Famous People

Artists

• Leon Battista Alberti (1404-1472), architect
• Fra Angelico (1387-1445), (Giovanni da Fiesole)
• Baccio D'Agnolo (c. 1460-1543), sculptor, wood-carver, and architect
• Sisto Badalocchio (1581- c. 1647), painter and engraver
• Alessio Baldovinetti (1427-1499)
• Vanessa Beecroft, contemporary artist
• Sandro Botticelli (1445-1510), painter
• Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564), painter,sculptor, architect, and poet
• Canaletto, painter
• Leonetto Cappiello (1875-1942), Poster designer and caricaturist
• Battistello Caracciolo, painter
• Vittore Carpaccio (c.1460-1525), painter
• Agostino Carracci (1560-1609), painter
• Caravaggio (1573-1610), painter
• Giovanni Battista Castello, painter
• Giuseppe Castiglione, painter
• Cimabue, (1240-1302), painter
• Giorgione da Castelfranco, (c. 1477-1510), (Giorgione)
• Benvenuto Cellini (1500-1571)
• Antonio da Correggio, (1488-1534), (often short Correggio)
• Gentile da Fabriano, (c.1370-1427), painter
• Antonello da Messina (c.1430-1479)
• Andrea da Monte San Savino (Andrea Sansovino or Sansovino)
• Masolino da Panicale (c.1383-1447)
• Antonio da Sangallo
• Giuliano da Sangallo (c.1443-1516)
• Leonardo da Vinci, (1452-1519), painter, sculptor and inventor
• Giorgio De Chirico, (1888-1978), painter
• Andrea del Castagno, (c.1421-1457)
• Niccolò dell'Abbate, painter
• Piero della Francesca, (c.1416-1492), painter and mathematician
• Luca della Robbia, (1400-1482), sculptor
• Andrea del Sarto, (1487-1531), painter
• Fortunato Depero
• Giotto, (1267-1337), painter
• Renato Guttuso, (1912-1987), painter
• Fra Filippo Lippi, (c.1406-1469), painter
• Filippino Lippi, (1457-1504), painter
• Lorenzo Lotto, (1480-1556), painter
• Andrea Mantegna, (c.1431-1506), painter
• Marino Marini, sculptor
• Simone Martini, (c.1284-1344)
• Masaccio, (1401-1428), painter
• Amedeo Modigliani, (1884-1920), sculptor and painter
• Giorgio Morandi, (1890-1964), painter
• Ugo Nespolo, (born 1941), painter
• Andrea Orcagna, (Andrea di Cione), (1320-1368)
• Giovanni Paolo Pannini, painter and architect
• Perugino, (c.1445-1523), painter
• Baldassarre Peruzzi
• Giovanni Battista Piranesi
• Raphael, (Raffaello Sanzio), (1483-1520)
• Guido Reni, (1575-1642), painter
• Rosso (Rosso Fiorentino)
• Giovanni Segantini, painter
• Luca Signorelli, (c.1445-1523)
• Tiepolo, (1696-1770), painter
• Tintoretto, (1518-1594), painter
• Titian, (1488-1576), (Tiziano Vecellio)
• Giovanni Tuccari
• Paolo Uccello, (1397-1475), painter
• Domenico Veneziano, (c.1400-1461)
• Paolo Veronese, painter
• Andrea del Verrocchio, (c.1435-1488), sculptor, painter
• Alessandro Vittoria
• Ettore Ximenes, (1855-1919), painter

Sculptors

• Umberto Boccioni
• Rembrandt Bugatti (1884-1916)
• Antonio Canova, (1757-1822)
• Donatello, (1386-1466)
• Antonello Gagini
• Antonio Gagini
• Domenico Gagini
• Silvio Gazzaniga, (born 1921)
• Vincenzo Gemito - (1852-1929)
• Tommaso Geraci, (born 1931)
• Giambologna
• Stefano Maderno (1576 - 1636)
• Carlo Marochetti, (1805-1867)
• Giovanni Angelo Montorsoli
• Costantino Nivola, (1911-1988)
• Pinuccio Sciola, (born 1942)
• Mauro Staccioli
• Eugenio Tavolara

