List of Famous people born in Italy

Quintino Sella was an Italian politician, economist and mountaineer.

Paolo Portoghesi is an Italian architect, theorist, historian and professor of architecture at the University La Sapienza in Rome. He is a former President of the architectural section of the Venice Biennale (1979–92), Editor-in-chief of the journal Controspazio (1969–83), and dean of the Faculty of Architecture at the Politecnico di Milano university (1968–78).

Renato Dulbecco was an Italian–American virologist who won the 1975 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work on oncoviruses, which are viruses that can cause cancer when they infect animal cells. He studied at the University of Turin under Giuseppe Levi, along with fellow students Salvador Luria and Rita Levi-Montalcini, who also moved to the U.S. with him and won Nobel prizes. He was drafted into the Italian army in World War II, but later joined the resistance.

Elena Cotta is an Italian stage, film and television actress.

Livia (Paola) Gonzaga was a Mantuan noblewoman.

Carlo Alberto Chiesa (1922–1960) was an Italian screenwriter, film editor and director. In 1945 he edited Luchino Visconti's docu-drama Days of Glory. He spent much of his later career directing commercials, his one feature film as director was the 1951 comedy The Two Sergeants (1951).

Elena Fabrizi, popularly known as Sora Lella, was an Italian stage, television and film actress, and a television personality.

Violetta Zironi is an Italian singer-songwriter and actress.