Umberto

Umberto Pelizzari is an Italian freediver. He is widely considered among the best of all time. Of his era, he is the sole person to have established world records in all the then existing disciplines of freediving.

Umberto Tozzi (pronounced [umˈbɛrto ˈtɔttsi]) is an Italian pop and rock singer and composer. Over the course of his career, he has sold over 70 million records in different languages internationally, and his biggest international hits are: "Stella Stai", "Gloria", "Tu" and "Ti Amo".

Umberto Saba (1883 – 1957) was an Italian poet and novelist, born Umberto Poli in the cosmopolitan Mediterranean port of Trieste when it was the fourth largest city of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Poli assumed the pen name "Saba" in 1910, and his name was officially changed to Umberto Saba in 1928. From 1919 he was the proprietor of an antiquarian bookshop in Trieste. He suffered from depression for all of his adult life.

Umberto Alongi is a Swiss Italian singer and songwriter. After living and sharing his time for years between Italy (where he was born) and Switzerland, beginning in 2014 he has been producing 5 solo albums through the record labels Music-Mad Records and with Me & U Records and Artists Management based in London. Alongi sings in Italian, Spanish and English and he also plays the guitar. As of September 2015 he is included in the Swiss pre-selection for the Eurovision song contest 2016. In October 2015 he participated in the Ghedi Festival for unreleased songs as the only Swiss male artist in the competition. He reached the semi-finals by beating a selection of 300 artists with the song "Come stai". As of September 2016 he is included in the Swiss selection for the Eurovision song contest 2017 with a new song "I Can Just be Me". This song is candidate for "Die grosse entscheidungsshow" and it's included on his new album entitled "3 minuti".

Umberto Boccioni (1882-1916) was an Italian Futurist painter, sculptor (the only one in the movement) and art theorist.

Two kings of Italy bore this name: Umberto I di Savoia (1844-1900), who reigned 1878-1900, and Umberto II, his grandson, who reigned just a month in 1946.

Famous Italian medievalist, philosopher and novelist Umberto Eco bears this name. He is most known in America as a novelist and has written among many other novels, "The Name of the Rose" and "Foucault's Pendulum."