List of Famous people born in Italy

Chiara Simionato is an Italian long track speed skater who competed in 2002 Winter Olympics and the 2006 Winter Olympics. She competed for Italy at the 2010 Winter Olympics in the women's 500m, 1000m, and 1500m.

Margherita Occhiena Bosco was the mother of John Bosco and worked with the poor and the less fortunate. Pope Benedict XVI proclaimed her to be Venerable in 2006.

Francesco Cabras is an Italian actor and film director. He played the role of Gesmas on Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ, the chief of the rebels in Kurt Wimmer's Equilibrium, and Grigori Rasputin in Louis Nero's 2011 film Rasputin.

Fernando Di Leo was an Italian film director and script writer born in San Ferdinando di Puglia, Italy. Fernando di Leo made 17 films as a director and about 50 scripts from 1964 to 1985.

Lucius Munatius Plancus was a Roman senator, consul in 42 BC, and censor in 22 BC with Lucius Aemilius Lepidus Paullus. Along with Talleyrand eighteen centuries later, he is one of the classic historical examples of men who have managed to survive very dangerous circumstances by constantly shifting their allegiances.

Mauro Bolognini was an Italian film and stage director of literate sensibility, known for his masterly handling of period subject matter.

Fabiana Luperini is an Italian professional cyclist. Luperini has won the Giro d'Italia Femminile a record five times, with four consecutive victories in 1995–1998 and a fifth ten years later, in 2008. She has won the Grande Boucle Féminine three times consecutively, from 1995 to 1997. In 1998 she won the Tour de l'Aude, and in 2006 she won the Iurreta-Emakumeen Bira.

Giorgio Albani was an Italian racing cyclist. He rode in ten editions of the Giro d'Italia, and won seven stages.

Alberto Elli is an Italian former road racing cyclist, who wore the yellow jersey for 4 days in the 2000 Tour de France. Elli was called up late for the 2000 Tour de France, and after a group of 12 cyclists stayed away from the others, Elli became a surprise leader, being the second oldest cyclist in the peloton. He kept the yellow jersey until the Pyrenées mountains, where he lost it to Lance Armstrong.