List of Famous people born in Italy

Agnese Maffeis is an Italian discus thrower and shot putter. She won six medals, at senior level, at the International athletics competitions.

Bruno Forte is an Italian Roman Catholic theologian and ecclesiastic, currently Archbishop of Chieti-Vasto.

Adriano Buzzati-Traverso was an Italian geneticist. In 1962 he founded in Naples the Laboratorio Internazionale di Genetica e Biofisica.

Adriana Russo is an Italian actress and television personality.

Adriana Pincherle was an Italian painter.

John Rhys Coiro is an American film, television and stage actor who got his start on Broadway but is best known for his on-screen roles such as Billy Walsh on Entourage.

Adolfo Sormani is an Italian retired footballer and current head coach. He is the son of former footballer and coach Angelo Sormani.

Renato Sandalli was an Italian Air Force general that led the Regia Aeronautica between 27 July 1943 to 18 June 1944.

Adele Faccio was an Italian politician and deputy of the Radical Party.

Federico Faggin is an Italian-American physicist, engineer, inventor and entrepreneur. He is best known for designing the first commercial microprocessor, the Intel 4004. He led the 4004 (MCS-4) project and the design group during the first five years of Intel's microprocessor effort. Faggin also created, while working at Fairchild Semiconductor in 1968, the self-aligned MOS (metal–oxide–semiconductor) silicon-gate technology (SGT), which made possible MOS semiconductor memory chips, CCD image sensors, and the microprocessor. After the 4004, he led development of the Intel 8008 and 8080, using his SGT methodology for random logic chip design, which was essential to the creation of early Intel microprocessors. He was co-founder and CEO of Zilog, the first company solely dedicated to microprocessors, and led the development of the Zilog Z80 and Z8 processors. He was later the co-founder and CEO of Cygnet Technologies, and then Synaptics.