List of Famous people born in Italy

Leo Catozzo was an Italian award-winning film editor. He was often credited as Leo Cattozzo. He is best known as the designer and manufacturer of the self-perforating adhesive tape film splicer known as CIR-Catozzo.

Leon Battista Alberti was an Italian Renaissance humanist author, artist, architect, poet, priest, linguist, philosopher and cryptographer; he epitomised the Renaissance Man.

Marcello Fois is an Italian writer. He was born in Nuoro in Sardinia and studied at the University of Bologna. His first novel Ferro Recente was published in 1989. A prolific author, he has also written scripts for radio, TV, film and theatre. He has won numerous prizes, including:

• 1992 – Premio Italo Calvino for Picta
• 1997 – Premio Dessì for Nulla
• 1998 – Premio Scerbanenco for Sempre caro
• 2002 – Premio Fedeli for Dura madre
• 2007 – Premio Lama e trama
• 2007 – Premio Super Grinzane Cavour for Memoria del vuoto
• 2007 – Premio Volponi for Memoria del vuoto
• 2007 – Premio Alassio Centolibri - Un Autore per l'Europa for Memoria del vuoto

Contardo Luigi Calligaris was an Italian-Brazilian writer, psychoanalyst and dramaturg. He was a weekly columnist at Folha de S. Paulo, a daily publication regarded as a newspaper of record in Brazil.

Elisa Toffoli , performing under the mononym Elisa, is an Italian singer-songwriter. She is one of few Italian musicians to write and record mainly in English. She draws inspiration from many genres such as pop, alternative rock, electronica and trip hop. In Europe she is perhaps most recognised for the single "Come Speak to Me", while American audiences may recognise the song "Dancing" as featured in both the 2006 and 2007 seasons of So You Think You Can Dance. On December 18, 2012, her collaboration with Ennio Morricone, "Ancora qui", was featured on Quentin Tarantino's film, Django Unchained and its soundtrack album, which was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Compilation Soundtrack for Visual Media.

Walter Santesso was an Italian film actor and director. His character name "Paparazzo" in Federico Fellini's 1960 film La Dolce Vita has become synonymous with modern celebrity/tabloid photographers, who are collectively referred to as paparazzi.