List of Famous people born in Italy

Gianluigi Aponte is an Italian billionaire businessman, and the founder, owner and chairman of Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC), the second-largest container shipping line in the world after Maersk.

Spartaco Landini was an Italian football defender and later a manager.

Azeglio Vicini was an Italian football coach and footballer, who also served as the President of the Technical Sector of the Italian Football Federation (FIGC).

Vittorio Meano was an Italian architect born in Susa, Italy, near Turin.

Domenico Losurdo was an Italian Marxist philosopher and historian. A polarising figure, praised by some for his criticism of liberalism in practice and criticised by others for relativising Joseph Stalin, Losurdo was best known for his critique of anti-communism, colonialism, imperialism, the European tradition of liberalism and the concept of totalitarianism. Losurdo also articulated a distinction between political-moral and naturalistic despecification.

Antonio Rossi is an Italian sprint canoer who has competed since the early 1990s. Competing in five Summer Olympics, he won five medals which included three golds, one silver, and one bronze. He also designs and produces a variety of clothing, such as high quality underwear.

Karl Golser was the Roman Catholic bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Bolzano-Brixen, Italy. Ordained to the priesthood in 1968, Golser was named bishop in 2008 and retired in 2011 due to health reasons. He died in 2016, aged 73.

Enrico Letta is an Italian university professor and politician who was Prime Minister of Italy from 2013 to 2014, leading a grand coalition comprising the centre-left Democratic Party, the centre-right People of Freedom, and the centrist Civic Choice. He has also been a Member of the Chamber of Deputies since 2006. Letta was Minister of European Affairs from 1998 to 1999 and Minister of Industry from 1999 to 2001, and served as Secretary to the Council of Ministers from 2006 to 2008.

Louise of Orléans was a French princess who became the first Queen of the Belgians as the second wife of King Leopold I. She was also known as Louise-Marie.

Elisa Sednaoui is a model, actress, philanthropist and film director of Italian, Egyptian, and French descent. She has appeared in such films as Eastern Drift, La Baie du renard, Bus Palladium, Les Gamins, and Remember Now, as well as in fashion campaigns for Chanel Eyewear, Giorgio Armani, Missoni and Roberto Cavalli. In 2013, she created the Elisa Sednaoui Foundation, dedicated to promoting creative learning, after-school initiatives for youngsters.