Category:Italian-American

Italian-American

• See Italian American Studies

Famous Italian Americans

• Fiorello LaGuardia (1882-1947) – LaGuardia was the first Italian-American to serve as mayor of New York City and was known for his progressive policies and reforms.

• Luigi Antonini (1883-1968), poet

• Enrico Fermi (1901-1954) was an Italian-American physicist who made significant contributions to the field of nuclear physics and was one of the key figures in the development of the atomic bomb.

• Victor L. Anfuso (1905-1966), politician

• Licia Albanese (1913-), opera singer

• Joe DiMaggio (1914-1999), nicknamed "Joltin' Joe", "the Yankee Clipper" and "Joe D.", was an American baseball center fielder who played his entire 13-year career in Major League Baseball for the New York Yankees.

• Frank Sinatra (1915-1998) – A famous singer and actor, Sinatra was a cultural icon in the mid-20th century and helped to popularize the “rat pack” lifestyle.

• Mario Puzo (1920-1999) – Puzo was an Italian-American author who wrote “The Godfather,” which became one of the most popular books and movies of all time.

• Geraldine Ferraro (1935-2011) – Ferraro was the first Italian-American woman to be elected to the United States Congress and served as the Democratic Party’s vice-presidential nominee in 1984.

• Antonin Scalia (1936-2016) – Scalia was an Italian-American jurist who served as a Supreme Court justice from 1986 until his death in 2016.

• Francis Ford Coppola (1939)

• Mario Andretti (1940), auto racing driver

• Martin Scorsese (1942), film director