List of Famous people born in Italy
Andrea Pagoto
Andrea Pagoto is an Italian cyclist. He rode in the 2007 Giro d'Italia.
Luciano Vincenzoni
Luciano Vincenzoni was an Italian screenwriter, known as the "script doctor". He wrote for some 65 films between 1954 and 2000.
Andrea Seculin
Andrea Seculin is an Italian professional footballer who plays for Serie B club Chievo, as a goalkeeper.
Diego Coletti
Diego Coletti is an Italian prelate of the Catholic Church who was rector of the Pontifical Lombard Seminary from 1989 to 2000, Bishop of Livorno from 2001 to 2006, and Bishop of Como from 2007 to 2016.
Guido Calza
Guido Calza, born in Milan, Italy, was an Italian archaeologist whose work included excavations in Rome and at the port city of Ostia. Calza served as inspector of the Ostia excavations and as the director of excavations in the Forum Romanum and the Palatine Hill in Rome. He also oversaw the excavation of the Isola Sacra Necropolis.
Lorenzo Pucci
Lorenzo Pucci was an Italian cardinal and bishop from the Florentine Pucci family. His brother Roberto Pucci and his nephew Antonio Pucci also became cardinals.
Michele Pellizzer
Michele Pellizzer is an Italian footballer who plays for Serie B club Virtus Entella, as a central defender.
Cino da Pistoia
Cino da Pistoia was an Italian jurist and poet.
Anastasio Ballestrero
Anastasio Alberto Ballestrero - in religious Anastasio del Santissimo Rosario - was an Italian Roman Catholic cardinal and professed member from the Discalced Carmelites who served as the Archbishop of Turin from 1977 until his resignation in 1989. Ballestrero was elevated to the cardinalate in 1979 and became a leading progressive voice in the Italian episcopate during his time as the head of the Italian Episcopal Conference in the pontificate of the conservative Pope John Paul II. Ballestrero likewise was known for being reserved when it came to the Shroud of Turin as opposed to the enthusiasm of John Paul II for the relic. The cardinal allowed for testing of the shroud and announced that the relic itself was a product of the Middle Ages as opposed to the genuine burial cloth of Jesus Christ.
Franco Bitossi
Franco Bitossi is an Italian former professional cyclist for Filotex. He was born in Camaioni di Carmignano.