List of Famous people born in Italy

Giambattista Costaguti (1636–1704) was a Catholic cardinal from 1690 to 1704.

Giambattista Altieri or Giovanni Battista Altieri was an Italian Catholic Cardinal.

Fabrizio Dionigi Ruffo was an Italian cardinal and politician, who led the popular anti-republican Sanfedismo movement.

Giacomo or Jacopo Rospigliosi was an Italian Roman Catholic cardinal.

Gabriele Dell’Otto is an Italian illustrator and author whose works have been published in several countries in the fields of scientific illustration, comic books, calendars, lithographies, books, colored graphic folders, and cover work for magazines and video games.

Stefano Zanini is an Italian former professional road racing cyclist, the leadout man for Liquigas-Bianchi in 2006, after riding for Mapei, Saeco Macchine per Caffè, and Quick-Step.

Ottaviano-Fabrizio Mossotti was an Italian physicist exiled from Italy for his liberal ideas. During the First Italian War of Independence, he led a "battalion of students," part of a delegation from the Grand Duchy of Tuscany. He later taught astronomy and physics at the University of Buenos Aires. His name is associated with a type of multiple-element lens correcting spherical aberration and coma, but not chromatic aberration. His studies on dielectrics lead to important results: the Clausius-Mossotti formula is partly named after him, and his view on dielectric behavior lead James Clerk Maxwell to devise his displacement current which, included in his equations lead to the theoretical intuition of electromagnetic waves.

Ercole Lupinacci was an Italian of Arbëreshë ethnicity and Bishop Emeritus of Italo-Albanian Catholic Eparchies of Piana degli Albanesi and Lungro.

Gherardo di Giovanni di Miniato del Fora (1445–1497), was an Italian painter.

Giuseppe Vasi was an Italian engraver and architect, best known for his vedute.