Scientists

• Francesco Alberoni, sociologist and journalist
• Amedeo Avogadro (1776-1856), physicist
• Eugenio Barsanti, inventor of the Internal combustion engine
• Giovanni Battista Beccaria (1716-1781)
• Renato Biasutti, geographer
• Enrico Bombieri (born 1940), mathematician
• Luigi Valentino Brugnatelli, chemist
• Giovanni Alfonso Borelli
• Ruggero Giuseppe Boscovich (1711-1787), physicist
• Giordano Bruno (1548-1600), philosopher
• Gerolamo Cardano (1501-1576), Renaissance polymath
• Benedetto Castelli, mathematician
• Giovanni Domenico Cassini (1625-1712), astronomer
• Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza, population geneticist
• Giuseppe Colombo, mathematician
• Realdo Colombo
• Renato Corsetti current president of the World Esperanto Association
• Jacopo Berengario da Carpi, physician
• Salvino D'Armate, inventor of eyeglasses
• Renato Dulbecco (born 1914), biologist
• Francesco Faà di Bruno (1825-1888), military officer, mathematician, priest
• Hieronymus Fabricius, anatomist
• Gabriele Falloppio, anatomist and physician
• Robert Fano (born 1917), computer scientist
• Luigi Fantappiè (1901-1956), mathematician, originator of the term "syntropy"
• Enrico Forlanini
• Bruno de Finetti (1906-1985), mathematician, statistician
• Enrico Fermi (1901-1954), physicist
• Leonardo Fibonacci, (c. 1175-1250) mathematician, eponym of the Fibonacci numbers
• Girolamo Fracastoro (1478-1553)
• Guido Fubini (1879-1943), mathematician, eponym of Fubini's theorem in measure theory
• Galileo Galilei (1564-1642), astronomy pioneer and physicist
• Luigi Galvani (1737-1798), physician and physicist, eponym of galvanization
• Agostino Gemelli (1878-1959), physician and priest
• Riccardo Giacconi (born 1931), astrophysicist
• Corrado Gini (1884-1965), statistician, demographer and sociologist, developer of Gini coefficient
• Camillo Golgi (1843-1926), physician
• Francesco Maria Grimaldi (1618-1663), physicist
• Giuseppe Ludovico Lagrangia (1736-1813), mathematician
• Innocenzo Manzetti
• Felice Matteucci
• Rita Levi-Montalcini (born 1909), neurologist
• Mario Liverani Ancient Near East historian
• Salvador Luria (1912-1991), microbiologist
• Ettore Majorana (1906-1938), physicist
• Gian Francesco Malfatti (1731-1807), mathematician
• Guglielmo Marconi (1874-1937), engineer, developer of wireless telegraphy
• Franco Modigliani (1918-2003), economist
• Maria Montessori (1870-1952), physician, teacher, creator of the Montessori method
• Antonio Santi Giuseppe Meucci (1808-1896), chemical and mechanical engineer, inventor of the telephone
• Giulio Natta (1903-1979), chemist
• Luca Pacioli, mathematician
• Vilfredo Pareto (1848-1923), sociologist, economist and philosopher, eponym of Pareto distribution, Pareto efficiency, Pareto index, Pareto principle
• Giuseppe Peano (1858-1932), mathematician
• Giuseppe Piazzi (1746-1826), astronomer
• Giovanni Battista Riccioli
• Mondino de Liuzzi, anatomist
• Gian-Carlo Rota (1932-1999), Italian-born American mathematician and philosopher
• Carlo Rubbia (born 1934), physicist
• Giovanni Gerolamo Saccheri (1667-1733), mathematician
• Giovanni Antonio Scopoli, physician
• Emilio Segrè (1905-1989), physicist
• Giuseppe Sergi, anthropologist
• Francesco Severi (1879-1961), mathematician
• Ascanio Sobrero, chemist
• Niccolo Fontana Tartaglia (1500-1557), mathematician
• Evangelista Torricelli (1608-1647), early scientist
• Giovanni Battista Venturi, (1746-1822), physicist
• Alessandro Volta (1745-1827), electricity pioneer, eponym of the volt
• Antonio Scarpa (1752-1832)
• Piero Sraffa, economist

Explorers

• Giacomo Beltrami
• Giovanni Caboto
• Sebastiano Caboto
• Cristoforo Colombo
• Niccolò Da Conti
• Antonio da Noli, explored the Cape Verde Islands for Portugal
• Giovanni da Pian del Carpine
• Giovanni da Verrazzano
• Henri de Tonti, (1649-1704), explored the Mississippi River Valley
• Alphonse de Tonty
• Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza
• Marco Polo
• Amerigo Vespucci, (1454-1512), discovered other parts of America and gave his name to the new continent. Discovered the Amazon River in South America.

