List of Famous people born in Italy

Michele Pio Pirro is a motorcycle racer from Italy, who races in the CIV Superbike Championship aboard a Ducati Panigale V4 R. He has also competed in Grand Prix motorcycle racing and the Supersport World Championship. He is currently a test rider for Ducati in MotoGP.

Azzone Visconti was lord of Milan from 1329 until his death. He is considered the founder of the state of Milan, which later became a duchy.

Publius Cornelius Dolabella was a Roman politician and general under the dictator Julius Caesar. He was by far the most important of the patrician Cornelii Dolabellae but he arranged for himself to be adopted into the plebeian Cornelii Lentuli so that he could become a plebeian tribune. He married Cicero's daughter, Tullia, although he frequently engaged in extramarital affairs. Throughout his life he was an extreme profligate, something that Plutarch wrote reflected ill upon his patron Julius Caesar.

Count Monaldo Leopardi was an Italian philosopher, nobleman, politician and writer, notable as one of the main Italian intellectuals of the counter-revolution. His son Giacomo Leopardi was a poet and thinker with completely opposite views, which were probably the root cause of their discord.

Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus, consul in 54 BC, was an enemy of Julius Caesar and a strong supporter of the aristocratic (Optimates) party in the late Roman Republic.

Jacopo Fo is an Italian writer-actor and director. He is the son of playwrights Franca Rame and Dario Fo.

Alighiero di Bellincione or Alaghiero di Bellincione was the father of Dante Alighieri.

Camillo Francesco Maria Pamphili was an Italian Catholic cardinal and later nobleman of the Pamphili family. His name is often spelled with the final long i orthography; Pamphilj.

Nikolaus Alois Maria Vinzenz Negrelli, Ritter von Moldelbe, was a Tyrolean civil engineer and railroad pioneer mostly active in parts of the Austrian Empire, Switzerland, Germany and Italy.