Profiles — Creators

Creators

Directors, broadcasters, animators and makers whose work shaped what audiences watched.

French philosopher (1925–1995)

Gilles Deleuze

Gilles Louis René Deleuze was a French philosopher who, from the early 1950s until his death, wrote on a variety of subjects including ontology, social critique, film theory, and fine art.

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Italian Dominican friar, philosopher and mathematician (1548–1600)

Giordano Bruno

Giordano Bruno was an Italian philosopher, Dominican friar and priest, poet, alchemist, astronomer, cosmological theorist, and esotericist.

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Prime Minister of Italy since 2022

Giorgia Meloni

Giorgia Meloni is an Italian politician who has served as Prime Minister of Italy since October 2022.

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President of Italy from 2006 to 2015

Giorgio Napolitano

Giorgio Napolitano was an Italian politician who served as the president of Italy from 2006 to 2015.

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Italian painter, architect, writer and historian (1511-1574)

Giorgio Vasari

Giorgio Vasari was an Italian Renaissance painter, architect, art historian, and biographer known for his work Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects, considered the ideological foundation of Western art-historical writing, and still m

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Venetian Renaissance painter (1478–1510)

Giorgione

Giorgio Barbarelli da Castelfranco, known as Giorgione, was an Italian painter of the Venetian school during the High Renaissance, who died in his thirties.

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Greek poet and diplomat (1900-1971)

Giorgos Seferis

Giorgos or George Seferis, the pen name of Georgios Seferiadis, was a Greek poet and diplomat.

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Italian poet and literary critic (1835-1907)

Giosuè Carducci

Giosuè Alessandro Giuseppe Carducci was an Italian poet, writer, literary critic and teacher.

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Italian painter and architect (c. 1267–1337)

Giotto

Giotto di Bondone, known mononymously as Giotto, was an Italian painter and architect from Florence during the Late Middle Ages.

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