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The Province of
Trieste is a province in the autonomous Friuli-Venezia Giulia region of Italy. The following is a list of notable Triestini (Triestines) and some outsiders who either wrote about the city or resided there.
Literature
Many famous authors were born and/or lived many years in Trieste. They include:
Italian-language authors
Enzo Bettiza (1927–2017), writer and journalist, born in
Split .
Nicoletta Costa (born 1953), children's book writer and illustrator.
Claudio Magris (born 1939), writer and essayist.
Biagio Marin (1891–1985), poet (born in
Grado ).
Giorgio Pressburger (1937–2017), author and director.
Umberto Saba (1883–1957), poet.
Francesco Saba Sardi (1922–2012), author, essayist and translator.
Scipio Slataper (1888–1915), essayist.
Giani Stuparich (1891–1961), writer and essayist.
Italo Svevo (1861–1928), novelist.
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Susanna Tamaro (born 1957), novelist.
Fulvio Tomizza (1935–1999), writer, born in Istria (now in Croatia).
Vladimir Bartol
Slovene-language authors
German-language authors
Authors in other languages
Isabel Burton (1831–1896), English writer, explorer and adventurer.
Richard Francis Burton (1821–1890), British explorer, writer, orientalist scholar, and soldier.
James Joyce (1882–1941), Irish novelist, poet, and literary critic.
D. H. Lawrence (1885–1930), English novelist, short story writer, poet and essayist.
Charles Lever (1806–1872), Irish novelist and raconteur, whose novels, according to
Anthony Trollope , were just like his conversation.
Jan Morris (1926–2020), Welsh historian, author and travel writer.
Stendhal (1783–1842), French author and essayist; served as Consul of France in Trieste.
Alexander Wheelock Thayer (1817–1897), American librarian and journalist.
Samuel David Luzzatto (1800–1865), Italian Jewish scholar, poet, and a member of the Wissenschaft des Judentums movement.
Architects, inventors, gallerists, designers, and visual artists
Emilio Ambrosini (1850–1912), architect.
Milko Bambič (1905–1991), illustrator and cartoonist.
Franca Batich (born 1940), Italian painter.
Leo Castelli (1907–1999), pioneering gallerist and
contemporary art dealer.
Avgust Černigoj (1898–1985), painter.
Bruno Chersicla (1937–2013), painter and sculptor.
Tullio Crali (1910–2000), futurist painter.
Marcello Dudovich (1878–1962), illustrator.
Leonor Fini (1907–1996), artist.
Giuseppe Lorenzo Gatteri (1829–1884), Italian painter.
Isidoro Grünhut (1862–1896), artist.
Alexander Kircher (1867–1939), painter.
Franko Luin (1941–2005), Swedish-Slovene graphic designer.
Argio Orell (1884–1942), painter.
Boris Podrecca (born 1940), architect.
Alessandra Querzola (born 1977),
Oscar nominated set designer.
Stanislav Rapotec (1913–1997), painter.
Ruggero Rovan (1877–1965), sculptor.
Felice Schiavoni (1803–1881), artist.
Ernesto Nathan Rogers (1909–1969), architect.
Eugenio Scomparini (1845–1913), painter.
Vito Timmel (1886–1949), painter.
Jožef Tominc (1790–1866),
Biedermeier painter.
Antonio Valdoni (1834–1890), painter.
Umberto Veruda (1868–1904), painter.
Carlo Wostry (1865–1943), painter.
Actors, models, musicians, and performance artists
Federico Agostini (born 1959), violinist.
Alda Balestra (born 1954), fashion and beauty model.
Antonio Bibalo (1922–2008), pianist and composer.
Fedora Barbieri (1920-2003), Italian Mezzo-Soprano/Contralto opera singer.
Piero Cappuccilli (1926–2005), operatic baritone.
Antonio D'Antoni (1801–1859), opera composer and conductor.
Raffaello de Banfield (1922–2008), British composer.
George Dolenz (1908–1963), actor; father of
Micky Dolenz of the
Monkees .
Hans Herbert Fiedler (1907–2004), opera stage actor.
Fulvia Franco (1931–1988), Italian actress, model and beauty pageant titleholder.
Paul Henreid (1908–1992), actor.
Alfred Jaëll (1832–1882), Austrian pianist.
