List of Famous people born in Italy

Luigi "Gino" Levi-Montalcini was an Italian architect and designer.

Giacomo Manzù, pseudonym of Giacomo Manzoni, was an Italian sculptor.

Gabriele Salvatores is an Italian Academy Award-winning film director and screenwriter.

Stefano Bettarini is a retired Italian footballer who played as a defender, and a television personality. He played once for the Italian national team. He was a contestant on Grande Fratello VIP, 2016 and currently a host presenter in L'Isola dei Famosi.

Guendalina Buffon is a retired Italian female volleyball player. She was part of the Italy women's national volleyball team.

Duccio Tessari was an Italian director, screenwriter and actor, considered one of the fathers of Spaghetti Westerns.

Gino Buzzanca was an Italian film actor.

Valerio Adami is an Italian painter. Educated at the Accademia di Brera in Milan, he has since worked in both London and Paris. His art is influenced by Pop Art.

Major Paolo Angelo Nespoli is an Italian astronaut and engineer of the European Space Agency (ESA). In 2007, he first traveled into space aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery as a mission specialist of STS-120. In December 2010 he again traveled into space aboard the Soyuz TMA-20 spacecraft as an Expedition 26/27 flight engineer. Nespoli's third spaceflight was on board Soyuz MS-05, which launched in July 2017 for Expedition 52/53. He was also the European Space Agency's oldest active astronaut prior to his retirement in 2019.

Giacomo Boncompagni was an Italian feudal lord of the 16th century, the illegitimate son of Pope Gregory XIII. He was also Duke of Sora, Aquino, Arce and Arpino, and Marquess of Vignola.