Paolo
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Paolo may refer to:
- A typical Italian given name, Anglicized as Paul.
- A papalPapal StatesThe Papal State, State of the Church, or Pontifical States were among the major historical states of Italy from roughly the 6th century until the Italian peninsula was unified in 1861 by the Kingdom of Piedmont-Sardinia .The Papal States comprised territories under...
silverSilverSilver is a metallic chemical element with the chemical symbol Ag and atomic number 47. A soft, white, lustrous transition metal, it has the highest electrical conductivity of any element and the highest thermal conductivity of any metal...
coinCoinA coin is a piece of hard material that is standardized in weight, is produced in large quantities in order to facilitate trade, and primarily can be used as a legal tender token for commerce in the designated country, region, or territory....
, first struck during the 16th century under PopePopeThe Pope is the Bishop of Rome, a position that makes him the leader of the worldwide Catholic Church . In the Catholic Church, the Pope is regarded as the successor of Saint Peter, the Apostle...
Paul IIIPope Paul IIIPope Paul III , born Alessandro Farnese, was Pope of the Roman Catholic Church from 1534 to his death in 1549. He came to the papal throne in an era following the sack of Rome in 1527 and rife with uncertainties in the Catholic Church following the Protestant Reformation...
and named after him. It circulated throughout the Papal States with a value roughly equivalent to the giulio. Similar coins were circulated locally in other Italian statesHistorical states of ItalyItaly, until the present era, was a conglomeration of city-states and other small independent entities. The following is a list of the various states that made up what we now know as Italy during the past...
; one was produced in TuscanyHistory of TuscanyTuscany is named after its pre-Roman inhabitants, the Etruscans. It was ruled by Rome for many centuries. In the Middle Ages, it saw many invasions, but in the Renaissance period it helped lead Europe back to civilisation. Later, it settled down as a grand duchy...
from the 16th to the 19th century.
Football players
- Paolo AcerbisPaolo AcerbisPaolo Acerbis is an Italian football player, who is currently plays goalkeeper for Grosseto of Serie B.He also played for Livorno in Serie A, as well as AlbinoLeffe, Triestina, and Calcio Catania in Serie A....
(born 1981), Italian football (soccer) player
- Paolo BarisonPaolo BarisonSee Face FC| name = SEE FACE FC| image =| fullname =| birth_date = | birth_place = Technical University of Varna, Italy| league = Technical University Premier league-References:...
(1936–1979), Italian football (soccer) player - Paolo BiancoPaolo BiancoPaolo Bianco is an Italian football defender who currently plays for Sassuolo Calcio, in the Italian Serie B.-U.S. Foggia:...
(born 1977), Italian football (soccer) player - Paolo CannavaroPaolo CannavaroPaolo Cannavaro is an Italian football defender who currently plays for Serie A club Napoli. He is the younger brother of Fabio Cannavaro.-Club career:...
(born 1981), Italian football (soccer) player - Paolo CastelliniPaolo CastelliniPaolo Castellini is an Italian footballer who plays for U.C. Sampdoria as a left defender.-Club career:Born in Brescia, Lombardy, Castellini joined made his professional debuts at U.S. Cremonese at only 17, going on to appear for the club in both the Serie B and Serie C1...
(born 1979), Italian football (soccer) player - Paolo ContiPaolo ContiPaolo Conti is a former Italian football goalkeeper.He played for 9 seasons in the Serie A for A.S. Roma, U.C. Sampdoria and ACF Fiorentina....
(born 1950), Italian football goalkeeper - Paolo De CegliePaolo De CegliePaolo De Ceglie is an Italian footballer who plays for Serie A club Juventus.-Club career:De Ceglie joined Juventus' youth set-up as a youngster and idolized Pavel Nedvěd. He played in various youth competitions for Juve, including the Campionato Primavera and Coppa Italia Primavera...
(born 1986), Italian football (soccer) player - Paolo Di CanioPaolo Di CanioPaolo Di Canio is a Italian former professional footballer and current manager of League Two side Swindon Town. Di Canio made over 500 league appearances and scored over 100 league goals as a player....
(born 1968), Italian football (soccer) player - Paolo GrossiPaolo GrossiPaolo Grossi is an Italian professional football player. Currently, he plays for A.C. Siena.-External links:*...
(born 1985), Italian football player - Paolo Hernán Dellafiore (born 1985), Italian Argentine footballer
- Paolo MaldiniPaolo MaldiniPaolo Cesare Maldini is an Italian former footballer who played as a left or central defender. He spent all 25 seasons of his career at Serie A club Milan, before retiring at the age of 41 in 2009, becoming a symbol and a legend of the club...