Tullio Kezich (1928–2009), actor, playwright, and screenplayer.
Anita Kravos (born 1974), Italian actress.
Paola Loew (1934–1999), actress.
Paolo Longo (born 1967), composer and conductor.
Alessandro Lotta (born 1975), former bassist of the bands
Rhapsody of Fire and
Wingdom .
Lelio Luttazzi (1923–2010), musician, composer, showman and presenter.
Mauro Maur (born 1958), trumpet player and composer.
Alexander Moissi (1879–1935), Austrian stage actor of Albanian descent.
Ave Ninchi (1914–1997), actress.
Denis Novato (born 1976), Slovene musician.
Loredana Nusciak (1942–2006), actress and model.
Alberto Randegger (1832–1911), composer.
Rodolfo Ranni (born 1937), Italian Argentine film actor.
Ivan Rassimov (1938–2003), Italian actor of Serbian descent.
Rada Rassimov (born 1941), Italian actress of Serbian descent.
Enrico Rava (born 1939), jazz trumpeter.
Teddy Reno (born 1926), singer and producer.
Carlo Rizzo (1907–1979), stage and film actor.
Victor de Sabata (1892–1967), conductor.
Laura Solari (1913–1984), film actress.
Alex Staropoli (born 1970), keyboardist of the band
Rhapsody of Fire .
Giorgio Strehler (1921–1997), opera and theater director.
Elisa Toffoli (born 1977), singer/songwriter, pianist, and guitarist.
Luca Turilli (born 1972), guitarist of the band
Rhapsody of Fire .
TV personalities
Entrepreneurs and business leaders
Fashion designers
Journalists and authors
Political figures
Engelbert Besednjak (1894–1968), Slovene politician.
Willer Bordon (1949–2015), Italian politician, Minister of the Environment, 2000-2001.
Gualtiero Driussi (1920–1996), Italian politician
Josip Ferfolja (1880–1958), Slovenian social-democratic politician and human rights activist.
Odilo Globočnik (1904–1945), Nazi war criminal, SS leader.
Riccardo Illy (born 1955), Italian politician.
Ezio Mizzan (1905–1969), Italian diplomat, the
second Italian Ambassador to Thailand (1959–1965) and the ninth
Italian Ambassador to Pakistan (1966–1969).
Ilda Mizzan (1885–1922), Italian irredentist and painter, wife of
Francesco Salata .
Stefano Patuanelli (born 1974), Italian politician, minister of economic development.
Mitja Ribičič (1919–2013), Slovenian Communist leader, Prime Minister of Yugoslavia (1969–1971).
Vittorio Vidali (aka Enea Sormenti, Jacobo Hurwitz Zender, Carlos Contreras) (1900–1983), Communist agent.
Josip Wilfan (1878–1955), Slovene jurist, politician, and human rights activist.
Religious figures
Scholars, scientists, and intellectuals
Luisa Accati (born 1942), historian and feminist theoretician.
Florian Biesik (1849–1926),
Silesian linguist,
Wymysorys language scholar and poet.
Ludwig Boltzmann (1844–1906), Austrian physicist.
Paolo Budinich (1916–2013), physicist.
Sir Richard Burton (1821–1890), British explorer, geographer, writer, orientalist, cartographer, linguist, poet, fencer, and diplomat; discovered
Lake Tanganyika .
Lavo Čermelj (1889–1980), Slovene physicist and public intellectual.
Giacomo Ciamician (1857–1922), chemist.
Laura Dallapiccola (1911–1995), Italian librarian and translator.
Gillo Dorfles (1910–2018), philosopher and historian.
Arturo Falaschi (1933–2010), MD, geneticist.
Alessandro Ferrara (born 1953), philosopher and author.
Boris Furlan (1894–1957), Slovenian legal theorist, translator and politician.
Anton Füster (1808–1881), Austrian revolutionary activist, author and pedagogue.
Guido Goldschmiedt (1850–1915), Austrian chemist.
Boris M. Gombač (born 1945), Slovenian historian.
Spiridon Gopčević (1855–1928), Serbian astronomer and historian.
Margherita Hack (1922–2013), Italian astronomer.
Albert O. Hirschman (1915–2012), economist and political scientist; obtained his doctorate from the University of Trieste.
