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