List of Famous people born in Italy

Charles IV of Spain

First Name Charles
Last Name Spain
Born on November 11, 1748
Died on January 20, 1819 (aged 70)
Born in Italy, Campania

Charles IV was King of Spain and the Spanish Empire from 14 December 1788, until 19 March 1808.

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Longinus

Born on November 30, 0099
Died on January 1, 0100
Born in Italy, Abruzzo

Longinus is the name given to the unnamed Roman soldier who pierced the side of Jesus with a lance and who in medieval and some modern Christian traditions is described as a convert to Christianity. His name first appeared in the apocryphal Gospel of Nicodemus. The lance is called in Christianity the "Holy Lance" (lancea) and the story is related in the Gospel of John during the Crucifixion. This act is said to have created the last of the Five Holy Wounds of Christ.

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Philip of Swabia

First Name Philip
Last Name Swabia
Born on July 31, 1177
Died on June 21, 1208 (aged 30)
Born in Italy, Lombardy

Philip of Swabia was a member of the House of Hohenstaufen and king of Germany from 1198 until his assassination.

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Daniele Garozzo

First Name Daniele
Last Name Garozzo
Born on August 4, 1992 (age 33)
Born in Italy, Sicily

Daniele Garozzo is an Italian right-handed foil fencer, 2017 individual European champion, three-time team world champion, and 2016 individual Olympic champion. He is the younger brother of Italian épée fencer Enrico Garozzo.

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Diodato

Born on August 30, 1981 (age 44)
Born in Italy, Aosta Valley

Antonio Diodato, known simply as Diodato, is an Italian singer-songwriter. He won the 70th edition of the Sanremo Music Festival with the song "Fai rumore" and was scheduled to represent Italy in the Eurovision Song Contest 2020 in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, before it was cancelled by the EBU on 18 March 2020.

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Candido Jacuzzi

First Name Candido
Last Name Jacuzzi
Born on February 24, 1903
Died on October 7, 1986 (aged 83)

Jacuzzi Brands LLC, through its subsidiaries, is a global manufacturer and distributor of branded baths, hot tubs, pools and saunas. JACUZZI is a federally registered trademark of Jacuzzi Inc. as of September 5, 1978.

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Luca Guadagnino

First Name Luca
Last Name Guadagnino
Born on August 10, 1971 (age 54)
Born in Italy, Sicily

Luca Guadagnino is an Italian filmmaker. He has collaborated a number of times with actress Tilda Swinton, including on the films The Protagonists (1999), I Am Love (2009), A Bigger Splash (2015) and Suspiria (2018), a remake of the 1977 film of the same name.

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Lucius Verus

First Name Lucius
Born on December 15, 0130
Died on November 30, 0168 (aged 37)
Born in Italy, Lazio

Lucius Aurelius Verus was Roman emperor from 161 until his death in 169, alongside his adoptive brother Marcus Aurelius. He was a member of the Nerva-Antonine dynasty. Verus' succession together with Marcus Aurelius marked the first time that the Roman Empire was ruled by multiple emperors, an increasingly common occurrence in the later history of the Empire.

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Gabriele Amorth

First Name Gabriele
Last Name Amorth
Born on May 1, 1925
Died on September 16, 2016 (aged 91)

Gabriele Amorth was an Italian Catholic priest and exorcist of the Diocese of Rome who performed tens of thousands of exorcisms over his sixty plus years as a priest. As the appointed exorcist for the diocese of Rome, Amorth was the Chief Exorcist of the Vatican.

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Rothari

Born on January 1, 0606
Died on January 1, 0652 (aged 46)
Born in Italy, Lombardy

Rothari, , of the house of Arodus, was king of the Lombards from 636 to 652; previously he had been duke of Brescia. He succeeded Arioald, who was an Arian like himself, and was one of the most energetic of Lombard kings. Fredegar relates that at the beginning of his reign he put to death many insubordinate nobles, and that in his efforts for peace he maintained very strict discipline.

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