List of Famous people born in Italy
Silvius Magnago
Silvius Magnago was an Italian politician.
Maria Henrietta of Naples and Sicily
Princess Maria Henrietta of Naples and Sicily was a member of the House of Bourbon and a princess of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies.
Luciana Lamorgese
Luciana Lamorgese is an Italian civil servant and prefect, and Minister of the Interior in the Conte II Cabinet since 5 September 2019. On February 13, 2021, she was confirmed in the same post within the new Draghi Cabinet.
Ascanio Sforza
Ascanio Maria Sforza Visconti was an Italian Cardinal of the Catholic Church. Generally known as a skilled diplomat who played a major role in the election of Rodrigo Borgia as Pope Alexander VI, Sforza served as Vice-Chancellor of the Holy Roman Church from 1492 until 1505.
Susanna Agnelli
Susanna Agnelli, Contessa Rattazzi, Cavaliere di Gran Croce OMRI was an Italian politician, businesswoman and writer. She was the first woman to be appointed Minister of Foreign Affairs in Italy.
Raffaello del Brescianino
Raffaello del Brescianino or Dei Piccinelli was an Italian painter of the Renaissance period, active in Siena. Together with his brother Andrea, they were known as the Brescianini of Siena. He was the son of a dancing-master at Siena, where he flourished from 1507 to 1525. He was the pupil of a Sienese painter, named Giovan Battista Giusi, and they together painted an altar-piece, representing the 'Virgin and Child, with Saints,' which is in the Siena Academy, and in 1524 the 'Baptism of Christ,' for the baptistery of the cathedral of the same city. In 1525 the brothers went to Florence, and in the same year Andrea, and probably Raffaello also, was registered in the Painters' Guild. The brothers appear to have worked under the influence of Fra Bartolommeo. Raffaello died at Florence in 1545.
Rodolfo Gonzaga
Rodolfo Gonzaga was an Italian condottiero. He was the son of Ludovico III Gonzaga and Barbara of Brandenburg. He had married Caterina Pico and he was the founder of the Castel Goffredo, Castiglione and Solferino cadet branch of the House of Gonzaga.
Luigi Arcangeli
Luigi Arcangeli was an Italian motorcycle and car racer.
Charles Martel of Anjou
Charles Martel of the Angevin dynasty was the eldest son of king Charles II of Naples and Maria of Hungary, the daughter of King Stephen V of Hungary. The 18-year-old Charles Martel was set up by Pope Nicholas IV and the ecclesiastical party as the titular King of Hungary (1290–1295) as successor of his maternal uncle, the childless Ladislaus IV of Hungary against whom the Pope had already earlier declared a crusade.
Princess Maria Antonietta of Bourbon-Two Sicilies
Princess Maria Antonietta of Bourbon-Two Sicilies was a Princess of Bourbon-Two Sicilies by birth and by her marriage to Prince Alfonso, Count of Caserta, claimant to the defunct throne of the Two Sicilies.