(born 1968), Italian football (soccer) player - Paolo MonteroPaolo MonteroPaolo Rónald Montero Iglesias is a former Uruguayan footballer who played as a central defender or left back. He has been described as "skillful on the ball and calm under pressure", and a "wonderfully talented and intelligent footballer"...
(born 1971), Uruguayan football (soccer) player - Paolo NegroPaolo NegroPaolo Negro is a former Italian footballer. He could either play as a central defender or a right back.-Club career:...
(born 1972), Italian football (soccer) player - Paolo OrlandoniPaolo OrlandoniPaolo Orlandoni is an Italian footballer who plays as a goalkeeper. He is currently the third goalkeeper for Internazionale.-Career:...
(born 1972), Italian football (soccer) player - Paolo PoggiPaolo PoggiPaolo Poggi is a retired Italian professional football player.In the 2001/02 season, he set the record for the fastest goal scored in the Serie A, scoring 8 seconds after the starting whistle....
(born 1971), Italian football player - Paolo PucciPaolo PucciPaolo Pucci is an Italian freestyle swimmer and water polo player who competed in the 1956 Summer Olympics.In 1956, he was eliminated in the semi-finals of the 100 metre freestyle competition. Also he was a member of the Italian water polo team which finished fourth in the Olympic tournament...
(born 1933), Italian freestyle swimmer and water polo player - Paolo PuliciPaolo PuliciPaolo Pulici is a former Italian international footballer who played in the 1970s.During his career he played for A.C. Legnano , Torino F.C. , Udinese Calcio and A.C. Fiorentina . He also played 19 matches and scored 5 goals for the Italy national football team, and participated in two World Cups...
(born 1950), Italian football (soccer) player - Paolo RossiPaolo RossiPaolo Rossi is an Italian former football striker. In 1982, he led Italy to the 1982 FIFA World Cup title, scoring six goals to win the Golden Boot/top scorer honors, and the Golden Ball. After his performance at the 1982 FIFA World Cup he became a hero in the hearts of all Italians...
(born 1956), Italian football (soccer) player - Paolo SammarcoPaolo SammarcoPaolo Sammarco is an Italian football midfielder, currently playing for A.C. ChievoVerona on loan from U.C. Sampdoria.-Chievo:...
(born 1983), Italian football (soccer) player - Paolo SeppaniPaolo SeppaniPaolo Seppani is an Italian football defender. He currently without a club.He also plays for A.S. Roma, after having played the first half of the 2006/2007 season with Frosinone Calcio....
(born 1986), Italian football (soccer) player - Paolo StringaraPaolo StringaraPaolo Stringara is an Italian professional football coach and a former player. Currently, he manages Foggia.-External links:*...
(born 1962), Italian footballer, coach, and manager - Paolo Tagliavento (born 1972), Italian football referee
- Paolo TodeschiniPaolo TodeschiniPaolo Todeschini was an Italian professional footballer, who played as a midfielder, and football manager.- External links :* at MagliaRossonera.it * at FootballDatabase.eu...
(1920–1993), Italian professional footballer and football manager - Paolo VanoliPaolo VanoliPaolo Vanoli is a retired Italian footballer who played as a left back.-Club career:Vanoli, a journeyman, played for many clubs, including Parma and Fiorentina, having also two spells abroad: Scottish Premier League club Rangers in 2003-04, scoring once against Dundee, and lowly Akratitos FC...
(born 1972), Italian football (soccer) player - Paolo VernazzaPaolo VernazzaPaolo Vernazza is a retired English footballer.-Career:Vernazza started his career at Arsenal but struggled to break into the first team...
- Italian-English football (soccer, born 1979), player
Others
- Paolo AngioniPaolo AngioniPaolo Angioni is an Italian equestrian and Olympic champion. He won a team gold medal in eventing at the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo.-References:...
(born 1938), Italian equestrian and Olympic champion - Paolo BacchiniPaolo BacchiniPaolo Bacchini is an Italian figure skater. He is a six-time Italian national silver medalist and a three-time national bronze medalist....
(born 1985), Italian figure skater - Paolo BarillaPaolo BarillaPaolo Barilla is a former Formula One driver who raced for the Minardi team. Paolo is one of the heirs of the vast Barilla pasta empire.Barilla started racing in 1975 and won the Italian 100cc karting title in 1976...
(born 1961), Italian Formula One driver - Paolo BertolucciPaolo BertolucciPaolo Bertolucci is an Italian former tennis player, currently working as sport commentator for Italian Sky TV.Born at Forte dei Marmi, Bertolucci won the Davis Cup with Italy in 1976. His greatest success on tour was the victory at the 1977 Hamburg Masters, where he beat Manuel Orantes in the...
(born 1951), Italian tennis player - Paolo BettiniPaolo BettiniPaolo Bettini is an Italian former champion road racing cyclist, and the coach of the Italian national cycling team. Considered the best classics specialist of his generation, and probably one of the strongest of all times, he won gold medals in the 2004 Athens Olympics road race and in the 2006...
