List of Famous people born in Italy

Giovanni Giolitti was an Italian statesman. He was the Prime Minister of Italy five times between 1892 and 1921. He is the second-longest serving Prime Minister in Italian history, after Benito Mussolini. He was a prominent leader of the Historical Left and the Liberal Union. Giolitti is widely considered one of the most powerful and important politicians in Italian history and, due to his dominant position in Italian politics, he was accused by critics of being an authoritarian leader and a parliamentary dictator.

Pasquale De Santis was an Italian cinematographer.

Dame Mary Douglas, was a British anthropologist, known for her writings on human culture and symbolism, whose area of speciality was social anthropology. Douglas was considered a follower of Émile Durkheim and a proponent of structuralist analysis, with a strong interest in comparative religion.

Ferdinando Scarfiotti was an Italian art director and production designer.

Charles-Maurice Le Tellier was a French Archbishop of Reims.

Filippino Lippi was an Italian painter working in Florence, Italy during the later years of the Early Renaissance and first few years of the High Renaissance.

Filippo di Piero Strozzi was an Italian condottiero, a member of the Florentine family of the Strozzi. He fought mainly for France.

Francesco D'Ovidio was an Italian philologist and literary critic. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature four times.

Bicci di Lorenzo (1373–1452) was an Italian painter and sculptor, active in Florence.