List of Famous people born in Italy

Grazio Braccioli (1682–1752) was an Italian jurist, poet and librettist. Born in Ferrara, he wrote 9 libretti for operas produced at the Teatro Sant'Angelo in Venice between 1711 and 1715. Among them were the libretti for Vivaldi's Orlando furioso and Orlando finto pazzo.

Girolamo Boncompagni (1616–1685) was a Roman Catholic cardinal.

Giuseppe Saverio Raffaele Mercadante was an Italian composer, particularly of operas. While Mercadante may not have retained the international celebrity of Gaetano Donizetti or Gioachino Rossini beyond his own lifetime, he composed as prolific a number of works as either; and his development of operatic structures, melodic styles and orchestration contributed significantly to the foundations upon which Giuseppe Verdi built his dramatic technique.

Arnolfo di Cambio was an Italian architect and sculptor. As an architect he is most known for the original design of Florence Cathedral, while his most important surviving work as a sculptor is the tomb of Cardinal de Braye in S. Domenico, Orvieto.

Giovanni da Pian del Carpine, variously rendered in English as John of Pian de Carpine, John of Plano Carpini or Joannes de Plano, was a medieval Italian diplomat, archbishop and explorer and one of the first Europeans to enter the court of the Great Khan of the Mongol Empire. He is the author of the earliest important Western account of northern and central Asia, Rus, and other regions of the Mongol dominion. He was the Primate of Serbia, based in Antivari, from 1247 to 1252.

Innocenzo Del Bufalo-Cancellieri (1566–1610) was a Roman Catholic cardinal.

Innico Caracciolo di Martina or Innico Caracciolo the Younger was an Italian cardinal.

Melozzo da Forlì was an Italian Renaissance painter and architect. His fresco paintings are notable for the use of foreshortening. He was the most important member of the Forlì painting school.

Leonardo Bruni was an Italian humanist, historian and statesman, often recognized as the most important humanist historian of the early Renaissance. He has been called the first modern historian. He was the earliest person to write using the three-period view of history: Antiquity, Middle Ages, and Modern. The dates Bruni used to define the periods are not exactly what modern historians use today, but he laid the conceptual groundwork for a tripartite division of history.

Hyacinthe Serroni was an Italian Roman Catholic bishop, diplomat, and steward of the Navy for the kingdom of France.