Luigi is a masculine Italian given name. It is the Italian form of the German name Ludwig, through the Latinization Ludovicus, corresponding to the French name Louis and its anglicized variant Lewis.
Other forms of the same name in Italian are the names Ludovico, Clodoveo, Aloísio, and Alvise, the last form being more frequent in the Veneto region. A derived feminine name is Luigina.
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People with the given name Luigi
Crime and law
Luigi Chiatti (born 1968), serial killer
Luigi de Magistris (politician) (born 1967), prosecutor
Luigi Ferrari Bravo (1933–2016), jurist
Luigi Giuliano (born 1949), Camorrista of the Giuliano clan
Luigi Lucheni (1873–1910), anarchist and assassin
Luigi Mangione (born 1998), suspect in the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson
Luigi Manocchio (1927–2024), Italian-American mobster
Luigi Riccio (born 1957), pentito and former Camorrista
Luigi Scotti (born 1932), judge
Luigi Vollaro, Camorrista of the Vollaro clan
Engineering and mathematics
Luigi Bianchi (1856–1928), mathematician
Luigi Colani (1928–2019), German industrial designer
Luigi Cremona (1830–1903), mathematician
Luigi Dadda (1923–2012), computer engineer
Luigi Fantappiè (1901–1956), mathematician
Luigi Giura (1795–1865), Italian engineer and architect
Luigi Martinelli (engineer), Italian aeronautical engineer, mechanical engineer, and professor
Luigi Poletti (mathematician) (1864–1967), mathematician and poet
Luigi Segre (1919–1963), automotive designer and engineer
Luigi Vanvitelli (1700–1773), engineer and architect
Film and television
Luigi Almirante (1886–1963), film actor
Luigi Batzella, Z-movie director
Luigi Bonos (1910–2000), film actor
Luigi Capuano (1904–1979), film director and screenwriter
Luigi Cimara (1891–1962), film actor
Luigi Comencini (1916–2007), film director
Luigi Cozzi (born 1947), movie director and screenwriter
Luigi Filippo D'Amico (1924–2007), director and writer
Luigi Gervasi, set decorator from 1947–68
Luigi Lo Cascio (born 1967), actor
Luigi Magni (1928–2013), screenwriter and film director
Luigi Pane (born 1977), director and video artist
Luigi Pavese (1896–1969), film actor
Luigi Petrucci (born 1956), film and television actor
Luigi Pistilli (1929–1996), actor of stage, screen, and television
Luigi Scaccianoce (1914–1981), production designer, art director, and set decorator
Luigi Zampa (1905–1991), film-maker
Journalism and literature
Luigi Alamanni (1495–1556), poet and statesman
Luigi Albertini (1871–1941), journalist and antifascist
Luigi Ballerini (born 1940), poet, professor, and historian of gastronomy
Luigi Bartolini (1892–1963), writer, poet, and painter
Luigi Barzini, Jr. (1908–1984), Italian-American journalist
Luigi Barzini, Sr. (1874–1947), journalist, war correspondent, and writer
Luigi Capuana (1839–1915), author, journalist, and member of the Verist movement
Luigi Chiarelli (1880–1947), playwright, theatre critic, and writer of short stories
Luigi Da Porto (1485–1529), writer and storiographer
Luigi Fabbri (1877–1935), anarchist, writer, agitator, and propagandist
Luigi Fontanella (born 1943), poet, critic, translator, playwright, and novelist
Luigi Freddi (1895–1977), journalist and politician
Luigi Malerba (1927–2008), author and co-founder of the Gruppo 63
Luigi Meneghello (1922–2007), contemporary writer and scholar
Luigi Pirandello (1867–1936), writer
Military, nobility, and politics
Luigi Alidosi (died 1430), lord of Imola from 1391 to 1424
Prince Luigi Amedeo, Duke of the Abruzzi (1873–1933), Italian prince, mountaineer, and explorer
Luigi Antonini (1883–1968), American trade union leader
Luigi Arisio (1926–2020), Italian politician
Luigi Berlinguer (1932–2023), Italian politician
Luigi Bertoldi (1920–2001), Italian politician
Luigi Braschi Onesti (before 1787–1816), nephew of Pope Pius VI
Luigi Cacciatore (1900–1951), Italian politician
Luigi Cadorna (1850–1928), Italian general and marshal
Luigi Capello (1859–1941), Italian general
Luigi Castagnola (politician) (born 1936), Italian politician
Luigi Cocilovo (born 1947), member of the European Parliament and university researcher in law
Luigi Cornaro (1464–1566), Venetian nobleman
Luigi, Count Cibrario (1802–1870), statesman and historian
Luigi dal Verme (?–1449), condottiero
Luigi Durand de la Penne (1914–1992), naval diver during World War II
Music
Luigi Alva (1927–2025), Peruvian opera singer
Luigi Antinori (c. 1697–?), tenor
Luigi Arditi (1822–1903), violinist, composer, and conductor
Luigi Attademo (born 1972), classical guitarist
Luigi Bassi (1766–1825), operatic baritone
Luigi Boccherini (1743–1805), cellist and composer
Luigi Cherubini (1760–1842), Italian-born composer
Luigi Creatore (1921–2015), American songwriter and record producer
Luigi Dallapiccola (1904–1975), composer known for lyrical twelve-tone compositions
Ivan Della Mea (born as Luigi), singer-songwriter
Luigi Denza (1846–1922), composer
Luigi Gatti (composer) (1740–1817), classical composer
Luigi Groto (1541–1585), Italian poet, lutenist, and actor
Luigi Illica (1857–1919), librettist
Luigi Infantino (1921–1991), operatic tenor
