List of people from Rome
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An incomplete list of notable people who were born, lived or are/were famously associated with Rome
Rome
Rome is the capital of Italy and the country's largest and most populated city and comune, with over 2.7 million residents in . The city is located in the central-western portion of the Italian Peninsula, on the Tiber River within the Lazio region of Italy.Rome's history spans two and a half...

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  • Alessandra Acciai
    Alessandra Acciai
    Alessandra Acciai is an Italian actress of cinema, theatre and television.-Biography:Born in Rome, she made her acting debut in 1987, both in cinema and television, with Lamberto Bava's Il gioko . In 1994, she was nominated as best new actress of the year for the movie Anni ribelli...

  • Daniel Acon
    Daniel Acon
    Daniel Acon is an American Special Effects Coordinator and Supervisor.He graduated from Seton Hall University.He has created the special effects for many blockbuster movies and primetime TV shows....

  • Paul Adam (English novelist)
    Paul Adam (English novelist)
    Paul Adam is a British writer of novels for both adults and younger readers.Adam was born in Coventry in 1958, but moved to Sheffield before the age of one. He studied law at Nottingham University, then began a career in journalism, working both in England, in his childhood town of Sheffield, and...

  • Pope Adeodatus I
    Pope Adeodatus I
    Pope Saint Adeodatus I or Deodatus I was Pope from November 13, 615 to his death....

  • Giorgio Agamben
    Giorgio Agamben
    Giorgio Agamben is an Italian political philosopher best known for his work investigating the concepts of the state of exception and homo sacer....

  • Pope Agapetus I
    Pope Agapetus I
    Pope Saint Agapetus I reigned as pope from May 13, 535, to April 22, 536. He is not to be confused with another Saint Agapetus, an Early Christian martyr with the feast day of August 6th.-Family:...

  • Gian Francesco Albani
    Gian Francesco Albani
    Gian Francesco Albani was a Roman Catholic Cardinal. He was a member of the Albani family.Albani was born in Rome, the son of Carlo Albani, Duke of Soriano; his grand-uncle was Pope Clement XI...

  • Giuseppe Albani
  • Alessandro Alessandroni
    Alessandro Alessandroni
    Alessandro Alessandroni is an Italian musician. He plays multipleinstruments, including the guitar, mandolin, mandolincello, sitar, accordion, and piano, and has composed over 40 film scores and countless library music....

  • Alexius of Rome
    Alexius of Rome
    Saint Alexius or Alexis of Rome or Alexis von Edessa was an Eastern saint whose veneration was later transplanted to Rome, a process facilitated by the fact that, according to the earlier Syriac legend that a "Man of God" of Edessa, Mesopotamia who during the episcopate of Bishop Rabbula lived by...

  • Alfonso, Duke of Anjou and Cádiz
    Alfonso, Duke of Anjou and Cádiz
    Alfonso, Duke of Anjou and Duke of Cádiz, Grandee of Spain was a grandson of King Alfonso XIII of Spain and a Legitimist claimant to the throne of France.-Life:Alfonso was born in the Clinica Santa Anna in Rome, the elder son of Infante...

  • Infante Alfonso of Spain
    Infante Alfonso of Spain
    Infante Alfonso of Spain was the younger brother of King Juan Carlos of Spain.-Early life:...

  • Domenico Allegri
    Domenico Allegri
    Domenico Allegri was an Italian composer and singer of the early Baroque Roman School. He was the second son of the Milanese coachman Costantino Allegri, who lived in Roma with his family, and a younger brother of the more famous Gregorio Allegri...

  • Gregorio Allegri
    Gregorio Allegri
    Gregorio Allegri was an Italian composer of the Roman School and brother of Domenico Allegri; he was also a priest and a singer. He lived mainly in Rome, where he would later die.-Life:...

  • Agnese Allegrini
    Agnese Allegrini
    Agnese Allegrini is a female badminton player from Italy.She played at the 2005 World Badminton Championships and reached the second round, where she lost to Eriko Hirose of Japan....

  • Enrico Alleva
    Enrico Alleva
    Enrico Alleva is an Italian ethologist and broadcaster. President of the S.I.E. since 2008....

  • Ilaria Alpi
    Ilaria Alpi
    Ilaria Alpi was an Italian journalist killed in Mogadishu, Somalia together with her camera operator Miran Hrovatin...

  • Maurizio Amati
    Maurizio Amati
    Maurizio Amati is an Italian film producer. He has produced 74 films since 1965. He was born in Rome, Italy.-Selected filmography:* For a Few Extra Dollars * Master Stroke * High Crime...

  • Claudio Amendola
    Claudio Amendola
    Claudio Amendola is an Italian actor and a director.He is a son of the actor and voice dubber Ferruccio Amendola and dubber Rita Savagnone. His son is voice dubber Alessia Amendola and his girlfriend is actress Francesca Neri...

  • Giorgio Amendola
    Giorgio Amendola
    Giorgio Amendola was an Italian writer and politician.Born in Rome in 1907, he was the son of Lithuanian intellectual Eva Kuhn and Giovanni Amendola, a liberal anti-fascist who died in 1926 in Cannes after having been attacked by killers hired by Benito Mussolini...

  • Niccolò Ammaniti
    Niccolò Ammaniti
    Niccolò Ammaniti is an Italian writer. As a young Italian novelist, Ammaniti was part of the cannibalistic group, from the anthology Gioventù Cannibale by Daniele Brolli , for which he wrote a short novel together with Ricardo Shorts.He became noted in 2001 with the publication of Io non ho paura,...

  • Amos Luzzatto
    Amos Luzzatto
    Amos Luzzatto is an Italian writer and essayist of Jewish descent, born in a family of ancient tradition Amos Luzzatto (born Rome, June 3, 1928) is an Italian writer and essayist of Jewish descent, born in a family of ancient tradition Amos Luzzatto (born Rome, June 3, 1928) is an Italian writer...

  • Pope Anastasius IV
    Pope Anastasius IV
    Pope Anastasius IV , born Corrado Demetri della Suburra, was Pope from 1153 to 1154.-Early life:He was a Roman, son of Benedictus de Suburra, probably of the family of Demetri, and became a secular clerk. He was created cardinal-priest of S. Pudenziana by Pope Paschal II no later than in 1114...

  • Benjamin ben Abraham Anaw
    Benjamin ben Abraham Anaw
    Benjamin ben Abraham Anaw was a liturgical poet, Talmudist and commentator of the thirteenth century, and older brother of Zedekiah ben Abraham Anaw....

  • Zedekiah ben Abraham Anaw
    Zedekiah ben Abraham Anaw
    Zedekiah ben Abraham Anaw was an author of Jewish ritualistic works and younger brother of Benjamin ben Abraham Anaw...

  • Andrea Bajani
    Andrea Bajani
    Andrea Bajani is an Italian journalist and writer, Mondello Prize winner—that he has won "ex aequo" with Antonio Scurati, Flavio Soriga and Luca Giachi - in 2008 for his novel Se consideri le colpe , written in 2007; in 2008 he has also won the Brancati Prize—with Massimo Onofri and...

  • Giulio Andreotti
    Giulio Andreotti
    Giulio Andreotti is an Italian politician of the now dissolved centrist Christian Democracy party. He served as the 42nd Prime Minister of Italy from 1972 to 1973, from 1976 to 1979 and from 1989 to 1992. He also served as Minister of the Interior , Defense Minister and Foreign Minister and he...

  • Felice Anerio
    Felice Anerio
    Felice Anerio was an Italian composer of the late Renaissance and early Baroque eras, and a member of the Roman School of composers. He was the older brother of another important, and somewhat more progressive composer of the same period, Giovanni Francesco Anerio.-Life:Anerio was born in Rome and...

  • Marco Angeletti
    Marco Angeletti
    Marco Angeletti is an Italian footballer. He plays as a defender. He is currently playing for Italian Serie C2 team A.S. Cisco Calcio Roma.-External links:*...

  • Filippo d'Angeli
    Filippo d'Angeli
    Filippo d'Angeli was an Italian painter of the Baroque period, active mainly in Florence and Naples, painting battles scenes with small figures. Also known as il Napoletano. Born in Rome.-References:...

  • Roberta Angelilli
    Roberta Angelilli
    Roberta Angelilli is an Italian politician andMember of the European Parliamentfor Centralwith the Alleanza Nazionale, part of the Union for a Europe of Nations and sits on the European Parliament's Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs.She is a substitute for the Committee on...

  • Fiorenzo Angelini
  • Silvio Antoniano
    Silvio Antoniano
    Silvio Antoniani was a musician, canon lawyer, writer on education, priest and cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church, who spent most of his career in the Roman Curia....

  • Mark Antony
    Mark Antony
    Marcus Antonius , known in English as Mark Antony, was a Roman politician and general. As a military commander and administrator, he was an important supporter and loyal friend of his mother's cousin Julius Caesar...

  • Guillaume Apollinaire
    Guillaume Apollinaire
    Wilhelm Albert Włodzimierz Apolinary Kostrowicki, known as Guillaume Apollinaire was a French poet, playwright, short story writer, novelist, and art critic born in Italy to a Polish mother....

  • Alberto Aquilani
    Alberto Aquilani
    Alberto Aquilani is an Italian footballer who plays for Serie A club Milan on loan from Liverpool. He is also part of the Italian national team. Aquilani is a central midfielder, who can operate in a holding position or an attacking position in the hole behind the strikers...

  • Tullia d'Aragona
    Tullia d'Aragona
    Tullia d'Aragona was a 16th century Italian courtesan, author and philosopher in Venice. She had one daughter, Penelope d'Aragona, born in 1535, and a son, Celio, by Silvestro Guiccardi....

  • Daniele Archibugi
    Daniele Archibugi
    Daniele Archibugi is an Italian economic and political theorist. He works on the economics and policy of innovation and technological change, on the political theory of international relations and on political and technological globalisation....

  • Francesca Archibugi
    Francesca Archibugi
    Francesca Archibugi is an award-winning Italian film director and scriptwriter.- Biography :Born and raised in Rome in an intellectual family , she started to study acting with Alessandro Fersen and graduated in Film Direction from the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia Cinecittà...

  • Giulia Arcioni
    Giulia Arcioni
    Giulia Arcioni is a track and field sprint athlete who competes internationally for Italy.Arcioni represented Italy at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. She competed at the 4x100 metres relay together with Anita Pistone, Vincenza Calì and Audrey Alloh...

  • Maurizio Arena
    Maurizio Arena
    Maurizio Arena was an Italian film actor. He appeared in 78 films between 1952 and 1978.-Selected filmography:* It Happened in the Park * Siamo tutti inquilini * The Sign of Venus...

  • Asia Argento
    Asia Argento
    Aria Asia Anna Maria Vittoria Rossa Argento is an Italian actress, singer, model and director.-Family and early life:...

  • Claudio Argento
    Claudio Argento
    Claudio Argento is an Italian film producer and screenwriter. Most of the titles he has produced have been the horror films directed by his older brother, Dario Argento. One major exception was Alejandro Jodorowsky's cult film Santa Sangre ; in addition to producing, Claudio Argento co-wrote the...

  • Dario Argento
    Dario Argento
    Dario Argento is an Italian film director, producer and screenwriter. He is best known for his work in the horror film genre, particularly in the subgenre known as giallo, and for his influence on modern horror and slasher movies....

  • Carlo Armellini
    Carlo Armellini
    Carlo Armellini was an Italian politician, activist and jurist.He was part of the triumvirate leading the short-lived Roman Republic in 1849, together with Giuseppe Mazzini and Aurelio Saffi....

  • Francesco Arquati
    Francesco Arquati
    Francesco Arquati was an Italian republican patriot, a notable figure in the Italian Risorgimento and a so-called martyr for the cause of a United Italy....

  • Giuditta Tavani Arquati
    Giuditta Tavani Arquati
    Giuditta Tavani Arquati was an Italian republican patriot, a notable figure in the Italian Risorgimento and a martyr for the cause of a United Italy....

  • Antonella Attili
    Antonella Attili
    -Selected filmography:-External links:...

  • Corrado Augias
    Corrado Augias
    Corradio Augias is an Italian journalist, writer and TV host. He was also briefly a member of the European Parliament in 1994–1999 for the Democratic Party of the Left....

  • Augustine of Canterbury
    Augustine of Canterbury
    Augustine of Canterbury was a Benedictine monk who became the first Archbishop of Canterbury in the year 597...

  • Augustus
    Augustus
    Augustus ;23 September 63 BC – 19 August AD 14) is considered the first emperor of the Roman Empire, which he ruled alone from 27 BC until his death in 14 AD.The dates of his rule are contemporary dates; Augustus lived under two calendars, the Roman Republican until 45 BC, and the Julian...

  • Alessia Aureli
    Alessia Aureli
    Alessia Aureli is an Italian ice dancer. She is a four-time medalist at the Italian Figure Skating Championships with two different partners.-Career:...

  • Marcus Aurelius
  • Umberto Avattaneo
    Umberto Avattaneo
    Umberto Avattaneo was an Italian track and field athlete who competed in the 1908 Summer Olympics.He was born in Rome....

  • Carlo Aymonino
    Carlo Aymonino
    Carlo Aymonino was an Italian architect and urban planner best known for the Gallaretese housing complex in Milan.-Early life:Born in Rome, he studied at the University of Rome, obtaining his degree in 1950...


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  • Samuele Bacchiocchi
    Samuele Bacchiocchi
    Samuele R. Bacchiocchi was a Seventh-day Adventist author and theologian, best known for his work on the Sabbath in Christianity, particularly in the historical work From Sabbath to Sunday, based on his doctoral thesis from the Pontifical Gregorian University...

  • Rolando Bacci
    Rolando Bacci
    Rolando Bacci Hardage is an Italian American musician, music publisher and producer. -Early life:Hardage was born in Rome, Italy and is the son of American visual artist, Susy Hardage.-Music:...

  • Marcello Bacciarelli
    Marcello Bacciarelli
    Marcello Bacciarelli was an Italian painter of the late-baroque and Neoclassic periods.He studied in Rome under Marco Benefial. In 1750 he was called to Dresden, Saxony, where he was employed by Elected King Augustus III of Poland; after whose death he went to Vienna, and thence to Warsaw...

  • Giovanni Baglione
    Giovanni Baglione
    Giovanni Baglione was an Italian Late Mannerist and Early Baroque painter and art historian. He is best remembered for his acrimonious involvement with the artist Caravaggio and his writings concerning the other Roman artists of his time.-Early life:A pupil of Francesco Morelli, he worked mainly...

  • Jorge de Bagration
  • Giuseppe Baini
    Giuseppe Baini
    Giuseppe Baini was an Italian priest, music critic, and composer of church music.He was born at Rome. He was instructed in composition by his uncle, Lorenzo Baini, and afterwards by G. Jannaconi...

  • Renato Baldini
  • Silvia Baraldini
    Silvia Baraldini
    Silvia Baraldini was active in both the Black Power and Puerto Rican independence movements in the United States in the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s...

  • Luca Barbarossa
    Luca Barbarossa
    Luca Barbarossa is an Italian singer-songwriter who has released 12 albums since 1981, and is known for his participation in the 1988 Eurovision Song Contest.- Early career :...

  • Anton Giuseppe Barbazza
    Anton Giuseppe Barbazza
    Anton Giuseppe Barbazza was an Italian painter and engraver of the Baroque period. He was born in Rome, moved to Bologna, and in 1771 moved to Spain. In Rome, he had engraved the prints for Francesco Bianchini's L’istoria universale provata coi monumenti, published first in 1697 and reissued in...

  • Antonio Barberini
    Antonio Barberini
    Antonio Barberini was an Italian Catholic cardinal, Archbishop of Reims, military leader, patron of the arts and a prominent member of the House of Barberini. As one of the cardinal-nephews of Pope Urban VIII and a supporter of France, he played a significant role at a number of the papal...

  • Urbano Barberini
    Urbano Barberini
    Urbano Barberini is an Italian actor fluent in Italian and French. His most recognized role in the English-speaking countries was in his work in Dario Argento's film Opera though in the English dubbing, his voice was replaced with a more masculine actor's voice...

  • Enzo Barboni
    Enzo Barboni
    Enzo Barboni , sometimes credited by his pseudonym E.B. Clucher, was an Italian film director, cinematographer and screenwriter...

  • Paolo Barelli
    Paolo Barelli
    Paolo Barelli is an Italian Senator and president of the Italian Swimming Federation, in his youth Barelli was a world class swimmer. On July 24, 2009, he was named Honorary Secretary of FINA for the 2009-2013 term.-Biography:...

  • Andrea Bargnani
    Andrea Bargnani
    Andrea Bargnani , nicknamed "Il Mago" , is an Italian professional basketball player with the Toronto Raptors of the National Basketball Association. He was selected first overall in the 2006 NBA Draft. He is a power forward/center standing at 213 cm and weighing 113.4 kg...

  • Filippo Barigioni
    Filippo Barigioni
    Filippo Barigioni was an Italian sculptor and architect working in the Late Baroque tradition.Bariogioni was born in Rome. His career was spent largely on papal commissions, including aqueducts and fountains, in and around Rome...

  • Gianfranco Barra
    Gianfranco Barra
    Gianfranco Barra is an Italian film actor. He has appeared in 81 films since 1968. He was born in Rome, Italy.-Selected filmography:* Avanti! * Dirty Weekend * Bread and Chocolate * Black Holiday...

  • Steve Bastoni
    Steve Bastoni
    Steve Bastoni is an Italian Australian actor. He is best known for his role in Police Rescue as Constable Yannis 'Angel' Angelopoulos and as Steve Parker in Neighbours.-Television:...

  • Stefano di Battista
    Stefano di Battista
    Stefano di Battista is an Italian jazz saxophonist who plays soprano and alto.He was born in Rome. He began playing at thirteen with friends and became interested in jazz on hearing Art Pepper. In Italy he received guidance from Massimo Urbani and by his twenties di Battista was performing in Paris...

  • Stefano Battistelli
    Stefano Battistelli
    Stefano Battistelli is a former backstroke and medley swimmer from Italy, who competed in two consecutive Summer Olympics , and won a bronze medal at each appearance....

  • Lamberto Bava
    Lamberto Bava
    Lamberto Bava is an Italian film director, specializing in horror and fantasy films.Bava was born in Rome, Italy, the son of cinematographer/director Mario Bava, and grandson of cameraman Eugenio Bava...

  • Dario Bellezza
    Dario Bellezza
    Dario Bellezza was an Italian gay poet, author and playwright. He won the Viareggio, Gatto, and Montale prizes.-Biography:Dario Bellezza was born in Rome on September 5, 1944...

  • Giuseppe Gioachino Belli
  • Francesco Bellissimo
    Francesco Bellissimo
    Francesco Bellissimo born January 3, 1979 in Rome. He is famous Italian Celebrity chef and tarento living in Japan. He is the president of the Italian Cooking Association in Japan, known as "Italian Ryouri Kenkyukai" in Japanese and also serves as the president of an official A.S. Roma fan club in...

  • Claudio Bellucci
    Claudio Bellucci
    Claudio Bellucci is an Italian association football striker who currently plays for Modena.-Football career:He started his career with Sampdoria, making his Serie A debut against A.C. Milan on 13 March 1994, at the age of 18. He made one more appearance for the Genoa-based side, before being...

  • Pope Benedict V
    Pope Benedict V
    Pope Benedict V , Pope in 964, was elected by the Romans on the death of Pope John XII . However the Holy Roman Emperor Otto I did not approve of the choice and had him deposed after only a month and the ex-Pope was carried off to Hamburg and was placed under the care of Adaldag, Archbishop of...

  • Marco Benefial
    Marco Benefial
    Marco Benefial was an Italian, proto-Neoclassical painter, mainly active in Rome. Benefial is best known for his repudiation of 18th century decorative Rococo styles pre-eminent in the Rome dominated by Carlo Maratta pupils....

  • Valerio Bernabò
    Valerio Bernabò
    Valerio Bernabò is an Italian rugby union player, currently playing for Benetton Treviso in the RaboDirect Pro12 competition. He has also been capped for the Italian national team, making his debut in 2004 against the USA. He also captained the Italian under-21 team. His usual position is at lock...

  • Antonino Bernardini
    Antonino Bernardini
    Antonino Bernardini is an Italian football.-Career:Bernardini started his career at Roma. He played his first Serie A games on 19 February 1995 against Calcio Padova. In summer 1996 he returned to A.S. Roma and transferred to Perugia at Serie B next season. He won promotion with team which...

  • Laura Bernasconi
    Laura Bernasconi
    Laura Bernasconi was an Italian painter of the Baroque period, known to be active in 1674. Born and died in Rome, she trained with Mario Nuzzi, and like him, painted still life paintings of flowers. This same thematic had been favored by Giovanna Garzoni, another woman painter in Rome who died in...

  • Luciano Bernasconi
    Luciano Bernasconi
    Luciano Bernasconi is an Italian comic book artist. In the early 1960s, he worked for fellow artist Carlo Cedroni's Studio Barbato, Editions Lug in France, and Edizioni Europer in Rome....

  • Ernesto Bertarelli
    Ernesto Bertarelli
    Ernesto Bertarelli is a Swiss-Italian billionaire and entrepreneur.Together with his extended family, Bertarelli was ranked 81st in the 2011 annual ranking of the world's wealthiest people compiled and published by Forbes magazine, The family's wealth was estimated at US$10.0...

  • Franca Bettoia
    Franca Bettoia
    Franca Bettoia is an Italian actress.Born in Rome, she made her first film appearance in Un palco all'opera . The following year she appeared in Los amantes del desierto Franca Bettoia (or Bettoja; born 14 May 1936) is an Italian actress.Born in Rome, she made her first film appearance in Un palco...

  • Max Biaggi
    Max Biaggi
    Massimiliano "Max" Biaggi is an Italian motorcycle racer and winner of the 2010 World Superbike Championship. Throughout this racing career, he has won the 250cc World Championship four times, and finished as runner-up in both the 500cc and MotoGP championships...

  • Laura Biagiotti
    Laura Biagiotti
    Laura Biagiotti is an Italian high fashion designer. She studied literature in Rome, expecting to become an archeologist. Then she started to help out at Mum and Dad's dressmaking business and had her first fashion show in 1972...

  • Alessandro Bianchi
  • Andrea Bianchi
    Andrea Bianchi
    Andrea Bianchi is an Italian film director and writer.-Filmography:* Diabólica malicia * Treasure Island...

  • Daniela Bianchi
    Daniela Bianchi
    Daniela Bianchi is an Italian actress, whose best known part was Tatiana Romanova in the 1963 James Bond movie From Russia with Love....

  • Giorgio Bianchi
    Giorgio Bianchi
    Giorgio Bianchi was an Italian film director and actor.-Selected filmography:* Two Happy Hearts * Vent'anni * Hearts at Sea * L'immorale -External links:...

  • Orazio Bianchi
    Orazio Bianchi
    Orazio Bianchi was an Italian painter of the Baroque period. He was born at Rome. He painted Marriage of St. Joseph and the Virgin Mary for the church of San Gioseffo at Rome.-References:...

  • Angela Bianchini
    Angela Bianchini
    Angela Bianchini is an Italian fiction writer and literary critic of Jewish descent. She grew up there and emigrated to the United States in 1941, after Mussolini's openly anti-Semitic racial laws were enacted.-Education and early career:...

  • Paola Binetti
    Paola Binetti
    Paola Binetti is an Italian Deputy who belonged to the Democratic Party before 2010. Now she belongs the Union of the Centre.-Biography:Binetti was born in Rome...

  • Giovanni Bisignani
    Giovanni Bisignani
    Giovanni Bisignani was the Director General and Chief Executive Officer of the International Air Transport Association from 2002 to 2011.-Education:Bisignani received an undergraduate degree from the Sapienza University of Rome...

  • Alessandro Blasetti
    Alessandro Blasetti
    Alessandro Blasetti was an Italian film director who influenced Italian neorealism with the film Quattro passi fra le nuvole...

  • Ilary Blasi
    Ilary Blasi
    Ilary Blasi is an Italian showgirl, model, television personality, and former child actress.-Career:Born in Rome, she started her career at the age of three in an Italian commercial....

  • Salvatore Boccaccio
    Salvatore Boccaccio
    Salvatore Boccaccio was the Roman Catholic bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Frosinone-Veroli-Ferentino from July 9, 1999, until his death on October 18, 2008, at the age of 70 years old....

  • Tanio Boccia
    Tanio Boccia
    Tanio Boccia was an Italian film director and screenwriter active in the 1960s.Born in Rome, Boccia directed 16 films in his career and was often credited as Amerigo Anton...

  • Alessandro Boccolini
    Alessandro Boccolini
    Alessandro Boccolini is an Italian football goalkeeper.He moved to Ascoli for the 2005-06 season, having previously being signed with Alessandria and Viterbese...

  • Camillo Boito
    Camillo Boito
    Camillo Boito was an Italian architect and engineer, and a noted art critic, art historian and novelist.-Biography:...

  • Paolo Bonacelli
    Paolo Bonacelli
    Paolo Bonacelli is an Italian actor.He is best known for his performance as The Duke de Blangis in Pasolini's notorious Salò...

  • Massimo Bonanni
    Massimo Bonanni
    Massimo Bonanni is an Italian footballer who plays as a midfielder for Swiss club FC Lugano.-Football career:Bonanni started his career at A.S. Roma youth system...

  • Lucien Louis Joseph Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Pierre Napoleon Bonaparte
    Pierre Napoleon Bonaparte
    Pierre-Napoléon Bonaparte was born in Rome, Italy, the son of Lucien Bonaparte and his second wife Alexandrine de Bleschamp....

  • Carla Boni
    Carla Boni
    Carla Boni , was an Italian singer.-Life and career:Born as Carla Gaiano in Ferrara, Boni had worked on RAI, the Italian State Radio and television network, as a singer since 1951. She sang the Italian version of song Johnny Guitar...

  • Pope Boniface III
    Pope Boniface III
    Pope Boniface III was Pope from February 19 to November 12, 607. Despite his relatively short time as Pope he made a significant contribution to the organization of the Catholic Church.-Early life:...

  • Joseph Bonomi the Elder
    Joseph Bonomi the Elder
    Joseph Bonomi the Elder was an Italian architect and draughtsman notable for his activity in England.Born in Rome, he made his early reputation there, then moved to London in 1767....

  • Camillo Borghese, 6th Prince of Sulmona
  • Francesco Scipione Maria Borghese
    Francesco Scipione Maria Borghese
    Francesco Scipione Maria Borghese was an Italian cardinal from the Borghese family. He was elevated to cardinal by Pope Benedict XIII in the consistory of 6 July 1729.-Sources:* at...