(born 1974), Italian cyclist - Paolo BossiniPaolo BossiniPaolo Bossini is an Italian breaststroke swimmer. He was European Champion in 2004, both short and long course in 200 m breaststroke...
(born 1985), Italian breaststroke swimmer - Paolo BugiaPaolo BugiaRamon Paolo V. Bugia is a professional basketball player in the Philippine Basketball Association who plays for the Rain or Shine Elasto Painters. He was drafted seventeenth overall by the Red Bull Barako in the 2005 PBA Draft.In his rookie year, He averaged 4.0 points per game and 2.6 rebounds...
(born 1981), basketball player - Paolo CamossiPaolo CamossiPaolo Camossi is an Italian triple jumper, best known for his gold medal at the 2001 World Indoor Championships.-Career:...
(born 1974), Italian triple jumper - Paolo CanèPaolo CanèPaolo Canè is a former tennis player from Italy.Canè turned professional in 1983. During his career, he won three top-level singles titles . He also won three tour doubles titles .Canè's career-high rankings were World No...
(born 1965), Italian tennis player - Paolo CasarsaPaolo CasarsaPaolo Casarsa is a male decathlete from Italy, who represented his native country at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece. A two-time national champion in the men's decathlon he set his personal best score on June 6, 2004 at a meet in Vienna, Austria...
(born 1975), Italian decathlete - Paolo Corallini, Italian aikido specialist
- Paolo Della BellaPaolo Della BellaPaolo Gerolamo Della Bella is a Swiss ice hockey goaltender.- Career :Della Bella played for the Swiss national team in four European and Junior Championships , and was elected the team's best player in 1994, 1995 and 1996...
(born 1977), Swiss hockey player - Paolo EspinoPaolo EspinoPaolo Espino , is an Panamanian professional baseball pitcher in the Cleveland Indians organization.Espino attended The Pendelton School in Bradenton, Florida and has played in minor league baseball since 2007....
(born 1987), professional baseball player - Paolo GiordanoPaolo GiordanoPaolo Giordano is an Italian writer who won the Premio Strega literary award with his first novel The Solitude of Prime Numbers.- Biography :...
(born 1982), Italian writer - Paolo HubaldePaolo HubaldeDean Paolo V. Hubalde , better known as Paolo Hubalde, is a Filipino professional basketball player who will play for the Shopinas.com Clickers. He is the son of one of the greatest shooters to ever play in the PBA, Freddie Hubalde...
(born 1981), Filipino basketball player - Paolo LorenziPaolo LorenziPaolo Lorenzi is an Italian professional tennis player. Lorenzi competes on the ATP Challenger Tour and the ATP World Tour, both in singles and doubles. He reached his highest ATP singles ranking, No. 83, on November 9, 2009, and his highest ATP doubles ranking, No. 241, on January 12, 2009...
(born 1981), Italian tennis player - Paolo MainoPaolo MainoPaolo Maino is an Italian professional football player. Currently, he plays for U.C. AlbinoLeffe.In 2010-11 he changed his shirt number from 55 to no.13.-External links:*...
(born 1989), Italian football player - Paolo MendozaPaolo MendozaPaolo Mendoza in Quezon City, Metro Manila, Philippines) is a Filipino professional basketball player. He last played in the Philippine Basketball Association for the Powerade Tigers. He was drafted by Sta...
(born 1978), Filipino basketball player - Paolo PileriPaolo PileriPaolo Pileri was an Italian Grand Prix motorcycle road racing World Champion.Born at Terni, he won the FIM 125cc world championship in 1975 as a member of the Morbidelli factory racing team. After retiring, he became a race team manager, guiding Loris Capirossi, Alex Barros and others...
(1944–2007), Italian Grand Prix motorcycle road racing World Champion - Paolo RobertoPaolo RobertoPaolo Roberto is a Swedish ex-boxer, actor, and TV host of partial Italian descent.-Outside boxing:...
(born 1969), Swedish boxer - Paolo SavoldelliPaolo SavoldelliPaolo Savoldelli is an Italian former road racing cyclist and winner of the 2002 and 2005 Giro d'Italia....
(born 1973), Italian cyclist - Paolo TiralongoPaolo TiralongoPaolo Tiralongo is an Italian professional road bicycle racer for UCI ProTour team .He joined Astana for the 2010 season, on a 2 year contract.- Palmares :1999* 1st, Triptique Ardennais Overall2001...
(born 1977), Italian road bicycle racer - Paolo TofoliPaolo TofoliPaolo Tofoli is an Italian volleyball player, standing at 188 cm.He played 342 times for the Italy national volleyball team. Tofoli was two time world champion in 1990 and 1994. He was also four times gold medal at the European Championship...
