List of Italians

This is a list of notable Italians in alphabetical order.

cientists

A-F

Antonio Abetti, astronomer
*Maria Gaetana Agnesi, mathematician
*Francesco Alberoni, sociologist and journalist
*Giuseppe Averani, jurist and naturalist
*Amedeo Avogadro (1776-1856), physicist
*Eugenio Barsanti, inventor of the Internal combustion engine
*Laura Bassi (1711-1778), physicist
*Giovanni Battista Beccaria (1716-1781)
*Luigi Bianchi, mathematician
*Renato Biasutti, geographer
*Enrico Bombieri (born 1940), mathematician
*Giovanni Alfonso Borelli
*Ruggero Giuseppe Boscovich (1711-1787), physicist
*Luigi Valentino Brugnatelli, chemist, inventor of electroplating
*Giordano Bruno (1548-1600), philosopher and cosmologist
*Gerolamo Cardano (1501-1576), Renaissance polymath
*Giovanni Domenico Cassini (1625-1712), astronomer
*Benedetto Castelli, mathematician
*Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza, population geneticist
*Giuseppe Colombo, mathematician
*Realdo Colombo
*Renato Corsetti current president of the World Esperanto Association
*Gerard of Cremona, astronomer and scholastic philosopher
*Jacopo Berengario da Carpi, physician
*Salvino D'Armate, inventor of eyeglasses
*Bruno de Finetti (1906-1985), mathematician, statistician
*Mondino de Liuzzi, anatomist
*Guidobaldo del Monte, mathematician, philosopher and astronomer
*Mario Draghi, banker and economist
*Renato Dulbecco (born 1914), biologist
*Bartolomeo Eustachi, anatomist
*Francesco Faà di Bruno (1825-1888), military officer, mathematician, priest
*Hieronymus Fabricius, anatomist
*Federico Faggin, designed first microprocessor
*Gabriele Falloppio, anatomist and physician
*Robert Fano (born 1917), computer scientist
*Luigi Fantappiè (1901-1956), mathematician, originator of the term "syntropy"
*Enrico Forlanini
*Enrico Fermi (1901-1954), physicist - built the first Nuclear powered generator
*Leonardo Fibonacci, (c. 1175-1250) mathematician, eponym of the Fibonacci number sequence
*Girolamo Fracastoro (1478-1553)
*Guido Fubini (1879-1943), mathematician, eponym of Fubini's theorem in measure theory

G-P

*Galileo Galilei (1564-1642), astronomy pioneer and physicist
*Luigi Galvani (1737-1798), physician and physicist, eponym of galvanization
*Agostino Gemelli (1878-1959), physician and priest
*Riccardo Giacconi (born 1931), astrophysicist
*Corrado Gini (1884-1965), statistician, demographer and sociologist, developer of Gini coefficient
*Camillo Golgi (1843-1926), physician
*Giovanni Gozzadini, archeologist
*Guido Grandi, mathematician
*Francesco Maria Grimaldi (1618-1663), physicist
*Giuseppe Ludovico Lagrangia (1736-1813), mathematician
*Rita Levi-Montalcini (born 1909), neurologist
*Aloysius Lilius, astronomer who created the Gregorian Calendar
*Mario Liverani, Near East historian
*Cesare Lombroso, criminologist
*Salvador Luria (1912-1991), microbiologist
*Paolo Maffei, astronomer
*Graziella Magherini, psychologist
*Luciano Maiani, physicist
*Ettore Majorana (1906-1938), physicist
*Gian Francesco Malfatti (1731-1807), mathematician
*Marcello Malpighi, anatomist
*Renato Mannheimer, sociologist and pollster
*Innocenzo Manzetti
*Carlo Marangoni (1840-1925), physicist
*Guglielmo Marconi (1874-1937), engineer, developer of wireless telegraphy
*Felice Matteucci, co-inventor, with Eugenio Barsanti, of the Internal combustion engine
*Fulvio Melia (born 1956), physicist, astrophysicist, and author
*Macedonio Melloni, physicist
*Antonio Santi Giuseppe Meucci (1808–1896), chemical and mechanical engineer, inventor of the telephone
*Franco Modigliani (1918-2003), economist
*Maria Montessori (1870-1952), physician, teacher, creator of the Montessori method
*Giulio Natta (1903-1979), chemist
*Antonio Neri (1500s-1614), chemist and glassmaker
*Giuseppe Occhialini, physicist
*Luca Pacioli, mathematician
*Vilfredo Pareto (1848-1923), sociologist, economist and philosopher, eponym of Pareto distribution, Pareto efficiency, Pareto index, Pareto principle
*Giuseppe Peano (1858-1932), mathematician
*Giuseppe Piazzi (1746-1826), astronomer

R-Z

*Giovanni Battista Riccioli, astronomer
*Gian-Carlo Rota (1932-1999), Italian-born American mathematician and philosopher
*Carlo Rubbia (born 1934), physicist
*Giovanni Gerolamo Saccheri (1667-1733), mathematician
*Antonio Scarpa (1752-1832)
*Giovanni Schiaparelli (1835-1910), astronomer
*Giovanni Antonio Scopoli, physician
*Emilio Segrè (1905-1989), physicist
*Giuseppe Sergi, anthropologist
*Francesco Severi (1879-1961), mathematician
*Ascanio Sobrero, chemist
*Lazzaro Spallanzani, biologist
*Piero Sraffa, economist
*Niccolo Fontana Tartaglia (1500-1557), mathematician
*Evangelista Torricelli (1608-1647), early scientist
*Giovanni Battista Venturi, (1746-1822), physicist
*Alessandro Volta (1745-1827), electricity pioneer, eponym of the volt, inventor of the electric battery
*Vito Volterra, mathematician and physicist
*Bruno Zumino, theoretical physicist

