List of Famous people born in Italy

Giovanni Pietro de Pomis was an Italian painter, medailleur, architect and fortress master builder. His works show a marked influence of late-Mannerism.

Gaetano Belloni was an Italian professional road racing cyclist. The highlights of his career were his overall win in the 1920 Giro d'Italia, the two victories in Milan–San Remo, and the three victories in the Giro di Lombardia.

Pietro Bestetti was an Italian cyclist. He competed in two events at the 1920 Summer Olympics. He finished in second place in the 1925 Paris–Roubaix and rode in four editions of the Giro d'Italia in the 1920s.

Francesco Segna S.T.D. was a Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church and Archivist of the Holy Roman Church.

Girolamo Diruta was an Italian organist, music theorist, and composer. He was famous as a teacher, for his treatise Il Transilvano on counterpoint, and for his part in the development of keyboard technique, particularly on the organ. He was born in Deruta, near Perugia.

Oronzo Gabriele Costa was an Italian zoologist.

Alfonso Michele Litta was an Italian nobleman who was a Cardinal and Archbishop of Milan from 1652 to 1679.

Loreto Vittori was an Italian castrato and composer. From 1622 until his death, he was a mezzo-soprano singer in the papal chapel in Rome.

Giorgio Federico Ghedini was an Italian composer. In addition to orchestral works, in 1949 he premiered a one-act opera based on the American novella Billy Budd by Herman Melville.