- James Of Piedmont
James (16 January 1315 - 17 May 1367) was the Lord of Piedmont from 1334 to his death. He was the eldest son of Philip I and Catherine de la Tour du Pin. While his father had abandoned his claim to the Principality of Achaea in 1307, James continued to use the princely title and even passed it on to his successors. James opposed Robert of Taranto in Achaea in the 1340s. He began a war with Amadeus VI of Savoy, but was captured at Pinerolo and his territories confiscated. - Louis Of Piedmont
Louis (1364 - 11 December 1418) was the Lord of Piedmont and titular Prince of Achaea from 1402. He was a son of James of Piedmont and Sibylla des Baux. In 1405, he founded the University of Turin. On 24 January 1403, he married Bona (1388 - 1432), daughter of Amadeus VII of Savoy, but they never had any children. When he died in 1418, the Piedmont-Achaea cadet branch of the House of Savoy died with him. - Sonny Terry
Saunders Terrell, better known as Sonny Terry (24 October 1911, Greenboro, Georgia - 11 March 1986, Mineloa, New York) was a blues musician. He was most widely known for his energetic blues harmonica style, which frequently included vocal whoops and hollers, and imitations of trains and fox hunts. - Giuseppe Garibaldi
Giuseppe Garibaldi (July 4, 1807 - June 2, 1882) was an Italian patriot and soldier of the Risorgimento. He personally led many of the military campaigns that brought about the formation of a unified Italy. He has been dubbed the "Hero of the Two Worlds" in tribute to his military expeditions in South America and Europe. - John Jackson
John Jackson (1924 — January 20, 2002 in Fairfax Station, Virginia) was a prominent blues musician in the Piedmont style. - Don Perata
Don Perata (born April 30, 1945) is a California Democratic politician, who is the current President pro tempore of the California State Senate. He was elected to the post of President Pro Tempore in 2004. He will continue his Presidency until the end of the current 2007-2008 session. Perata has a daughter and a son. - Luigi Einaudi
Luigi Einaudi was an Italian politician and economist. He served as the President of the Italian Republic between 1948 and 1955. Einaudi was born in Carrù, in the province of Cuneo, Piedmont. He completed his university studies in Turin, where he got acquainted with the Socialist ideas and collaborated with the magazine "Critica sociale", directed by the socialist leader Filippo Turati. - Mercedes Bresso
Mercedes Bresso (born on 12 July 1944) is an Italian politician and President of the Piedmont Region. She is a member of the Democrats of the Left party (coming from the Italian Communist Party). After her election as governor of Piedmont, she resigned from the office as Member of European Parliament. She is a Grand Officer of the Italian Republic. She is the first woman to serve as President of Piedmont. - Peter Waldo
Peter Waldo or Valdo or Pierre de Vaux (died 1218) was the founder of a radical ascetic Christian movement in 12th-century France. Specific details of his life are largely unknown. It is believed that he was a rich merchant in Lyon making his money by "wicked usury", when around 1160 he was transformed into a radical Christian and gave his real estate to his wife, and the remainder of his belongings he distributed as alms to the poor. - Henry Louis Gates Jr.
