and astronomer
• Giovanni da Bologna (1529–1608), Florentine sculptor
• Giovanni Luigi Bonelli (1908–2001), Italian comic book author and publisher
• Giovanni Battista Bononcini (1670–1747), Italian cello player and composer
• Giovanni Battista Borra (1712–1786), Italian draftsman and architect
• Giovanni van Bronckhorst (* 1975), Dutch football player
• Giovanni Battista Bugatti (1779–1869), executioner of the Vatican
• Giovanni Battista Buonamente (around 1595–1642), Italian composer
• Giovanni Battista Camessina (1642–1724), Swiss architect
• Giovanni Battista Caprara (1733-1810), cardinal
• Giovanni Battista Caproni (1886–1957), Italian aeronautical engineer
• Giovanni Battista Casanova (1730–1795), Italian painter
• Giovanni Caselli (physicist) (1815-1891), Italian physicist
• Giovanni Domenico Cassini (1625–1712, also called Jean-Dominique Cassini I from 1673), French astronomer and mathematician of Italian origin
• Giovanni Castellaneta (* 1942), Italian ambassador
• Giovanni Battista Ceirano (1860–1912), Italian automobile pioneer
• Giovanni Battista Ciampoli (1589–1643), Italian clergyman
• Giovanni Battista Cima (around 1460 – after 1508), Italian painter
• Giovanni Battista Nasalli Rocca di Corneliano (1872–1952), Italian cardinal
• Giovanni Battista Crespi (1573–1632), Italian painter and architect
• Giovanni Croce (1557–1609), Italian composer, conductor and priest of the Venetian Renaissance
• Giovanni Battista Draghi (around 1640 – after 1701), Italian organist
• Giovanni Battista Fasolo , Italian organist (17th century)
• Giovanni Battista Ferrandini (composer) (1710–1791), Italian composer
• Giovanni Battista Ferrandini (painter) († 1793), Italian painter
• Giovanni Baptista Ferrari (1584–1655), Italian Jesuit
• Giovanni Battista Foggini (1652–1725), Italian sculptor and architect
• Giovanni Battista Fontana (painter) (around 1524–1587), Italian artist
• Giovanni Battista Fontana (composer) (around 1571–1630), Italian composer and violinist
• Giovanni Francini (* 1963), Italian football player
• Giovanni da Gaibana , from Padua, copyist and possibly also illuminator of the last half of the 13th century
• Giovanni Galli (* 1958), Italian football player
• Giovanni Goccione , Italian football player
• Giovanni Battista Dalla Gostena († 1593), Italian composer
• Giovanni Battista Grone (1682–1748), Italian theater painter
• Giovanni Battista Guadagnini (1711–1786), Italian violin maker
• Giovanni Battista Guarini (1538–1612), Italian poet
• Giovanni da Legnano (1320–1383), Italian lawyer
• Giovanni Lodetti (* 1942), Italian football player
• Giovanni Battista Lorenzi (1527 / 28–1594), Italian sculptor
• Giovanni di Lorenzo (* 1959), German-Italian journalist
• Giovanni Di Lorenzo (* 1993), Italian football player
• Giovanni Manfredini (* 1963), Italian painter
• Giovanni Marchese (* 1984), Italian football player
• Giovanni Battista Martini (1706–1784), Italian composer
• Giovanni Martusciello (* 1971), Italian football player and coach
• Giovanni Battista Mascolo (1583–1656), Italian lawyer
• Giovanni Battista Mazzolo , Italian sculptor
• Giovanni Merlini (born May 1962), Swiss politician
• Giovanni da Milano (Giovanni di Giacomo di Guido da Caversago), Italian painter; active from 1346 to 1369
• Giovanni Minozzi (bl. 1920s and 1930s), Italian racing driver
• Giovanni Mollio (around 1500–1553), Italian reformer and Protestant martyr
• Giovanni Battista Monteggia (1762–1815), Italian surgeon
• Giovanni Battista Morgagni (1682–1771), Italian anatomist
• Giovanni Silva de Oliveira (* 1972), Brazilian soccer player
• Giovanni Battista Orsini (St. John) († 1476), Grand Master of the Order of St. John
• Giovanni Battista Orsini (cardinal) (around 1450–1503), cardinal
• Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (around 1514 / 1515–1594), Italian composer and innovator of church music
• Giovanni di Paolo (* around 1403, † 1482), Italian painter of the early Renaissance and a main representative of the Siena School
• Giovanni Battista Pergolesi (1710–1736), Italian composer
• Giovanni Battista Piazzetta (1682–1754), Italian painter
• Giovanni Pellielo (* 1970), Italian sports shooter
• Giovanni Battista Pioda (1808–1882), Swiss politician
• Giovanni Battista Pioda (1850–1914), Swiss diplomat
• Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720–1778), Italian architect
• Giovanni Battista Quarantotti (1733-1820), cardinal
• Giovanni Battista Re (* 1934), cardinal
• Giovanni Battista Rezzonico (1740–1783), Italian cardinal
• Giovanni Battista de Rossi (1822-1894), Italian archaeologist
• Giovanni Battista Sammartini (1700 / 01–1775), Italian composer
• Giovanni Aparecido Adriano dos Santos (* 1987), Brazilian soccer player
• Giovanni Battista Seni (around 1600–1656), Italian astrologer
• Giovanni Battista Sidotti (1668–1714), Italian Jesuit priest
• Giovanni Simeone (* 1995), Argentinian football player
• Giovanni Battista Somis (1686–1763), Italian composer
• Giovanni Spadolini (1925–1994), Italian politician
• Giovanni Stroppa (* 1968), Italian football player and coach
• Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (1696–1770), Italian painter
• Giovanni Trapattoni (* 1939), Italian football player and coach
• Giovanni Battista Vaccarini (1702–1768), Italian architect
• Giovanni Battista Venturi (1746–1822), Italian physicist
• Giovanni Viola (1926–2008), Italian football player
• Giovanni Battista Viotti (1755–1824), Italian composer
• Giovanni Battista Visconti (1722–1784), Italian archaeologist
• Giovanni Battista Vitali (1632–1692), Italian composer
• Giovanni Zarrella (* 1978), German-Italian pop singer
• Giovanni Battista Zelotti (around 1526–1578), Italian painter
• Giovanni Ziggiotto (1954–1977), Italian motorcycle racer
• Giovanni Battista Zupi (around 1590–1650), Italian astronomer