(born 1966), Italian volleyball player - Paolo VidozPaolo VidozPaolo Vidoz is a boxer from Italy, who won the Olympic bronze medal, twice won the bronze medal at the World Amateur Boxing Championships: 1997 and 1999 and also won a silver medal at the European Championships....
(born 1970), Italian boxer
Actors
- Connor PaoloConnor PaoloConnor Paolo is an American actor best known of his role as Eric van der Woodsen in The CW young-adult series Gossip Girl since 2007-2011.He became part of the two Oliver Stone films, World Trade Center and Alexander where he bagged his biggest break in Hollywood.He is currently playing Declan...
(born 1990), American actor - Paolo BallesterosPaolo BallesterosPaolo Ballesteros is a Filipino actor, TV host and model. He has appeared in films and several TV shows...
(born 1982), Filipino actor - Paolo BedionesPaolo BedionesPaolo Bediones is a Filipino commercial model, television host, journalist, newscaster, and radio announcer.Bediones started his career as a commercial model, and later transitioned to television show hosting. He is best known for hosting GMA Network's Extra Challenge and Survivor Philippines...
(born 1974), Filipino commercial model, television host, and DJ - Paolo BonacelliPaolo BonacelliPaolo Bonacelli is an Italian actor.He is best known for his performance as The Duke de Blangis in Pasolini's notorious Salò...
(born 1939), Italian actor - Paolo ContisPaolo ContisPaolo Enrico Contis , better known as Paolo Contis, is a Filipino-Italian actor who first appeared as a child actor in the ABS-CBN show Ang TV. In 2004 he transferred to GMA Network...
(born 1984), Italian-Filipino actor - Paolo IovannonePaolo IovannonePaolo I. is a Canadian singer/songwriter/producer. He has worked under the pseudonym Rocko T. Bello for the musical act Capital Sound.-Career:...
, Canadian actor & singer - Paolo KernahanPaolo KernahanPaolo Kernahan is a television news presenter in the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago.He was a reporter for Trinidad and Tobago Television for several years before moving to CCN TV6 to host the Morning Edition programme...
, Trinidad & Tobago news anchor - Paolo Marinou-BlancoPaolo Marinou-BlancoPaolo Marinou-Blanco is a film director and screenwriter.Born in New York City to a Greek mother and Portuguese father, Paolo was raised in several countries, mainly in Europe. He studied Philosophy and History at the London School of Economics, and French Literature at University College London...
, film director and screenwriter - Paolo MontalbánPaolo MontalbánPaolo Montalban is a Filipino-American actor and singer best known for his performance in ABC/Disney's telepic of Rodgers and Hammerstein's Cinderella as Prince Christopher, opposite Brandy as Cinderella....
(born 1973), Filipino-American actor & singer - Paolo StoppaPaolo StoppaPaolo Stoppa was an Italian actor and dubber.Born in Rome, he began as a stage actor in 1927 in the theater in Rome and began acting in films in 1932...
(1906–1988), Italian actor and dubber - Paolo VillaggioPaolo VillaggioPaolo Villaggio is an Italian actor, writer, director and comedian.-Life:Villaggio was born in Genoa in 1932. His jobs included being a clerk for the Italsider steel major which inspired his character "Il ragioniere Fantozzi Ugo", "the accountant Ugo Fantozzi"...
(born 1932), Italian actor - Paolo VirzìPaolo VirzìPaolo Virzì is a film director, writer and producer. He is one of the most acclaimed storytellers for the screen and is considered to be one of the major heirs of the Italian-style comedy film tradition.-Biography:...
(born 1964), Italian film screenwriter and director
Artists
- Paolo Cagliari, also known as Paolo Veronese - Italian Renaissance painter
- Paolo UccelloPaolo UccelloPaolo Uccello , born Paolo di Dono, was an Italian painter and a mathematician who was notable for his pioneering work on visual perspective in art. Giorgio Vasari in his book Lives of the Artists wrote that Uccello was obsessed by his interest in perspective and would stay up all night in his...
(1397–1475), Italian painter - Paolo di Giovanni FeiPaolo di Giovanni FeiPaolo di Giovanni Fei was a painter of the Sienese school.He came to Siena from San Quirico, Castelvecchio, held public positions in Siena from 1369 and was first mentioned in the Sienese register of painters in 1389. His earliest signed and dated work is of 1381...
(1345–1411), Artist - Paolo VerrucciPaolo VerrucciPaolo Verrucci is an Italian film colorist.Starting work at Cinecittà Studios in Rome in December 1993 at the age of 17 years old, he began in different departments of the laboratory...
