List of Famous people born in Italy
Mario Garbuglia
Mario Garbuglia was an Italian set designer. He won the David di Donatello for Best Sets and Decorations, the Nastro d'Argento, and a BAFTA.
Battista Guarino
Battista Guarino was the youngest son of Guarino da Verona. He was one of the most significant humanists of his time in northern Italy. Guarino was also an active teacher. He is the presumed author of the ballad Alda.
Riccardo Broschi
Riccardo Broschi was a composer of baroque music and the brother of the opera singer Carlo Broschi, known as Farinelli.
Vito De Grisantis
Vito De Grisantis was an Italian Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Ugento-Santa Maria di Leuca from his appointment by Pope John Paul II on 26 June 2000, until his death on 1 April 2010.
Enrico Preziosi
Enrico Preziosi is an Italian entrepreneur. He runs a number of businesses and is most famous for being the chairman of football club Genoa.
Blaesilla
Blaesilla, also known as Blesilla (364–384), was a Roman widow and disciple of Jerome. She was born into a wealthy senatorial family in Rome, the eldest daughter of Paula of Rome and sister of Eustochium, who were members of a group of wealthy Christian women who followed the teachings of Jerome. Blaesilla was widowed at the age of 18; at first, she enjoyed her freedom as a widow, but after a life-threatening fever, became "a changed woman" and a severe ascetic, practicing fasting as a spiritual discipline. Her fasts dramatically weakened her, and she died within four months, at the age of 20.
Giovanna Marini
Giovanna Marini is an Italian singer-songwriter and researcher of ethnomusicology.
Giorgia Moll
Giorgia Moll is an Italian film actress. She was sometimes credited as Georgia Moll and Georgia Mool.
Luisa Ferida
Luisa Ferida was an Italian stage and film actress.
Ambrogio Portalupi
Ambrogio Portalupi was an Italian racing cyclist. He won the 1966 Tour de Suisse and rode the Tour de France in 1965, 1967 and 1970.