List of Famous people born in Italy
Aymon of Challant
Aymon II of Challant was a nobleman of the Challant family of Aosta Valley.
Giambattista Vico
Giambattista Vico was an Italian political philosopher and rhetorician, historian and jurist of the Age of Enlightenment. He criticized the expansion and development of modern rationalism, was an apologist for Classical Antiquity, finding Cartesian analysis and other types of reductionism impractical to daily life, and was the first expositor of the fundamentals of social science and of semiotics.
Paolo Berlusconi
Paolo Berlusconi is the younger brother of the former Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi. He is the publisher of the newspaper Il Giornale and the head of the investment group Paolo Berlusconi Finanzaria.
Publius Vitellius the Elder
Publius Vitellius, grandfather of the emperor Vitellius, was a Roman eques, who served as procurator during the reign of Augustus.
Albert Azzo II, Margrave of Milan
Alberto Azzo II, Margrave of Milan, and Liguria, Count of Gavello, Padua, Rovigo, Lunigiana, Monselice, and Montagnana, was a powerful nobleman in the Holy Roman Empire. He is considered the founder of Casa d'Este, having been head of the first family to be master of Este, a town of Padua.
Princess Maria Carlotta of Parma
Maria Carlotta of Parma was a Princess of Parma and Infanta of Spain, daughter of Ferdinand, Duke of Parma and his wife, Archduchess Maria Amalia of Austria. She joined the Dominican Order under the name of Sister Giacinta Domenica.
Lucien Louis Joseph Napoleon Bonaparte
Lucien Louis Joseph Napoléon Bonaparte, 4th Prince of Canino and Musignano, was a French cardinal and member of the House of Bonaparte.
Giannino Castiglioni
Giannino Castiglioni was an Italian sculptor and medallist. He worked mostly in monumental and funerary sculpture; his style was representational, and far from the modernist and avant-garde trends of the early twentieth century.
Franceschetto Cybo
Franceschetto Cybo was an Italian nobleman, noteworthy for being the illegitimate son of Pope Innocent VIII.