- Andrea Pirlo
Andrea Pirlo (born May 19, 1979), is an Italian World Cup-winning footballer. He currently plays for A.C. Milan, as well as the Italy national team. Pirlo was an important key figure of the Italian team that won the 2006 FIFA World Cup. He is known to many fans as the "Maestro" because of his talent for setting up plays.
- Massimo D'Alema
Massimo D'Alema (born April 20, 1949) is an Italian politician, currently Italian Minister of Foreign Affairs and Vice President of the Council of Ministers of Italy. He is also a journalist, a former national secretary of the PDS, Partito Democratico della Sinistra, and he was the first President of the Council of Ministers coming from Italian Communist Party.
- Daniele de Rossi
Daniele De Rossi, Cavaliere Ufficiale OMRI, (July 24, 1983) is an Italian World Cup-winning footballer, who plays for AS Roma. Among his titles also the 2004 UEFA European Under-21 Football Championship, and the bronze medal gained at 2004 Athens Olympic Games, all with the Italy national football team, are the most prestigious.
- Paolo Bettini
Paolo Bettini is an Italian road cyclist with the Belgian Quick Step-Innergetic professional cycling team. He is the gold medal winner of the 2004 Athens Olympics road race and of the 2006 World Road Race Championship. Bettini is a 3-time champion of the UCI Road World Cup series consecutively in 2002, 2003 and 2004. He has also won stages of the Tour de France, Giro d'Italia, and Vuelta a España. He finished in 9th place at the 2000 Summer Olympics, …
- Alberto Gilardino
Alberto Gilardino, Cavaliere Ufficiale OMRI, (born July 5 1982 in Biella, Piemonte) is an Italian World Cup-winning footballer, who is a striker for AC Milan and the Italian national team.
- Clemente Mastella
Mario Clemente Mastella (born 5 February 1947 in Ceppaloni, Benevento) is an Italian politician. He is currently leader of Popular-UDEUR, a minor centrist Italian party, allied to the centre-left Union, and Minister of Justice. A former long-time member of the Christian Democracy party and Member of Parliament since 1976, after the break-up of his party in 1994 Mastella founded a new party, called "Centro Cristiano Democratico", together with Pierferdinando Casini.
- Giorgio Chiellini
Giorgio Chiellini is an Italian footballer who currently plays for Juventus of the Italian Serie A. He is an attacking left back who has also played in midfield. Chiellini started his career with Livorno where he played for two years each in Serie C1 and Serie B. He was signed by Juventus in summer 2004, for €6.5 million, but immediately sold on co-ownership deal to Fiorentina for €3.5 million, where he played for 2004/05 season.
- Antonio di Pietro
Antonio Di Pietro (born on 2 October 1950) is an Italian politician, currently Italian Minister of Infrastructures. He also was a Member of the European Parliament, former Italian Senator. As a judge, he is a former prosecutor in the team known in Italy as Mani Pulite in the early 1990s.
- Andrea Barzagli
Andrea Barzagli is an Italian World Cup-winning footballer, who plays in the role of defender for Serie A team US Palermo. His first football appearances were for Rondinella Firenze; then he played for Pistoiese, Ascoli and Chievo, before being signed by Palermo in the summer of 2004. He has 12 caps for the Italian national football team, …
- Fausto Bertinotti
Fausto Bertinotti (born on 22 March 1940) is an Italian politician and former leader of the Partito della Rifondazione Comunista, now replaced by Franco Giordano. On April 29, 2006, after center-left coalition's victory in the Italian general election, he was chosen by the new parliament as President of the Chamber of Deputies (one of the Italian Parliament houses).
- Emma Bonino
Ms. Emma Bonino has been a Member of the European Union Commission since 1995 and is responsible for Fisheries, Consumers' Policy, Humanitarian Affairs, and Consumers' Health and Food Safety. Prior to this position, Ms. Bonino served as Secretary (1993-1994) and Chair (1991-1993) of the Italian transnational Radical Party.
- Marco Amelia
Marco Amelia, Cavaliere Ufficiale OMRI, (born 2 April 1982 in Frascati, Rome) is an Italian World Cup-winning footballer goalkeeper, who plays for Lazio. Amelia is also a squad member for the Italy national football team. Amelia scored a dramatic late goal for Livorno in the 2006-07 UEFA Cup group stage match against FK Partizan in Belgrade on Thursday 2 November 2006, having come up for a late free-kick with Livorno trailing 1-0, …
- Alessandra Mussolini
Alessandra Mussolini (born December 30 1962) is an Italian right-wing politician and Member of the European Parliament.
