List of Famous people born in Italy
Bertoldo di Giovanni
Bertoldo di Giovanni was an Italian sculptor and medallist.
Raniero Cantalamessa
Raniero Cantalamessa is an Italian Catholic cardinal and priest in the Order of Friars Minor Capuchin and a theologian. He has served as the Preacher to the Papal Household since 1980, under Pope John Paul II, Pope Benedict XVI and Pope Francis.
Domenico Jacobini
Domenico Maria Jacobini was an Italian Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as Vicar General of Rome from 1899 until his death, and was elevated to the cardinalate in 1896.
Cima da Conegliano
Giovanni Battista Cima, also called Cima da Conegliano, was an Italian Renaissance painter, who mostly worked in Venice. He can be considered part of the Venetian school, though he was also influenced by Antonello da Messina, in the emphasis he gives to landscape backgrounds and the tranquil atmosphere of his works. Once formed his style did not change greatly. He mostly painted religious subjects, often on a small scale for homes rather than churches, but also a few, mostly small, mythological ones.
Giovanni Bona
Giovanni Bona (1609–1674) was an Italian Cistercian, cardinal, liturgist and devotional author.
Domenico Donna
Giuseppe Domenico Donna was an Italian footballer and lawyer.
Paolo Agostino
Paolo Agostino was an Italian composer and organist of the early Baroque era. He was born perhaps at Vallerano, near Viterbo. He studied under Giovanni Bernardino Nanino, according to the dedication in the third and fourth books of his masses. Subsequently, he married Nanino's daughter.
Tommaso Pio Boggiani
Tommaso Pio Boggiani O.P. was a Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church who served as Archbishop of Genoa.
Luigi Maria Bilio
Luigi Maria Bilio, C.R.S.P., was a Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church who, among other offices, was Secretary of the Supreme Sacred Congregation of the Holy Office.
Giovanni Antonio Scopoli
Giovanni Antonio Scopoli was an Austrian physician and naturalist. His biographer Otto Guglia named him the "first anational European" and the "Linnaeus of the Austrian Empire".