, Film colorist
Musicians
- Paolo AchenzaPaolo AchenzaPaolo Achenza is an Italian jazz pianist from Bari and was one of the first Italian artists involved with the acid jazz scene. In the second half of the 1990s, he formed the Paolo Achenza Trio with Stefano Valenzano and Massimiliano Ingrosso to make various albums and singles.In 2004, he joined the...
, Italian jazz musician - Paolo Agostini, Italian composer
- Paolo BellasioPaolo BellasioPaolo Bellasio was an Italian composer and organist of the late Renaissance. He is generally considered to be a member of the Roman School, though unusually for the group he seems to have written only madrigals....
(1554–1594), Italian composer - Paolo ContePaolo ContePaolo Conte is an Italian singer, pianist, composer, and lawyer notable for his grainy, resonant voice, his colourful and dreamy compositions and his wistful, sometimes melancholic...
(born 1937), Italian musician - Paolo FresuPaolo FresuPaolo Fresu is a trumpet and flugelhorn jazz player, as well as an arranger of music, and music composer.-Career:Fresu was born in Berchidda, Sardinia. He picked up the trumpet at the age of 11, and played in the band Bernardo de Muro in his home town Berchidda...
(born 1961), Italian jazz musician - Paolo GregolettoPaolo GregolettoPaolo Gregoletto is an Italian-American bass player for the band Trivium. Gregoletto resides in Pompano Beach, Florida. He is Italian on his fathers side and American on his mothers side...
(born 1985), Italian-American bassist - Paolo NutiniPaolo NutiniPaolo Giovanni Nutini is a Scottish singer, songwriter and musician from Paisley. His father is of Italian descent, from Barga, Tuscany, although both his parents are Scottish, his family having been in Scotland for three generations....
(born 1987), Scottish singer-songwriter - Paolo PandolfoPaolo PandolfoPaolo Pandolfo is an Italian virtuoso player, composer, and teacher of music for the viola da gamba.He began his studies as a double bass and guitar player, becoming a skilled performer of jazz and popular music. In the mid-late 1970s he studied viola da gamba at the Rome Conservatory...
, Italian composer - Paolo QuagliatiPaolo QuagliatiPaolo Quagliati was an Italian composer of the early Baroque era and a member of the Roman School of composers...
(c. 1550–1628), Italian composer - Paolo RavagliaPaolo RavagliaPaolo Ravaglia is an Italian clarinet player and performer.-Biography:Versatile and eclectic Italian clarinet player, renowned for the wideness of his repertory and the originality of his musical projects...
, Italian musician - Paolo da FirenzePaolo da FirenzePaolo da Firenze was an Italian composer and music theorist of the late 14th and early 15th centuries, the transition from the musical Medieval era to the Renaissance...
(1355–1436), Italian musician - Paolo VirchiPaolo VirchiPaolo Virchi was an Italian composer and instrumentalist. He was born in Brescia, and his father was Girolamo Virchi, an instrument maker. He joined the court of Alfonso II d'Este between 1579 and 1580. On the court rolls he is referred to as a singer, but in his publications he refers to himself...
(1551–1610), Italian composer & instrumentalist
Writers
- Paolo BacigalupiPaolo BacigalupiPaolo Tadini Bacigalupi is an American science fiction and fantasy writer.He has won the Hugo, Nebula, Compton Crook, Theodore Sturgeon, and Michael L. Printz awards, and was nominated for the National Book Award...
, Italian science fiction writer - Paolo FerrariPaolo FerrariPaolo Ferrari , Italian dramatist, was born at Modena. His numerous works, chiefly comedies, and all marked by a fresh and piquant style, are the finest product of the modern Italian drama. After producing some minor pieces, in 1852 he made his reputation as a playwright with Goldoni e le sue...
(1822–1889), Italian dramatist - Paolo GiovioPaolo Gioviothumb|Paolo Giovio.thumb|Monument to Paolo Giovo by [[Francesco da Sangallo]], in [[San Lorenzo di Firenze|San Lorenzo]] Basilica, [[Florence]].Paolo Giovio was an Italian physician, historian and biographer, and prelate.He is chiefly known as the author of a celebrated work of...
(1483–1552), Italian historian - Paolo Emiliano GiudiciPaolo Emiliano Giudici-Biography:His History of Italian Literature brought him to the front, and in 1848 he became professor of Italian literature at Pisa, but after a few months was deprived of the chair on account of his liberal views in politics...
(1812–1872), Italian writer - Paolo GiacomettiPaolo GiacomettiPaolo Giacometti was an Italian dramatist born at Novi Ligure. He was educated in law at Genoa, but at the age of twenty had some success with his play Rosilda and then devoted himself to the stage...
(1816–1882), Italian dramatist - Paolo ManaloPaolo ManaloPaolo Manalo is a Filipino poet who teaches at the College of Arts and Letters, University of the Philippines. For a time he served as the literary editor of the Philippines Free Press....
