Pier (given name)

Last updated May 02, 2019

Pier is a given name, a form of Peter, which may refer to:

A given name is a part of a person's personal name. It identifies a person, and differentiates that person from the other members of a group who have a common surname. The term given name refers to the fact that the name usually is bestowed upon a person, normally to a child by their parents at or close to the time of birth. A Christian name, a first name which historically was given at baptism, is now also typically given by the parents at birth.

Pre-20th century

Pier Jacopo Alari Bonacolsi (c. 1460–1528), Italian sculptor
Pier Luigi de Borgia, 1st duke of Gandía (c. 1460–1491), Valencian noble
Pier Luigi Carafa (1581–1655), Italian cardinal
Pier Paolo Crescenzi (1572–1645), Italian Catholic cardinal
Pier Gerlofs Donia (c. 1480–1520), West Frisian warrior, pirate and rebel
Pier Luigi Farnese, Duke of Parma (1503–1547), first Duke of Parma, Piacenza and Castro
Pier Leone Ghezzi (1674–1755), Italian Rococo painter and caricaturist
Pier Leoni (died 1128), Roman consul
Pier Francesco Mazzucchelli (1573–1626), Italian painter and draughtsman
Pier Antonio Micheli (1679–1737), Italian botanist and Catholic priest
Pier Francesco Mola (1612–1666), Italian painter
Pier Francesco Orsini (1523–1583), Italian military leader and patron of the arts
Pier Maria Pennacchi 1464–before 1515), Italian painter
Pier Francesco Tosi (c.1653–1732), Italian castrato singer, composer, and writer on music
Pier Paolo Vergerio the Elder (1370–1444 or 1445), Italian humanist, statesman and canon lawyer
Pier Paolo Vergerio (c. 1498–1565), Italian religious reformer

Pier Jacopo Alari Bonacolsi, called L'Antico by his contemporaries for the refined interpretation of the Antique they recognized in his work, was a 16th-century North Italian sculptor, known for his finely detailed small bronzes all'Antica—coolly classicizing, often with gilded details, and silver-inlaid eyes, a refinement that is found in some classical and Hellenistic Greek bronzes.

Pier Luigi de Borgia, 1st duke of Gandía was a Valencian noble. Pier Luigi was the son of Cardinal Rodrigo Borgia, and half-brother of Cesare Borgia, Gioffre Borgia, Giovanni Borgia and Lucrezia Borgia.

Pier Luigi Carafa (Senior) was a cardinal of the Catholic Church, and a member of the Roman Curia.

Later

Pier Angeli (1932–1971), Italian actress
Pier Luigi Bersani (born 1951), Italian politician
Pier Paolo Bianchi (born 1952), Italian former Grand Prix motorcycle road racing world champion
Pier Ferdinando Casini (born 1955), Italian politician
Pier Giacomo Castiglioni (1913–1968), Italian architect and designer
Pier Luigi Cherubino (born 1971), Spanish former footballer
Pier Giorgio Frassati (1901–1925), Italian Catholic social activist beatified by the Catholic Church
Pier Gonella (born 1977), Italian guitarist
Pier Giacomo Grampa (born 1936), Italian bishop in Switzerland
Pier Morten (born 1959), Canadian judoka and wrestler
Pier Luigi Nervi (1891–1979), Italian engineer
Pier Carlo Padoan (born 1950), Italian economist and Minister of Economy and Finances
Pier Pander (1864–1919), Dutch sculptor and designer of medals
Pier Antonio Panzeri (born 1955), Italian politician and MEP
Pier Paolo Pasolini (1922–1975), Italian writer, film director and poet
Pier Giorgio Perotto (1930–2002), Italian electrical engineer and inventor
Pier Ruggero Piccio (1880–1965), Italian World War I flying ace and founding Chief of Staff of the Italian Air Force
Pier Giacomo Pisoni (1928–1991), Italian historian, paleographer and archivist
Pier Luigi Pizzi (born 1930), Italian opera director, set designer, and costume designer
Pier Antonio Quarantotti Gambini (1910–1965), Italian writer and journalist
Pier Andrea Saccardo (1845–1920), Italian botanist and mycologist
Pier Vittorio Tondelli (1955–1991), Italian writer
Pier Tol (born 1958), Dutch footballer
Pier Vellinga (born 1950), Dutch climatologist

Pier Angeli, also credited under her birth name, Anna Maria Pierangeli, was an Italian-born television and film actress. Her American cinematographic debut was in the starring role of the 1951 film Teresa, for which she won a Golden Globe Award for Young Star of the Year - Actress. She had one son with Vic Damone, her first husband, and another son with Armando Trovajoli, her second husband.

Pier Luigi Bersani is an Italian politician and was Secretary of the Democratic Party (DP), Italy's leading centre-left party, from 2009 to 2013. Bersani was Minister of Industry, Commerce and Craftmanship from 1996 to 1999, Minister of Transport from 1999 to 2001, and Minister of Economic Development from 2006 to 2008.

Pier Paolo Bianchi is an Italian former Grand Prix motorcycle road racing World Champion.

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Pier (given name)

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