List of Famous people born in Italy

Raffaele Pinto

First Name Raffaele
Last Name Pinto
Born on April 13, 1945
Died on December 8, 2020 (aged 75)
Born in Italy, Lombardy

Raffaele "Lele" Pinto was a rally driver, who won the 1974 Rally Portugal.

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Joseph Bonanno

First Name Joseph
Last Name Bonanno
Died on May 11, 2002 (aged 32)
Born in Italy, Sicily

Joseph Charles Bonanno, sometimes referred to as Joe Bananas, was an Italian-American crime boss of the Bonanno crime family, which he ran from 1931 to 1968.

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Filippo Illuminato

First Name Filippo
Last Name Illuminato
Born on August 21, 1930
Died on September 28, 1943 (aged 13)
Born in Italy, Campania

Filippo Illuminato was an Italian partisan who died attacking Nazi German troops during the Four days of Naples in World War II. He was posthumously awarded the Gold Medal of Military Valour, Italy's highest award for gallantry.

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Alessandro Nesta

First Name Alessandro
Last Name Nesta
Born on March 19, 1976 (age 50)
Born in Italy, Lazio
Height 187 cm | 6'2

Alessandro Nesta is an Italian professional football manager and former player who currently manages Serie B club Frosinone. Widely considered to be one of the best centre backs of his time and also as one of the greatest defenders ever, he was best known for his pace, artistic tackles, elegance on the ball, distribution and tight marking of opponents.

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Totò

Antonio Vincenzo Stefano Clemente
Born on February 15, 1898
Died on April 15, 1967 (aged 69)
Born in Italy, Campania

Antonio Griffo Focas Flavio Angelo Ducas Comneno Porfirogenito Gagliardi de Curtis di Bisanzio, best known by his stage name Totò or simply as Antonio de Curtis, and nicknamed il Principe della risata, was an Italian actor, comedian, writer, poet, singer and lyricist. He was commonly referred to as one of the most popular Italian performers of all time. He is best known for his funny and sometimes cynical character as a comedian in theatre and then in many successful films shot from the 1940s to the 1960s, all regularly still on TV, but he also worked with many iconic Italian film directors in dramatic/poetic roles.

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Appius Claudius Pulcher

First Name Appius
Born on November 30, -0098
Died on January 1, -0048 (aged 50)
Born in Italy, Lazio

Appius Claudius Pulcher was a Roman patrician, politician and general in the first century BC. He was consul of the Roman Republic in 54 BC. He was an expert in Roman law and antiquities, especially the esoteric lore of the augural college of which he was a controversial member. He was head of the senior line of the most powerful family of the patrician Claudii. The Claudii were one of the five leading families which had dominated Roman social and political life from the earliest years of the republic. He is best known as the recipient of 13 of the extant letters in Cicero's ad Familiares corpus, which date from winter 53-52 to summer 50 BC. Regrettably they do not include any of Appius' replies to Cicero as extant texts of any sort by members of Rome's ruling aristocracy are quite rare, apart from those of Julius Caesar. He is also well known for being the older brother of the infamous Clodius and Clodia.

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Fosco Maraini

First Name Fosco
Last Name Maraini
Died on June 8, 2004 (aged 34)
Born in Italy, Tuscany

Fosco Maraini was an Italian photographer, anthropologist, ethnologist, writer, mountaineer and academic.

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Guido Carli

First Name Guido
Last Name Carli
Born on March 28, 1914
Died on April 23, 1993 (aged 79)
Born in Italy, Lombardy

Guido Carli was an Italian banker, economist and politician.

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Fulco Ruffo di Calabria

First Name Fulco
Last Name Calabria
Born on August 12, 1884
Died on August 23, 1946 (aged 62)
Born in Italy, Campania

Fulco VIII, Prince Ruffo di Calabria, 6th Duke of Guardia Lombarda was an Italian World War I flying ace, and senator under the fascist regime of Benito Mussolini in World War II — for which he was convicted. He was also posthumous father-in-law of King Albert II of the Belgians, and grandfather of King Philippe of Belgium.

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Porcia

Born on November 30, -0097
Died on November 30, -0041 (aged 56)
Born in Italy, Lazio

Porcia, was the daughter of Marcus Porcius Cato and Livia.

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