List of Famous people born in Italy

Flavio Chigi was an Italian Catholic Cardinal and Duke of Ariccia. He was Cardinal-Nephew to Pope Alexander VII and became a powerful political force inside the Roman Catholic Church during the latter half of the 17th century.

Luigi Caetani was an Italian Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church.

Giovanni Colonna was a Roman Catholic cardinal of the High Renaissance period, a member of the famous Colonna family.

Girolamo Savoldo, also called Girolamo da Brescia was an Italian High Renaissance painter active mostly in Venice, although he also worked in other cities in northern Italy. He is noted for his subtle use of color and chiaroscuro, and the sober realism of his works, which are mostly religious subjects, with a few portraits, which are given interest by their accessories or settings, "some even look like extracts from larger narratives".

Bartolino (Bertolino) Ploti da Novara was an Italian military architect and engineer.

Giovanni de Gamerra was an Italian cleric, a playwright, and a poet. He is best known as a prolific librettist.

Titus Verginius Tricostus Rutilus, was consul of the Roman Republic in 479 BC. He held the office with Caeso Fabius Vibulanus.