Editing Lists of Italian Americans (section)

==Inventors==
*[[Anthony Adducci]] (1937–2006) - pioneer of the medical device industry in Minnesota; best known for founding Guidant Corp. precursor Cardiac Pacemakers, inc., now part of Boston Scientific, the company that manufactured the world's first lithium battery-powered artificial pacemaker<ref>{{cite web|title=Pioneers of the Medical Device Industry|url=http://www.mnhs.org/collections/medTech/org_cardiac_pacemakers.php|publisher=Minnesota Historical Society}}</ref>
*[[Giuseppe Mario Bellanca]] - designer of the first [[monoplane]] in the United States with an enclosed cabin
*[[Enea Bossi, Sr.|Enea Bossi]]
*[[Photo finish|Lorenzo Del Riccio]] - inventor of fotofinish camera
*[[Daniel DiLorenzo]] - medical device entrepreneur and physician-scientist. He is the inventor of several technologies for the treatment of neurological disease
*[[Federico Faggin]] (born 1941) - physicist, engineer, inventor and entrepreneur; best known for designing the first commercial microprocessor, the [[Intel 4004]]
*[[Gerard J. Foschini]]
*The [[Jacuzzi]] family - developed the deep well water pump that led to the famous [[whirlpool]] bath
*[[Antonio Meucci]] (1808–1889) - credited by the [[Congress of the United States]] with the invention of the telephone
*[[Antonio Pasin]] (1897–1990) - inventor of the [[Radio Flyer]] stamped steel toy wagoni
*[[Sam Porcello]] (1935–2012) - food scientist who worked at Nabisco on the modern Oreo cookie in particular, was the inventor of the white Oreo cookie creme-filling. His work earned him the nickname, "Mr. Oreo."
*[[Lorenzo Ponza]] - inventor of the modern baseball pitching machine
*[[Francis Rogallo]] - engineer at [[NASA]], designed the [[Rogallo wing]], which found its greatest success in hang gliders and kites
* [[Andrea Rossi (entrepreneur)|Andrea Rossi]] (born 1950) - entrepreneur who claims to have invented the cold fusion device E-Cat
*[[Andrew Toti]]
*[[Andrew Viterbi]] (born 1935) - engineer, billionaire, cofounder of [[Qualcomm]], inventor of the [[Viterbi algorithm]]
*[[Frank Zamboni]] - inventor of the modern ice resurfacer