Pietro Kandler (1804–1872), historian, archaeologist and jurist.
Fiorella Kostoris (born 1945), economist.
Doro Levi (1899–1991),
archaeologist .
Salvatore Pincherle (1853–1936), Italian mathematician.
Jože Pirjevec (born 1940), Slovene historian.
Alessandro Pizzorno (1924–2019), Political Scientist and Sociologist.
Abdus Salam (1926–1996), Pakistani theoretical physicist, Nobel prize laureate.
Denis Sciama (1926–1999), British physicist.
Joseph Straus (born 1938), property law intellectual.
Marta Verginella (born 1960), Slovene historian.
Ivan Vidav (1918–2015), Slovene mathematician.
Edoardo Weiss (1889-1970), Jewish psychoanalyst.
Guido Weiss (1928–2021), mathematician.
Sigismund Zois (1747–1819), Slovene mecenate and natural scientist.
Sportspeople
Andrea de Adamich (born 1941), former Formula 1 driver.
Nino Benvenuti (born 1938), boxer.
Biaggio Chianese (born 1961), boxer.
Claudia Coslovich (born 1972), athlete.
Fabio Cudicini (born 1935), football player (goalkeeper).
Aldo Dorigo (born 1929), football player.
Giorgio Ferrini (1939–1976), football player.
Ambrogio Fogar (1941–2005), sailor, rally driver, and adventurer.
Livio Franceschini (1913–1975), basketball player.
Sara Gama (born 1989), Italian footballer, defender and captain of both Serie A club Juventus and the Italian national team.
Sandro Gamba (born 1932), basketball coach and player.
Matteo Gladig (1880–1915), chess master.
Margherita Granbassi (born 1979), foil fencer.
Duilio Loi (1929–2008), boxer.
Cesare Maldini (1932–2016), former
AC Milan captain, Italian football team manager.
Giovanni Martinolich (1884–1910), chess master.
Mauro Milanese (born 1971), football player.
Mario Milano (1935–2016), professional wrestler.
Tiberio Mitri (1926–2001), boxer.
Uberto De Morpurgo (1896–1961), Austrian-born Italian tennis player.
Giorgio Oberweger (1913–1998), athlete.
Nicola Princivalli (born 1979), football player.
Giovanni Raicevich (1881–1957), professional wrestler.
Carlo Rigotti (1906–1983), football player.
Nereo Rocco (1912–1979), football player and manager.
Licio Rossetti (1925–1993), football player.
Cesare Rubini (1923–2011), water polo player.
Matteo Scozzarella (born 1988), football player.
Giovanni Steffè (1928–2016), rower.
Caterina Stenta (born 1987),
Windsurf and
Standup paddleboarding athlete.
Max Tonetto (born 1974), football player.
Fabio Tuiach (born 1980), boxer.
Ferruccio Valcareggi (1919–2005), football player and coach.
Renzo Vecchiato (born 1955), basketball player.
Statesmen and aristocracy
Mathilde Bonaparte (1820–1904),
Napoleon 's niece, daughter of his brother
Jérôme Bonaparte ; born in Trieste in 1820.
Joseph Fouché (1759–1820), duke of Otranto, spent his last 5 years exiled in Trieste.
Maximilian of Habsburg (1832–1867), Emperor of Mexico, Archduke of Austria (Schönbrunn 1832 - Querétaro 1867); built the white castle and park on the riviera; planted plants in the park from his travels around the world.
Fiorello La Guardia (1882–1947), 99th Mayor of
New York City , son of Trieste-born Irene Coen, of the
Luzzatto family. Spent part of his 20s in Trieste with his family, also working for the US Consulate.
Princess
Marie Adélaïde de France (1732–1800), Madame de France, daughter of King Louis XV of France, died in Trieste in 1800 and was buried at San Giusto Cathedral.
Princess
Marie Louise Thérèse Victoire de France (1733–1799), Madame de France, daughter of King Louis XV of France, died in Trieste in 1799.
Manto Mavrogenous (1796–1848), Greek princess and heroine of the
Greek War of Independence .
Louis Antoine Debrauz de Saldapenna (1811–1871), Austrian diplomat, journalist and author.
Gottfried von Banfield (1890–1986), top Austrian Empire fighter ace in World War I.
Stefano Černetić (born 1960), journalist and royal
pretender
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