  • Junio Valerio Borghese
    Junio Valerio Borghese
    Prince Junio Valerio Scipione Borghese was an Italian Navy commander during the regime of Benito Mussolini's National Fascist Party and was a prominent hard-line fascist politician in post-war Italy.-Early career:Junio Valerio Borghese was born in Artena, Province of Rome, Kingdom of Italy...

  • Marcantonio Borghese, 5th Prince of Sulmona
  • Scipione Borghese
    Scipione Borghese
    Scipione Borghese was an Italian Cardinal, art collector and patron of the arts. A member of the Borghese family, he was the patron of the painter Caravaggio and the artist Bernini...

  • Cesare Borgia
    Cesare Borgia
    Cesare Borgia , Duke of Valentinois, was an Italian condottiero, nobleman, politician, and cardinal. He was the son of Pope Alexander VI and his long-term mistress Vannozza dei Cattanei. He was the brother of Lucrezia Borgia; Giovanni Borgia , Duke of Gandia; and Gioffre Borgia , Prince of Squillace...

  • Giovanni Borgia (1474)
    Giovanni Borgia (1474)
    Giovanni Borgia, 2nd duke of Gandía was the son of Pope Alexander VI and the brother of Cesare Borgia, Gioffre Borgia, and Lucrezia Borgia. Giovanni, also known as Juan or Joan, was the second of the Pope's four children by Vanozza de' Catanei...

  • Orazio Borgianni
    Orazio Borgianni
    Orazio Borgianni was an Italian painter and etcher of the Mannerist and early-baroque periods. He was the stepbrother of the sculptor and architect Giulio Lasso....

  • Mariacarla Boscono
    Mariacarla Boscono
    Mariacarla Boscono is an Italian model.-Early life:Boscono was born in Rome, Italy. She spent most of her early life travelling because of her father's work. Her parents lived in Thailand before she was born, but after her mother became pregnant they moved to Rome. She spent a couple of years in...

  • Giuseppe Bottai
    Giuseppe Bottai
    Guiseppe Bottai was an Italian lawyer, economist, journalist, and member of the National Fascist Party of Benito Mussolini.-Fascism:...

  • Raoul Bova
    Raoul Bova
    Raoul Bova is an Italian actor.Bova was born in Rome to Calabrian parents. At the age of 16 he became a local champion in the 100 meter backstroke. At the age of 21 he joined the Italian Army and performed his military duty in the Bersaglieri corps...

  • Cesare Bovo
    Cesare Bovo
    Cesare Bovo is an Italian footballer who plays as a defender for Serie A club Genoa.-Lecce & youth career:Bovo grew up playing in the renowned AS Roma youth system, and was sold on a co-ownership bid to Serie B club Lecce in the 2002/2003 season, which Bovo was exchanged with Mauro Rizzo who both...

  • Pietro Bracci
    Pietro Bracci
    Pietro Bracci was an Italian sculptor working in the Late Baroque manner.-Biography:He was born in Rome and became a student of Giuseppe Bartolomeo Chiari and Camillo Rusconi...

  • Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza
    Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza
    Pietro Paolo Savorgnan di Brazzà, best known as Pierre Paul François Camille Savorgnan de Brazza , was a Franco-Italian explorer, born in Italy and later naturalized Frenchman...

  • Mario Brega
    Mario Brega
    Mario Brega was an Italian actor. His heavy build meant that he regularly portrayed a thug in his films particularly earlier in his career in westerns. Later in his career however, he featured in numerous Italian comedy films. Brega stood at and well over at his heaviest but after the 1960s...

  • Alfonso Brescia
    Alfonso Brescia
    Alfonso Brescia was an Italian film director of low budget films, sometimes credited as Al Bradley or Al Bradly. Film buffs mainly know him for the 4 low budget sci-fi films he hurriedly directed in 1977-78 to capitalize on the success of "Star Wars"...

  • Oscar Brevi
    Oscar Brevi
    Oscar Brevi is an Italian former association football defender and manager, currently serving as head coach of Lega Pro Prima Divisione side Cremonese...

  • Lilla Brignone
    Lilla Brignone
    Lilla Brignone was an Italian film and theater actress. She appeared in 40 films between 1930 and 1982.-Selected filmography:* Abbiamo vinto! * Estate Violenta * Ghosts of Rome...

  • Andrea Briotti
    Andrea Briotti
    Andrea Briotti is an Italian footballer who plays for Savona at Lega Pro Seconda Divisione.-Biography:A native of Rome, Briotti started his career at A.S. Roma and received Italian youth teams call-up there. He played his only match at Serie A in April 2005, substituted Giuseppe Scurto in the 88...

  • Alex Britti
    Alex Britti
    Alessandro "Alex" Britti is an Italian singer-songwriter and guitarist.-Biography:At the age of 17 he started his first band playing blues at various clubs in Rome, eventually he moved to Milan at the center of the Italian pop scene...

  • Riccardo Brosco
    Riccardo Brosco
    Riccardo Brosco is an Italian footballer who plays as a defender for Serie B club Pescara, on loan from Parma.-Club career:...

  • Constantino Brumidi
    Constantino Brumidi
    Constantino Brumidi was an Greek/Italian-American historical painter, best known and honored for his fresco work in the Capitol Building in Washington, DC.-Parentage and early life:...

  • Cristian Bucchi
    Cristian Bucchi
    Cristian Bucchi is a retired Italian football striker. He was best known for his goal-scoring ability in Serie B during the peak of his career.-Early career:...

  • Lorenzo Bucchi
    Lorenzo Bucchi
    Lorenzo Bucchi is an Italian football goalkeeper who currently plays for Atletico Arezzo in the Swiss Super League.-External links:* **...

  • Marianna Bulgarelli
    Marianna Bulgarelli
    Marianna Bulgarelli , also known as Maria Anna Benti, was an Italian soprano of the 18th century.Bulgarelli was born and died in Rome; hence her nickname, "La Romanina." She is best remembered as an early patron of and sympathiser with the youthful Metastasio, whose work she encouraged and helped...

  • Ernesto Buonaiuti
    Ernesto Buonaiuti
    Ernesto Buonaiuti was an Italian historian, philosopher of religion, Christian priest and anti-fascist. He lost his chair at the University of Rome owing to his opposition to the Fascists and their Concordat with the Catholic Church....

  • Margherita Buy
    Margherita Buy
    Margherita Buy is an Italian actress born in Rome on 15 January 1962.-Overview:After a long period of studying at the Academy of Dramatic Arts, she made her breakthrough role in Duccio Tessari's Una grande storia d'amore , which was followed by roles in Daniele Luchetti's two projects Domani...

  • Guido Buzzelli
    Guido Buzzelli
    Guido Buzzelli was an Italian comic book artist, writer, illustrator and painter.-Biography:Buzzelli was born in Rome into a family in which his grandfather had been a decorator, his father a painter and his mother a model. He frequented the Academy of St. Luke and initially decided to follow his...


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  • Nicola Cabibbo
    Nicola Cabibbo
    Nicola Cabibbo was an Italian physicist, best known for his work on the weak interaction. He was also the president of the Italian National Institute of Nuclear Physics from 1983 to 1992, and from 1993 until his death he was the president of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences...

  • Giulio Caccini
    Giulio Caccini
    Giulio Caccini , also known as Giulio Romano, was an Italian composer, teacher, singer, instrumentalist and writer of the very late Renaissance and early Baroque eras. He was one of the founders of the genre of opera, and one of the single most influential creators of the new Baroque style...

  • Julius Caesar
    Julius Caesar
    Gaius Julius Caesar was a Roman general and statesman and a distinguished writer of Latin prose. He played a critical role in the gradual transformation of the Roman Republic into the Roman Empire....

  • Leone Caetani
    Leone Caetani
    Leone Caetani , Duke of Sermoneta , was an Italian scholar, politician and historian of the Middle-East....

  • Mario Caiano
    Mario Caiano
    Mario Caiano is an Italian film director, screenwriter and second unit director.Born in Rome, he has directed for nearly 50 films since 1961 and 27 films and TV scripts since 1954....

  • Giulio Calì
    Giulio Calì
    Giulio Calì was an Italian film actor. He appeared in 64 films between 1941 and 1966.-Selected filmography:* La porta del cielo * Variety Lights * Cops and Robbers...

  • Mario Camerini
  • Bernardino Cametti
    Bernardino Cametti
    Bernardino Cametti was an Italian sculptor of the late Baroque .Cametti was born in Rome. Among his earliest works was a marble relief of the Canonization of St Ignatius for the church of the Gesù, based on a design by Andrea Pozzo, and a monument to Count Vladislav Constantine Wasa’’ ,...

  • Princess Camilla, Duchess of Castro
    Princess Camilla, Duchess of Castro
    Princess Camilla of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, Duchess of Castro is the wife of Prince Carlo of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, Duke of Castro, a claimant to the headship of the House of Bourbon-Two Sicilies....

  • Achille Campanile
    Achille Campanile
    Achille Campanile was an Italian writer, playwright, journalist and television critic known for his surreal humour and word play.-Works:* Ma che cos'è questo amore...

  • Vincenzo Camuccini
    Vincenzo Camuccini
    Vincenzo Camuccini was an Italian painter of Neoclassic histories and religious paintings. He was considered the premier academic painter of his time in Rome.-Biography:...

  • Giuseppe Canale
    Giuseppe Canale
    Giuseppe Canale was an Italian painter and engraver. He was born in Rome. He was instructed in engraving by Jacob Frey, and also frequented the school of the Cavalière Marco Benefial. In 1751 he was invited to Dresden to assist in engraving plates for the pictures in their Gallery, and was...

  • Antonio Candreva
    Antonio Candreva
    Antonio Candreva is an Italian footballer who currently plays for Cesena on loan from Udinese. He usually plays in a more central role as a play maker but can also play out wide in a three-man midfield.-Ternana:...

  • Giovanni Angelo Canini
    Giovanni Angelo Canini
    Giovanni Angelo Canini was an Italian painter and engraver of the Baroque period.He is also known as Giovanni Agnolo Canini or Giannangiolo. He was born at Rome. He was first the pupil of Domenichino, and afterwards of Antonio Barbalonga. He painted two canvases: the Martyrdom of SS. Stephen and...

  • Pompeo Cannicciari
    Pompeo Cannicciari
    - Biography :Cannicciari was born in Rome and spent his entire life in the city. He was maestro di cappella from 1694 to 1709 at the Church of the Holy Spirit in Sassia. Cannicciari succeeded Alessandro Scarlatti as chapel master at the Basilica of Saint Mary Major on 24 March 1709...

  • Federico Capasso
    Federico Capasso
    Federico Capasso , a prominent applied physicist, was one of the inventors of the quantum cascade laser during his work at Bell Laboratories. He is currently on the faculty of Harvard University...

  • Daniele Capezzone
    Daniele Capezzone
    Daniele Capezzone is a centre-right Italian politician.He currently is the spokesman for the People of Freedom.From July 14, 2001 to November 4, 2006, he was secretary of the Italian Radicals, a liberal, pro-market economy, libertarian movement associated with the Transnational Radical Party...

  • Gaetano Capocci
    Gaetano Capocci
    Gaetano Capocci was a composer, organist and maestro.Capocci was born in Rome. As a boy he studied the organ under Sante Pascoli, organist of St. Peter's Basilica, Rome, and he completed his musical studies under Valentino Fioravanti and Francesco Cianciarelli...

  • Cristiana Capotondi
    Cristiana Capotondi
    - Biography :Capotondi was born in Rome to an Italian family of Italian Jewish descent. She graduated from the Università La Sapienza in Rome with a degree in communication sciences....

  • Kaspar Capparoni
    Kaspar Capparoni
    -Biography:A native of Rome, Capparoni became a theater actor when he was 18, directed by Giuseppe Patroni Griffi. In 1984 he also appeared in the film Phenomena, directed by Dario Argento....

  • Antonella Capriotti
    Antonella Capriotti
    Antonella Capriotti is a retired Italian long jumper and triple jumper.She has won the Italian Championships 18 times .-Career:...

  • Andrea Carandini
    Andrea Carandini
    Count Andrea Carandini is an Italian archaeologist specialising in ancient Rome. Among his many excavations is the villa of Settefinestre....

  • Francesco Carbone
    Francesco Carbone
    Francesco Carbone is an Italian football defender, who currently plays for U.S. Foggia.-External links: **http://www.tuttocalciatori.net/Carbone_Francesco...

  • Lianella Carell
    Lianella Carell
    Lianella Carell was an Italian film actress and screenwriter. She appeared in 18 films between 1948 and 1958...

  • Fabio Caressa
    Fabio Caressa
    Fabio Caressa is a famous Italian journalist and football commentator, broadcasting for SKY Italia.He began his career in 1986 and in 1991 was chosen to take part in the commentators team for the newly founded Italian pay tv Tele+, founded by the Canal+ Group...

  • Alberto Carlieri
    Alberto Carlieri
    Alberto Carlieri was an Italian painter of the late-Baroque period. He was born at Rome, where he was first of pupil of Giuseppe Marchi, but afterwards of Andrea Pozzo. He excelled in painting quadratura.-References:...

  • Vito Carnevali
    Vito Carnevali
    Vito Carnevali was a composer of classical music.Carnevali studied at the Accademía di Santa Cecilia under Giovanni Sgambatti and, with Leo Sowerby and Fernando Germani, under Ottorino Respighi...

  • Angelo Caroselli
    Angelo Caroselli
    Angelo Caroselli was an Italian painter of the Baroque period, active mainly in his native Rome. He painted in an eclectic style, including influences from Caravaggio and the Bamboccianti. He was the brother in law of Filippo Lauri. One of his pupils was Pietro Paolini and his son Carlo Caroselli....

  • Mario Carotenuto
    Mario Carotenuto
    Mario Carotenuto was an Italian actor of theatre and cinema.-Biography:Carotenuto, the son of an actor of silent films, debuted as a young actor in Theatre Costanzi in his native city of Rome, Italy...

  • Memmo Carotenuto
    Memmo Carotenuto
    Memmo Carotenuto was an Italian actor. He appeared in 125 films between 1941 and 1979.-Selected filmography:* Assassination in Rome * Male Companion * Ten Ready Rifles...

  • Stefano Caruso
    Stefano Caruso
    Stefano Caruso is an Italian ice dancer. He began skating at the age of nine, in ice dance from the start, and teamed up with Isabella Pajardi in 2000. They are the 2008 Italian junior national champions and placed 9th at the 2008 World Junior Championships. The duo slit up in 2010.Caruso teamed...

  • Giovanni Battista Casali
    Giovanni Battista Casali
    Giovanni Battista Casali was an Italian musician.Casali was born in Rome in 1715. From 1759 until his death he held the position of choir-master in the Basilica of St. John Lateran...

  • Sandro Casamonica
    Sandro Casamonica
    Sandro Casamonica is a professional boxer from Italy, who won the bronze medal in the featherweight division at the 1989 European Amateur Boxing Championships in Athens, Greece...

  • Stefano Caselli
    Stefano Caselli
    Stefano Caselli is an Italian comic book artist best known for his work on the Marvel Comics title Avengers: The Initiative, the mini-series Civil War: Young Avengers/Runaways and Secret Warriors...

  • Mario Caserini
    Mario Caserini
    Mario Caserini was an Italian film director, as well as an actor, screenwriter, and early pioneer of film making in the early portion of the 20th century. Caserini was born in Rome, Italy, and was married to early 20th century Italian actress Maria Caserini...

  • Carlo Cassola
    Carlo Cassola
    Carlo Cassola was an important Italian novelist and essayist. His novel La Ragazza di Bube , which received the Strega Prize, was adapted into a film by Luigi Comencini in 1963....

  • Francesco Castellacci
    Francesco Castellacci
    Francesco Castellacci is a professional racing driver from Italy. Francesco studied at Marymount International School, Rome and Universita' Bocconi before starting his career as a pilot.-Formula Azzurra:...

  • Enzo G. Castellari
    Enzo G. Castellari
    Enzo G. Castellari is an Italian film director. He became famous during the 1960s by directing several spaghetti westerns with such titles as Go Kill and Come Back Enzo G. Castellari (born July 29, 1938) is an Italian film director. He became famous during the 1960s by directing several spaghetti...

  • Pietro Castelli
    Pietro Castelli
    Pietro Castelli was an Italian physician and botanist.Born at Rome, he was graduated in 1617 and studied under the botanist Andrea Cesalpino . He was professor at Rome from 1597 until 1634, when he went to Messina...

  • Claudio Castellini
    Claudio Castellini
    Claudio Castellini is an Italian comic book artist. According to his website, Castellini has a "love for technical details, influenced by artists like Neal Adams and John Buscema".-Biography:...

  • Sergio Castellitto
    Sergio Castellitto
    Sergio Castellitto is an Italian actor and director.Castellitto attended the academy of dramatic art and dedicated himself to theatre soon after, working with many famous actors such as Luigi Squarzina, Aldo Trionfo and Enzo Muzii...

  • Emilio de' Cavalieri
    Emilio de' Cavalieri
    Emilio de' Cavalieri was an Italian composer, producer, organist, diplomat, choreographer and dancer at the end of the Renaissance era. His work, along with that of other composers active in Rome, Florence and Venice, was critical in defining the beginning of the musical Baroque era...

  • Giacomo Cavalieri
    Giacomo Cavalieri
    Giacomo Cavalieri was born in Rome in 1565 to Giacomo Cavalieri and Diana Santori, related to the Borghese and Paluzzi Albertoni families. He became referendary of the Tribunal of the Apostolic Signature in the Roman Curia and governor of Faenza and Città di Castello and auditor of the Roman Rota...

  • Simona Cavallari
    Simona Cavallari
    Simona Cavallari Simona Cavallari Simona Cavallari (born 5 April 1971, Rome, is an Italian actress of the cinema, theatre, and television.She made her acting debut in 1982 at the age of eleven in the television film Colomba. In 1985, she had a role in The Pizza Connection, directed by Damiano Damiani...

  • Pietro Cavallini
    Pietro Cavallini
    Pietro Cavallini was an Italian painter and mosaic designer working during the late Middle Ages. Little is known about his biography, though it is known he was from Rome, since he signed pictor romanus....

  • Victor Cavallo
    Victor Cavallo
    Victor Cavallo was an Italian actor.He started his acting carrier on stage in 1974, in cinema worked for directors such as Bernardo Bertolucci and Francesca Archibugi.-External links:...

  • Suso Cecchi d'Amico
    Suso Cecchi d'Amico
    Suso Cecchi d'Amico was an Italian screenwriter and actress. She worked with virtually all of the most celebrated post-war Italian film directors, and wrote or co-wrote many award winning films—among them:...

  • Rosalinda Celentano
    Rosalinda Celentano
    Rosalinda Celentano is an Italian actress. She played Satan in the movie The Passion of the Christ . The most recent film she played in was Der Todestunnel. She is the daughter of Adriano Celentano.-External links:...

  • Pope Celestine I
    Pope Celestine I
    Pope Saint Celestine I was elevated to the papacy in the year 422, on November 3 according to the Liber Pontificalis, but on April 10 according to Tillemont....

  • Gaspare Celio
    Gaspare Celio
    Gaspare Celio was an Italian painter of the late-Mannerist and early-Baroque period, active mainly in his native city of Rome.His first commissions in about 1596 were completed with Giuseppe Valeriano who asked Celio to decorate the Chapel of the Passion in the church of il Gesù in Rome...

  • Rodolfo Celletti
    Rodolfo Celletti
    Rodolfo Celletti was an Italian musicologist, critic, voice teacher, and novelist. Considered one of the leading scholars of the operatic voice and the history of operatic performance, he published many books and articles on the subject as well as several novels.-Biography:Rodolfo Celletti was...

  • Beatrice Cenci
    Beatrice Cenci
    Beatrice Cenci was an Italian noblewoman. She is famous as the protagonist in a lurid murder trial in Rome....

  • Ceppaflex
    Ceppaflex
    Ceppaflex is the lead singer of the Roman comedy rock band "Prophilax"; he has also collaborated with Sanculamo....

  • Giuseppe Ceracchi
    Giuseppe Ceracchi
    Giuseppe Ceracchi was an Italian sculptor, active in a Neoclassic style in Italy, England and the nascent United States, who was a passionate republican during the American and French revolutions...

  • Michelangelo Cerquozzi
    Michelangelo Cerquozzi
    Michelangelo Cerquozzi was an Italian Baroque painter.Born and active mainly in Rome, he is best known for small canvases of genre scenes, and for being one of the Italian proponents of the Bamboccianti style practised by a Dutch painter in Rome, Pieter van Laer...

  • Michelangelo Cerruti
    Michelangelo Cerruti
    Michelangelo Cerruti was an Italian painter of the Baroque period, active mainly in Rome.At a young age, he was a pupil of Giuseppe Passeri in Rome and afterwards lived for a decade in northern Italy, especially in Turin. After returning to Rome he worked with Andrea Pozzo, and became an expert...

  • Enzo Cerusico
  • Valentina Cervi
    Valentina Cervi
    Valentina Cervi is an Italian film and television actress.Cervi was born in Rome, Italy. She is the daughter of director Tonino Cervi and granddaughter of the famous Italian actor Gino Cervi. Cervi started her acting career at age ten in Carlo Cotti's 1986 film Portami la luna...

  • Giuseppe Cesari
    Giuseppe Cesari
    Giuseppe Cesari was an Italian Mannerist painter, also named Il Giuseppino and called Cavaliere d'Arpino, because he was created Cavaliere di Cristo by his patron Pope Clement VIII. He was much patronized in Rome by both Sixtus V.-Biography:Cesari's father had been a native of Arpino, but...

  • Federico Cesi
    Federico Cesi
    Federico Angelo Cesi was an Italian scientist, naturalist, and founder of the Accademia dei Lincei. On his father's death in 1630, he became briefly lord of Acquasparta.- Biography :...

  • Flavio Chigi
    Flavio Chigi
    thumb|Cardinal Flavio ChigiFlavio Chigi , Prince of Farnese, Duke of Ariccia and Prince of the Holy Roman Empire, was an Italian Roman Catholic cardinal...

  • Fabrizio Cicchitto
    Fabrizio Cicchitto
    Fabrizio Cicchitto is an Italian politician.-Career:Fabrizio Cicchitto entered politics during the earlier 1960s, supporting the Marxist left wing of Riccardo Lombardi in the Italian Socialist Party and then becoming secretary of the party's youth organization...

  • Luigi Cimara
    Luigi Cimara
    Luigi Cimara was an Italian film actor. He appeared in 46 films between 1914 and 1960.He was born and died in Rome, Italy.-Selected filmography:* Lulu * Five Paupers in an Automobile...

  • Flavio Cipolla
    Flavio Cipolla
    Flavio Cipolla is a professional tennis player on the ATP Tour from Italy. He reached the second round at the French Open of 2007, where he lost to Rafael Nadal. He reached the 3rd round of the 2008 US Open...

  • Chiara Civello
    Chiara Civello
    Chiara Civello , is a singer-songwriter, and pianist. A graduate of the Berklee College of Music, she is currently based in New York City. She received the Boston Jazz Society Award and the Cleo Laine Award while still studying in Berklee.- Notes :...

  • Donna Marina Torlonia di Civitella-Cesi
    Donna Marina Torlonia di Civitella-Cesi
    Marina Torlonia, Princesa di Civitelli-Cesi was an Italian-American socialite and aristocrat best known as the paternal grandmother of the actress and model Brooke Shields.-Family:...

  • Pope Clement X
    Pope Clement X
    Pope Clement X , born Emilio Bonaventura Altieri, was Pope from 29 April 1670 to 22 July 1676.-Early life:Emilio Altieri was born in Rome, the son of Lorenzo Altieri and Victoria Delphini, a Venetian lady...

  • Muzio Clementi
    Muzio Clementi
    Muzio Clementi was a celebrated composer, pianist, pedagogue, conductor, music publisher, editor, and piano manufacturer. Born in Italy, he spent most of his life in England. He is best known for his piano sonatas, and his collection of piano studies, Gradus ad Parnassum...

  • Filippo Coarelli
    Filippo Coarelli
    Filippo Coarelli is an Italian archaeologist, Professor of Greek and Roman Antiquities at the University of Perugia.Born in Rome, he is one of the foremost experts on Roman antiquities, a connoisseur of the history of early Rome, and a leading expert on the topography of ancient Rome...

  • Stefano Colantuono
    Stefano Colantuono
    Stefano Colantuono is an Italian football manager, currently in charge as head coach of Atalanta.-Playing career:...

  • Veniero Colasanti
    Veniero Colasanti
    Veniero Colasanti was an Italian costume designer, set decorator and art director. He was nominated for an Academy Award in the category Best Art Direction for the film El Cid....

  • Lelio Colista
    Lelio Colista
    Lelio Colista was an Italian Baroque composer and lutenist.Funded by his father, who held an important position in the Vatican library, Colista early received an excellent musical education, probably at the Seminario Romano. He masterly managed several instruments, especially the lute and theorbo...

  • Giuseppe Colizzi
    Giuseppe Colizzi
    Giuseppe Colizzi was an Italian film director, writer and producer. He is best known for his spaghetti westerns starring Bud Spencer and Terence Hill.- Selected filmography :...

  • Michael Collins (astronaut)
    Michael Collins (astronaut)
    Michael Collins is a former American astronaut and test pilot. Selected as part of the third group of fourteen astronauts in 1963, he flew in space twice. His first spaceflight was Gemini 10, in which he and command pilot John Young performed two rendezvous with different spacecraft and Collins...

  • Eugenio Colombo
    Eugenio Colombo
    Eugenio Colombo is an Italian saxophonist and flautist most associated with avant-garde jazz. A founding member of the Italian Instabile Orchestra, Colombo has worked with such musicians as Mario Schiano, Giorgio Gaslini, Steve Lacy, Bruno Tommaso, Maurizio Giammarco, Giancarlo Schiaffini and the...

  • Paola Colonna
    Paola Colonna
    Paola Colonna was the lady of Piombino from 1441 until 1445.She was born in Rome into one of the most powerful family of Rome. Her brother Giordano was shortly Prince of Salerno and Duke of Venosa, while her brother Oddo would become Pope Martin V. On June 18, 1396 she was married to Gherardo...

  • Pompeo Colonna
    Pompeo Colonna
    Pompeo Colonna was an Italian Cardinal, politician and condottiero.Born in Rome, he fought very early against the traditional family enemies, the Orsini....

  • Francesca Comencini
    Francesca Comencini
    Francesca Comencini is an Italian film director and screenwriter. She attended the Lycée français Chateaubriand school with her sisters. She has directed 14 films since 1984. Her film Le parole di mio padre was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2001 Cannes Film Festival...

