List of Famous people born in Italy

Mariano Rampolla del Tindaro was an Italian Cardinal in the Roman Catholic Church, and the last man to have his candidacy for papal election vetoed through jus exclusivae by a Catholic monarch.

Fede Galizia, better known as Galizia, was an Italian Renaissance painter of still-lifes, portraits, and religious pictures. She is especially noted as a painter of still-lifes of fruit, a genre in which she was one of the earliest practitioners in European art. She is perhaps not as well known as other female artists, such as Angelica Kauffman and Elizabeth Vigée-Lebrun, because she did not have access to court-oriented or aristocratic social circles, nor had she sought the particular patronage of political rulers and noblemen.

Thomas Johann Nepomuk Kaspar, Count of Thun and Hohenstein was the 72nd Bishop of Passau.

Anna Maria Strada was an Italian soprano. She is best remembered for her association with the composer George Frideric Handel, in whose operas Strada sang.

Neri Maria Corsini was an Italian nobleman and Catholic priest and cardinal.

Francesco Guarino or Guarini was an Italian painter of the Baroque period, active mainly in the mountainous area east of Naples called Irpinia, and in other areas of the Kingdom of Naples, chiefly Campania, Apulia, and Molise.

Jacopo Sannazaro was an Italian poet, humanist and epigrammist from Naples.

Carlo Conti (1556–1615) was a Roman Catholic cardinal.

Victor IV was elected as a Ghibelline antipope in 1159, following the death of Pope Adrian IV and the election of Alexander III. His election was supported by the Emperor Frederick Barbarossa. He took the name Victor IV, not accounting for Antipope Victor IV of 1138, whose holding of the papal office was deemed illegitimate.