Explorers

*Giacomo Beltrami
*Giovanni Caboto
*Sebastiano Caboto
*Cristoforo Colombo
*Niccolò Da Conti
*Antonio da Noli, explored the Cape Verde Islands for Portugal
*Giovanni da Pian del Carpine
*Giovanni da Verrazzano, first European to discover the Atlantic coast of what is today the United States of America
*Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza
*Henri de Tonti, (1649-1704), explored the Mississippi River Valley
*Alphonse de Tonty
*Marco Polo
*Amerigo Vespucci, (1454-1512), discovered other parts of America and gave his name to the new continent. Discovered the Amazon river in South America.

Politicians

A-I

*Giorgio Agamben, political philosopher
*Giuliano Amato
*Giulio Andreotti, politician
*Cesare Battisti, politician
*Camillo Benso, count of Cavour
*Enrico Berlinguer, (1922 - 1984), politician
*Mario Berlinguer
*Silvio Berlusconi, (born 1936)
*Fausto Bertinotti
*Norberto Bobbio, political scientist
*Emma Bonino
*Umberto Bossi
*Pierferdinando Casini
*Carlo Azeglio Ciampi, president of Italy
*Emilio Colombo
*Michele Columbu
*Francesco Cossiga, (b. 1928), president of Italy
*Bettino Craxi
*Francesco Crispi, prime minister
*Massimo D'Alema
*Alcide De Gasperi
*Gianni De Michelis
*Ciriaco de Mita
*Enrico De Nicola, (1877-1959), president of Italy
*Lorenzo de Tonti, (1602-1684), former governor of Gaeta, Italy, inventor of tontine, a form of life insurance
*Antonio Di Pietro
*Lamberto Dini
*Luigi Einaudi, politician
*Amintore Fanfani
*Piero Fassino
*Gianfranco Fini
*Arnaldo Forlani
*Roberto Formigoni, (born 1947)
*Giovanni Giolitti
*Giovanni Goria
*Antonio Gramsci (1891-1937) writer and politician
*Nilde Iotti

L-T

*Giovanni Leone, president of Italy
*Franco Maria Malfatti, President of the European Commission, (1970-1972)
*Giuseppe Mazzini, (1805-1872), writer and politician
*Paolo Oss Mazzurana
*Aldo Moro, (1916-1978), politician
*Benito Mussolini, (1883-1945), dictator
*Giorgio Napolitano, president of Italy
*Antonio Negri, political philosopher
*Marco Pannella
*Giuseppe Pella
*Sandro Pertini, president of Italy
*Romano Prodi (born 1939) Former President of the European Commission and Prime Minister of Italy.
*Roberto di Ridolfi
*Mariano Rumor
*Giuseppe Saragat, president of Italy
*Oscar Luigi Scalfaro, president of Italy
*Mario Scelba
*Antonio Segni
*Giovanni Spadolini
*Fernando Tambroni
*Palmiro Togliatti (1893-1964), communist leader
*Benigno Zaccagnini
*Adone Zoli

Writers

A-E

*Nicola Abbagnano, philosopher
*Francesco Algarotti, philosopher and art critic
*Dante Alighieri (1265-1321), poet
*Ludovico Ariosto (1474-1533), poet
*Alessandro Baricco (born 1958), novelist and playwriter
*Giambattista Basile (?-1632), poet and writer
*Cesare Beccaria (1738-1794), philosopher and politician
*Giuseppe Gioachino Belli, poet
*Pietro Bembo, cardinal and poet
*Stefano Benni (born 1947), novelist and playwriter
*Francesco Berni (1497-1536), burlesque poet
*Giovanni Boccaccio (1313-1375), novelist
*Marcella Boccia, poet
*Franco Bolelli 1950, philosopher and writer
*Giovanni Botero, priest and poet
*Alfredo Bracchi (1897-1976), lyricists and scriptwriter
*Giordano Bruno (1548-1600), philosopher
*Gesualdo Bufalino (1920-1996), writer
*Dino Buzzati (1906-1972), novelist and journalist
*Aldo Buzzi (born 1910), author of travel and gastronomy books
*Italo Calvino (1923-1985), writer and novelist
*Andrea Camilleri (born 1925), writer
*Giosuè Carducci (1835-1907), poet
*Baldassarre Castiglione (1478-1529), writer
*Carlo Collodi (orig. Carlo Lorenzini), (1826-1890), novelist
*Benedetto Croce (1866-1952), philosopher
*Giacomo da Lentini, poet
*Gabriele D'Annunzio (1863-1938), poet, dramatist and adventurer
*Lorenzo Da Ponte (1749-1838), librettist and poet
*Guittone d'Arezzo (1235-1294), poet
*Grazia Deledda (1871-1936), novelist
*Francesco de Sanctis (1817-1883), writer and literary critic
*Antonia Donatiello (born 1950), poet and writer
*Umberto Eco (born 1932), semiotician and writer
*Valerio Evangelisti (born 1952), science fiction writer

