Ricci
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Ricci (ˈrittʃi) is an Italian surname, and can also be a shortened version of Riccardo
, as a first name and may refer to:
Riccardo
Riccardo is a male given name, Italian version of Richard.It may be refer to:-People:*Riccardo Antoniazzi, Italian violin maker*Riccardo Azzoli , racecar driver*Riccardo Bacchelli , writer*Riccardo Barthelemy, Italian composer...
, as a first name and may refer to:
Surname
- Christie RicciChristie RicciChristie Mathis is an American professional wrestler better known by her ring names, Christie Ricci and Glory. She is the current and inaugural Wrestlicious Champion....
, American wrestler - Christina RicciChristina RicciChristina Ricci is an American actress. Ricci received initial recognition and praise as a child star for her performance as Wednesday Addams in The Addams Family and Addams Family Values , and her role as Kat Harvey in Casper...
, American actress - Fausto RicciFausto RicciFausto Ricci was an Italian Grand Prix motorcycle road racer. His best year was in 1985 when he finished fifth in the 250cc world championship. He won the very first Grand Prix he entered at the 1984 250cc Nations Grand Prix held at Misano, but was never able to win another race.- References :...
, Italian motorcycle racer - Federico RicciFederico RicciFederico Ricci , was an Italian composer, particularly of operas.Born in Naples, he was the younger brother of Luigi Ricci, with whom he collaborated on several works....
, Italian composer - Franco Maria RicciFranco Maria RicciFranco Maria Ricci is an Italian publisher. Among his publications is FMR, an art magazine published six times yearly in Italian, English, German, French and Spanish, based in Milan, Italy...
, Italian art publisher - Gregorio Ricci-CurbastroGregorio Ricci-CurbastroGregorio Ricci-Curbastro was an Italian mathematician. He was born at Lugo di Romagna. He is most famous as the inventor of the tensor calculus but published important work in many fields....
, Italian mathematician (Ricci curvatureRicci curvatureIn differential geometry, the Ricci curvature tensor, named after Gregorio Ricci-Curbastro, represents the amount by which the volume element of a geodesic ball in a curved Riemannian manifold deviates from that of the standard ball in Euclidean space...
) - Italia RicciItalia RicciStephanie Italia Ricci is a Canadian actress. She is known for co-starring role as Maggie Winnock in the Cartoon Network live-action series Unnatural History and her recurring role as Sasha in the Comedy Central series Secret Girlfriend.-Career:Ricci made her major acting debut in 2007, in the...
, Canadian actress - Jason RicciJason RicciJason Ricci is an American harmonica player and singer.-Biography:Raised in Portland, Maine, Jason Ricci is the son of the controversial businessman/politician/activist Joe Ricci, founder of Elan School. Ricci started playing music in punk bands at the age of 14. After discovering a love of the...
, American blues harmonica player - Lawrence RicciLawrence RicciLawrence A. Ricci was a reputed Genovese crime family caporegime.Officially a dairy products salesman, Ricci was allegedly a major mob figure. In 1979, Ricci was sentenced to prison for attempting to extort $4,800 from a Parsippany, New Jersey restaurant owner.In February 2005, Ricci was charged...
- Lorenzo RicciLorenzo RicciLorenzo Ricci was an Italian Jesuit, elected the 18th Superior General of the Society of Jesus. He was also the last before the suppression of the Jesuits in 1773.-Early Life and career:Ricci was born in Florence, Italy...
, 18th Superior General of the Jesuits - Luigi Ricci (composer)
- Lella RicciLella RicciLella Ricci was an Italian opera singer.She was born in Italy as Adelaide Ricci to composer Luigi Ricci and opera singer Ludmila Stolz . She inherited musical talent and enjoyed a great success in the Theatre Principe Umberto in Florence...
, singer - Luigi Ricci-StolzLuigi Ricci-StolzLuigi Ricci-Stolz was an Italian musician and composer.He was born as Luigino Ricci in Trieste to composer Luigi Ricci and opera singer Francesca Stolz , the elder sister of Teresa Stolz. At the time Luigi Ricci was married to Ludmila Stolz , the identical twin sister of Francesca...
, composer
- Lella Ricci
- Luigi Ricci (vocal coach)Luigi Ricci (vocal coach)Luigi Ricci was an Italian assistant conductor, accompanist, vocal coach, and author.-Career:Luigi Ricci began studying music as a child, and at the age of only twelve, started accompanying voice lessons given by the famous baritone...
