- Valentina Vezzali
Maria Valentina Vezzali (born February 14, 1974 in Jesi) is an Italian fencer who has won four Olympic gold medals in foil competitions. She also won a silver medal in foil at the 2006 World Fencing Championships. Later in the tournament she also won a silver in the team's foil event together with her team mates Elisa Di Francisca, Giovanna Trillini and Margherita Granbassi.
- Bernardo Bertolucci
Bernardo Bertolucci (born March 16, 1941) is an Italian writer and Academy Award winning film director.
- Ivano Brugnetti
Ivano Brugnetti (born September 1, 1976 in Milan) is a Italian race walker.
- Anna Oxa
Ana Oxa is an Italian singer of Albanian descent, well-known through numerous appearances in the Sanremo Music Festival, dating back to 1982. Her entries include "Ti lascero", "Storie" and "Senza pieta", the latter winning in 1999. With Fausto Leali she represented Italy in the 1989 Eurovision Song Contest in Lausanne, finishing in equal ninth place singing "Avrei Voluto".
- Iva Zanicchi
Iva Zanicchi (born January 18 1940) is a popular Italian singer. She won the Sanremo song festival in 1969 with "Zingara". In the same year she represented Italy in the Eurovision Song Contest in Madrid with "Due Grosse Lacrime Bianche". Despite a powerful performance, she finished in a poor 13th place.
- Andrew Howe
Andrew Howe Besozzi is an Italian athlete who specializes in the long jump. He won this event as well as the 200 metres at the 2004 World Junior Championships. Born to Renée Fedler, U.S. hurdler, and Andrew Howe Sr., a footballer of German descent, he moved in Rieti, Italy, in 1990 together with his mother, after she married to an Italian man, Ugo Besozzi. His international breakthrough came at the 2006 World Indoor Championships, where he finished third.
- Maurizio Damilano
Maurizio Damilano (born April 6, 1957 in Scarnafigi) is a Italian former race walker. <BR>
- Columella
Lucius Iunius Moderatus Columella (Gades, Hispania Baetica, 4 - ca. 70) was a Roman writer. After a career in the army (he was tribune in Syria in 35), he took up farming. His "De Re Rustica" in twelve volumes has been completely preserved and forms our most important source on Roman agriculture, together with the works of Cato the Elder and Varro, both of which he occasionally cites. A smaller book on trees ("De Arboribus") has been preserved as well.
- Gabriella Dorio
Gabriella Dorio (born June 27, 1957 in Veggiano, Veneto) is an Italian former athlete and Olympic gold winner. She first participated in the 1980 Summer Olympics, placing fourth in the 1500 metres race. She won the gold medal at the 1982 European Indoor Championships, the bronze medal at the 1982 European Championships, and finally the gold medal at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, beating the Romanians Doina Melinte (silver) and Maricica Puica (bronze). <BR> <BR>
- Fiona May
Fiona May (born December 12, 1969 in Slough, England) is an Italian athlete competing in the long jump. She has won the World Championships twice and has two Olympic silver medals. Her personal best jump was 7.11 metres, which was her silver medal result at the 1998 European Championships. She also competed briefly in triple jump, and her career best of 14.65 metres from 1998 was good enough to place fifth in the world that season.
- Giuseppe Gibilisco
Giuseppe Gibilisco (born January 5, 1979 in Siracusa) is an Italian pole vaulter who won the 2003 World Championships with a personal best of 5.90m. The 2004 Olympic bronze is another of his greatest accomplishments.
- Alfredo Casella
Alfredo Casella was an Italian composer. Casella came from a musical family; his grandfather, a friend of Paganini's, was first cello in the San Carlo Theater in Lisbon and eventually was soloist in the Royal Chapel in Torino. Alfredo's father and two uncles, Carlo, Cesare, and Gioacchino were all professional cellists of some note; his mother was a pianist, and gave Alfredo his first lessons.
- Fernando Forestieri
Fernando Martín Forestieri is an Italo-Argentinian footballer who currently plays for Genoa C.F.C., in Serie A.
