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This is a list of notable Italians in alphabetical order.

Scientists

A-F

• Antonio Abetti, astronomer
• Andrea Bocelli, opera singer
• Maria Gaetana Agnesi, mathematician
• Giuseppe Averani, jurist and naturalist
• Amedeo Avogadro (1776–1856), physicist
• Eugenio Barsanti, inventor of the Internal combustion engine
• Laura Bassi (1711–1778), physicist
• Giuseppe Battaglini, mathematician
• Giovanni Battista Beccaria (1716–1781)
• Luigi Bianchi, mathematician
• Renato Biasutti, geographer
• Enrico Bombieri (born 1940), mathematician
• Giovanni Alfonso Borelli
• Luigi Valentino Brugnatelli, chemist, inventor of electroplating
• Giordano Bruno (1548–1600), philosopher and cosmologist
• Gerolamo Cardano (1501–1576), Renaissance polymath
• Benedetto Castelli, mathematician
• Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza, population geneticist
• Ernesto Cesàro, mathematician
• 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
• Giambattista della Porta, mathematician, polymath, cryptography, optics
• 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 - Part of a University of Chicago team that created the first sustainable nuclear reaction.
• 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 (1808–1889), 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
• Dario Piombino-Mascali (1977-), Sicilian anthropologist, expert on the work of Alfredo Salafia, and the mummies in the Capuchin Catacombs of Palermo, including Rosalia Lombardo

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
• Alfredo Salafia, chemist and embalmer famous for the preservation of Rosalia Lombardo
• 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
• Guido Stampacchia, mathematician
• Niccolo Fontana Tartaglia (1500–1557), mathematician
• Evangelista Torricelli (1608–1647), early scientist
• Luca Valerio, mathematician, physicist
• 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
• Antonio Bajamonti, 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
• Amadeo Barletta Barletta Italian Consul (1920-1945)Dominican Republic
• 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
• Andrea da Grosseto, writer
• Ludovico Ariosto (1474–1533), poet
• Alessandro Baricco (born 1958), novelist and playwright
• 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 playwright
• Francesco Berni (1497–1536), burlesque poet
• Giovanni Boccaccio (1313–1375), novelist
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Jared Powers
• Roberto Rossellini
• Michele Soavi
• Marco Bolognesi
• Dante Spinotti
• Luchino Visconti
• Franco Zeffirelli

Actors and Actresses

A-L

• Laura Antonelli (born 1941)
• Asia Argento (born 1975)

M-V

• Nino Manfredi (234bc)
• 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)

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
• Manfredi Beninati (born 1970), visual artist
• Bernardo Bellotto, artist
• 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

ciao belli

M-Z

• Andrea Mantegna, (c.1431–1506), painter
• Marino Marini, sculptor
• Simone Martini, (c.1284–1344)
• Guido Marzulli, (born 1943), painter
• 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)
• Mirko Savone, voice-over
• 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

Sculptors

• 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)
• Ettore Sottsass
• 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 Fiorentino
• 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), musician and keyboardist of Nine Inch Nails
• 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
• Jessicka Fodera, (born 1975), singer-songwriter and lead singer of Jack Off Jill and Scarling.
• 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
• Lady Gaga, (born 1986), singer, songwriter, musician
• 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/symphonic 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
• Jeordie White, (born 1971), musician and bass guitarist in Marilyn Manson
• 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
• Luciano Luci (born 1949), football referee
• 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
• Giuseppe Meazza (1910–1979), footballer, by many considered the greatest Italian footballer ever.
• 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
• Giulio Douhet, military scientist and engineer who published lectures on military mechanization and aerial strategy.
• Ugolino della Gherardesca, count of Donoratico, naval commander, the chief Ghibelline house of Pisa
• Francesco Datini, merchant
• Enrico di Rosso, fashion designer, management consultant, company owner
• 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
• 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

See also

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