  • Emanuele Concetti
    Emanuele Concetti
    -Career:Concetti started his professional career at Lazio. In mid-2000, he was loaned to Arezzo. At 2002-03 season, initial a backup of Angelo Peruzzi and Luca Marchegiani, he played once for Lazio at UEFA Cup, against FC Red Star Belgrade....

  • Ercole Consalvi
  • Bernardo Consorti
    Bernardo Consorti
    Bernardo Consorti was an Italian line-engraver. He was born in Rome. He engraved the Holy Family with Family of St. John after Il Garofalo, the Entombment after Anthony van Dyck, and Psyche and other sculptures of Antonio Canova....

  • Sandro Continenza
    Sandro Continenza
    Sandro Continenza was an Italian screenwriter. He wrote for 142 films between 1949 and 1982. He was born in Rome, Italy.-Selected filmography:* Totò cerca moglie * Appointment for Murder...

  • Stefano Coppa
    Stefano Coppa
    Stefano Coppa was an Italian engraver, active in Rome c. 1776. In conjunction with Giuseppe Perini and Francesco Pozzi, he executed the plates from the antique statues in the Clementine Gallery of the Vatican. He also engraved a print of the Ascension after Giovanni Lanfranco....

  • Manuel Coppola
    Manuel Coppola
    Manuel Coppola is an Italian football midfielder. He currently plays for Empoli on loan from Parma.Coppola moved to Parma as part of Francesco Parravicini and Reginaldo deal to Siena in July 2009....

  • Bruno Corbucci
    Bruno Corbucci
    Bruno Corbucci was an Italian screenwriter and film director. He was the younger brother of Sergio Corbucci, and wrote many of his films. He was born in Rome, where he also died....

  • Sergio Corbucci
    Sergio Corbucci
    Sergio Corbucci was an Italian film director. He is best known for his very violent yet intelligent spaghetti westerns...

  • Scipio Africanus
    Scipio Africanus
    Publius Cornelius Scipio Africanus , also known as Scipio Africanus and Scipio the Elder, was a general in the Second Punic War and statesman of the Roman Republic...

  • Aemilia Tertia
    Aemilia Tertia
    Aemilia Tertia, better known as Aemilia Paulla , was the wife of Scipio Africanus , Roman general and statesman...

  • Lucius Cornelius Scipio (praetor)
  • Renato Corsetti
    Renato Corsetti
    Renato Corsetti is an Italian esperantist who served as president of the World Esperanto Association between 2001 and 2007. He was born in Rome, Italy and is a staunch defender of the idea that the people of the world should be able to communicate in a neutral and easy international language...

  • Simone Corsi
    Simone Corsi
    Simone Corsi is an Italian Grand Prix motorcycle road racer.His first World Championship race was in 2002 at Mugello, in the 125cc class. Since the following year he has competed regularly in the world championship level....

  • Giovanni Costa
    Giovanni Costa
    Giovanni Costa , known as Nino, was an Italian landscape painter and revolutionary.-Biography:Costa was born in Rome...

  • Antonella Costa
    Antonella Costa
    Antonella Costa is a film and television actress.She works in different countries including the cinema of Argentina.-Filmography:* Garage Olimpo aka Garage Olimpo* Alma mía...

  • Placido Costanzi
    Placido Costanzi
    Placido Costanzi was an Italian painter of the late-Baroque period.He was born to a family of gem-makers in Rome, where he became a pupil of Benedetto Luti and painted mainly historical and devotional subjects. He painted a St. Camillus in Santa Maria Maddalena, in which he has aspired to the...

  • Maurizio Costanzo
    Maurizio Costanzo
    Maurizio Costanzo is an Italian television host and journalist. He is married to Maria De Filippi, an Italian television host.-Biography:Costanzo was born in Rome....

  • Emanuele Crialese
    Emanuele Crialese
    Emanuele Crialese is an Italian screenwriter and film director. He is a native of Rome. He studied filmmaking in New York City...

  • Simone Cristicchi
    Simone Cristicchi
    -Biography:In March 2007, Simone won the 57th edition of the Sanremo music festival. His song "Ti regalerò una rosa" won due to extremely high marks received from the festival staff and popular vote. The lyrics to the song are taken from papers he found that were written by a man who was in a...

  • Princess Cristina of Bourbon-Two Sicilies
    Princess Cristina of Bourbon-Two Sicilies
    Princess Cristina of Bourbon-Two Sicilies was the only child of King Francis II of the Two Sicilies and his wife, Maria Sophie of Bavaria.-Her parents:Exiled to Rome , the Bourbons-Two Sicilies needed to...

  • Paola Croce
    Paola Croce
    Paola Croce is an Italian volleyball player, who plays as a libero. She currently plays for RC Cannes.-References:* *...

  • Lorella Cuccarini
    Lorella Cuccarini
    Lorella Cuccarini is an Italian dancer, singer, television host and actress.-Albums:* Lorel * Voci * Voglia di fare * Le più belle canzoni -Singles:* "Sugar Sugar" * "Kangarù"...

  • Gianluca Curci
    Gianluca Curci
    Gianluca Curci is an Italian footballer who plays for Roma as a goalkeeper. Curci has previously played for Siena and Sampdoria.-Club career:Curci is a product of the Roma youth academy...

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  • Massimo D'Alema
    Massimo D'Alema
    Massimo D'Alema is an Italian politician. He is also a journalist and a former national secretary of the Democratic Party of the Left...

  • Dominic D'Alessandro
  • Marco D'Alessandro
    Marco D'Alessandro
    Marco D'Alessandro is an Italian footballer who plays as a winger for Serie B club Verona, on loan from Roma.-Club career:D'Alessandro moved his first footsteps into Lazio youth system. In 2005 he joined Roma youth teams...

  • Joe D'Amato
    Joe D'Amato
    Joe D'Amato, was a prolific Italian filmmaker who directed roughly 200 films, usually at the same time acting as producer and cinematographer, and sometimes providing the script as well...

  • Paolo Damiani
    Paolo Damiani
    Paolo Damiani is an Italian jazz cellist and double-bassist. Performing primarily in the avant-garde jazz and post bop mediums, Damiani was born in Rome, Italy. Damiana has performed over his career with a vast array of professional jazz musicians, including Gianluigi Trovesi, Kenny Wheeler, Tony...

  • Ilaria D'Amico
    Ilaria D'Amico
    Ilaria D'Amico is a commentator and television host on Italian television. She is most known for her work on shows related to football.-Career:Ilaria D'Amico was born in Rome....

  • Francesca Dani
    Francesca Dani
    Francesca Aurora Dani is an Italian cosplayer, net idol and model.- Career :Dani began her cosplay career after entering a contest while she was under age as Sailor Moon. Her website, launched in October 1998, turned into a pay website on 14 April 2002...

  • Daniel ben Judah
    Daniel ben Judah
    Daniel ben Judah was a Jewish liturgical poet, who lived at Rome in the middle of the fourteenth century CE. He was the grandfather of Daniel ben Samuel ha-Rofe, rabbi at Tivoli....

  • Augusto De Angelis
    Augusto De Angelis
    Augusto De Angelis was an Italian writer and journalist, active in particular during the Fascist rule in Italy.-Biography:...

  • Elio de Angelis
    Elio de Angelis
    Elio de Angelis was an Italian racing driver who participated in Formula One between and , racing for the Shadow, Lotus and Brabham teams. He was killed during testing at the Paul Ricard circuit at Le Castellet in 1986...

  • Guido & Maurizio De Angelis
    Guido & Maurizio De Angelis
    Guido and Maurizio de Angelis are Italian musicians.-Beginnings:The brothers were born in Rocca di Papa, near Rome; Guido de Angelis in 1944 , and Maurizio de Angelis in 1947 . Their musical career started in 1963, where, after successfully publishing an LP, they became arrangers for RCA Italiana...

  • Andrea de Cesaris
    Andrea de Cesaris
    Andrea de Cesaris is an Italian former race car driver. He started 208 races but never won; his is the longest career without a race victory. A string of accidents early in his career earned him the nickname 'Andrea de Crasheris',...

  • Francesco De Gregori
    Francesco De Gregori
    Francesco De Gregori is an Italian singer-songwriter. He is popularly known as "Il Principe Poeta" , a nickname referring to the elegance of his lyrics.-1970s:...

  • Aurelio De Laurentiis
    Aurelio De Laurentiis
    Aurelio De Laurentiis is a prominent Italian film producer, through his company, Filmauro. He is also the current chairman of his native Italian football club Napoli....

  • Giada De Laurentiis
    Giada De Laurentiis
    Giada Pamela De Laurentiis is an Italian American chef, writer, television personality, and the host of the current Food Network program Giada at Home. She also appears regularly as a contributor and guest co-host on NBC's Today...

  • Veronica De Laurentiis
    Veronica De Laurentiis
    Veronica De Laurentiis is an Italian author and actress. She is the daughter of Silvana Mangano and Dino De Laurentiis. At eighteen, she was cast in the movie Waterloo, starring Rod Steiger and Christopher Plummer...

  • Sylvio de Lellis
  • Giuseppe De Luca
    Giuseppe de Luca
    Giuseppe De Luca , was a famous Italian baritone who achieved his greatest triumphs at the New York Metropolitan Opera...

  • Enrico De Pedis
    Enrico De Pedis
    Enrico De Pedis was an Italian criminal and one of the bosses of the Banda della Magliana, an Italian criminal organization based in the city of Rome, particularly active throughout the late 1970s until the early 1990s. His nickname was "'Renatino". Unlike other members of his gang, De Pedis...

  • Daniele De Rossi
    Daniele De Rossi
    Daniele De Rossi, Ufficiale OMRI is an Italian footballer who plays as a midfielder for Serie A club Roma. He is the current Roma's vice-captain and nicknamed as Capitan Futuro due to his high probabality as heir-apparent to Francesco Totti's captain armband.With Roma he has won the Coppa Italia...

  • Giovanni Battista de Rossi
    Giovanni Battista de Rossi
    Giovanni Battista de Rossi was an Italian archaeologist, famous outside his field for his rediscovery of early Christian catacombs.-Life and works:He was born in Rome...

  • Mattia de Rossi
    Mattia de Rossi
    Mattia de Rossi was an Italian architect of the Baroque period, active mainly in Rome and surrounding towns.Born in Rome to a family of architects and artisans, he rose to prominence under the mentorship of Gian Lorenzo Bernini, and even inherited the position as chief architect of the Fabbrica di...

  • Maurizio De Santis
  • Lorenzo De Silvestri
    Lorenzo De Silvestri
    Lorenzo De Silvestri is an Italian footballer who plays as a defender for Serie A club Fiorentina. He is an offensive fullback with an imposing physique.-Lazio:...

  • Giancarlo De Sisti
    Giancarlo De Sisti
    Giancarlo de Sisti is a former Italian footballer and football manager.Best known by his nickname Picchio, during his career he played for A.S. Roma and ACF Fiorentina...

  • Claudio De Sousa
    Claudio De Sousa
    Claudio De Sousa is an Italian footballer in the role of a striker. He is currently unattached.-Career:De Sousa made his Serie A debut with Lazio in 2005 and then was signed by Messina De Sousa from Lodigiani later that year, but sold to Torino in co-ownership deal...

  • Daniele De Vezze
    Daniele De Vezze
    Daniele De Vezze is an Italian footballer .-Roma:De Vezze began his football career with hometown club Roma. He was part of Primavera U20 youth team and made his Serie A debut on 14 February 1999 in the 3–1 victory against Sampdoria. He replaced Fábio Júnior in the 91st minutes...

  • Raffaele De Vita
    Raffaele De Vita
    Raffaele De Vita is an Italian professional footballer who plays for Swindon Town.-Career:De Vita began his career with Blackburn Rovers but did not make an appearance for the first team. He joined Livingston in July 2008...

  • Lorenzo Del Prete
    Lorenzo Del Prete
    Lorenzo Del Prete is an Italian football defender currently playing for A.S.G. Nocerina on loan from A.C. Siena.-Club career:...

  • Claudio Della Penna
    Claudio Della Penna
    Claudio Della Penna , is an Italian football striker who is currently contracted with Ternana.-Career:He began to play in the youth system of AS Roma, he was in the team that finished runners-up in the Torneo di Viareggio 2007....

  • Pietro Della Valle
    Pietro Della Valle
    Pietro della Valle was an Italian who traveled throughout Asia during the Renaissance period. His travels took him to the Holy Land, the Middle East, Northern Africa, and as Far as India.-Biography:...

  • Tonino Delli Colli
    Tonino Delli Colli
    Tonino Delli Colli was an Italian cinematographer.Antonio Delli Colli was born in Rome, and he began work at Rome's Cinecittà studio in 1938, at the age of sixteen. By the mid-1940s he was working as a cinematographer and in 1952 shot the first Italian film in colour, Totò a colori...

  • Gabriele Dell'Otto
    Gabriele Dell'Otto
    Gabriele Dell’Otto is an Italian illustrator and author whose works have been published in several countries in the fields of scientific illustration, calendars, lithographies, books, colored graphic folders, and cover work for magazines and video games.-Early life:Dell'Otto was born December 20,...

  • Augusto De Marsanich
    Augusto De Marsanich
    Augusto De Marsanich was an Italian National Fascist Party politician and the second leader of the Italian Social Movement ....

  • Agostino Di Bartolomei
    Agostino Di Bartolomei
    Agostino Di Bartolomei was an Italian football player, who played as a midfielder. Famed for his elegant playmaking skills, he is regarded as one of A.S. Roma's greatest players ever, and one of the greatest players never to have been capped by the Italian national team.-Biography:Di Bartolomei...

  • Luigi Di Biagio
    Luigi Di Biagio
    Luigi Di Biagio , is an Italian former football defensive midfielder, who last played for Ascoli Calcio 1898 .Di Biagio was born in Rome. Prior to joining Ascoli, he played for Lazio , Monza , Foggia , Roma , Internazionale , and Brescia Calcio . He was capped 31 times for Italy, scoring two goals...

  • Paolo Di Canio
    Paolo Di Canio
    Paolo Di Canio is a Italian former professional footballer and current manager of League Two side Swindon Town. Di Canio made over 500 league appearances and scored over 100 league goals as a player....

  • Valerio Di Cesare
    Valerio Di Cesare
    Valerio Di Cesare is an Italian footballer, who currently plays as a defender for Torino.Di Cesare moved his first footsteps into Lazio's youth system. During the summer of 2001, he accepted an offer from Chelsea, initially joining the Blues reserve team...

  • Nello Di Costanzo
    Nello Di Costanzo
    Cuono "Nello" Di Costanzo is an Italian football manager and former player, who last served as head coach of Padova in the Italian Serie B.-Playing:...

  • Angelo Di Livio
    Angelo Di Livio
    Angelo di Livio is a former Italian football midfielder. He was given the nickname il soldatino during his playing career due to his characteristic way of running up and down the flank....

  • Carlo Di Palma
    Carlo Di Palma
    Carlo Di Palma was an Italian cinematographer, renowned for his work on both color and black-and-white films, who collaborated with Michelangelo Antonioni , Woody Allen Carlo Di Palma (17 April 1925, Rome – 9 July 2004, Rome) was an Italian cinematographer, renowned for his work on both...

  • Alessio di Savino
    Alessio di Savino
    Alessio di Savino is an Italian boxer who competed at the 2008 Olympics and lost his debut to Raynell Williams in the men's featherweight division .-External links:**...

  • Marco Di Vaio
    Marco Di Vaio
    Marco Di Vaio is an Italian football striker, who currently plays for Bologna FC. In his long career, Di Vaio has played for the likes of Lazio, Hellas Verona, Bari, Salernitana, Parma, Juventus, Valencia and Monaco...

  • Andrea Di Vito
    Andrea Di Vito
    -Biography:Di Vito was born in Rome, and showed a love for drawing from an early age. His first published work appeared in the form of two short stories in the Italian magazine L'intrepido. He was first published in America in Marvel Comics' Marvel Shadows and Light, with one of his pinups...

  • Silvia Dionisio
    Silvia Dionisio
    Silvia Dionisio is an Italian actress who appeared in several movies in the 1970s, including Amici miei and Ondata di piacere....

  • Domitian
    Domitian
    Domitian was Roman Emperor from 81 to 96. Domitian was the third and last emperor of the Flavian dynasty.Domitian's youth and early career were largely spent in the shadow of his brother Titus, who gained military renown during the First Jewish-Roman War...

  • Maurizio Domizzi
    Maurizio Domizzi
    Maurizio Domizzi is an Italian football defender who plays for Udinese.A S.S. Lazio youth product, Domizzi was farmed to Livorno at Serie C1 in October 1998. In summer 2001, he joined A.C. Milan, by immediately loaned to Modena at Serie B. In the next season he joined league rival U.C. Sampdoria...

  • Sergio Donati
    Sergio Donati
    Sergio Donati is an Italian screenwriter. He has written for over 70 films since 1952. He was born in Rome, Italy.-Selected filmography:* The Big Gundown * Mission Stardust * Faccia a faccia ...

  • Cristiano Doni
    Cristiano Doni
    Cristiano Doni is an Italian professional footballer who plays for Atalanta B.C. as an attacking midfielder.Most of his senior career was associated with Atalanta, as he appeared in more than 300 official games for the club, netting more than 100 goals.Doni represented Italy at the 2002 World...

  • Mario Draghi
    Mario Draghi
    Mario Draghi is an Italian banker and economist who succeeded Jean-Claude Trichet as President of the European Central Bank on 1 November 2011...

  • Serafino Dubois
    Serafino Dubois
    Serafino Dubois was an Italian chess player. He was known for his writings on the game and for his promotion of chess in Italy.-Chess career:Serafino Dubois was born in Rome...

  • Francesco Borgongini Duca
    Francesco Borgongini Duca
    Francesco Borgongini Duca was an Italian Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church who served as Apostolic Nuncio to Italy from 1929 to 1953, and was elevated to the cardinalate in 1953 by Pope Pius XII.-Biography:...

  • Alessandro Duranti
    Alessandro Duranti
    Alessandro Duranti is Professor of Anthropology and Dean of Social Sciences at UCLA.-Books:* 1981 - The Samoan Fono: a sociolinguistic study - Canberra: The Australian National University, Pacific Linguistics Monograph B80* 1992 - Etnografia del parlare quotidiano - Rome: La Nuova Italia...


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  • Early life and career of Marcus Aurelius
    Early life and career of Marcus Aurelius
    This article covers the life of Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius from his birth on 26 April 121 to his accession on 7 March 161. Marcus' life after his accession is covered in Emperorship of Marcus Aurelius.-Sources:...

  • Elio Germano
    Elio Germano
    Elio Germano is an Italian actor.Born in Rome, he debuted, aged twelve, in the Castellano e Pipolo's movie Ci hai rotto papà...

  • Emperorship of Marcus Aurelius
    Emperorship of Marcus Aurelius
    This article covers the life of Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius from his accession on 7 March 161 to his death on 17 March 180. Marcus' life before his accession is covered in Early life and career of Marcus Aurelius...

  • Julius Evola
    Julius Evola
    Barone Giulio Cesare Andrea Evola also known as Julius Evola, was an Italian philosopher and esotericist...


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  • Enrico Fabbro
    Enrico Fabbro
    Enrico Fabbro is an Italian football manager.-Career:Fabbro started his professional career working with the youth sector of Lodigiani , Lazio and Cisco Lodigiani , also winning a Giovanissimi Nazionali national title with Lazio in 2001...

  • Fabius Maximus
    Fabius Maximus
    Quintus Fabius Maximus Verrucosus Cunctator was a Roman politician and general, born in Rome around 280 BC and died in Rome in 203 BC. He was Roman Consul five times and was twice Dictator in 221 and again in 217 BC. He reached the office of Roman Censor in 230 BC...

  • Aldo Fabrizi
    Aldo Fabrizi
    Aldo Fabrizi was an Italian actor and cinema and theatre director.-Actor Filmography:* Avanti, c'è posto... by Mario Bonnard...

  • Michel Fabrizio
    Michel Fabrizio
    Michel Fabrizio is a professional motorcycle road racer. Since , he has been racing for Ducati Xerox Team alongside Noriyuki Haga on the new Ducati 1198 in the Superbike World Championship.-Early years:...

  • Federica Faiella
    Federica Faiella
    Federica Faiella is an Italian ice dancer. She competes with Massimo Scali. They are the 2010 World bronze medalists, 2009 & 2010 European silver medalists and six-time Italian national champions. They have won eleven Grand Prix medals.-Early career:Faiella began skating at the age of ten...

  • Stefano Fanucci
    Stefano Fanucci
    Stefano Fanucci is an Italian football defender who currently plays for Ternana.-Biography:Fanucci was loaned to Teramo and Savoia in 1998-99 and 1999-2000 season and awarded the two clubs 100 million Italian lire and 300 million lire respectively for development bonus for the player in 2000. In...

  • Felice Farina
    Felice farina
    Felice Farina is an Italian director.Felice Farina is a Rome based artist. He grew through the ferment of Roman avant-garde theatre, both as an actor and backstage, developing - at the same time - a strong interest in animation and special/optical effects for film making...

  • Prospero Farinacci
    Prospero Farinacci
    Prospero Farinacci was an Italian lawyer and judge, noted for his harsh sentencing.While he was a staunch prosecutor of sodomites, in 1595 he was himself accused of having repeatedly entertained sodomitic relations...

  • Alexander Farnese, Duke of Parma
    Alexander Farnese, Duke of Parma
    Alexander Farnese was Duke of Parma and Piacenza from 1586 to 1592, and Governor of the Spanish Netherlands from 1578 to 1592.-Biography:...

  • Odoardo Farnese (cardinal)
  • Pier Luigi Farnese, Duke of Parma
    Pier Luigi Farnese, Duke of Parma
    Pier Luigi Farnese was the first Duke of Parma, Piacenza and Castro, from 1545 to 1547.Born in Rome, Pier Luigi was the illegitimate son of Cardinal Alessandro Farnese...

  • Ada Feinberg-Sireni
    Ada Feinberg-Sireni
    Ada Feinberg-Sireni is a former Israeli politician who served as a member of the Knesset for the Alignment between 1969 and 1974.-Biography:...

  • Fortunato Felice
    Fortunato Felice
    Fortunato Bartolommeo Felice , 2nd Comte de Panzutti, also known as Fortuné-Barthélemy de Félice and Francesco Placido Bartolomeo De Felice, was an Italian nobleman, a famed author, scientist, and said to have been one of the most important publishers of the 18th century.-Biography:Forunato Felice...

  • Pope Felix I
    Pope Felix I
    -Life and works:A Roman by birth, Felix was chosen as Pope on 5 January 269, in succession to Pope Dionysius, who had died on 26 December 268Felix was the author of an important dogmatic letter on the unity of Christ's Person...

  • Prince Ferdinand Pius, Duke of Calabria
    Prince Ferdinand Pius, Duke of Calabria
    Prince Ferdinand Pius , Duke of Calabria , was head of the House of Bourbon-Two Sicilies and pretender to the throne of the extinct Kingdom of the Two Sicilies from 1934 to 1960....

  • Sabrina Ferilli
    Sabrina Ferilli
    Sabrina Ferilli is an Italian theater and movie actress.- Selected filmography :* Natale a Beverly Hills * Tutta la vita davanti * Natale A New York * Dalida...

  • Enrico Fermi
    Enrico Fermi
    Enrico Fermi was an Italian-born, naturalized American physicist particularly known for his work on the development of the first nuclear reactor, Chicago Pile-1, and for his contributions to the development of quantum theory, nuclear and particle physics, and statistical mechanics...

  • Giuliano Ferrara
    Giuliano Ferrara
    Giuliano Ferrara is an Italian politician, journalist, founding editor of Il Foglio, and TV presenter.After the militancy in the PCI and PSI, in the nineties has become a supporter of Silvio Berlusconi, and finally one of the most intellectual representatives of Italian Theoconservativism-Life and...

  • Ettore Ferrari
    Ettore Ferrari
    Ettore Ferrari was an Italian sculptor.-Biography:Born in Rome to an artistic family , Ferrari was one of the members of the artistic rebirth in the secular state born after the Italian Unification...

  • Attilio Ferraris
    Attilio Ferraris
    Attilio Ferraris was an Italian football midfielder.He played 10 seasons in the Serie A for A.S. Roma, S.S. Lazio and A.S. Bari...

  • Anna-Maria Ferrero
    Anna-Maria Ferrero
    Anna-Maria Ferrero is an Italian actress.She was born Anna Maria Guerra changing her last name in honor of composer Willy Ferrero....

  • Ciro Ferri
    Ciro Ferri
    Ciro Ferri was an Italian Baroque sculptor and painter, the chief pupil and successor of Pietro da Cortona.He was born in Rome, where he began working under Cortona and with a team of artists in the extensive fresco decorations of the Quirinal Palace...

  • Gabriella Ferri
    Gabriella Ferri
    Gabriella Ferri was an Italian singer born in Rome.Ferri's career began in a Milan nightclub in 1963. By 1965, she had successfully broke onto the Rome singing scene by singing popular Roman songs. One of her biggest hits was "Sempre" . During her career, she also performed Neapolitan and Latin...

  • Luca Ferri
    Luca Ferri
    Luca Ferri is an Italian footballer who plays for Zagarolo at Eccellenza Lazio. .-Biography:Ferri started his professional career at A.S. Roma. He played his first Serie A match against Juventus on 21 March 1999, replaced Fabio Petruzzi in the 76th minutes. The match ended in 1-1 draw...

  • Gabriele Ferzetti
    Gabriele Ferzetti
    Gabriele Ferzetti is an Italian actor. He has more than 160 credits to his name across film, television and stage. His career was at its peak in the 1950s and 1960s....

  • Domenico Fetti
    Domenico Fetti
    Domenico Fetti was an Italian Baroque painter active mainly in Rome, Mantua and Venice.-Biography:...

  • Franca Fiacconi
    Franca Fiacconi
    Franca Fiacconi is a long-distance runner from Italy. She won the 1998 New York City Marathon after finishing second in 1996 and third in 1997. She also won the 2001 Enschede Marathon...

  • Michael Fiaschetti
    Michael Fiaschetti
    Michael Fiaschetti was a prominent New York detective and succeeded Lt. Joseph Petrosino as head of the NYPD's "Italian Squad"...

  • Alessia Filippi
    Alessia Filippi
    Alessia Filippi is an Italian swimmer.Filippi excels in backstroke and individual medley races, as well as in middle-distance freestyle ....

