List of Famous people born in Italy

Ernesto Maserati was an Italian automotive engineer and racer, with Maserati of Modena since its inception in Bologna on 14 December 1914, together with his brothers Alfieri Maserati (leader), Ettore Maserati, Bindo Maserati and others.

Claudio Gora, Emilio Giordana was an Italian actor and film director.

Anna de' Medici was the third child of Francesco I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany, and Joanna of Austria. She was a member of the famous House of Medici.

Paolo Mieli is an Italian journalist who has been editor of Italy's leading newspaper, Corriere della Sera.

Lucius Licinius Lucullus was an optimatis politician of the late Roman Republic, closely connected with Lucius Cornelius Sulla. In the culmination of over twenty years of almost continuous military and government service, he became the conqueror of the eastern kingdoms in the course of the Third Mithridatic War, exhibiting extraordinary generalship in diverse situations, most famously during the Siege of Cyzicus, 73–72 BC, and at the Battle of Tigranocerta in Armenian Arzanene, 69 BC. His command style received unusually favourable attention from ancient military experts, and his campaigns appear to have been studied as examples of skillful generalship.

Mary de Rachewiltz is an Italian-American poet and translator.

Jacopo Alighieri (1289–1348) was an Italian poet, the son of Dante Alighieri, whom he followed in his exile. Jacopo's most famous work is his sixty-chapter Dottrinale.

Francesco Leonetti was an Italian poet, novelist, art critic, teacher and political activist.

Giuseppe Caldarola was an Italian journalist and politician who served as a Deputy. Caldarola was born in Bari. He was elected to the Chamber of Deputies in the 2001 Italian general election for the Democrats of the Left. In the 2006 general election he was elected to the Chamber for The Olive Tree. In 2007 Caldarola joined the Democratic Party (Italy).

Ippolita Maria Sforza was the daughter of Gian Galeazzo Sforza of Milan and Isabella of Naples.