- Reinhold Messner
Reinhold Messner (born September 17 1944) is a mountaineer and explorer from South Tyrol in Italy, often cited as the greatest mountain climber of all time, noted for making the first solo ascents of Mount Everest without supplemental oxygen and for being the first climber to ascend all fourteen "eight-thousanders" (peaks over 8,000 metres above sea level).
- Marco Cappato
Marco Cappato (b. May 25, 1971 in Milan, Italy) is an Italian politician. He has been a member of the European Parliament since May 8, 2006, when he took up a seat vacated after the 2006 Italian general election. He represents the Lista Emma Bonino within the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe parliamentary group.
- Luisa Morgantini
Luisa Morgantini (born November 5, 1940 in Villadossola) is an Italian Member of the European Parliament. She was elected on the Communist Refoundation Party ticket and sits with the European United Left - Nordic Green Left group. She is a leading member of the Italian peace movement and was one of the founders of the Italian branch of the Women in Black anti-war organisation.
- Gianni Agnelli
Giovanni Agnelli, better known as Gianni Agnelli, was an Italian industrialist and principal shareholder of Fiat. As the head of Fiat, he controlled 4.4% of Italy's GNP, 3.1% of its industrial workforce, and 16.5% of its industrial investment in research.
- Alberto Tomba
Alberto Tomba (born December 19 1966), popularly called Tomba la Bomba ("Tomba the Bomb"), is a retired Italian alpine skier. He scored notable success in the late 1980s and 1990s in the slalom and giant slalom, winning three Olympic gold medals.
- Enrico Fabris
Enrico Fabris (born 5 October 1981, Asiago, province of Vicenza) is an Italian long track speed skater who has won three World Cup races and became the first European Allround Champion from Italy when he won the 2006 European Championships one month before the Winter Olympics in Turin. Fabris is also a three-time Italian Allround Champion. At the 2006 Olympics he won a bronze medal in the men's 5,000 m event, Italy's first ever Olympic medal in speed skating.
- Matteo Ferrari
Matteo Ferrari (born December 5, 1979 in Aflou, Algeria) is an Italian football player who currently plays for A.S. Roma. Matteo was born in Algeria, but from an Italian father and a Guinean mother. He grew up in Ferrara and has a brother who also used to be a football player.
- Daniele Bonera
Daniele Bonera (born May 31, 1981 in Brescia) is an Italian footballer for A.C. Milan of Serie A where he plays in the role of defender and wears the shirt 25. He is 1.83 meters tall and weighs 74 kg. Bonera started his career for Brescia Calcio, making his first team debut in 1999/2000, in Serie B league. After two more impressive seasons with Brescia, which led him to be even capped for the Italy national football team, …
- Umberto Guidoni
Umberto Guidoni (born in Rome, 18 August 1954) is an European astronaut of Italian nationality. He is a veteran of two NASA space shuttle missions. Guidoni earned a doctorate in astrophysics from the University of Rome La Sapienza in 1978 and worked in the Italian Space Agency (ASI) as well as in the European Space Agency (ESA). One of his research projects was the Tethered Satellite System, which was part of the payload of the STS-46 mission.
- Alessandra Sensini
Alessandra Sensini is an Italian windsurfer. She is a 4-time Olympian, winning a gold medal and two additional bronze medals. She also won 3 gold and 2 silver medals at World Championships, as well as 3 gold, 2 silver and 2 bronze medals at European Championships. She has sailed in three different windsurfing classes: Lechner, Mistral and RS:X.
- Giulietto Chiesa
Giulietto Chiesa is an Italian journalist and politician, Member of the European Parliament for North-West with the Independent - Di Pietro-Occhetto List Civil Society. Originally he represented Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe, since 2006 — Party of European Socialists. Chiesa sits on the European Parliament's Committee on International Trade.
- Paolo Costa
Paolo Costa (born July 23, 1943 in Venice) is an Italian Member of the European Parliament. He was elected on the Olive Tree ticket and sits with the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe group. On July 23, 2004 he was elected Chair of the Committee on Regional Policy, Transport and Tourism. Before entering politics he held numerous posts in Planning and Economics at Ca' Foscari University of Venice, University of Reading, U.K., and New York University.
