Giovanni

People

• Pope John XVIII, whose given name was Giovanni Fasano
• Pope Gelasius II, whose given name was Giovanni Coniulo
• Pope John Paul II, known in Italian language as Giovanni Paolo II
• Giovanni Adamo, an Italian violinist
• Giovanni Agnelli, Italian entrepreneur, who founded Fiat car manufacturing in 1899
• Giovanni Arnolfini, a merchant from Lucca
• Giovanni Becatti, an Italian archaeologist
• Giovanni Bononcini, an Italian Baroque composer and cellist
• Giovanni Boccaccio, an Italian Renaissance writer
• Giovanni Boldini, an Italian painter
• Giovanni Bosco, an Italian saint
• Giovanni Csermanek, later János Kádár, Hungarian communist leader
• Giovanni da Verrazzano, an Italian explorer
• Giovanni de Macque, late Renaissance Franco-Flemish composer
• Giovanni di Giovanni, an Italian youth executed for practising sodomy
• Giovanni Facchini, an Italian economist
• Giovanni Giacometti, a Swiss painter
• Giovanni Gieco, an American actor.
• Giovanni Gozzadini, an Italian archaeologist
• Giovanni Papini, an Italian journalist, essayist, literary critic, poet, and novelist
• Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, an Italian philosopher
• Giovanni Ribisi, American actor
• Giovanni Salvatore Abruzzese, an Italian-American novelist
• Giovani dos Santos, a Mexican football player
• Giovanni Schiaparelli, an Italian astronomer
• Giovanni Silva de Oliveira, usually known as Giovanni, Brazilian soccer player
• Giovanni Semerano, an Italian philologist
• Giovanni Trapattoni, an Italian football coach and former player
• Giovanni Visconti, an Italian Roman Catholic cardinal
• Aria Giovanni, model and adult film actress, Penthouse Pet for the month of September 2000
• Joy Giovanni, actress and former WWE Diva
• Nikki Giovanni, American poet, activist and author

Fiction

• Don Giovanni, an opera by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, based on the legend of Don Juan
• Giovanni (Pokémon), boss of Team Rocket in the fictional world of Pokémon.
• The Giovanni, a group of vampires in Vampire: The Masquerade/World of Darkness roleplay and video game
• Giovanni's Room, a novel by James Baldwin

See also

• Geovany Soto, Puerto Rican baseball player
• Giovanni Battista
• Geovanni, Brazilian soccer player
• Giovani dos Santos, Mexican soccer player