List of Famous people born in Italy

Ottavio Rinuccini was an Italian poet, courtier, and opera librettist at the end of the Renaissance and beginning of the Baroque eras. In collaborating with Jacopo Peri to produce the first opera, Dafne, in 1597, he became the first opera librettist.

Carlo Agostino Fabroni was an Italian Roman Catholic cardinal.

Camillo Ranzani was an Italian priest and a naturalist. He was director of the Museum of Natural History of Bologna from 1803 to 1841. Ranzani wrote Elementi di zoologia which was published in Bologna from 1819 to 1825.

Domenico Maria Corsi was a Catholic cardinal who served as Bishop of Rimini from 1687 to his death, and as Legate of Romagna from 1687 to 1693.

Camillo Astalli was an Italian Catholic Cardinal and Cardinal-Nephew of Pope Innocent X who served as Cardinal Priest of San Pietro in Montorio (1653–1662), Camerlengo of the Sacred College of Cardinals (1661–1662), and Archbishop of Catania (1661–1663).

Jakob Hutter was a Tyrolean Anabaptist leader and founder of the Hutterites.

Renato Raffaele Martino is an Italian prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He has been a cardinal since 2003. He has been the longest serving Cardinal Deacon, the Cardinal Protodeacon, since June 2014. He served for more than twenty years in the diplomatic service of the Holy See, including sixteen years as Permanent Observer of the Holy See to the United Nations. He held positions in the Roman Curia from 2002 to 2009.