  • Filippo De Grassi
  • Roberto Fiore
    Roberto Fiore
    Roberto Fiore is an Italian nationalist politician and a founding member of the European third position movement which is against both communism and capitalism...

  • Fiorella Kostoris
    Fiorella Kostoris
    Fiorella Kostoris Padoa-Schioppa is an Italian economist who is currently Professor at the University of Rome . She is also a professor at the College of Europe in Bruges...

  • Valerio Fiori
    Valerio Fiori
    Valerio Fiori is an Italian former professional footballer, who played as a goalkeeper. He is currently a goalkeeping coach at Serie A club Milan.-Career:...

  • Fabio Firmani
    Fabio Firmani
    Fabio Firmani is an Italian footballer who plays for Shaanxi Renhe Commercial Chanba F.C. in China, as a midfielder.-Club career:...

  • Giancarlo Fisichella
    Giancarlo Fisichella
    Giancarlo Fisichella , also known as Fisico, Giano or Fisi, is an Italian racing driver. He has driven in Formula One for Minardi, Jordan, Benetton, Sauber, Renault, Force India and Ferrari. Nowadays, he drives for AF Corse's GT2 Ferrari in various sportscar events...

  • Lucius Caesetius Flavus
  • Marco Follini
    Marco Follini
    Marco Follini is an Italian centre-wing politician.Follini was born in Rome. He was National Secretary of the Democrats' Centre Union party until October 15, 2005...

  • Marcello Fondato
    Marcello Fondato
    Marcello Fondato was an Italian screenwriter and film director. He wrote for 46 films between 1958 and 1986. He also directed nine films between 1968 and 1986...

  • Eleonora Fonseca Pimentel
    Eleonora Fonseca Pimentel
    Eleonora Anna Naria Felice de Fonseca Pimentel was an Italian poet and revolutionary connected with the Neapolitan revolution and subsequent short-lived Neapolitan Republic of 1799, a sister republic of the French Republic and one of many set up in the 1790s in...

  • Francesco Fonte
    Francesco Fonte
    Francesco Fonte is an Italian former footballer who played as a central midfielder.-Career:Fonte was one of the youth products of Lazio who made his debut during the 1984-85 season. The promise shown by the youngsters was a rare highlight in a dismal relegation season...

  • Pope Formosus
    Pope Formosus
    Pope Formosus was Pope of the Catholic Church from 891 to 896. His brief reign as Pope was troubled, and his remains were exhumed and put on trial in the notorious Cadaver Synod.-Biography:...

  • Frances of Rome
    Frances of Rome
    Saint Frances of Rome, Obl.S.B., is an Italian saint who was a wife, mother, mystic, organizer of charitable services and a Benedictine oblate who founded a religious community of vowed oblates.- Biography :...

  • Daniele Franceschini
    Daniele Franceschini
    Daniele Franceschini is an Italian football midfielder.-External links:*http://www.tuttocalciatori.net/Franceschini_Daniele...

  • Franco Fraticelli
    Franco Fraticelli
    Franco Fraticelli is an Italian film editor with more than 150 film credits. Fraticelli was consistently Dario Argento's editor of choice from The Bird with the Crystal Plumage through Opera ....

  • Franco Frattini
  • Giovanni Frattini
    Giovanni Frattini
    Giovanni Frattini was an Italian mathematician, noted for his contributions to group theory.He entered the University of Rome in 1869, where he studied mathematics with Giuseppe Battaglini, Eugenio Beltrami, and Luigi Cremona, obtaining his PhD. in 1875.In 1885 he published a paper where he...

  • Gianluca Freddi
    Gianluca Freddi
    Gianluca Freddi is an Italian footballer, currently playing for Serie B side Grosseto.A product of the AS Roma youth academy, Freddi usually plays as defender. He made his debut against U.C. Sampdoria as a starter, in a goalless draw on April 22, 2006.In summer 2007, he was sold to Grosseto in...

  • Giammarco Frezza
    Giammarco Frezza
    -Biography:Although never played for Internazionale, Frezza was call-up to taken the squad photo with Nerazzurri in August 1996. He was loaned to various clubs before transferred to A.S. Roma in exchange with Alessandro Frau in July 2001. Which sent him to sister club Palermo which also owned by...

  • Giorgio Frezzolini
    Giorgio Frezzolini
    Giorgio Frezzolini is an Italian football player, in the role of goalkeeper. He currently plays for Atalanta.-Career:A Lazio youth system product, Frezzolini never played for the biancocelesti and was instead sent on loan to several minor league teams...

  • Ira von Fürstenberg
    Ira von Fürstenberg
    Princess Virginia of Fürstenberg is a European socialite, actress, jewelry designer, and a former public relations manager for the fashion designer Valentino Garavani.-Background:...

  • Massimiliano Fuksas
    Massimiliano Fuksas
    Massimiliano Fuksas is an Italian architect, born in Rome in 1944 to an Jewish Lithuanian father and Italian Catholic mother. He received his degree in architecture from the La Sapienza University in 1969 in Rome, where he opened his first office. Subsequent offices were opened in Paris and Vienna...

  • Lucio Fulci
    Lucio Fulci
    Lucio Fulci was an Italian film director, screenwriter, and actor. He is perhaps best known for his directorial work on gore films, including Zombie and The Beyond , although he made films in genres as diverse as giallo, western, and comedy...

  • Pietro Fumasoni Biondi
    Pietro Fumasoni Biondi
    Pietro Fumasoni Biondi was an Italian Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church who served as Prefect of the Sacred Congregation for the Propagation of the Faith in the Roman Curia from 1933 until his death, and was elevated to the cardinalate in 1933.-Biography:Pietro Fumasoni Biondi was born in Rome...

  • Daniela Fusco

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  • Giulio Gabrielli the Younger
    Giulio Gabrielli the Younger
    Giulio Gabrielli was an Italian Catholic Church's cardinal. He spent most of his career in the Roman Curia....

  • Riccardo Galeazzi-Lisi
    Riccardo Galeazzi-Lisi
    Riccardo Galeazzi-Lisi was an Italian medical doctor who served as Pope Pius XII's personal physician from 1939 until his dismissal in 1956. During his service in the Vatican he was officially titled "Archiatra Pontificio". The pope also made him an honorary member of the Pontifical Academy of...

  • Anna Galiena
    Anna Galiena
    Anna Galiena is an Italian actress, best known to English-speaking audiences for her appearances in Le Mari de la coiffeuse, Jamón, jamón and Being Human.-Movie career:...

  • Daniele Galloppa
    Daniele Galloppa
    Daniele Galloppa is an Italian footballer who plays as a midfielder for Serie A club Parma. Galloppa is a central midfield playmaker with outstanding reading of the game, excellent vision and an ability to deliver incisive passes....

  • Giuseppe Garibaldi
    Giuseppe Garibaldi
    Giuseppe Garibaldi was an Italian military and political figure. In his twenties, he joined the Carbonari Italian patriot revolutionaries, and fled Italy after a failed insurrection. Garibaldi took part in the War of the Farrapos and the Uruguayan Civil War leading the Italian Legion, and...

  • Carlo Giorgio Garofalo
    Carlo Giorgio Garofalo
    Carlo Giorgio Garofalo was an Italian composer, conductor and organist.Garofalo was born in Rome, Italy to Giovanni and Faustina Rinaldi Garofalo. He later attended the Vatican college where he studied organ and music composition...

  • Matteo Garrone
    Matteo Garrone
    Matteo Garrone is an Italian film maker.Born in Rome, the son of a theatre critic, Nico Garrone and a photographer, in 1996 Garrone won the Sacher d'Oro, an award sponsored by Nanni Moretti, with the short film Silhouette, that became one of the three episodes that are on his first long film ...

  • Riccardo Garrone (actor)
    Riccardo Garrone (actor)
    Riccardo Garrone is an Italian film actor. He has appeared in over 140 films since 1949.-Selected filmography:* Two Nights with Cleopatra * Woman of Rome * Doctor and the Healer...

  • Alessandro Gassman
    Alessandro Gassman
    Alessandro Gassman is an Italian actor.Born in Rome, he is the son of Italian actor Vittorio Gassman and French actress Juliette Mayniel.-Career:...

  • Luciano Gaucci
    Luciano Gaucci
    Luciano Gaucci is an Italian entrepreneur and sportsman. He was the owner of various clubs:* Perugia Calcio, a football club based in Perugia, Umbria.* Viterbese Calcio, a football club based in Viterbo, Lazio.* S.S...

  • Giuliano Gemma
    Giuliano Gemma
    -Biography:Born in Rome, Gemma first worked as a stuntman, then was offered real acting parts by director Duccio Tessari, starting with the film Arrivano i titani . He also made an appearance in Luchino Visconti's Il Gattopardo as Garibaldi's General...

  • Augusto Genina
    Augusto Genina
    Augusto Genina was an Italian film pioneer. He was a movie producer and director.Born in Rome, Genina was a drama critic and wrote comedies for the Il Mondo Magazine, under advise of Aldo de Benedetti switches to movies for the "Film d'Arte Italiana", that produces his first film "La moglie di sua...

  • Enrico Gennari
  • Giuseppe Gentile
    Giuseppe Gentile
    Giuseppe Gentile is a retired Italian triple jumper, who won a bronze medal at the 1968 Summer Olympics. He would later appear opposite Maria Callas in the film version of Medea-Achievements:-External links:*...

  • Artemisia Gentileschi
    Artemisia Gentileschi
    Artemisia Gentileschi was an Italian Early Baroque painter, today considered one of the most accomplished painters in the generation influenced by Caravaggio...

  • Aloysius Gentili
    Aloysius Gentili
    Aloysius Luigi Gentili was an Italian Rosminian cleric.-Biography:His early life was that of a brilliant young man of the world. He sought admission into the Society of Jesus but was refused because of his health. He made the acquaintance of Father Rosmini who accepted him as a postulant of the...

  • Paolo Gentiloni
    Paolo Gentiloni
    Paolo Gentiloni is an Italian politician, member of the Daisy—Democracy is Freedom party and currently the Italian Minister of Communications.-Biography:He is a professional journalist and has a degree in political sciences....

  • Claudia Gerini
    Claudia Gerini
    Claudia Gerini is an Italian actress and showgirl.-Biography:Born in Rome from employees parents, in 1985 she won National Competition of Miss Teenager....

  • Gerino Gerini
    Gerino Gerini
    Gerino Gerini is a former racing driver from Italy.A native of Rome, he participated in seven World Championship Formula One Grands Prix, debuting on 22 January 1956. He scored 1.5 championship points. He also participated in numerous non-Championship Formula One races.-Complete Formula One World...

  • Publius Septimius Geta
    Publius Septimius Geta
    Geta , was a Roman Emperor co-ruling with his father Septimius Severus and his older brother Caracalla from 209 to his death.-Early life:Geta was the younger son of Septimius Severus by his second wife Julia Domna...

  • Riccardo Ghedin
    Riccardo Ghedin
    Riccardo Ghedin is an Italian tennis player.Ghedin qualified for the 2009 Wimbledon Championships and lost in the first round of the main draw to Latvian Ernests Gulbis 2-6, 4-6, 4-6....

  • Massimo Ghini
    Massimo Ghini
    Massimo Ghini is an Italian actor. He has worked with Franco Zeffirelli, Giorgio Strehler, Giuseppe Patroni Griffi, and Gabriele Lavia, among others. He is married to actress Nancy Brilli, and is the father of four children....

  • Andrea Ghiurghi
    Andrea Ghiurghi
    Andrea Ghiurghi is a retired beach volleyball player from Italy, who competed at the 1996 Summer Olympics for his native country. In 1993 he won the bronze medal at the first official European Championships in men's beach volleyball, partnering Dio Lequaglie...

  • Tata Giacobetti
    Tata Giacobetti
    Giovanni "Tata" Giacobetti was one of the singers of Quartetto Cetra, a very famous Italian vocal quartet.-Biography:...

  • Dante Giacosa
    Dante Giacosa
    Dante Giacosa was an Italian car designer. His work covered a large range from minicars to sports cars, using all the different layouts as and when they were the best solution at the time to meet the design parameters....

  • Adriano Giannini
    Adriano Giannini
    Adriano Giannini is an Italian actor, son of Giancarlo Giannini. He co-starred in 2002 with Madonna in the widely-panned film Swept Away, a remake of a 1974 Italian film. Adriano played the same role that his father, Giancarlo Giannini, played in the original...

  • Giuseppe Giannini
    Giuseppe Giannini
    Giuseppe Giannini is a former Italian international footballer, who currently serves as head coach of Serie B side Grosseto. He spent the majority of his 16-year playing career with A.S...

  • Enrico Gilardi
    Enrico Gilardi
    Enrico Gilardi is a former basketball player from Italy.Gilardi was born in Rome. He won the silver medal with his national team at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow. He also won a Euroleague championship in 1983 with Virtus Roma.He ended his career in 1991 at Filodoro Napoli.- External links :*...

  • Giles of Rome
    Giles of Rome
    Giles of Rome , was an archbishop of Bourges who was famed for his logician commentary on the Organon by Aristotle. Giles was styled Doctor Fundatissimus by Pope Benedict XIV...

  • Cristiano Gimelli
    Cristiano Gimelli
    Cristiano Gimelli is an Italian football defender.Gimelli played at Serie D clubs at Rome. In September 2004, he signed a 5-year contract with Lazio. He went on loan to Casale, Viterbese of Serie C2, before joined Lanciano in co-ownership deal. In June 2007, he returned to Lazio, but went on loan...

  • Ludovico Gimignani
    Ludovico Gimignani
    Ludovico Gimignani was an Italian painter, active mainly in Rome, during the Baroque period.Ludovico's father, Giacinto had been one of the main pupils emerging from the loose "studio" of painters working for Pietro da Cortona and who also received patronage from his fellow Pistoia native, the...

  • Caterina Ginnasi
    Caterina Ginnasi
    Caterina Ginnasi was an Italian painter of the Baroque period, active mainly in Rome. She was the pupil of the painter Giovanni Lanfranco. In Rome, she painted altarpieces for the church of Santa Lucia. She was the niece of the patron and builder of the church, Cardinal Ginnasi. She would have...

  • Alberto Giolitti
    Alberto Giolitti
    Alberto Giolitti was an Italian-American comic book artist.He was born in Rome, where his family held one of the most famous café, Giolitti, where he also worked for a while. He debuted as artist for Il Vittorioso in the late 1940s...

  • Pierluigi Giombini
    Pierluigi Giombini
    Pierluigi Giombini was born in a family of musicians: his father Marcello Giombini was a composer of secular music and film music as well as being interested in electronic music. His grandfather was a music professor specialized in the Oboe who also played in orchestras...

  • Bruno Giordano
    Bruno Giordano
    Bruno Giordano is an Italian football manager and former player.-Playing career:Born in Rome, Giordano played for most of his career with Lazio, debuting in Serie A on 5 October 1975...

  • Domiziana Giordano
    Domiziana Giordano
    Domiziana Giordano is an artist, actress photographer and video artist. Domiziana has played the lead role in films directed by Nicholas Roeg, Jean Luc Godard, Andrei Tarkovsky, Mauro Bolognini, Neil Jordan, Ken McMullen and many others.She grew up in a family of artists and architects and...

  • Eleonora Giorgi
    Eleonora Giorgi
    Eleonora Giorgi is an Italian actress, screenwriter and film director.Giorgi was born in Rome. She made her film debut in a minor role in Paolo Cavara's horror film Black Belly of the Tarantula . Giorgi has appeared in nearly fifty films, including Pasquale Festa Campanile's Conviene far bene...

  • Miriam Giovanelli
    Miriam Giovanelli
    Miriam Giovanelli is an Italian/Spanish actress and model, perhaps the best known for her roles in Limoncello, Canciones de amor en Lolita's Club and Física o Química.- Career :...

  • Giovanna of Italy
    Giovanna of Italy
    Joanna of Italy was the last Tsaritsa of Bulgaria.-Childhood:Giovanna was born in Rome, the third daughter and fourth child of King Victor Emmanuel III of Italy and Queen Elena, former Princess of Montenegro...

  • Italo Gismondi
    Italo Gismondi
    Italo Gismondi was an Italian archaeologist.He entered the Amministrazione delle Antichità e Belle Arti in 1910 and was named Director of the Ostia excavations where he remained for 44 years...

  • Giuseppe Giulietti (politician)
    Giuseppe Giulietti (politician)
    Giuseppe Giulietti in Rome is an Italian politician. First elected to the Italian Parliament in 1994 he was most recently elected as a member of Italy of Values. Before entering politics he had worked with RAI, as secretary of their journalists union UsigRai and then as a member of their Watch...

  • Ignazio Giunti
    Ignazio Giunti
    Ignazio Giunti was an Italian racing driver who made his name in saloon and Sports Car Racing in the late 1960s.Giunti was born in Rome...

  • Giuseppe Ciancabilla
    Giuseppe Ciancabilla
    Giuseppe Ciancabilla was one of the important figures of the anarchist movement who immigrated to the United States in the late 19th century, along with F. Saverio Merlino, Pietro Gori, Carlo Tresca, and Luigi Galleani.- Life :...

  • Leda Gloria
    Leda Gloria
    Leda Gloria was an Italian film actress. She appeared in 66 films between 1929 and 1965.-Selected filmography:* Side Street Story * Three Girls from Rome * The Eternal Chain...

  • Francesco Golisano
  • Gonzalo, Duke of Aquitaine
  • Carlo Grano
    Carlo Grano
    Carlo Grano was an Italian Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church who served as Apostolic Nuncio to Italy from 1958 to 1967, and was elevated to the cardinalate in 1967.-Biography:...

  • Ugo Grappasonni
    Ugo Grappasonni
    Ugo Grappasonni was an Italian professional golfer.Grappasonni was born in Rome and was one of the leading golfers in Italy, winning his national open twice, in 1950 and 1954, and the National Omnium on four occasions. He also won the French, Dutch and Swiss Opens, the latter twice...

  • Francesca Gregorini
    Francesca Gregorini
    Francesca Gregorini is an Italian-American singer and songwriter. -Youth:...

  • Pope Gregory I
    Pope Gregory I
    Pope Gregory I , better known in English as Gregory the Great, was pope from 3 September 590 until his death...

  • Fabio Grossi
  • Romolo Guerrieri
    Romolo Guerrieri
    Romolo Guerrieri is an Italian film director and screenwriter. He directed 17 films between 1961 and 1992.He was born in Rome, Italy.-Selected filmography:* Detective Belli...

  • Monica Guerritore
    Monica Guerritore
    Monica Guerritore is an Italian actress of cinema, theatre and television.-Biography:After her debut at just sixteen years of age under the direction of Giorgio Strehler in The Cherry Orchard , she tied herself romantically and artistically to...

  • Vittorio Gui
    Vittorio Gui
    Vittorio Gui was an Italian conductor and composer.Gui was born in Rome in 1885. In 1933 Bruno Walter invited him to be guest conductor at the Salzburg Festival....

  • Umberto Guidoni
    Umberto Guidoni
    Umberto Guidoni is an Italian politician and a former ESA astronaut. He is a veteran of two NASA space shuttle missions...

  • Gaspar de Guzmán, Count-Duke of Olivares
    Gaspar de Guzmán, Count-Duke of Olivares
    Don Gaspar de Guzmán y Pimentel Ribera y Velasco de Tovar, Count-Duke of Olivares and Duke of San Lúcar la Mayor , was a Spanish royal favourite of Philip IV and minister. As prime minister from 1621 to 1643, he over-exerted Spain in foreign affairs and unsuccessfully attempted domestic reform...

  • Corrado Guzzanti
    Corrado Guzzanti
    Corrado Guzzanti is an Italian actor, director, writer and satirist. He has been described as "the most interesting satirical author and actor today" and "among the comedians best loved by the Italian public."-Biography:...

  • Paolo Guzzanti
    Paolo Guzzanti
    Paolo Guzzanti is an Italian journalist and politician. He was previously a member of the Italian Socialist Party.-Biography:Born in Rome, he is the nephew of Elio Guzzanti and father to actors Corrado, Sabina and Caterina....

  • Sabina Guzzanti
    Sabina Guzzanti
    Sabina Guzzanti is an Italian satirist, actress, writer and producer whose work is devoted to examining social and political life in Italy.-Early life:...


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  • Hadrian
    Hadrian
    Hadrian , was Roman Emperor from 117 to 138. He is best known for building Hadrian's Wall, which marked the northern limit of Roman Britain. In Rome, he re-built the Pantheon and constructed the Temple of Venus and Roma. In addition to being emperor, Hadrian was a humanist and was philhellene in...

  • Ottone Hamerani
    Ottone Hamerani
    Ottone Hamerani , also known as Otto Hamerani, was an Italian medallist.Hamerani was born in Rome, Italy, the son of another medallist Giovanni Hamerani. He worked with several popes in producing coins, and was named Master of the Mint at Rome from 1734 until his death in 1768. -References:...

  • Constantin Hansen
    Constantin Hansen
    Carl Christian Constantin Hansen was one of the painters associated with the Golden Age of Danish Painting. He was deeply interested in literature and mythology, and inspired by art historian Niels Lauritz Høyen, he tried to recreate a national historical painting based on Norse mythology...

  • Vanessa Hessler
  • Paolo Heusch
    Paolo Heusch
    Paolo Heusch was an Italian film director and screenwriter. He directed ten films between 1958 and 1970...

  • Pope Honorius IV
    Pope Honorius IV
    Pope Honorius IV , born Giacomo Savelli, was Pope for two years from 1285 to 1287. During his unremarkable pontificate he largely continued to pursue the pro-French policy of his predecessor, Pope Martin IV...

  • Pope Honorius III
    Pope Honorius III
    Pope Honorius III , previously known as Cencio Savelli, was Pope from 1216 to 1227.-Early work:He was born in Rome as son of Aimerico...

  • Honorius of Canterbury
  • Danny Huston
    Danny Huston
    -Early life:Huston was born in Rome, Italy. He hails from the illustrious Huston acting and filmmaking dynasty. He is the son of legendary director John Huston, half-brother of actress Anjelica Huston and screenwriter Tony Huston, uncle of actor Jack Huston, stepbrother of Allegra Huston, and...


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  • Emanuele Idini
    Emanuele Idini
    Emanuele Idini is a retired freestyle swimmer from Italy, who represented his native country at two consecutive Summer Olympics: 1992 and 1996....

  • Immanuel the Roman
    Immanuel the Roman
    Immanuel ben Solomon ben Jekuthiel of Rome was an Italian-Jewish scholar and satirical poet. He was a member of a prominent, wealthy family and occupied an important position in Rome, possibly secretary or treasurer of the Jewish community there...

  • Fiorella Infascelli
    Fiorella Infascelli
    Fiorella Infascelli is an Italian film director and screenwriter. She has directed eight films between 1980 and 2003. Her film The Mask was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1988 Cannes Film Festival.-Filmography:...

  • Stefano Infessura
    Stefano Infessura
    Stefano Infessura was an Italian humanist historian and lawyer. He is remembered through his municipalist Diary of the City of Rome, a partisan chronicle of events at Rome by the Colonna family's point of view. He was in a position to hear everything that circulated in informed Roman circles, for...

  • Pope Innocent II
    Pope Innocent II
    Pope Innocent II , born Gregorio Papareschi, was pope from 1130 to 1143, and was probably one of the clergy in personal attendance on the antipope Clement III .-Early years:...

  • Pope Innocent X
    Pope Innocent X
    Pope Innocent X , born Giovanni Battista Pamphilj , was Pope from 1644 to 1655. Born in Rome of a family from Gubbio in Umbria who had come to Rome during the pontificate of Pope Innocent IX, he graduated from the Collegio Romano and followed a conventional cursus honorum, following his uncle...

  • Franco Interlenghi
    Franco Interlenghi
    Franco Interlenghi is an Italian actor.He made his acting debut at 15 in Vittorio De Sica's 1946 Neorealist film Sciuscià....


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  • Giuseppe Jannaconi
    Giuseppe Jannaconi
    Giuseppe Jannaconi was an Italian composer, one of the last in the style of Palestrina.Jannaconi was born in Rome, and studied under S. Rinaldini and Giuseppe Carpani. He is known for scoring many of Palestrina's works, aided by his friend Pasquale Pisari, as well as composing many of pieces of...

  • Pope John XIX
    Pope John XIX
    Pope John XIX , born Romanus, was Pope from 1024 to 1032.He succeeded his brother, Pope Benedict VIII , both being members of the powerful house of Tusculum...

  • Pope John III
    Pope John III
    Pope John III was pope from 561 to July 13, 574. He was born in Rome, of a distinguished family. The Liber Pontificalis calls him a son of one Anastasius. His father bore the title of illustris, more than likely being a vir illustris...

  • John the Deacon of the Lateran
  • Romina Johnson
    Romina Johnson
    Romina Johnson is a London-based R&B, soul, UK garage and 2-step singer. She was born in Rome to an American father and an Italian mother....

  • Renato William Jones
    Renato William Jones
    Renato William Jones , also known as R. William, or simply William Jones, was a popularizer of basketball in Europe and in Asia...

  • Jovanotti
    Jovanotti
    Lorenzo Cherubini, better known as Jovanotti, is an Italian singer-songwriter and rapper.The name Jovanotti derives from the plural form of the Italian word giovanotto , i.e. giovanotti. Lorenzo Cherubini originally auditioned a band with the name "I Giovanotti", but the record producer only was...

  • Juan Carlos I of Spain
    Juan Carlos I of Spain
    Juan Carlos I |Italy]]) is the reigning King of Spain.On 22 November 1975, two days after the death of General Francisco Franco, Juan Carlos was designated king according to the law of succession promulgated by Franco. Spain had no monarch for 38 years in 1969 when Franco named Juan Carlos as the...

  • Pope Julius I
    Pope Julius I
    Pope Saint Julius I, was pope from February 6, 337 to April 12, 352.He was a native of Rome and was chosen as successor of Mark after the Roman seat had been vacant for four months. He is chiefly known by the part he took in the Arian controversy...

  • Pope Julius III
    Pope Julius III
    Pope Julius III , born Giovanni Maria Ciocchi del Monte, was Pope from 7 February 1550 to 1555....

  • Justus
    Justus
    Justus was the fourth Archbishop of Canterbury. He was sent from Italy to England by Pope Gregory the Great, on a mission to Christianize the Anglo-Saxons from their native Anglo-Saxon paganism, probably arriving with the second group of missionaries despatched in 601...


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  • Shahrum Kashani
  • Tony Kendall (actor)
    Tony Kendall (actor)
    Tony Kendall was an Italian model turned film actor with over 50 film credits that reflect the trends of popular European cinema in the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s.-Biography and filmography:...

