Italian immigrants to the United States
(DDG Topics List)Alberto Bimboni - Alberto Bimboni was an Italian-born American composer and conductor.
Aldo Andretti - Aldo Andretti is the twin brother of Mario Andretti and the father of John Andretti and Adam Andretti.
Alex Caldiero - Alex Caldiero is a poet, polyartist, sonosopher, and scholar of humanities and intermedia.
Alfredo de Palchi - Alfredo Giop de Palchi is an American poet, and translator.
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Angelo Faticoni - Angelo Faticoni was also known as "The Human Cork" due to his phenomenal and unnatural buoyancy.
Angelo Garzio - Angelo Charles Garzio was an Italian-American educator, ceramic artist and musician.
Angelo Pellegrini - Angelo Pellegrini was an author of books about the pleasures of growing and making your own food and wine, and about the Italian immigrant experience.
Anthony J. Celebrezze - Anthony Joseph Celebrezze Sr. was an American politician of the Democratic Party, who served as the 49th mayor of Cleveland, Ohio, as a cabinet member in the Kennedy and Johnson administrations,...
Anthony T. Rossi - Anthony Talamo Rossi was an Italian immigrant who founded Tropicana Products, a producer of orange juice founded in 1947 in Bradenton, Florida in the United States which grew from 50 employees t...
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Antonio Meucci - Antonio Meucci was a compatriot of Italian revolutionary Giuseppe Garibaldi, and an inventor, best known for developing a voice communication apparatus in 1857.
Arturo Castiglioni - Arturo Castiglioni was an Italian-born American medical historian.
Aurelio Giorni - Aurelio Giorni was an American composer of Italian birth.
Carl Marzani - Carl Aldo Marzani, was an American leftwing political activist and publisher.
Carmelo D'Anzi - Carmelo D'Anzi is an Italian-American football coach and former player.
Charles Atlas - Charles Atlas, born Angelo Siciliano, was the developer of a bodybuilding method and its associated exercise program that was best known for a landmark advertising campaign featuring Atlas...
Claude V. Palisca - Claude Victor Palisca was an internationally recognised authority on early music, especially opera of the renaissance and baroque periods, and was Henry L. and Lucy G. Moses Professor Emeritus o...
Constantino Brumidi - Constantino Brumidi was an Italian/Greek-American historical painter, best known and honored for his fresco work in the Capitol Building in Washington, DC.
Dan Mitrione - Daniel A. Mitrione was an Italian-born American police officer, FBI agent and a United States government security advisor for the CIA in Latin America.
Dani Donadi - Dani Donadi is an award winning film composer and record producer born in Treviso, Italy.
Domenico Brescia - Domenico Brescia was an Italian composer who taught in Chile and Ecuador, then became known in the United States for writing chamber music as well as musical accompaniment for dramatic performances.
Elissa Landi - Elissa Landi was an Italian born actress who was popular in Hollywood films of the 1920s and 1930s.
Emilio G. Segrè - Emilio Gino Segrè was an Italian physicist and Nobel laureate in physics, who with Owen Chamberlain, discovered antiprotons, a sub-atomic antiparticle.
Emilius R. Ciampa - Emilius R. Ciampa was an American sculptor and artist.
Emma Trentini - Emma Trentini was an Italian soprano opera singer who came to the United States in December 1906.
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Enrico Fermi - Enrico Fermi was an Italian physicist particularly known for his work on the development of the first nuclear reactor, Chicago Pile-1, and for his contributions to the development of quantum the...
Federico Castelluccio - Federico Castelluccio is an Italian-American actor and professional visual artist, who is most famous for his role as Furio Giunta on the HBO TV series, The Sopranos.
Federico Faggin - Federico Faggin is an Italian physicist/electrical engineer and naturalized U.S. citizen, principally responsible for the design of the first microprocessor and for leading the 4004 project to i...
Ferdinand Pecora - Ferdinand J. Pecora was an American lawyer and judge who became famous in the 1930s as Chief Counsel to the United States Senate Committee on Banking and Currency during its investigation of Wal...
Fortunato Anselmo - Fortunato Anselmo was the Vice Consul of Italy of Salt Lake City from the 1920s to the beginning of the World War II and again from 1950 to 1965.
