of Richmond in Virginia John Clement Favalora - Archbishop of the Latin Rite Archdiocese of Miami Fr. Stan Fortuna - Roman Catholic priest James Groppi - Roman Catholic priest and noted civil rights activist Francis Mugavero - first Italian-American Bishop of Brooklyn, 1968–1990 Anthony M. Pilla - bishop of the Cleveland Catholic Diocese, 1979–2006 Joseph Rosati - first Bishop of the Diocese of Saint Louis Robert Sirico Cardinals Joseph Louis Bernardin (1928–1996) - Archbishop of Cincinnati, Archbishop of Chicago Anthony Joseph Bevilacqua (1923–2012) - served as Bishop of Pittsburgh and Archbishop of Philadelphia Daniel Nicholas DiNardo (born 1949) - Archbishop of Galveston-Houston Justin Francis Rigali (born 1935) - Archbishop of Philadelphia Abdo Mitwally (born 1989) - American Italian for Management Industry Scientists Aristides Agramonte - bacteriologist Janis Amatuzio (born 1950) - forensic pathologist John T. Cacioppo - neuroscientist Eugenio Calabi - mathematician Nicholas R. Cozzarelli Charles DeLisi Renato Dulbecco - Nobel prize 1975 winner for medicine Federico Faggin - widely known for designing the first commercial microprocessor Robert Fano (1917–2016) - computer scientist Ugo Fano (1912–2001) - physicist Anthony Fauci - immunologist contributing to research in the areas of AIDS and other immunodeficiencies Enrico Fermi (1901–1954) - physicist; Nobel Prize 1938 Robert Gallo - virologist Albert Ghiorso - nuclear scientist who helped discover several chemical elements on the periodic table Riccardo Giacconi (1931–2018) - astrophysicist; Nobel Prize 2002 Edward J. Giorgianni - imaging scientist Louis Ignarro - Nobel Prize 1998 winner for medicine Robert Lanza Paul J. Lioy - exposure science Mariangela Lisanti - theoretical physicist Salvador Luria - microbiologist; Nobel Prize 1969 Mike Massimino - astronaut Fulvio Melia - physicist, astrophysicist, and author Antonio Meucci - telephone inventor Franco Modigliani - economist; Nobel Prize 1985 Rita Levi-Montalcini - neurobiologist; Nobel Prize 2009 Lisa Marie Nowak - born Lisa Marie Caputo; astronaut William Daniel Phillips - physicist; shared the Nobel Prize in Physics, in 1997, with Steven Chu and Claude Cohen-Tannoudji Sam Potolicchio - psychologist specializing in government Bruno Rossi Gian-Carlo Rota Jack Sarfatti Piero Scaruffi (born 1955) - cognitive scientist Walter Schirra - astronaut Emilio Segrè - Nobel Prize 1959-winning physicist and academic Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza (1922–2018) - geneticist Giuliana Tesoro (1921–2002) - organic chemist Michael Viscardi - mathematician Andrew Viterbi Philip Zimbardo Academics Mario Capecchi - University of Utah John D. Caputo James Carafano Frank A. Cipriani Thomas A. DeFanti John J. DeGioia - President of Georgetown University