F-M

*Oriana Fallaci, journalist and author
*Marsilio Ficino (1433-1499), philosopher
*Dario Fo (born 1926), dramatist and actor
*Ugo Foscolo (1778-1827), writer
*Veronica Franco, poet and courtesan
*Carlo Emilio Gadda (1893-1973), writer
*Carlo Goldoni (1707-1793), dramatist
*Giovanni Guareschi (1908-1968), novelist and satirist
*Francesco Guicciardini (1483-1540), historian
*Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, writer
*Bruno Leoni, lawyer, writer and philosopher
*Giacomo Leopardi, (1798-1837), poet
*Primo Levi (1919-1987), writer
*Emilio Lussu (1890-1975), novelist and politician
*Niccolò Machiavelli (1469-1527), writer
*Scipione Maffei, writer and art critic
*Claudio Magris, writer
*Goffredo Mameli (1827-1849) patriot, poet and writer
*Alessandro Manzoni (1785-1873) writer, considered the father of modern Italian language
*Filippo Tommaso Marinetti (1876-1944), writer
*Girolamo Mei, historian and humanist
*Fulvio Melia, writer and astrophysicist
*Vittorio Messori (born 1941), writer and journalist
*Metastasio, writer and poet
*Maurizio Molinari (born 1964), writer and journalist
*Eugenio Montale (1896-1981), poet
*Indro Montanelli (1909-2001), journalist and historian
*Guido Monte, writer
*Elsa Morante (1912-1985), writer
*Alberto Moravia (1907–1990), novelist

P-V

*Giovanni Papini, journalist, essayist, literary critic, poet, and novelist
*Giuseppe Parini (1729-1799), satirist and poet
*Giovanni Pascoli (1855-1912), poet
*Francesco Petrarca (1304-1374), poet
*Francesco Maria Piave, librettist
*Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, philosopher
*Roberto Pinotti (born 1944), journalist and author
*Luigi Pirandello (1867-1936), playwright
*Giovanni Prati, poet
*Salvatore Quasimodo (1901-1968), poet
*Ottavio Rinuccini, poet and librettist
*Cesare Ripa, aesthetician and writer
*Antonio Rosmini-Serbati, philosopher
*Rafael Sabatini (1875-1950), writer
*Emilio Salgari (1862-1911), novelist
*Mario Spezi, journalist, writer
*Italo Svevo (orig. Aron Ettore Schmitz) (1861-1928), writer
*Antonio Tabucchi (born 1943), writer
*Torquato Tasso (1544-1595), poet
*Gian Giorgio Trissino, poet
*Luigi Ugolini, journalist, essayist, poet, and novelist
*Giuseppe Ungaretti (1888-1970), poet
*Giorgio Vasari (1511-1571), architect and writer
*Giovanni Verga (1840-1922), writer
*Giambattista Vico (1668-1744), philosopher.

Cartoonists

*Fabrizio Accatino
*Giancarlo Alessandrini
*Carlo Ambrosini
*Paola Barbato
*Francesco Bellissimo, (1979-)
*Bruno Bozzetto, (1938-)
*Roberto De Angelis
*Giuseppe De Nardo,
*Carmine Di Giandomenico
*Giovanni Freghieri
*Milo Manara
*Nicola Mari
*Giancarlo Marzano
*Michele Masiero
*Lorenzo Mattotti
*Gian Alfonso Pacinotti (1963-)
*Andrea Pazienza, (1956-1988)
*Luigi Piccatto
*Gabriele Pennacchioli
*Hugo Pratt, (1927-1995)
*Corrado Roi
*Pasquale Ruju
*Tiziano Sclavi
*Angelo Stano

Filmmakers

*Gianni Amelio
*Michelangelo Antonioni
*Dario Argento
*Pupi Avati
*Lamberto Bava
*Mario Bava
*Bernardo Bertolucci
*Andrea Bianchi
*Tinto Brass
*Frank Capra
*Luigi Comencini
*Luigi Cozzi
*Joe D'Amato
*Ruggero Deodato
*Vittorio De Sica
*Luciano Ercoli
*Federico Fellini
*Lucio Fulci
*Pietro Germi
*Alberto Grimaldi
*Aldo Lado
*Umberto Lenzi
*Sergio Leone
*Antonio Margheriti
*Sergio Martino
*Bruno Mattei
*Nanni Moretti
*Pier Paolo Pasolini
*Roberto Rossellini
*Michele Soavi
*Dante Spinotti
*Luchino Visconti
*Franco Zeffirelli

Actors and actresses

A-L

*Laura Antonelli (born 1941)
*Asia Argento (born 1975)
*Monica Bellucci (born 1964)
*Roberto Benigni (born 1952)
*Francesca Bertini (1892-1985)
*Lucia Bosé (born 1931)
*Raoul Bova (born 1971)
*Nicoletta Braschi (born 1960)
*Mario Brega (1923-1991)
*Andrea Bruschi (born 1968)
*Claudia Cardinale (born in Tunisia, 1938)
*Raffaella Carrà (born 1943)
*Maria Grazia Cucinotta (born 1969)
*Vittorio Gassmann (1922-2000)
*Giancarlo Giannini (born 1942)
*Gina Lollobrigida (born 1927)
*Sophia Loren (born 1934)

