List of Famous people born in Trentino-South Tyrol, Italy

Oswald Menghin was an Austrian Prehistorian and University professor. He established an international reputation before the War, while he was professor at the University of Vienna. His work on race and culture was serviceable to the German nationalist movement of the 1930s. At the time of the Anschluss he served as Minister of Education in the cabinet formed by Arthur Seyß-Inquart. He avoided indictment as a war criminal and resumed his career in Argentina after the war.

Alessandro Vittoria (1525–1608) was an Italian Mannerist sculptor of the Venetian school, "one of the main representatives of the Venetian classical style" and rivalling Giambologna as the foremost sculptors of the late 16th century in Italy.

Christoph Bartholomäus Anton Migazzi; was Prince-Archbishop of Vienna.

Johannes Baptist Franzelin was an Austrian Jesuit theologian and Cardinal.

Giovanni Prati was an Italian poet and politician.

Leopold Ernst von Firmian (1708–1783) was an Austrian bishop and Cardinal.

Leopold Maximilian Graf von Firmian was Auxiliary Bishop in Passau and Titular Bishop of Tiberias from 1797, from 1800 to 1816 Bishop of Lavant, was appointed Archbishop of Salzburg in 1816, but in 1818 was only confirmed as administrator of the Archdiocese of Salzburg. From 1822 to 1831 he was Prince-Archbishop of Vienna.