List of Famous people born in Italy

Pierluigi Carafa, Junior was an Italian cardinal from the famous Neapolitan family of Italian nobles, clergy, and men of arts. He served the papacy as Camerlengo of the Sacred College of Cardinals and as Dean of same College. He is currently buried at Sant'Andrea delle Fratte in Rome.

Francesco Abbondio Castiglioni (1523–1568) was an Italian Roman Catholic bishop and cardinal.

Giulio Ulisse Arata was an Italian architect. His work was part of the architecture event in the art competition at the 1936 Summer Olympics.

Amina Pirani Maggi (1892–1979) was an Italian stage and film actress.

Titus Lucretius Carus was a Roman poet and philosopher. His only known work is the philosophical poem De rerum natura, a didactic work about the tenets and philosophy of Epicureanism, and which usually is translated into English as On the Nature of Things. Lucretius has been credited with originating the concept of the three-age system that was formalised in 1836 by C. J. Thomsen.

Giacomo Filippo Maraldi was a French-Italian astronomer and mathematician. His name is also given as Jacques Philippe Maraldi. Born in Perinaldo he was the nephew of Giovanni Cassini, and worked most of his life at the Paris Observatory. He also is the uncle of Jean-Dominique Maraldi.

Giovanni Sallustio Peruzzi was an Italian architect.

Francesco Cennini de' Salamandri was an Italian Catholic Cardinal.

Alesso or Alessio Baldovinetti was an Italian early Renaissance painter and draftsman.