List of Famous people born in Italy

Luigi Ferrari Bravo

First Name Luigi
Last Name Bravo
Born on August 5, 1933
Died on February 8, 2016 (aged 82)
Born in Italy, Campania

Luigi Ferrari Bravo was an Italian professor and legal expert who served as judge for the International Court of Justice in the 1990s.

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Altero Matteoli

First Name Altero
Born on September 8, 1940
Died on December 18, 2017 (aged 77)
Born in Italy, Tuscany

Altero Matteoli was an Italian politician.

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Patrick Thaler

First Name Patrick
Last Name Thaler
Born on March 23, 1978 (age 48)
Height 177 cm | 5'10

Patrick Thaler is a retired World Cup alpine ski racer from northern Italy. Born in Bolzano, South Tyrol, he specialized in the slalom. Thaler competed for Italy at the 2006, 2010 and 2014 Winter Olympics but failed to finish. His best result from Alpine World Ski Championships is a seventh place in Val-d'Isère, France, in 2009.

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Gabriel Malagrida

First Name Gabriel
Last Name Malagrida
Born on September 18, 1689
Died on September 21, 1761 (aged 72)
Born in Italy, Lombardy

Gabriel Malagrida was an Italian Jesuit missionary in the Portuguese colony of Brazil and influential figure in the political life of the Lisbon Royal Court who described the devastating 1755 Lisbon earthquake as retribution prompted by God's wrath.

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Marie Anne Mancini

First Name Marie
Last Name Mancini
Born on January 1, 1649
Died on June 20, 1714 (aged 65)
Born in Italy, Lazio

Marie Anne Mancini, duchesse de Bouillon, was an Italian-French aristocrat and cultural patron, the youngest of the five famous Mancini sisters, who along with two of their female Martinozzi cousins, were known at the court of King Louis XIV of France as the Mazarinettes, because their uncle was the king's chief minister, Cardinal Mazarin. She is known for her involvement in the famous Poison Affair, and as the patron of La Fontaine.

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Claudia Marcella Major

First Name Claudia
Last Name Major
Died on November 30, 0099
Born in Italy, Lazio

Claudia Marcella Major (PIR2 C 1102; born some time before 40 BC) was the senior niece of Roman emperor Augustus, being the eldest daughter of his sister Octavia the Younger and her first husband Gaius Claudius Marcellus. She became the second wife of Augustus foremost general Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa and after that the wife of Iullus Antonius, the son of Mark Antony.

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Fabrizio Fabbri

First Name Fabrizio
Born on September 28, 1948
Died on June 3, 2019 (aged 70)
Born in Italy, Tuscany

Fabrizio Fabbri was an Italian cyclist.

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Faustina the Younger

First Name Faustina
Last Name Younger
Born on February 16, 0125
Died on January 1, 0175 (aged 49)
Born in Italy, Lazio

Annia Galeria Faustina the Younger was a daughter of Roman Emperor Antoninus Pius and Roman Empress Faustina the Elder. She was a Roman Empress and wife to her maternal cousin Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius. She was held in high esteem by soldiers and her own husband as Augusta and mater Castrorum and was given divine honours after her death.

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Lucrezia de' Medici

First Name Lucrezia
Born on August 13, 1470
Died on November 25, 1553 (aged 83)
Born in Italy, Tuscany

Lucrezia Maria Romola de' Medici was an Italian noblewoman, the eldest daughter of Lorenzo de' Medici and Clarice Orsini and mother of Maria Salviati and Giovanni Salviati. Her portrait was considered as the baby Jesus in Our Lady of the Magnificat of Sandro Botticelli.

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Romaldo Giurgola

First Name Romaldo
Born on September 2, 1920
Died on May 16, 2016 (aged 95)
Born in Italy, Lazio

Romaldo "Aldo" Giurgola AO was an Italian academic, architect, professor, and author. Giurgola was born in Rome, Italy in 1920. After service in the Italian armed forces during World War II, he was educated at the Sapienza University of Rome. He studied architecture at the University of Rome, completing the equivalent of a B.Arch. with honors in 1949. That same year, he moved to the United States and received a master's degree in architecture from Columbia University. In 1954, Giurgola accepted a position as an assistant professor of architecture at the University of Pennsylvania. Shortly thereafter, Giurgola formed Mitchell/Giurgola Architects in Philadelphia with Ehrman B. Mitchell in 1958. In 1966, Giurgola became chair of the Columbia University School of Architecture and Planning in New York City, where he opened a second office of the firm. In 1980 under Giurgola's direction, the firm won an international competition to design a new Australian parliament building. Giurgola moved to Canberra, Australia to oversee the project. In 1989, after its completion and official opening in 1988, the Parliament House was recognized with the top award for public architecture in Australia.

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