List of Famous people born in Italy

Gian Giacomo Medici was an Italian condottiero, Duke of Marignano and Marquess of Musso and Lecco in Lombardy.

Raffaello Brignetti was an Italian writer. He grew up on the island of Elba where his father was a lighthouse keeper. He moved to Rome in the middle of the Second World War, and spent a couple of years in German labour camps. He studied modern Italian literature at university, graduating in 1947. He was a disciple of Ungaretti, in common with other young idealistic intellectuals of his era such as Leone Piccioni, Silori Luigi, Mario Petrucciani, Elio Filippo Accrocca, etc.

Alba Parietti is an Italian film actress and television presenter.

Franca Squarciapino is an Italian costume designer who won the Academy Award for Best Costume Design in 1990 for Cyrano de Bergerac. She has spent much of her career designing costumes for major theatres and opera houses, including the Burgtheater in Vienna, Royal Opera at Covent Garden, the Metropolitan Opera, the Vienna State Opera, and Zurich Opera among others.

Giuseppe Saragat was an Italian politician who was the fifth President of Italy from 1964 to 1971.

Luigi Poggi was an Italian prelate of the Catholic Church who worked in the diplomatic service of the Holy See from 1946 to 1994, as an archbishop and apostolic nuncio from 1965. After serving as nuncio in several African countries and Peru, he became the Vatican's principal emissary to the Communist countries of Eastern Europe as Popes Paul VI and John Paul II sought renewed engagement with that region. He became a cardinal in 1994. He ended his career in Rome, as Apostolic Nuncio to Italy and then as head of the Vatican Secret Archives and the Vatican Library.

Matteo Montaguti is an Italian former professional racing cyclist, who rode professionally between 2008 and 2019 for the LPR Brakes–Farnese Vini, De Rosa–Stac Plastic, AG2R La Mondiale and Androni Giocattoli–Sidermec teams.

Renzo Rossellini was an Italian composer, best known for his film scores.

Maria Luise Thurmair née Mumelter was a German Catholic theologian, hymnodist and writer. She contributed the lyrics of many hymns when the Catholic hymnal Gotteslob was first published in 1975.

Fulvia Franco was an Italian actress, model and beauty pageant titleholder.