List of Italian Americans

This is a list of notable Italian Americans.

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Anarchists

Architects

Artists

Comic artists, cartoonists, illustrators
  • Brian Azzarello - comic book writer
  • Joseph Barbera (1911–2006) - animator, cartoon artist, storyboard artist, director, producer, and co-founder, together with William Hanna, of Hanna-Barbera
  • Timothy D. Bellavia (born 1971) - children's illustrator, author and founder of the We Are All The Same Inside - Sage doll-making workshop
  • Ivan Brunetti (born 1967) - cartoonist and comics author
  • John Buscema (1927–2002) - comic-book artist and one of the mainstays of Marvel Comics during its 1960s and 1970s ascendancy into an industry leader and its subsequent expansion to a major pop culture conglomerate
  • Greg Capullo (born 1962) - comic book artist
  • Anthony Flamini (born 1978) comic book writer
  • Frank Frazetta (1928–2010) - one of the world's most influential fantasy and science fiction artists
  • Bill Gallo (1922–2011) - cartoonist and newspaperman
  • Dick Giordano (1932–2010) - comic book artist and editor
  • Frank Giacoia (1925–1989) - comic book artist
  • Carmine Infantino (1925–2013) - comic book artist and editor who was a major force in the Silver Age of Comic Books
  • Walter Lantz (1900–1994) - cartoonist and animator, founded the Walter Lantz Studio, created Woody Woodpecker
  • Bob Montana (1920–1975) - comic strip artist who created the characters that launched Archie comics
  • Joe Orlando (1927–1998) - illustrator, writer, editor and cartoonist
  • Jimmy Palmiotti - writer and artist of various comics, games and film
  • Leo Politi (1908–1996) - artist and author who wrote and illustrated some 20 children's books
  • John Romita, Sr. (born 1930) - comic book artist known for his work on Marvel Comics' The Amazing Spider-Man
  • Don Rosa (born 1951) - comic book artist for Disney comics
  • Eric Stefani (born 1967) - pop musician, former Simpsons animator, and Grammy-nominated composer and writer
  • Jim Valentino (born 1952) - writer, penciler and editor of comic books
  • Gerard Way (born 1977) - comic book writer; frontman of the American rock band My Chemical Romance

Digital artists and illustrators

Painters

Photographers
  • Lynsey Addario (born 1973) - photojournalist known for her coverage of women in war-torn countries.
  • Severo Antonelli (1907–1995) - legendary figure in Philadelphia Italian American history and the subject of one of the largest ever one-man shows at the Smithsonian Institution
  • Franco A. "Frank" Barsotti (1937–2012) - photographer and professor emeritus from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago
  • Justin Guariglia (born 1974) - photographer and contributing editor to National Geographic Traveler, and a regular contributor to Smithsonian Magazine
  • Isa Leshko (born 1971) - artist/photographer and author I'd “Allowed to Grow Old: Portraits of Elderly Animals from Farm Sanctuaries” published by the University of Chicago Press in 2019
  • Luis Marden (1913–2003) - photographer, explorer, writer, filmmaker, diver, navigator, and linguist who worked for National Geographic magazine
  • Nick Saglimbeni - photographer 3D
  • Francesco Scavullo (1921–2004) - fashion photographer known for his work on the covers of Cosmopolitan magazine and his celebrity portraits
  • Mario Sorrenti (born 1971) - fashion photographer

Sculptors

Business

Criminals

Entertainers

Actors

Food

Inventors

Jurists

Law enforcement figures

Journalism (print and multimedia)

Military

Politicians

Members of Congress

Minister

Diplomats

Governors and former governors

Mayors and former mayors
  • Hugh Addonizio (1914–1981) - Mayor of Newark, New Jersey, 1962–1970
  • Joseph Alioto (1916–1998) - Mayor of San Francisco, 1968–1976
  • Thomas L. J. D'Alesandro, Jr. (1903–1987) - Mayor of Baltimore, Maryland, 1947–1959; prior to being mayor, he was a representative from Maryland's 3rd congressional district (1939–47); father of U.S. Representative Nancy Pelosi
  • Luigi Boria (b. 1958) - Mayor of Doral, Florida, (2012-2016). He was born in Caracas, Venezuela.
  • Richard Caliguiri (1931–1988) - Mayor of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 1978–1988
  • Anthony Celebrezze (1910–1998) - Mayor of Cleveland, Ohio, 1953–1962
  • Vincent Cianci, Jr (b. 1941) - Mayor of Providence, Rhode Island, 1975–1984 and 1991–2002
  • David Cicilline (b. 1961) - Mayor of Providence, Rhode Island, 2003-; Jewish mother
  • Bill de Blasio (b. 1961) - Mayor of New York City (2014–present).
  • John DeStefano, Jr. (b. 1955) - Mayor of New Haven, Connecticut, since 1993
  • Frank Fasi (b. 1920) - Mayor of Honolulu, Hawaii, 1969–1981 and 1984–1994
  • Eric Garcetti (b. 1971) - Mayor of Los Angeles, California, since 2013.
  • Philip Giordano (b. 1963) - Mayor of Waterbury, Connecticut, 1995–2001 when was arrested for municipal corruption and convicted of sex offender. He was born in Caracas, Venezuela.
  • Rudolph Giuliani (b. 1944) - Mayor of New York, 1994–2001[3]
  • Dick A. Greco (b. 1933) - Mayor of Tampa, Florida, 1967–1974 and 1995–2003
  • Pam Iorio (b. 1959) - Mayor of Tampa, Florida, since 2003
  • Vincent R. Impellitteri (1900–1987) - Mayor of New York, 1950–1953
  • Fiorello La Guardia (1882–1947) - Mayor of New York, 1934–1945; both parents Italian-born; father lapsed Catholic; mother Jewish
  • Anthony M. Masiello (b. 1947) - Mayor of Buffalo, New York, 1994–2005
  • Thomas Menino (1942–2014) - Mayor of Boston, Massachusetts, 1993–2014
  • Robert Maestri (1899–1974) - Mayor of New Orleans, Louisiana, 1936–1946
  • George Moscone (1929–1978) - Mayor of San Francisco, 1976–1978
  • Frank Rizzo (1920–1991) - Mayor of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1972–1980
  • Angelo Rossi (1878–1948) - Mayor of San Francisco, 1931–1944
  • Victor Schiro (1904–1992) - Mayor of New Orleans, Louisiana, 1961–1970
  • Frank A. Sedita (1907–1975) - Mayor of Buffalo, New York 1958–1961, 1966–1973

Prelates

Cardinals
  • Joseph Louis Bernardin (1928-1996) - Archbishop of Cincinnati, Archbishop of Chicago
  • Anthony Joseph Bevilacqua (1923–2012) - served as Bishop of Pittsburgh and Archbishop of Philadelphia
  • Daniel Nicholas DiNardo (born 1949) - Archbishop of Galveston-Houston
  • Justin Francis Rigali (born 1935) - Archbishop of Philadelphia

Scientists

Academics

Sports
Main article: List of Italian Americans in sports

Writers

Italian Americans who were first in their field of achievement

Italian Americans not otherwise categorized

See also

References
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