List of Famous people born in Italy
Martina Trevisan
Martina Trevisan is an Italian tennis player. She is the younger sister of Matteo Trevisan who is a professional tennis player on the ATP World Tour.
Luigi Di Maio
Luigi Di Maio is an Italian politician serving as Minister of Foreign Affairs since 5 September 2019. He previously served as Deputy Prime Minister of Italy and Minister of Economic Development, Labour and Social Policies from 2018 to 2019, and as Vice President of the Chamber of Deputies in the XVII Italian legislature. From 2017 to January 2020, he was the leader of the Five Star Movement, an anti-establishment party founded by Beppe Grillo.
Francesco Pianeta
Francesco Pianeta is an Italian former professional boxer who competed from 2005 to 2018. He challenged for the unified heavyweight title in 2013 and the WBA (Regular) title in 2015. At regional level held the European Union heavyweight title from 2008 to 2009.
Ennio Doris
Ennio Doris was an Italian billionaire businessman who founded Mediolanum SpA.
Laura Biagiotti
Laura Biagiotti was an Italian fashion designer and the founder of the House of Biagiotti.
Aitana Sánchez-Gijón
Aitana Sánchez-Gijón de Angelis is a Spanish film actress.
Beatrice Borromeo
Beatrice Borromeo Arese Taverna is an Italian radio and television journalist.
Lazare Ponticelli
Lazare Ponticelli, Knight of Vittorio Veneto, was at 110, the last surviving officially recognized veteran of the First World War from France and the last poilu of its trenches to die.
John Gambino
Giovanni "John" Gambino was an Italian-born American mobster. Born in Palermo, Sicily, he became a made member of the Gambino crime family in 1975 and a capodecina or captain, and head of the crime family's Sicilian faction, appointed by family boss John Gotti in 1986, according to Mafia turncoat Sammy Gravano.
Parmenides
Parmenides of Elea was a pre-Socratic Greek philosopher from Elea in Magna Graecia. He is thought to have been in his prime around 475 BC.