List of Famous people born in Italy

Marcia was an ancient Roman noblewoman and the mother of the emperor Trajan.

Flavius Claudius Constantius Gallus (326–354) was a Roman emperor in the eastern provinces of the Roman Empire from 351 to 354, as a junior colleague (caesar) of the augustus, his cousin Constantius II. He belonged to the Constantinian dynasty, which had supplied emperors since Constantius Chlorus was appointed caesar by Diocletian. The family monopolized imperial power under Constantine the Great, during whose reign Gallus was born and whose daughter – the augusta Constantina – Gallus married. As caesar he dealt with a Jewish revolt (351–352) lead by and ruled from Antioch, but the senior emperor came to mistrust him, and ultimately Constantius II had him assassinated and replaced with his younger half-brother Julian.

Tommaso Montano is an Italian fencer. He won a silver medal in the team sabre event at the 1976 Summer Olympics.

Tony Renis, stage name of Elio Cesari, is an Italian singer, composer, music producer and film actor.

Sister Maria Celeste, born Virginia Galilei, was a nun. She was the daughter of the scientist Galileo Galilei and Marina Gamba.

Ercole Gennari was an Italian Renaissance drawer and painter.

Rossana Ghessa is an Italian actress, from Sardinia, and a naturalized Brazilian. She appeared in 43 films between 1966 and 1996.

Fabio Calzavara was an Italian entrepreneur and politician, He was the co-founder of Liga Veneta (1980), a federalist party settled in Padua.

Alessandro Mussolini was the father of Italian Fascist founder and leader Benito Mussolini, the father-in-law of Rachele Mussolini, and the paternal grandfather of Edda Mussolini, Romano Mussolini, Vittorio Mussolini, and Bruno Mussolini. He was an Italian revolutionary socialist activist with Italian nationalist sympathies. Mussolini was a blacksmith by profession. Mussolini was married to Rosa Maltoni, a schoolteacher, who became the mother of Benito Mussolini. Mussolini exercised considerable influence over his son Benito's early political beliefs, even naming his son Benito Amilcare Andrea Mussolini after three leaders he admired: Benito Juárez, Amilcare Cipriani, and Andrea Costa.