List of Famous people born in Italy

Saint Eustochium. Born Eustochium Julia at Rome, she was the daughter of Paula and is also venerated as a saint and was an early Desert Mother. She was the third of four daughters of the Roman Senator Toxotius, for whom Jerome made a number of disputable claims of ancestry. After the death of her husband around 380 Paula and her daughter Eustochium lived in Rome as austere a life as the fathers of the desert. Eustochium had three sisters, Blaesilla, Paulina, and Rufina, and a brother, Toxotius.

Amedeo Maiuri was an Italian archaeologist, famous for his archaeological investigations of the Roman city of Pompeii which was destroyed in the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in August of AD 79. He was the first to conduct systematic scientific excavations, analysis and publication at Pompeii and other sites around Vesuvius.

Beatrice Macola was an Italian actress.

Olimpia Cavalli was an Italian actress.

Mauro Santambrogio is former Italian professional road racing cyclist, who last rode for UCI Continental team Amore & Vita–Selle SMP and is currently banned until October 2017 for a second doping positive.

Gian Carlo Ceruti was an Italian sports manager and trade unionist, president of the Italian Cycling Federation from 1997 to 2005.

Delia Boccardo is an Italian film, television and stage actress.

Franca Di Rienzo is a French singer of Italian origin.

Raffaele Piria, an Italian chemist from Scilla, lived in Palmi, who converted the substance Salicin into a sugar and a second component, which on oxidation becomes salicylic acid, a major component of the analgesic drug Aspirin. Other reactions discovered by Piria were the conversion of aspartic acid to malic acid by action of nitrogen dioxide, and the reaction of aromatic nitro compounds with sulfite towards aminosulfonic acids.