Arts and Music

• Luigi Boccherini (born 1743, died 1805)

  Italian composer and cellist.

  • The first composer to write music for string quintets (see list of Classical Composers)

Science and Philosophy

• Luigi Galvani (born 1737, died 1798)

  Italian physician and physicist.

  • Best remembered for experiments in which he used electrical currents to make the legs of dead frogs twitch (see list of Mathematicians, Physicists & Astronomers)

Sports

• Luigi Beccali

  Italian athlete.

  • 1932 Olympic track and field gold medal winner for 1500m (see list of Olympic Gold Medalists in Miscellaneous Track Events)

The Literary World

• Luigi Pirandello (born 1867, died 1936)

  Italian playwright and novelist.

  • Wrote Six Characters in Search of an Author (see list of Prose Writers of the 20th Century)
  • 1934 Nobel Prize winner for Literature (see list of Winners of the Nobel Prize for Literature)