List of Famous people born in Italy

Laura Chiatti is an Italian actress and singer. She is the leading lady in two successful movies: Ho voglia di te, alongside Riccardo Scamarcio, and Paolo Sorrentino's third movie The Family Friend. The latter was entered into the 2006 Cannes Film Festival. In 2010 she voiced Princess Rapunzel in the Italian version of the Disney-animated feature film Tangled.

Arduino Bertoldo was the Roman Catholic bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Foligno, Italy.

Carlo Simi was an Italian architect, production designer and costume designer, who worked frequently with Sergio Leone and Sergio Corbucci, giving their Spaghetti Westerns a unique look. Most famous for his costume and set designs for Once Upon a Time in the West Simi also built the town of 'El Paso' in the Almería desert for Leone's second Western, For a Few Dollars More. Built around a massive bank, with vistas of the Tabernas Desert visible between buildings, the set still exists, as a tourist attraction called "Mini Hollywood". Simi played the bank manager in that film: it was his only acting role. He also designed the Sad Hill Cemetery for the last scene of The Good, the Bad and the Ugly.

Gabriella Pescucci is an Italian costume designer. She has worked with directors Pier Paolo Pasolini, Federico Fellini, Sergio Leone, Terry Gilliam, Martin Scorsese, Tim Burton and Neil Jordan. In 1994, she won the Oscar for Best Costume Design for the 1993 film The Age of Innocence.

Marcus Caecilius Metellus was a son of Lucius Caecilius Metellus. He was deported after the defeat of Cannae, before Hannibal, in 216 BC, for having conspired with other officers to transfer themselves along with their troops to another place. Their commander, Lucius Aemilius Paullus, prevented this from taking place. Metellus was eventually rehabilitated, and reconducted to Rome, where he was elected Quaestor in 214 and tribune of the plebs in 213. He was later made Aedile of the Plebeians in 209, and Urban Praetor in 206. In 205 he was sent as an Ambassador to the Court of Attalus I Soter.

Attilio Nicora was an Italian cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church, Bishop of Verona and President Emeritus of the Administration of the Patrimony of the Apostolic See. He served as President of the four-person Executive Board of the Vatican's Financial Information Authority (FIA) from January 2011 until January 2014.

José Greco was an Italian-born American flamenco dancer and choreographer known for popularizing Spanish dance on the stage and screen in America mostly in the 1950s and 1960s.