List of Famous people born in Italy

Matteo Realdo Colombo was an Italian professor of anatomy and a surgeon at the University of Padua between 1544 and 1559.

Columba of Rieti, was an Italian religious sister of the Third Order of St. Dominic who was noted as a mystic. She was renowned for her spiritual counsel, devotion to the Blessed Sacrament, and fantastic miracles were attributed to her. She was beatified by the Catholic Church in 1625.

Clelia Merloni was an Italian Roman Catholic nun and the founder of the Apostles of the Sacred Heart of Jesus. Merloni was destined to follow her father into the business world but renounced his anti-religious sentiment and instead went down the religious path. Internal complications led to Merloni's fall from grace and she went into self-imposed exile where she received a dispensation to break from her religious vows. She later rejoined the congregation as a nun not long before her death.

Claudio Rangoni was a Roman Catholic prelate who served as Bishop of Piacenza (1596–1619).

Ciriaco Mattei was an Italian nobleman of Rome and of the House of Mattei and one of the most prolific art collectors of his time.

Lodovico Lipparini was an Italian painter.

Mario Besesti was an Italian actor and voice actor.

Timaeus of Tauromenium was one of the most influential ancient Greek historians of the western Mediterranean until the time of Polybius.