List of Famous people born in Italy

Prince Gennaro, Count of Caltagirone

First Name Prince
Last Name Caltagirone
Born on February 28, 1857
Died on August 13, 1867 (aged 10)
Born in Italy, Campania

Prince Januarius Maria Immaculata Louis of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, Count of Caltagirone was the twelfth and youngest child of Ferdinand II of the Two Sicilies and his wife Maria Theresa of Austria. Januarius was a member of the House of Bourbon-Two Sicilies. The prince was named for Saint Januarius, patron saint of Naples.

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Boniface III

First Name Boniface
Last Name III
Born on August 10, 1424
Died on January 1, 1494 (aged 69)
Born in Italy

Boniface III Palaeologus was Marquis of Montferrat from 1483 until his death.

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Lorenzo Ghiberti

First Name Lorenzo
Last Name Ghiberti
Born on January 1, 1378
Died on December 1, 1455 (aged 77)
Born in Italy, Tuscany

Lorenzo Ghiberti, born Lorenzo di Bartolo, was a Florentine Italian artist of the Early Renaissance best known as the creator of the bronze doors of the Florence Baptistery, called by Michelangelo the Gates of Paradise. Trained as a goldsmith and sculptor, he established an important workshop for sculpture in metal. His book of Commentarii contains important writing on art, as well as what may be the earliest surviving autobiography by any artist.

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Jules Roy

First Name Jules
Last Name Roy
Born on October 22, 1907
Died on June 15, 2000 (aged 92)

Jules Roy was a French writer. "Prolific and polemical" Roy, born an Algerian pied noir and sent to a Roman Catholic seminary, used his experiences in the French colony and during his service in the Royal Air Force during the Second World War as inspiration for a number of his works. He began writing in 1946, while still serving in the military, and continued to publish fiction and historical works after his resignation in 1953 in protest of the First Indochina War. He was an outspoken critic of French colonialism and the Algerian War of Independence and later civil war, as well as a strongly religious man.

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Marie of Hohenstaufen

First Name Marie
Last Name Hohenstaufen
Born on April 3, 1201
Died on March 29, 1235 (aged 33)
Born in Italy, Tuscany

Maria of Swabia was a member of the powerful Hohenstaufen dynasty of German kings.

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Isabella Palaiologina of Montferrat

First Name Isabella
Last Name Montferrat
Born on September 7, 1427
Died on January 1, 1470 (aged 42)
Born in Italy, Piedmont
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William II of Athens

First Name William
Last Name Athens
Born on January 1, 1312
Died on August 22, 1338 (aged 26)
Born in Italy, Sicily

William was the third son of Frederick III of Sicily and Eleanor of Anjou. He inherited the Duchy of Athens after the death of his elder brother Manfred on 9 November 1317.

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Prince Thomas, Duke of Genoa

First Name Prince
Last Name Genoa
Born on February 6, 1854
Died on April 15, 1931 (aged 77)
Born in Italy, Piedmont, Turin

Prince Tommaso of Savoy, 2nd Duke of Genoa, who is also known as Thomas Albert Victor of Savoy, was an Italian royal prince, nephew of Victor Emmanuel at the time the King of Sardinia, who on 18 February 1861 became the first King of a united Italy. His cousin and brother-in-law Umberto I and his nephew Victor Emmanuel III became subsequent kings of Italy.

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Carlo Caracciolo

First Name Carlo
Last Name Caracciolo
Born on October 23, 1925
Died on December 15, 2008 (aged 83)
Born in Italy, Tuscany

Don Carlo Caracciolo, 9th Prince of Castagneto, 4th Duke of Melito was an Italian publisher. He created Gruppo Editoriale L'Espresso, one of Italy's leading publishing groups. He was known as "the editor prince," referring to his aristocratic birth and elegant manner.

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Prince Pasquale, Count of Bari

First Name Prince
Last Name Bari
Born on September 15, 1852
Died on December 21, 1904 (aged 52)
Born in Italy, Campania, Caserta

Prince Pasquale of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, Count of Bari, full Italian name: Pasquale Baylen Maria del Carmine Giovanni-Battista Vincenzo-Ferreri Michele Arcangel Francesco di Paola Ferdinando Francesco di Assisi Luigi-Re Alfonso Gaetano Giuseppe Pietro Paolo Gennaro Luigi-Gonzaga Giovanni Giuseppe della Croce Gaspare Melchiore Baldassare Alberto Sebastiano Giorgio Venanzio Emanuele Placido Andrea-Avelino Rocco Pacifico Francesco di Geronimo Felice Teziano Ana Filomena Sebazia Lucia Luitgarda Apollina, Principe di Borbone delle Due Sicilie, Conte di Bari was the eleventh child of Ferdinand II of the Two Sicilies and his second wife Maria Theresa of Austria.

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