Lists of Italian Americans


This is a list of notable Italian Americans.

Anarchists

  • Luigi Galleani
  • Arturo Giovannitti - union leader and poet
  • Nicola Sacco - defendant in Sacco and Vanzetti case
  • Bartolomeo Vanzetti - defendant in Sacco and Vanzetti case
  • Carlo Tresca - newspaper editor, orator, and labor organizer. Leader of the Industrial Workers of the World during the 1910s.

    Architects

  • Vito Acconci
  • Pietro Belluschi
  • Giorgio Cavaglieri
  • Mario J. Ciampi
  • Neil Denari
  • Eugene De Rosa
  • Romaldo Giurgola
  • Michael Manfredi
  • Rosaria Piomelli
  • George Ranalli
  • Mario Salvadori
  • Lawrence Scarpa
  • Ricardo Scofidio
  • Paolo Soleri
  • Robert Venturi
  • Peter Marino

    Artists

Comic artists, cartoonists, illustrators

  • Brian Azzarello - comic book writer
  • Joseph Barbera - animator, cartoon artist, storyboard artist, director, producer, and co-founder, together with William Hanna, of Hanna-Barbera
  • Timothy D. Bellavia - children's illustrator, author and founder of the We Are All The Same Inside - Sage doll-making workshop
  • Ivan Brunetti - cartoonist and comics author
  • Joe Pesci - Italian American actor and musician
  • John Buscema - 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 - comic book artist
  • Anthony Flamini - comic book writer
  • Frank Frazetta - one of the world's most influential fantasy and science fiction artists
  • Dick Giordano - comic book artist and editor
  • Frank Giacoia - comic book artist
  • Carmine Infantino - comic book artist and editor who was a major force in the Silver Age of Comic Books
  • Walter Lantz - cartoonist and animator, founded the Walter Lantz Studio, created Woody Woodpecker
  • Bob Montana - comic strip artist who created the characters that launched Archie comics
  • Joe Orlando - illustrator, writer, editor and cartoonist
  • Jimmy Palmiotti - writer and artist of various comics, games and film
  • Leo Politi - artist and author who wrote and illustrated some 20 children's books
  • Don Rico - comic book writer-artist, paperback novelist, screenwriter and wood engraver; co-created the Marvel Comics character Black Widow with Stan Lee
  • John Romita Jr. - comic artist best known for his extensive work for Marvel Comics from the 1970s to the 2010s
  • John Romita, Sr. - comic book artist known for his work on Marvel Comics' The Amazing Spider-Man
  • Don Rosa - comic book artist for Disney comics
  • Eric Stefani - pop musician, former Simpsons animator, and Grammy-nominated composer and writer
  • Jim Valentino - writer, penciler and editor of comic books
  • Gerard Way - comic book writer; frontman of the American rock band My Chemical Romance

    Digital artists and illustrators

  • Ashley Biden - founder of the fashion company Livelihood, daughter of Joe and Jill Biden
  • Louise Fili - graphic designer, 2014 American Institute of Graphic Arts Medalist
  • Fred Marcellino - illustrator

    Painters

  • John Balossi - painter and sculptor
  • Edward E. Boccia - painter, teacher and poet
  • Alfred D. Crimi - muralist and painter
  • Ettore DeGrazia - painter, best known for American Southwest subjects
  • Robert De Niro, Sr. - abstract expressionist, father of actor Robert De Niro, Jr.
  • Sheila Giolitti - painter and art dealer
  • Robert Longo
  • Nicola Monachesi painter believed to have painted the earliest frescos in America
  • Carla Carli Mazzucato - modern expressionist painter
  • Tony Sisti - painter and boxer
  • Frank Stella - painter and printmaker
  • Joseph Stella - futurist painter known for his depictions of industrial America

    Photographers

  • Lynsey Addario - photojournalist known for her coverage of women in war-torn countries
  • Severo Antonelli - 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 - photographer and professor emeritus from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago
  • Justin Guariglia - photographer and contributing editor to National Geographic Traveler, and a regular contributor to Smithsonian Magazine
  • Isa Leshko - artist/photographer and author of Allowed to Grow Old: Portraits of Elderly Animals from Farm Sanctuaries published by the University of Chicago Press in 2019
  • Luis Marden - photographer, explorer, writer, filmmaker, diver, navigator, and linguist who worked for National Geographic magazine
  • Nick Saglimbeni - 3D photographer
  • Francesco Scavullo - fashion photographer known for his work on the covers of Cosmopolitan magazine and his celebrity portraits
  • Mario Sorrenti - fashion photographer