Frances Xavier Cabrini - Saint Frances Xavier Cabrini, also called Mother Cabrini, was the first American citizen to be canonized by the Roman Catholic Church.
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Franco Modigliani - Franco Modigliani was an Italian American economist at the MIT Sloan School of Management and MIT Department of Economics, and winner of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics in 1985.
Franco Rasetti - Franco Dino Rasetti was an Italian scientist.
Frank Capra - Frank Russell Capra was a Sicilian-born American film director and a creative force behind a number of films of the 1930s and 1940s, including It Happened One Night, Mr. Deeds Goes to Town...
Frank D'Amelio - Frank D’Amelio is a former U.S. soccer defender who played one season in the North American Soccer League, one in the American Soccer League and the 1980-1981 indoor NASL season.
Frank Vittor - Frank Vittor is an Italian immigrant to the United States who became famous as a sculptor.
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Geno Auriemma - Geno Auriemma is an Italian-American basketball coach, head coach of the University of Connecticut Huskies women's basketball team, which he has led to seven National Collegiate Athletic Associa...
George Dolenz - George Dolenz was an American film actor born in Trieste, in the city's Slovene community.
George Z. Singal - George Z. Singal is currently chief judge of the United States District Court for the District of Maine.
Gino Gardassanich - Gino Gardassanich ', was an Italian American soccer goalkeeper who was a member of the United States team at the 1950 FIFA World Cup.
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Giorgio de Santillana - Giorgio Diaz de Santillana was an Italian-American philosopher of science and historian of science, and professor at MIT.
Giovanni Marradi (musician) - Giovanni Marradi is a pianist, composer and arranger.
Giuseppe Prezzolini - Giuseppe Prezzolini was an Italian journalist, editor and writer, as well as an American citizen.
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Giuseppe Zangara - Giuseppe Zangara was the assassin of Chicago mayor Anton Cermak, though United States President-elect Franklin Delano Roosevelt is generally believed to have been his intended target.
Guido Calabresi - Guido Calabresi is an Italian born American legal scholar and senior judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.
Guido Deiro - Count Guido Pietro Deiro was a famous vaudeville star, international recording artist, composer and teacher.
Henry Woodhouse - Henry Woodhouse was an Italian-born US aviation enthusiast, magazine publisher, speculator and forger of historical documents.
Isabella Rossellini - Isabella Fiorella Elettra Giovanna Rossellini is an Italian-Swedish actress, filmmaker, author, philanthropist, and model.
James DeSimone - James DeSimone was an Italian-American Kansas City, Missouri gangster and drug trafficker.
Joe Savoldi - Joe Savoldi Jr., more commonly known as Jumping Joe Savoldi was an Italian-born, American football player and professional wrestler.
John Baptiste Miège - John Baptiste Miège, S.J. was an Italian Savoyard prelate of the Roman Catholic Church.
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Joseph Bayma - Joseph Bayma was a mathematician, philosopher, and scientist.
Joseph Glimco - Joseph Paul Glimco was an Italian American labor leader and well-known organized crime figure based in Chicago, Illinois.
Joseph Petrosino - Giuseppe "Joe" Petrosino was a New York City police officer who was a pioneer in the fight against organized crime.
Joseph Toronto - __NOTOC__Joseph Toronto was the first Italian convert to the Latter Day Saint movement and was one of the first missionaries of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Italy.
Juan Rosai - Juan Rosai, M.D. is an Italian-born American physician who has contributed to clinical research in the subspecialty of surgical pathology.
Laura Huxley - Laura Huxley was a musician, author, psychological counselor and lecturer.
Lawrence Carra - Lawrence Carra was an American professor of drama at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA. He was a director of theater and television as well as a mentor to hundreds of a...
Lawrence E. Gerosa - Lawrence E. Gerosa born Lawrence Ettore Gerosa in Milan, Italy was an Italian-American politician who served as New York City Comptroller from 1954-1961.
Licia Albanese - Licia Albanese is an Italian-born American operatic soprano.
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Lidia Bastianich - Lidia Matticchio Bastianich is an American chef, author and restaurateur.
Lorenzo Caccialanza - Lorenzo Caccialanza is an Italian-born American actor, best known for his work on the CBS prime time soap opera Knots Landing as "Nick Schillace," the gigolo boyfriend of "Anne Matheson".
