Famous People with Name Giacinto

Giacinto Scelsi            Origin/Culture/Country: Italian

Giacinto Scelsi: was an Italian composer who also wrote surrealist poetry in French. He is best known for writing music based around only one pitch, altered in all manners through microtonal oscillations, harmonic allusions, and changes in timbre and dynamics, as paradigmatically exemplified in his revolutionary Quattro Pezzi su una nota sola (1959). His musical output, which encompassed all Western classical genres except scenic music, remained largely undiscovered even within contemporary musical circles during most of his life, until a series of concerts in the mid to late 1980s finally premièred many of his pieces to great acclaim, notably his orchestral masterpieces in October 1987 in Cologne, about a quarter of a century after those works had been composed and less than a year before the composer's death (he was able to attend the premières and personally supervised the rehearsals). The impact caused by the late discovery of his works was described by Belgian musicologist Harry Halbreich saying:

Giacinto Facchetti            Origin/Culture/Country: Italian

Giacinto Facchetti: was an Italian football player. From January 2004 until his death, he was President of Internazionale, the club for which he played for his whole career during the 1960s and 1970s, playing 634 official games and scoring 75 goals. He played for the Internazionale team remembered as “La Grande Inter”. Facchetti is remembered as one of the first truly great attacking-full backs. He would make marauding runs upfield using his wonderful dribbling and crossing. He could also play at centre-back where his tackling was used to great effect. He also possessed wonderful stamina and scored important goals.

Giacinto Pannella            Origin/Culture/Country: Italian

Giacinto Pannella: is an Italian politician.At the age of 20, Marco Pannella was a national representative at the university level for the Italian Liberal Party (PLI), member of the student association Unione goliardica Italiana (UGI) and at 23 he was President of the Union

Giacinto "Cinto" Sertorelli            Origin/Culture/Country: Italian

Giacinto "Cinto" Sertorelli: was an Italian alpine skier who competed in the 1936 Winter Olympics. In 1936 he finished seventh in the alpine skiing combined event.

Giacinto Santambrogio            Origin/Culture/Country: Italian

Giacinto Santambrogio: was an Italian professional road bicycle racer.