List of Famous people born in Italy
Filippo I Colonna
Filippo Colonna, Prince of Paliano, was an Italian nobleman, who was the head of the Colonna family of Rome and the hereditary Gran Connestabile at the court of Naples.
Gualtiero Marchesi
Gualtiero Marchesi was an Italian chef, considered to be the founder of modern Italian cuisine.
Aldo Mongiano
Aldo Mongiano, IMC was an Italian-born Brazil-based bishop of the Roman Catholic Church. Mongiano was born in Pontestura, Italy, and was ordained a priest on 3 June 1943, from the religious order of the Consolata Missionaries. Mongiano was appointed bishop of the Diocese of Roraima as well as Titular bishop of Nasai on 14 May 1975, and consecrated on 5 October 1975. He resigned as Titular bishop of Nasai and was appointed bishop of Roraima on 4 December 1979. Mongiano retired from the Roraima Diocese on 26 June 1996. Mongiano died on 15 April 2020 at the age of 100 from complications from a broken femur.
Ugo d'Este
Ugo d'Este, also known as Hugh Aldobrandino, was the son of Niccolò III d'Este and his lover Stella de' Tolomei.
Paola Pigni
Paola Pigni was an Italian middle and long-distance runner. She was a three-time world champion in cross country and held the world record over five distance running events on the track, from 1500m to 10,000m.
Cassiodorus
Flavius Magnus Aurelius Cassiodorus Senator, commonly known as Cassiodorus, was a Roman statesman, renowned scholar of antiquity, and writer serving in the administration of Theodoric the Great, king of the Ostrogoths. Senator was part of his surname; not his rank. He also founded a monastery, Vivarium, where he spent the last years of his life.
Carlo Ginzburg
Carlo Ginzburg is a noted Italian historian and proponent of the field of microhistory. He is best known for Il formaggio e i vermi, which examined the beliefs of an Italian heretic, Menocchio, from Montereale Valcellina.
Charles, Duke of Calabria
Charles, Duke of Calabria, was the son of King Robert of Naples and Yolanda of Aragon.
Marianus II of Torres
Marianus II was the Judge of Logudoro from 1218 until his death. He was an ally of the Republic of Genoa and enemy of Pisa.
Odoardo Farnese, Hereditary Prince of Parma
Odoardo Farnese was the eldest son of Duke Ranuccio II Farnese, Duke of Parma and Piacenza. Odoardo was the Hereditary Prince of Parma from his birth untill his death. He was the father of the famously domineering Elisabeth, Queen of Spain.