List of Famous people born in Italy
Simone Inzaghi
Simone Inzaghi is an Italian professional football manager and former player. He is currently managing in Serie A at Lazio.
Antonio Di Natale
Antonio Di Natale is an Italian former professional footballer who played as a forward.
Aldo Maccione
Aldo Maccione is an Italian film actor and singer who is a member of the Italian comedy rock band Brutos. He has appeared in more than 50 films since 1964. He was born in Turin, Italy.
Jessie James Decker
Jessica Rose James Decker is an American country pop singer-songwriter,reality television personality, fashion designer, and entrepreneur. At age 15, after auditioning for and being rejected by most of the country labels in Nashville, Tennessee, Decker began working with Carla Wallace of Big Yellow Dog Music. One of her songs attracted the attention of Mercury Records, which offered her a recording contract. She released her debut album, Jessie James, in 2009. A few years later in 2013, she starred with her husband Eric Decker, a wide receiver in the National Football League, in the E! reality show Eric & Jessie: Game On.
Lucky Luciano
Charles "Lucky" Luciano was an Italian-born gangster who operated mainly in the United States. Luciano started his criminal career in the Five Points gang and was instrumental in the development of the National Crime Syndicate. Luciano is considered the father of modern organized crime in the United States for the establishment of The Commission in 1931, after he abolished the boss of bosses title held by Salvatore Maranzano following the Castellammarese War. He was also the first official boss of the modern Genovese crime family.
Graziano Pellè
Graziano Pellè is an Italian professional footballer who plays as a striker for Serie A club Parma.
Fabio Fognini
Fabio Fognini is an Italian professional tennis player. He is currently ranked as the world number 17 by the Association of Tennis Professionals. Fognini's most successful surface is red clay, upon which he has won eight of his nine ATP singles titles, most notably at the 2019 Monte-Carlo Masters, as well as having reached the quarterfinals of the 2011 French Open. Together with Simone Bolelli, Fognini won the 2015 Australian Open doubles championship, becoming the first all-Italian men's pair to win a Grand Slam title in the Open era.
Sergio Marchionne
Sergio Marchionne was an Italian-Canadian businessman, widely known for his turnarounds of the automakers Fiat and Chrysler, his business acumen and his outspoken and often frank approach, especially when dealing with unpalatable issues related to his companies and the automotive industry.
Filippo Inzaghi
Filippo Inzaghi is an Italian former professional footballer and current manager, who serves as head coach of Serie A team Benevento. He was nicknamed by fans and commentators "Superpippo", "Pippo mio" and "Alta tensione".
Leonarda Cianciulli
Leonarda Cianciulli was an Italian serial killer. Better known as the "Soap-Maker of Correggio", she murdered three women in the town of Correggio, Reggio Emilia, between 1939 and 1940, and turned their bodies into soap and teacakes.