M-V

*Nino Manfredi (1921-2004)
*Silvana Mangano (1930-1989)
*Marcello Mastroianni (1924-1996)
*Rose McGowan (born 1973)
*Laura Morante (born 1956)
*Caterina Murino (born 1977)
*Natalino Otto, singer and actor (1912-1969)
*Moana Pozzi (1961-1994)
*Alberto Rabagliati (1906-1974)
*Stefania Sandrelli (born 1946)
*Delia Scala (1929-2004), ballerina, actress
*Rocco Siffredi (born 1964)
*Alberto Sordi (1920-2003)
*Bud Spencer (born 1929)
*Totò (1898-1967)
*Massimo Troisi (1953-1994)
*Rodolfo Valentino (1895-1926)
*Alida Valli (born 1921)
*Gian Maria Volontè (1933-1994)

Fashion models

*Bianca Balti
*Ludovico Benazzo
*Mariacarla Boscono
*Carla Bruni
*Elisabetta Canalis
*Marta Cecchetto
*Claudia Cedro
*Cristina Chiabotto
*Francesca Dani
*Laura Esposto
*Alessia Fabiani
*Federica Fontana
*Vincenzo Galdi
*Gabriel Garko
*Vanessa Hessler
*Anna Kanakis
*Fabio Lanzoni
*Alessia Marcuzzi
*Francesca Martinez (Italian model)
*Cody McCoy
*Denny Mendez
*Massimiliano Neri
*Anita Pallenberg
*Eva Riccobono
*Linda Jo Rizzo
*Isabella Rossellini
*Sabrina Salerno
*Melissa Satta
*Alena Šeredova
*Adriana Volpe

Artists

A-C

*Leon Battista Alberti (1404-1472), architect
*Fra Angelico (1387-1445), (Giovanni da Fiesole)
*Giuseppe Arcimboldo, painter
*Sisto Badalocchio (1581- c. 1647), painter and engraver
*Alessio Baldovinetti (1427-1499)
*Federico Barocci, painter
*Pompeo Batoni, painter
*Vanessa Beecroft, contemporary artist
*Bernardo Bellotto, painter
*Giovanni Boldini, painter
*Sandro Botticelli (1445-1510), painter
*Angelo Bronzino, painter
*Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564), painter, sculptor, architect, and poet
*Bernardo Buontalenti, painter and architect
*Guido Cagnacci, painter
*Antonio Canaletto, painter
*Leonetto Cappiello (1875-1942), poster designer and caricaturist
*Battistello Caracciolo, painter
*Caravaggio, (1573-1610), (Michelangelo Merisi), painter
*Vittore Carpaccio (c.1460-1525), painter
*Agostino Carracci (1560-1609), painter
*Antonio Marziale Carracci, painter
*Giovanni Battista Castello, painter
*Giovanni Castiglione, artist
*Giuseppe Castiglione, painter and Jesuit
*Giuseppe Castiglione, painter
*Giuseppe Castiglione (politician)
*Giuseppe Bartolomeo Chiari, painter
*Ludovico Cigoli, painter
*Cimabue, (1240-1302), painter
*Benvenuto Cellini (1500-1571), painter and sculptor
*Viviano Codazzi, painter
*Sebastiano Conca, painter
*Domenico Corvi

D-L

*Antonio da Correggio, (1488-1534), (often short Correggio)
*Gentile da Fabriano, (c.1370-1427), painter
*Melozzo da Forlì, painter
*Antonello da Messina (c.1430-1479)
*Andrea da Monte San Savino (Andrea Sansovino or Sansovino)
*Masolino da Panicale (c.1383-1447)
*Antonio da Sangallo
*Giuliano da Sangallo (c.1443-1516)
*Leonardo da Vinci, (1452-1519), painter, sculptor and inventor
*Daniele da Volterra, painter
*Giorgio De Chirico, (1888-1978), painter
*Andrea del Castagno, (c.1421-1457)
*Niccolò dell'Abbate, painter
*Piero della Francesca, (c.1416-1492), painter and mathematician
*Luca della Robbia, (1400-1482), sculptor
*Andrea del Sarto, (1487-1531), painter
*Fortunato Depero
*Benozzo di Filipuccio
*Santi di Tito, painter
*Artemisia Gentileschi, painter
*Domenico Ghirlandaio, painter
*Giorgione, (c. 1477-1510), (Giorgione da Castelfranco)
*Giotto, (1267-1337), painter
*Francesco Guardi, painter
*Guercino, painter
*Fermo Guisoni, painter
*Renato Guttuso, (1912-1987), painter
*Francesco Hayez, painter
*Fra Filippo Lippi, (c.1406-1469), painter
*Filippino Lippi, (1457-1504), painter
*Lorenzo Lippi, painter and poet
*Lorenzo Lotto, (1480-1556), painter

