Italian-American
An
Italian-American is an
American of
Italian descent. Although proud of their heritage most prefer to be called simply
American. Much Italian immigration to the
United States took place in the late
19th century and early
20th century.
Famous Italian Americans include
- Mario Andretti, auto racing legend
- Nicolas Cage, actor (born Nicholas Ford Coppola)
- Al Capone (1899-1947), Chicago gangster
- John Ciardi
- Perry Como, musician
- Francis Ford Coppola, film director
- Mario Cuomo (born 1932), former governor of New York
- Alfonse D'Amato
- Joe DiMaggio (1914-1999), Baseball Hall of Famer
- Peter Domenici
- Jimmy Durante (1893-1980)
- John Fante, novelist and screenwriter
- Lawrence Ferlinghetti, poet
- Enrico Fermi (1901-1954), physicist
- Geraldine Ferraro
- Annette Funicello
- James Gandolfini (born 1961), actor
- A. Bartlett Giamatti (1938-1989), academic, Major League Baseball commissioner
- Rudolph Giuliani (born 1944), Mayor of New York during 9/11
- Ella Grasso, first woman to be elected governor of a state without succeeding her husband
- Rocky Graziano, boxer
- Fiorello LaGuardia (1882-1947)
- Nick LaRocca (1889-1961), self-proclaimed "inventor of jazz"
- Rocky Marciano, boxer, only heavyweight champion to retire undefeated
- Dean Martin, singer & actor
- Luis Monti, athlete
- Camille Paglia, post-feminist literary and cultural critic
- Al Pacino
- John Pastore
- Mike Piazza (born 1968), baseball star
- Louis Prima (1910-1978), musician & entertainer
- Mario Puzo (1920-1999), US Mafia author
- Mary Lou Retton (born 1968), Olympic gold medalist in gymnastics
- Frank Rizzo, controversial US politician
- Pete Rizzo
- Peter Rodino
- Antonin Scalia
- Martin Scorsese, film director
- Emilio Segre, Nobel-winning physicist and academic
- Frank Sinatra (1915-1998), US singer with mob connections
- John Sirica
- Sylvester Stallone
- Gay Talese
- Bob Toricelli
- John Travolta, movie actor
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