List of Famous people born in Italy

Pietro Faccini or Facini (1562–1602), was an Italian painter, draughtsman and printmaker. He was active near his birthplace of Bologna working in a style bridging Mannerism and the nascent Baroque.

Giovanni Giorgi was an Italian physicist and electrical engineer who proposed the Giorgi system of measurement, the precursor to the International System of Units (SI).

Filippo Beroaldo, sometimes called "the Elder" to distinguish him from his cousin Filippo Beroaldo the Younger, and also known as Philip or Philippus Beroaldus was an Italian humanist active as a professor at the University of Bologna.

Guido Balzarini was an Italian fencer. He won a gold medal in the team sabre competition at the 1924 Summer Olympics.

Victor IV was an antipope for a short time in 1138.

Ulisse Stacchini was an Italian architect. He was born in Florence and studied in Milan and died in Sanremo.

Giuseppa Iolanda Menichelli, known professionally as Pina Menichelli, was an Italian actress. After a career in theatre and a series of small film roles, Menichelli was launched as a film star when Giovanni Pastrone gave her the lead role in The Fire (1916). Over the next nine years, Menichelli made a series of films, often trading on her image as a diva and on her passionate, decadent eroticism. Menichelli became a global star, and one of the most appreciated actresses in Italian cinema, before her retirement in 1924, aged 34.