M-Z

*Andrea Mantegna, (c.1431-1506), painter
*Marino Marini, sculptor
*Simone Martini, (c.1284-1344)
*Masaccio, (1401-1428), painter
*Amedeo Modigliani, (1884-1920), sculptor and painter
*Lorenzo Monaco, painter
*Giorgio Morandi, (1890-1964), painter
*Ugo Nespolo, (born 1941), painter
*Dianora Niccolini, photographer
*Andrea Orcagna, (Andrea di Cione), (1320-1368)
*Giovanni Paolo Pannini, painter and architect
*Perugino, (c.1445-1523), painter
*Baldassarre Peruzzi
*Giovanni Battista Piranesi
*Pisanello, painter
*Francesco Raibolini, painter
*Raphael, (Raffaello Sanzio), (1483-1520)
*Guido Reni, (1575-1642), painter
*Giulio Romano, painter
*Rosso (Rosso Fiorentino)
*Giovanni Segantini, painter
*Luca Signorelli, (c.1445-1523)
*Carlo Antonio Tavella, painter
*Tiepolo, (1696-1770), painter
*Tintoretto, (1518-1594), painter
*Titian, (1488-1576), (Tiziano Vecellio)
*Oliviero Toscani, photographer
*Giovanni Tuccari
*Paolo Uccello, (1397-1475), painter

*Domenico Veneziano, (c.1400-1461)
*Paolo Veronese, painter
*Andrea del Verrocchio, (c.1435-1488), sculptor, painter
*David Vignoni, creator of the Nuvola icon set.
*Alessandro Vittoria
*Ettore Ximenes, (1855-1919), painter
*Frontier Zephyr, painter

culptors

*Pietro Bernini
*Umberto Boccioni
*Rembrandt Bugatti (1884-1916)
*Giovanni Battista Caccini
*Pietro Canonica
*Antonio Canova, (1757-1822)
*Baccio D'Agnolo (c. 1460-1543), sculptor, wood-carver, and architect
*Donatello, (1386-1466)
*Giovanni Battista Foggini
*Antonello Gagini
*Antonio Gagini
*Domenico Gagini
*Silvio Gazzaniga, (born 1921)
*Vincenzo Gemito - (1852-1929)
*Tommaso Geraci, (born 1931)
*Lorenzo Ghiberti
*Giambologna
*Stefano Maderno (1576 – 1636)
*Carlo Marochetti, (1805-1867)
*Giovanni Angelo Montorsoli
*Costantino Nivola, (1911-1988)
*Pinuccio Sciola, (born 1942)
*Mauro Staccioli
*Eugenio Tavolara

Architects

*Leon Battista Alberti, (1404-1472), architect
*Gian Lorenzo Bernini, (1598 - 1680), architect, sculptor and painter
*Bartolommeo Berrecci
*Francesco Borromini, (1599 - 1667), architect
*Donato Bramante (1444-1514), architect
*Giovanni Branca, engineer and architect
*Filippo Brunelleschi, (1377 - 1446), architect
*Pietro da Cortona, (1596 - 1669), architect
*Aloisio da Milano
*Giacomo Barozzi da Vignola
*Giacomo della Porta
*Domenico de' Rossi
*Giovanni Battista di Quadro
*Aristotile Fioravanti
*Francesco Florentino
*Carlo Fontana, (1634 or 1638 - 1714), architect
*Domenico Fontana
*Ferdinando Fuga
*Rosario Gagliardi
*Alessandro Galilei
*Andrea Giganti
*Camillo-Guarino Guarini
*Mateo Gucci
*Santi Gucci
*Stefano Ittar
*Filippo Juvarra
*Paolo Labisi
*Giulio Lasso
*Giacomo Leoni
*Carlo Maderno, (1556 - 1629), architect
*Giuseppe Venanzio Marvuglia
*Alessandro Mendini
*Michelozzo
*Riccardo Morandi, engineer
*Bernardo Morando
*Tomasso Napoli
*Alois Negrelli, engineer
*Pier Luigi Nervi, (1891 - 1979), architect and engineer
*Nicolò Pacassi
*Andrea Palladio, (1508 - 1580), architect
*Andrea Palma
*Alessandro Pasqualini
*Renzo Piano, (born 1937), architect
*Gino Pollini
*Giò Ponti (Giovanni), (1891 - 1979), architect
*Andrea Pozzo, architect
*Francesco Primaticcio
*Giacomo Quarenghi
*Carlo Rainaldi, (1611 – 1691), architect
*Girolamo Rainaldi, architect
*Bartolomeo Rastrelli, (1700-1771), architect
*Antonio Rinaldi, (1710-1794), architect
*Aldo Rossi, (1931 - 1997), architect
*Marco Ruffo
*Francesco Sabatini, (1722 - 1797), architect
*Nicola Salvi
*Antonio Scaglione
*Carlo Scarpa, (1906 - 1978), architect
*Sebastiano Serlio
*Vincenzo Sinatra
*Guiniforte Solari
*Pietro Antonio Solari
*Ettore Sottsass
*Matteo Thun
*Giovanni Battista Vaccarini
*Luigi Vanvitelli, (1700 – 1773), architect
*Giorgio Vasari
*Tommaso Vincidor

