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Ettore Boiardi

I can name two…

Tony Soprano

Go big: Galileo. The dude's still having a positive impact on our world.

Here's to you, Nicola and Bart

🤌💋

Madonna!

Sophia Loren

I have-a the one word: Mangione 🤌

More than Columbus? Bruno Tattaglia.

Italian Wedding Soup Italian Sausage Italian Ice

DaVinci

might be faster to name the 2 or 3 LESS worthy

…yes?

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amadeo_... Who created a bank for immigrants so they could open accounts with small amounts of money. It started as the Bank of Italy and later became the Bank of America. His daughters later condemned BofA for abandoning his philosophy.

Debi Mazar

Zamboni.

Antonio Gramsci!

Buddy Valastro

YOGI

Chef Boyardee

Gino Bartali was a professional cyclist who had won the Tour de France and Giro d'Italia. During WWII he went on "training rides" with messages for the Italian resistance hidden inside the frame of his bike. He also hid a Jewish family in his basement.

You could keep Columbus if you made it into more of a Guy Fawkes day situation

Chef Boyardee

Carlo Tresca

Sergio Leone Ennio Morricone Dalida &

Charles Ponzi

Amerigo Vespucci

The recent D+ 4 episode series from a few months back "Tucci in Italy" is so lovely, it's educational, it's beautiful, it's fascinating Gosh I love it

Giuseppe Maria Garibaldi u_u

Was scrolling down to hopefully find Fermi!

My mom's high school was named after him :D

Bruno Sammartino

Mario.

Even if you want to keep it focused on Italian explorers, John Cabot is a better choice. At least he actually visited North America.

that dude who's all "if my grandma had wheels she'd be a bike"

Omg, same

Sophia Petrillo

Guy Picciotto

Giacomo Grandmaslice

In NY we have many!

I endorse all of these!

Chef Ettore Boiardi

Sophia Loren

This one is even named Christopher!

At that point there wasn’t even Italy

Al Giardello

so many good disco and film creators adriano colentano

Or Phil Esposito. Or Tony Esposito.

Luigi Mangione. It could be like Guy Fawkes day.

furio from the sopranos

Saint Frances Cabrini

Fiorello La Guardia

It's all of them.

Pasqually

definitely @gianmarcosoresi.bsky.social

Galileo Galilei

One of the original advocates of Columbus Day, in fact! * Helped immigrants avoid getting ripped off. * Was an actual victim of anti-Italian history erasure. The city refused to build a statue to him. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_...

Giordano Bruno

Papa Gino

Enrico Pallazo!

don't forget Gino bartali and working with the Italian resistance en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gino_Ba...

Me

Or just Weezer... Kenosha's fictional heroes who despite Al's hopes did not enjoy the fish.

I have receipts.

me. my mom. the remains of a hoagie i saw on 9th street

Anyway the frequent appearance of characters from tv shows and games in these replies is not saying a lot about the cultural breadth of us transalpines 🙁 How about: August 10 (date of the murder of the 15 partisan martyrs in 1944). Or April 28-29 (the dates Mussolini was shot & his corpse hung up)

John Saxon.

Popa John

Marconi

Primo Levi and Enrico Fermi

Here #Columbo is honoured in #Budapest Peter Falk was much loved there.

My grandma.

Hi, Italian American here. 👋 Fuck that guy!!

Alfredo Bonanno, Luigi Galleani, Errico Malatesta, Luigi Mangione.

Giorgio Moroder?

I want. No. I need!

Seems to be two different mini van designs smashed together.

It looks like the Tōkaidō Shinkansen and a Boeing 747 got caught up in a transporter accident.

Mother Cabrini

Chef Boyardee

Giuseppe Verdi (Ole Joe Green)