Writers

• Francesco Algarotti, philosopher and art critic
• Dante Alighieri (1265-1321), poet
• Ludovico Ariosto (1474-1533), poet
• Alessandro Baricco (born 1958), novelist and playwriter
• Giambattista Basile (?-1632), poet and writer
• Cesare Beccaria (1738-1794), philosopher and politician
• Pietro Bembo, cardinal and poet
• Stefano Benni (born 1947), novelist and playwriter
• Giovanni Boccaccio, (1313-1375), novelist
• Giovanni Botero, priest and poet
• Alfredo Bracchi (1897-1976), lyricists and scriptwriter
• Giordano Bruno (1548-1600), philosopher
• Gesualdo Bufalino (1920-1996), writer
• Dino Buzzati (1906-1972), novelist and journalist
• Aldo Buzzi (born 1910), author of travel and gastronomy books
• Italo Calvino (1923-1985), writer and novelist
• Andrea Camilleri (born 1925), writer
• Giosuè Carducci (1835-1907), poet
• Baldassarre Castiglione (1478-1529), writer
• Carlo Collodi (orig. Carlo Lorenzini), (1826-1890), novelist
• Benedetto Croce (1866-1952), philosopher
• Gabriele D'Annunzio (1863-1938), poet, dramatist and adventurer
• Lorenzo Da Ponte, librettist and poet
• Guittone d'Arezzo, poet
• Giacomo da Lentini, poet
• Grazia Deledda (1871-1936), novelist
• Francesco de Sanctis (1817-1883), writer and literary critic
• Antonia Donatiello (born 1950), poet and writer
• Umberto Eco (born 1932), semiotician and writer
• Valerio Evangelisti (born 1952), science fiction writer
• Oriana Fallaci, journalist and author
• Marsilio Ficino (1433-1499), philosopher
• Dario Fo (born 1926), dramatist and actor
• Ugo Foscolo (1778-1827), writer
• Carlo Emilio Gadda (1893-1973), writer
• Nikki Giovanni (born 1943) (half-Italian), poet and writer
• Giovanni Guareschi (1908-1968), novelist and satirist
• Francesco Guicciardini (1483-1540), historian
• Remo Gorrieri, (1916-2002), poet
• Carlo Goldoni (1707-1793), dramatist
• Giacomo Leopardi, (1798-1837), poet
• Primo Levi (1919-1987), writer
• Emilio Lussu (1890-1975), novelist and politician
• Niccolò Machiavelli (1469-1527), writer
• Scipione Maffei, writer and art critic
• Goffredo Mameli (1827-1849) patriot, poet and writer
• Alessandro Manzoni (1785-1873) writer, considered the father of modern Italian language
• Filippo Tommaso Marinetti (1876-1944), writer
• Girolamo Mei, historian and humanist
• Vittorio Messori (born 1941), writer and journalist
• Metastasio, writer and poet
• Maurizio Molinari (born 1964), writer and journalist
• Eugenio Montale (1896-1981), poet
• Indro Montanelli (1909-2001), journalist and historian
• Elsa Morante (1912-1985), writer
• Alberto Moravia (1907-1990), novelist
• Giuseppe Parini (1729-1799), satirist and poet
• Giovanni Pascoli (1855-1912), poet
• Francesco Petrarca (1304-1374), poet
• Roberto Pinotti (born 1944), journalist and author
• Luigi Pirandello (1867-1936), playwright
• Giovanni Prati, poet
• Salvatore Quasimodo (1901-1968), poet
• Ottavio Rinuccini, poet and librettist
• Antonio Rosmini-Serbati, philosopher
• Rafael Sabatini (1875-1950), writer
• Emilio Salgari (1862-1911), novelist
• Italo Svevo (orig. Aron Ettore Schmitz) (1861-1928), writer
• Antonio Tabucchi (born 1943), writer
• Torquato Tasso (1544-1595), poet
• Gian Giorgio Trissino, poet
• Giuseppe Ungaretti (1888-1970), poet
• Giorgio Vasari (1511-1571), architect and writer
• Giovanni Verga (1840-1922), writer
• Giambattista Vico (1668-1744), philosopher

