Famous People with Name Albani

Albanie Morin            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Albanie Morin: was a Canadian politician, who represented the electoral district of Louis-Hébert in the Canadian House of Commons from 1972 to 1976. Morin, Monique Bégin and Jeanne Sauvé, all elected in 1972, were the first women ever elected to the House of Commons from Quebec. A member of the Liberal Party, Morin first won the seat in the 1972 election, and was reelected in 1974. She held the seat until her death in 1976, and was succeeded by Dennis Dawson in a by-election held on May 24, 1977.

Marcella Albani            Origin/Culture/Country: Italian

Marcella Albani: was an Italian actress. She appeared in 50 films between 1919 and 1936.She was born in Rome, Italy and died in Wiesbaden, Germany.

Francesco Albani            Origin/Culture/Country: Italian

Francesco Albani: was an Italian Baroque painter.In the year 1600, Albani moved to Rome to work in the fresco decoration of the gallery of the Palazzo Farnese, being completed by the studio of Annibale Carracci. Rome, under Clement VIII Aldobrandini (1592-1605) was exhibiting some degree of administrative stability and renewed artistic patronage. While pope Clement was born from a Florentine family residing in Urbino, his family was allied by marriage to the Emilia-Romagna and the Farnese, since Ranuccio I Farnese, Duke of Parma had married Margherita Aldobrandini. Parma, like Bologna, are part of the Region of Emilia-Romagna. Thus it was not surprise that Cardinal Odoarde Farnese, Ranuccio's brother, chose the Carraccis from Bologna for patronage, thereby establishing Bolognese predominance of Roman fresco painting for nearly two decades.

Joseph Albani            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Joseph Albani: was a jazz pianist. It is remarked on his being among the few white pianists to have played Bebop with Charlie Parker.Born in Atlantic City, New Jersey, he had studied piano as a child and by 1943 he was working on the West Coast in Benny Carter's orchest