Luigi (name)

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Luigi
PronunciationItalian: [luˈiːdʒi]
Gendermale
Origin
Word/nameLudwig (Chlodwig)
Meaningrenowned/famous warrior
Region of originItaly
Other names
Related namesLouis, Lewis, , Ludvik, Aloysius, Luis

Luigi is a masculine Italian given name. It is the Italian form of the German name Ludwig, through[clarification needed] the Latinization Ludovicus, corresponding to the French form Louis and its anglicized variant Lewis.

Other forms of the same name in Italian are the names Ludovico, , Aloísio and Alvise, the last form being more frequent in the Veneto region. A derived feminine name is Luigina.

People with the given name Luigi[]

Royalty[]

  • Prince Luigi Amedeo (1873–1933), Italian prince

Crime and law[]

Engineering and mathematics[]

  • Luigi Bianchi (1856–1928), mathematician
  • Luigi Colani (born 1928), German industrial designer
  • Luigi Cremona (1830–1903), mathematician
  • Luigi Dadda (born 1923), computer engineer
  • Luigi Fantappiè (1901–1956), mathematician
  • Luigi Poletti (mathematician) (1864–1967), mathematician and poet
  • Luigi Segre (1919–1963), automotive designer and engineer
  • Luigi Vanvitelli (1700–1773), engineer and architect

Film and television[]

  • Luigi Almirante (1886–1963), film actor
  • Luigi Batzella, Z-movie director
  • Luigi Bonos (1910–2000), film actor
  • Luigi Capuano (born 1904), film director and screenwriter
  • Luigi Cimara (1891–1962), film actor
  • Luigi Comencini (1916–2007), film director
  • Luigi Cozzi (born 1947), movie director and screenwriter
  • Luigi Filippo D'Amico (1924–2007), director and writer
  • Luigi Gervasi, set decorator from 1947–68
  • Luigi Lo Cascio (born 1967), actor
  • Luigi Magni (born 1928), screenwriter and film director
  • Luigi Pavese (1896–1969), film actor
  • Luigi Petrucci (born 1956), film and television actor
  • Luigi Pistilli (1929–1996), actor of stage, screen, and television
  • Luigi Scaccianoce (1914–1981), production designer, art director, and set decorator
  • Luigi Zampa (1905–1991), film-maker

Journalism and literature[]

  • Luigi Alamanni (1495–1556), poet and statesman
  • Luigi Albertini (1871–1941), journalist and antifascist
  • Luigi Ballerini (born 1940), poet, professor, and historian of gastronomy
  • Luigi Bartolini (1892–1963), writer, poet, and painter
  • Luigi Barzini, Jr. (1908–1984), Italian-American journalist
  • Luigi Barzini, Sr. (1874–1947), journalist, war correspondent, and writer
  • Luigi Capuana (1839–1915), author, journalist, and member of the Verist movement
  • Luigi Chiarelli (1880–1947), playwright, theatre critic, and writer of short stories
  • Luigi Da Porto (1485–1529), writer and storiographer
  • Luigi Fabbri (1877–1935), anarchist, writer, agitator, and propagandist
  • Luigi Fontanella (born 1943), poet, critic, translator, playwright, and novelist
  • Luigi Freddi (1895–1977), journalist and politician
  • Luigi Malerba (1927–2008), author and co-founder of the Gruppo 63
  • Luigi Meneghello (1922–2007), contemporary writer and scholar
  • Luigi Pirandello (1867–1936), writer
  • Luigi Pulci (1432–1484), poet best known for Morgante
  • Luigi Tansillo (1510–1568), poet of the Petrarchian and Marinist schools
  • Luigi Ugolini (1891–1980), writer

Military, nobility, and politics[]