, Filipino poet - Paolo SorrentinoPaolo SorrentinoPaolo Sorrentino is an Italian film director and screenwriter. He was born in Naples.Sorrentino's first film as screenwriter, Polvere di Napoli, was released in 1998. He began directing several short movies, like L'amore non ha confini, in 1998, and La notte lunga, in 2001...
(born 1970), Italian film director & screenwriter
Military officers
- Paolo Di AvitabilePaolo Di AvitabileGeneral Paolo Crescenzo Martino Avitabile was an Italian soldier, mercenary and adventurer. A peasant's son born in Agerola, near Amalfi in Italy, he served in the Neapolitan militia during the Napoleonic wars. After Waterloo he drifted east like many other adventurous soldiers...
, Neapolitan general - Paolo Thaon di RevelPaolo Thaon di RevelPaolo Emilio Thaon di Revel, 1st Duca del Mare was an Italian admiral of the Royal Italian Navy during World War I and later a politician....
(1859–1948), Italian Navy Admiral
Politicians
- Paolo Lucio AnafestoPaolo Lucio AnafestoPaoluccio or Paolo Lucio Anafesto was the reputed first doge of Venice. A noble of Eraclea, then the primary city of the region, he was elected in 697 as an official over the entire lagoon that surrounded Venice, both to put an end to the conflicts between the various tribunes who until then had...
, an Italian politician - Paolo BolliniPaolo BolliniPaolo Bollini is a politician in San Marino. He is a member of the San Marinese Socialist Party.He has been a captain-regent twice, from October 1998 until April 1999 and from April 2004 until October 2004.-References:...
(born 1960), San Marinese politician - Paolo BoselliPaolo BoselliPaolo Boselli was an Italian politician who served as the 34th Prime Minister of Italy during World War I.Boselli was born in Savona, Liguria....
(1838–1932), Italian Prime Minister - Paolo BorsellinoPaolo BorsellinoPaolo Borsellino was an Italian anti-Mafia magistrate who was killed by a Mafia car bomb in Palermo, less than two months after his fellow anti-Mafia magistrate Giovanni Falcone had been assassinated....
(1940–1992), Italian anti-Mafia magistrate - Paolo BustiPaolo BustiPaolo Busti, or Paul Busti , was the principal agent of the Holland Land Company from 1800 until his death. Busti was born in Milan, Italy and died in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania....
(1749–1824), Italian magistrate - Paolo CostaPaolo CostaPaolo Costa is an Italian Member of the European Parliament. He was elected on the Olive Tree ticket and sits with the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe group....
(born 1943), Italian parliamentarian - Paolo De CastroPaolo De CastroPaolo De Castro is an Italian politician, and former Italian Minister of Agriculture, Food and Forestry Policies. In 2009 he was elected to the European Parliament, and currently serves as chair of the parliament's Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development.He has also served as professor of...
(born 1958), Italian politician - Paolo FerreroPaolo FerreroPaolo Ferrero is an Italian politician, member of the Communist Refoundation Party and former Italian Minister of Social Solidarity in the Prodi II Cabinet.-Career:...
(born 1960), Italian politician - Paolo GentiloniPaolo GentiloniPaolo Gentiloni is an Italian politician, member of the Daisy—Democracy is Freedom party and currently the Italian Minister of Communications.-Biography:He is a professional journalist and has a degree in political sciences....
(born 1954), Italian politician - Paolo GuzzantiPaolo GuzzantiPaolo Guzzanti is an Italian journalist and politician. He was previously a member of the Italian Socialist Party.-Biography:Born in Rome, he is the nephew of Elio Guzzanti and father to actors Corrado, Sabina and Caterina....
(born 1940), Italian journalist & politician - Paolo Giordano I OrsiniPaolo Giordano I OrsiniPaolo Giordano I Orsini was the first duke of Bracciano from 1560. He was a member of the Rome family of the Orsini.-Biography:...
(1541–1585), Grand Duke of Italy - Paolo ParutaPaolo Paruta-Biography:He was born at Venice of a Luccan family. After studying at Padua he served the Republic of Venice in various political capacities, including that of secretary to one of the Venetian delegates at the Council of Ten...
(1540–1598), Italian politician - Paolo Oss MazzuranaPaolo Oss MazzuranaPaolo Oss Mazzurana was an Italian statesman, and most importantly the most famous mayor of his native city, Trento. His tenure was characterized by progressive economic policies that impacted Trento's commercial sector and eventually led to its independence as a state.-History:Mazzurana is...
(1833–1895), Italian politician - Paolo Cirino PomicinoPaolo Cirino PomicinoPaolo Cirino Pomicino is an Italian politician, and was elected to the Italian Chamber of Deputies in the 2006 General election representing the Christian Democracy for Autonomies.-Biography:Cirino Pomicino was born in Naples...
