List of Famous people born in Veneto, Italy
Franco Schirato
Antonio Badile
Antonio Badile was an Italian painter from Verona.
Antonio Balestra
Antonio Balestra was an Italian painter of the Rococo period.
Niccolò Leoniceno
Niccolò Leoniceno (1428–1524) was an Italian physician and humanist.
Prospero Alpini
Prospero Alpini was a Venetian physician and botanist. He travelled around Egypt and served as the fourth prefect in charge of the botanical garden of Padua. He wrote several botanical treatises which covered exotic plants of economic and medicinal value. His description of coffee and banana plants are considered the oldest in European literature. The ginger-family genus Alpinia was named in his honour by Carolus Linnaeus.
Franco Faccio
Francesco (Franco) Antonio Faccio was an Italian composer and conductor. Born in Verona, he studied music at the Milan Conservatory from 1855 where he was a pupil of Stefano Ronchetti-Monteviti and, as scholar William Ashbrook notes, "where he struck up a lifelong friendship with Arrigo Boito, two years his junior" and with whom he was to collaborate in many ways.
Vincenzo di Stefano da Verona
Vincenzo di Stefano da Verona was an Italian painter of the early-Renaissance. He was probably the son of Stefano da Verona, flourished in the second half of the 15th century, and is the reputed master of Liberale da Verona. A fresco at Verona is attributed to him. It forms part of the decoration on the monument erected in 1432 at Sant' Anastasia to the memory of Cortesía Serego, the general Antonio Scaliger.
Giacomo Antonio Cortuso
Giacomo Antonio Cortuso (1513–1603) was an Italian botanist.
Valeria Fabrizi
Valeria Fabrizi is an Italian actress, singer and television personality.
Giacomo Monico
Giacomo Monico (1776–1851) was an Italian prelate who was named Patriarch of Venice in 1827 and Cardinal in 1833.