List of Famous people born in Italy

Vitaliano Brancati

First Name Vitaliano
Born on July 24, 1907
Died on September 25, 1954 (aged 47)
Born in Italy, Sicily

Vitaliano Brancati was an Italian novelist, dramatist, poet and screenwriter.

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Ludovica Modugno

First Name Ludovica
Born on January 12, 1949
Died on October 26, 2021 (aged 72)
Born in Italy, Lazio

Ludovica Modugno was an Italian actress who specialized in dubbing.

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Beniamino Andreatta

First Name Beniamino
Born on August 11, 1928
Died on March 26, 2007 (aged 78)

Beniamino "Nino" Andreatta was an Italian economist and politician.

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Andrea Guerra

First Name Andrea
Last Name Guerra
Born on October 22, 1961 (age 65)

Andrea Guerra is an Italian composer. He is noted for his film scores of Facing Windows (2003), Hotel Rwanda (2004), and The Pursuit of Happyness (2006).

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Irene Pivetti

First Name Irene
Born on April 4, 1963 (age 63)
Born in Italy, Lombardy

Irene Pivetti is an Italian journalist, television presenter and politician. She has been President of the Italian Chamber of Deputies from 1994 to 1996. After leaving politics, she started a career in television, like her sister Veronica, a popular Italian actress.

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Bobo Craxi

First Name Bobo
Last Name Craxi
Born on August 6, 1964 (age 62)
Born in Italy, Lombardy

Vittorio Michele Craxi, commonly known as Bobo Craxi, is an Italian politician, son of the former Italian Prime Minister Bettino Craxi and brother of Stefania Craxi.

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Stefano Vanzina

First Name Stefano
Last Name Vanzina
Born on January 19, 1917
Died on March 13, 1988 (aged 71)
Born in Italy, Lazio

Steno, the artistic name of Stefano Vanzina was an Italian film director, screenwriter and cinematographer. Two of his films, Un giorno in pretura (1954) and Febbre da cavallo (1976), were shown in a retrospective section on Italian comedy at the 67th Venice International Film Festival.

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Otto II, Marquess of Montferrat

First Name Otto
Last Name Montferrat
Born on January 1, 1015
Died on November 20, 1084 (aged 69)
Born in Italy

Otto II was the fourth Marquis of Montferrat from 1042 until his death. He was a member of the Aleramid dynasty.

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Elvira Notari

Maria Elvira Giuseppa Coda
First Name Elvira
Last Name Notari
Born on February 10, 1875
Died on December 17, 1946 (aged 71)
Born in Italy, Campania

Elvira Notari, Italy's earliest and most prolific female filmmaker, made over sixty feature films and about a hundred shorts and documentaries. She is credited as the first woman film director whom directed more than sixty feature films and about 100 documentaries, quite often writing the subjects and screenplays, inspired by Naples. The Elvira Notari Prize is named after her.

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Giuseppe Occhialini

First Name Giuseppe
Born on December 5, 1907
Died on December 30, 1993 (aged 86)
Born in Italy, Marche

Giuseppe Paolo Stanislao "Beppo" Occhialini ForMemRS was an Italian physicist, who contributed to the discovery of the pion or pi-meson decay in 1947, with César Lattes and Cecil Frank Powell. At the time of this discovery, they were all working at the H. H. Wills Laboratory of the University of Bristol.

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