  • Luigi Alidosi (died 1430), lord of Imola from 1391 to 1424
  • Luigi Amedeo, Duke of the Abruzzi (1873–1933), Italian prince, mountaineer, and explorer
  • Luigi Antonini (1883–1968), American trade union leader
  • Luigi Arisio (1926–2020), Italian politician
  • Luigi Berlinguer (born 1932), Italian politician
  • Luigi Braschi Onesti (before 1787–1816), nephew of Pope Pius VI
  • Luigi Cadorna (1850–1928), Italian General and Marshal of Italy
  • Luigi Capello (1859–1941), Italian General
  • Luigi Carlo Farini (1812–1866), Italian physician, statesman, and historian
  • Luigi Cocilovo (born 1947), Member of the European Parliament and University researcher in law
  • Luigi Contratto (1892–1984), World War I soldier
  • Luigi Cornaro (1464–1566), Venetian nobleman
  • Luigi, Count Cibrario (1802–1870), statesman and historian
  • Luigi dal Verme (?–1449), condottiero
  • Luigi Durand de la Penne (1914–1992), naval diver during World War II
  • Luigi Einaudi (1874–1961), politician and economist
  • Luigi R. Einaudi, U.S. career diplomat
  • Luigi Facta (1861–1930), politician and journalist
  • Luigi Federzoni (1878–1967), nationalist and later Fascist politician
  • Luigi Ferdinando Marsigli (1658–1730), soldier and naturalist
  • Luigi Frusci (1879–1949), Royal Army officer during World War II
  • Luigi Gorrini (1917–2014), Italian fighter pilot during World War II
  • Luigi Granelli (1929–1999), Italian politician
  • Luigi Gui (born 1914), politician and philosopher
  • Luigi Lonfernini (born 1938), Captain Regent of San Marino in 1971 and 2001
  • Luigi Longo (1900–1980), Italian Communist Politician and secretary of the Italian Communist Party
  • Luigi Luzzatti (1841–1927), politician who served as Prime Minister between 1910 and 1911
  • Luigi Miceli (1824–1906), patriot, politician, and military figure
  • Luigi Mocenigo (disambiguation), multiple people
  • Luigi Palma di Cesnola (1832–1904), Italian-American soldier and amateur archaeologist
  • Luigi Parrilli, aristocrat
  • Luigi Pelloux (1839–1924), general and politician
  • Luigi Perenni (1913–1943), military officer and skier
  • Luigi Razza (1892–1935),Italian journalist and politician
  • Luigi Rizzo (1887–1951), naval officer and torpedo boat commander
  • Luigi Settembrini (1813–1877), Neapolitan man of letters and politician
  • Luigi Spaventa (1934–2013), Italian academic and politician
  • Luigi Viviani (born 1937), Italian politician
  • Luigi Viviani (soldier) (1903–1943), Italian engineer and soldier

Music[]

  • Luigi Alva, tenore leggiero
  • Luigi Antinori (c. 1697–?), tenor
  • Luigi Antonio Sabbatini (1732–1809), composer and music theorist
  • Luigi Arditi (1822–1903), violinist, composer, and conductor
  • Luigi Attademo (born 1972), classical guitarist
  • Luigi Bassi (1766–1825), operatic baritone
  • Luigi Boccherini (1743–1805), cellist and composer
  • Luigi Cherubini (1760–1842), Italian-born composer
  • Luigi Creatore (born 1920), American songwriter and record producer
  • Luigi Dallapiccola (1904–1975), composer known for lyrical twelve-tone compositions
  • Ivan Della Mea (born as Luigi), singer-songwriter
  • Luigi Denza (1846–1922), composer
  • Luigi Gatti (1740–1817), classical composer
  • Luigi Illica (1857–1919), librettist
  • Luigi Infantino (1921–1991), operatic tenor
  • Luigi Lablache (1794–1858), bass singer of French and Irish heritage
  • Luigi Legnani (1790–1877), guitarist and composer
  • Luigi Marchesi (1754–1829), castrato singer
  • Luigi Marini (1885–1942), Italian lyric tenor
  • Luigi Morleo (born 1970), percussionist and composer of contemporary music
  • Luigi Mostacci (1934–2003), pianist
  • Luigi Negri (disambiguation), multiple people
  • Luigi Nono (1924–1990), avant-garde composer of classical music
  • Luigi Otto (c. 1750–?), composer
  • Luigi Piazza (1884–1967), operatic baritone
  • Luigi Piccioli (1812–1862), musician, singer, voice instructor, and professor
  • Luigi Ricci (vocal coach) (1893–1981), assistant conductor, accompanist, vocal coach, and author
  • Luigi Ricci (composer) (1805–1859), composer, particularly of operas
  • Luigi Ricci-Stolz (1852–1906), musician and composer
  • Luigi Rossi (1597–1653), Baroque composer
  • Luigi Sagrati (1921–2008), violinist
  • Luigi Tarisio (c. 1790–1854), violin dealer and collector
  • Luigi Tenco (1938–1967), singer, songwriter, and actor
  • Luigi Verderame, Belgian singer usually known just as Luigi
  • Luigi von Kunits (1870–1931), Austrian conductor, composer, violinist, and pedagogue
  • Luigi Waites (born 1927), American jazz drummer and vibraphonist
  • Luigi Zamboni (1767–1837), operatic buffo bass-baritone
  • Luigi Zenobi (1540s – after 1602), virtuoso cornett player