  • Claudia Koll
    Claudia Koll
    Claudia Koll is an Italian actress and missionary.-Biography:Claudia Koll was born in Rome of Italian and Romanian parentage....

  • Sylva Koscina
    Sylva Koscina
    Sylva Koscina was an Italian actress.-Biography:...

  • Ciril Kotnik
    Ciril Kotnik
    Ciril Kotnik was a Yugoslav diplomat of Slovene ethnicity.He was born in Ljubljana, then part the Austro-Hungarian Empire, to Carinthian Slovene parents...

  • Predrag Krstic

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  • Silvio Lafuenti
    Silvio Lafuenti
    Silvio Lafuenti is a retired Italian footballer. He played as a Goalkeeper.-External links:*...

  • Rodolfo Lanciani
    Rodolfo Lanciani
    Rodolfo Amedeo Lanciani was an Italian archaeologist, a pioneering student of ancient Roman topography, and among his many excavations was that of the House of the Vestals in the Roman Forum....

  • Stefano Landi
    Stefano Landi
    Stefano Landi was an Italian composer and teacher of the early Baroque Roman School. He was an influential early composer of opera, and wrote the earliest opera on a historical subject: Sant'Alessio .-Biography:Landi was born in Rome, the capital of the Papal States.In 1595 he joined the Collegio...

  • Lapo da Castiglionchio
    Lapo da Castiglionchio
    Lapo da Castiglionchio was born in Rome and referred to as "Lepo the Elder."He was an acquaintance and friend with Petarch since 1350 and corresponded with him often in letters....

  • Mariano Laurenti
    Mariano Laurenti
    Mariano Laurenti is an Italian film director. He directed 50 films between 1966 and 1999.He was born in Rome, Italy.-External links:...

  • Filippo Lauri
    Filippo Lauri
    Filippo Lauri was an Italian painter of the Baroque period, active mainly in Rome.Born and active in Rome, his story was featured in the biographies by Baldinucci...

  • Flavio Lazzari
    Flavio Lazzari
    Flavio Lazzari is an Italian footballer who plays for Empoli.-Udinese:He was then signed by Udinese in summer 2005, and made his Serie A debut on 11 December 2005 against Lecce....

  • Pietro Lazzari
    Pietro Lazzari
    Pietro Lazzari was an Italian artist and sculptor.An influential sculptor, painter, illustrator and printmaker Pietro Lazzari received his formal education from the Ornamental School of Rome . After the end of the First World War Lazzari joined the Italian Futurist movement and exhibited with such...

  • Stefano Lentini
    Stefano Lentini
    Stefano Lentini is an Italian composer and musician born in Rome, Italy. Lentini has released music and soundtracks of varying styles, from the electro-rock of Il sorteggio and the ethnic folk of Bakhita to the symphonic instrumentation of 84 Urne...

  • Leonardo Maugeri
    Leonardo Maugeri
    One of the world’s foremost experts on oil, gas, and energy, Leonardo Maugeri has been one of the most distinguished top managers of eni One of the world’s foremost experts on oil, gas, and energy, Leonardo Maugeri has been one of the most distinguished top managers of eni One of the world’s...

  • Sergio Leone
    Sergio Leone
    Sergio Leone was an Italian film director, producer and screenwriter most associated with the "Spaghetti Western" genre.Leone's film-making style includes juxtaposing extreme close-up shots with lengthy long shots...

  • Carlo Leoni (politician)
    Carlo Leoni (politician)
    Carlo Leoni is an Italian politician.After a long time as an activist and director of the Partito Comunista Italiano and of the Democratici di Sinistra , he became a deputy in the Italian Chamber of Deputies in 1996, and was re-elected to that role in 2001 and 2006.In the XIV Legislatura he...

  • Ottavio Leoni
    Ottavio Leoni
    Ottavio Leoni was an Italian painter and printmaker of the early-Baroque, active mainly in Rome.He was born in Rome, where he first trained with his father, Lodovico Leoni. He painted altarpieces for churches in Rome such as an Annunciation for Sant'Eustachio and a Virgin and child with St...

  • Lucullus
    Lucullus
    Lucius Licinius Lucullus , was an optimate politician of the late Roman Republic, closely connected with Sulla Felix...

  • Luca Lionello
    Luca Lionello
    Luca Lionello is an Italian actor. His father was the actor and voice dubbing artist Oreste Lionello. An actor since 1986, Luca Lionello came to international attention in 2004, when he played the role of Judas Iscariot in Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ.He was an atheist until 2004, when...

  • Artus de Lionne
    Artus de Lionne
    Artus de Lionne , abbé and Bishop of Rosalie in partibus infidelium, in Turkey, was a French missionary of the Paris Foreign Missions Society. He was a son of Louis XIV's Foreign Minister, Hugues de Lionne....

  • Fabio Liverani
    Fabio Liverani
    Fabio Liverani is an Italian football coach and former midfielder of partial Somali descent, currently working as youth coach of Genoa.-Club career:...

  • Barbara Livi
    Barbara Livi
    Barbara Livi is an Italian actress of cinema, television, and theatre. She is best known for her role of Martina Morante in the 5th sequel of the long- running drama series Incantesimo, which was televised on Rai Uno.- Career :...

  • Carlo Lizzani
  • Andrea Locatelli
    Andrea Locatelli
    Andrea Locatelli was an Italian painter of landscapes .Born in Rome, he was the son and pupil of the painter Piero Locatelli, who had studied with the Florentine Ciro Ferri...

  • Giovanni Lombardo Radice
    Giovanni Lombardo Radice
    Giovanni Lombardo Radice is an Italian film actor, better known to audiences as John Morghen.Radice is mostly famous for the gruesome death scenes his characters fall victim to in films such as Cannibal Ferox...

  • Sophia Loren
    Sophia Loren
    Sophia Loren, OMRI is an Italian actress.In 1962, Loren won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her role in Two Women, along with 21 awards, becoming the first actress to win an Academy Award for a non-English-speaking performance...

  • Claudio Lotito
    Claudio Lotito
    Claudio Lotito is an Italian entrepreneur. He is the owner and president of the Serie A football club S.S. Lazio since 2004....

  • Gianni Hecht Lucari
    Gianni Hecht Lucari
    Gianni Hecht Lucari was an Italian film producer, and production manager. Lucari was born in Vienna, Austria of Austrian, Jewish, and French ancestry. He died in Rome, Italy at the age of 76. Lucari produced many films from 1954 to 1980.- External links :...

  • Franco Lucentini
    Franco Lucentini
    Franco Lucentini was an Italian writer, journalist, translator and editor of anthologies. His novel The Sunday Woman, which was also made into a film, 1976, with Marcello Mastroianni and Jacqueline Bisset.- Biography :...

  • Daniele Luchetti
    Daniele Luchetti
    Daniele Luchetti is an Italian film director, screenwriter and actor.He was born in Rome. He debuted as assistant director for Nanni Moretti in Bianca and La messa è finita...

  • Pope Lucius I
    Pope Lucius I
    Pope Saint Lucius I was Pope from June 25, 253 to March 5, 254.St. Lucius was born in Rome at an unknown date; nothing is known about his family except his father's name, Porphyrianus. He was elected probably on June 25, 253, and died on March 5, 254...

  • Marco Luly
    Marco Luly
    Marco Luly, , is an actor, director and theatre teacher. In 1990, Marco Luly founded with Luciana Codispoti the Associazione Culturale "Luoghi dell'Arte" in Rome , and has been artistic director of the company since then...

  • Diana Luna
    Diana Luna
    Diana Luna is a professional golfer from Italy.Luna was born in Rome, Italy and turned professional in 2001. She won her first event on the Ladies European Tour in 2004 at the Tenerife Ladies Open, beating Becky Brewerton down the stretch.After winless years in 2005-2008, Luna won two events...

  • Guido Turchi
    Guido Turchi
    Guido Turchi was an Italian composer and writer on music.Guido Turchi was born in Rome, where he later studied at the Conservatorio di Musica Santa Cecilia with Cesare Dobici, A. Ferdinandi, and Alessandro Bustini, and was awarded diplomas in piano and composition in 1940...


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  • Ruggero Maccari
    Ruggero Maccari
    Ruggero Maccari was an Italian screenwriter.Specially known by his collaboration with film director and screenwriter Ettore Scola...

  • Joel McHale
    Joel McHale
    Joel Edward McHale is an American stand-up comedian, actor, writer, television producer, television personality, and voice artist. He is best known for hosting The Soup and for his role as Jeff Winger on Community....

  • Federico Macheda
    Federico Macheda
    Federico "Kiko" Macheda is an Italian footballer who plays as a striker for English Premier League club Manchester United. He joined Manchester United from Lazio in September 2007.-Early career:Macheda began his football career with Lazio...

  • Francisco Macri
    Francisco Macri
    Francisco Macri is a prominent Argentine businessman and father of Mauricio Macri, current mayor of Buenos Aires.-Childhood in Italy:...

  • Stefano Madia
    Stefano Madia
    Stefano Madia was an Italian film actor. He appeared in twelve films between 1978 and 1993. At the 1979 Cannes Film Festival he won the award for Best Supporting Actor, for the film Dear Father....

  • Raimundo de Madrazo y Garreta
    Raimundo de Madrazo y Garreta
    Raimundo de Madrazo y Garreta was a Spanish realist painter.He studied painting under his father, Federico de Madrazo, and at the School of the Beaux Arts in Madrid. He was born in Rome, but after 1860 he lived mostly in Paris, where he studied under Léon Cogniet...

  • Federico de Madrazo
  • Daniele Magliocchetti
    Daniele Magliocchetti
    Daniele Magliocchetti , is an Italian football defender.-Football career:He began to play in the youth system of AS Roma, and won the 2005 Scudetto Primavera with giallorossi, but he never played an official match with the first team....

  • Anna Magnani
    Anna Magnani
    Anna Magnani was an Italian stage and film actress. She won the Academy Award for Best Actress, along with four other international awards, for her portrayal of a Sicilian widow in The Rose Tattoo....

  • Teoberto Maler
    Teoberto Maler
    Teoberto Maler or Teobert Maler was an explorer who devoted his energies to documenting the ruins of the Maya civilization....

  • Franco Maria Malfatti
    Franco Maria Malfatti
    Franco Maria Malfatti , was an Italian politician and President of the European Commission.-Biography:A descendant of Philip IV of France and wife Joan I of Navarre , Malfatti was born in Rome...

  • Hortense Mancini
    Hortense Mancini
    Hortense Mancini, duchesse Mazarin , was the favourite niece of Cardinal Mazarin, chief minister of France, and a mistress of Charles II, King of England, Scotland and Ireland...

  • Marie Mancini
    Marie Mancini
    Anna Maria Mancini was the third of the five Mancini sisters; nieces to Cardinal Mazarin who were brought to France to marry advantageously...

  • Olympia Mancini
  • Francesco Mander
    Francesco Mander
    Francesco Mander, was an Italian conductor and composer.-Biography:Francesco Mander was the only son of Pietro Mander, a film producer and owner of Mander Film, and Lucia Mercadante...

  • Silvana Mangano
    Silvana Mangano
    Silvana Mangano was an Italian actress.Raised in poverty during World War II, Mangano trained as a dancer and worked as a model before winning a "Miss Rome" beauty pageant in 1946...

  • Fiorella Mannoia
    Fiorella Mannoia
    -The Beginning:Fiorella Mannoia's father Luigi was an Italian film stuntman, and Fiorella, her brother Maurizio and sister Patrizia began work in this area as children. Fiorella Mannoia's first film role as stuntwoman was at the age of 13 in the film Non cantare, spara!...

  • Corrado Mantoni
    Corrado Mantoni
    Corrado Mantoni was an Italian radio and television host.-Biography:He was born in Rome, where he followed classic studies and in jurisprudence; before finishing university studies he started to work as radio speaker with EIAR, predecessor of RAI, Italian State Television...

  • Faustina Maratti
    Faustina Maratti
    -Biography:Maratti was born in Rome, the natural daughter of the painter Carlo Maratta . From an early age, she received a good education, which included music, fine arts and, above all, poetry. Her beauty attracted the attention of Giangiorgio Sforza Cesarini, a cadet son of the Duke of Genzano,...

  • Vipsania Marcella
    Vipsania Marcella
    Vipsania Marcella Agrippina or Marcellina was the only daughter to Roman statesman Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa from his second wife Claudia Marcella Major. She was the first grandchild to Octavia Minor and first great-niece to Roman Emperor Augustus.About 14 BC, she married the Roman general and...

  • Gaius Epidius Marcellus
    Gaius Epidius Marcellus
    Gaius Epidius Marcellus was a Roman tribune most famous for the diadem incident.The fear of Caesar becoming autocrate, thus ending the Roman Republic, grew stronger when someone placed a diadem on the statue of Caesar on the Rostra. The tribunes, Gaius Epidius Marcellus and Lucius Caesetius...

  • Francesco Marchetti Selvaggiani
  • Carlo Marchionni
    Carlo Marchionni
    Carlo Marchionni was an Italian architect. He was also a sculptor and a virtuoso draughtsman, who mixed in the artistic and intellectual circles.-Biography:Marchionni was born in Rome....

  • Marco Marchionni
    Marco Marchionni
    Marco Marchionni is an Italian footballer who plays as a right winger for Serie A club Fiorentina.-Football career:He began his professional career with Empoli F.C. in 1998, joined form CND team Monterotondo, only to leave the team for Parma in 2001...

  • Marcia Furnilla
    Marcia Furnilla
    Marcia Furnilla was a Roman noble woman that lived in the 1st century. Furnilla was the second and last wife of the future Roman Emperor Titus.-Family:...

  • Enrico Marconi
    Enrico Marconi
    Enrico Marconi, known in Poland as Henryk Marconi , was an Italian architect who spent most of his life in Congress Poland....

  • Francesco Marconi
    Francesco Marconi
    Francesco Marconi was an operatic tenor from Rome who enjoyed an important international career. In 1924, a reputable biographical dictionary of musicians called him 'one of the most renowned and esteemed singers of the last 50 years'...

  • Maria Marconi
    Maria Marconi
    Maria Marconi is a diver from Italy, who represented her native country at the 2000 Summer Olympics. She won the qualification tournament for the 2008 Summer Olympics, also twice won a bronze medal at the European Championships and once a silver medal...

  • Tommaso Marconi
    Tommaso Marconi
    Tommaso Marconi is an Italian diver.In the 3 metre platform synchronized event he won the gold medal at the 2004 European Championships and the bronze medals at the European Championships in 2002 and 2006...

  • Pope Mark
    Pope Mark
    Pope Saint Mark the apostle or Marcus was Pope from January 18, 336 to October 7, 336, date of his death.Little is known of his early life. According to the Liber Pontificalis, he was a Roman, and his father's name was Priscus...

  • Alessia Marcuzzi
    Alessia Marcuzzi
    Alessia Marcuzzi is an Italian television host and actress.-Biography:Born in Rome, she has debuted in Telemontecarlo hosting Attenti al dettaglio and then Qui si gioca, with Josè Altafini, in the 1991/1992 season. In march 1992 also presented the kids show Amici mostri...

  • Infanta Margarita, 2nd Duchess of Hernani
  • Antonio Margheriti
    Antonio Margheriti
    Antonio Margheriti , also known under the pseudonym Anthony M. Dawson, was a prolific Italian filmmaker. He was born in Rome and died in 2002 from a heart attack in Monterosi, Viterbo, near Rome at the age of 72....

  • Princess Maria Theresa of Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rosenberg
    Princess Maria Theresa of Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rosenberg
    Princess Maria Theresa of Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rosenberg was a Princess of Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rosenberg and a member of the House of Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rosenberg by birth and an Infanta of Portugal, Duchess consort of...

  • Princess Marie Louise of Bourbon-Parma
  • Giovanna Marini
    Giovanna Marini
    Giovanna Marini, anagraphically Giovanna Salviucci in Marini , is an Italian singer-songwriter and researcher of ethnomusicology.-Biography:...

  • Tania di Mario
    Tania di Mario
    Tania di Mario is a female water polo forward from Italy, who won the gold medal with the Women's National Team at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece.-References:*...

  • Francesco Marmaggi
    Francesco Marmaggi
    Francesco Marmaggi was a Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church who served as Prefect of the Congregation of the Council and, earlier, as Nuncio in Romania, Czechoslovakia and Poland, as well as being a special envoy to Turkey.-Biography:Francesco Marmaggi was born in Rome at a time when the...

  • Anton von Maron
    Anton von Maron
    Anton von Maron was an Austrian painter, active in Rome.Von Maron was born in Vienna, but moved at a young age to Rome. There, he studied under Anton Raphael Mengs, and became an accomplished portrait painter. He married a sister of Mengs, Therese Maron, who was a painter in her own right...

  • Therese Maron
    Therese Maron
    Therese Maron, born Therese Mengs , was a German painter active in Rome.Therese was born in Dresden, the elder sister of painter Anton Raphael Mengs. She moved with her family to Rome, and there married an Austrian portrait painter and pupil of her brother, Anton von Maron...

  • Marozia
    Marozia
    Marozia, born Maria and also known as Mariuccia or Mariozza , was a Roman noblewoman who was the alleged mistress of Pope Sergius III and was given the unprecedented titles senatrix and patricia of Rome by Pope John X.Edward Gibbon wrote of her that the "influence of two sister prostitutes,...

  • Piero Marrazzo
    Piero Marrazzo
    Piero Marrazzo is an Italian journalist and politician. He served as the President of Lazio, one of the twenty regions of Italy, from 2005 to 2009....

  • Otello Martelli
    Otello Martelli
    Otello Martelli was an Italian cinematographer.Born in Rome, he began work in 1920. He collaborated with Roberto Rossellini, Alberto Lattuada, Federico Fellini, Alessandro Blasetti, Giuseppe De Santis, Vittorio De Sica and Pier Paolo Pasolini...

  • Pope Martin V
    Pope Martin V
    Pope Martin V , born Odo Colonna, was Pope from 1417 to 1431. His election effectively ended the Western Schism .-Biography:...

  • Alessandra Martines
    Alessandra Martines
    Alessandra Martines is an Italian-French dancer and actress.-Biography:She is best known for her portrayal of Princess Fantaghirò in the Fantaghirò series and her interpretations under the direction of her ex husband, the French director Claude Lelouch, in several movies Alessandra Martines (born...

  • Daniele Martinetti
    Daniele Martinetti
    Daniele Martinetti is an Italian footballer who plays for Sassuolo at Serie B.Martinetti started his career at A.S. Roma youth rank. He was loaned to Sora in January 2002 for first team experience....

  • Alberto De Martino
    Alberto De Martino
    Alberto De Martino is an Italian film director and screenwriter. He directed 28 films between 1962 and 1985. He also wrote for 23 films between 1959 and 1985.He was born in Rome, Italy.-Selected filmography:...

  • Sergio Martino
    Sergio Martino
    Sergio Martino is an Italian film director and producer, notable for his contributions to the giallo genre.Martino is the brother of producer Luciano Martino. They collaborated frequently in their respective professions...

  • Carl Marzani
    Carl Marzani
    Carl Aldo Marzani was an American leftwing political activist and publisher. He was successively a Communist Party organizer, volunteer soldier in the Spanish Civil War, United States federal intelligence official, documentary filmmaker, author, and publisher...

  • Francesco Maselli
    Francesco Maselli
    Francesco Maselli or Citto Maselli is an Italian film director and screenwriter. He has directed 38 films since 1949...

  • Giulietta Masina
    Giulietta Masina
    Giulietta Masina was an Italian film and stage actress. She starred in La Strada and Nights of Cabiria, both winners of the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, in 1956 and 1957, respectively...

  • Lea Massari
    Lea Massari
    Anna Maria Massetani better known as Lea Massari is an Italian actress.She was born Anna Maria Massetani in Rome, but when she was 22, she changed her name to Lea Massari after the death of her fiancé Leo...

  • Camillo Massimo
    Camillo Massimo
    Camillo Massimo was an Italian cardinal in 17th century Rome, best remembered as a major patron of Baroque artists such as Pouissin, Lorrain, Velázquez, Duquesnoy, Algardi, Francesco Fontana and Cosimo Fancelli....

  • Chiara Mastalli
    Chiara Mastalli
    Chiara Mastalli is an Italian film and television actress.She gained recognition for her role as Eirene in the HBO/BBC/RAI original television series Rome...

  • Corrado Mastantuono
    Corrado Mastantuono
    Corrado Mastantuono is an Italian comic book artist.Born in Rome, Mastantuono worked in the animation field until 1989, and then started to work for the Italian magazine L'Eternauta...

  • Camillo Mastrocinque
    Camillo Mastrocinque
    Camillo Mastrocinque was an Italian film director and screenwriter. He directed 63 films between 1937 and 1968.-Selected filmography:* Lost in the Dark * Gli Inesorabili...

  • Ruggero Mastroianni
    Ruggero Mastroianni
    Ruggero Mastroianni was an Italian film editor; Tony Sloman has called him "arguably, the finest Italian film editor of his generation."Born in Turin, he was the brother of the actor Marcello Mastroianni...

  • Agostino Masucci
    Agostino Masucci
    Agostino Masucci was an Italian painter of the late-Baroque or Rococo period.Born in Rome, he initially apprenticed with Andrea Procaccino, and then became a member of the studio of Carlo Maratta. He joined the Accademia di San Luca in 1724, and from 1736 to 1738, he was director or Principe...

  • Raffaello Matarazzo
    Raffaello Matarazzo
    Raffaello Matarazzo was an Italian film-maker.- Biography :He started writing film reviews for Roman newspaper Il Tevere before re-editing scripts for the Italian film company Cines...

  • Bruno Mattei
    Bruno Mattei
    Bruno Mattei was an Italian film director, screenwriter and editor who gained a cult following for a wide variety of exploitation films that covered many genres, ranging from women in prison to zombie films...

  • Girolama Mazzarini
    Girolama Mazzarini
    Girolama or Geronima Mazzarini was the sister of Cardinal Mazarin, the chief minister of France at the start of the reign of King Louis XIV of France...

  • Gian Luca Mazzella
    Gian Luca Mazzella
    Gian Luca Mazzella is an Italian journalist, wine critic and documentarian.Focussing on wine and food, Mazzella works for various entities within the European Television industry by writing and directing documentaries/stories....

  • Carlo Mazzone
    Carlo Mazzone
    Carlo "Carletto" Mazzone is an Italian football manager.A former centre back who played several seasons for his beloved team, AS Roma, other than Spal and Ascoli, where he played for nine season, Mazzone left the playing career in season 1968-1969, to become the manager of Ascoli itself, in Serie...

  • Melania the Younger
    Melania the Younger
    Saint Melania the Younger is a Christian saint and Desert Mother who lived during the reign of Emperor Flavius Augustus Honorius, son of Theodosius I. She is the paternal granddaughter of Melania the Elder.The Feast of Melania the Younger is held on December 31...

  • Ricky Memphis
    Ricky Memphis
    Ricky Memphis is an Italian television and film actor. He is best known for his interpretation of Inspector Mauro Belli, in the police drama series, Distretto di Polizia , which was broadcast weekly for eight seasons by Italian network Canale 5 from 2000 to 2009.- Career :Ricky Memphis was born...

  • Menahem ben Solomon
    Menahem ben Solomon
    Menahem ben Solomon ben Isaac was a rabbi and author of the Sekel Ṭob and the Eben Boḥan.The presence of twenty-five Italian glosses in his works indicates that he lived in Italy...

  • Michele Mercati
    Michele Mercati
    Michele Mercati was a physician who was superintendent of the Vatican Botanical Garden under Popes Pius V, Gregory XIII, Sixtus V, and Clement VIII.-Biography:...

  • Adalberto Maria Merli
    Adalberto Maria Merli
    Adalberto Maria Merli is an Italian film actor. He has appeared in 27 films since 1965.He was born in Rome, Italy.-Selected filmography:* La prima notte di quiete * Black Holiday...

  • Maurizio Merli
    Maurizio Merli
    Maurizio Merli was an Italian film actor.Merli got his first lead role in 1974 in the film White Fang to the Rescue due to his resemblance to the highly popular cult actor Franco Nero, who played the lead role in the first two films...

  • Marisa Merlini
    Marisa Merlini
    Marisa Merlini was an Italian character actress active in Italy's post-World War II cinema. Merlini appreared in over fifty films during her career, which spanned from World War II to 2005...

  • Valeria Messalina
  • Metastasio
    Metastasio
    Pietro Antonio Domenico Trapassi, better known by his pseudonym of Metastasio, was an Italian poet and librettist, considered the most important writer of opera seria libretti.-Early life:...

  • Fernando Mezzasoma
    Fernando Mezzasoma
    Fernando Mezzasoma was an Italian fascist journalist and political figure.-Biography:Mezzasoma was born in Rome, the son of middle-class Perugians; from his late teens he showed himself to be a passionate supporter of Benito Mussolini.Mezzasoma had to contribute to his impovershed family's income...

  • Giovanna Mezzogiorno
    Giovanna Mezzogiorno
    Giovanna Mezzogiorno is an Italian theatre and film actress.Giovanna Mezzogiorno was born in Rome, November 9, 1974, daughter of actors Vittorio Mezzogiorno and Cecilia Sacchi. She grew up watching her parents on set, conscious about acting. At first she wanted to become a ballerina and she...

  • Martina Miceli
    Martina Miceli
    Martina Miceli is a female water polo defender from Italy, who won the gold medal with the Women's National Team at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece.-References:*...

  • Prince Michael of Greece and Denmark
    Prince Michael of Greece and Denmark
    Prince Michael of Greece and Denmark, is the author of several historical novels and biographies, as well as a contributing writer to Architectural Digest.-Birth and family:...

  • Maria Michi
    Maria Michi
    Maria Michi was an Italian supporting actress who worked with Roberto Rossellini on his two early neorealism masterpieces: Rome, Open City and Paisà. In 1948, she worked with Christian-Jaque in La Chartreuse de Parme...

  • Alba Milana
    Alba Milana
    Alba Milana is a retired female long-distance runner from Italy. She competed for her native country at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, California...

  • Dario Minieri
    Dario Minieri
    Dario Minieri is an Italian professional poker player from Rome, Italy who won a bracelet at the 2008 World Series of Poker at the age of 23, is a member of team PokerStars, is an online poker player who was the first person to collect enough Frequent Player Points to buy an automobile with them,...

  • Michelangelo Minieri
    Michelangelo Minieri
    Michelangelo Minieri is an Italian footballer who plays defender for Vicenza Calcio.-Career:Minieri started his career at S.S. Lazio youth team. He was loaned to Catania before signed by reformed Florentia Viola at Serie C2. He then played for Triestina at Serie B. In January 2006 he was signed...

