Rose McGowan05 September 1973, Italian, American
Actress
Niccolò Machiavelli03 May 1469, Italian
Political Philosopher
Catherine de' Medici13 April 1519, Italian
Queen of France
Dante Alighieri30 April 1265, Italian
Poet
Lorenzo de' Medici01 January 1449, Italian
Leader
Amerigo Vespucci09 March 1454, Italian
Discoverer of South America
Sandro Botticelli1445 AD, Italian
Painter
Donatello1386 AD, Italian
Sculptor
Pope Leo X11 December 1475, Italian
Pope
Guccio Gucci26 March 1881, Italian, British
Italian Businessman
John Singer Sargent12 January 1856, Italian, American
Artist
Franco Zeffirelli12 February 1923, Italian
Film Director
Jean-Baptiste Lully28 November 1632, French, Italian
Composer
Antonio Meucci13 April 1808, Italian, American
Inventor of voice-communication apparatus
Matteo Renzi11 January 1975, Italian
Prime Minister of Italy
Francesca Caccini18 September 1587, Italian
Composer & Singer
Cosimo de' Medici10 April 1389, Italian
Banker
Lisa del Giocondo15 June 1479, Italian
Model
Giotto1267 AD, Italian
Painter
Piero the Unfortunate15 February 1472, Italian
Politician
Daria Nicolodi19 June 1950, Italian
Actor, Screenwriter
Maurizio Gucci26 September 1948, Italian
Businessman
Beatrice Portinari1265 AD, Italian
Noblewoman
Piero di Cosimo de' Medici19 September 1416, Italian
Ruler
Lorenzo de' Medici, Duke of Urbino12 September 1492, Italian
Ruler
Carlo Collodi24 November 1826, Italian
Writer
Roberto Cavalli15 November 1940, Italian
Fashion designer
Cosimo I12 June 1519, Italian
Duke of Florence and Tuscany
Benvenuto Cellini03 November 1500, Italian
Sculptor, Writer, Medallist, Painter,
Contessina de' Bardi1390 AD, Italian
Noblewoman
Richard Rogers23 July 1933, Italian, British
Architect, Politician
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Film director, Screenwriter
Oriana Fallaci29 June 1929, Italian
War correspondent, Politician, Writer, Journalist,
Virginia Oldoini, Countess of Castiglione22 March 1837, Italian
Countess
Alessandro de' Medici, Duke of Florence22 July 1510, Italian
Duke
Archduke Charles, Duke of Teschen05 September 1771, Austrian, Italian
Military personnel
Marella Agnelli04 May 1927, Italian
Art collector, Autobiographer, Photographer,
Andrea del Verrocchio1435 AD, Italian
Artist
Philip Neri21 July 1515, Italian
Saint
Cimabue1240 AD, Italian
Artist
Filippo Lippi1406 AD, Italian
Painter
Pope Urban VIII05 April 1568, Italian
Pope
Francesco I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany25 March 1541, Italian
Grand duke of Tuscany
Bronzino17 November 1503, Italian
Painter
Domenico Ghirlandaio02 June 1448, Italian
painter
Emiliano Viviano01 December 1984, Italian
association football player
Paolo Uccello15 June 1397, Italian
painter
Emma Marrone25 May 1984, Italian
Singer
Cosimo III de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany14 August 1642, Italian
Grand Duke
Piero di Tommaso Soderini17 May 1451, Italian
Statesman
Frederick Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, 1st Marquess of Dufferin and Ava21 June 1826, Italian
British diplomat
Andrea del Sarto16 July 1486, Italian
Painter
Giuliano de' Medici, Duke of Nemours12 March 1479, Italian
Nobleman
Pope Leo XI02 June 1535, Italian
Pope
Cosimo II12 May 1590, Italian
Duke of Tuscany
Luigi Cherubini14 September 1760, French, Italian
Composer, Conductor, Musicologist, Music educator,
Piero di Cosimo02 January 1462, Italian
Painter
Francesco Guicciardini06 March 1483, Italian
Historian, Politician, Writer, Diplomat
Peter Martyr Vermigli08 September 1499, Italian
Theologian
Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco03 April 1895, Italian, American
Composer, Pianist, Film score composer
Harold Acton05 July 1904, British
Writer
Roberto Calasso30 May 1941, Italian
Writer
Benozzo Gozzoli1420 AD, Italian
painter
Ippolito de' Medici19 April 1511, Italian
Ruler
Brunetto Latini1220 AD, Italian
writer, politician, philosopher, poet, diplomat
Mario del Monaco27 July 1915, Italian
Giovanni Papini09 January 1881, Italian
Journalist
Pope Clement XII07 April 1652, Italian
Pope
Luca della Robbia1400 AD, Italian
Sculptor
Luisa Tetrazzini29 June 1871, Italian
Soprano Singer
Guido Cavalcanti1255 AD, Italian
Poet
Margherita Hack12 June 1922, Italian
Astrophysicist
Piero Pelù10 February 1962, Italian
Singer-songwriter
Pietro Torrigiano24 November 1472, Italian
Sculptor
Rosso Fiorentino08 March 1494, Italian
Painter, Printmaker
Farinata degli Uberti1212 AD, Italian
Noble
Jacopo Sansovino02 July 1486, Italian
Sculptor
Giovanni Battista Cipriani1727 AD, Italian
Painter
Antonio del Pollaiolo17 January 1429, Italian
painter, sculptor, engraver, graphic artist
Michelozzo1396 AD, Italian
Architect
Giovanni VillaniItalian
Lorenzino de' Medici23 March 1514, Italian
Politician
Andrea del Castagno1423 AD, Italian
painter
Fra Bartolommeo28 March 1472, Italian
Italian painter
Lamberto Dini01 March 1931, Italian
Politician, Prime Minister
Giano della Bella1240 AD, Italian
Politician
Filarete31 October 1400, Italian
Architect
Giovanni de' Medici29 September 1544, Italian
Cardinal
Baccio Bandinelli01 October 1488, Italian
Sculptor
Bernardo Buontalenti15 December 1531, Italian
Designer
Friedrich von Hügel05 May 1852, Austrian
Writer
Giovanni Spadolini21 June 1925, Italian
Politician, Prime Minister
Catherine of Ricci23 April 1522, Italian
Italian Dominican mystic
Ottavio Piccolomini11 November 1599, Italian
Austrian general