List of Famous people born in Marche, Italy
Enrico Mattei
Enrico Mattei was an Italian public administrator. After World War II he was given the task of dismantling the Italian Petroleum Agency Agip, a state enterprise established by the Fascist regime. Instead Mattei enlarged and reorganized it into the National Fuel Trust, Ente Nazionale Idrocarburi (ENI). Under his direction ENI negotiated important oil concessions in the Middle East as well as a significant trade agreement with the Soviet Union which helped break the oligopoly of the 'Seven Sisters' that dominated the mid 20th century oil industry. He also introduced the principle whereby the country that owned exploited oil reserves received 75% of the profits.
Bruno Cesari
Bruno Cesari was an Italian art director. He won an Academy Award in the category Best Art Direction for the film The Last Emperor.
Diego Della Valle
Diego Della Valle is the chairman of the Italian leather goods company Tod's.
Edoardo Menichelli
Edoardo Menichelli is a prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as Archbishop of the Archdiocese of Ancona-Osimo from 2004 to 2017. Pope Francis made him a cardinal on 14 February 2015.
Terenzio, Count Mamiani della Rovere
Terenzio, Count Mamiani della Rovere was an Italian writer, academic and politician, and was committed to the cause of the unification of Italy under the Sardinian monarchy. He was one of the leading figures of Liberal Catholicism.
Franco Gasparri
Franco Gasparri was an Italian actor.
Alberico Gentili
Alberico Gentili was an Italian jurist, tutor of Queen Elizabeth I, and a standing advocate to the Spanish Embassy in London, who served as the Regius professor of civil law at the University of Oxford for 21 years. He is heralded as the founder of the science of international law alongside Francisco de Vitoria and Hugo Grotius, and thus known as the "Father of international law". Gentili has been the earliest writer on public international law. In 1587, he became the first non-English person to be a Regius Professor.
Nolfo da Montefeltro
Nolfo da Montefeltro was count of Montefeltro from 1323 to 1360. He was the son of Federico I da Montefeltro, who had been slain by the people of the city in revolt against him.
Luiz Vicente Bernetti
Luis Vicente Bernetti was a Catholic bishop.
Ferdinando Scarfiotti
Ferdinando Scarfiotti was an Italian art director and production designer.