Filmmakers

• Dario Argento
• Pupi Avati
• Mario Bava
• Lamberto Bava
• Bernardo Bertolucci
• Andrea Bianchi
• Tinto Brass
• Frank Coraci
• Luigi Cozzi
• Joe D'Amato
• Vittorio De Sica
• Ruggero Deodato
• Luciano Ercoli
• Federico Fellini
• Lucio Fulci
• Pietro Germi
• Alberto Grimaldi
• Aldo Lado
• Umberto Lenzi
• Sergio Leone
• Antonio Margheriti
• Sergio Martino
• Bruno Mattei
• Nanni Moretti
• Pier Paolo Pasolini
• Roberto Rossellini
• Michele Soavi
• Dante Spinotti
• Luchino Visconti
• Franco Zeffirelli
• Michelangelo Antonioni

Actors

• Laura Antonelli (born 1941)
• Asia Argento (born 1975)
• Monica Bellucci (born 1964)
• Roberto Benigni (born 1952)
• Francesca Bertini (1892-1985)
• Lucia Bosé (born 1931)
• Raoul Bova (born 1971)
• Nicoletta Braschi (born 1960)
• Mario Brega (1923-1991)
• Andrea Bruschi (born 1968)
• Claudia Cardinale (born in Tunisia, 1938)
• Raffaella Carrà (born 1943)
• Maria Grazia Cucinotta (born 1969)
• Vittorio Gassmann (1922-2000)
• Giancarlo Giannini (born 1942)
• Gina Lollobrigida (born 1927)
• Sophia Loren (born 1934)
• Nino Manfredi (1921-2004)
• Silvana Mangano (1930-1989)
• Marcello Mastroianni (1924-1996)
• Rose McGowan (born 1973)
• Caterina Murino (born 1977)
• Natalino Otto, singer and actor (1912-1969)
• Moana Pozzi (1961-1994)
• Alberto Rabagliati (1906-1974)
• Stefania Sandrelli (born 1946)
• Delia Scala (1929-2004), ballerina, actress
• Rocco Siffredi (born 1964)
• Alberto Sordi (1920-2003)
• Bud Spencer (born 1929)
• Totò (1898-1967)
• Massimo Troisi (1953-1994)
• Rodolfo Valentino (1895-1926)
• Alida Valli (born 1921)
• Gian Maria Volontè (1933-1994)

Fashion Models

• Anna Kanakis
• Bianca Balti
• Ludovico Benazzo
• Mariacarla Boscono
• Carla Bruni
• Elisabetta Canalis
• Marta Cecchetto
• Claudia Cedro
• Cristina Chiabotto
• Francesca Dani
• Alessia Fabiani
• Jacques Ficini
• Federica Fontana
• Vincenzo Galdi
• Gabriel Garko
• Vanessa Hessler
• Alessia Marcuzzi
• Francesca Martinez
• Denny Mendez
• Massimiliano Neri
• Anita Pallenberg
• Eva Riccobono
• Linda Jo Rizzo
• Isabella Rossellini
• Sabrina Salerno
• Melissa Satta
• Alena ?eredova
• Adriana Volpe