    Sculptors

  • Vincent Cavallaro
  • Mario Dal Fabbro
  • Jasper D'Ambrosi
  • John DeAndrea
  • Joe De Santis
  • Arturo Di Modica
  • Mark Di Suvero
  • Virginio Ferrari
  • Thomas Gaetano LoMedico
  • Costantino Nivola
  • Corrado Parducci
  • Piccirilli Brothers
  • Italo Scanga - neo-Dadaist

    Business

  • Edward J. DeBartolo Sr.- businessman
  • Giuseppe Mario Bellanca - aviation pioneer, airplane designer and builder
  • Paul Busti - Holland Land Company Agent General
  • Jack Dorsey - co-founder of Twitter, Inc. and Block, Inc.
  • Roger Enrico - Entrepreneur who is best known for his lengthy service as CEO of PepsiCo
  • Fortune Gallo - Opera impresario
  • Amadeo Giannini - Bank of America president
  • Lee Iacocca - As Ford Motor Company executive developed the Ford Mustang in the 1960s, and then revived the Chrysler Corporation as its CEO during the 1980s
  • Orra E. Monnette - Bank of America, Los Angeles founder
  • Tony Roma - founder of Tony Roma's restaurants
  • Alberto Sangiovanni-Vincentelli, computer engineer. Co-founded Cadence Design Systems and Synopsys

    Criminals

  • Salvatore Briguglio - former mobster, one of the prime suspects in the disappearance of Jimmy Hoffa
  • Al Capone, "Scarface" - famous mobster
  • Michael Franzese - former mobster
  • Santino William Legan - perpetrator of the Gilroy Garlic festival shooting

    Entertainers

Actors

Food

  • Mario Batali - chef
  • Joe Bastianich - chef and television personality
  • Lidia Bastianich - chef and television personality
  • Hector Boyardee - famous for his Chef Boyardee brand of food products
  • Caesar Cardini - creator of the Caesar salad
  • Michael Chiarello - celebrity chef specializing in Italian-influenced California cuisine
  • Tom Colicchio - chef, restaurateur, political activist, and head judge on Bravo's Emmy Award winning Top Chef
  • Giada De Laurentiis - host of the Food Network program Everyday Italian
  • Dom DeLuise - actor and celebrity chef who wrote several cookbooks and videos on his family's Italian-influenced cuisine
  • Guy Fieri - chef and host of the Food Network program "Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives"
  • Nick DiGiovanni - chef and Internet personality who has set multiple food-related Guinness World Records
  • Gina Keatley - chef and television personality; influenced charities in New York City
  • Sirio Maccioni - restaurateur and author
  • Rosanna Pansino - chef and youtuber personality
  • Rachael Ray - Food Network chef and Emmy-winning television personality
  • Nick Stellino - chef and television personality
  • Carlo Vaccarezza - restaurateur
  • Buddy Valastro - baker, reality television personality, and businessman

    Inventors

  • Anthony Adducci - pioneer of the medical device industry in Minnesota; best known for founding Guidant Corp. precursor Cardiac Pacemakers, inc., now part of Boston Scientific, the company that manufactured the world's first lithium battery-powered artificial pacemaker
  • Giuseppe Mario Bellanca - designer of the first monoplane in the United States with an enclosed cabin
  • Enea Bossi
  • Lorenzo Del Riccio - inventor of fotofinish camera
  • Daniel DiLorenzo - medical device entrepreneur and physician-scientist. He is the inventor of several technologies for the treatment of neurological disease
  • Federico Faggin - physicist, engineer, inventor and entrepreneur; best known for designing the first commercial microprocessor, the Intel 4004
  • Gerard J. Foschini
  • The Jacuzzi family - developed the deep well water pump that led to the famous whirlpool bath
  • Antonio Meucci - credited by the Congress of the United States with the invention of the telephone
  • Antonio Pasin - inventor of the Radio Flyer stamped steel toy wagoni
  • Sam Porcello - food scientist who worked at Nabisco on the modern Oreo cookie in particular, was the inventor of the white Oreo cookie creme-filling. His work earned him the nickname, "Mr. Oreo."
  • Lorenzo Ponza - inventor of the modern baseball pitching machine
  • Francis Rogallo - engineer at NASA, designed the Rogallo wing, which found its greatest success in hang gliders and kites
  • Andrea Rossi, entrepreneur who claims to have invented the cold fusion device E-Cat
  • Alberto Sangiovanni-Vincentelli, computer engineer. Professor at University of California, Berkeley. Co-founded Cadence Design Systems and Synopsys
  • Andrew Toti, inventor with more than 500 U.S. patents. in 1995 Toti was honored by the Edison Society
  • Andrew Viterbi - engineer, billionaire, cofounder of Qualcomm, inventor of the Viterbi algorithm
  • Frank Zamboni - inventor of the modern ice resurfacer

    Jurists

Judges