List of Famous people born in Italy

Gaetano Bellei (1857–1922) was an Italian painter; best known for his genre scenes, portraits, works on religious subjects.

Aldo Romeo Luigi Moro was an Italian statesman and a prominent member of the Christian Democracy (DC). He served as 38th prime minister of Italy from December 1963 to June 1968 and then from November 1974 to July 1976.

Antonio Salieri was an Italian classical composer, conductor, and teacher. He was born in Legnago, south of Verona, in the Republic of Venice, and spent his adult life and career as a subject of the Habsburg Monarchy.

Laura Morante is an Italian film actress.

Libero Grassi was an Italian clothing manufacturer from Palermo, Sicily, who was killed by the Mafia after taking a solitary stand against their extortion demands. The businessman wrote an open letter to the local newspaper informing the extortionists that he was no longer willing to pay pizzo, a Sicilian term for protection money. Other business-owners and shopkeepers in Palermo refused to join his public campaign. Grassi was gunned down in the street near his home eight months after writing the letter.

Rosalia Lombardo was an Italian child who died of pneumonia, resulting from the Spanish flu, one week shy of her second birthday. Rosalia's father, Mario Lombardo, was grieving her death, asked Alfredo Salafia, an embalmer, to preserve her remains. Her mummified body, sometimes called "Sleeping Beauty", was one of the last corpses to be admitted to the Capuchin catacombs of Palermo in Sicily.

Senhit Zadik Zadik, known professionally as simply Senhit, is an Italian singer. She represented San Marino in the Eurovision Song Contest 2011 with "Stand By" and would have represented it again in 2020 with "Freaky!". On 18 May 2020, SMRTV announced that Senhit would represent San Marino at the Eurovision Song Contest 2021 with the song "Adrenalina".

David Maria Sassoli is an Italian politician and journalist, a member of the Democratic Party. Member of the European Parliament since 2009, he was elected its president on 3 July 2019.

Vincenzo Luvineri, better known as Vinnie Paz, is a Sicilian American rapper and the lyricist behind the Philadelphia underground hip hop group Jedi Mind Tricks. He is also the frontman of the hip hop collective Army of the Pharaohs.

Filippo Ganna is an Italian track and road cyclist, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam Ineos Grenadiers. He is a four-time world champion in the individual pursuit, and has won a total of eight medals at the UCI Track Cycling World Championships. In October 2020, he was named in the startlist for the 2020 Giro d'Italia.