List of Famous people born in Italy

Stanislao Nievo was an Italian writer, journalist and director. He won the Strega Prize. He was the great grandson of Ippolito Nievo, author of Le confessioni di un italiano.

Sandro Continenza was an Italian screenwriter. He wrote for 142 films between 1949 and 1982. He was born in Rome, Italy.

Cesare Bonesana di Beccaria, Marquis of Gualdrasco and Villareggio was an Italian criminologist, jurist, philosopher, and politician, who is widely considered as the most talented jurist and one of the greatest thinkers of the Age of Enlightenment. He is well remembered for his treatise On Crimes and Punishments (1764), which condemned torture and the death penalty, and was a founding work in the field of penology and the Classical School of criminology. Beccaria is considered the father of modern criminal law and the father of criminal justice.

Pier Luigi Nervi was an Italian engineer and architect. He studied at the University of Bologna graduating in 1913. Nervi taught as a professor of engineering at Rome University from 1946 to 1961 and is known worldwide as a structural engineer and architect and for his innovative use of reinforced concrete.

Carlo Levi was an Italian painter, writer, activist, anti-fascist, and doctor.

Carlo Maria Becchi is an Italian theoretical physicist.

Bartolomeo II della Scala was lord of Verona from 1375 until his death, together with his brother Antonio I della Scala.

Maria Elisabetta Casellati, née Alberti, is an Italian lawyer and politician serving as President of the Italian Senate since 2018. She is the first woman to have ever held this position. Casellati is a long-time member of the liberal-conservative party Forza Italia and served as Undersecretary of Health and Justice in previous governments.

Pietro I Orseolo, O.S.B. Cam. (928–987) was the Doge of Venice from 976 until 978. He abdicated his office and left in the middle of the night to become a monk. He later entered the Camaldolese Order. He is venerated as a saint in the Catholic Church following his canonization in 1731. In 1733 the Venetian librarian Giuseppe Bettinelli published an edition of a biography written by the heretical Friar Fulgenzio Manfredi in 1606.