Famous People with Name Domenico

Domenico Cimarosa            Origin/Culture/Country: Italian

Domenico Cimarosa: was an Italian opera composer of the Neapolitan school. He wrote more than eighty operas during his lifetime, including his masterpiece, Il matrimonio segreto (1792). Cimarosa was born in Aversa, near Naples. His parents were poor, but, anxious to give their son a good education, they sent him to a free school connected with one of the monasteries in Naples after moving to that city.

Domenico Trezzini            Origin/Culture/Country: Swiss

Domenico Trezzini: was a Swiss-Italian architect who elaborated the Petrine Baroque style of Russian architecture. Domenico was born in Astano, near Lugano, in the Italian speaking Ticino (at that time administered by the German speaking cantons). He probably studied in Rome. Subsequently, as he was working in Denmark, he was offered by Peter I of Russia, among other architects, to design buildings in the new Russian capital city, St. Petersburg.

Domenico Fioravanti            Origin/Culture/Country: Italian

Domenico Fioravanti: He started to race in swimming pool at the age of nine, and one years later started to train everyday, spurred by the elder brother Massimiliano who was already a swimmer.In 1995 he took part at his first European Championship. In 1999 he was European champion in the 100 m breaststroke.In 2000 Fioravanti became the first Italian swimmer to win a gold medal in the Olympic Games, winning both 100 m and 200 m breaststroke races. He also won another gold European medal in the 100 m breaststroke. In 2001 he was silver medal in the 100 m breaststroke and bronze medal in the 50 breaststroke at the World Championship.

Domenico Botticella            Origin/Culture/Country: Italian

Domenico Botticella: an Italian footballer. He plays for Paganese in Serie C1.He played in Serie B between 2000 until 2005. In his last season, he compete with Marco Ambrosio and Alex Brunner.He also played for Foggina, but in Serie C1 and Serie C2.

Domenico Criscito            Origin/Culture/Country: Italian

Domenico Criscito: an Italian football central defender.Criscito started his professional career at Genoa C.F.C., for which made his debut in Serie B in June 2003 at the age of 16. In the summer of 2004 Genoa sold 50% of the rights to Juventus for €150.000. He played for the youth team of Juventus in the following two seasons, winning the Italian youth championship in 2006 and scoring the opening goal in the final match against Fiorentina. In 2006-2007 he went to play for Genoa,

Giovanni Domenico            Origin/Culture/Country: French

Giovanni Domenico: was an Italian-born astronomer, nephew of Giacomo F. Maraldi. Maraldi came to Paris in 1727 and became a member of the French Academy of Sciences in 1731. There, while observing Comet De Chéseaux with Jacques Cassini in 1746, he discovered two "nebulous stars", which later turned out to be globular clusters M15 and M2. Maraldi retired to Perinaldo, Italy in 1772. He was poshumously honored, along with his uncle, by the naming of lunar crater Maraldi in 1935.

Anthony Joseph "Tony" De Domenico            Origin/Culture/Country: Australian

Anthony Joseph "Tony" De Domenico: is an Australian politician and was a member of the Australian Capital Territory Legislative Assembly elected to the multi-member single constituency Assembly and later elected to represent the multi-member electorate of Brindabella for the Liberal Party.