List of Italian Americans: Difference between revisions

This is a list of notable Italian Americans.

Anarchists[edit]

Architects[edit]

Artists[edit]

Comic artists, cartoonists, illustrators[edit]

• 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
• 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
• Don Rico (1912–1985) – comic book writer-artist, paperback novelist, screenwriter and wood engraver; co-created the Marvel Comics character Black Widow with Stan Lee
• 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[edit]

• Ashley Biden (born 1981) – founder of the fashion company Livelihood, daughter of Joe and Jill Biden
• Louise Fili (born 1951) – graphic designer, 2014 American Institute of Graphic Arts Medalist^[1]
• Fred Marcellino (1939–2001) – illustrator

Painters[edit]

Photographers[edit]

Sculptors[edit]

Business[edit]

Criminals[edit]

Entertainers[edit]

Actors[edit]

Inventors[edit]

• Anthony Adducci (1937–2006) – 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^[2]
• 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 (born 1941) – 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 (1808–1889) – credited by the Congress of the United States with the invention of the telephone
• Antonio Pasin (1897–1990) – inventor of the Radio Flyer stamped steel toy wagoni
• Sam Porcello (1935–2012) – 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 (born 1950) – entrepreneur who claims to have invented the cold fusion device E-Cat
• Andrew…