- Marco RicciMarco RicciMarco Ricci was an Italian painter of the Baroque period. He was the nephew of Sebastiano Ricci. After receiving his first instruction in art from his uncle, he visited Rome, where he was for some years occupied in drawing vedute....
- Matteo RicciMatteo RicciMatteo Ricci, SJ was an Italian Jesuit priest, and one of the founding figures of the Jesuit China Mission, as it existed in the 17th-18th centuries. His current title is Servant of God....
, Jesuit Missionary in China - Mike RicciMike RicciMichael Ricci is a Canadian former professional ice hockey centre who played 16 seasons in the National Hockey League for the Philadelphia Flyers, Quebec Nordiques, Colorado Avalanche, San Jose Sharks and Phoenix Coyotes....
, Canadian ice hockeyIce hockeyIce hockey, often referred to as hockey, is a team sport played on ice, in which skaters use wooden or composite sticks to shoot a hard rubber puck into their opponent's net. The game is played between two teams of six players each. Five members of each team skate up and down the ice trying to take...
player - Nina Ricci (designer)Nina Ricci (designer)Maria Nina Ricci was a French fashion designer of Italian origin.-Life and work:Maria Nielli was born in Turin, Italy in 1883, she moved to Florence, Italy with her family at age 5 and then to France in 1895 at age 12. She was nicknamed Nina. At the age of 13, she began an apprenticeship at a...
- Nino RicciNino RicciNino Ricci is a Canadian novelist who lives in Toronto, Ontario. He was born in Leamington, Ontario to Italian immigrants, Virginio and Amelia Ricci, from the province of Isernia, Molise....
- Renato RicciRenato RicciRenato Ricci was an Italian fascist politician active during the government of Benito Mussolini.Ricci first came to prominence as a legionary of Gabriele d'Annunzio from 1919 to 1920...
- Renato Ricci, (born 1991) Italian footballer
- Regolo RicciRegolo RicciRegolo Ricci is a Canadian artist working mainly in oils and watercolors. He was born in Italy and came to Canada as a young child. He is best known for his work as a children's book illustrator, and he was nominated for the Governor General's Award for Children's Book Illustration in 2000. He...
- Richard Ricci
- Ruggiero RicciRuggiero RicciRuggiero Ricci is an Italian-American violinist known for performances and recordings of the works of Paganini. He was born in San Bruno, California. Ricci's brother was cellist and his sister Emma played violin with the New York Metropolitan Opera.He is the son of Italian immigrants. His...
- Sebastiano RicciSebastiano RicciSebastiano Ricci was an Italian painter of the late Baroque school of Venice. About the same age as Piazzetta, and an elder contemporary of Tiepolo, he represents a late version of the vigorous and luminous Cortonesque style of grand manner fresco painting.-Early years:He was born in Belluno, son...
- Ulysses RicciUlysses RicciUlysses Ricci was an American sculptor known primarily for his architectural sculpture. Born in New York City, Ricci was an apprentice at the Perth Amboy Terra Cotta Works in New Jersey from 1902 to 1906. He studied at Cooper Union Institute and at the Art Students League with James Earle...
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- 13642 Ricci13642 Ricci13642 Ricci is a main-belt asteroid discovered on April 19, 1996 by P. G. Comba at Prescott.- External links :*...
, asteroid named after Gregorio Ricci-CurbastroGregorio Ricci-CurbastroGregorio Ricci-Curbastro was an Italian mathematician. He was born at Lugo di Romagna. He is most famous as the inventor of the tensor calculus but published important work in many fields.... - Ricci v. DeStefanoRicci v. DeStefanoRicci v. DeStefano, 129 S. Ct. 2658, 2671, 174 L. Ed. 2d 490 is a decision by the Supreme Court of the United States arising from a lawsuit brought against the city of New Haven, Connecticut by twenty city firefighters alleging that the city discriminated against them with regard to promotions...
, court case heard by the United States Supreme Court in 2009 - Nina Ricci (brand)Nina Ricci (brand)Nina Ricci is a fashion house founded by Maria "Nina" Ricci and her son Robert in Paris in 1932, and owned by the Spanish beauty and fashion group Puig since 1998. Nina Ricci designed gowns while Robert managed the business and finances. She worked with the fabrics directly on the mannequin to...
, Fashion house