List of Famous people born in Italy

Claudia Mori

First Name Claudia
Last Name Mori
Born on February 12, 1944 (age 82)
Born in Italy, Lazio

Claudia Mori, is an Italian actress, singer, television producer, and wife of the singer Adriano Celentano.

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Gianfranco Zola

First Name Gianfranco
Born on July 5, 1966 (age 59)
Born in Italy, Sardinia
Height 168 cm | 5'6

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.

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Torquato Tasso

First Name Torquato
Last Name Tasso
Born on March 11, 1544
Died on April 25, 1595 (aged 51)
Born in Italy, Campania

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.

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Sara Tommasi

First Name Sara
Last Name Tommasi
Born on June 9, 1981 (age 44)
Born in Italy, Umbria
Height 170 cm | 5'7

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.

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Tiberius Gracchus

First Name Tiberius
Born on November 30, -0163
Died on January 1, -0133 (aged 30)
Born in Italy, Lazio

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.

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Luca Marini

First Name Luca
Last Name Marini
Born on August 10, 1997 (age 28)
Born in Italy, Marche

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.

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Gaspar de Guzmán, Count-Duke of Olivares

First Name Gaspar
Last Name Olivares
Born on January 6, 1587
Died on July 22, 1645 (aged 58)
Born in Italy, Lazio

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.

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Agrippa Postumus

First Name Agrippa
Last Name Postumus
Born on June 26, -0012
Died on January 1, 0014 (aged 26)
Born in Italy, Lazio

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.

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Johnny Torrio

Donato Torrio
First Name Johnny
Born on January 20, 1882
Died on April 16, 1957 (aged 75)
Born in Italy, Basilicata

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.

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Andrea Manfredi

First Name Andrea
Last Name Manfredi
Born on February 10, 1992
Died on October 29, 2018 (aged 26)
Born in Italy, Tuscany

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.

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