Architects

• Leon Battista Alberti, (1404-1472), architect
• Gian Lorenzo Bernini, (1598 - 1680), architect, sculptor and painter
• Bartolommeo Berrecci
• Francesco Borromini, (1599 - 1667), architect
• Donato Bramante (1444-1514), architect
• Giovanni Branca, engineer and architect
• Filippo Brunelleschi, (1377 - 1446), architect
• Pietro da Cortona, (1596 - 1669), architect
• Giacomo Barozzi da Vignola
• Giacomo della Porta
• Domenico de' Rossi
• Giovanni Battista di Quadro
• Aristotile Fioravanti
• Francesco Florentino
• Carlo Fontana, (1634 or 1638 - 1714), architect
• Rosario Gagliardi
• Alessandro Galilei
• Andrea Giganti
• Camillo-Guarino Guarini
• Mateo Gucci
• Santi Gucci
• Stefano Ittar
• Filippo Juvarra
• Paolo Labisi
• Giulio Lasso
• Carlo Maderno, (1556 - 1629), architect
• Giuseppe Venanzio Marvuglia
• Michelozzo
• Riccardo Morandi, engineer
• Bernardo Morando
• Tomasso Napoli
• Alois Negrelli, engineer
• Pier Luigi Nervi, (1891 - 1979), architect and engineer
• Nicolò Pacassi
• Andrea Palladio, (1508 - 1580), architect
• Andrea Palma
• Alessandro Pasqualini
• Renzo Piano, (born 1937), architect
• Giò Ponti (Giovanni), (1891 - 1979), architect
• Andrea Pozzo, architect
• Francesco Primaticcio
• Giacomo Quarenghi
• Carlo Rainaldi, (1611 - 1691), architect
• Girolamo Rainaldi, architect
• Bartolomeo Rastrelli, (1700-1771), architect
• Antonio Rinaldi, (1710-1794), architect
• Aldo Rossi, (1931 - 1997), architect
• Francesco Sabatini, (1722 - 1797), architect
• Nicola Salvi
• Antonio Scaglione
• Carlo Scarpa, (1906 - 1973), architect
• Sebastiano Serlio
• Vincenzo Sinatra
• Giovanni Battista Vaccarini
• Luigi Vanvitelli, (1700 - 1773), architect
• Giorgio Vasari
• Tommaso Vincidor

Musicians

• Lucio Battisti (1943-1998), singer-songwriter
• Mattia Battistini
• Andrea Bocelli (born 1958), singer and tenor
• Ernesto Bonino (born 1922), singer
• Faustina Bordoni, mezzo-soprano opera singer
• Fred Buscaglione (1921-1960), singer and actor
• Renato Carosone (1920-2001), pop musician and composer
• Enrico Caruso (1873-1921), tenor
• Lina Cavalieri (1874-1944), glamorous opera singer
• Adriano Celentano, (born 1938), pop singer
• Felice Chiusano (1922-1990), singer
• Pino Daniele (born 1955), singer-songwriter
• Fabrizio De André (1940-1999), singer-songwriter
• Enrico De Angelis, singer
• Francesco De Gregori (born 1951), singer-songwriter
• Mario Del Monaco (1915-1982), tenor
• Farinelli, soprano castrato singer
• Rino Gaetano (1950-1981)
• Peppino Gagliardi (born 1940), singer
• Enrico Gentile, singer
• Tata Giacobetti (1922-1988), singer and lyricist
• Francesco Guccini (born 1940), singer-songwriter
• Iacopo Jacomelli, singer
• Jovanotti (born 1966), singer-songwriter
• Gorni Kramer (1913-1995), bandleader and songwriter
• Luciano Ligabue (born 1960), singer-songwriter
• Lucia Mannucci (born 1920), singer
• Mina, singer
• Ennio Morricone (born 1928), composer
• Paolo Negri, jazz organist
• Natalino Otto (1912-1969), singer and actor
• Adelina Patti
• Laura Pausini (born 1974), singer
• Luciano Pavarotti (born 1935), tenor
• Mauro Picotto, DJ
• Alberto Rabagliati (1906-1974), singer and actor
• Eros Ramazzotti (born 1963), singer
• Vasco Rossi (born 1952), singer-songwriter
• Virgilio Savona (born 1920), singer and songwriter
• Cristina Scabbia (born 1972), lead female singer in the Italian goth/symponic metal band Lacuna Coil
• Tito Schipa (1888-1965)
• Senesino, alto castrato
• Renata Tebaldi (1922-2004), soprano
• Luisa Tetrazzini
• Zucchero (born 1955), singer-songwriter

