List of Famous people born in Italy
Turi Ferro
Salvatore "Turi" Ferro was an Italian film, television and stage actor. He is considered the most important actor in the Sicilian theatre post-World War II era.
Damiano Damiani
Damiano Damiani was an Italian screenwriter, film director, actor and writer. Poet and director Pier Paolo Pasolini referred to him as "a bitter moralist hungry for old purity", while film critic Paolo Mereghetti said that his style made him "the most American of Italian directors".
Adone Zoli
Adone Zoli was an Italian politician who served as the 35th Prime Minister of Italy from May 1957 to July 1958; he was the first senator to have ever held the office.
Alessandro Ballan
Alessandro Ballan is an Italian former professional road bicycle racer who most recently rode for UCI World Tour team BMC Racing Team. He is best known for winning the World Road Race Championships, in 2008. Although he possessed a frame that was usually more associated with climbing, Ballan established himself as a leading spring classics contender. His nickname, Bontempino, is a diminutive reference to Guido Bontempi, to whom he bears a resemblance.
Luigi Vanvitelli
Luigi Vanvitelli, known in Dutch as Lodewijk van Wittel, was an Italian engineer and architect. The most prominent 18th-century architect of Italy, he practised a sober classicising academic Late Baroque style that made an easy transition to Neoclassicism.
Anthony J. Celebrezze
Anthony Joseph Celebrezze Sr. was an American politician of the Democratic Party, who served as the 49th Mayor of Cleveland, Ohio, as a cabinet member in the Kennedy and Johnson administrations, and as a United States Circuit Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit.
Pietro Paleocapa
Pietro Paleòcapa was an Italian scientist, politician and engineer.
Riccardo Ruggiero
Ettore Perrone di San Martino
Ettore Perrone, Conte di San Martino was an Italian politician and military leader.
Baccio Bandinelli
Baccio Bandinelli, also called Bartolommeo Brandini, was a Italian Renaissance sculptor, draughtsman, and painter.