List of Famous people born in Italy
Marta Tana
Antonella Bechi Piaggio
Unruoch III of Friuli
Unruoch III, Unroch III or (H)unroch III was the margrave of Friuli from 863 to 874. He was the oldest successor of Eberhard of Friuli. He married Ava, a daughter of Liutfrid of Monza, and left a son Eberhard of Sulichgau who married Ermentrude of France, granddaughter of Charles the Bald, but was succeeded by his brother Berengar. He left a daughter who became a nun in Brescia and was abducted by men of Liutward of Vercelli in 887 and forced to marry one of his relatives.
Faltonia Betitia Proba
Faltonia Betitia Proba was a Latin Roman Christian poet, perhaps the earliest female Christian poet whose work survives. A member of one of the most influential aristocratic families, she composed the Cento Vergilianus de laudibus Christi, a cento composed with verses by Virgil re-ordered to form an epic poem centred on the life of Jesus.
Sergio Pininfarina
Sergio Pininfarina, born Sergio Farina, was an Italian automobile designer and Senator for life.
Ercole Gonzaga
Ercole Gonzaga was an Italian Cardinal.
John III, Marquess of Montferrat
John III Palaeologus was the Margrave of Montferrat from 1378 to his death. He was the second son of John II of Montferrat and Isabella of Majorca and brother and successor of Secondotto. On 3 January 1379, John III was installed as margrave under the regency of his uncle Otto, Duke of Brunswick-Grubenhagen.
Vittorio Prodi
Vittorio Prodi is an Italian politician who served as a Member of the European Parliament from 2004 until 2014. He is a member of the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats.
Prince Aimone, 4th Duke of Aosta
Prince Aimone, 4th Duke of Aosta was a prince of Italy's reigning House of Savoy and an officer of the Royal Italian Navy. The second son of Prince Emanuele Filiberto, Duke of Aosta he was granted the title Duke of Spoleto on 22 September 1904. He inherited the title Duke of Aosta on 3 March 1942 following the death of his brother Prince Amedeo, in a British prisoner of war camp in Nairobi.
Prince Ottavio Farnese of Parma
Ottavio Farnese was an Italian nobleman. He was an illegitimate son of Ranuccio I Farnese, Duke of Parma and Briseide Ceretoli, who was at that time unmarried; she was the daughter of Ottavio Ceretoli, a captain who had died in Flanders in the following of Alessandro Farnese, Duke of Parma. The couple also had an illegitimate daughter, Isabella.