38 Notable alumni of
University of Trieste
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The University of Trieste is 1128th in the world, 402nd in Europe, and 24th in Italy by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 38 notable alumni from the University of Trieste sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Liliana Segre
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- politician
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Liliana Segre OMRI is an Italian Holocaust survivor, named senator for life by President Sergio Mattarella in 2018 for outstanding patriotic merits in the social field.
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Roberto Fico
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- politician
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Roberto Fico is an Italian politician who has been serving as President of Campania since 9 December 2025. He served as the Chairman of the RAI Supervision Commission from 2013 to 2018 and President of the Italian Chamber of Deputies from 2018 to 2022..
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Roberto Vannacci
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- military personnelwriterpolitician
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Roberto Vannacci is a politician and former Italian Army military general. Since July 2024, he has been serving as a Member of the European Parliament; elected for the League, in February 2026 he founded his own political party, National Future.
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Albert O. Hirschman
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- university teachereconomistwriter
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Albert Otto Hirschman was an American economist. He was the author of several influential books on development economics, political economy, and political ideology including The Strategy of Economic Development (1958), Exit, Voice, and Loyalty (1970), The Passions and the Interests (1977), and The Rhetoric of Reaction (1991). He was a founding figure in the School of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study and an influential economic advisor to Latin American leaders. In World War II, he played a key role in rescuing refugees from occupied France with the Emergency Rescue Committee.
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Lelio Luttazzi
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- pianisttelevision presenteractorcomposerconductor
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Lelio Luttazzi was an Italian composer, musician, actor, singer, conductor, writer, and television and radio presenter.
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Massimiliano Fedriga
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- politician
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Massimiliano Fedriga is an Italian Northern League politician. He is the president of the Friuli-Venezia Giulia autonomous region.
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Stefano Patuanelli
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- politician
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Stefano Patuanelli is an Italian politician and civil engineer, member of the Five Star Movement. On 5 September 2019, he was appointed the Italian Minister of Economic Development in the Conte II Cabinet.
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Jerónimo Saavedra
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- academiclawyerpoliticiantrade unionist
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Jerónimo Saavedra Acevedo was a Spanish politician and academic. He served as President of the Canary Islands twice, from 1983 to 1987, and again from 1991 to 1993.
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Luca Ciriani
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- politician
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Luca Ciriani is an Italian politician who is the group leader of the Brothers of Italy grouping in the Senate of the Republic.
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Andrea Illy
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- entrepreneurbusinessperson
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Andrea Illy is an Italian businessman. He is the Chairman of illycaffè S.p.A., a family coffee business founded in Trieste in 1933. He has additionally been Chairman of Altagamma since 2013.
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Enrico Zanetti
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- politicianeconomist
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Enrico Zanetti is an Italian politician and tax advisor. He was appointed Secretary of Civic Choice in February 2015.
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Demetrio Volcic
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- university teacherpoliticianjournalist
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Demetrio Volcic, also known in Slovene as Dimitrij Volčič, was an Italian journalist, author, and politician of Slovenian descent. He rose to prominence in the late 1960s and early 1970s as foreign correspondent for the Italian television RAI. In the late 1990s, he served as member of the Italian Senate, and later as Member of European Parliament for the European Socialist Party.
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Salvatore Satta
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- university teachernovelistjurist
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Salvatore Satta was an Italian jurist and writer. He is famous for the novel The Day of Judgment (orig. Italian: Il giorno del giudizio) (1975), and for several important studies on civil law.
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Almerigo Grilz
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- politicianphotojournalistjournalist
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Almerigo Grilz was an Italian right wing politician, and an independent war correspondent.
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José Rodríguez de la Borbolla
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- university teacherlawyerpolitician
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José María Rodríguez de la Borbolla Camoyán is a Spanish politician and lawyer, member of the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party of Andalusia, who was President of Andalusia between 1984 and 1990.
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Renzo Tondo
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- politician
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Renzo Tondo is an Italian politician, former President of Friuli-Venezia Giulia.
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Roberto Menia
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- politician
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Roberto Menia is an Italian politician.
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Noemi Batki
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- competitive diver
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Noemi Batki is a Hungarian-born Italian former diver. She was a member of the Italian National Diving Team at four Olympic Games and was a member of the sports section of the Italian Army, Centro Sportivo Esercito, and Triestina Nuoto.
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Walter Rizzetto
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- politician
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Walter Rizzetto is an Italian politician of Brothers of Italy serving as a member of the Chamber of Deputies. He was first elected in the 2013 general election, and was re-elected in 2018 and 2022. Until 2015, he was a member of the Five Star Movement, and later joined Free Alternative and founded Our Land, before joining Brothers of Italy in 2016. Since 2022, he has chaired the Labour Committee.
