List of Famous people born in Italy

Memo Remigi is an Italian singer-songwriter, composer and television personality.

Vasco Pratolini was an Italian writer of the 20th century. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature three times.

Bartolomeo Gennari was an Italian Renaissance painter.

Enrico Mattei was an Italian public administrator. After World War II he was given the task of dismantling the Italian Petroleum Agency Agip, a state enterprise established by the Fascist regime. Instead Mattei enlarged and reorganized it into the National Fuel Trust, Ente Nazionale Idrocarburi (ENI). Under his direction ENI negotiated important oil concessions in the Middle East as well as a significant trade agreement with the Soviet Union which helped break the oligopoly of the 'Seven Sisters' that dominated the mid 20th century oil industry. He also introduced the principle whereby the country that owned exploited oil reserves received 75% of the profits.

Antonio Bernocchi was an Italian industrialist, who built up a successful textile factory at Legnano, in Lombardy.

Giovanna Trillini is an Italian foil fencer. She is a 4-time Olympic champion and she won an additional silver and two bronze medals in individual Olympic competitions.