List of people from Trieste

Literature

Italian-language authors

• Enzo Bettiza, writer and journalist, born in Split.
• Nicoletta Costa, children's book writer and illustrator.
• Claudio Magris, writer and essayist.
• Biagio Marin, poet.
• Giorgio Pressburger, author and director.
• Umberto Saba, poet.
• Francesco Saba Sardi, author, essayist and translator.
• Scipio Slataper, essayist.
• Giani Stuparich, writer and essayist.
• Italo Svevo, novelist.
• Susanna Tamaro, novelist.
• Fulvio Tomizza, writer, born in Istria.

Slovene-language authors

• Marija Mijot, seamstress, dialectal poet and playwright
• Vladimir Bartol, writer.
• Igo Gruden, poet.
• Dušan Jelinčič, writer, essayist, and mountain climber.
• Marica Nadlišek Bartol, writer and editor.
• Boris Pahor, novelist.
• Alojz Rebula, writer and essayist.

German-language authors

• Theodor Däubler, writer and poet.
• Robert Hamerling, writer.
• Ricarda Huch, writer.
• Julius Kugy, writer and essayist.
• Rainer Maria Rilke, wrote Duino Elegies during his stay in Duino.

Authors in other languages

• Isabel Burton, English writer, explorer and adventurer.
• Richard Francis Burton, British explorer, writer, orientalist scholar, and soldier.
• James Joyce, Irish novelist, poet, and literary critic.
• D. H. Lawrence, English novelist, short story writer, poet and essayist.
• Charles Lever, Irish novelist and raconteur, whose novels, according to Anthony Trollope, were just like his conversation.
• Jan Morris, Welsh historian, author and travel writer.
• Stendhal, French author and essayist; served as Consul of France in Trieste.
• Alexander Wheelock Thayer, American librarian and journalist.
• Samuel David Luzzatto, Italian Jewish scholar, poet, and a member of the Wissenschaft des Judentums movement.

Architects, inventors, gallerists, designers, and visual artists

• Emilio Ambrosini, architect.
• Milko Bambič, illustrator and cartoonist.
• Franca Batich, Italian painter.
• Leo Castelli, pioneering gallerist and contemporary art dealer.
• Avgust Černigoj, painter.
• Bruno Chersicla, painter and sculptor.
• Tullio Crali, futurist painter.
• Marcello Dudovich, illustrator.
• Leonor Fini, artist.
• Giuseppe Lorenzo Gatteri, Italian painter.
• Isidoro Grünhut, artist.
• Alexander Kircher, painter.
• Franko Luin, Swedish-Slovene graphic designer.
• Argio Orell, painter.
• Boris Podrecca, architect.
• Alessandra Querzola, Oscar nominated set designer.
• Stanislav Rapotec, painter.
• Ruggero Rovan, sculptor.
• Felice Schiavoni, artist.
• Ernesto Nathan Rogers, architect.
• Eugenio Scomparini, painter.
• Vito Timmel, painter.
• Jožef Tominc, Biedermeier painter.
• Antonio Valdoni, painter.
• Umberto Veruda, painter.
• Carlo Wostry, painter.