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Bianca Maria Piccinino
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- authorjournalisttelevision presenterscience communicator
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Bianca Maria Piccinino was an Italian journalist and television hostess. She was the first woman to conduct an Italian newscast, the 5:00 pm newscast.
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Alessandro Ciriani
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- politician
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Alessandro Ciriani is an Italian politician.
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Pietro Fontanini
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- politician
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Pietro Fontanini is an Italian politician from the Lega Nord, former mayor of Udine and former President of Friuli-Venezia Giulia.
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Luca Visentini
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- poettrade unionist
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Luca Visentini is an Italian trade unionist. Elected general secretary of the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) at the organisation's 5th World Congress in Melbourne, Australia, in mid-November 2022, he stood aside on 14 December 2022 following his arrest and conditional release in relation to the Qatar corruption scandal at the European Parliament. On 11 March 2023, the ITUC General Council voted to dismiss Visentini for accepting funds from Antonio Panzeri.
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Lamberto Zannier
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- diplomatjurist
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Lamberto Zannier is an Italian diplomat with rank of Ambassador and lawyer.
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Mikael Minasyan
- Enrolled in the University of Trieste
- Studied in 2000
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- diplomat
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Mikayel Arayi Minasyan is an Armenian public figure, diplomat, and media mogul. He previously served as Armenia's ambassador to the Holy See, Sovereign Military Order of Malta and Portugal. He is the son-in-law of former Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan.
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Rodolfo Ziberna
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- politician
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Rodolfo Ziberna is an Italian politician.
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Carlo Pelanda
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- economist
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Carlo A. Pelanda is an Italian professor of Political Science and Economics.
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Antonio Giordano
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- pathologistuniversity teacherscientistoncologistgeneticist
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Antonio Giordano is an Italian-American oncologist, pathologist, geneticist, researcher, and professor. He is the Director of the Sbarro Institute for Cancer Research and Molecular Medicine in Philadelphia and a Professor of Anatomy and Pathological Histology in the Department of Medical Biotechnology at the University of Siena.
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Ettore Romoli
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- politician
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Ettore Romoli was an Italian politician. He was a member of the Forza Italia party and was mayor of Gorizia from 2007 to 2017.
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Renzo de' Vidovich
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- journalistpolitician
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Renzo de' Vidovich was a Dalmatian Italian politician, historian and journalist.
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Marta Verginella
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- historianuniversity teacher
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Marta Verginella is a Slovenian historian from the Slovene minority in Italy in Trieste, notable as one of the most prominent contemporary Slovene historians. Together with Alenka Puhar, she is considered a pioneer in the history of family relations in the Slovene Lands.
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Dušan Jelinčič
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- writermountaineerjournalistessayist
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Dušan Jelinčič is a writer and a journalist from the community of Slovene minority in Italy from Trieste, Italy. He is also an Alpine style mountaineer and the first mountaineer from Trieste who ever conquered an over-8000 m high Himalayan peak.
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Eugenio Morelli
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- physicianpoetwriter
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Eugenio Morelli, Cavaliere OMRI, Ufficiale OMRI is an Italian physician, poet, writer, essayist and art critic.
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Jacopo Schettini Gherardini
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- economist
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Jacopo Schettini Gherardini is an Italian economist. He was a Candidate for the National Secretariat of the Democratic Party (Italy) during the primary elections of 2007. He is currently the Executive Director of Standard Ethics Aei based in London.
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Massimiliano Di Ventra
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- physicist
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Massimiliano Di Ventra is an American-Italian theoretical physicist. Specializing in condensed-matter physics, he is the co-founder of MemComputing, Inc.
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Alberto Conti
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- astronomer
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Alberto Conti, is an astrophysicist and the Vice President for Strategic Operations at BAE Systems Inc. He is one of the creators of the GoogleSky concept, of the idea of astronomical outreach at South by SouthWest 2013 and of the James Webb Space Telescope iBook. He is also the Executive Producer of the Emmy Winning CNN Films The Hunt for Planet B.
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Claudio Tiribelli
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- hepatologist
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Claudio Tiribelli is an Italian hepatologist best known for his studies on bilirubin and Kernicterus, a bilirubin-induced neurological condition.
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Giacomina Lapenna
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- journalistentrepreneur
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Giacomina Lapenna was an Italian entrepreneur, journalist, teacher, and communication expert. She was the first woman in Italy to work in the field of public relations. In 1958, she co-founded the National Union of Public Relations Experts, Italy. She was also a member of several international public relations organizations and of the European association of women executives.