(born 1939), Italian politician - Paolo Emilio TavianiPaolo Emilio TavianiPaolo Emilio Taviani was an Italian political leader, economist and historian of the career of Christopher Columbus....
(1912–2001), Italian politician - Paolo RenierPaolo RenierPaolo Renier was a Venetian statesman, the 119th, and penultimate, Doge of Venice. He was considered a good orator and tactician, and served as ambassador to Constantinople and to Vienna. His election as Doge was unpopular, and he was the subject of numerous menacing letters at the time...
(1710–1789), penultimate Doge of Venice - Paolo TrevesPaolo TrevesBorn in Milan in 1908, son of the well-known Italian socialist Claudio Treves . Paolo Treves worked for the Milanese socialist paper La Giustizia in the early 1920s and studied under Benedetto Croce, with whom he corresponded until the outbreak of war despite the latter's tacit support for Benito...
, Italian politician - Paolo TroubetzkoyPaolo TroubetzkoyPrince Paolo or Paul Troubetzkoy was an artist and a sculptor, of Russia's Troubetzkoy princely family, who was described by G.B. Shaw as "the most astonishing sculptor of modern times".-Life:He worked in Russia, America, England and Italy...
(1866–1938), Italian politician
Religious figures
- Paolo MarellaPaolo MarellaPaolo Marella was an Italian Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. He served in the Roman Curia following a career as a delegate of the Holy See, and was elevated to the cardinalate in 1959.-Biography:...
, Cardinal (1895–1984), Roman Catholic Church - Paolo RomeoPaolo RomeoPaolo Romeo STL JCD is the current Cardinal Archbishop of Palermo. He was appointed by Pope Benedict XVI on 19 December 2006.Romeo was the fifth of nine children...
, Archbishop (born 1938), Palermo - Paolo Scolari, also known as Pope Clement III
Architects
- Paolo FarinatiPaolo FarinatiPaolo Farinati was an Italian painter of the Mannerist style, active in mainly in his native Verona, but also in Mantua and Venice....
(c. 1520–c. 1600), Italian architect - Paolo LabisiPaolo LabisiPaolo Labisi was an 18th century Sicilian architect. He worked principally in the Baroque style. His most notable works are in the Sicilian town of Noto, which was completely rebuilt on a new site following the earthquake of 1693. Labisi's work later came to be known under the banner of Sicilian...
, Italian architect - Paolo SoleriPaolo SoleriPaolo Soleri is an Italian-American architect. He established Arcosanti and the educational Cosanti Foundation. Soleri is a lecturer in the College of Architecture at Arizona State University and a National Design Award recipient in 2006.-Early life:Soleri was born in Turin, Italy...
(born 1919), Italian architect - Paolo MartinelliPaolo MartinelliPaolo Martinelli is an engineer best known for his position as head of Scuderia Ferrari's Engine Department from 1994 to 2006.-Career:...
(born 1952), Italian engineer - Paolo PortoghesiPaolo PortoghesiPaolo Portoghesi is an Italian architect, theorist, historian and professor of architecture at the University La Sapienza in Rome...
(born 1931), Italian architect
Astronomers
- Paolo ChiavennaPaolo ChiavennaPaolo Chiavenna is an Italian astronomer who is active at the Sormano Astronomical Observatory in the north Italian province of Como. The observatory was founded in 1987 and is a member of the GIA , an Italian association of amateur astronomers who specialize in the observation of minor bodies...
, Italian astronomer - Paolo MaffeiPaolo MaffeiPaolo Maffei was an Italian astronomer and science writer.He was born in Foligno and he has been former director of the Catania Observatory and an astronomer at Arcetri, Bologna, Asiago and Hamburg...
(1926–2009), Italian astronomer - Paolo PadovaniPaolo PadovaniPaolo Padovani is an Italian astronomer working at the European Southern Observatory, specializing in the study of Active galactic nuclei including the study of quasars and blazars, evolution and multifrequency studies and extragalactic backgrounds.In 2004 he and several other astronomers...
, Italian astronomer
Mathematicians
- Paolo CasatiPaolo CasatiPaolo Casati was an Italian Jesuit mathematician. Born in Piacenza to a Milanese family, he joined the Jesuits in 1634. After completing his mathematical and theological studies, he moved to Rome, where he assumed the position of professor at the Collegio Romano...
(1617–1707), Italian mathematician - Paolo FrisiPaolo FrisiPaolo Frisi was an Italian mathematician and astronomer.-Biography:Born in Melegnano, Frisi was educated at the local Barnabite monastery and afterwards in that of Padua...
(1728–1784), Italian mathematician & astronomer - Paolo RuffiniPaolo RuffiniPaolo Ruffini was an Italian mathematician and philosopher.By 1788 he had earned university degrees in philosophy, medicine/surgery, and mathematics...
