Famous people of Italian origin

Leonardo Da Vinci (1452 - 1519)

Italian artist and polymath

Christopher Columbus (1450 - 1506)

Italian explorer

Mario Balotelli (28)

Italian footballer

Galileo Galilei (1564 - 1642)

Italian astronomer and physicist

Pope John Paul I (1912 - 1978)

Italian Pope

Benito Mussolini (1883 - 1945)

Italian politician and dictator

Michelangelo (1475 - 1564)

Italian artist and sculptor

Stephan El Shaarawy (26)

Italian football player

Monica Bellucci (54)

Italian actress and model

Niccolò Machiavelli (1469 - 1527)

Italian historian and author

Pope Paul VI (1897 - 1978)

Italian Pope

Andrea Bocelli (60)

Italian tenor

Sophia Loren (84)

Italian actress

Marco Polo (1254 - 1324)

Italian merchant and explorer

Paolo Di Canio (50)

Italian footballer and manager

Silvio Berlusconi (82)

Italian politician

Raphael (1483 - 1520)

Italian painter and architect

Angelo Scola (77)

Italian cardinal and theologian

Andrea Pirlo (40)

Italian footballer

Francesco Totti (42)

Italian football player

Alessandro Del Piero (44)

Italian football player

Caravaggio (1571 - 1610)

Italian painter

Gianluigi Buffon (41)

Italian footballer

Franco Nero (77)

Italian actor

Antonio Vivaldi (1678 - 1741)

Italian violinist and composer

Tarcisio Bertone (84)

Italian cardinal and diplomat

Giacomo Casanova (1725 - 1798)

Italian adventurer and writer

Isabella Rossellini (67)

Italian actress

Ennio Morricone (90)

Italian composer and conductor

Beppe Grillo (70)

Italian actor, comedian, and activist, leader of the Five Star Movement

Cesare Borgia (1475 - 1507)

Italian politician and cardinal

Valentino Rossi (40)

Italian motorcycle racer

Giuseppe Verdi (1813 - 1901)

Italian composer

Luciano Pavarotti (1935 - 2007)

Italian tenor

Guglielmo Marconi (1874 - 1937)

Italian inventor and developed Marconi's law, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics

Paolo Maldini (50)

Italian footballer

Amerigo Vespucci (1454 - 1512)

Italian explorer

Ludovico Einaudi (63)

Italian pianist and composer

Gianni Versace (1946 - 1997)

Italian couturier

Roberto Mancini (54)

Italian footballer and manager

Gian Lorenzo Bernini (1598 - 1680)

Italian sculptor and painter

Donatella Versace (65)

Italian fashion designer

Giuseppe Garibaldi (1807 - 1882)

Italian general and politician

Fabio Lanzoni (58)

Italian model

Gina Lollobrigida (91)

Italian actress

Federico Fellini (1920 - 1993)

Italian director

Roberto Di Matteo (49)

Italian footballer

Marco Verratti (26)

Italian footballer

Sergio Leone (1929 - 1989)

Italian director

Petrarch (1304 - 1374)

Italian scholar and poet

Amedeo Modigliani (1884 - 1920)

Italian painter and sculptor

Antonio Cassano (36)

Italian footballer