List of Famous people born in Italy

Mathilde Krim was a medical researcher and the founding chairman of amfAR, American Foundation for AIDS Research.

Gianmarco Tognazzi is an Italian actor.

Giovanni Giuseppe Gilberto "Nanni" Galli was an Italian saloon, sports-car and Formula One driver of the 1960s and 1970s.

Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus was a Roman politician and general from the late Republic.

Niccolò Ammaniti is an Italian writer, winner of the Premio Strega in 2007 for As God Commands.

Giovanni Prodi was an Italian mathematician, also known for many activities concerning the teaching of mathematics.

Boniface III, son of Tedald of Canossa and the father of Matilda of Canossa, was the most powerful north Italian prince of his age. By inheritance he was count of Brescia, Canossa, Ferrara, Florence, Lucca, Mantua, Modena, Pisa, Pistoia, Parma, Reggio, and Verona from 1007 and, by appointment, margrave of Tuscany from 1027 until his assassination in 1052.

Blanche of Montferrat was the duchess of Savoy as the wife of Charles I of Savoy. She acted as regent for her only son Charles from 1490 until his accidental death in 1496.

Margherita Maria Farnese was an Italian noblewoman born into the House of Farnese. She was the Duchess of Modena and Reggio by marriage to her first cousin Francesco II d'Este, Duke of Modena. Her niece was Elisabeth Farnese, wife of Philip V of Spain.