Composers

• Pasquale Anfossi, opera composer
• Giuseppe Apolloni (1822 - 1889), opera composer
• Emilio Arrieta, opera composer
• Jean-Baptiste Lully, (1632 - 1687), Italian-French composer
• Giovanni Battista Sammartini, (1700 or 1701 - 1775), composer
• Vincenzo Bellini (1801-1835), composer
• Luciano Berio (1925-2003), composer
• Luigi Boccherini, (1743 - 1805), composer
• Arrigo Boito (1842-1918), composer, opera composer
• Francesco Antonio Bonporti, composer
• Giulio Caccini, composer
• Florentine Camerata, composer
• Francesco Canova da Milano, (1497 - 1543), lute composer
• Giuseppe Carcani (1703-1779), composer
• Giacomo Carissimi, (1605 - 1674), composer
• Roberto Carnevale, Italian composer
• Ferdinando Carulli, (1770 - 1841), guitar composer
• Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco (1895-1968), classical guitar composer
• Alfredo Catalani (1854-1893), opera composer
• Francesco Cavalli, composer
• Luigi Cherubini, (1760-1842), composer, opera composer
• Muzio Clementi, (1752 - 1832), composer
• Francesco Cilea (1866-1950), opera composer
• Domenico Cimarosa, (1749-1801), composer, opera composer
• Arcangelo Corelli, (1653 - 1713), composer
• Jacopo Corsi, composer
• Luigi Dallapiccola, (1904-1975), composer, opera composer
• Giovanni D'Anzi, (1906-1974), songwriter
• Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina
• Luigi de Rossi, 17th century composer
• Gaetano Donizetti, (1797-1848), composer, opera composer
• Ludovico Einaudi, composer and pianist
• Alberto Franchetti, opera composer
• Girolamo Frescobaldi, (1566 - 1638), lute composer
• Andrea Gabrieli, (1533 - 1586), composer
• Giovanni Gabrieli, (between 1553 and 1556 - 1612), composer
• Vincenzo Galilei, composer (the father of the astronomer Galileo Galilei)
• Baldassarre Galuppi, composer
• Francesco Gasparini, (1661 - 1727), composer
• Carlo Gesualdo, (1566 - 1613), madrigal composer
• Umberto Giordano, (1867-1948), composer, opera composer
• Mauro Giuliani, (1781 - 1829), guitar composer
• Niccolò Jommelli, composer
• Francesco Landini, (c.1325-1397), composer, organist
• Ruggero Leoncavallo, (1858-1919), opera composer
• Andrea Luchesi (1741-1801), composer, opera composer
• Cristofano Malvezzi, organist and composer
• Luca Marenzio, (1553 - 1599), madrigal composer
• Pietro Mascagni, (1863-1945), composer, opera composer
• Saverio Mercadante, (1795-1870), opera composer
• Claudio Monteverdi, (1567-1643), composer, opera composer
• Luigi Nono, (1924 - 1990), composer
• Giovanni Pacini, (1796-1867), composer, opera composer
• Niccolò Paganini, (1782 - 1840), composer
• Giovanni Paisiello, (1741-1816), opera composer
• Jacopo Peri, (1561 - 1633), composer, the inventor of opera
• Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, (1525-1594), renowned composer of the late Renaissance
• Giovanni Battista Pergolesi, (1710-1736), composer, opera composer
• Goffredo Petrassi, opera composer
• Niccolò Piccinni, (1728-1800), opera composer
• Ildebrando Pizzetti, opera composer
• Amilcare Ponchielli, (1834-1886), opera composer
• Nicola Porpora, (1686-1768), opera composer
• Giacomo Puccini, (1858-1924), composer
• Ottorino Respighi, (1879-1936), composer, opera composer
• Salamone Rossi (c. 1530-c. 1630), early baroque composer
• Gioacchino Rossini, (1792-1868), composer, opera composer
• Nino Rota, (1911-1979), composer, opera composer
• Antonio Salieri, (1750-1825), Austrian composer
• Giuseppe Sarti, composer
• Alessandro Scarlatti, (1660-1725), composer, opera composer
• Domenico Scarlatti, (1685 - 1757), composer
• Giacinto Scelsi, (1905 - 1988), microtonal composer
• Salvatore Sciarrino, (b.1947), avant-garde composer
• Gaspare Spontini (1774-1851), opera composer
• Agostino Steffani (1653-1728), opera composer
• Pietro Strozzi, composer
• Giuseppe Tartini, composer
• Tommaso Traetta, composer
• Francesco Maria Veracini (1690)-(1768), composer
• Giuseppe Verdi, (1813-1901), composer, opera composer
• Antonio Vivaldi, (1678 - 1741), composer
• Riccardo Zandonai, opera composer