Musicians and singers

*Giovanni Adamo, violinist
*Franco Battiato, singer-songwriter
*Lucio Battisti (1943-1998), singer-songwriter
*Mattia Battistini
*Loredana Bertè
*Andrea Bocelli (born 1958), singer and tenor
*Ernesto Bonino (born 1922), singer
*Faustina Bordoni, mezzo-soprano opera singer
*Riccardo Brengola, violinist
*Fred Buscaglione (1921-1960), singer and actor
*Renato Carosone (1920-2001), pop musician and composer
*Enrico Caruso (1873-1921), tenor
*Lina Cavalieri (1874-1944), glamorous opera singer
*Adriano Celentano, (born 1938), pop singer
*Felice Chiusano (1922-1990), singer
*Alessandro Cortini (born 1976), singer-musician
*Pino Daniele (born 1955), singer-songwriter
*Fabrizio De André (1940-1999), singer-songwriter
*Enrico De Angelis, singer
*Francesco De Gregori (born 1951), singer-songwriter
*Mario Del Monaco (1915-1982), tenor
*Mario Giulio Fara, musicologist
*Farinelli, soprano castrato singer
*Rino Gaetano (1950-1981)
*Peppino Gagliardi (born 1940), singer
*Enrico Gentile, singer
*Tata Giacobetti (1922-1988), singer and lyricist
*Beniamino Gigli, tenor
*Francesco Guccini (born 1940), singer-songwriter
*Iacopo Jacomelli, singer
*Jovanotti (born 1966), singer-songwriter
*Gorni Kramer (1913-1995), bandleader and songwriter
*Leo Levi, musicologist
*Luciano Ligabue (born 1960), singer-songwriter
*Fiorella Mannoia
*Lucia Mannucci (born 1920), singer
*Mina, singer
*Giorgio Moroder, Academy Award winning record producer, songwriter and performer
*Ennio Morricone (born 1928), Academy Award winning composer
*Paolo Negri, jazz organist
*Natalino Otto (1912-1969), singer and actor
*Adelina Patti
*Laura Pausini (born 1974), singer
*Luciano Pavarotti (1935-2007), tenor
*Mauro Picotto, DJ
*Pier Luigi Pizzi, opera director
*Maurizio Pollini, classical pianist
*Alberto Rabagliati (1906-1974), singer and actor
*Eros Ramazzotti (born 1963), singer
*Vasco Rossi (born 1952), singer-songwriter
*Virgilio Savona (born 1920), singer and songwriter
*Cristina Scabbia (born 1972), lead female singer in the Italian goth/symponic metal band Lacuna Coil
*Tito Schipa (1888-1965)
*Senesino, alto castrato
*Alessandro Sommella, musician
*Renata Tebaldi (1922-2004), soprano
*Luisa Tetrazzini
*Ottavio Tiby, ethnomusicologist
*Ornella Vanoni
*Zucchero (born 1955), singer-songwriter

Composers

A-C

*Luigi Alberto, opera composer
*Pasquale Anfossi, opera composer
*Giuseppe Apolloni (1822 - 1889), opera composer
*Emilio Arrieta, opera composer
*Vincenzo Bellini (1801-1835), composer
*Luciano Berio (1925-2003), composer
*Luigi Boccherini, (1743 - 1805), composer
*Arrigo Boito (1842-1918), composer, opera composer
*Giovanni Battista Bononcini, composer and cellist
*Francesco Antonio Bonporti, composer
*Giulio Caccini, composer
*Florentine Camerata, composer
*Carlo Antonio Campioni, composer
*Francesco Canova da Milano, (1497 - 1543), lute composer
*Giuseppe Carcani (1703-1779), composer
*Giacomo Carissimi, (1605 - 1674), composer
*Roberto Carnevale, composer
*Ferdinando Carulli, (1770 - 1841), guitar composer
*Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco (1895-1968), classical guitar composer
*Alfredo Catalani (1854-1893), opera composer
*Francesco Cavalli, composer
*Carlo Cecere, composer
*Luigi Cherubini, (1760-1842), composer, opera composer
*Francesco Cilea (1866-1950), opera composer
*Domenico Cimarosa, (1749-1801), composer, opera composer
*Muzio Clementi, (1752 - 1832), composer
*Arcangelo Corelli, (1653 - 1713), composer
*Jacopo Corsi, composer

D-N

*Luigi Dallapiccola, (1904-1975), composer, opera composer
*Giovanni D'Anzi, (1906-1974), songwriter
*Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina
*Luigi de Rossi, 17th century composer
*Gaetano Donizetti, (1797-1848), composer, opera composer
*Ludovico Einaudi, composer and pianist
*Gherardello da Firenze, composer
*Alberto Franchetti, opera composer
*Girolamo Frescobaldi, (1566 - 1638), lute composer
*Andrea Gabrieli, (1533 - 1586), composer
*Giovanni Gabrieli, (between 1553 and 1556 – 1612), composer
*Vincenzo Galilei, composer (the father of the astronomer Galileo Galilei)
*Baldassarre Galuppi, composer
*Francesco Gasparini, (1661 - 1727), composer
*Carlo Gesualdo, (1566 - 1613), madrigal composer
*Umberto Giordano, (1867-1948), composer, opera composer
*Mauro Giuliani, (1781 - 1829), guitar composer
*Niccolò Jommelli, composer
*Francesco Landini, (c.1325-1397), composer, organist
*Ruggero Leoncavallo, (1858-1919), opera composer
*Andrea Luchesi (1741-1801), composer, opera composer
*Jean-Baptiste Lully, (1632 - 1687), Italian-French composer
*Cristofano Malvezzi, organist and composer
*Tommaso Marchesi, composer
*Luca Marenzio, (1553 - 1599), madrigal composer
*Pietro Mascagni, (1863-1945), composer, opera composer
*Saverio Mercadante, (1795-1870), opera composer
*Claudio Monteverdi, (1567-1643), composer, opera composer
*Luigi Nono, (1924 - 1990), composer

