List of Famous people born in Veneto, Italy
Dino Baggio
Dino Baggio is an Italian former professional footballer who played as a defensive midfielder.
Arturo Ferrarin
Arturo Ferrarin was an Italian pioneer aviator. His exploits included winning the "Raid Roma-Tokyo" air race in 1920 and a non-stop flight from Italy to Brazil in 1928 with fellow aviator Carlo Del Prete. The latter flight set the world distance record for a non-stop flight. Ferrarin, who was born in Thiene and was a decorated veteran of the Italian Royal Air Force during World War I, died in a plane crash at Guidonia Montecelio in 1941.
Girolamo Aleandro
Girolamo Aleandro was an Italian cardinal, and the first cardinal appointed in pectore.
Mastino II della Scala
Mastino II della Scala was lord of Verona. He was a member of the famous Scaliger family of northern Italy.
Italo De Zan
Italo De Zan was an Italian racing cyclist. He won stage 10 of the 1948 Giro d'Italia. De Zan died from COVID-19 in Treviso on 9 March 2020.
Alberto I della Scala
Alberto I della Scala was lord of Verona from 1277, a member of the Scaliger family.
Giulio Brogi
Giulio Brogi was an Italian actor. He appeared in 39 films and television shows beginning in 1967. He starred in the 1974 film Morel's Invention, which also starred Anna Karina.
Cansignorio della Scala
Cansignorio della Scala was Lord of Verona from 1359 until 1375, initially together with his brother Paolo Alboino.
Jules Roy
Jules Roy was a French writer. "Prolific and polemical" Roy, born an Algerian pied noir and sent to a Roman Catholic seminary, used his experiences in the French colony and during his service in the Royal Air Force during the Second World War as inspiration for a number of his works. He began writing in 1946, while still serving in the military, and continued to publish fiction and historical works after his resignation in 1953 in protest of the First Indochina War. He was an outspoken critic of French colonialism and the Algerian War of Independence and later civil war, as well as a strongly religious man.
Sara Simeoni
Sara Simeoni is an Italian former high jumper, who won a gold medal at the 1980 Summer Olympics and twice set a world record in the women's high jump.