Religion[]

  • Luigi Amat di San Filippo e Sorso (1796–1878), dean of the College of Cardinals
  • Luigi Bilio (1826–1884), Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church
  • Luigi Capotosti (1863–1938), Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church
  • Luigi Ciacchi (1788–1865), Cardinal of the Catholic Church
  • Luigi Ciotti (born 1945), Roman Catholic priest
  • Luigi Dadaglio (1914–1990), Roman Catholic Cardinal and Major Penitentiary of the Apostolic Penitentiary
  • Luigi De Magistris (cardinal) (born 1926), Roman Catholic Archbishop
  • Luigi d'Este (1538–1586)
  • Luigi Fortis (1748–1829), Jesuit
  • Luigi Giussani (1922–2005), Catholic priest, educator, and public intellectual
  • Luigi Guanella (1842–1912), Catholic priest from Northern Italy
  • Luigi Jacobini (1832–1887), Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church
  • Luigi Lambruschini (1776–1854), Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church
  • Luigi Lavitrano (1874–1950), Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church
  • Luigi Lippomano (1500–1559), cardinal and hagiographer
  • Luigi Locati (1928–2005), Catholic missionary and bishop
  • Luigi Macchi (1832–1907), Catholic nobleman and Cardinal
  • Luigi Maglione (1877–1944), Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church
  • Luigi Mascolo, priest who defected to the Brazilian Catholic Apostolic Church
  • Luigi Mozzi (1746–1813), Jesuit controversialist
  • Luigi Oreglia di Santo Stefano (1828–1913), Cardinal of the Catholic Church
  • Luigi Orione (1872–1940), saint
  • Luigi Poggi (1917-2010), Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church
  • Luigi Raimondi (1912–1975), Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church
  • Luigi Sincero (1870–1936), Roman Catholic Cardinal
  • Luigi Sturzo (1871–1959), Catholic priest and politician
  • Luigi Taparelli (1793–1862), Catholic scholar of the Society of Jesus
  • Luigi Traglia (1895–1977), Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church
  • Luigi Tripepi (1836–1906), Roman Catholic cardinal and poet

Science[]

  • Luigi Aloysius Colla (1766–1848), botanist
  • Luigi Amoroso (1886–1965), neoclassical economist
  • Luigi Bellardi (1859–1889), malacologist and entomologist
  • Luigi Bodio (1840–1920), economist and statistician
  • Luigi Cagnola (1762–1833), architect
  • Luigi Canina (1795–1856), archaeologist and architect
  • Luigi Caponaro (1567–1622), healer
  • Luigi Carnera (1875–1962), astronomer
  • Luigi Cossa (1831–1896), economist
  • Luigi di Bella (1912–2003), medical doctor and physiology professor
  • Luigi Ferri (1826–1895), philosopher
  • Luigi Frati (born 1943), academic physician and rector of the Sapienza University of Rome
  • Luigi Gaetano Marini (1742–1815), natural philosopher, jurist, historian, and archeologist
  • Luigi Galvani (1737–1798), physician and physicist
  • Luigi Guido Grandi (1671–1742), philosopher and mathematician
  • Luigi Hugues (1836–1913), academic geographer and amateur musician
  • Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza (born 1922), population geneticist
  • Luigi Maria Ugolini (1895–1936), archaeologist
  • Luigi Palmieri (1807–1896), physicist and meteorologist
  • Luigi Pareyson (1918–1991), philosopher
  • Luigi Pasinetti (born 1930), economist of the Post-Keynesians school
  • Luigi Pernier (1874–1937), archaeologist and academic
  • Luigi Piccinato (1899–1983), architect and town planner
  • Luigi Pigorini (1842–1925), palaeoethnologist, archaeologist, and ethnographer
  • Luigi Poletti (architect) (1792–1869), neoclassical architect
  • Luigi Rosselli, Italian/Australian practicing architect
  • Luigi Rizzi (born 1952), linguist
  • Luigi Rolando (1773–1831), anatomist
  • Luigi Salvatorelli (1886–1974), historian and publicist
  • Luigi Snozzi (born 1932), Swiss architect
  • Luigi Tosti (1811–1897), Benedictine historian
  • Luigi Zoja, psychoanalyst and writer

