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Famous Natives
People listed are almost always native to Italy. We do (on occasion) include those that have either lived in Italy for most of their adult life, or have made a significant contribution to Italy in their personal endeavors.
Gianni Agnelli industrialist, founder of fiat
Giacomo Agostini motorcycle racer
Giovanni Agusta founder agusta helicopter
Dante Alighieri poet
Michelangelo Antonioni film director
Archimedes mathematician
Dario Argento film maker
Giorgio Armani fashion designer
St.Francis of Assisi saint, writer
Marcus Aurelius roman emperor, philosopher
Roberto Baggio footballer
Dario Bargnani basketball player
Barilla pasta producers
Angelo Bartoli opera singer
Angelo Bellini painter
Monica Bellucci actress
Roberto Benigni actor
Benetton Family industrialists, fashion designers
Silivio Berlusconi former prime minister
Gian Lorenzo Bernini architect, painter, sculptor
Giovanni Boccaccio author, poet
Andrea Bocelli opera singer
Francesco Borromini architect
Sandro Botticelli artist
Bruno Bozzetto cartoonist
Nicoletta Braschi actress
Falvio Briatore entrepreneur, director renault formula one race team
Agnolo Bronzino painter
Carla Bruni model
Rembrandt Bugatti sculptor
Michelangelo Buonarroti architect, painter, sculptor
John Cabot explorer
Augustus Octavius Caesar first emperor roman empire
Julius Caesar emperor of rome
Caligula emperor of rome
Italo Calvino author
Antonio Canova sculptor
Fabio Cannavaro footballer
Giovanni de Capistrano missionary
Caravaggio painter
Lara Cardella author
Enrico Caruso opera singer, actor
Giacomo Casanova adventurer, writer, womanizer
Igor Cassina gymnast, olympic medalist
Domenico Cassini refined the telescope
Roberto Cavalli fashion designer
Carlo Collodi author (Pinocchio)
Christopher Colombus explorer
Constantine I first emperor to accept christianity
Antonello da Messina artist
Leonardo Da Vinci architect, anatomist, sculptor, engineer, inventor, mathematician, musician, painter, all-around genius (to say the least)
Francesco de Sanctis writer, literary critic
Alessandro del Piero footballer
Dolce and Gabbana fashion designers
Sandro Donatello artist
Gaetano Donizetti composer
Umberto Eco philosopher, author
Giacinto Facchetti footballer
Federico Faggin physicist, engineer, designer first microprocessor
Federico Fellini film maker
Fendi family fashion designers
Enrico Fermi physicist
Salvatore Ferragamo shoe designer
Enzo Ferrari automobile designer, racer
Vanessa Ferrari world champion gymnast
Gianfranco Ferrè fashion designer
Federigo Fiorillo violinist
Dario Fo satirist, playwright, director, actor, composer
Baldasare Forestiere architectural engineer (gardens)
Enrico Forlanini inventor, engineer, aeronautical pioneer
Galileo Galilei astronomer, philosopher, physicist
Giuseppe Garibaldi patriot, italian hero
Vittorio Gassman actor, director
Amadeo Peter Giannini founder bank of america
Giorgione artist
Giotto artist
Gucci family fashion designers
Eugenio Ibertis war hero
Natalie Imbruglia singer
Jacuzzi family inventors of the hot tub
Lamborghini automobile designer
Mario Lanza opera singer
Giacomo Leopardi poet
Primo Levi writer
Gina Lollobrigida actress
Sophia Loren actress
Niccolo Machiavelli philosopher
Anna Magnani actress
Alessandro Manzoni author
Guglielmo Marconi inventor radiotelegraph (radio)
Marcello Mastroianni actor
Marco Materazzi footballer
Mario Merola singer
Antonio Meucci inventor
Amedeo Modigliani artist, sculptor
Franco Modigliani economist
Domenico Modugno singer, songwriter
Domenico Montagnana violin and cello maker
Maria Montessori physician, teacher, creator of montessori method
Luca Cordero di Montezelomo president ferrari; chairman fiat
Alberto Moravia writer
Ennio Moricone composer
Benito Mussolini italian dictator
Giorgio Napolitano president of italy
Florence Nightingale nurse
Al Pacino actor, director
Niccolò Paganini composer, musician
Giovanni Pascoli poet
Laura Pausini singer
Luciano Pavarotti opera singer
Francisco Petrarch poet
Niccolo Piccinni opera composer
Padre Pio saint
Luigi Pirandello author
Romano Prodi prime minister
Giacomo Puccini composer
Marco Polo explorer
Eros Ramazotti singer
Raphael artist
Massimiliano Rosolino swimmer, olympic medalist
Isabella Rossellini model, actress
Roberto Rossellini film director
Sergio Rossi shoe designer
Valentino Rossi motorcycle world champion
Gioachino Rossini composer
Antonio Stradivari luthier (stringed instruments crafter)
Alberto Tomba alpine skier
Totò actor, songwriter
Francesco Totti footballer
Massimo Troisi actor
Lisa Trovatai ice skater
Rudolfo Valentino actor
Lino Ventura actor
Giuseppe Verdi composer, opera composer
Gianni Versace fashion designer
Amerigo Vespucci explorer
Alessandro Volta physicist, developed electric battery
Gianfranco Zola footballer
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