List of Famous people born in Italy
Lorenzo Fortunato
Lorenzo Fortunato is an Italian cyclist, who currently rides for UCI ProTeam Eolo–Kometa.
Laura Gonzenbach
Laura Gonzenbach (1842–1878) was a Swiss fairy tale collector, active in Messina, who collected fairy tales in a number of Sicilian dialects.
Hermann Achmüller
Hermann Achmüller is an Italian male mountain runner, who won a medal at the World Long Distance Mountain Running Championships (2007).
Enrico Medioli
Enrico Medioli was an Italian screenwriter.
Ranuccio II Farnese
Ranuccio II Farnese was the sixth Duke of Parma and Piacenza from 1646 until his death nearly 50 years later and Duke of Castro from 1646 until 1649.
Paul V
Pope Paul V, born Camillo Borghese, was bishop of Rome from 16 May 1605 to his death. In 1611, he honored Galileo Galilei as a member of the Papal Accademia dei Lincei and supported his discoveries. In 1616, Pope Paul V instructed Cardinal Bellarmine to inform Galileo that the Copernican theory could not be taught as fact, but Bellarmine's certificate allowed Galileo to continue his studies in search for evidence and use the geocentric model as a theoretical device. That same year Paul V assured Galileo that he was safe from persecution so long as he, the Pope, should live. Bellarmine's certificate was used by Galileo for his defense at the trial of 1633.
Louis of Parma, king of Etruria
Louis I was the first of the two kings of Etruria. Louis was the son of Ferdinand, Duke of Parma, and Maria Amalia of Austria. He was born in 1773, when his great-grandfather, King Louis XV of France, was still alive.
Prince Henry of Battenberg
Prince Henry of Battenberg was a morganatic descendant of the Grand Ducal House of Hesse. He became a member of the British Royal Family by marriage to Queen Victoria's youngest child, Princess Beatrice of the United Kingdom. Through his daughter, Princess Victoria Eugenie of Battenberg, who became the Queen of Spain by marriage, Henry is a direct ancestor of current members of the Spanish royal family.
Philippe Jules Mancini
Philippe Jules Mancini, Duke of Nevers, was the nephew of Cardinal Mazarin, chief minister of France immediately after the death of King Louis XIII. He was the brother 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.
Manfred of Athens
Manfred, infante of Sicily, was the second son of Frederick III of Sicily and Eleanor of Anjou.