List of Famous people born in Italy

Ferdinando, comte Marescalchi was an Italian diplomat and politician.

Renzo Ricci was an Italian stage and film actor. He was also a noted theatre director. Ricci played the title role in Roberto Rossellini's 1961 film Garibaldi.

Fortunato Bartolomeo de Felice, 2nd Comte de Panzutti, also known as Fortuné-Barthélemy de Félice and Francesco Placido Bartolomeo De Felice, was an Italian nobleman, a famed author, philosopher, scientist, and is said to have been one of the most important publishers of the 18th century. He is considered a pioneer of education in Switzerland, and a formative contributor to the European Enlightenment.

Veronica Gambara was an Italian poet, stateswoman and political leader. She was the ruler of the County of Corregio from 1518 until 1550.

Joyce Salvadori Paleotti, better known by her married name Joyce Lussu, was an Italian writer, translator and partisan.

Fernanda Pivano was an Italian writer, journalist, translator and critic.

Ralph James Capone was an Italian-American Chicago mobster and an older brother of Al Capone and Frank Capone. He got the nickname "Bottles" not from involvement in the Capone bootlegging empire, but from his running the legitimate non-alcoholic beverage and bottling operations in Chicago. Further family lore suggests that the nickname was specifically tied to his lobbying the Illinois Legislature to put into law that milk bottling companies had to stamp the date that the milk was bottled on the bottle. He was most famous for being named by the Chicago Crime Commission "Public Enemy Number Three" when his brother Al was "Public Enemy Number One".

Lorenzo Piattoni, known professionally as Lorenzo Piani, was an Italian singer and songwriter.