  • Christian Minotti
    Christian Minotti
    Christian Minotti is a long-distance freestyle swimmer from Italy, who won the silver medal in the men's individual 1500 metres freestyle event at the 2002 European Championships in Berlin, Germany. He represented his native country at two consecutive Summer Olympics, starting in 2000.- References...

  • Dante Mircoli
    Dante Mircoli
    Dante Mircoli is a former Italian - Argentine footballer and coach who spent the majority of his career in Argentina.-Playing career:...

  • Eduardo Missoni
    Eduardo Missoni
    Eduardo Missoni is an Italian medical doctor who has been active in numerous social causes. He was appointed as the Secretary General of the World Organization of the Scout Movement from April 1, 2004 through November 30, 2007....

  • Franco Modigliani
    Franco Modigliani
    Franco Modigliani was an Italian economist at the MIT Sloan School of Management and MIT Department of Economics, and winner of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics in 1985.-Life and career:...

  • Paolo Moffa
    Paolo Moffa
    Paolo Moffa was an Italian film director, producer and screenwriter. He directed seven films between 1943 and 1982.-Selected filmography:* The Last Days of Pompeii * The Island Princess...

  • Maurizio Molinari
    Maurizio Molinari
    Maurizio Molinari is a journalist in the employ of the Italian daily newspaper La Stampa, for which he serves as United States correspondent and for which he previously worked as European Union correspondent in Brussels and as diplomatic correspondent in Rome.Before arriving at La Stampa in 1997,...

  • Antonio Monda
    Antonio Monda
    Antonio Monda is an Italian writer, film director, journalist, and professor at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts. He is a well-connected figure in and promoter of the arts, particularly film and literature....

  • Massimo Mongai
    Massimo Mongai
    -Biography:Born in Rome, by the age of 12 Massimo Mongai was a dedicated reader of science fiction. He graduated in law. According to the biography printed in many of his books, his influences include the science-fiction writers Isaac Asimov, A. E...

  • Riccardo Morandi
    Riccardo Morandi
    Riccardo Morandi was an Italian civil engineer best known for his interesting use of reinforced concrete. Amongst his best known works were the General Rafael Urdaneta Bridge, an 8 km crossing of Lake Maracaibo incorporating seven cable-stayed bridge spans with unusual piers, and the...

  • Elsa Morante
    Elsa Morante
    Elsa Morante was an Italian novelist, perhaps best known for her novel La storia .-Biography:...

  • Alberto Moravia
    Alberto Moravia
    Alberto Moravia, born Alberto Pincherle was an Italian novelist and journalist. His novels explored matters of modern sexuality, social alienation, and existentialism....

  • Alessandro Morbidelli (footballer)
  • Emiliano Moretti
    Emiliano Moretti
    Emiliano Moretti is an Italian football defender, who currently plays for Genoa C.F.C..-Club career:Moretti started his career with local club Lodigiani, and in 2000 transferred to AC Fiorentina. He made his Serie A debut in March 2001, and was a member of the team that won the 2001 Coppa Italia....

  • Luigi Moretti
    Luigi Moretti
    Luigi Walter Moretti was an Italian architect.- Education and academic career :He was born in via Napoleone III, on the Esquiline Hill, in the same apartment where he lived almost his entire life...

  • Nanni Moretti
    Nanni Moretti
    Giovanni "Nanni" Moretti is an Italian film director, producer, screenwriter and actor.-Life and work:Moretti was born in Bruneck, South Tyrol , in 1953 to parents who were teachers...

  • Massimo Moriconi (musician)
  • Gaetano Moroni
    Gaetano Moroni
    Gaetano Moroni was an Italian writer, the author of the well-known Dizionario di erudizione storico-ecclesiastica.- Biography :Moroni was born in Rome....

  • Ennio Morricone
    Ennio Morricone
    Ennio Morricone, Grand Officer OMRI, , is an Italian composer and conductor, who wrote music to more than 500 motion pictures and television series, in a career lasting over 50 years. His scores have been included in over 20 award-winning films as well as several symphonic and choral pieces...

  • Massimo Morsello
    Massimo Morsello
    Massimo Morsello was an Italian far-right political activist and singer-songwriter. He was the main figure of Italian far-right political music and, with Roberto Fiore, a co-founder of the Italian neofascist movement Forza Nuova...

  • Riccardo Moscatelli
    Riccardo Moscatelli
    Riccardo Moscatelli was an Italian race car driver. His career began in 1988 when he took up rallying. Then for the next four years he raced in Italian sports prototypes. In 1993 he raced in Italian Formula Ford and finished 2nd. He then left racing for two years and returned in 1996 in Italian...

  • Gabriele Muccino
    Gabriele Muccino
    Gabriele Muccino is an Italian film director. He is the elder brother of actor Silvio Muccino, who often appears in his brother's films....

  • Silvio Muccino
    Silvio Muccino
    Silvio Muccino is an Italian actor.-Biography:Muccino was born in Rome on April 14, 1982.Graduated from Rome’s Arts High School and enrolled in the Arts Faculty of Rome’s La Sapienza University....

  • Luigi Musso
    Luigi Musso
    Luigi Musso was an Italian racing driver.-Racing career:Musso began his racing career driving sports cars before debuting on the Formula One circuit on 17 January 1954, driving a Maserati. In 1954 he won the Coppa Acerbo, a non-championship Formula One race. At Zandvoort, in the 1955 Dutch Grand...

  • Alessandra Mussolini
    Alessandra Mussolini
    Alessandra Mussolini is an Italian politician, the granddaughter of Benito Mussolini, and previously an actress and model...

  • Ornella Muti
    Ornella Muti
    Ornella Muti is an Italian actress. She was born in Rome as Francesca Romana Rivelli, to a Neapolitan father and Russian mother. Her maternal grandparents immigrated from Leningrad , Russia, to Estonia...

  • Roberto Muzzi
    Roberto Muzzi
    Roberto Muzzi is an Italian retired football striker. During his career, he has played for several Italian clubs including A.S. Roma, Pisa Calcio, Cagliari Calcio, Udinese Calcio, and S.S...


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  • Daniele Nadone
    Daniele Nadone
    Daniele Nadone was an Italian post-modern painter and photographer who committed suicide at his home in 2005 in Trastevere, Rome at the age of 26.-Found materials:...

  • Moses Nagari
    Moses Nagari
    Moses Nagari or Moses ben Judah Moses Nagari or Moses ben Judah Moses Nagari or Moses ben Judah (in Hebrew, Moshe ben Yehuda ha-Nagari was a medieval Jewish philosopher and writer. According to Steinschneider, he lived at Rome, Italy about 1300, and his name should be read "Na'ar", part of the...

  • Gianluca Nani
    Gianluca Nani
    Gianluca Nani is an Italian sporting and football technical director.-Football career:Nani organised football tournaments in Spain before working as Brescia Calcio's sporting director commencing in 1999. During this time he was credited with developing talents such as World Cup winners Andrea...

  • Armando Nannuzzi
    Armando Nannuzzi
    Armando Nannuzzi was an Italian cinematographer and camera operator active from the 1940s until the 1990s...

  • Napoleone Orsini Frangipani
    Napoleone Orsini Frangipani
    Napoleone Orsini Frangipani was an Roman Cardinal. His ecclesiastical career lasted 57 years, 54 of them as a cardinal, and included six conclaves. He was a member of the Orsini and Frangipani families....

  • Stefano Napoleoni
    Stefano Napoleoni
    Stefano Napoleoni is an Italian footballer, who is playing currently for Levadiakos. He plays striker or winger.-Widzew Łódź:...

  • Nathan ben Jehiel
    Nathan ben Jehiel
    Nathan ben Jehiel of Rome was a Jewish Italian lexicographer. He was born in Rome not later than 1035 to one of the most notable Roman families of Jewish scholars. Owing to an error propagated by Azulai, he has been regarded as a scion of the house of De Pomis...

  • Alessandro Nesta
    Alessandro Nesta
    Alessandro Nesta, Ufficiale OMRI , is an Italian World Cup-winning footballer who plays as a defender for Serie A club Milan. Considered by many as one of the best centre backs to have ever played the game, he is a four-time member of the annual UEFA Team of the Year.-Early life:Nesta was raised in...

  • Margit Evelyn Newton
    Margit Evelyn Newton
    Margit Evelyn Newton is an Italian actress who appeared in fourteen films between 1979 and 1990. Frequently billed as Margie Newton, she also received billing, at various points in her career, as Margie Moreau, Margi Eveline Newton and Margi Evelyn Newton.A native of Rome, Margit Evelyn Newton used...

  • Pope Nicholas III
    Pope Nicholas III
    Pope Nicholas III , born Giovanni Gaetano Orsini, Pope from November 25, 1277 to his death in 1280, was a Roman nobleman who had served under eight Popes, been made cardinal-deacon of St...

  • Bruno Nicolai
    Bruno Nicolai
    Bruno Nicolai was an Italian film music composer, orchestra director and musical editor most active in the 1960s through the 1980s...

  • Prince Nikolaos of Greece and Denmark
    Prince Nikolaos of Greece and Denmark
    Prince Nikolaos of Greece and Denmark is the second son and third child of King Constantine II of Greece and Anne-Marie of Denmark, the youngest daughter of King Frederick IX of Denmark and sister of Queen Margrethe II of Denmark....

  • John Nobili
    John Nobili
    John Nobili, born Giovanni Pietro Antonio Nobili, was an Italian priest of the Society of Jesus. He was a missionary in the Oregon Territory and later founded Santa Clara College in California, United States....

  • Carlo Nocella
    Carlo Nocella
    Carlo Nocella was an Italian cardinal. He was Secretary of the Sacred Consistorial Congregation , Latin Patriarch of Antioch , and Latin Patriarch of Constantinople ....


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  • Hugh O'Connor
    Hugh O'Connor
    Not to be confused with Hugo Oconór.Hugh Edward Ralph O'Connor was an American actor. The son of actor Carroll O'Connor, he portrayed Det./ Lt. Lonnie Jamison on the television drama In the Heat of the Night from 1988-1995. O'Connor committed suicide in 1995. - Biography...

  • Carlo Odescalchi
    Carlo Odescalchi
    Carlo Odescalchi, was an Italian prince and priest, archbishop of Ferrara, cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church and Vicar of the diocese of Rome. Close collaborator of Pope Pius VII. and of Gregory XVI he renounced his titles in order to become a Jesuit in 1638.He was born in Rome to a family of...

  • Cipriano Efisio Oppo
    Cipriano Efisio Oppo
    -Early life:Trained at the Istituto di belle arti in Rome, he began his career as a caricaturist for L’Idea Nazionale. From 1910 he devoted himself to painting, tending towards the fauves, in particular Henri Matisse. In 1914 he contributed to the exhibition given by the Roman Secession...

  • Paolo Orano
    Paolo Orano
    Paolo Orano was an Italian psychologist and syndicalist politician and writer who later became a leading figure within the National Fascist Party.-Syndicalism:...

  • Alberto Orlando
    Alberto Orlando
    Alberto Orlando is an Italian former footballer who played at both professional and international levels as a midfielder.-Career:...

  • Fernando Orsi
    Fernando Orsi
    Fernando "Nando" Orsi is an Italian football manager and former player.-Playing:Orsi, a goalkeeper, made his professional debut in 1979 for Serie C2 club Siena...

  • Giovanni Orsina
    Giovanni Orsina
    Giovanni Orsina is an associate professor of Contemporary History at LUISS-Guido Carli University in Rome. His main fields of research and teaching are the history of political parties, comparative history of European political systems and the history of journalism...

  • Clarice Orsini
    Clarice Orsini
    Clarice Orsini was the daughter of Jacopo Orsini, Lord of Monterotondo and Bracciano, and his wife and cousin Maddalena Orsini. Born in the Papal States, she is most known as the wife of Lorenzo de' Medici , de facto ruler of the Florentine Republic...

  • Flavio Orsini
    Flavio Orsini
    Flavio Orsini was a cardinal of the Catholic Church. He was a member of the Orsini family.Born in Rome, he became bishop of Muro Lucano, and later moved to bishop of Spoleto. He took part in the Roman Curia....

  • Fulvio Orsini
    Fulvio Orsini
    Fulvio Orsini was an Italian humanist, historian, and archaeologist. He was a scion of the Orsini family, one of the oldest, most illustrious, and for centuries most powerful of the Roman princely families, whose origins, when stripped of legend, can be traced back to a certain Ursus de Paro,...

  • Alfredo Ottaviani

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  • Lina Pagliughi
    Lina Pagliughi
    Lina Pagliughi was an Italian-American opera singer. Based in Italy for the majority of her career, she made a number of recordings and established herself as one of the world's finest lyric coloratura sopranos of the 1930s and '40s.-Career:Pagliughi was born in Brooklyn, New York, to Italian...

  • Lola Pagnani
    Lola Pagnani
    Lola Pagnani is an Italian actress.She was born in Rome as Anna Lola Pagnani Stavros, the daughter of writer and screenplayer Enzo Pagnani. She graduated in Paris at the age of 17 years in contemporary dance, and was the first dancer of Momix for the World Tour, and successively collaborated on...

  • Giuseppe Palica
    Giuseppe Palica
    Giuseppe Palica was an italian Archbishop.Born on 8 October 1869 in Rome, he was ordained priest on 18 December 1892.On 25 April 1917 he was appointed vice-gerent of Rome and titular archbishop of Philippi....

  • Anita Pallenberg
    Anita Pallenberg
    Anita Pallenberg is an Italian-born actress, model, and fashion designer. She was the romantic partner of Rolling Stones multi-instrumentalist and guitarist Brian Jones and later the partner of the guitarist of the same band Keith Richards, from 1967 to 1979, by whom she has two surviving...

  • Gabriella Pallotta
    Gabriella Pallotta
    Gabriella Pallotta is an Italian film actress. She appeared in 22 films between 1956 and 1974. For the film The Pigeon That Took Rome she was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress....

  • Silvana Pampanini
    Silvana Pampanini
    Silvana Pampanini is an Italian actress. She was Miss Italy in 1946 and the following year she started her movie career....

  • Benedetto Pamphili
    Benedetto Pamphili
    Benedetto Pamphili was an Italian cardinal, patron of the arts, composer and librettist.-Life:...

  • Alessandra Panaro
    Alessandra Panaro
    Alessandra Panaro is an Italian former film actress of the late 1950s and early 1960s.Panaro is best known for her films in the early 1960s notably Luchino Visconti's crime drama Rocco e i suoi fratelli in 1960....

  • Adriano Panatta
    Adriano Panatta
    Adriano Panatta is a former professional tennis player from Italy. He is best remembered for winning the French Open in 1976, and for being the only player to ever defeat Björn Borg at Roland Garros, which he did on two occasions.-Career:...

  • Claudio Panatta
    Claudio Panatta
    Claudio Panatta is a former Italian tennis player and younger brother of 1976 French Open champion Adriano Panatta.Panatta won 6 doubles titles and 1 singles title during his professional career...

  • Paolo Panelli
    Paolo Panelli
    Paolo Panelli was an Italian film actor. He appeared in 55 films between 1948 and 1996. He was married to Bice Valori.-Selected filmography:* Hearts at Sea * Against the Law...

  • Patrizia Panico
    Patrizia Panico
    Patrizia Panico is an Italian football striker, currently playing for Torres CF in Italy's Serie A. She has also played for SS Lazio, Torino CF, Modena Amadio, ACF Milan and ASD Bardolino, and Sky Blue FC in the United States' WPS. She has been the Serie A's top scorer for ten seasons.Panico also...

  • Giancarlo Pantano
    Giancarlo Pantano
    Giancarlo Pantano is an Italian footballer. He plays as a midfielder. He is currently unattached.-External links:...

  • Gabriele Paoletti
    Gabriele Paoletti
    Gabriele Paoletti is an Italian football goalkeeper.-Career:In summer 2002, Paoletti was exchanged with Alberto Maria Fontana. In summer 2004, he joined Reggiana in co-ownership deal, for €0.5K....

  • Arvid Pardo
    Arvid Pardo
    Arvid Pardo was a Maltese diplomat, scholar, and university professor. He is known as the "Father of the Law of the Sea Conference"....

  • Ryan Paris
    Ryan Paris
    Ryan Paris is an artist who gained international popularity in 1983 for the worldwide hit single, "Dolce Vita". It was written and produced by Pierluigi Giombini...

  • Giorgio Parisi
    Giorgio Parisi
    Giorgio Parisi is an Italian theoretical physicist. He is best known for his works concerning statistical mechanics, quantum field theory and various aspects of physics, mathematics and science in general....

  • Gianfranco Parolini
    Gianfranco Parolini
    Gianfranco Parolini is an Italian film director. He is often credited as Frank Kramer. Among his films are The Sabata Trilogy, several sword and sandal films, most of the Kommissar X films and a number of Spaghetti Westerns.He claimed to have written over 100 thriller novels before becoming an...

  • Cesare Pascarella
    Cesare Pascarella
    Cesare Pascarella , was an Italian dialect poet and a painter. He was appointed to the Royal Academy of Italy in 1930....

  • Giovanni Battista Passeri
    Giovanni Battista Passeri
    Giovanni Battista Passeri was an Italian painter of the Baroque period. He was a pupil of the painter Domenichino, while they worked together at Frascati...

  • Giuseppe Passeri
    Giuseppe Passeri
    Giuseppe Passeri was an Italian painter of the Baroque period, active in his native city of Rome.Born the nephew of the painter Giovanni Battista Passeri, Giuseppe trained in the studio of Carlo Maratta. Among the paintings by Giuseppe is St...

  • Pope Paul V
    Pope Paul V
    -Theology:Paul met with Galileo Galilei in 1616 after Cardinal Bellarmine had, on his orders, warned Galileo not to hold or defend the heliocentric ideas of Copernicus. Whether there was also an order not to teach those ideas in any way has been a matter for controversy...

  • Pierfrancesco Pavoni
    Pierfrancesco Pavoni
    Pierfrancesco Pavoni is a retired sprinter from Italy. His greatest achievements were the 1982 European Championships silver medal as well as two World Indoor bronze medals. His personal times were both achieved in 1987: 10.22 seconds over 100 metres and 20.38 seconds over 200 metres...

  • Quintus Pedius (deaf painter)
    Quintus Pedius (deaf painter)
    Quintus Pedius was a Roman painter and the first deaf person in recorded history known by name. He is the first recorded deaf painter and his education is the first recorded education of a deaf child...

  • Mario Pei
    Mario Pei
    Mario Andrew Pei was an Italian-American linguist and polyglot, who wrote a number of popular books known for their accessibility to readers who lack a professional background in linguistics.-Life:...

  • Pope Pelagius I
    Pope Pelagius I
    Pope Pelagius I was Pope from 556 to March 4, 561. He was the second pope of the Byzantine Papacy, like his predecessor a former apocrisiarius to Constantinople.-Early life:He came from a Roman noble family...

  • Pope Pelagius II
    Pope Pelagius II
    Pope Pelagius II was Pope from 579 to 590.He was a native of Rome, but probably of Ostrogothic descent, as his father's name was Winigild.Pelagius appealed for help from Emperor Maurice against the Lombards, but the Byzantines were of little help, forcing Pelagius to "buy" a truce and turn to the...

  • Federico Peluso
    Federico Peluso
    Federico Peluso is an Italian football player currently playing for Atalanta in Italy's Serie A.He joined Atalanta in January 2009.-External links:...

  • Jacopo Peri
    Jacopo Peri
    Jacopo Peri was an Italian composer and singer of the transitional period between the Renaissance and Baroque styles, and is often called the inventor of opera...

  • Ivo Perilli
    Ivo Perilli
    Ivo Perilli was an Italian screenwriter. He wrote for 54 films between 1933 and 1977.-Selected filmography:* I'll Give a Million * La figlia del capitano * Anna * Europa '51...

  • Luigi Pernier
    Luigi Pernier
    Luigi Pernier was an Italian archaeologist and academic now best known for his discovery of the Disc of Phaistos.-Career:...

  • Lucilla Perrotta
    Lucilla Perrotta
    Lucilla Perrotta is a female professional beach volleyball player from Italy, who twice represented her native country at the Summer Olympics: 2000 and 2004...

  • Giampietro Perrulli
    Giampietro Perrulli
    Giampietro Perrulli is an Italian footballer who plays for Carpi, on loan from Vicenza.-Career:Perrulli started his career at Roman club Ostia Mare at Serie D. In summer 2005 he was signed by Ascoli. He played his first Serie A match on 14 May 2006 against Empoli F.C.. In the next season, he...

  • Manolo Pestrin
    Manolo Pestrin
    Manolo Pestrin is an Italian footballer who plays for Salernitana. He played over 100 games in both Serie B and Serie C1.-External links:*http://www.tuttocalciatori.net/Pestrin_Manolo...

  • Elio Petri
  • Cinzia Petrucci
    Cinzia Petrucci
    Cinzia Petrucci is a retired track and field shot putter from Italy, best known for competing at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow, USSR. There she ended up in 14th and last place, with a distance of 17.27 metres.-References:...

  • Marcello Piacentini
    Marcello Piacentini
    Marcello Piacentini was an Italian architect and urban theorist.-Biography:Born in Rome, he was the son of architect Pio Piacentini...

  • Carlo delle Piane
    Carlo Delle Piane
    Carlo delle Piane is an Italian film actor. He has appeared in 104 films since 1948. He was born in Rome, Italy.-Selected filmography:* Cuore * Vogliamoci bene * Io sono il capataz...

  • Pier Ruggero Piccio
    Pier Ruggero Piccio
    Lieutenant General Count Pier Ruggero Piccio , Order of the Crown of Italy, Order of Saints Maurice and Lazarus, Medal of Military Valor, was an Italian aviator and the founding Chief of Staff of the Italian Air Force...

  • Luigi Pichler
    Luigi Pichler
    Luigi Pichler was a German-Italian artist in engraved gems.Son of Anton Pichler and half-brother and student of Giovanni Pichler, Luigi was an appentice to his greatly renowned 39-year older brother and painter Domenico de Angelis...

  • Pier Luigi Cherubino
    Pier Luigi Cherubino
    Pier Luigi Cherubino Loggi, aka Pier , is a retired Italian-Spanish football striker, best known for his CD Tenerife period.-Football career:...

  • Enrico Pieranunzi
    Enrico Pieranunzi
    Enrico Pieranunzi is an Italian jazz pianist. He fuses classical technique with jazz.He has performed with, among others, Frank Rosolino, Sal Nistico, Kenny Clarke, Johnny Griffin, Chet Baker, Joey Baron, Art Farmer, Jim Hall, Marc Johnson, Lee Konitz, Phil Woods, Bill Smith, Charlie Haden, Mads...

  • Pietro da Pietri
    Pietro da Pietri
    Pietro da Pietri was an Italian painter of the late-Baroque period, active mainly in Rome.Born in Rome, he was a pupil of the painter Giuseppe Ghezzi, then of Angelo Massarotti, then assisted in the studio of Carlo Maratta. He is also known as Pietro Antonio da Pietri, Pietro dei Pietri, and...

  • Tommaso Pincio
    Tommaso Pincio
    Tommaso Pincio is the pseudonym of Marco Colapietro, an Italian author of five novels, including Love-shaped story, the only one translated in English so far.- Pseudonym :...

  • Bartolomeo Pinelli
    Bartolomeo Pinelli
    Bartolomeo Pinelli was an Italian illustrator and engraver.-Life:Pinelli was born and died in Rome, the son of a religious statues modeler. Pinelli was educated first in Bologna and then at the Accademia di San Luca in Rome. He lived in a poor quarter of Rome...

  • Ezio Pinza
    Ezio Pinza
    Ezio Pinza was an Italian basso opera singer with a rich, smooth and sonorous voice. He spent 22 seasons at New York's Metropolitan Opera, appearing in more than 750 performances of 50 operas...

  • Giampiero Pinzi
    Giampiero Pinzi
    Giampiero Pinzi is an Italian footballer who currently plays as a midfielder for Udinese.-Udinese:Pinzi began his career with Lazio and was promoted in 1999 to the Serie A team. After one year with S.S. Lazio in the Serie A signed with League rival Udinese Calcio.-Chievo:on 17 July 2009 A.C...

  • Piotta (musician)
  • Alessandro Piperno
    Alessandro Piperno
    Alessandro Piperno is an Italian writer and literary critic of Jewish descent, having a Jewish father and a Catholic mother.He graduated in French Literature at the University of Rome, where he currently teaches and researches...

  • Francesco Piranesi
    Francesco Piranesi
    Francesco Piranesi was an Italian engraver and architect. He was the son of the more famous Giovan Battista Piranesi and continued his series of engravings representing monuments and ancient temples. He worked for a long period in France, where he lived during the French Revolution.Piranesi died...

  • Emanuele Pirro
    Emanuele Pirro
    Emanuele Pirro is an Italian former Formula One driver and five time Le Mans 24 hour winner.- Biography :...

  • Marco Pisano
    Marco Pisano
    Marco Giovanni Pisano is an Italian footballer who plays as a left-sided defender for Vicenza.-Career:Pisano started his career at S.S. Lazio youth team. He joined Brescia of Serie B in January 2000. He was on loan to Serie C1 clubs in 2000–01 & 2001–02 season. He made his Serie A debut for...

  • Claudio Pistolesi
    Claudio Pistolesi
    Claudio Pistolesi is a former professional Italian tennis player.Pistolesi's highest ATP singles ranking is 71st, which he reached on August 17, 1987. His career high in doubles was at 213 set at November 17, 1986....

  • Pope Pius XII
    Pope Pius XII
    The Venerable Pope Pius XII , born Eugenio Maria Giuseppe Giovanni Pacelli , reigned as Pope, head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of Vatican City State, from 2 March 1939 until his death in 1958....

  • Violante Placido
    Violante Placido
    Violante Placido is an Italian actress and singer. She is the daughter of actor-director Michele Placido and actress Simonetta Stefanelli.-Film:...

  • Sylvia Poggioli
    Sylvia Poggioli
    Sylvia Poggioli , born 19 May 1946, is an American radio reporter for National Public Radio. She is that network's senior European correspondent.-Early life:...

  • Maurizio Ponzi
    Maurizio Ponzi
    Maurizio Ponzi is an Italian film director, screenwriter and cinema critic.Born in Rome, he wrote cinema reviews in several Italian magazines during the early 1960s...