Conductors (Direttori)

• Claudio Abbado, (born 1933)
• Victor de Sabata, (1892-1967)
• Gianandrea Gavazzeni
• Carlo Maria Giulini
• Riccardo Muti, (born 1942)
• Tullio Serafin
• Arturo Toscanini, (1867-1957)

Luthiers

(Makers of stringed instruments)

• Niccolò Amati
• Bergonzi
• Nicolò Gagliano
• Giovanni Battista Guadagnini
• Giuseppe Guarneri
• Antonio Stradivari

Athletes and Sports Personalities

• Giacomo Agostini (born 1942), motorcycle racer
• Mario Andretti (born 1940), F1 driver
• Alberto Ascari (1918-1955), racecar driver
• Antonio Ascari (1888-1925), Grand Prix racecar driver
• Roberto Baggio (born 1967), footballer
• Stefano Baldini (born 1971), marathoner
• Franco Baresi (born 1960), footballer
• Andrea Bargnani, (born 1985) basketball player
• Gino Bartali (1914-2000), cyclist
• Stefania Belmondo (born 1963), cross-country skier
• Lorenzo Bernardi, volleyball player
• Nino Benvenuti (born 1938), boxer
• Paolo Bettini (born 1974), cyclist
• Max Biaggi (born 1971), motorcycle racer
• Alfredo Binda (1902-1986), cyclist
• Flavio Briatore, entrepreneur and managing director of the Renault Formula One team
• Gianluigi Buffon (born 1978), footballer
• Tullio Campagnolo, cyclist who invented the quick release skewer
• Giuseppe Campari (1892-1933), Grand Prix racecar driver
• Fabio Cannavaro (born 1973), footballer
• Primo Carnera (1906-1967), boxer
• Igor Cassina (born 1977), gymnast
• Jury Chechi (born 1969) , gymnast
• Mario Cipollini (born 1967) , cyclist
• Pierluigi Collina (born 1960), football referee
• Deborah Compagnoni (born 1970), Alpine skier
• Fausto Coppi (1919-1960), cyclist
• Mario D'Agata (born 1926) deaf-mute who became a world boxing champion
• Frankie Dettori (born 1970), jockey
• Alessandro Del Piero (born 1974), footballer
• Giuseppe Farina (1906-1966), Grand Prix racecar driver
• Enzo Ferrari, (1898-1988), founder of Scuderia Ferrari and Ferrari S.p.A
• Giancarlo Fisichella (born 1973), F1 driver
• Filippo Magnini (born 1982), swimmer
• Paolo Maldini (born 1968), footballer
• Dino Meneghin (born 1950), basketball player
• Reinhold Messner (born 1944), alpinist
• Carlton Myers (born 1971), basketball player
• Alessandro Nannini, racecar driver
• Aldo Notari, ex-president of IBAF
• Tazio Nuvolari (1892-1953), race car driver
• Marco Pantani (1970-2004), cyclist
• Riccardo Patrese, former Formula One (F1) racing driver
• Andrea Pirlo (born 1979), footballer
• Valentino Rossi (born 1979), motorcycle world champion
• Sara Simeoni (born 1954), athlete
• Alberto Tomba (born 1966), Alpine skier
• Luca Toni (born 1978), footballer
• Francesco Totti (born 1976), footballer
• Jarno Trulli (born 1974), F1 driver
• Trebisonda Valla (born 1916), athlete
• Achille Varzi (1904-1948), race car champion
• Christian Vieri (born 1973), footballer
• Luigi Villoresi (1909-1997), Grand Prix race car driver
• Alex Zanardi (born 1966), race car driver
• Dino Zoff (born 1942), footballer
• Gianfranco Zola (born 1966), footballer

