Mosca
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Mosca is an Italian surname that means "fly" and may refer to:
- Angelo MoscaAngelo MoscaAngelo Mosca is a former Canadian Football League player and professional wrestler. He is also known by the wrestling nicknames King Kong Mosca and The Mighty Hercules...
(born 1938), Canadian Football League player and professional wrestler - Frank MoscaFrank MoscaFrank Mosca is an American film producer. He was born in The Bronx, New York in 1976. He co-founded Harrington Talents in 2000, which is a production company in City Island, Bronx. He is the company's head producer and a resident director. Some of his accomplishments include, producing the...
, author - Gaetano MoscaGaetano MoscaGaetano Mosca was an Italian political scientist, journalist and public servant. He is credited with developing the Theory of Elitism and the doctrine of the Political class and is one of the three members constituting the Italian School of Elitists together with Vilfredo Pareto and Robert...
(1858–1941), Italian political scientist, journalist and public servant - Luigi MoscaLuigi MoscaLuigi Mosca was Italian composer of operas and sacred music and a noted singing teacher. He composed eighteen operas, most of them originally for theatres in Naples, but which played throughout Italy in their day.-Biography:...
(1775–1824), a Neapolitan opera composer - Michele MoscaMichele MoscaMichele Mosca is co-founder and deputy director of the Institute for Quantum Computing at the University of Waterloo, researcher and founding member of the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, and professor of mathematics in the department of at the University of Waterloo...
, physics researcher and professor of mathematics - Rafael MoscaRafael MoscaRafael Motta Bacêllo Mósca is a freestyle swimmer from Brazil, who won the silver medal with the men's relay team in the 4x200m freestyle at the Pan American Games in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. His winning teammates were Carlos Jayme, Gustavo Borges, and Rodrigo Castro...
(born 1982), Brazilian swimmer - Sal MoscaSal MoscaSal Mosca was an American jazz pianist who was a student of Lennie Tristano. Born in Mount Vernon, New York, Mosca worked in cool jazz and post-bop. He began working with Lee Konitz in 1949 and also worked with Warne Marsh. He spent much of his career teaching and was relatively inactive since...
(1927–2007), American jazz pianist - Walter Mosca, the main character in Mario Puzo'sMario PuzoMario Gianluigi Puzo was an American author and screenwriter, known for his novels about the Mafia, including The Godfather , which he later co-adapted into a film by Francis Ford Coppola...
novel The Dark ArenaThe Dark ArenaThe Dark Arena is the first novel by Mario Puzo, published in 1955.The book follows Walter Mosca, an American World War II veteran who returns to Germany for his girlfriend, Hella... - Mosca (The Godfather), fictional character in The Godfather Part IIIThe Godfather Part IIIThe Godfather Part III is a 1990 American gangster film written by Mario Puzo and Francis Ford Coppola, and directed by Coppola. It completes the story of Michael Corleone, a Mafia kingpin who tries to legitimize his criminal empire...
- Mosca, a character in Ben Jonson'sBen JonsonBenjamin Jonson was an English Renaissance dramatist, poet and actor. A contemporary of William Shakespeare, he is best known for his satirical plays, particularly Volpone, The Alchemist, and Bartholomew Fair, which are considered his best, and his lyric poems...
1606 play VolponeVolponeVolpone is a comedy by Ben Jonson first produced in 1606, drawing on elements of city comedy, black comedy and beast fable... - Mosca (born 1986), UK urban producer and DJ
Aircraft
- Polikarpov I-16Polikarpov I-16The Polikarpov I-16 was a Soviet fighter aircraft of revolutionary design; it was the world's first cantilever-winged monoplane fighter with retractable landing gear. The I-16 was introduced in the mid-1930s and formed the backbone of the Soviet Air Force at the beginning of World War II...
, referred to by republicans during the Spanish Civil War as moscas