Gravina - People

People

  • Dominic Gravina, a Catholic theologian
  • Giovanni Vincenzo Gravina, Italian jurist and littérateur of the 17th and 18th centuries
  • Cardinal Gravina 19th century
  • Federico Carlos Gravina y Nápoli, Spanish Admiral during the American Revolution and Napoleonic Wars

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