  • Mario Ponzo
    Mario Ponzo
    Mario Ponzo was an Italian academic psychologist. He was born in Rome and studied under Federico Kiesow at Turin where, in 1911, he published an article in the journal Archives Italiennes de Biologie which presented the well-known optical illusion known as the Ponzo illusion...

  • Stefano Porcari
    Stefano Porcari
    Stefano Porcari was an Italian politician and humanist from Rome, known as the leader of a rebellion against Pope Nicholas V and the tyrannic Papal authority.-Biography:...

  • Daniele Portanova
    Daniele Portanova
    Daniele Portanova is an Italian footballer, who plays as a defender for Bologna of Serie A.In 19 August 2009, Portanova was moved to Bologna from AC Siena. He swapped clubs with Claudio Terzi.-External links:*...

  • Andrea Pozzi
    Andrea Pozzi
    Andrea Pozzi was an Italian painter, active mainly in his native Rome, as a painter of religious and mythologic histories.He painted a Virgin and Saints, painted for the City of Camerino. In 1820 he painted a Martyrdom of St. Stephen for a chapel of Santa Maria Rotundo in Rome. He was President...

  • Stefano Pozzi
    Stefano Pozzi
    Stefano Pozzi was an Italian painter, designer, draughtsman and decorator whose career was spent largely in Rome....

  • Matteo Pratichetti
    Matteo Pratichetti
    Matteo Pratichetti is an Italian rugby union player.He currently plays for Aironi in the RaboDirect Pro12.Pratichetti's father, Oreste, was a rugby player and coach, his uncle Carlo was capped several times for Italy in the 1980s, and his brother Andrea was his teammate at Calvisano for the...

  • Giancarlo Prete
    Giancarlo Prete
    Giancarlo Prete was an Italian actor.After he worked in the cinema as stuntman, Prete went to Alessandro Fersen's acting school and begun to act in many films and in TV serials.In the following years Prete worked as dubbing director and acted only in TV...

  • Giancarlo Primo
    Giancarlo Primo
    Giancarlo Primo was an Italian basketball player and coach.As a player for the Italian national team, he participated in the 1948 Olympics, 1947 European Championship and 1949 European Championship.After retiring as a player, he became an assistant coach for the Italian national team,...

  • Andrea Procaccini
    Andrea Procaccini
    Andrea Procaccini was an Italian painter of the Baroque period, active in Rome as well as in Spain.Born in Rome, he trained in the studio of Carlo Maratta. He painted the prophet Daniel for a series of twelve prophets made for San Giovanni Laterano. He assisted in the establishment of the papal...

  • Gigi Proietti
    Gigi Proietti
    Luigi "Gigi" Proietti is an Italian actor, director, dubber and singer.-Early life:He was born in Rome to Romano Proietti, a man from Umbria, and Giovanna Ceci, a housewife. During his youth he was keen on singing and on playing guitar, piano, accordion and double bass in several roman night clubs...

  • Alessandro Proni
    Alessandro Proni
    Alessandro Proni is an Italian professional road bicycle racer, currently riding for UCI Professional Continental team .- Major results :2007-References:...

  • Giorgio Prosperi
    Giorgio Prosperi
    Giorgio Prosperi was an Italian screenwriter. He wrote for 46 films between 1948 and 1967.-Selected filmography:* The Angel Wore Red * Everyone's in Love * Estate Violenta...

  • Giuseppe Puglia
    Giuseppe Puglia
    Giuseppe Puglia was an Italian painter, born in Rome. He was also known as Giuseppe del Bastaro. According to Baglioni, flourished chiefly during the pontificate of Urban VIII...


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  • Danny Raco
    Danny Raco
    Danny Raco is an Australian actor and director, known for his television work.Raco was born in Rome, Italy. He got his start playing Marco Vialli on the teenage soap opera Heartbreak High from 1998 to 1999. In 2001, he joined the cast of a primetime soap opera, Home and Away, playing Alex Poulos...

  • Giacomo Raffaelli
    Giacomo Raffaelli
    Giacomo Raffaelli was an Italian mosaicist from Rome. He is the author of a copy of Leonardo da Vinci's Last Supper commissioned by Napoleon I. The mosaic resides at Vienna in the Minoritenkirche.- Sources :...

  • Pietro Raimondi
    Pietro Raimondi
    Pietro Raimondi was an Italian composer, transitional between the Classical and Romantic eras...

  • Carlo Rainaldi
    Carlo Rainaldi
    Carlo Rainaldi was an Italian architect of the Baroque period.Born in Rome, Rainaldi was one of the leading architects of 17th century Rome, known for a certain grandeur in his designs. He worked at first with his father, Girolamo Rainaldi, a late Mannerist architect in Rome. After his father's...

  • Girolamo Rainaldi
    Girolamo Rainaldi
    Girolamo Rainaldi was an Italian architect who worked on the whole in a conservative Mannerist style, often with collaborating architects, yet was a successful competitor of Bernini...

  • Giovanna Ralli
    Giovanna Ralli
    Giovanna Ralli is an Italian actress. She was born in Rome, 2 January 1935.Ralli won a Nastro d'Argento for her supporting role in C'eravamo tanto amati.- Filmography :* I bambini ci guardano by Vittorio De Sica...

  • Eros Ramazzotti
    Eros Ramazzotti
    Eros Luciano Walter Ramazzotti , known simply as Eros Ramazzotti, is an Italian singer and songwriter. Ramazzotti is enormously popular in Italy, and is well known in most non-English-speaking European countries and in the Spanish-speaking world, as he has released most of his albums in both...

  • Gianluca Ramazzotti
    Gianluca Ramazzotti
    Gianluca Ramazzotti is an Italian television and theater actor and dubber.- Biography :He has attended the academy of Theater of Calabria, followed by other courses at Warsaw Theater, and in Paris at the Theatre du Soleil...

  • Ray Lovelock (actor)
    Ray Lovelock (actor)
    Ray Lovelock , is a film and television actor primarily known in Europe.-Early life:Lovelock's mother was Italian and his father was English. They met during the Allied occupation of Italy in World War II...

  • Dean Reed
    Dean Reed
    Dean Cyril Reed was an American actor, singer and songwriter who lived a great part of his adult life in South America and then in communist East Germany.-Life and career:...

  • Piero Regnoli
    Piero Regnoli
    Piero Regnoli was an Italian screenwriter and film director and for a time was the film critic for the Vatican's L'Osservatore Romano and was a Member of the jury at the Venice Film Festival in 1949 and 1954...

  • Arcangelo Resani
    Arcangelo Resani
    Arcangelo Resani was an Italian painter of the Baroque period. He was born at Rome and was a pupil of Giovanni Battista Boncuore. He chiefly excelled in painting animals and hunted game. His simple realistic works were highly esteemed at Siena, Bologna, and Venice...

  • Marko Resurreccion
    Marko Resurreccion
    Marko Resurreccion is the current vocalist and lyricist for the Italian EBM band XP8. He has been a member of XP8 since 2001. He currently resides in Rome, Italy....

  • Bianca Riario
    Bianca Riario
    Bianca Riario was an Italian noblewoman, and the eldest child and only daughter of Caterina Sforza, Lady of Imola, Countess of Forlì, by the latter's first husband, Girolamo Riario, a nephew of Pope Sixtus IV....

  • Giuseppe Ricciotti
    Giuseppe Ricciotti
    Abbot Giuseppe Ricciotti, C.R.L. was an Italian canon regular, Biblical scholar and archeologist. He is mainly famous for his book Life of Jesus Christ edited in 1941 and reedited and reprinted several times.-Life:...

  • Cola di Rienzo
    Cola di Rienzo
    Cola di Rienzo was an Italian medieval politician and popular leader, tribune of the Roman people in the mid-14th century.-Early career:Cola was born in Rome of humble origins...

  • Alessandro Rinaldi
    Alessandro Rinaldi
    Alessandro Rinaldi is a retired Italian footballer.He began his career in the U.S. Consalvo, a small team from the Quadraro district in Rome before moving first to Lodigiani and then to S.S. Lazio. He never played for Lazio in the Serie A...

  • Giuseppe Rinaldi
    Giuseppe Rinaldi
    Giuseppe Rinaldi was an Italian film actor. He appeared in 22 films between 1939 and 1982. He was the Italian voice of Marlon Brando, Jack Lemmon and Paul Newman.He was born and died in Rome, Italy....

  • Giovanni Battista Rinuccini
    Giovanni Battista Rinuccini
    Giovanni Battista Rinuccini was a Roman Catholic archbishop in the mid seventeenth century. He was a noted legal scholar who became chamberlain to Pope Gregory XV, who made him the Archbishop of Fermo in Italy...

  • Albert Roccardi
    Albert Roccardi
    Albert Roccardi was an Italian actor of the silent era. He appeared in 64 films between 1912 and 1933. He was born in Rome and died in Paris, France.-Selected filmography:* The Battle of Frenchman's Run...

  • Ettore Roesler Franz
    Ettore Roesler Franz
    Ettore Roesler Franz was an Italian painter and photographer of German origin.Roesler Franz was born in Rome. He was a specialıst in the technique of watercolor...

  • Flavio Roma
    Flavio Roma
    Flavio Roma is an Italian footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Serie A club Milan.-Club career:Roma started his career in the youth teams of S.S. Lazio. He was the 3rd goalkeeper behind Luca Marchegiani and Fernando Orsi before leaving the club to play for clubs in Serie B and Serie C1...

  • Luca Romagnoli
    Luca Romagnoli
    Luca Romagnoli is an Italian politician and former Member of the European Parliament for Southern Italy with the neo-fascist party Fiamma Tricolore, being a Non-Inscrit in the European Parliament.He sat on its Committee on Transport and Tourism, and was a substitute for the Committee on...

  • Antoniazzo Romano
    Antoniazzo Romano
    Antoniazzo Romano, born Antonio di Benedetto Aquilo degli Aquili was an Italian Early Renaissance painter, the leading figure of the Roman school during the 15th century.-Biography:...

  • Giovanni Cristoforo Romano
    Giovanni Cristoforo Romano
    Giovanni Cristoforo Romano was an Italian Renaissance sculptor and medallist.Born in Rome to Isaia da Pisa, he was probably a pupil of Andrea Bregno. He first known works are in the Ducal Palace of Urbino, dating from before 1482...

  • Giulio Romano
    Giulio Romano
    Giulio Romano was an Italian painter and architect. A pupil of Raphael, his stylistic deviations from high Renaissance classicism help define the 16th-century style known as Mannerism...

  • Judah ben Moses Romano
    Judah ben Moses Romano
    Judah ben Moses Romano was an Italian Jewish philosopher and translator of the thirteen and fourteenth centuries. He was a cousin of Immanuel of Rome....

  • Paolo Emilio Rondinini
    Paolo Emilio Rondinini
    Paolo Emilio Rondinini, born in 1617 to Alessandro Rondinini and Felice Zacchia, was a grand-nephew on his mother's side of Cardinal Paolo Emilio Zacchia and grandson of Cardinal Laudivio Zacchia.-Earli Life and Education:...

  • Aleandro Rosi
    Aleandro Rosi
    Aleandro Rosi is an Italian footballer who currently plays as a defender for Italian Serie A club Roma.-Club career:Rosi was originally in the Lazio youth system but switched over to Roma when he was 12 years old. He signed with A.S. Roma his first professional contract on 1 July 2004...

  • Carlo Rosselli
    Carlo Rosselli
    Carlo Rosselli was an Italian political leader, journalist, historian and anti-fascist activist, first in Italy then abroad...

  • Ingrid Rossellini
    Ingrid Rossellini
    Ingrid Rossellini is a daughter of actress Ingrid Bergman and director Roberto Rossellini.Rossellini received a BS, MA and Ph.D in Italian Literature from Columbia University in New York City, New York...

  • Isabella Rossellini
    Isabella Rossellini
    Isabella Fiorella Elettra Giovanna Rossellini is an Italian actress, filmmaker, author, philanthropist, and model. Rossellini is noted for her 14-year tenure as a Lancôme model, and for her roles in films such as Blue Velvet and Death Becomes Her.-Background and early life:Rossellini is a...

  • Renzo Rossellini
    Renzo Rossellini
    Renzo Rossellini was an Italian composer, best known for his film scores.Born in Rome, he was brother of director Roberto Rossellini and father of producer Franco Rossellini...

  • Roberto Rossellini
    Roberto Rossellini
    Roberto Rossellini was an Italian film director and screenwriter. Rossellini was one of the directors of the Italian neorealist cinema, contributing films such as Roma città aperta to the movement.-Early life:Born in Rome, Roberto Rossellini lived on the Via Ludovisi, where Benito Mussolini had...

  • Kim Rossi Stuart
    Kim Rossi Stuart
    Kim Rossi Stuart is an Italian actor and director.-Career:Kim Rossi Stuart was born in Rome. His father, Giacomo, was also an actor. His mother was a former top model.He began acting at the age of 5...

  • Girolamo Rossi
    Girolamo Rossi
    Girolamo Rossi was an Italian engraver of the late-Baroque. He was also called Girolamo de Rubeis the Younger. He was born and lived most of his life in Rome, where he engraved a variety of plates after the Italian painters...

  • Luciano Rossi
    Luciano Rossi
    Luciano Rossi was an Italian film actor. He appeared in 67 films between 1966 and 1987.He was born and died in Rome, Italy.-Selected filmography:* Death Sentence * Five for Hell...

  • Giuseppe Rotunno
    Giuseppe Rotunno
    Giuseppe Rotunno, A.S.C., A.I.C. is an Italian cinematographer. Sometimes credited as Peppino Rotunno, he was director of photography on eight films by Federico Fellini...

  • Gianni Rufini
    Gianni Rufini
    Gianni Rufini was born in Rome in 1954. He is an expert of international aid, former Director of VOICE, the Network of European NGOs working in Emergency and Humanitarian Aid ....

  • Ludovico Rusconi Sassi
    Ludovico Rusconi Sassi
    Ludovico Rusconi Sassi was an Italian architect of the Rococo period.-Biography and principal works:Born in Rome, he was inducted in 1702 to the Academy of Saint Luke....

  • Andrea Russotto
    Andrea Russotto
    Andrea Russotto is an Italian footballer who plays for Serie B outfit Livorno.-Club career:Hailed as one of the most promising Italian youngsters, he started his career as part of the S.S. Lazio youth system. In 2004, Russotto, already a regular in the national youth teams, was approached by...

  • Francesco Rutelli

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  • Gigi Sabani
    Gigi Sabani
    Luigi Sabani, best known as Gigi was an Italian TV impersonator, host and singer.Born in Rome, Sabani made his television debut in the late 1970s as an impersonator: his most famous imitations included those of Adriano Celentano and Mike Bongiorno...

  • Antonio Sabàto, Jr.
    Antonio Sabàto, Jr.
    Antonio Sabàto, Jr. is an American actor and model. Born in Italy and raised in the U.S., Sabàto first became known as a Calvin Klein model and for his role on the soap opera General Hospital. He continued appearing in films and television series throughout the 1990s and 2000s.-Early life:Sabàto...

  • Ashraf Saber
    Ashraf Saber
    Ashraf Saber is an Italian athlete who competes in the 400 metres and 400 metres hurdles.-Achievements:-External links:*...

  • Antonio Sacconi
    Antonio Sacconi
    Antonio Sacconi was an Italian chess master.Born into a noble family in Rome, he won torneo del Caffè Balbo after play-off match against Bernheimer in 1917, drew a match with Stefano Rosselli del Turco in 1918, both in Rome, and won a match against Mario Monticelli at Venice 1926.He won Italian...

  • Luigi Sagrati
    Luigi Sagrati
    Luigi Sagrati was an Italian violist.He began studying the violin very young, and graduated cum laude from the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia. In the immediate postwar period he began an intensive concert activity in Italy and abroad...

  • Alessio Sakara
    Alessio Sakara
    Alessio Sakara is an Italian mixed martial artist and boxer, who currently competes in the Ultimate Fighting Championship's Middleweight Division. Sakara is also a Former World Junior Boxing Contender. He holds notable wins over Elvis Sinosic, Thales Leites, James Irvin.-Background:Sakara was born...

  • Luciano Salce
    Luciano Salce
    Luciano Salce was an Italian film director and actor. His 1962 film Le pillole di Ercole was shown as part of a retrospective on Italian comedy at the 67th Venice International Film Festival....

  • Tommaso Salini
    Tommaso Salini
    Tommaso Salini was an Italian painter of the early-Baroque period, active in Rome. He is best remembered for defending his friend, Giovanni Baglione, in his libel suit against Caravaggio and other painters in his circle. Baglioni describes his still life paintings. He joined the Accademia di San...

  • Sergio Salvati
    Sergio Salvati
    Sergio Salvati is a cinematographer who is famous for his collaborations with Italian horror film director Lucio Fulci. Such films include Seven Notes In Black , Zombi 2 and The Beyond ....

  • Nicola Salvi
    Nicola Salvi
    Nicola Salvi or Niccolò Salvi was an Italian architect most famous for the Trevi Fountain in Rome, where he was born and died. His work is in the late Roman Baroque style. In addition to the Trevi Fountain, Salvi did minor works such as churches and the enlargement of the Odescalchi Palace with...

  • Sampson the Hospitable
    Sampson the Hospitable
    Sampson the Hospitable was a citizen of Constantinople who devoted his time to serving the poor of the city. He is venerated as a saint in the Eastern Churches.- Life :...

  • Rafael Sánchez Ferlosio
    Rafael Sánchez Ferlosio
    Rafael Sánchez Ferlosio is a Spanish writer. His father Rafael Sánchez Mazas, a minor writer himself, was a founder and leader of Falange....

  • Aitana Sánchez-Gijón
    Aitana Sánchez-Gijón
    Aitana Sánchez-Gijón is a Spanish-Italian film actress.Best known for playing dramatic roles in Spain, Sánchez-Gijón is known in the United States for her portrayal of Victoria Aragon, a pregnant and abandoned Mexican-American winegrower's daughter who is helped by travelling salesman Paul Sutton ...

  • Maya Sansa
    Maya Sansa
    -Biography:Maya Sansa was born in Rome the daughter of an Iranian father and an Italian mother. When she was 14, she started to study acting at her high school in Rome the "Virgilio". She then moved to London to study at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. There she graduated in acting and was...

  • Mara Santangelo
    Mara Santangelo
    Mara Santangelo is a former professional female tennis player from Italy. She retired from the sport on 28 January 2011.-Tennis career:...

  • Vincenzo Santopadre
    Vincenzo Santopadre
    Vincenzo Santopadre , is a former professional tennis player from Italy.Santopadre reached a career high World No. 100 on May 3, 1999. He won 1 doubles title and achieved a career-high doubles ranking of World No. 103 in on August 24, 1998.-Doubles titles :-Runner-ups :-External links:...

  • Daniela Sanzone
    Daniela Sanzone
    Daniela Sanzone is an Italian journalist. She lives in Toronto where she is currently a host and a reporter for the at , a Canadian multicultural Channel owned by .-Biography:Daniela was born and raised in Rome...

  • Giulio Aristide Sartorio
    Giulio Aristide Sartorio
    Giulio Aristide Sartorio was an Italian painter and film director from Rome.-Biography:Having attended the Rome Institute of Fine Arts, Sartorio presented a Symbolist work at the Esposizione Internazionale di Roma of 1883...

  • Gabriel Sava
    Gabriel Sava
    Gabriel Sava , is an Italian goalkeeper. He was born in Rome and was once on the books of Lazio. He impressed many with a good performance in the FAI Cup for Drogheda United against Bohemians. He now plays for Monaghan United....

  • Giovanni Battista Savelli
    Giovanni Battista Savelli
    Giovanni Battista Savelli was an Italian cardinal from the 15th century. Of the noble Savelli family to which belonged Pope Honorius III and Pope Honorius IV and Cardinals: Bertrando Savelli, Giacomo Savelli, Silvio Savelli, Giulio Savelli, Fabrizio Savelli, Paolo Savelli and Domenico Savelli...

  • Mirko Savini
    Mirko Savini
    Mirko Savini is an Italian footballer defender.-Career:Savini spent most of his early career playing at lower division level, and reached Serie B only in 2002 with Ascoli...

  • Princess Mafalda of Savoy
  • Maria Anna of Savoy
    Maria Anna of Savoy
    Maria Anna of Savoy was the wife of Emperor Ferdinand I of Austria. She was Empress of Austria; Queen of Hungary, Bohemia, Lombardy and Venetia.-Biography:...

  • Luciana Sbarbati
    Luciana Sbarbati
    Luciana Sbarbati is an Italian politician andMember of the European Parliamentfor Centralwith the Movimento Repubblicani Europei,Member of the Bureau of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe and sits on...

  • Mattia Sbragia
    Mattia Sbragia
    Mattia Sbragia is an Italian character actor.Mattia Sbragia has been performing in films, on television, and in the theater for almost thirty years. He made his motion picture debut in 1974, in Franco Rossetti's Nipoti Miei Diletti...

  • Franca Scagnetti
    Franca Scagnetti
    Franca Scagnetti was an Italian film actress. She appeared in over 80 films between 1969 and 1999.She was born and died in Rome, Italy.-Selected filmography:* The Balloon Vendor...

  • Giovanni Battista Scaramelli
    Giovanni Battista Scaramelli
    Giovanni Battista Scaramelli was an Italian Jesuit, ethicist and ascetical writer.-Biography:He was born at Rome and died at Macerata in 1752. He entered the Society of Jesus on 21 September 1706...

  • Pietro Filippo Scarlatti
    Pietro Filippo Scarlatti
    Pietro Filippo Scarlatti was an Italian composer, organist and choirmaster.He was born in Rome, the eldest of Alessandro Scarlatti's children and a brother of composer Domenico Scarlatti - began his musical career in 1705 as choirmaster of the cathedral of Urbino...

  • Rudolph Schadow
    Rudolph Schadow
    Rudolph Schadow was a German sculptor.Born in Rome, he had his father at Berlin for his first master....

  • Giancarlo Schiaffini
    Giancarlo Schiaffini
    Giancarlo Schiaffini is an Italian jazz trombonist and tubist most associated with avant-garde music, free improvisation and free jazz. A member of the Italian Instabile Orchestra, Schiaffini has worked with such artists as Mario Schiano, Lol Coxhill, Andrea Centazzo and also Thurston Moore of...

  • Elsa Schiaparelli
    Elsa Schiaparelli
    Elsa Schiaparelli was an Italian fashion designer. Along with Coco Chanel, her greatest rival, she is regarded as one of the most prominent figures in fashion between the two World Wars. Starting with knitwear, Schiaparelli's designs were heavily influenced by Surrealists like her collaborators...

  • Ernesto Screpanti
    Ernesto Screpanti
    Ernesto Screpanti is a professor of Political Economy at the University of Siena. He worked on the “rethinking Marxism” research programme, in the attempt to update Marxist analysis by bring it in line with the reality of contemporary capitalism, on the one hand, and to liberate Marxism from any...

  • Scribonia (daughter of Lucius Scribonius Libo consul 16)
    Scribonia (daughter of Lucius Scribonius Libo consul 16)
    Scribonia Magna , in the modern historical sources she is known as Scribonia Crassi was a Roman noblewoman that lived in the Roman Empire...

  • Ezio Sella
    Ezio Sella
    Ezio Sella is a retired football player and current coach.During his playing career he played for Viterbese, Fiorentina, Brescia, Sampdoria, Verona, Bologna, Arezzo, Ancona, Civitavecchia and Lodigiani...

  • Andy Selva
    Andy Selva
    Andy Selva is an Italian-born Sanmarinese professional footballer who currently plays as a striker for Fidene and the San Marino national team.-Club career:...

  • Franco Sensi
    Franco Sensi
    Francesco Sensi, Cavaliere del lavoro, , was an Italian oil tycoon. He was born in Rome, where he lived throughout his entire life, though he also served time as mayor of Visso, the city where his family came from. He had been for fifteen years, until his death, general manager of Associazione...

  • Rosella Sensi
    Rosella Sensi
    Rosella Sensi is an entrepreneur and Italian professional sports executive. She was the Chairman of the Italian professional football club Associazione Sportiva Roma from 2008 to 2011.She is a graduate of the Libera Università Internazionale degli Studi Sociali Guido Carli...

  • Michele Sepe
    Michele Sepe
    Michele Sepe is an Italian rugby union player. Sepe, who is a wing, plays club rugby for Benetton Treviso. He made his debut for Italy against Japan on 11 June 2006....

  • Luigi Serafini
    Luigi Serafini
    Luigi Serafini is an Italian artist, architect and designer. He is best known for creating the Codex Seraphinianus, an illustrated encyclopedia of imaginary things in a constructed language...

  • Clara Sereni
    Clara Sereni
    Clara Sereni is an Italian writer. Of Jewish descent, born and married in Rome, she remained in the capital city until 1991, then she moved to Perugia, where she still lives....

  • Michele Serra
    Michele Serra
    Michele Serra is an Italian writer, journalist and satirist.-Biography:Serra was born in Rome, but moved to Milan in 1959. In 1975 he began to work for L'Unità, then the official newspaper of the Italian Communist Party , of which he had become a member one year before...

  • Alessio Sestu
    Alessio Sestu
    Alessio Sestu is an Italian footballer who currently plays for Siena.Sestu started his professional career at Serie C2 club Südtirol-Alto Adige, which he joined the club in co-ownership deal. He then played for clubs in Serie B and Serie C1. He joined Treviso in January 2003...

  • Pope Severinus
    Pope Severinus
    Pope Severinus was pope in the year 640 who became caught up in a power struggle with the Byzantine Emperor Heraclius over the ongoing Monothelite controversy.-Election and struggle with Constantinople:...

  • Guido Ascanio Sforza di Santa Fiora
    Guido Ascanio Sforza di Santa Fiora
    Guido Ascanio Sforza di Santa Fiora was an Italian cardinal, known also as The cardinal of Santa Fiora....

  • Giovanni Sgambati
    Giovanni Sgambati
    Giovanni Sgambati was an Italian composer.Born to an Italian father and an English mother, Sgambati, who lost his father early, received his early education at Trevi, in Umbria, where he wrote some church music and obtained experience as a singer and conductor...

  • Alessandro Sgrigna
    Alessandro Sgrigna
    Alessandro Sgrigna is an Italian football striker who plays for Torino.-Career:Sgrigna started his career at Rome for Lodigiani. He played for Internazionale youth team before back to Rome. He then signed by Vicenza in mid of 1999. He played 3 league matches before loaned out in 2000-01 season,...

  • Enrico Sgrulletti
    Enrico Sgrulletti
    Enrico Sgrulletti is a retired male hammer thrower from Italy, whose personal best throw is 81.64 metres, achieved in March 1997 in Ostia.-Achievements:-External links:...

