List of Famous people born in Italy

Raffaele Cutolo was an Italian crime boss, leader of the Nuova Camorra Organizzata (NCO), an organisation he built to renew the Camorra. Cutolo has a variety of nicknames including 'o Vangelo, 'o Princepe, 'o Professore and 'o Monaco. Apart from 18 months on the run, Cutolo lived inside maximum-security jails or psychiatric prisons since 1963. At the time of his death he was serving multiple life sentences for murder.

Ezio Gamba is a retired judoka from Italy, who represented his native country at four consecutive Summer Olympics. He claimed the gold medal in the men's lightweight division in 1980 by defeating Great Britain's Neil Adams.

Giovanni Boccaccio was an Italian writer, poet, correspondent of Petrarch, and an important Renaissance humanist. He was known par excellence as the Certaldese, and one of the most important figures in the European literary panorama of the fourteenth century. Some scholars define him as the greatest European prose writer of his time, a versatile writer who amalgamated different literary trends and genres, making them converge in original works, thanks to a creative activity exercised under the banner of experimentalism.

Paolo Malatesta, also known as il Bello, was the third son of Malatesta da Verucchio, lord of Rimini. He is best known for the story of his affair with Francesca da Polenta, portrayed by Dante in a famous episode of his Inferno. He was the brother of Giovanni (Gianciotto) and Malatestino Malatesta.

Pierino Prati was an Italian footballer who played mainly as a forward. He began his career with Salernitana, and later played for several other Italian clubs, including a successful spell with Milan, with whom he won several titles. He also had a brief spell with Rochester Lancers in the NASL in 1979.

Federica Brignone is an Italian World Cup alpine ski racer. Brignone won the 2020 World Cup overall title, becoming the first Italian female skier to achieve this feat. She is also an Olympic and World Championship medalist.

Filippo Brunelleschi, considered to be a founding father of Renaissance architecture, was an Italian architect and designer, and is now recognized to be the first modern engineer, planner, and sole construction supervisor. He is most famous for designing the dome of the Florence Cathedral, a feat of engineering that had not been accomplished since antiquity, as well as the development of the mathematical technique of linear perspective in art which governed pictorial depictions of space until the late 19th century and influenced the rise of modern science. His accomplishments also include other architectural works, sculpture, mathematics, engineering, and ship design. His principal surviving works can be found in Florence, Italy.

Maria Gaetana Agnesi was an Italian mathematician, philosopher, theologian, and humanitarian. She was the first woman to write a mathematics handbook and the first woman appointed as a mathematics professor at a university.

Dina Tala'at Sayed Muhammad, IPA: [ˈdiːnæ ˈtˤɑlʕɑt ˈsæjjed mæˈħæmmæd]; 1964) is an Egyptian belly dancer and actress. She was named as the "Last Egyptian Dancer" by the American magazine Newsweek. She has a master's degree in Philosophy.

Luigi Agnolin was an Italian football referee. He was mostly known for supervising four matches in the FIFA World Cup, one in 1986 and three in 1990. He also refereed the 1988 European Cup Final between PSV Eindhoven and S.L. Benfica.