- Patrick Hernandez
Patrick Hernandez is a French singer who had a huge worldwide hit with "Born to Be Alive" in 1979. Hernandez was born in Le Blanc-Mesnil, France, to a Spanish father and a half Austrian and half Italian mother. Growing up in the 1960s, he became interested in music, and toured dancehalls and ballrooms of southern France with a number of groups over the next decade. Hernandez met his music partner Hervé Tholance, an arranger, guitarist and vocalist, during that period.
- Francesca Bertini
Francesca Bertini (born in Florence April 11, 1892, other sources say 1888; died October 13, 1985 in Rome) born Elena Seracini Vitiello, was an Italian silent film actress. She was one of the most successful silent film stars in the first quarter of the twentieth-century.
- Gabriella Paruzzi
Gabriella Paruzzi (born June 21, 1969 in Udine) is an Italian cross-country skier who competed from 1991 to 2006 and formerly skied with the C.S. Forestale club. She skied in World Cup events, and won the Women's Overall World Cup in 2004.
- Ennio de Concini
Ennio De Concini (born 9 December 1923) is an Italian former prolific screenwriter and film director, winning the Academy Award in 1962 for the "Best Original Screenplay" for "Divorce, Italian Style". He was the co-screenwriter of "The Red Tent" a 1969 film starring Sean Connery which was based on Umberto Nobile's disastrous 1928 expedition to the North Pole in the airship Italia. Among the 60 films to his credit are "The Four of the Apocalypse" (1975), …
- Antonio Rinaldi
Antonio Rinaldi (1710 - April 10 1794) was an Italian architect, trained by Luigi Vanvitelli, who worked mainly in Russia. In 1751, during a trip to England, he was summoned by hetman Kirill Razumovsky to decorate his residences in Ukraine. To this early period belong the Resurrection cathedral in Pochep near Bryansk and the Catherine Cathedral in Yamburg, now Kingisepp near St Petersburg ("illustrated, right"), where Rinaldi successfully expressed the domed, …
- Elisa Rigaudo
Elisa Rigaudo (born 17 June 1980) is an Italian race walker.
- Giovanni Parisi
Giovanni Parisi (born December 2, 1967 in Vibo Valentia, Calabria) is an Italian boxer, who won the gold medal in the men's Featherweight (57 kg) category at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul.
- Vitus
Vitus was a Christian saint from Sicily. He died as a martyr during the persecution of Christians by co-ruling Roman Emperors Diocletian and Maximian in 303. He is counted as one of the Fourteen Holy Helpers of the Roman Catholic Church. Saint Vitus' Day is celebrated on June 28 according to the Gregorian calendar, and on June 15 according to the Julian calendar. During the Middle Ages, people from both Central Europe and Northern Europe (Germany, …
- Alberico di Cecco
Alberico di Cecco (born 19 April 1974) is an Italian long-distance runner who specializes in the marathon race.
- Michele Sanmicheli
Michele Sanmicheli (also spelled "Sanmmicheli", "Sanmichele" or "Sammichele"; 1484-1559) was an Venetian architect
- Claudius
Tiberius Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus (August 1 10 BC - October 13 54) (Tiberius Claudius Drusus Nero Germanicus before his accession) was the fourth Roman Emperor of the Julio-Claudian dynasty, ruling from January 24 41 to his death in 54. Born in Lugdunum in Gaul (modern-day Lyon, France), to Drusus and Antonia Minor, he was the first Roman Emperor to be born outside Italia. Claudius was considered a rather unlikely man to become emperor.
- Fabrizio Mori
Fabrizio Mori (born 28 June 1969 in Livorno) is an Italian hurdler, best known for his gold medal at the 1999 World Championships. His personal best over 400 metres hurdles, which is also an Italian record, is 47.54 metres, achieved at the 2001 World Championships in Edmonton.
- Bruna Genovese
Bruna Genovese (born 24 September 1976 in Montebelluna) is an Italian long-distance runner who specializes in the marathon race.
- Manuela Levorato
Manuela Levorato (born 16 March 1977 in Polo) is an Italian sprinter who specializes in the 100 and 200 metres. At the 2002 European Championships she won a bronze medal in both these events. She also competed at the World Championships in 1999, 2001 and 2005. Her personal best times are 11.14 s (100 m, 2001) and 22.60 s (200 m, 1999).
