List of Famous people born in Italy
Alessandro Nannini
Alessandro "Sandro" Nannini is a former racing driver from Italy. He is the younger brother of singer Gianna Nannini. His five-year F1 career resulted in a win at the 1989 Japanese Grand Prix but ended less than a year later after a helicopter crash severed his right forearm.
Cristiano Piccini
Cristiano Piccini is an Italian professional footballer who plays for Spanish club Valencia and the Italy national team as a right back.
Riccardo Scamarcio
Riccardo Dario Scamarcio is an Italian film actor and film producer.
Fred Bongusto
Alfredo Bongusto, known by his stage name Fred Bongusto, was an Italian light music singer, songwriter and composer who was very popular in the 1960s and 1970s.
Giacomo Raspadori
Giacomo Raspadori is an Italian professional footballer who plays as a forward for Serie A club Sassuolo and the Italy national team.
Margaret, Countess of Tyrol
Margaret, nicknamed Margarete Maultasch, was the last countess of Tyrol from the House of Gorizia (Meinhardiner), and an unsuccessful claimant to the Duchy of Carinthia. Upon her death, Tyrol became united with the Austrian hereditary lands of the Habsburg dynasty.
Francesco Maria Grimaldi
Francesco Maria Grimaldi was an Italian Jesuit priest, mathematician and physicist who taught at the Jesuit college in Bologna. He was born in Bologna to Paride Grimaldi and Anna Cattani.
Nek
Filippo Neviani, known by his stage name Nek, is an Italian singer-songwriter and musician. Nek is popular in Italy and throughout the Spanish-speaking world, and has performed and released most of his albums in both Italian and Spanish.
Emilio Pucci
Don Emilio Pucci, Marchese di Barsento was a Florentine Italian fashion designer and politician. He and his eponymous company are synonymous with geometric prints in a kaleidoscope of colors.
Decimus Junius Brutus Albinus
Decimus Junius Brutus Albinus, often referred to simply as Decimus, was a Roman general and politician of the late republican period and one of the leading instigators of Julius Caesar's assassination. He had previously been an important supporter of Caesar in the Gallic Wars and in the civil war against Pompey. Decimus Brutus is often confused with his distant cousin and fellow conspirator, Marcus Junius Brutus.