Giovanni Virginio Schiaparelli was an Italian astronomer and science historian. Schiaparelli established the Martian system of nomenclature still in use today; before him, features of the planet bore the names of contemporary astronomers, similar to the lunar map of van Langren that preceded that of Hevelius.
- Occupation
- astronomer, politician, discoverer of asteroids, mathematician
- Position held
- senator of the Kingdom of Italy
- Citizenship
- Kingdom of Italy
- Born
- March 14, 1835, 1835
- Died
