List of Famous people born in Italy
Marcello Morandini
Marcello Morandini is an Italian architect, sculptor and graphic designer. His visual style involves assembling of repetitive simple forms, often in just black and white, into complex objects.
Francesco Maria Avellino
Lorenzo Ostuni
Mauro Bettin
Mauro Bettin is an Italian former professional racing cyclist. He rode in two editions of the Tour de France, three editions of the Giro d'Italia and one edition of the Vuelta a España.
Mattia Cattaneo
Mattia Cattaneo is an Italian professional road bicycle racer, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam Deceuninck–Quick-Step. As an amateur, Cattaneo won the Girobio in 2011 for the U.C. Trevigiani–Dynamon–Bottoli team. He was named in the start list for the 2015 Vuelta a España.
Titta Ruffo
Titta Ruffo, born as Ruffo Cafiero Titta, was an Italian operatic baritone who had a major international singing career. Known as the "Voce del leone", he was greatly admired, even by rival baritones, such as Giuseppe De Luca, who said of Ruffo: "His was not a voice, it was a miracle", and Victor Maurel, the creator of Verdi's Iago and Falstaff. Maurel said that the notes of Ruffo's upper register were the most glorious baritone sounds he had ever heard. Indeed Walter Legge, the prominent classical record producer, went so far as to call Ruffo "a genius".
Giovanni Battista Caprara Montecuccoli
Giovanni Battista Caprara Montecuccoli was an Italian statesman and Cardinal and archbishop of Milan from 1802 to 1810. As a papal diplomat he served in the embassies in Cologne, Lausanne, and Vienna. As Legate of Pius VII in France, he implemented the Concordat of 1801, and negotiated with the Emperor Napoleon over the matter of appointments to the restored hierarchy in France. He crowned Napoleon as King of Italy in Milan in 1805.
Concetto Lo Bello
Concetto Lo Bello was an Italian association football international referee. He holds the record for refereeing the most games in Serie A (328).
Leonardo Acori
Leonardo Acori is an Italian football manager and former player, who played as a midfielder.
Carlo Savina
Carlo Savina was an Italian composer and conductor who composed, arranged, and conducted music for films-and is especially remembered for being the music director of films such as The Godfather (1972), Amarcord (1973), and The Bear (1988).