(1765–1822), Italian mathematician & philosopher - Paolo dal Pozzo ToscanelliPaolo dal Pozzo ToscanelliPaolo dal Pozzo Toscanelli was an Italian mathematician, astronomer, and cosmographer.-Life:Paolo dal Pozzo Toscanelli was born in Florence, the son of the physician Dominic Toscanelli. Educated in mathematics at the University of Padua, he left in 1424 with the title of a doctor of...
(1397–1482), Italian mathematician & astronomer
Scientists
- Paolo BocconePaolo BocconePaolo Silvio Boccone was an Italian botanist from Sicily, whose interest in plants had been sparked at a young age...
(1633–1704), Italian botanist - Paolo GoriniPaolo GoriniPaolo Gorini was an Italian scientist.-Biography:Born in Pavia, he moved to Lodi in 1834 as physics lecturer in the local Lyceum. Here he achieved noteworthy discoveries about organic substances....
(1813–1881), Italian physicist - Paolo MantegazzaPaolo MantegazzaPaolo Mantegazza was a prominent Italian neurologist, physiologist and anthropologist, noted for his experimental investigation of coca leaves into its effects on the human psyche. He was also an author of fiction.-Life:...
(1831–1910), Italian neurologist - Paolo MatthiaePaolo MatthiaePaolo Matthiae is an Italian archaeologist.He was Professor of Archaeology and History of Art of the Ancient Near East in the University of Rome La Sapienza; he has been Director of the Ebla Expedition since 1963—in fact, its discoverer—and has published many articles and books about...
(born 1940), Italian archaeologist - Paolo ParutaPaolo Paruta-Biography:He was born at Venice of a Luccan family. After studying at Padua he served the Republic of Venice in various political capacities, including that of secretary to one of the Venetian delegates at the Council of Ten...
(1540–1598), ' aka Fra Paolo - Italian scientist - Paolo SaviPaolo SaviPaolo Savi , was an Italian geologist and ornithologist.Savi was born in Pisa, son of Gaetano Savi, professor of Botany at the University of Pisa. The younger Savi became assistant-lecturer on zoology at the university in 1820, was appointed professor in 1823, and lectured also on geology...
(1798–1871), Italian geologist
Others
- Paolo BoiPaolo BoiPaolo Boi was an Italian chess player. He is considered to have been one of the greatest chess players of the 16th century.He was born in Syracuse, Sicily and died in Naples.-External links:...
(1528–1598), Italian chess champion - Paolo Nespoli, Italian astronaut
- Paolo Santi (1989-Present) Electronic and Electrical Engineer from Balloch, Scotland.
Fictional characters
- Paolo Valisari, a teenage pop musician in The Lizzie McGuire MovieThe Lizzie McGuire MovieThe Lizzie McGuire Movie is a 2003 Walt Disney Pictures comedy film based on the Disney Channel show Lizzie McGuire which was released on May 2, 2003, by Walt Disney Pictures, it was the first Disney Channel series to have a movie for Walt Disney Pictures. The film was directed by Jim Fall with...
played by Yani GellmanYani GellmanYani Gellman is an American film and television actor.Gellman was born in Miami, Florida to a Canadian father and an Australian mother; he was named after a family friend, writer Jan Joors... - Paolo (Dune), a character from the Dune universe
- Paolo, a hunky Italian neighbor appearing in several Friends Season One episodes as Rachel's boyfriend
- Paolo the pink elephant, a possible resident in the 2002 video game Animal CrossingAnimal CrossingThe Animal Crossing games have garnered positive response. The first three games are among the best-selling for their respective consoles. Animal Crossing has sold 2.321 million copies; Wild World 10.79 million; and City Folk 3.38 million...
for Nintendo GameCube
Places
- San PaoloSan PaoloSan Paolo is a comune in the Province of Brescia, in the Italian region Lombardy....
- Stadio San PaoloStadio San PaoloStadio San Paolo is a multi-purpose stadium in the western suburb of Fuorigrotta in Naples, Italy, and is the third largest football stadium in Italy after the San Siro and Stadio Olimpico. For the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome, it hosted the football preliminaries. It is currently used mostly for...
, a 1959 multi-purpose stadium in a suburb of Naples, Italy
See also
- Paulus (disambiguation)
- PauloPauloPaulo is Portuguese masculine given name equivalent to English Paul. It may refer to:People:*Paolo Maria Abbiati, Italian engraver*Paulo Almeida, Brazilian footballer*Paulo André Cren Benini, , Brazilian football defender...
- Paolo Rossi (disambiguation)Paolo Rossi (disambiguation)Paolo Rossi may refer to several Italian people:*Paolo Rossi : politician, former president of Constitutional Court and Minister of Education.*Paolo Rossi : philosopher and historian....