Actors, models, musicians, and performance artists

• Federico Agostini, violinist.
• Alda Balestra, fashion and beauty model.
• Antonio Bibalo, pianist and composer.
• Fedora Barbieri, Italian Mezzo-Soprano/Contralto opera singer.
• Piero Cappuccilli, operatic baritone.
• Antonio D'Antoni, opera composer and conductor.
• Raffaello de Banfield, British composer.
• George Dolenz, actor; father of Micky Dolenz of the Monkees.
• Hans Herbert Fiedler, opera stage actor.
• Fulvia Franco, Italian actress, model and beauty pageant titleholder.
• Paul Henreid, actor.
• Alfred Jaëll, Austrian pianist.
• Tullio Kezich, actor, playwright, and screenwriter.
• Anita Kravos, Italian actress.
• Paola Loew, actress.
• Paolo Longo, composer and conductor.
• Alessandro Lotta, former bassist of the bands Rhapsody of Fire and Wingdom.
• Lelio Luttazzi, musician, composer, showman and presenter.
• Mauro Maur, trumpet player and composer.
• Alexander Moissi, Austrian stage actor of Albanian descent.
• Ave Ninchi, actress.
• Denis Novato, Slovene musician.
• Loredana Nusciak, actress and model.
• Alberto Randegger, composer.
• Rodolfo Ranni, Italian Argentine film actor.
• Ivan Rassimov, Italian actor of Serbian descent.
• Rada Rassimov, Italian actress of Serbian descent.
• Enrico Rava, jazz trumpeter.
• Teddy Reno, singer and producer.
• Carlo Rizzo, stage and film actor.
• Victor de Sabata, conductor.
• Laura Solari, film actress.
• Alex Staropoli, keyboardist of the band Rhapsody of Fire.
• Giorgio Strehler, opera and theater director.
• Elisa Toffoli, singer-songwriter, pianist, and guitarist.
• Luca Turilli, guitarist of the band Rhapsody of Fire.

Television personalities

• Lidia Bastianich, Italian-American chef and television cooking show host whose family lived in a refugee camp in Trieste after their escape from Istria, Yugoslavia.
• Bianca Maria Piccinino, journalist RAI, the first woman to read a news broadcasting.

Entrepreneurs and business leaders

• Andrea Illy, entrepreneur.
• Ernesto Illy, entrepreneur, founder of coffee empire.
• Francesco Illy, entrepreneur, inventor of coffee machinery.
• Lionello Stock, entrepreneur of liqueurs and beverages, founder of Stock S.p.A..
• Mihajlo Vučetić, grain merchant, shipowner and shareholder in Austrian Lloyd.

Fashion designers

• Renato Balestra, fashion designer.
• Adriano Goldschmied, leading international denim designer; founder of Diesel and Replay jeans.
• Ottavio Missoni, fashion designer.
• Mila Schön, fashion designer.

Journalists and authors

• Sergio Amidei, screenwriter.
• Giovanna Botteri, journalist.
• Almerigo Grilz, journalist, freelance war reporter and politician. Was killed during an African reportage.
• Leo Negrelli, journalist.
• Ann Shulgin, author.
• Demetrio Volcic, journalist and politician.

Political figures

• Engelbert Besednjak, Slovene politician.
• Don Beyer, U.S. representative for Virginia and U.S. ambassador to Switzerland and Liechtenstein
• Willer Bordon, Italian politician, Minister of the Environment, 2000–2001.
• Gualtiero Driussi, Italian politician
• Josip Ferfolja, Slovenian social-democratic politician and human rights activist.
• Odilo Globočnik, Nazi war criminal, SS leader.
• Riccardo Illy, Italian politician.
• Ezio Mizzan, Italian diplomat, the second Italian Ambassador to Thailand and the ninth Italian Ambassador to Pakistan.
• Ilda Mizzan, Italian irredentist and painter, wife of Francesco Salata.
• Stefano Patuanelli, Italian politician, minister of economic development.
• Mitja Ribičič, Slovenian Communist leader, Prime Minister of Yugoslavia.
• Vittorio Vidali, Communist agent.
• Josip Wilfan, Slovene jurist, politician, and human rights activist.

Religious figures

• Pietro Bonomo, humanist and bishop, supporter of the Protestant Reformation.
• Moisè Tedeschi, rabbi and Bible commentator.

Educators

• Draga Gregorič Rosenberg, a Slovenian preschool teacher and preschool principal, founder of first preschool in the Servola district of Trieste

