List of Famous people born in Italy
Bruno Nicolè
Bruno Nicolè was an Italian professional footballer who played as a forward.
Luigi Ferdinando Tagliavini
Luigi Ferdinando Tagliavini, was an Italian organist, harpsichordist, musicologist and composer.
Raffaello da Montelupo
Raffaello da Montelupo, born Raffaele Sinibaldi, was a sculptor and architect of the Italian Renaissance, and an apprentice of Michelangelo. He was the son of another Italian sculptor, Baccio da Montelupo. Both father and son are profiled in Vasari's Le Vite delle più eccellenti pittori, scultori, ed architettori.
Nilo Zandanel
Nilo Zandanel was an Italian ski jumper.
Hieronymus Fabricius
Hieronymus Fabricius or Girolamo Fabrizio, known also by his full Latin and Italian names, Fabricius ab Aquapendente or Girolamo Fabrizi d'Acquapendente, was a pioneering anatomist and surgeon known in medical science as "The Father of Embryology."
Giovanni Battista Piranesi
Giovanni Battista Piranesi was an Italian Classical archaeologist, architect, and artist, famous for his etchings of Rome and of fictitious and atmospheric "prisons". He was the father of Francesco Piranesi and Laura Piranesi.
Princess Maria Antonia of the Two Sicilies
Princess Maria Antonia of the Two Sicilies was the Grand Duchess of Tuscany from 1833 to 1859 as the consort of Leopold II. In signature, she used Maria Antonietta.
Junio Valerio Borghese
Junio Valerio Scipione Ghezzo Marcantonio Maria Borghese, nicknamed The Black Prince, was an Italian Navy commander during the regime of Benito Mussolini's National Fascist Party and a prominent hard-line Fascist politician in post-war Italy. In 1970 he took part in the planning of a neo-fascist coup that was called off after the press discovered it; he subsequently fled to Spain and spent the last years of his life there.
Alfonso II of Naples
Alfonso II was Duke of Calabria and ruled as King of Naples from 25 January 1494 to 23 January 1495. He was a soldier and a patron of Renaissance architecture and the arts.
Johann Maria Farina
Giovanni Maria Farina was an Italian-born perfumier from Germany who created the first Eau de Cologne.