P-T

*Giovanni Pacini, (1796-1867), composer, opera composer
*Niccolò Paganini, (1782 - 1840), composer
*Giovanni Paisiello, (1741-1816), opera composer
*Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, (1525-1594), renowned composer of the late Renaissance
*Armando Pierucci, composer
*Giovanni Battista Pergolesi, (1710-1736), composer, opera composer
*Jacopo Peri, (1561 – 1633), composer, the inventor of opera
*Niccolò da Perugia, composer
*Goffredo Petrassi, opera composer
*Niccolò Piccinni, (1728-1800), opera composer
*Ildebrando Pizzetti, opera composer
*Amilcare Ponchielli, (1834-1886), opera composer
*Nicola Porpora, (1686-1768), opera composer
*Giacomo Puccini, (1858-1924), composer
*Pietro Raimondi, composer
*Ottorino Respighi, (1879-1936), composer, opera composer
*Salamone Rossi (c. 1530-c. 1630), early baroque composer
*Gioacchino Rossini, (1792-1868), composer, opera composer
*Nino Rota, (1911-1979), composer, opera composer
*Antonio Salieri, (1750-1825), Austrian composer
*Giovanni Battista Sammartini, (1700 or 1701 - 1775), composer
*Giuseppe Sarti, composer
*Alessandro Scarlatti, (1660-1725), composer, opera composer
*Domenico Scarlatti, (1685 - 1757), composer
*Pietro Filippo Scarlatti, composer
*Giacinto Scelsi, (1905 - 1988), microtonal composer
*Salvatore Sciarrino, (b.1947), avant-garde composer
*Gaspare Spontini (1774-1851), opera composer
*Agostino Steffani (1653-1728), opera composer
*Pietro Strozzi, composer
*Giuseppe Tartini, composer
*Francesco Paolo Tosti, composer
*Tommaso Traetta, composer

V-Z

*Francesco Maria Veracini (1690)-(1768), composer
*Giuseppe Verdi, (1813-1901), composer, opera composer
*Giovanni Battista Viotti, (1755-1824) violinist and composer
*Antonio Vivaldi, (1678-1741), composer
*Riccardo Zandonai, (1883-1944), opera composer
*Domenico Zipoli, (1688-1726), organist and composer

Conductors (Direttori)

*Claudio Abbado, (born 1933)
*Salvatore Accardo, violinist and conductor
*Victor de Sabata, (1892-1967)
*Gianandrea Gavazzeni
*Carlo Maria Giulini
*Riccardo Muti, (born 1942)
*Antonio Pappano
*Tullio Serafin
*Giuseppe Sinopoli
*Arturo Toscanini, (1867-1957)

Luthiers

*Niccolò Amati
*Carlo Bergonzi family
*Camillo Camilli
*Nicolò Gagliano and family of luthiers
*Giovanni Battista Guadagnini
*Giuseppe Guarneri
*Gasparo da Salò
*Antonio Stradivari

Athletes and sports personalities

*Giacomo Agostini (born 1942), motorcycle racer
*Mario Andretti (born 1940), F1 driver
*Alberto Ascari (1918-1955), racecar driver
*Antonio Ascari (1888-1925), Grand Prix racecar driver
*Roberto Baggio (born 1967), footballer
*Stefano Baldini (born 1971), marathoner
*Alessandro Ballan (born 1979), road bicycle racer
*Franco Baresi (born 1960), footballer
*Andrea Bargnani, (born 1985) basketball player
*Gino Bartali (1914-2000), cyclist
*Stefania Belmondo (born 1963), cross-country skier
*Nino Benvenuti (born 1938), boxer
*Lorenzo Bernardi, volleyball player
*Paolo Bettini (born 1974), cyclist
*Max Biaggi (born 1971), motorcycle racer
*Alfredo Binda (1902-1986), cyclist
*Flavio Briatore, entrepreneur and managing director of the Renault Formula One team
*Gianluigi Buffon (born 1978), footballer
*Tullio Campagnolo, cyclist who invented the quick release skewer
*Giuseppe Campari (1892-1933), Grand Prix racecar driver
*Fabio Cannavaro (born 1973), footballer
*Loris Capirossi, motorcycle racer
*Primo Carnera (1906-1967), boxer
*Anthony Carrelli, WWE Wrestler who named Santino Marella under Raw Brand.
*Igor Cassina (born 1977), gymnast
*Jury Chechi (born 1969) , gymnast
*Giorgio Chinaglia (born 1947), footballer, in the U.S.A. National Soccer Hall of Fame
*Ottavio Cinquanta president of the ISU
*Mario Cipollini (born 1967) , cyclist
*Pierluigi Collina (born 1960), football referee
*Deborah Compagnoni (born 1970), Alpine skier
*Fausto Coppi (1919-1960), cyclist
*Mario D'Agata (born 1926) deaf-mute who became a world boxing champion
*Alessandro Del Piero (born 1974), footballer
*Frankie Dettori (born 1970), jockey
*Danilo Di Luca, cyclist
*Giuseppe Farina (1906-1966), Grand Prix racecar driver
*Enzo Ferrari, (1898-1988), founder of Scuderia Ferrari and Ferrari S.p.A
*Giancarlo Fisichella (born 1973), F1 driver
*Gennaro Ivan Gattuso (born 1976), footballer
*Alberto Gilardino (born 1982), footballer
*Bruno Grandi, president of the FIG
*Filippo Magnini (born 1982), swimmer
*Paolo Maldini (born 1968), footballer
*James Maritato, WWE Wrestler who named Little Guido Maritato and Nunzio under ECW Brand, former WWE Cruiserweight Champion
*Dino Meneghin (born 1950), basketball player
*Reinhold Messner (born 1944), alpinist
*Carlton Myers (born 1971), basketball player
*Alessandro Nannini, racecar driver
*Primo Nebiolo, ex-president of the IAAF
*Alessandro Nesta, footballer
*Aldo Notari, ex-president of the IBAF
*Tazio Nuvolari (1892-1953), race car driver
*Marco Pantani (1970-2004), cyclist
*Riccardo Patrese, former Formula One (F1) racing driver
*Leonardo Piepoli, cyclist
*Andrea Pirlo (born 1979), footballer
*Paolo Rossi (bron 1956), footballer, World Cup 1982 Golden Boot and Golden Ball winner
*Valentino Rossi (born 1979), motorcycle world champion
*Sara Simeoni (born 1954), athlete
*Alberto Tomba (born 1966), Alpine skier
*Luca Toni (born 1978), footballer
*Francesco Totti (born 1976), footballer
*Jarno Trulli (born 1974), F1 driver
*Trebisonda Valla (born 1916), athlete
*Achille Varzi (1904-1948), race car champion
*Christian Vieri (born 1973), footballer
*Luigi Villoresi (1909-1997), Grand Prix race car driver
*Alex Zanardi (born 1966), race car driver
*Dino Zoff (born 1942), footballer
*Gianfranco Zola (born 1966), footballer
*Gianluca Zambrotta (born 1977, footballer