Gates is the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and Director of the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research at Harvard University. He is most recently the author of Finding Oprah's Roots, Finding Your Own (Crown, 2007) and the host and executive producer of the critically acclaimed PBS series "African American Lives" and "Oprah's Roots." - Camillo Benso, Conte di Cavour
Camillo Benso, conte di Cavour (August 10 1810 - June 7 1861) was a leading figure in the movement toward Italian unification. He was Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Piedmont-Sardinia, and ruled it throughout the Second Italian War of Independence and Garibaldi's campaigns to unite Italy (besides a small six-month resignation from the post). Cavour died only three months after the declaration of a united Kingdom of Italy, … - Guarino Guarini
Camillo-Guarino Guarini (Modena, 7 January 1624 - Milan, 6 March 1683) was an Italian architect of the Piedmontese Baroque, active not only in Turin but also in other European sites including Sicily, France, and Portugal. He was also a Theatine priest, mathematician, writer and architect. Guarini was accepted as a Theatine novice in 1639, spent his novitiate at the monastery of San Silvestro al Quirinale in Rome, and returned to Modena in 1647, … - Victor Emmanuel II of Italy
Victor Emmanuel II, King of Italy was the King of Piedmont, Savoy, and Sardinia from 1849 to 1861. On February 18, 1861, he assumed the title King of Italy to become the first king of a united Italy, a title he held until his death in 1878. - Bruce Bastin
Bruce Bastin (born September 19 1939, in Chelmsford, England) is the leading expert on the blues styles of the East Coast of America ("Piedmont Blues"). He holds a graduate degree in folklore from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and is the author of "Crying for the Carolines" and "Red River Blues: The Blues Tradition in the Southeast". Bruce Bastin is also the managing director of Interstate Music, Ltd., West Sussex, England, … - Cesare Balbo
Cesare Balbo, Count of Vinadio, was an Italian writer and statesman. Balbo was born at Turin on the 21st of November 1789. His father, Prospero Balbo, who belonged to a noble Piedmontese family, held a high position in the Sardinian court, and at the time of Cesare’s birth was mayor of the capital. His mother, Enrichetta Taparelli d'Azeglio, died when he was three years old; and he was brought up in the house of his great-grandmother, the countess of Bugino. - Michael Malone
Michael Malone is an American author, born in Durham, North Carolina. He is best known for his best-selling works of fiction, which include "Handling Sin" (1983) and "Foolscap" (1991) as well as the murder mystery "First Lady" (2001). He is proud of his Piedmont heritage and sets many of his stories, including "First Lady" and the other Justin & Cuddy novels, in that region of North Carolina. - Antonio Carluccio
Antonio Carluccio, OBE, (born 1937 in Vietri sul Mare, Salerno, Italy) is a London-based Italian chef, restaurateur and food expert. Carluccio was born in south Italy but his father was a stationmaster, and he moved with his father's job when he was young and grew up in Piedmont. He moved to Vienna aged 21 to study languages. He lived in Germany from 1962 to 1975, working as wine merchant in Hamburg. He came to the UK in 1975 to work as a wine merchant, … - Stanislao Cannizzaro
Stanislao Cannizzaro (July 13, 1826 - May 10, 1910) was an Italian chemist. Cannizzaro was born in Palermo. In 1841 he entered the university of his native place with the intention of making medicine his profession, but he soon turned to the study of chemistry, and in 1845 and 1846 acted as assistant to Raffaele Piria (1815-1865), known for his work on salicin, who was then professor of chemistry at Pisa and subsequently occupied the same position at Turin. - Robert Reid
Robert Reid (d. 1558) was abbot of Kinloss, commendator-prior of Beauly, and bishop of Orkney. He was one of the greatest of the bishops of St Magnus Cathedral, Kirkwall, Scotland, and his legacy was the founding of the University of Edinburgh. Robert Reid was Sub-Dean at Elgin Cathedral before becoming the abbot of the Cistercian monastery of Kinloss Abbey at Kinloss, Moray; he also held the priory of Beauly "in commendam". - Luciana Littizzetto
Luciana Littizzetto (born 29 october 1964) is an Italian comedy actress from Piedmont in Italy known for her raunchy sense of humour. - Giorgio Faletti
