List of Famous people born in Italy

Alberto Salerno is an Italian lyricist and producer.

Mario Aldo Montano is an Italian fencer. He won a gold and two silver medals in the team sabre at three Olympic Games.

Gemma Di Manetto Donati, commonly shortened to Gemma Donati, was the wife of Italian poet Dante Alighieri.

Palmiro Michele Nicola Togliatti was an Italian politician and leader of the Italian Communist Party from 1927 until his death. He was nicknamed Il Migliore by his supporters. In 1930 he became a citizen of the Soviet Union and later he had a city in that country named after him: Tolyatti.

Giancarlo Sbragia was an Italian actor, voice actor, stage director and playwright.

Polibio Fumagalli was an Italian composer, organist, and pianist.

Julius Caesar Scaliger, or Giulio Cesare della Scala, was an Italian scholar and physician, who spent a major part of his career in France. He employed the techniques and discoveries of Renaissance humanism to defend Aristotelianism against the New Learning. In spite of his contentious disposition, his contemporary reputation was high. Jacques Auguste de Thou claimed that none of the ancients could be placed above him and that he had no equal in his own time.

Cristina Gaioni is an Italian actress, sometimes credited as Cristina Gajoni and Cristina Gaioni Visentin.

Louis Francescon was a missionary and pioneer of the Italian Pentecostal Movement. Several Pentecostal denominations and fellowships acknowledge him as their pioneer, including the Christian Church of North America, the Christian Assembly in Argentina, the Assemblies of God in Italy, the Christian Congregation in the United States, and the Christian Congregation of Brazil.