  • Sabrina Siani
    Sabrina Siani
    Sabrina Siani is an Italian film actress. Under this name or pseudonyms such as Sabrina Seggiani, Sabrina Sellers and Sabrina Syan, she has starred in numerous films, mostly sexy & violent cannibal films and barbarian "sword-and-sandal" movies...

  • Enzo Siciliano
    Enzo Siciliano
    Enzo Siciliano was an Italian writer, playwright, literary critic and intellectual.Siciliano was born in Rome. He was collaborator of Alberto Moravia, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Elsa Morante and many other famous writers in the 1950s and 1960s.From 1996 to 1998 he was President of RAI...

  • Eugenio Sicomoro
    Eugenio Sicomoro
    Eugenio Sicomoro, byname of Bruno Brunetti is an Italian comic book artist.Born in Rome, Sicomoro made his debut in the late 1970s on the Italian magazine Lanciostory. Later, together with Claude Moliterni, he created the series Rouletabille for the French magazines Pilote and Charlie Mensuel...

  • Luis Simarro Lacabra
    Luis Simarro Lacabra
    Luis Simarro Lacabra was a Spanish psychiatrist who was born in Rome while his parents were living in Italy....

  • Simcha of Rome
    Simcha of Rome
    Simcha of Rome was a Jewish scholar and rabbi who lived in Rome in the last quarter of the thirteenth century AD. He was given an open letter by the community and sent out to find Maimonides' Commentary on the Mishnah and bring it back with him. He traveled through Provence and Catalonia without...

  • Pope Sixtus I
    Pope Sixtus I
    Pope Saint Sixtus I was bishop of Rome from about 117 or 119 to 126 or 128 C.E., succeeding Pope Alexander I and succeeded by Pope Telesphorus. In the oldest documents, Xystus is the spelling used for the first three popes of that name....

  • Danilo Soddimo
    Danilo Soddimo
    Danilo Soddimo is an Italian footballer who plays for Pescara. He has gradually made his way through the blucerchiati 's youth system, and made his Serie A debut on April 30, 2006 in a home match against Udinese...

  • Sergio Sollima
    Sergio Sollima
    Sergio Sollima is an Italian former film director and script writer.Like many Italian cult directors, Sollima started his career by directing mostly sword and sandal movies that were very popular in the early 1960s. After the genre's popularity quickly died out, Sollima was among the first ones to...

  • Bobby Solo
    Bobby Solo
    Bobby Solo is an Italian singer and musician.Solo was born in Rome.In 1964, he participated in the Sanremo Music Festival with the song "Una lacrima sul viso" , but he was disqualified for singing with playback which was contrary to the festival regulations. The song, however, became a global hit...

  • Cornelio Sommaruga
    Cornelio Sommaruga
    Cornelio Sommaruga is a prominent Swiss humanitarian, lawyer and diplomat who is best known for being President of the International Committee of the Red Cross from 1987 to 1999. Today, he chairs the Geneva International Centre for Humanitarian Demining in Geneva...

  • Alberto Sordi
    Alberto Sordi
    Alberto Sordi, also known as Albertone, Cavaliere di Gran Croce OMRI was an Italian actor. He was also a film director and the dubbing voice of Oliver Hardy in the Italian version of the Laurel & Hardy films....

  • Pietro Spada
    Pietro Spada
    Pietro Spada is an Italian pianist and musicologist . He is particularly noted for his technically masterful and vivid interpretations of works by lesser-known composers and his recordings of the piano music of John Field are highly regarded.-Biography:Pietro Spada is the second of three sons of...

  • Alessandro Specchi
    Alessandro Specchi
    Alessandro Specchi was an Italian architect and engraver.Born in Rome, he trained as an architect under Carlo Fontana. He also specialized as an engraver and made a well known series of plates for prints of vedute or views of Rome As an architect, he was influenced by Francesco Borromini...

  • Innocenzo Spinazzi
    Innocenzo Spinazzi
    Innocenzo Spinazzi was an Italian sculptor of the Rococo period active in Rome and Florence.-Biography:Born in Rome to a silversmith, he became the leading sculptor in Florence, where he died. He was trained by Giovanni Battista Maini...

  • Altiero Spinelli
    Altiero Spinelli
    Altiero Spinelli was an Italian political theorist and a European federalist. Spinelli is referred to as one of the "Founding Fathers of the European Union" due to his co-authorship of the Ventotene Manifesto, his founding role in the European federalist movement, his strong influence on the first...

  • Luciano Spinosi
    Luciano Spinosi
    Luciano Spinosi is an Italian former football coach and a former player.The clubs for which Spinosi played include A.S. Roma and Juventus F.C.. For the Italy national football team he totalled 22 caps, starting from November 19, 1969.Spinosi also played for Hellas Verona F.C., A.C. Milan and A.C...

  • Francesco Statuto
    Francesco Statuto
    Francesco Statuto is an Italian former football player, being among the top midfielders for AS Roma during the 1990s....

  • Simonetta Stefanelli
    Simonetta Stefanelli
    Simonetta Stefanelli is an Italian film actress. She is best known outside Italy for her role in The Godfather , in which she played Apollonia Vitelli-Corleone, Michael Corleone's wife...

  • Giacomo Gaetani Stefaneschi
    Giacomo Gaetani Stefaneschi
    Giacomo Gaetani Stefaneschi was an Italian cardinal deacon.-Life:Born in Rome, He was the son of the senator Pietro Stefaneschi and his wife, Perna Orsini. He received his early education at Rome, and was sent to the University of Paris to pursue higher studies...

  • Roberto Stellone
    Roberto Stellone
    Roberto Stellone is an Italian footballer who plays for Serie B team Frosinone as a forward. Stellone has played over 100 games in both Serie A and Serie B level.Stellone is known for his ability in the air.-Early career:...

  • Pope Stephen I
    Pope Stephen I
    Pope Saint Stephen I served as Bishop of Rome from 12 May 254 to 2 August 257.Of Roman birth but of Greek ancestry, he became bishop of Rome in 254, having served as archdeacon of Pope Lucius I, who appointed Stephen his successor....

  • Cesare Sterbini
    Cesare Sterbini
    Cesare Sterbini was an Italian writer.Sterbini was born at Rome. He is known for two libretti for operas by Gioacchino Rossini: Torvaldo e Dorliska and The Barber of Seville ....

  • Michael Stern (journalist)
    Michael Stern (journalist)
    Michael Stern was an American reporter, author and philanthropist. As a reporter during World War II he issued some of the first accounts from a liberated Rome, Italy in June 1944...

  • Raffaele Stern
    Raffaele Stern
    Raffaele Stern was an Italian architect.Born in 1774, he was educated in Winckelmann's classical and neoclassical principles, and designed a plan for a New Wing of the Museo Chiaramonti in the Vatican Museums in 1805-1806, which he was commissioned to enact in 1817...

  • Giampietro Stocco
    Giampietro Stocco
    Giampietro Stocco is an Italian author.Stocco was born in Rome. He got graduated from with a degree in Political Sciences at the Università di Roma "La Sapienza" with a thesis about the national and ethnic minorities in Europe, with a special focus on the cases of South Tyrol and Schleswig-Holstein...

  • Paolo Stoppa
    Paolo Stoppa
    Paolo Stoppa was an Italian actor and dubber.Born in Rome, he began as a stage actor in 1927 in the theater in Rome and began acting in films in 1932...

  • Vittorio Storaro
    Vittorio Storaro
    Vittorio Storaro, A.S.C., A.I.C. is an Italian cinematographer.In 2003, a survey conducted by the International Cinematographers Guild judged Storaro one of history's ten most influential cinematographers.-Biography:...

  • Alessandro Stradella
    Alessandro Stradella
    Alessandro Stradella was an Italian composer of the middle baroque. He enjoyed a dazzling career as a freelance composer, writing on commission, collaborating with distinguished poets, producing over three hundred works in a variety of genres.-Life:Not much is known about his early life, but he...

  • Charles Edward Stuart
    Charles Edward Stuart
    Prince Charles Edward Louis John Casimir Sylvester Severino Maria Stuart commonly known as Bonnie Prince Charlie or The Young Pretender was the second Jacobite pretender to the thrones of Great Britain , and Ireland...

  • Henry Benedict Stuart
    Henry Benedict Stuart
    Henry Benedict Stuart was a Roman Catholic Cardinal, as well as the fourth and final Jacobite heir to publicly claim the thrones of England, Scotland, and Ireland. Unlike his father, James Francis Edward Stuart, and brother, Charles Edward Stuart, Henry made no effort to seize the throne...


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  • Fanny Tacchinardi Persiani
    Fanny Tacchinardi Persiani
    Fanny Tacchinardi Persiani was an Italian soprano particularly associated with bel canto composers, such as Rossini, Donizetti, Bellini, and early Verdi...

  • Antonio Tajani
    Antonio Tajani
    Antonio Tajani is an Italian politician. He is the current European Commissioner for Industry and Entrepreneurship and has also been one of the five Vice-President of the European Commission since May 2008....

  • Stefano Tamburini
    Stefano Tamburini
    Stefano Tamburini was an Italian graphic artist, author and publisher.Born in Rome, he founded the magazines Combinazioni , Cannibale and Frigidaire...

  • Domenico Tardini
  • Mauro Tassotti
    Mauro Tassotti
    Mauro Tassotti is a retired Italian footballer. He played for seventeen years with A.C. Milan, mostly at right back but could also fill in at centre back if required, thanks to his versatility and commitment...

  • Marcus Terentius Varro Lucullus
    Marcus Terentius Varro Lucullus
    Marcus Terentius Varro Lucullus , younger brother of the more famous Lucius Licinius Lucullus, was a supporter of Lucius Cornelius Sulla and consul of ancient Rome in 73 BC. As proconsul of Macedonia in 72 BC, he defeated the Bessi in Thrace and advanced to the Danube and the west coast of the...

  • Christian Terlizzi
    Christian Terlizzi
    Christian Terlizzi is an Italian professional footballer who plays for A.S. Varese 1910. He has played for clubs on all professional levels of Italian football, including U.S. Città di Palermo, U.C. Sampdoria, and Catania Calcio in the Serie A. He has also been capped for the Italy national...

  • Camillo Tinti
    Camillo Tinti
    Camillo Tinti was an Italian painter. He was born in Rome, was employed by Gavin Hamilton to engrave some of the plates for his Schola Itálica; among these were the following: The Marriage of St. Catherine after Parmigianino; Meleager and Atalanta after Polidoro da Caravaggio; and Christ on the...

  • Simone Tiribocchi
    Simone Tiribocchi
    Simone Tiribocchi is an Italian football striker. He currently plays for Atalanta.- Career :A Lazio youth product, he made his debut playing for Pistoiese in 1995. He played 8 seasons for Torino F.C., although half of them loaned to Serie B and Serie C1 clubs. He was signed by A.C. ChievoVerona...

  • Tommaso Tittoni
    Tommaso Tittoni
    Tommaso Tittoni was an Italian diplomat, politician and Knight of the Annunziata.-Biography:Tommaso Tittoni was born in Rome, to which he returned in 1870, because his father, Vincenzo, a devotee of the Risorgimento, was forced in 1860 to flee the Papal States.He studied law and, after graduating,...

  • Titus
    Titus
    Titus , was Roman Emperor from 79 to 81. A member of the Flavian dynasty, Titus succeeded his father Vespasian upon his death, thus becoming the first Roman Emperor to come to the throne after his own father....

  • Enrico Toccacelo
    Enrico Toccacelo
    Enrico Toccacelo is an Italian auto racer with karting, GT and Formula 3000 experience. He won a pair of F3000 events and briefly led Vitantonio Liuzzi in the 2004 championship before Liuzzi went on to win the next three races. He finished runner-up, but, unable to land a Formula One seat, raced...

  • Giorgia Todrani
    Giorgia Todrani
    Giorgia Todrani, best known as Giorgia is an Italian female singer and song-writer, known for her soulful voice, which is aided by a wide vocal range, high belting register and great vocal abilities. She is one of the most iconic and famous Italian singers. She has released ten studio albums,...

  • Maria Sole Tognazzi
    Maria Sole Tognazzi
    Maria Sole Tognazzi is an Italian film director.-Biography:She is the daughter of actor and director Ugo Tognazzi and actress Franca Bettoia...

  • Gianni Togni
    Gianni Togni
    Gianni Togni is an Italian singer.He begins his musical experience with the album In una simile circostanza , he obtained a notable success in 1980 with the single "Luna", from the album .....

  • Marilù Tolo
    Marilù Tolo
    Marilù Tolo is an Italian film actress. She appeared in 64 films between 1960 and 1985. She was also a fashion model and a close friend of Italian stylist Valentino...

  • Alessio Tombesi
    Alessio Tombesi
    Alessio Tombesi is an Italian footballer. He plays for Triestina.-Career:Tombesi started his career at Viterbese of Serie B. He then played for Frosinone of Serie D and won promotion in summer 2001....

  • Tommyknocker
    Tommyknocker
    Tomasso Marra , best known as Tommyknocker, is a Hardcore producer and DJ.-Career:Tommyknocker began his career in 1995 when he began performing in some Underground parties organized in Rome....

  • Salvator Tongiorgi
    Salvator Tongiorgi
    Salvator Tongiorgi was an Italian Jesuit philosopher and theologian.-Life:Born in Rome, Tongiorgi entered the Society of Jesus at the age of seventeen. After the usual noviceship, literary and philosophical studies, a half-decade was spent in teaching rhetoric at Reggio Emilia and humanities at...

  • Giulio Tonti
    Giulio Tonti
    Giulio Tonti was an Italian Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church who served as Prefect of the Sacred Congregation of Religious from 1917 until his death, and was elevated to the cardinalate in 1915.-Biography:...

  • Cesare Torelli
    Cesare Torelli
    Cesare Torelli Romano was an Italian painter.He was born in Rome, and a pupil of Giovanni de' Vecchi. He flourished in the pontificate of Paul V, and was employed both as a painter and a mosaicist in the library of the Vatican, and in the Scala Santa in San Giovanni Laterano. He painted two Sibyls...

  • Alessandro Torlonia, 2nd Prince di Civitella-Cesi
    Alessandro Torlonia, 2nd Prince di Civitella-Cesi
    Don Alessandro Torlonia, of the House of Torlonia, was an Italian nobleman titled Duca di Ceri, Prince di Fucino. He was the second Prince of Civitella-Cesi, and the son of Giovanni Torlonia. He greatly expanded Villa Torlonia, which was started by his father....

  • Augusto Torlonia, 3rd Prince di Civitella Cesi
    Augusto Torlonia, 3rd Prince di Civitella Cesi
    Don Augusto Torlonia, of the House of Torlonia, was an Italian nobleman and third Prince of Civitella-Cesi. Augusto received the title from his grandfather's younger brother, Alessandro Torlonia, 2nd Prince di Civitella-Cesi....

  • Giovanni Torlonia, 1st Prince di Civitella-Cesi
    Giovanni Torlonia, 1st Prince di Civitella-Cesi
    Giovanni Raimondo Torlonia , son of Marino Torlonia and Marie Cambray, was a Franco-Italian noble of the Torlonia family....

  • Leopoldo Torlonia
    Leopoldo Torlonia
    Leopoldo Torlonia was an Italian nobleman and politician, who was Mayor of Rome from May 1882 to May 1887.He was the third duke of Poli and of Guadagnolo....

  • Barnaba Tortolini
    Barnaba Tortolini
    Barnaba Tortolini was a 19th-century Italian priest and mathematician who played an early active role in advancing the scientific unification of the Italian states. He founded the first Italian scientific journal with an international presence and was a distinguished professor of mathematics at...

  • Enrico Toti
    Enrico Toti
    Enrico Toti was an Italian cyclist, patriot and hero of World War I.Enrico lost his left leg while working for Italian railways, at the age of 24. After his injury he became a cyclist....

  • Gianni Toti
    Gianni Toti
    Gianni Toti was an Italian poet, writer, journalist, and cineaste. In the early 80s he created "Poetronica" .-Biography:...

  • Francesco Totti
    Francesco Totti
    Francesco Totti, Ufficiale OMRI, is an Italian footballer who is the captain of Serie A club Roma. His primary position is that of a trequartista, though he has also been successfully utilized as a lone striker. Totti has spent his entire career at Roma, is the number-one goalscorer and the most...

  • Fausto Tozzi
    Fausto Tozzi
    Fausto Tozzi was an Italian film actor and screenwriter. He appeared in 70 films between 1951 and 1978...

  • Trasilla and Emiliana
    Trasilla and Emiliana
    Saints Trasilla and Emiliana were aunts of St. Gregory the Great, and venerated as virgin saints of the sixth century. They appear in the Roman Martyrology, the former on 24 December, the latter on 5 January....

  • Leopoldo Trieste
    Leopoldo Trieste
    Leopoldo Trieste was an Italian actor, film director and script writer.Trieste was born in Reggio Calabria...

  • Trilussa
    Trilussa
    Carlo Alberto Salustri was an Italian dialect poet, better known by his pen name of Trilussa . He is best known for the poems, some of them sonnets, written in the dialect of Rome.-Biography:...

  • Jasmine Trinca
    Jasmine Trinca
    Jasmine Trinca is an Italian actress.She began her career in 2001, chosen by Nanni Moretti for his award-winning The Son's Room, receiving the Guglielmo Biraghi prize as best new talent of the year...

  • Licia Troisi
    Licia Troisi
    Licia Troisi is an Italian fantasy writer.Her first published book was Nihal della terra del vento , published in 2004. This is the first book of a fantasy trilogy entitled Cronache del mondo emerso...

  • Antonello Trombadori
    Antonello Trombadori
    Antonello Trombadori was an Italian art critic and journalist.Born in Rome into a family of artists Trombadori lived a happy life in the Villa Strohl-Fern studio-home of his city, coming into contact with numerous intellectuals of the era...

  • Alessandro Tulli
    Alessandro Tulli
    Alessandro Tulli is an Italian footballer who plays for Piacenza at Serie B.Tulli started his career at A.S. Roma youth system. He was loaned to various Serie B clubs before U.S. Lecce signed him in join-ownership bid on 31 August 2006, for €250,000.On 31 January 2008, Piacenza bought another half...


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  • Giuseppe Valadier
    Giuseppe Valadier
    Giuseppe Valadier was an Italian architect and designer, urban planner and archeologist, a chief exponent of Neoclassicism in Italy.-Biography:...

  • Lorenzo Valla
    Lorenzo Valla
    Lorenzo Valla was an Italian humanist, rhetorician, and educator. His family was from Piacenza; his father, Luciave della Valla, was a lawyer....

  • Bice Valori
    Bice Valori
    Bice Valori was an Italian show girl and actress.Valori was born in Rome. She was the wife of actor Paolo Panelli....

  • Carlo Vanzina
    Carlo Vanzina
    Carlo Vanzina is an Italian film director, producer and screenwriter. He was born March 13, 1951.In 2001 he directed the romantic comedy film South Kensington starring Rupert Everett and Elle Macpherson. Two of his films, Eccezzziunale.....

  • Walter Veltroni
    Walter Veltroni
    Walter Veltroni, Knight Grand Cross, is an Italian writer, journalist and politician, who served as the first leader of the Democratic Party within the centre-left opposition, until his resignation on 17 February 2009. He served as Mayor of Rome from 2001 to 2008.-Biography:Walter Veltroni was...

  • Antonello Venditti
    Antonello Venditti
    Antonello Venditti is an Italian singer-songwriter who became famous in the 1970s for the social themes of his songs.-Biography:...

  • Giovanni Francesco Venturini
    Giovanni Francesco Venturini
    Giovanni Francesco Venturini was an Italian painter of the Baroque period.He was born in Rome. From the style of his engraving, it is probable that he was a pupil ot Giovanni Battista Galestruzzi...

  • Carlo Verdone
    Carlo Verdone
    Carlo Verdone is an Italian actor, screenwriter and film director.-Early life:Carlo Verdone was born in Rome to Mario Verdone, an important Italian film critic, and during his youth he earned a degree in Modern Literature at Sapienza University of Rome and a degree in Film Direction at the Centro...

  • Renzo Vespignani
    Renzo Vespignani
    Renzo Vespignani was an Italian painter, printmaker and illustrator.Vespignani illustrated the works of Boccaccio, Kafka and T. S. Eliot, among others...

  • Virginio Vespignani
    Virginio Vespignani
    Virginio Vespignani was an Italian architect.Vespignani was born in Rome. A student of Luigi Poletti, he was highly interested in classical architecture, becoming one of Roman neoclassical academism's main figures....

  • Giovanni Maria Vian
    Giovanni Maria Vian
    Giovanni Maria Vian is an Italian professor of patristic philology, journalist. Vian was born in Rome. He is editor-in-chief of L'Osservatore Romano since 2007.-Editorial positions:...

  • Marco Vicario
    Marco Vicario
    Marco Vicario is an Italian film actor, screenwriter, film producer and director. He appeared in 23 films between 1950 and 1958. He also wrote for 13 films, produced 12 and directed a further 11.He was born in Rome, Italy.-Selected filmography:...

  • Uros Vico
    Uros Vico
    Uros Vico is a Croatian-born Italian tennis player.Vico has yet to win any titles on the ATP Tour and has reached one final, in doubles. He plays mainly challenger tournaments.-Wins :-Runners-up :...

  • Pope Vigilius
    Pope Vigilius
    Pope Vigilius reigned as pope from 537 to 555, is considered the first pope of the Byzantine Papacy.-Early life:He belonged to a aristocratic Roman family; his father Johannes is identified as a consul in the Liber pontificalis, having received that title from the emperor...

  • Claudio Villa (singer)
    Claudio Villa (singer)
    Claudio Villa, byname of Claudio Pica , was an Italian singer.-Biography:Tenor Claudio Villa was born Claudio Pica in the Trastevere quarter of Rome in 1926. He recorded over 3000 songs, sold 45 million records, and appeared in 25 musicals during his career...

  • Vincent Pallotti
    Vincent Pallotti
    Saint Vincent Pallotti was an Italian ecclesiastic, born in Rome, and a saint. He was the founder of the Pious Society of Missions , He is buried in the church of San Salvatore in Onda. He was descended from the noble families of the Pallotti of Norcia and the De Rossi of Rome...

  • Marcus Vinicius (consul 30)
  • Valerio Virga
    Valerio Virga
    Valerio Virga is an Italian footballer, currently plays for Virtus Lanciano on loan from A.S. Roma.-Career:A product of the AS Roma youth academy and one of the bright prospects of the giallorossi, Virga usually plays as midfielder. He made his Serie A debut on 10 April 2005, in an away league...

  • Ennio Quirino Visconti
    Ennio Quirino Visconti
    Ennio Quirino Visconti was an Italian antiquarian and art historian, papal Prefect of Antiquities, and the leading expert of his day in the field of ancient Roman sculpture....

  • Louis Visconti
  • Marco Visconti
    Marco Visconti
    Marco Visconti is a musician, known for his work with the Italian band XP8.-Biography:Visconti was born in Rome, Italy....

  • Milly Vitale
    Milly Vitale
    Camilla "Milly" Vitale , daughter of conductor Riccardo Vitale and choreographer Natasha Shidlowski, was an Italian actress....

  • Alvaro Vitali
    Alvaro Vitali
    Alvaro Vitali is an Italian actor.He was an electrician until he got discovered by Federico Fellini to play a small part in Satyricon , it led to other roles, notably in the movie Amarcord ....

  • Mutio Vitelleschi
    Mutio Vitelleschi
    Mutio Vitelleschi was the 6th Superior General of the Society of Jesus. He was the son of a noble Roman family. Although he was destined for a general ecclesiastical career, a growing desire to enter the Society of Jesus culminated in his taking private vows to enter the novitiate...

  • Monica Vitti
    Monica Vitti
    Monica Vitti is an Italian actress best known for her starring roles in films directed by Michelangelo Antonioni, her lover at that time, during the early 1960s...

  • Gianluca Vivan
    Gianluca Vivan
    Gianluca Vivan is an Italian footballer. He plays as a goalkeeper. He is currently playing for V.F. Colligiana.-External links:...

  • Milena Vukotic
    Milena Vukotic
    Milena Vukotic is a former ballerina and a stage, television, and film actress.Vukotic was born in Rome, to a Serbian Montenegrian comediographer father and an Italian pianist/composer mother....


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  • Luigi Zampa
    Luigi Zampa
    Luigi Zampa was an Italian film-maker.- Biography :Son of a worker, Zampa studied film making from 1932 to 1937 at the Italian film school Centro sperimentale di cinematografia in Rome....

  • Alessandro Zamperini
    Alessandro Zamperini
    Alessandro Zamperini is an Italian footballer, in the role of defender. He is currently playing for Ravenna Calcio in Italy.-Club career:...

  • Daniel Zampieri
    Daniel Zampieri
    -Formula Renault:After a two-year international karting career, Zampieri moved up to Formula Renault with BVM Racing in 2006. Making his debut in Italian Formula Renault at Spa–Francorchamps, Zampieri finished 17th and 18th on début. His best finish of the championship came at another Formula One...

  • Lamberto Zauli
    Lamberto Zauli
    Lamberto Zauli is an Italian association football coach and former player who spent his career playing as a central offensive midfielder, but also playing on the left wing occasionally.-Playing career:...

  • Carlo Zecchi
    Carlo Zecchi
    Carlo Zecchi was an Italian pianist, music teacher and conductor.Zecchi was born in Rome. He led pianistic courses in Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Rome, and in Salzburg. Highly acclaimed performer of Domenico Scarlatti, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Claude Debussy works, and of Romantic...

  • Pope Zephyrinus
    Pope Zephyrinus
    Pope Saint Zephyrinus, born in Rome, was bishop of Rome from 199 to 217. His predecessor was bishop Victor I. Upon his death on December 20, 217, he was succeeded by his principal advisor, bishop Callixtus I.-Papacy:...

  • Federico Zeri
    Federico Zeri
    Federico Zeri was an Italian art historian. He was born in Rome.In 1963 he directed the foundation of the John Paul Getty Museum of Malibu. He was a specialist in the Italian painting of the 13th and 14th centuries, and latterly professor at the Catholic University of Milan...

  • Renato Zero
    Renato Zero
    Renato Zero is the stage name of Renato Fiacchini , an Italian singer-songwriter and showman whose career spans a full 6 decades, from the 1960s to the 2010s....

  • Bruno Zevi
    Bruno Zevi
    Bruno Zevi was an Italian architect, historian, professor, curator, author and editor. Zevi was a vocal critic of 'classicising' modern architecture and postmodernism.-University years:...

  • Anna Maria Zijno
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