List of Famous people born in Italy

Ferruccio Furlanetto is an Italian bass. His professional debut was in 1974 in Lonigo, he debuted at the Teatro alla Scala in Milan in 1979, in a production of Verdi's Macbeth, conducted by Claudio Abbado. He has gone on to sing numerous roles, including both Don Giovanni and Leporello in Mozart's Don Giovanni, Philip II in Verdi's Don Carlos, Figaro in Mozart's Le nozze di Figaro, Gremin in Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin, Zaccaria in Verdi's Nabucco, Méphistophélès in Gounod's Faust, Orestes in Strauss' Elektra, Fiesco in Verdi's Simon Boccanegra, the title role of Mussorgsky's Boris Godunov, as well as many other roles.

Andrea Bruno Mazzocato is an Italian Roman Catholic prelate. He was ordained to the priesthood in 1972. From 2000 to 2003 he was bishop of Adria-Rovigo and from 2003 until 2009 served as the Bishop of Treviso. In 2009, Mazzocato became the Archbishop of Udine.

Rosa Pisano, best known as Rosita Pisano was an Italian stage, film and television actress.

Antonio Arcari is a diplomat of the Holy See.

Rosario Pergolizzi is an Italian football coach and former player.

Giorgio Furlan is an Italian former road bicycle racer, who currently works as a directeur sportif for UCI Continental team General Store–Essegibi–Fratelli Curia.

Michele Bartoli is a retired Italian road racing cyclist. Bartoli was a professional from 1992 until 2004 and was one of the most successful single-day classics specialists of his generation, especially in the Italian and Belgian races. On his palmarès are three of the five monuments of cycling – five in total: the 1996 Tour of Flanders, the 1997 and 1998 Liège–Bastogne–Liège and the 2002 and 2003 Giro di Lombardia. He won the UCI Road World Cup in 1997 and 1998. From 10 October 1998 until 6 June 1999, Bartoli was number one on the UCI Road World Rankings.

Anita Pichler was an Italian author and translator from South Tyrol who wrote in German. She was the first post-war author to achieve visibility outside that region.