List of Famous people born in Italy

Memmo Carotenuto was an Italian actor. He appeared in 125 films between 1941 and 1980.

Emilio Lussu was an Italian soldier, politician, antifascist and a writer.

Alice Rohrwacher is an Italian film director, editor and screenwriter.

Orso Mario Corbino was an Italian physicist and politician. He served as the minister for education in 1921 and as the minister for economy in 1921. He also served as professor in Messina (1905) and in Rome (1908). He is noted for his studies of the influence of external magnetic fields on the motion of electrons in metals and he discovered the Corbino effect. Corbino worked with Damiano Macaluso where they discovered the Macaluso-Corbino effect, a strong magneto-rotation of the plane of polarization observed at wavelengths close to an absorption line of the material through which the light is travelling. As director of the Institute of physics he was the supervisor of Enrico Fermi, Edoardo Amaldi, Franco Rasetti and Emilio Segrè, Bruno Pontecorvo, Oscar D'Agostino, Ettore Majorana.

Filippo Spinola, 2nd Marquis of Los Balbases was a Grandee of Spain, duke of San Severino, a Knight of the Order of the Golden Fleece, General of the Spanish Army and President of the Supreme Council of Flanders.

Rocco Buttiglione is an Italian Union of Christian and Centre Democrats politician and an academic.

Julia Flavia or Julia Titi was the daughter and only child to Roman Emperor Titus from his second marriage to the well-connected Marcia Furnilla.

Pietro Mascagni was an Italian composer primarily known for his operas. His 1890 masterpiece Cavalleria rusticana caused one of the greatest sensations in opera history and single-handedly ushered in the Verismo movement in Italian dramatic music. While it was often held that Mascagni, like Ruggiero Leoncavallo, was a "one-opera man" who could never repeat his first success, L'amico Fritz and Iris have remained in the repertoire in Europe since their premieres.