Giorgio Faletti (born november 25 1950) is an Italian writer, actor and singer-songwriter. Born in Asti, Piedmont, he currently resides in Elba Island. After a career as TV comic actor, with some parts for cinema, he began to write and sing songs, taking part to three editions of the Sanremo Music Festival in 1992-1995. He also wrote songs for Mina and for two albums by Angelo Branduardi, "Camminando camminando" (1996) and "Il dito e la luna" (1998). - Henri Arnaud
Henri Arnaud (September 20 1641 - September 8 1721), was a pastor of the Vaudois in Piedmont, who turned soldier in order to rescue, and who did rescue, his co-religionists from their dispersion under the persecution of Victor Amadeus II the Duke of Savoy. When the Vaudois were exiled a second time, Arnaud accompanied them in their exile to Schomberg, and continued to act as their pastor until his death. Arnaud was born in Embrun, France. - Giorgetto Giugiaro
Giorgetto Giugiaro (August 7, 1938) is an Italian automobile designer. He was born in Garessio, province of Cuneo (Piedmont). He initiated the "folded paper" era of the 1970s where the cars were designed with straight lines and sharp edges. As well as a number of supercars, he is responsible for the design of some of the most popular everyday vehicles driven today. Giugiaro was the winner of the award of Car Designer of the Century in 1999. - Defendente Ferrari
Defendente Ferrari (c. 1480/1485 - c. 1540) was an Italian painter active in Piedmont. Ferrari was born at Chivasso, near Turin. After studying in the workshop of Giovanni Martino Spanzotti, he met a considerable success as author of polyptychs and altarpieces, characterized by a higly decorative style inspired by Northern Europe masters. - Don Redman
Donald Matthew Redman (July 29, 1900, Piedmont, West Virginia - November 30, 1964, New York) was an American jazz musician, arranger, and composer. Redman was born in Piedmont, West Virginia. His father was a music teacher, his mother was a singer. Don began playing the trumpet at the age of 3, joined his first band at 6 and by age 12 he was proficient on all wind instruments ranging from trumpet to oboe as well as piano. - Joseph Cafasso
Giuseppe Cafasso was a significant social reformer in early ninteenth-century Turin, born in Castelnuovo d'Asti, Piedmont, Italy. He was one of the so-called ‘Social Saints’ of nineteenth-century Turin, who took it as their job to minister to the dispossessed, marginalised and often criminal elements of a city in the throes of industrialisation. He was the apostle of prisons and the comforter of those condemned to the death penalty, … - Robert Banks
Robert L. Banks was an American chemist. He was born and grew up in Piedmont, Missouri. He attended Southeast Missouri State University, and initiated into Alpha Phi Omega in 1940. He joined the Phillips Petroleum company in 1946 and worked there until he retired in 1985. He was a fellow research chemist of J. Paul Hogan. They began working together in 1946, and in 1951 invented "crystalline polypropylene" and high-density polyethylene (HDPE). - Giampiero Boniperti
Giampiero Boniperti (born July 4, 1928 in Barengo, Piedmont) is an Italian former football player who played his entire career at Juventus between 1946 and 1961. He also played for the Italian national football team. After retirement from professional football, Boniperti has been a president of Juventus and a deputy to the European Parliament. With 182 goals in all-competitions, he was highest goalscorer in Juventus' history for more than 40 years, … - Raffaele Cadorna
Raffaele Cadorna (february 9, 1815 - february 6, 1897) was an Italian general who served as one of the major Piedmontese leaders responsible for the unification of Italy during the mid-19th century. Born in Milan, Cadorna entered the Piedmontese military academy at Turin in 1832. Entering the engineering corps in 1840, Cadorna would command a volunteer engineer battalion in Lombardy from March 1848 until August 1849 during the Italian War of Independence. - Alessandro Martini
Alessandro Martini was an Italian businessman, founder of one of the most important vermouth companies in the world, namely Martini – or Martini & Rossi in the United States In 1830 he purchased a small wine company situated very close to Turin. In 1847 several Italian businessmen started producing wine, spirits and vermouth for the Distilleria Nazionale di Spirito di Vino of Turin. - Victor Amadeus II of Sardinia