family name

Giovanni

• José Giovanni (1923-2004), French-Swiss writer and filmmaker
• Kearran Giovanni , American actress

• Agostino di Giovanni , Italian architect and sculptor
• Janine di Giovanni (* 1961), American war correspondent

De Giovanni

• Biagio De Giovanni (* 1931), Italian philosopher, university professor and politician
• Maurizio de Giovanni (* 1958), Italian writer

Di Giovanni

• Alessio Di Giovanni (1872–1946), Sicilian poet
• Francesca Di Giovanni (* 1953), Italian lawyer, curia official of the Holy See
• Severino Di Giovanni (1901–1931), Italian anarchist
• Vincenzo Di Giovanni (1832–1902), Sicilian philosopher and scholar

Fictional character

• Giovanni's Room , 1956 novel by James Baldwin

pseudonym

• Josef August Untersberger (1864–1933), German-Austrian painter
• Aria Giovanni (* 1977; actually Cindy Renee Volk ), American porn actress and model

Others

• for churches, see San Giovanni
• in the Pokémon games and the anime, the leader of Team Rocket is Giovanni
• Giovanni Peak , mountain on Alexander I Island, Antarctica

See also

• Children's circus Giovanni
• Giovannini
• Giovane
• Giovani
• Gianni
• Gianluca
• Don Giovanni , opera by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart based on a libretto by Lorenzo Da Ponte
• Giovannali
• Giovannoni

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Johanan. Retrieved October 10, 2017 .