Louis Capozzoli - Louis Joseph Capozzoli was a United States Representative from New York.
Louis Francescon - Louis Francescon was a missionary and pioneer of the Italian Pentecostal Movement.
Luigi Chinetti - Luigi Chinetti was an Italian-born racecar driver, who emigrated to the United States during World War II and became an American citizen.
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Luigi Palma di Cesnola - Luigi Palma di Cesnola, an Italian-American soldier and amateur archaeologist, was born in Rivarolo Canavese, near Turin.
Marco Reginelli - Marco "Small Man" Reginelli was an New Jersey mobster who became underboss of the Philadelphia crime family and operated a famous nightclub in Atlantic City, New Jersey.
Margherita Missoni - Margherita Missoni is known for her rise to prominence as an ambassador of, and heiress to, her family's Missoni fashion house, which was founded by her grandparents, as well as her appearances ...
Maria Barbella - Maria Barbella was the first woman sentenced to die in the electric chair.
Mario Andretti - Mario Gabriele Andretti is a retired Italian-American world champion racing driver, one of the most successful Americans in the history of the sport.
Mario Oriani-Ambrosini - Mario Gaspare R. Oriani-Ambrosini is an Italian American constitutional lawyer and politician, currently a Member of Parliament in South Africa with the Inkatha Freedom Party.
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Mario Procaccino - Mario Angelo Procaccino was a lawyer, comptroller, and candidate for mayor of New York City.
Mario Salvadori - Mario G. Salvadori was a structural engineer and professor of both civil engineering and architecture at Columbia University.
Michael Fedele - Michael Fedele is an Italian-American politician.
Michele Pane - Michele Pane was an Italian American symbolist poet and journalist who wrote in northern Calabrese.
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Nino Marcelli - Nino Marcelli was an Italian composer and conductor who revived the San Diego Symphony orchestra.
Pascal Tosi - Pascal Tosi was an Italian Jesuit, missionary and co-founder of the Alaska mission and Church.
Paul Scurti - Paul Scurti, born as Paolo Scurti, was an Italian-American soccer midfielder who spent five seasons in the North American Soccer League and earned one cap with the United States men's national s...
Pietro Deiro - Pietro Deiro was one of the most influential accordionists of the first half of the 20th century.
Pietro Frosini - Pietro Frosini was one of the first famous "stars of the accordion."
Primo Carnera - Primo Carnera was an Italian boxer, nicknamed the Ambling Alp, who became the world heavyweight champion.
Rafaela Ottiano - Rafaela Ottiano was an Italian-born American stage and film actress.
Rhys Coiro - Rhys Coiro is an American film, television and stage actor.
Riccardo Giacconi - Riccardo Giacconi is an Italian/American Nobel Prize-winning astrophysicist who laid the foundations of X-ray astronomy.
Roberto Peccei - Roberto D. Peccei is Vice Chancellor for Research at the University of California Los Angeles, a position he has held since October, 2000.
Roberto Sabatino Lopez - Roberto Sabatino Lopez, also known as Robert S. Lopez, was an Italian-American historian of medieval European economic history.
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Rudolph Altrocchi - Rudolph Altrocchi was a professor of Italian language and literature.
Russell Bufalino - Russell A. Bufalino also known as "McGee" and "The Old Man" was the boss of the Northeastern Pennsylvania crime family from 1959 to 1989.
Sal Rocca - Sal Rocca is an Italian immigrant to the United States who served as a member of the Michigan House of Representatives for several years, as well as serving a few terms as a member of the Macomb...
Salvador Luria - Salvador Edward Luria was an Italian-born American microbiologist and a Nobel laureate for his pioneering work with Max Delbrück and Alfred Hershey on phages in molecular biology.
Tony Crescitelli - Tony Crescitelli is a retired Italian-American soccer forward who spent six seasons in the North American Soccer League and earned one cap with the U.S. national team in 1983.
Ulderico Marcelli - Ulderico Marcelli was a 20th century Italian composer who became known in the United States for writing operas and musical accompaniment for dramatic performances, and for his skill as an orches...
Victor Anfuso - Victor L'Episcopo Anfuso was a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives from New York.
Vincent Luke Palmisano - Vincent Luke Palmisano was an American politician from Maryland.
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