List of Famous people born in Italy
Nicolò Barella
Nicolò Barella is an Italian professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Serie A club Inter Milan and the Italy national team.
Lolita Morena
Lolita Laura Morena is a Swiss model, actress, and television hostess.
Danilo Gallinari
Danilo Gallinari is an Italian professional basketball player for the Atlanta Hawks of the National Basketball Association (NBA). After spending his first four years as a professional in his native Italy, Gallinari was drafted sixth overall in the 2008 NBA draft by the New York Knicks. He played with the Knicks for two and a half seasons before being traded to the Denver Nuggets in 2011. In 2017, he was acquired by the Clippers. His nickname is Gallo, which is Italian for "rooster".
Daniele Negroni
Daniele Negroni is known for being the runner-up in season 9 of Deutschland sucht den Superstar. and Ich bin ein Star – Holt mich hier raus!.
Maria Goretti
Maria Teresa Goretti is an Italian virgin-martyr of the Catholic Church, and one of the youngest saints to be canonized. She was born to a farming family. Her father died when she was nine, and they had to share a house with another family, the Serenellis. Maria took over household duties while her mother, brothers, and sister worked in the fields.
Carlo Gambino
Carlo Gambino was an Italian-American crime boss of the Gambino crime family. After the Apalachin Meeting in 1957, and the imprisonment of Vito Genovese in 1959, Gambino took over the Commission of the American Mafia until his death from a heart attack on October 15, 1976. During more than 50 years in organized crime, he served only 22 months in prison for a tax evasion charge in 1937.
Edgardo Mortara
The Mortara case was an Italian cause célèbre that captured the attention of much of Europe and North America in the 1850s and 1860s. It concerned the Papal States' seizure of a six-year-old boy named Edgardo Mortara from his Jewish family in Bologna, on the basis of a former servant's testimony that she had administered an emergency baptism to the boy when he fell ill as an infant. Mortara grew up as a Catholic under the protection of Pope Pius IX, who refused his parents' desperate pleas for his return, and eventually became a priest. The domestic and international outrage against the pontifical state's actions may have contributed to its downfall amid the unification of Italy.
Andrea Raggi
Andrea Raggi is an Italian professional footballer who plays as a defender. He is a versatile player, being capable of playing both as a centre back and as a right back.
Stefano Pioli
Stefano Pioli is an Italian football manager and a former footballer who played as a defender. He is the head coach at Serie A club A.C. Milan.
Venantino Venantini
Venantino Venantini was an Italian film actor. He was the father of Victoria Venantini and Luca Venantini and appeared in more than 140 films between 1954 and 2018.