Born in Florence, in 1540, after the death of his father, he was brought up and trained in art by a close friend, often referred to as his ' uncle ', the mannerist painter Agnolo Bronzino, whose name he sometimes assumed in his pictures.

Born in Florence, the son of Bartolomeo Corsini, Marquis of Casigliano and his wife Isabella Strozzi, sister of the Duke of Bagnuolo, Corsini had been an aristocratic lawyer and financial manager under preceding pontiffs.

Born David Selznick to a Jewish family in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, he was the son of silent movie distributor Lewis J. Selznick and Florence A.

Born in Florence, he was the son of a da Andrea Carnesecchi, a merchant who under the patronage of the Medici, and especially of Giulio de ' Medici as Pope Clement VII, rapidly rose to high office at the papal court.

Born in Trieste, Mathilde Bonaparte was raised in Florence and Rome.

Born in White Plains, New York, to Florence Belle ( née Crane ) and James Allen Whitmore, Sr., a park commission official, Whitmore attended Amherst Central High School in Snyder, New York, before graduating from The Choate School ( now Choate Rosemary Hall ) in Wallingford, Connecticut.

Born Florence Annie Bridgwood in Hamilton, Ontario, she was the child of Charlotte A. Bridgwood, a vaudeville actress known professionally as Lotta Lawrence, who was the leading lady and director of the Lawrence Dramatic Company.

Born in Florence, Piero di Lorenzo de ' Medici was the oldest son of Lorenzo de ' Medici ( Lorenzo the Magnificent ) and Clarice Orsini, and older brother of the future Pope Leo X.

Born John Florence Sullivan in Cambridge, Massachusetts, to Irish Catholic parents, Allen barely knew his mother, Cecilia Herlihy Sullivan, who died of pneumonia when he was not quite three years old.

Born at 3 Queen Street, Gloucester in 1890, the second of four children of David Gurney, a tailor, and his wife Florence, a seamstress, Gurney showed musical ability early.

Born in East Melbourne, Australia into a prosperous family that later fell on hard times, Ethel Florence ( who preferred to answer to Et, Ettie or Etta ) was the elder daughter of Walter Lindesay Richardson MD ( c. 1826 – 79 ) and his wife Mary ( née Bailey ).

Born in London, Laurence Irving was a son of the great Victorian actor manager, Sir Henry Irving and his wife Florence ( née O ' Callaghan ), and brother to actor manager Harry Brodribb Irving.

Born in Boulder, Colorado, Carpenter moved to New York City with his parents Marion Scott Carpenter and Florence Noxon Carpenter for the first two years of his life.

Born in Settignano, now a part of Florence, he was the youngest of five brothers, sculptors and stonecutters.

Born in Florence, Leopold II was the son of Ferdinand III, Grand Duke of Tuscany and Princess Luisa Maria Amelia Teresa of the Two Sicilies, who were double first cousins.

Born in Florence, Bussotti learned to play the violin as a child, becoming a prodigy.

Born in Florence and a friar of the Servite Order, he was employed from 1521 to 1534 as one of Michelangelo Buonarroti's assistants at the Medici Chapel ( Sacrestia Nuova ) in San Lorenzo in Florence.

Handy-father of the blues, Born in Florence

Born in Florence, the son of a pharmacist and undertaker, he was taught the violin by his uncle, Antonio Veracini, with whom he often appeared in concert.

Born in Bay City, Michigan, List was the only child of German American parents, John Frederick List ( 1859 – 1944 ) and Alma Maria Barbara Florence List ( 1887 – 1971 )

Born in Mons, he studied in Florence under Tommaso Redi, abandoning his Flemish influences for the Italian tradition.

Born on a farm in Knox County, Ohio, Webb C. Ball was married in 1879 to Florence I.

Born in Florence, Colorado in 1901 and raised in Leadville, he learned to read very early, and soon could send and receive messages in Morse code, taught by his father.

Born in Milan, Italy, Lodovico's grandfather, Bartholomew Ferrari, was forced out of Milan to Bologna.

Born between 720 and 735 in Friuli in Italy to this possibly noble Lombard family, Paul received an exceptionally good education, probably at the court of the Lombard king Ratchis in Pavia, learning from a teacher named Flavian the rudiments of Greek.

Born at Luzzara, near Reggio Emilia in northern Italy, on 20 September 1902,

Born in Italy, he became known in the early 1920s as a swindler in North America for his money making scheme.

Born in Italy, he spent most of his life in England.

Born in Modena, Italy, Ferrari grew up with little formal education but a strong desire to race cars.

Born at Trieste, Austria ( today Italy ), and known as " Prince Napoléon " or by the sobriquet of " Plon-Plon ", he was a close advisor to his first cousin, Napoleon III of France, and in particular was seen as a leading advocate of French intervention in Italy on behalf of Camillo di Cavour and the Italian nationalists.

Born in Palermo, Italy, he and his family immigrated to Chicago when he was seven.

Born in Italy, she was the twin sister of St. Benedict of Nursia.

Born in Iesi, near Ancona, Italy, Frederick was the son of the emperor Henry VI.

Born in Genoa, Italy, Giacconi received his Laurea from the University of Milan before moving to the US to pursue a career in astrophysics research.

Giovanni Turini, a sculptor from Italy, who was born in 1841 and died in 1899, made the statue of Giuseppe Garibaldi, a man he served in the fighting surrounding the unification of Italy, in Washington Square, and also the bust of Giuseppe Mazzini in Central Park ; Actress Anne Bancroft ( Brooks ) ( Born: September 17, 1931 – Died: June 6, 2005 ).

Born in Chitré, Spadafora was a doctor, graduated from the University of Bologna, in Italy.

Born in Alba Pompeia in Italy, the son of freedman Helvius Successus, originally Pertinax made his way as a grammaticus ( teacher of grammar ), but he eventually decided to find a more rewarding line of work and through the help of patronage he was commissioned an officer in a cohort.

Born in Stignano ( in the county of Stilo ) in the province of Reggio di Calabria in southern Italy, Campanella was a child prodigy.

Born to a bookseller and the daughter of a carriage maker in Naples, Italy, Vico attended a series of grammar schools, but ill-health and dissatisfaction with Jesuit scholasticism led to home schooling.

Born to a very wealthy family, Meyerbeer began his musical career as a pianist, but soon decided to devote himself to opera, spending several years in Italy studying and composing.

Born in Cassino, Italy and raised in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, Gatti relocated to Jersey City, United States as a teenager.

Born in Turin, Italy, Michelotti worked for a number of design houses, notably Vignale, before opening his own design studio in Italy.

Born in southern Italy in 1882, Torrio emigrated to the United States with his mother after his father's death, happened when he was 2.

Born in Hamburg, he studied at several universities and travelled in England, France and Italy.