Sports[]

  • Luigi "Geno" Auriemma (born 1954), Italian-born American women's basketball coach

Football[]

Racing[]

Other[]

Visual arts[]

  • Luigi Acquisti (1745–1823), sculptor
  • Luigi Anichini, engraver of seals and medals
  • Luigi Basiletti (1780–1860), painter
  • Luigi Benfatto (1551–1611), late-Renaissance painter
  • Luigi Boccherini (1743–1805), classical era composer and cellist
  • Luigi Borgomainerio, engraver and caricaturist
  • Luigi Calamatta (1801–1868), painter and engraver
  • Luigi Crosio (1835–1915), Turin-based Italian painter
  • Luigi De Giudici (1887–1955), painter
  • Luigi Fontana (1827–1908), sculptor, painter, and architect
  • Luigi Frisoni (1760–1811), painter
  • Luigi Ghirri (1943–1992), photographer
  • Luigi Garzi (1638–1721), Baroque painter
  • Luigi Guardigli (1923–2008), painter and mosaicist
  • Luigi Kasimir (1881–1962), Austro-Hungarian-born etcher, painter, printmaker, and landscape artist
  • Luigi Lanzi (1732–1810), art historian and archaeologist
  • Luigi Lucioni (1900–1988), Italian-born American painter
  • Luigi Malice (born 1937), artist
  • Luigi Manini (1848–1936), European set designer and architect
  • Luigi Mascelli (1804-1825), Italian goldsmith
  • Luigi Melchiorre (1859 – c. 1908), Italian sculptor
  • Luigi Miradori (1600s – c. 1656), Baroque painter
  • Luigi Mussini (1813–1888), painter
  • Luigi Nono (painter) (1850–1918), Italian painter
  • Luigi Pellegrini Scaramuccia (1616–1680), Baroque painter and artist biographer
  • Luigi Primo (c. 1605–1667), Flemish Baroque painter
  • Luigi Quaini (1643–1717), Baroque painter
  • Luigi Rados (1773–1840), engraver
  • Luigi Riccardi (1807–1877), painter
  • Luigi Russolo (1885–1947), Futurist painter and composer
  • Luigi Sabatelli (1772–1850), Neoclassical painter
  • Luigi Schiavonetti (1765–1810), reproductive engraver and etcher
  • Luigi Serafini (artist) (born 1946), artist, architect, and designer
  • Luigi Trinchero (1862–1944), sculptor

Other fields[]

  • Luigi Bertoni (1872–1947), Italian-born anarchist writer and typographer
  • Luigi Borrelli, Naples-based shirts maker
  • Luigi Calabresi (1937–1972), commissioner of Italian police in Milan
  • Luigi Carrel (1901–1983), mountain climber, mountain guide, and ski mountaineer
  • Luigi D'Albertis (1841–1901), naturalist and explorer
  • Luigi Galleani (1861–1931), anarchist
  • Luigi Lavazza (1859–1949), businessman
  • Luigi Manzotti (1835–1905), choreographer
  • Luigi Ossoinack (1849–1904), Hungarian businessman and politician
  • Luigi Puccianti (1875–1952), Italian physicist
  • Luigi Veronelli (1926–2004), gastronome and intellectual
  • Luigi Villa, backgammon player
  • Luigi Voltan, the founder of the eponymous shoe company

Fictional characters[]

  • Luigi, a Nintendo video game character and the younger twin brother of Mario from the Super Mario franchise
  • Luigi, a Fiat 500 car from Pixar's Cars franchise
  • Luigi Vendetta, in Kick Buttowski
  • Luigi Risotto, from the animated sitcom The Simpsons

See also[]

  • Luigi (disambiguation)
  • Louis (name)

References[]

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