List of Famous people named Franco

Franco Frattini is an Italian politician, twice foreign minister of the Berlusconi cabinets and once European Commissioner in the first Barroso Commission (2004–2008).

Franco Indovina was an Italian film director and screenwriter. In 1959, he was assistant of Michelangelo Antonioni on the set of L'Avventura. He directed six films between 1965 and 1971.

Franco Venturi was an Italian historian, essayist and journalist, a scholar of the Enlightenment in Italy and of the history of Russia, and an anti-fascist active in the Resistance.

Franco Maria Malfatti was an Italian politician who served as the 3rd President of the European Commission from 1970 to 1972. He served at Italian level as Italian Minister of Foreign Affairs from 1979 to 1980 and Italian Minister of Education from 1973 to 1978.

Franco Mussida is an Italian guitar player, composer, and singer. He is best known as a founder and prominent member of the Italian progressive rock band Premiata Forneria Marconi (PFM), established in the early 1970s and still active. An acclaimed guitar player, in 1984 he founded the Centro Professione Musica, a popular and jazz music academy, which is widely recognized as one of the most important examples in its genre both in Italy and abroad. Besides working with PFM, Mussida has collaborated with a number of other musical acts and released three solo albums.

Franco Giacobini was an Italian actor.

Franco Egidio Malerba is an Italian astronaut. He was the first citizen of Italy to travel to space.

Franco Carraro is an Italian sport manager and a former member of Italian Socialist Party in the 1980s and 1990s.

Franco Gasparri was an Italian actor.