List of Famous people born in Veneto, Italy

Francesca Rettondini is an Italian actress and television presenter. She is internationally known for the role of a songstress by the name of Francesca in the 2002 film Ghost Ship.

Angelo Ephrikian was an Italian musicologist and violinist of Armenian descent. His daughter, Laura Ephrikian, is an actress.

Paola Pezzo is a cross-country mountain bike racer from Verona, Italy. In 1996 in Atlanta, Georgia, in the U.S., she won the Olympic gold medal in mountain biking, when the event made its debut.

Alberico da Romano, called Alberico II, was an Italian condottiero, troubadour, and an alternatingly Guelph and Ghibelline statesman. He was also a patron of Occitan literature.

Andrea Zanzotto was an Italian poet.

Ferdinando Camon is a contemporary Italian writer. He is married to a journalist and has two sons: Alessandro Camon, a film producer/writer who lives in Los Angeles, and Alberto, who teaches criminal procedure and lives in Bologna. He has contributed to a number of Italian and foreign daily newspapers, including La Stampa, l'Unità, Avvenire, Le Monde and La Nación.

Alberto Bombassei is an Italian billionaire businessman, the chairman and president of Brembo, an Italian manufacturer of automotive brake systems. He controls 53.5% of Brembo.

Tatiana Guderzo is an Italian professional cyclist, who currently rides for UCI Women's WorldTeam Alé BTC Ljubljana.

Gianni Dal Maso is an Italian mathematician who is active in the fields of partial differential equations, calculus of variations and applied mathematics.

Vittorino Veronese was an Italian anti-fascist lawyer and activist who served as UNESCO’s Director-General from 1958 to 1961. Before his appointment as UNESCO’s Director-General he served as Chairman of the Catholic Institute for Social Activity and of Azione Cattolica. From 1952 to 1956 he served on UNESCO’s board and was UNESCO’s chairperson from 1956 to 1958. Three years after the appointment as the Director-General, Veronese had to resign due to health concerns.