- Vittorio Agnoletto
Vittorio Emanuele Agnoletto (born on 6 March 1958 in Milan) is an Italian politician and Member of the European Parliament for Southern with the Partito della Rifondazione Comunista (PRC), part of the European Left, and sits on the European Parliament's Committee on Foreign Affairs. He is a substitute for the Committee on International Trade, substitute for the Delegation for relations with the United States.
- Antonio Tajani
Antonio Tajani (born on 4 August 1953 in Rome) is an Italian politician and Member of the European Parliament for Central Italy with the Forza Italia and sits on the European Parliament's Committee on Foreign Affairs. He also holds the position of Vice President of the European People's Party (EPP). He is a substitute for the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs and a member of the Delegation for relations with Israel.
- Claudio Fava
Giovanni Claudio Fava (born 15 April 1957) is an Italian politician and Member of the European Parliament for the Italian Islands with the Democrats of the Left (DS), part of the Socialist Group and is vice-chair of the European Parliament's Committee on Regional Development. He is a substitute for the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs and the Committee on Fisheries and the Committee on Foreign Affairs. Fava was born in Catania, Sicily.
- Antonio Conte
Antonio Conte (December 11, 1867 - February 4, 1953) was an Italian fencer who competed in the late 19th century and early 20th century. Conte was born in Minturno. He participated in Fencing at the 1900 Summer Olympics in Paris and won the gold medal in the masters sabre, defeating fellow Italian fencer Italo Santelli in the final.
- Monica Frassoni
Monica Frassoni is an Italian politician and Member of the European Parliament for the North West of Italy. She is a member of the Italian Green Party, part of the European Greens. Frassoni is co-chair, together with Daniel Cohn-Bendit, of the European Greens–European Free Alliance group in the European Parliament. Before first being elected as an MEP of the Francophone Green party Ecolo from Belgium in 1999, …
- Gianni de Michelis
Gianni De Michelis (born on 26 November 1940 in Venice) is an Italian politician.
- Enrico Letta
Enrico Letta (born on 20 August 1966) is an Italian politician, and was elected to the Italian Chamber of Deputies in the 2006 General election for the Olive Tree coalition. He is currently secretary of Prime Minister Romano Prodi. He is a relative of Gianni Letta, also a politician. Letta was born in Pisa. He was Member of the European Parliament for the North-East region with the Margherita Party, …
- Antonio Rossi
Antonio Rossi (born December 19, 1968 in Lecco) is an Italian canoer who won five medals in kayak flatwater canoeing. He has also been successful at the canoeing World Championships.
- Gianluca Susta
Gianluca Susta (b. 10 April 1956, Biella) is an Italian politician. He is a member of the European Parliament since May 8, 2006, when he took up a seat vacated after the 2006 Italian general election. He represents the Margherita within the ALDE parliamentary group.
- Stefania Belmondo
Stefania Belmondo (born January 13, 1969) is an Italian former cross-country skier.
- Michele Santoro
Michele Santoro (born July 2, 1951) is an Italian journalist, broadcaster and anchorman. He also served till October 2005 as Member of the European Parliament for Southern Italy with the Olive Tree, part of the Socialist Group and sat on the European Parliament's Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs, being a substitute for the Committee on Culture and Education, …
- Giuseppe Castiglione
Giuseppe Castiglione (born on 5 October 1963 in Bronte, Sicily) is an Italian politician and Member of the European Parliament for Islands with the Forza Italia, part of the European People's Party and sits on the European Parliament's Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development. He is a substitute for the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety, …
- Marco Donadel
Marco Donadel (born 21 April 1983 in Conegliano, Province of Treviso, Italy) is an Italian football midfielder, currently playing for ACF Fiorentina. Donadel is a youth product of A.C. Milan. He was loaned to Lecce, Parma, Sampdoria and Fiorentina. After a successful half-season long loan with Fiorentina, the "Viola" signed him on a permanent basis. In 2005-2006 he was a regular for coach Cesare Prandelli, who had already appreciated the skills of Donadel, …
- Armin Zöggeler
Armin Zöggeler is an Italian luger and double Olympic champion. He is one of the most successful men in the sport, nicknamed "Il Cannibale" ("The Cannibal"), for his notable series of victories, or "The Iceblood Champion", for his always cold, rational approach to the races. Zöggeler was born in Merano (Meran), Italy. A police officer by profession, he began to luge at a very young age, over natural tracks. He won the junior World Cup when he was 14, …
- Cesare Bovo
Cesare Bovo is an Italian football defender, who currently plays for Genoa. He is co-owned by Genoa and Palermo.