List of Famous people born in Tuscany, Italy
Gianni Franciolini
Gianni Franciolini was an Italian film director and screenwriter. He directed 19 films between 1939 and 1959.
Italo Mannelli
Cristiano Lucarelli
Cristiano Lucarelli is an Italian football manager and a former player who played as a striker from 1992 until 2012. He is the manager of Serie C club Ternana.
Pietro Citati
Pietro Citati is an Italian writer and literary critic.
Francesco Motta
Francesco Motta, known simply as Motta, is an Italian singer-songwriter.
Paolo Virzì
Paolo Virzì is an Italian film director, writer and producer.
Sandro Chia
Sandro Chia is an Italian painter and sculptor. In the late 1970s and early 1980s he was, with Francesco Clemente, Enzo Cucchi, Nicola De Maria, and Mimmo Paladino, a principal member of the Italian Neo-Expressionist movement which was baptised Transavanguardia by Achille Bonito Oliva.
Emiliano Viviano
Emiliano Viviano is an Italian professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Turkish Süper Lig club Fatih Karagümrük.
Giulia Quintavalle
Giulia Quintavalle is an Italian judoka. She won the gold medal in the -57 kg weight class at the 2008 Summer Olympics.
Paolo Bettini
Paolo Bettini is an Italian former champion road racing cyclist, and the former coach of the Italian national cycling team. Considered the best classics specialist of his generation, and probably one of the strongest of all times, he won gold medals in the 2004 Athens Olympics road race and in the 2006 and 2007 World Road Race Championships. He is nicknamed Il Grillo for his repeated sudden attacks and his sprinting style.