Politicians

• Giulio Andreotti, politician
• Cesare Battisti, politician
• Camillo Benso, count of Cavour
• Enrico Berlinguer, (1922 - 1984), politician
• Mario Berlinguer
• Silvio Berlusconi, (born 1936)
• Fausto Bertinotti
• Emma Bonino
• Pierferdinando Casini
• Carlo Azeglio Ciampi, president of Italy
• Michele Columbu
• Francesco Cossiga, (b. 1928), president of Italy
• Francesco Crispi, prime minister
• Massimo D'Alema
• Alcide De Gasperi
• Enrico De Nicola, (1877-1959), president of Italy
• Lorenzo de Tonti, (1602-1684), former governor of Gaeta, Italy, inventor of tontine, a form of life insurance
• Luigi Einaudi, politician
• Amintore Fanfani
• Piero Fassino
• Gianfranco Fini
• Roberto Formigoni, (born 1947)
• Antonio Gramsci (1891-1937) writer and politician
• Giovanni Leone, president of Italy
• Franco Maria Malfatti, President of the European Commission, (1970-1972)
• Giuseppe Mazzini, (1805-1872), writer and politician
• Paolo Oss Mazzurana
• Aldo Moro, (1916-1978), politician
• Benito Mussolini, (1883-1945), dictator
• Giorgio Napolitano, president of Italy
• Antonio Negri, political philosopher
• Marco Pannella
• Sandro Pertini, president of Italy
• Romano Prodi (born 1939) Former President of the European Commissionand Prime Minister of Italy.
• Giuseppe Saragat, president of Italy
• Oscar Luigi Scalfaro, president of Italy
• Antonio Segni
• Palmiro Togliatti (1893-1964), communist leader

Cartoonists

• Milo Manara
• Andrea Pazienza, (1956-1988)
• Hugo Pratt, (1927-1995), Corto Maltese
• Bruno Bozzetto, (1938-)
• Lorenzo Mattotti

Other Famous Italians

• Gianni Agnelli (1921-2003), industrialist
• Anselm of Canterbury (1033 or 1034 - April 21, 1109), philosopher and theologian
• Thomas Aquinas, philosopher and theologian
• Guido of Arezzo, music theorist
• Giorgio Armani, Italian fashion designer
• Ernesto Bertarelli, businessman
• Paolo Boi, chess player
• Charles Borromeo, saint and cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church
• Eugenio Calò (1906-1944), Jewish Italian partisan, Gold Medal for Military Valour.
• Aldo Capitini (1899-1968), philosopher, non-violent
• Francis Caracciolo, priest
• Antonio Benedetto Carpano, famous for having invented the Vermouth and consequently the apéritif
• Giacomo Casanova (1725-1798), memoirist, adventurer and womanizer.
• Leo Chiosso (born 1920), lyricist
• Cicciolina, porn actress who received international media attention in 1987 when she got elected into the Italian parliament.
• Bartolomeo Cristofori, inventor of the piano
• Ugolino della Gherardesca, count of Donoratico, naval commander, the chief Ghibelline house of Pisa
• Giuseppe Donati, inventor of the modern Italian-style ocarina
• Giulio Einaudi, publisher
• Giovanni Falcone, (1939-1992), judge
• Alessandro Farnese, Duke of Parma and Piacenza
• Mario J. Fratto, Comedic Icon
• Sonia Gandhi (born 1946) an Italian-born Indian politician and the president of the Indian National Congress (Congress Party), widow of former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi.
• Giuseppe Garibaldi, (1807-1882), proponent of Italian unification
• Gioacchino Greco, chess player
• Francesco Griffo, punchcutter
• Aldus Manutius, printer, founder of the Aldine Press
• Alessia di Matteo (born 2003), who received eight organs with one transplant
• Fra Mauro, cartographer
• Giuseppe Caspar Mezzofanti, Catholic cardinal and famed linguist and hyperpolyglot
• Edgardo Mortara (1851-1940), Catholic priest, victim of a famous kidnapping, taken from his Jewish family at the age of 6
• Joe Petrosino (1860-1909), policeman
• Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti
• Nicola Salerno (1910-1969), lyricist under the pseudonym Nisa
• Alessandro Salvio, chess player
• Girolamo Savonarola (1452-1498), book-burning priest, ruler of Florence
• Roberto Vittori, astronaut