List of Famous people born in Italy

Princess Maria Carolina of the Two Sicilies

First Name Princess
Last Name Sicilies
Born on November 29, 1820
Died on January 14, 1861 (aged 40)
Born in Italy, Campania

Princess Maria Carolina Ferdinanda of Bourbon-Two Sicilies was a princess of the House of Bourbon-Two Sicilies and an infanta of Spain through her marriage to Infante Carlos, Count of Montemolin, Carlist claimant to the throne of Spain under the name Carlos VI. Maria Carolina was a daughter of Francis I of the Two Sicilies and his second wife Maria Isabella of Spain.

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Angela Merici

First Name Angela
Last Name Merici
Born on March 21, 1474
Died on January 27, 1540 (aged 65)
Born in Italy, Lombardy

Angela Merici or Angela de Merici was an Italian religious educator, who is honored as a saint by the Roman Catholic Church. She founded the Company of St. Ursula in 1535 in Brescia, in which women dedicated their lives to the service of the Church through the education of girls. From this organisation later sprang the monastic Order of Ursulines, whose nuns established places of prayer and learning throughout Europe and, later, worldwide, most notably in North America.

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Angelo Parisi

First Name Angelo
Last Name Parisi
Born on January 3, 1953 (age 73)
Born in Italy, Lazio
Height 185 cm | 6'1

Angelo Parisi is a French judoka and olympic champion. He won a gold medal in the heavyweight division at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow. At his Olympic debut in 1972 he represented Great Britain.

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Frederick IV of Naples

First Name Frederick
Last Name Naples
Died on November 9, 1504
Born in Italy, Campania

Frederick, sometimes called Frederick IV or Frederick of Aragon, was the last King of Naples of the Neapolitan branch of the House of Trastámara, ruling from 1496 to 1501. He was the second son of Ferdinand I, younger brother of Alfonso II, and uncle of Ferdinand II, his predecessor.

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Archduchess Maria Anna of Austria

First Name Archduchess
Born on April 21, 1770
Died on October 1, 1809 (aged 39)
Born in Italy, Tuscany

Archduchess Maria Anna of Austria was an Archduchess of Austria by birth, and a Princess-Abbess of the Theresian Institution of Noble Ladies in Prague.

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Alessandro Costacurta

First Name Alessandro
Last Name Costacurta
Born on April 24, 1966 (age 60)
Born in Italy, Lombardy
Height 182 cm | 6'0

Alessandro "Billy" Costacurta is an Italian football pundit, manager and a former professional defender, who usually played as a centre back.

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Francesco Morini

First Name Francesco
Last Name Morini
Born on August 12, 1944
Died on August 31, 2021 (aged 77)
Born in Italy, Tuscany
Height 185 cm | 6'1

Francesco Morini was an Italian professional footballer who played as a defender. He competed for the Italy national team in the 1974 FIFA World Cupand earned a total of 11 caps. He played for clubs such as Sampdoria and, most notably, Juventus, with which he achieved great success. Morini was a fast, strong, and tenacious centre-back, with good technique, who was known for his tackling ability, as well as his tight marking of opposing forwards. He was given the nickname "Morgan the Pirate" as he excelled as a powerful ball-winner; despite his physical style of play, he was also known for his correct behaviour on the pitch, and he rarely committed aggressive challenges. On the pitch, he was also well known for his rivalry with Inter forward Roberto Boninsegna, who later became his teammate. After his retirement he worked as Juventus's sporting director for several years.

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Bruno Munari

First Name Bruno
Last Name Munari
Born on October 24, 1907
Died on September 29, 1998 (aged 90)
Born in Italy, Lombardy

Bruno Munari was an Italian artist, designer, and inventor who contributed fundamentals to many fields of visual arts in modernism, futurism, and concrete art, and in non-visual arts with his research on games, didactic method, movement, tactile learning, kinesthetic learning, and creativity.

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Romuald

Born on January 1, 0951
Died on June 19, 1027 (aged 76)

Romuald was the founder of the Camaldolese order and a major figure in the eleventh-century "Renaissance of eremitical asceticism". Romuald spent about 30 years traversing Italy, founding and reforming monasteries and hermitages.

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Louis II, Elector of Brandenburg

First Name Louis
Last Name Brandenburg
Born on May 7, 1328
Died on May 17, 1365 (aged 37)
Born in Italy, Lazio

Louis the Roman was the eldest son of Emperor Louis IV the Bavarian by his second wife, Margaret II, Countess of Hainault, and a member of the House of Wittelsbach. Louis was Duke of Bavaria as Louis VI (1347–1365) and Margrave of Brandenburg (1351–1365) as Louis II. As of 1356, he also served as Prince-elector of Brandenburg.

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