List of Famous people born in Italy
Pietro Ingrao
Pietro Ingrao was an Italian politician, journalist who participated in the resistance movement. For many years he was a senior figure in the Italian Communist Party (PCI).
John II
Pope John II, born Mercurius, was the bishop of Rome from 2 January 533 to his death. As a priest at St. Clement's Basilica, he endowed that church with gifts and commissioned stone carvings for it.
Ermanno Olmi
Ermanno Olmi was an Italian film director and screenwriter.
Ignazio Boschetto
Il Volo is an Italian operatic pop trio, consisting of baritone Gianluca Ginoble, and tenors, Piero Barone and Ignazio Boschetto. They describe their music as "popera". Having won the Sanremo Music Festival 2015, they represented Italy in the Eurovision Song Contest 2015 in Vienna, Austria. They reached third place, but managed to secure a solid first-place victory in the televoting.
Agathocles of Syracuse
Agathocles was a Greek tyrant of Syracuse and self-styled king of Sicily.
Saint Lea
Saint Lea is a fourth-century saint in the Roman Catholic Church based on the authority of Jerome.
Ermanno Cressoni
Ermanno Cressoni was an Italian car designer who worked for both Alfa Romeo and Fiat during his career. He designed or directed the design of a number of significant cars such as the Alfa Romeo 75 and the Fiat Coupe. He was often referrered to as 'Arch'. He died in Milan, Italy in June 2005 after battling cancer for over a year.
Ettore Bugatti
Ettore Arco Isidoro Bugatti was an Italian-born French automobile designer and manufacturer. He is remembered as the founder and proprietor of the automobile manufacturing company Automobiles E. Bugatti, which he founded in 1909 in the then German town of Molsheim in the Alsace region of what is now France.
Lory Del Santo
Loredana "Lory" Del Santo is an Italian actress.
Luciano De Crescenzo
Luciano De Crescenzo was an Italian writer, film actor, director and engineer.