List of Famous people born in Italy

Domenico Tedesco

Domenico Tedesco is a German-Italian football manager who is the manager of Russian Premier League club Spartak Moscow.

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Yves Montand

Ivo Livi
First Name Yves
Born on October 13, 1921
Died on November 9, 1991 (aged 70)
Born in Italy, Tuscany
Height 187 cm | 6'2

Ivo Livi, better known as Yves Montand, was an Italian-French actor and singer.

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Mario Balotelli

Mario Barwuah
First Name Mario
Last Name Balotelli
Born on August 12, 1990 (age 35)
Born in Italy, Sicily
Height 189 cm | 6'2

Mario Balotelli Barwuah is an Italian professional footballer who plays as a striker for Serie B club Monza.

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Maurizio D'Ancora

First Name Maurizio
Died on May 15, 1983 (aged 13)
Born in Italy, Tuscany

Rodolfo Gucci, also known by his stage name Maurizio D'Ancora, was an Italian actor and entrepreneur, who appeared in more than forty films between 1929 until 1946. He was a member of the House of Gucci. His only child, Maurizio Gucci, was named after his stage name.

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Francis of Assisi

Giovanni di Pietro di Bernardone
First Name Francis
Last Name Assisi
Died on October 3, 1226
Born in Italy, Umbria

Francis of Assisi, venerated as Saint Francis of Assisi, also known in his ministry as Francesco, was an Italian Catholic friar, deacon, mystic, and preacher. He founded the men's Order of Friars Minor, the women's Order of Saint Clare, the Third Order of Saint Francis and the Custody of the Holy Land. Francis is one of the most venerated religious figures in Christianity.

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Donatella Versace

First Name Donatella
Born on May 2, 1955 (age 71)
Born in Italy, Calabria
Height 157 cm | 5'2

Donatella Francesca Versace is an Italian fashion designer and businesswoman. She is the sister of Gianni Versace, founder of the luxury fashion company Versace which she inherited a portion of upon her brother's death in 1997. She sold the company to Capri Holdings in 2018, but remained its chief creative officer.

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Giorgio Parisi

First Name Giorgio
Last Name Parisi
Born on August 4, 1948 (age 77)
Born in Italy, Lazio

Giorgio Parisi is an Italian theoretical physicist, whose research has focused on quantum field theory, statistical mechanics and complex systems. His best known contributions are the QCD evolution equations for parton densities, obtained with Guido Altarelli, known as the Altarelli-Parisi or DGLAP equations, the exact solution of the Sherrington-Kirkpatrick model of spin glasses, the Kardar–Parisi–Zhang equation describing dynamic scaling of growing interfaces, and the study of whirling flocks of birds.

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Saint Valentine

First Name Saint
Last Name Valentine
Born on November 30, 0174
Died on February 14, 0273 (aged 98)
Born in Italy, Umbria

Saint Valentine known as Saint Valentine of Rome was a widely recognized 3rd-century Roman saint, commemorated in Christianity on February 14. From the High Middle Ages his Saints' Day has been associated with a tradition of courtly love. He is also a patron saint of epilepsy.

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Caligula

Gaius Julius Caesar
Born on August 31, 0012
Died on January 24, 0041 (aged 28)
Born in Italy, Lazio, Antium

Caligula, formally known as Gaius, was the third Roman emperor, ruling from AD 37 to 41. The son of the popular Roman general Germanicus and Augustus' granddaughter Agrippina the Elder, Caligula was born into the first ruling family of the Roman Empire, conventionally known as the Julio-Claudian dynasty.

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Saint Cecilia

First Name Saint
Last Name Cecilia
Born on January 1, 0200
Died on January 1, 0230 (aged 30)
Born in Italy, Lazio

Saint Cecilia, is a Roman martyr venerated in Catholic, Orthodox and Anglican churches. She became the patron of music and musicians, it being written that, as the musicians played at her wedding, Cecilia "sang in her heart to the Lord". Musical compositions are dedicated to her, and her feast, on 22 November, is the occasion of concerts and musical festivals.

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