List of Famous people born in Marche, Italy

Giovanni Battista Venanzi was an Italian painter of the Baroque period.

Fra' Annibale Caro, K.M., was an Italian writer and poet.

Decio Azzolini, seniore was a Roman Catholic cardinal.

Simone Cantarini or Simone da Pesaro, called il Pesarese was an Italian painter and etcher. He is mainly known for his history paintings and portraits executed in an original style, which united aspects of Bolognese classicism with a bold naturalism.

Angelo Giori was an Italian Catholic Cardinal.

Alessandro Oliva (1407–1463) was an Italian Roman Catholic cardinal.

Donato Bramante, born as Donato di Pascuccio d'Antonio and also known as Bramante Lazzari, was an Italian architect. He introduced Renaissance architecture to Milan and the High Renaissance style to Rome, where his plan for St. Peter's Basilica formed the basis of design executed by Michelangelo. His Tempietto marked the beginning of the High Renaissance in Rome (1502) when Pope Julius II appointed him to build a sanctuary over the spot where Peter was buried.

Alessandro Albani should be best remembered as a leading collector of antiquities, dealer and art patron in Rome. He supported the art historian, Johann Joachim Winckelmann and commissioned paintings from Anton Raphael Mengs. As a cardinal he furthered the interests of the governments of Austria, Savoy and Britain against those of France and Spain; he was a noted jurist and papal administrator in his earlier career. Upon his death he was the Last cardinal created by Pope Innocent XIII.

Gregorio Petrocchini was an Italian cardinal at the end of sixteenth and early seventeenth century.