13 Notable alumni of
University of Salerno
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The University of Salerno is 2105th in the world, 698th in Europe, and 38th in Italy by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 13 notable alumni from the University of Salerno sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Pietro Mennea
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- politiciansprinterlawyerathletics competitor
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Pietro Paolo Mennea, nicknamed la Freccia del Sud ("the Arrow of the South"), was an Italian sprinter and politician. He was most successful in the 200m event, winning a gold medal at the 1980 Moscow Olympics, and setting a world record at 19.72 seconds in September 1979. This record stood for almost 17 years – the longest duration in the event history – and is still the European record. He is the only male sprinter who has qualified at four consecutive 200 metres Olympic finals: from 1972 to 1984.
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Mara Carfagna
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- politicianmodeldancer
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Maria Rosaria "Mara" Carfagna is an Italian politician and former showgirl and model. After obtaining a degree in law, Carfagna worked for several years on Italian television shows and as a model. She later entered politics and was elected to the Chamber of Deputies for Forza Italia party in 2006. From 2008 to 2011, she served as Minister for Equal Opportunity in Berlusconi IV Cabinet. In 2018 she was elected vice president of the Chamber of Deputies. In 2021, she became the Minister for the South and territorial cohesion in the cabinet presided by Mario Draghi.
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Michele Santoro
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- politicianfilm directorjournalisttelevision presenter
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Michele Santoro is an Italian journalist, television host and presenter.
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Francesco Paolo Figliuolo
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- military personnel
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Francesco Paolo Figliuolo is an Italian army corps general. On 1 March 2021, he was appointed by Prime Minister Mario Draghi as Extraordinary Commissioner for the Implementation of Health Measures to Contain the COVID-19 pandemic, to lead the vaccination campaign.
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Vincenzo De Luca
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- politician
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Vincenzo De Luca is an Italian politician. A member of the Democratic Party, he has been serving as president of Campania since 18 June 2015. De Luca also served as mayor of Salerno for more than 17 years, becoming one of the longest serving mayors in Italy.
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Giuseppina Picierno
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- politician
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Giuseppina "Pina" Picierno is an Italian politician. Born in Santa Maria Capua Vetere, she is a member of the Democratic Party who has been serving in the European Parliament since 2014.
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Alfonso Pecoraro Scanio
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- university teacherpolitician
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Alfonso Pecoraro Scanio is an Italian politician, lawyer and journalist. He served as Minister of Agriculture in the second cabinet of Giuliano Amato and as Minister of Environment in the second cabinet of Romano Prodi.
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Gianfranco Rotondi
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- journalistpolitician
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Gianfranco Rotondi is an Italian politician. A member of the Italian Parliament since 1994, he was a member of the Chamber of Deputies from 1994 to 1996, from 2001 to 2006, and since 2008, as well as a member of the Senate of the Republic from 2006 to 2008. He was also a Minister without Portfolio for the Implementation of the Government Program in the fourth Berlusconi government from 2008 to 2011.
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Vincenzo Di Mauro
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- Catholic priestCatholic bishop
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Vincenzo Di Mauro is an Italian Catholic bishop, archbishop-bishop emeritus of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Vigevano, and prior to that was an official of the Roman Curia. He was appointed coadjutor-bishop of Vigevano, which is part of the Province of Milan, by Pope Benedict XVI on Monday, 22 November 2010, and given the "ad personam" (personal) title of archbishop. He succeeded Bishop Claudio Baggini as Bishop of Vegevano on 12 March 2011. He was appointed as secretary of the Prefecture for the Economic Affairs of the Holy See and as the titular bishop of Arpi in 2007. He was ordained a bishop by Pope Benedict XVI (principal consecrator) and Cardinals Tarcisio Bertone and Marian Jaworski on 29 September 2007. He was born in Monza and was ordained a priest in Milan on 12 June 1976.
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Luigi Iovino
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- politician
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Luigi Iovino is an Italian politician, a member of the Italian Chamber of Deputies in the XVIII legislature of the Italian Republic. He served as the Secretary of the Presidency Office of the Chamber of Deputies from October 2, 2019, to October 12, 2022, making him the youngest in the history of the Italian Republic.
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Matthaeus Platearius
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- writerphysicianbotanist
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Matthaeus Platearius was a physician from the medical school at Salerno, and is thought to have produced a twelfth-century Latin manuscript on medicinal herbs titled "Circa Instans", later translated into French as "Le Livre des simples medecines". It was an alphabetic listing and textbook of simples that was based on Dioscorides "Vulgaris", which described the appearance, preparation, and uses of various drugs. It was widely acclaimed, and was one of the first herbals produced by the newly developed printing process in 1488. Ernst Meyer considered it equal to the herbals of Pliny and Dioscorides, while George Sarton thought it an improvement on "De Materia Medica".
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Guglielmo Vaccaro
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- politician
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Guglielmo Vaccaro is a centre-left Italian politician of the Democratic Party in the faction around the Prime Minister of Italy, Enrico Letta.
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Eugenio Viola
- Years
- 1975-.. (age 50)
- Occupations
- art critic
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Eugenio Viola is an Italian art critic and curator based in Bogotá.
