List of Famous people born in Italy
Vitaliano Brancati
Vitaliano Brancati was an Italian novelist, dramatist, poet and screenwriter.
Ludovica Modugno
Ludovica Modugno was an Italian actress who specialized in dubbing.
Beniamino Andreatta
Beniamino "Nino" Andreatta was an Italian economist and politician.
Andrea Guerra
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).
Irene Pivetti
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.
Bobo Craxi
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.
Stefano Vanzina
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.
Otto II, Marquess of Montferrat
Otto II was the fourth Marquis of Montferrat from 1042 until his death. He was a member of the Aleramid dynasty.
Elvira Notari
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.
Giuseppe Occhialini
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.