Brenda Buell Vaccaro is an American stage, film and television actress. In a career spanning over half a century, she received one Academy Award nomination, three Golden Globe Award nominations, four Primetime Emmy Award nominations, and three Tony Award nominations.
Cosimo Fanzago was an Italian architect and sculptor, generally considered the greatest such artist of the Baroque period in Naples, Italy.
Acerno is a town and comune in the province of Salerno in the region of Campania in south-western Italy.
Angelo Palombo is an Italian former professional footballer who played as a midfielder. Throughout his club career, he played for Fiorentina, Sampdoria, and Inter Milan in Serie A. The vast majority of that time was spent at Sampdoria where he was club captain and played a total of nearly 15 years.
Joseph, Luca, and FelixVaccaro, known as the Vaccaro brothers, were Italian-American businessmen originally from Sicily.
Angelo Schiavio was an Italian footballer who played as a forward. Schiavio spent his entire career with Bologna, the club of the city where he was born and died; he won four league titles with the club, and is the team's all-time highest goalscorer. He won the 1934 FIFA World Cup with Italy, finishing as the tournament's second highest goalscorer; winning the 1927–30 Central European International Cup & 1933–35 Central European International Cup and he also won a bronze medal with Italy at the 1928 Summer Olympics. Following his retirement, he later also managed both Bologna and the Italy national side.
Thomas Verducci is an American sportswriter who writes for Sports Illustrated and its online magazine SI.com. He writes primarily about baseball. He is also a reporter and commentator for Fox Major League Baseball and MLB Network.
Andrea Vaccaro was an Italian painter of the Baroque period. Vaccaro was in his time one of the most successful painters in Naples, a city then under Spanish rule. Very successful and valued in his lifetime, Vaccaro and his workshop produced many religious works for local patrons as well as for export to Spanish religious orders and noble patrons. He was initially influenced by Caravaggio, in particular in his chiaroscuro and the naturalistic rendering of his figures.
Michelantonio Celestino Onofrio Vaccaro was an American photographer who is best known for his photos taken in Europe during 1944 and 1945, and in Germany immediately following World War II. He subsequently became a fashion and lifestyle photographer for American magazines.
The Rochester crime family, also known as the Valenti crime family or the Rochester Mafia, was an Italian-American Mafia crime family based in Rochester, New York that was part of the American Cosa Nostra.
Angelo Gigli is an Italian former professional basketball player. He has also represented the Italian national team internationally. Standing at 2.09 m, he was a left-handed power forward and center.
Angelo Adamo Gregucci is an Italian football coach and former player.
Obinze Angelo Ogbonna is an Italian professional footballer who plays as a centre back, most recently for Premier League club West Ham United.
Vaccaro is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Davide Grassi is an Italian professional footballer and Manager, who currently works as player-manager for Aberdeen side Byron Boys Club
Angelo Mazzoni is an Italian épée fencer who competed at six consecutive Olympics between 1980 and 2000, winning gold medals in 1996 and 2000.
Kenneth Dwayne Vaccaro is an American former football safety who played eight seasons in the National Football League (NFL) and founder and CEO of the Gamers First organization. They have teams in Halo and other major Esport titles. He was selected by the New Orleans Saints in the first round of the 2013 NFL draft and also played for the Tennessee Titans. He played college football at Texas. On December 1, 2021, he retired to pursue a career in Esports.
Carlo Natale Marino Conti, simply known as Carlo Conti, is an Italian television presenter.
The Teatro Nuovo is a theatre located on Via Montecalvario in the Quartieri Spagnoli district of Naples. The original theatre was an opera house designed by Domenico Antonio Vaccaro. Completed in 1724, it was also known as the Teatro Nuovo sopra Toledo and the Teatro Nuovo de Montecalvario. The theatre specialised in the opera buffa genre and saw the world premieres of hundreds of operas in its heyday. These included fifteen of Cimarosa's operas and seven of Donizetti's. The present theatre is the third to have been erected on the site following its destruction by fire in 1861 and again in 1935.