- José Montiel
José Arnulfo Montiel Nunez is a Paraguayan football midfielder, who currently plays for Udinese of Italian Serie A. At a very young age, Montiel started his career in his hometown team Olimpia de Itá (which is a division of Olimpia Asunción for the football league of the city of Itauguá). Scouts from Olimpia Asunción noticed his talent and signed him to the youth divisions of the Asunción club.
- Marco Vaccari
Marco Vaccari (born 17 July 1966 in Milano) is a retired Italian sprinter who specialized in the 400 metres.
- Danilo Goffi
Danilo Goffi (born 3 December 1972 in Legnano) is an Italian long-distance runner who specializes in the marathon.
- Benedetta Ceccarelli
Benedetta Ceccarelli (born 23 January 1980) is an Italian athlete who specializes in the 400 metres hurdles. Her personal best time is 54.79 seconds, achieved in August 2005 in Rieti.
- Constantine II II
Flavius Claudius Constantinus, known in English as Constantine II was Roman Emperor from 337 to 340. The eldest son of Constantine I and Fausta, he was born at Arles, and was raised as a Christian. On March 1, 317, Constantine was made Caesar, and at the age of seven, in 323, took part in his father's campaign against the Sarmatians. At the age of ten he became commander of Gaul, after the death of his half-brother Crispus.
- Magnentius
Magnentius was a Roman usurper (January 18, 350 – August 11, 353). Born in Samarobriva (Amiens), Gaul, Magnentius was the commander of the Herculians and Iovians, the imperial guard units (Zosimus, ii.58). When the army grew dissatisfied with the behaviour of Roman Emperor Constans, it elevated Magnentius at Autun on January 18, 350. Constans was abandoned by all except a handful of retainers, …
- Florianus
"Imperator Caesar" Marcus Annius Florianus "Pius Felix Invictus Augustus" (d. 276) was a Roman Emperor who ruled in 276. Florianus was reportedly a maternal half-brother to Marcus Claudius Tacitus. According to sources, he was chosen by the army in the West to succeed Tacitus in 276, without the Roman Senate consensus. However he minted coins bearing the "S C" legend, thus showing some bonds to the Senate.
- Bonifacius
"Comes" Bonifacius (anglicized in Count Boniface was a Roman general and governor of the Diocese of Africa. Along with his rival, Flavius Aëtius, he is sometimes termed "the last of the Romans." After the death of Emperor Honorius in 423, "primicerius notariorum" Joannes was elevated to the throne. Bonifacius refused to acknowledge him, and prevented the plentiful shipments of African grain from reaching Italia.
- Vittoria Aganoor
Vittoria Aganoor (Padova,1855-Perugia, 1910) was an Italian poet with Armenian ancestry. She was the 7th child of Edoardo Aganoor and Giuseppina Pacini, lots of Italian celebrities, such as Andrea Maffei or Antonio Fogazzaro, went to their place when she was a kid. In 1876 she went living to Naples, where she met Enrico Nencioni, who helped her with her poetry, although she wrote letters more often to Domenico Gnoli.
- Francesco Panetta
Francesco Panetta (born January 10, 1963) is a former Italian long-distance runner, who won several medals at international championships in the 1980s. His greatest achievement was the victory at the World Championships' final over 3000m steeplechase in Rome 1987. The previous year he had won a silver medal at the European Championships in Stuttgart only narrowly losing to the East German runner Hagen Melzer. In the 1988 Olympic Final Panetta came ninth.
- Abdon Pamich
Abdon Pamich (born October 3, 1933 in Fiume) is a former Italian race walker, who won two Olympic medals, and was the nation's flagbearer at the 1972 Summer Olympics. He also set a world best time over 50 km with 4:03:02 on October 16, 1960 in Ponte San Pietro. The best time was lowered to 4:01:39 the next year by Grigoriy Klimov.
- Rossella Giordano
Rossella Giordano (born 1 December 1972) is an Italian race walker.
- Paolo Camossi
Paolo Camossi (born 6 January 1974 in Gorizia) is an Italian triple jumper, best known for his gold medal at the 2001 World Indoor Championships. His personal best was 17.45 metres, achieved in June 2000 in Milan. This result places him second on the all-time Italian performers list, only behind Fabrizio Donato.