Mario Andretti (Indy car driver); Mario (entertainer); Mario Batali (American chef); Mario Botta (Swiss architect); Mario Capecchi (Nobel Prize winner, medicine); Mario Chalmers (basketball player); Mario Cuomo (former governor of New York); Mario Frangoulis (opera singer); Mario Lanza (opera singer); Mario Armando Lavandeira Jr. (aka Perez Hilton, celebrity gossip blogger); Mario Lemieux (hockey player); Mario Lopez (actor and TV host); Mario Mendoza (baseball player); Mario Puzo (author of The Godfather); Mario Sammarco (opera singer); Mario Sorrenti (photographer); Mario Van Peebles (director/actor)