Famous People with Name Colombo

Corrado Colombo            Origin/Culture/Country: Italian

Corrado Colombo: an Italian footballer. He currently plays for A.S. Bari of Serie B, joint-owned by Sampdoria.Colombo started his career at famous youth rank of Atalanta. He made his debut on Serie B and for the club in 1998/1999 season, and then joined Pistoiese (Serie B). He was signed by the big giant Internazionale in the summer of 2000. He made his Serie A debut on 1 October 2000 against Reggina Calcio, and four other appearances at Coppa Italia, Italian Super Cup and the UEFA Cup match which he scored.

Luca Colombo            Origin/Culture/Country: Italian

Luca Colombo: an Italian football player. He currently plays for FC Chiasso.Colombo started his career at Olginatese. In summer 2003, he was on loan to Internazionale youth team (under-19/20). Inter bought him a year later, but sold to Sora (Serie C1) in join-ownership bid.

Riccardo Colombo            Origin/Culture/Country: Italian

Riccardo Colombo: an Italian football player. He currently plays for Torino Calcio.

Virginio Colombo            Origin/Culture/Country: South America

Virginio Colombo: was a prolific architect who completed close to 50 works in Buenos Aires in just 21 years before his premature death at the age of 42. Born in 1885 in Milan, Italy, he studied architecture in the Brera Academy under Giuseppe Sommaruga, the city's leading exponent of the Art Nouveau style. A fellow student, Antonio Sant'Elia, later became the number one advocate of Futurism in Italian architecture. During the early part of the 20th century there were many immigrant Italian architects working in Buenos Aires including Francesco Tamburini, who designed the Teatro Colón, Vittorio Meano, who designed the Argentine National Congress, Mario Palanti, who designed the Palacio Barolo, Francisco Gianotti who designed the Confitería El Molino, and Juan Antonio Buschiazzo who made alterations to the Centro Cultural Recoleta and designed the Italian Hospital. Of these architects, Colombo was one of the most active and creative.

Jürgen Colombo            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Jürgen Colombo: is a retired track cyclist from West Germany, who won the gold medal in the Men's 4.000 Team Pursuit at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, alongside Günther Schumacher, Günter Haritz, and Udo Hempel.