List of Famous people born in Italy

Girolamo Crescentini was a noted Italian singer castrato (sopranista), a singing teacher and a composer.

Walter Ferreri, originally from Buddusò in Sardinia, is an astronomer at the Italian Osservatorio Astronomico di Torino, science writer and discoverer of minor planets.

Giuseppe Fezzardi is a retired Italian professional road bicycle racer, who competed professionally between 1961 and 1972. He won the 1962 Tre Valli Varesine and 1963 Tour de Suisse. Fezzardi rode the 1965 and 1966 Tour de France and won the 15th stage in 1965.

Gianfranco Agostino Gardin is Archbishop-Bishop of Treviso.

Manuele Boaro is an Italian professional road bicycle racer, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam Astana–Premier Tech.

Filippo Timi is an Italian actor, director and writer.

Sandro Scarchilli was an Italian film actor who appeared in several films in the late 1960s and 1970s.

Salvatore Cancemi was an Italian mobster and member of the Sicilian Mafia from Palermo. He is the first member of the Sicilian Mafia Commission that turned himself in voluntarily to become a pentito, a collaborator with the Italian judicial authorities. Cancemi made controversial allegations about the collusion of Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi and his right-hand man Marcello Dell'Utri with the Mafia.