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Emily DiDonato - model of Italian, Irish, and Native American ancestry [9] Ralph DiGia - pacifist and social justice activist; Tabitha D'umo - choreographer and creative director; Angelo Dundee - trainer of several boxing champions; Elizabeth Edwards - born Anania, wife of John Edwards, former U.S. Senator from North Carolina
An American teacher who had studied in Italy, Sarah Wool Moore, was so concerned with grifters luring immigrants into rooming houses or employment contracts in which the bosses got kickbacks that she pressed for the founding of the Society for the Protection of Italian Immigrants (often called the Society for Italian Immigrants). The society ...
The first Italian American in Detroit was Alfonso Tonti (1659–1727) The first Italian American in Detroit was Alfonso Tonti, a Frenchman with an Italian immigrant father. He was the second-in-command of Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac, who established Detroit in 1701. Tonti's child, born in 1703, was the first ethnic European child born in Detroit.
Raylene, born Stacey Bernstein, of Italian and Mexican descent on her mother's side, her father is Jewish of Polish and Austrian descent; Amber Rayne (1984–2016), born Meghan Wren, was of mixed Italian, Scottish, Irish and Native American descent; Raven Riley, half Italian, half Cherokee; Bonnie Rotten, of Italian, German, Polish and Jewish ...
Michael F. Doyle, congressman (Italian mother, maiden name Fusco) [72] Larry Farnese, attorney and state senator; Vincent Fumo, former state senator, former Democratic State Senate Appropriations Chairman; Melissa Hart, former U.S. congresswoman (Italian mother, Albina Simone) [73] Frank Mascara, former U.S. congressman [5] Doug Mastriano ...
Italian-American actors included Enrico Caruso in the cultural legitimation of American silent cinema, to Rudolph (Rodolfo) Valentino. The of American film Renaissance ( New Hollywood ) in the 1970s coincided with Scorsese 's Mean Streets (1973) and Coppola's The Godfather (1972), Giuliana Muscio attributes this to Italian Americans becoming ...
Pages in category "American people of Italian descent" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 4,444 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Anthony T. Rossi (1900–1993), Italian immigrant who founded Tropicana Products; Henry Salvatori (1901–1997), Italian immigrant geophysicist, businessman, philanthropist, and political activist who founded Western Geophysical; Peter Santenello (born 1977), videomaker, traveler, and entrepreneur who produces videos about travel and human stories