Other

*Gianni Agnelli (1921-2003), industrialist
*Anselm of Canterbury (1033 or 1034 – April 21, 1109), philosopher and theologian
*Thomas Aquinas, philosopher and theologian
*Guido of Arezzo, music theorist, inventor of modern musical notation
*Giorgio Armani, Italian fashion designer
*Ernesto Bertarelli, businessman
*Paolo Boi, chess player
*Charles Borromeo, saint and cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church
*John Bosco, Catholic priest, educator and recognized pedagogue
*Eugenio Calò (1906-1944), Jewish Italian partisan, Gold Medal for Military Valour.
*Aldo Capitini (1899-1968), philosopher, non-violent
*Francis Caracciolo, priest
*Antonio Benedetto Carpano, famous for having invented the Vermouth and consequently the apéritif
*Giacomo Casanova (1725-1798), memoirist, adventurer and womanizer.
*Leo Chiosso (born 1920), lyricist
*Cicciolina, porn actress who received international media attention in 1987 when she got elected into the Italian parliament.
*Gasparo Contarini, diplomat and cardinal
*Bartolomeo Cristofori, inventor of the piano
*Corrado Maria Daclon, university professor, journalist and writer
*Ugolino della Gherardesca, count of Donoratico, naval commander, the chief Ghibelline house of Pisa
*Francesco Datini, merchant
*Giuseppe Donati, inventor of the modern Italian-style ocarina
*Giulio Einaudi, publisher
*Giovanni Falcone, (1939-1992), judge
*Alessandro Farnese, Duke of Parma and Piacenza
*Salvatore Ferragamo, shoemaker to the stars
*Saint Francis of Assisi, Roman Catholic friar and the founder of the Order of Friars Minor
*Mario J. Fratto, Comedic icon
*Sonia Gandhi (born 1946) an Italian-born Indian politician and the president of the Indian National Congress (Congress Party), widow of former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi.
*Giuseppe Garibaldi, (1807-1882), proponent of Italian unification
*Lisa del Giocondo, (1479–1542 or c.1551), namesake of the "Mona Lisa"
*Flavio Gioja, mariner and inventor
*Gioachino Greco, chess player
*Francesco Griffo, punchcutter
*Franco Malerba, astronaut
*Aldus Manutius, printer, founder of the Aldine Press
*Alessandro Martini, businessman, the founder of Martini & Rossi distillery
*Alessia di Matteo (born 2003), who received eight organs with one transplant
*Fra Mauro, cartographer
*Giuseppe Caspar Mezzofanti, Catholic cardinal and famed linguist and hyperpolyglot
*John of Montecorvino, Franciscan missionary
*Edgardo Mortara (1851-1940), Catholic priest, victim of a famous kidnapping, taken from his Jewish family at the age of 6
*Camillo Olivetti, electrical engineer and founder of Olivetti
*Carlo Petrini, founder of the Slow Food Movement
*Joe Petrosino (1860-1909), policeman
*Mario Raviglione, Director of the WHO Stop TB Department
*Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti
*Nicola Salerno (1910-1969), lyricist under the pseudonym Nisa
*Alessandro Salvio, chess player
*Girolamo Savonarola (1452-1498), book-burning priest, ruler of Florence
*Josephine Terranova (1889-1981), accused murderer
*Ubald, saint
*Roberto Vittori, astronaut

ee also

* List of Italian Americans
* List of Italian comedians
* List of people by nationality
* List of Sardinians
* List of Sicilians
* List of Italian Jews