Luigi Lablache (1794–1858), bass singer of French and Irish heritage
Luigi Legnani (1790–1877), guitarist and composer
Luigi Marchesi (1754–1829), castrato singer
Religion
Luigi Amat di San Filippo e Sorso (1796–1878), dean of the College of Cardinals
Luigi Bilio (1826–1884), Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church
Luigi Bonazzi (1948–2025), Roman Catholic apostolic nuncio
Luigi Capotosti (1863–1938), Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church
Luigi Ciacchi (1788–1865), Cardinal of the Catholic Church
Luigi Ciotti (born 1945), Roman Catholic priest
Luigi Dadaglio (1914–1990), Roman Catholic Cardinal and Major Penitentiary of the Apostolic Penitentiary
Luigi "Ossian" D'Ambrosio (born 1970), modern Druid, musician and jeweler
Luigi De Magistris (cardinal) (1926–2022), Roman Catholic Archbishop
Luigi d'Este (1538–1586), Italian cardinal
Luigi Fortis (1748–1829), Jesuit
Luigi Giussani (1922–2005), Catholic priest, educator, and public intellectual
Luigi Guanella (1842–1912), Catholic priest from Northern Italy
Luigi Jacobini (1832–1887), Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church
Luigi Lambruschini (1776–1854), Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church
Luigi Lavitrano (1874–1950), Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church
Science
Luigi Aloysius Colla (1766–1848), botanist
Luigi Amoroso (1886–1965), neoclassical economist
Luigi Bellardi (1859–1889), malacologist and entomologist
Luigi Bodio (1840–1920), economist and statistician
Luigi Cagnola (1762–1833), architect
Luigi Canina (1795–1856), archaeologist and architect
Luigi Carnera (1875–1962), astronomer
Luigi Cossa (1831–1896), economist
Luigi di Bella (1912–2003), medical doctor and physiology professor
Luigi Ferri (1826–1895), philosopher
Luigi Frati (born 1943), academic physician and rector of the Sapienza University of Rome
Luigi Gaetano Marini (1742–1815), natural philosopher, jurist, historian, and archeologist
Luigi Galvani (1737–1798), physician and physicist
Luigi Guido Grandi (1671–1742), philosopher and mathematician
Luigi Hugues (1836–1913), academic geographer and amateur musician
Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza (1922–2018), population geneticist
Luigi Maria Ugolini (1895–1936), archaeologist
Sports
Luigi "Geno" Auriemma (born 1954), Italian-born American women's basketball coach
Luigi Agnolin (1943–2018), football referee
Luigi Allemandi (1903–1978), football defender
Luigi Anaclerio (born 1981), football striker
Luigi Apolloni (born 1967), football manager and former player
Luigi Barbesino (1894–1941), footballer and manager from Casale Monferrato
Luigi Beghetto (born 1973), football striker
Luigi Bertolini (1904–1977), football midfielder
Luigi Bruins (born 1987), Dutch football midfielder
Luigi Brunella (1914–1993), football manager and former defender
Luigi Burlando (1899–1967), football midfielder
Luigi Cagni (born 1950), football manager and former player
Luigi Cevenini (1895–1968), football player
Luigi De Agostini (born 1961), football defender
Luigi De Canio (born 1957), football manager and former player
Luigi Della Rocca (born 1984), football striker
Luigi Delneri (born 1950), football manager and former player
Visual arts
Luigi Acquisti (1745–1823), sculptor
Luigi Anichini, engraver of seals and medals
Luigi Basiletti (1780–1860), painter
Luigi Benfatto (1551–1611), late-Renaissance painter
Luigi Boccherini (1743–1805), classical era composer and cellist
Luigi Borgomainerio, engraver and caricaturist
Luigi Calamatta (1801–1868), painter and engraver
Luigi Crosio (1835–1915), Turin-based Italian painter
Luigi De Giudici (1887–1955), painter
Luigi Diamante (1904–1971), painter
Luigi Fontana (1827–1908), sculptor, painter, and architect
Luigi Frisoni (1760–1811), painter
Luigi Ghirri (1943–1992), photographer
Luigi Garzi (1638–1721), Baroque painter
Luigi Guardigli (1923–2008), painter and mosaicist
Luigi Kasimir (1881–1962), Austro-Hungarian-born etcher, painter, printmaker, and landscape artist
Luigi Lanzi (1732–1810), art historian and archaeologist
Luigi Lucioni (1900–1988), Italian-born American painter
Other fields
Luigi Bertoni (1872–1947), Italian-born anarchist writer and typographer
Luigi Borrelli, Naples-based shirts maker
Luigi Calabresi (1937–1972), commissioner of Italian police in Milan
Luigi Carrel (1901–1983), mountain climber, mountain guide, and ski mountaineer
Luigi D'Albertis (1841–1901), naturalist and explorer
Luigi Galleani (1861–1931), anarchist
Luigi Lavazza (1859–1949), businessman
Luigi Manzotti (1835–1905), choreographer
Luigi Ossoinack (1849–1904), Hungarian businessman and politician
Luigi Puccianti (1875–1952), Italian physicist
Luigi Veronelli (1926–2004), gastronome and intellectual
Luigi Villa, backgammon player
Luigi Voltan, the founder of the eponymous shoe company
Fictional characters
Luigi (Cars), a Fiat 500 car from Pixar's animated film franchise
Luigi (character), a Nintendo video game character and the younger twin brother of Mario from the Super Mario franchise
Luigi Risotto, from the animated sitcom The Simpsons
Luigi Vendetta, in Kick Buttowski