List of Famous people born in Italy
Claudia Mori
Claudia Mori, is an Italian actress, singer, television producer, and wife of the singer Adriano Celentano.
Gianfranco Zola
Gianfranco Zola is an Italian football manager and former footballer who played predominantly as a forward. He was most recently the assistant manager of Chelsea.
Torquato Tasso
Torquato Tasso was an Italian poet of the 16th century, known for his poem Gerusalemme liberata, in which he depicts a highly imaginative version of the combats between Christians and Muslims at the end of the First Crusade, during the Siege of Jerusalem.
Sara Tommasi
Sara Tommasi is an Italian actress and television personality. She made her film debut in the 2008 comedy Ultimi della classe playing a teacher who had appeared in a "sexy" calendar shoot. Tommasi herself had appeared topless in a Max Calendar shoot in 2007. In 2010 she appeared nude in an episode of the television series Crimini.
Tiberius Gracchus
Tiberius Sempronius Gracchus was a populist Roman politician best known for his agrarian reform law entailing the transfer of land from the Roman state and wealthy landowners to poorer citizens. Against stiff opposition in the aristocratic Senate, this legislation was carried through during his term as tribune of the plebs in 133 BC. Fears of Tiberius's populist programme, as well as his uncompromising behavior, led to him being killed, along with many supporters, in a riot instigated by his senatorial enemies. A decade later his younger brother Gaius attempted similar legislation and suffered a similar fate.
Luca Marini
Luca Marini is an Italian motorcycle racer. He is the maternal half-brother of Valentino Rossi. He finished as runner-up in the 2020 Moto2 World Championship.
Gaspar de Guzmán, Count-Duke of Olivares
Gaspar de Guzmán y Pimentel, 1st Duke of Sanlúcar, 3rd Count of Olivares, GE known as the Count-Duke of Olivares, was a Spanish royal favourite of Philip IV and minister. As prime minister from 1621 to 1643, he over-exerted Spain in foreign affairs and unsuccessfully attempted domestic reform. His policy of committing Spain to recapture Holland led to a renewal of the Eighty Years' War while Spain was also embroiled in the Thirty Years' War (1618–1648). In addition, his attempts to centralise power and increase wartime taxation led to revolts in Catalonia and in Portugal, which brought about his downfall.
Agrippa Postumus
Marcus Agrippa Postumus, later named Agrippa Julius Caesar, was the youngest son of Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa and Julia the Elder, the daughter and only biological child of the Roman Emperor Augustus. Augustus initially considered Postumus as a potential successor and formally adopted him as his heir, but banished him from Rome in AD 6 on account of his ferocia. In effect, this action cancelled his adoption and virtually assured Tiberius' emplacement as Augustus' sole heir. Postumus was ultimately executed by his own guards shortly after Augustus' death in AD 14.
Johnny Torrio
John Donato Torrio was an Italian-American mobster who helped build the Chicago Outfit in the 1920s. It was later inherited by his protégé Al Capone. Torrio proposed a National Crime Syndicate in the 1930s and later became an adviser to Lucky Luciano and his Luciano crime family.
Andrea Manfredi
Andrea Manfredi was an Italian cyclist, who competed for amateur team Palazzago. Manfredi was one of 189 killed onboard Lion Air Flight 610 when it crashed into the Java Sea shortly after takeoff.