List of Famous people born in Italy

Giosuè Alessandro Giuseppe Carducci was an Italian poet, writer, literary critic and teacher. He was very influential and was regarded as the official national poet of modern Italy. In 1906 he became the first Italian to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature "not only in consideration of his deep learning and critical research, but above all as a tribute to the creative energy, freshness of style, and lyrical force which characterize his poetic masterpieces".

Gianni Di Gregorio is an Italian director, screenwriter and actor.

Domenico Alfonso Emmanuele Montesano was an Italian mathematician. He influenced and developed the theory on linear congruences and on the conic bilinear complexes.

Don Backy, real name — Aldo Caponi, is an Italian singer and actor. He collaborated with Sofia Rotaru for "Grey Bird" – Ukrainian version of Italian song "L'immensità"— "Сизокрилий птах".

Antonio Staglianò was installed as Bishop of Noto, Sicily, Italy on 31 March 2009, replacing Mariano Crociata, who was appointed Secretary-General of the CEI. Before his appointment to lead the diocese of Noto, Staglianò was a clergyman of the Archdiocese of Crotone-Santa Severina.

Enzo Cucchi is an Italian painter. A native of Morro d'Alba, province of Ancona, he was a key member of the Italian Transavanguardia movement, along with his countrymen Francesco Clemente, Mimmo Paladino, Nicola De Maria, and Sandro Chia. The movement was at its peak during the 1980s and was part of the worldwide movement of Neo-Expressionists painters.

Jessica Rossi is a female Italian sports shooter.

Gastone Mojaisky Perrelli was an Italian Catholic archbishop. He served as Apostolic Delegate to the Congo and Ruanda-Urundi and then to British East Africa and British West Africa, during which time he held the Titular Archbishopric of Amida. He later served as Archbishop-Bishop of Nusco and as Archbishop of Conza-Sant'Angelo dei Lombardi-Bisaccia.