Victor Amadeus II, Italian Vittorio Amedeo II (May 14 1666 - October 31 1732) was the Duke of Savoy (1675-1730). He also held the titles of marquis of Saluzzo, marquis of Monferrato, prince of Piedmont, count of Aosta, Moriana and Nizza. His mother Marie Jeanne Baptiste de Savoie-Nemours was the regent from 1675 to 1684. He first became king of Sicily (1713-1718), but he was forced to exchange this title and instead became king of Sardinia (1720-1730). - Frank C. Havens
Frank Colton Havens was a lawyer in the San Francisco Bay Area from the late 19th to early 20th centuries who also was a major developer of real estate in the East Bay, particularly in the cities of Oakland, Berkeley and Piedmont. Havens was born into one of the founding families of Shelter Island, New York, the son of Wickham Havens of Sag Harbor. Throughout his life, Havens maintained a summer home in Sag Harbor. - Victor Emmanuel I of Sardinia
Victor Emmanuel I (July 24, 1759 - January 10, 1824) was the Duke of Savoy, Piedmont, and Aosta, and King of Sardinia from 1802 to 1821. The second son of King Victor Amadeus III of Sardinia, Victor Emmanuel was known from birth as the Duke of Aosta. He succeeded his brother, Charles Emmanuel IV, as King of Sardinia upon the latter's abdication in 1802. In 1793 he took an active part in the struggle of the old powers against the French Revolutionary forces in Savoy, but, … - Francesco Cirio
Francesco Cirio (1836-1900) was an Italian businessman and the inventor of canned vegetables and meat. He was born in Nizza Monferrato, close to Turin to a very poor and illiterate family. When he was 14 years old he came to Turin. A few years later he invented canned vegetables and meat because he wanted to export food from the Piedmont. - Carlo di Castellamonte
Carlo di Castellamonte (1560 - 1641) was an Italian architect, civil and military engineer, one of the main exponents of Piedmontese Baroque. Castellamonte was born in Turin. After his studies in Rome, he returned in Piedmont where was assistant to Ascanio Vitozzi. Named Architect of the House of Savoy in 1615, … - Giovanni Lanza
Domenico Giovanni Giuseppe Maria Lanza (February 15, 1810 - March 9, 1882), Italian politician, was born in Casale Monferrato, Piedmont. He studied medicine at Turin, and practised for some years in his native place. He was one of the promoters of the agrarian association in Turin, and took an active part in the rising of 1848. He was elected to the Piedmontese parliament in that year, and attached himself to the party of Cavour, … - Vittorio Pozzo
Vittorio Pozzo (born March 2 1886 in Turin, Piedmont, Italy - Ponderano (Biella) December 21 1968) was an Italian football (soccer) coach who was most famous for leading the Italian national team to victory in the 1934 FIFA World Cup and 1938 FIFA World Cups; managed the side that won the 1930 and 1935 editions of the Central European International Cup, as well as the 1936 Olympic football gold medal and the 1928 Olympic football bronze medal. - Luigi Facta
Luigi Facta (November 16, 1861 - November 5, 1930) was an Italian politician, journalist and last Prime Minister of Italy before the dictatorship of Benito Mussolini. Facta was born in Pinerolo, Piedmont, Italy. He studied law and later became a journalist. He entered politics in 1892 when he was elected to the chamber of deputies for Pinerolo, a seat which he held for 30 years. - Virginio Rosetta
Virginio Rosetta (February 25, 1902 - March 31, 1975) was an Italian former football player. Rosetta was born in Vercelli, Piedmont, where he debuted for Pro Vercelli in the Italian First Division (Serie A's predecessor) in the 1919-20 season, as a striker. He later turned into an effective defender. Pro Vercelli was then one of the major Italian football teams, and Rosetta won two "scudetti" in 1921 and 1922. He debuted for Italy at the 1920 Summer Olympics, … - Charles Felix Of Sardinia
Charles Felix I of Sardinia ("Carlo Felice Giuseppe Maria", April 6 1765-April 27 1831) was the Duke of Savoy, Piedmont, Aosta and King of Sardinia from 1821 to 1831. He was the eleventh child and fifth son born to Victor Amadeus III of Sardinia and Maria Antonietta of Bourbon. His maternal grandparents were Philip V of Spain and Elizabeth Farnese. He was a younger brother of Charles Emmanuel IV of Sardinia and Victor Emmanuel I of Sardinia.
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