Leading Figures in History

Discover the people who shaped our world — from rulers and scientists to artists and activists.

24415 persons found

Giovanni Antonio Magini

b. 1555

Italian mathematician and astronomer (1555–1617)

Giovanni Antonio Scopoli

Italian physician and naturalist

Giovanni Battista Beccaria

Italian physicist

Giovanni Battista Gaulli

b. 1639

Italian painter (1639–1709)

Giovanni Battista Guadagnini

b. 1711

Italian luthier

Giovanni Battista Martini

b. 1706

Italian composer (1706–1784)

Giovanni Battista Riccioli

b. 1598

Italian astronomer and priest (1598–1671)

Giovanni Battista Viotti

b. 1755

Italian violinist (1755–1824)

Giovanni Bernardi

Italian sculptor

Giovanni Bononcini

Italian composer (1670–1747)

Giovanni Borgia, 2nd Duke of Gandía

Son of Pope Alexander VI (c. 1476 – 1497)

Giovanni Croce

Italian composer

Giovanni della Casa

b. 1503

Florentine poet and writer (1503–1556)

Giovanni di Cosimo de' Medici

b. 1421

Italian banker (1421–1463)

Giovanni Diodati

b. 1576

Calvinist theologian (1576–1649)

Giovanni Domenico Cassini

b. 1625

Mathematician and astronomer (1625–1712)

Giovanni Falcone

b. 1939

Italian judge (1939–1992)

Giovanni Gentile

b. 1875

Italian pedagogue, philosopher, and politician (1875–1944)

Giovanni Legrenzi

Italian composer (1626–1690)

Giovanni Marco Rutini

b. 1723

Italian composer

Giovanni Maria Sabino

b. 1588

Italian composer

Giovanni Niccolò Servandoni

b. 1695

Italian painter (1695–1766)

Giovanni Paisiello

b. 1740

Italian Classical era composer (1740–1816)

Giovanni Paolo Lascaris

b. 1560

Grand Master of the Knights Hospitaller (1560–1657)