Humanitarian workers

• Ivana Zorman, Slovenian headmistress of an orphanage and a humanitarian worker

Scholars, scientists, and intellectuals

• Luisa Accati, historian and feminist theoretician.
• Florian Biesik, Silesian linguist, Wymysorys language scholar and poet.
• Ludwig Boltzmann, Austrian physicist.
• Paolo Budinich, physicist.
• Sir Richard Burton, British explorer, geographer, writer, orientalist, cartographer, linguist, poet, fencer, and diplomat; discovered Lake Tanganyika.
• Lavo Čermelj, Slovene physicist and public intellectual.
• Giacomo Ciamician, chemist.
• Laura Dallapiccola, Italian librarian and translator.
• Gillo Dorfles, philosopher and historian.
• Arturo Falaschi, MD, geneticist.
• Alessandro Ferrara, philosopher and author.
• Boris Furlan, Slovenian legal theorist, translator and politician.
• Anton Füster, Austrian revolutionary activist, author and pedagogue.
• Guido Goldschmiedt, Austrian chemist.
• Boris M. Gombač, Slovenian historian.
• Spiridon Gopčević, Serbian astronomer and historian.
• Margherita Hack, Italian astronomer.
• Albert O. Hirschman, economist and political scientist; obtained his doctorate from the University of Trieste.
• Pietro Kandler, historian, archaeologist and jurist.
• Fiorella Kostoris, economist.
• Doro Levi, archaeologist.
• Neli Niklsbacher Bregar, Slovenian embroiderer, ethnologist, and author.
• Salvatore Pincherle, Italian mathematician.
• Jože Pirjevec, Slovene historian.
• Alessandro Pizzorno, political scientist and sociologist.
• Abdus Salam, Pakistani theoretical physicist, Nobel prize laureate.
• Denis Sciama, British physicist.
• Joseph Straus, property law intellectual.
• Marta Verginella, Slovene historian.
• Ivan Vidav, Slovene mathematician.
• Edoardo Weiss, Jewish psychoanalyst.
• Guido Weiss, mathematician.
• Sigismund Zois, Slovene mecenate and natural scientist.

Sportspeople

• Andrea de Adamich, former Formula 1 driver.
• Nino Benvenuti, boxer.
• Biaggio Chianese, boxer.
• Claudia Coslovich, athlete.
• Fabio Cudicini, football player, goalkeeper.
• Gabriele De Nuzzo, football player
• Aldo Dorigo, football player.
• Giorgio Ferrini, football player.
• Ambrogio Fogar, sailor, rally driver, and adventurer.
• Livio Franceschini, basketball player.
• Sara Gama, Italian footballer, defender and captain of both Serie A club Juventus and the Italian national team.
• Sandro Gamba, basketball coach and player.
• Matteo Gladig, chess master.
• Margherita Granbassi, foil fencer.
• Duilio Loi, boxer.
• Cesare Maldini, former AC Milan captain, Italian football team manager.
• Giovanni Martinolich, chess master.
• Mauro Milanese, football player.
• Mario Milano, professional wrestler.
• Tiberio Mitri, boxer.
• Uberto De Morpurgo, Austrian-born Italian tennis player.
• Giorgio Oberweger, athlete.
• Nicola Princivalli, football player.
• Giovanni Raicevich, professional wrestler.
• Carlo Rigotti, football player.
• Nereo Rocco, football player and manager.
• Licio Rossetti, football player.
• Cesare Rubini, water polo player.
• Matteo Scozzarella, football player.
• Giovanni Steffè, rower.
• Caterina Stenta, Windsurf and Standup paddleboarding athlete.
• Max Tonetto, football player.
• Fabio Tuiach, boxer.
• Ferruccio Valcareggi, football player and coach.
• Renzo Vecchiato, basketball player.

Statesmen and aristocracy

• Mathilde Bonaparte, Napoleon's niece, daughter of his brother Jérôme Bonaparte; born in Trieste in 1820.
• Joseph Fouché, duke of Otranto, spent his last 5 years exiled in Trieste.
• Maximilian of Habsburg, Emperor of Mexico, Archduke of Austria ; built the white castle and park on the riviera; planted plants in the park from his travels around the world.
• Fiorello La Guardia, 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, 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, Madame de France, daughter of King Louis XV of France, died in Trieste in 1799.
• Manto Mavrogenous, Greek princess and heroine of the Greek War of Independence.
• Louis Antoine Debrauz de Saldapenna, Austrian diplomat, journalist and author.
• Gottfried von Banfield, top Austrian Empire fighter ace in World War I.
• Stefano Černetić, journalist and royal pretender.