Born and generally active in Mantua about 1540 ( Brulliot says 1560 ) and died at Rome in 1623.

Born as Rinaldo di Jenne in Jenne ( now in the Province of Rome ), he was, on his mother's side, a member of the family de ' Conti di Segni, the counts of Segni, like Pope Innocent III and Pope Gregory IX.

Born in Rome in the region of the Via Lata, Valentine was the son of a Roman noble called Leontius.

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 Girolamo Pamphilj as auditor of the Rota, and like him, attaining the dignity of Cardinal-Priest of Sant ' Eusebio, in 1629.

Born in Rome, Leone was the son of the cinema pioneer Vincenzo Leone ( known as director Roberto Roberti or Leone Roberto Roberti ) and the silent film actress Edvige Valcarenghi ( Bice Waleran ).

Born in Carpineto Romano, near Rome, he was the sixth of the seven sons of Count Ludovico Pecci and his wife Anna Prosperi Buzzi.

Born in Parma, he worked first under Agostino Carracci in Bologna, then Annibale Carracci, in Rome.

Born at Pitigliano, in southern Tuscany, Zuccarelli began his apprenticeship in Rome in c. 1713-14 with the portrait painters Giovanni Maria Morandi ( 1622-1717 ) and his pupil Pietro Nelli ( 1672-1740 ), under whose tutelage he learned the elements of design while absorbing the lessons of Roman classicism.

Born in Ferrara, for 21 years he was professor of astronomy at the University of Bologna, and in 1500 he also lectured in mathematics at Rome.

Born in Versailles, Houdon won the Prix de Rome in 1761 but was not greatly influenced by ancient and Renaissance art in Rome.

Born to a distinguished family in Rome, son of the Defensor Theodore, Nicholas received excellent training.

Born in Rome, he spent his career in the papal court.

Born a Northumbrian noble, he entered religious life as a teenager and studied at Lindisfarne, at Canterbury, in Gaul, and at Rome ; he returned to Northumbria in about 660, and became the abbot of a newly founded monastery at Ripon.

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

Born in Rome to a schoolteacher and a musician, Sordi enrolled in Milan's dramatic arts academy but was kicked out because of his thick Roman accent.

Born in Rome, she worked her way through Rome's Academy of Dramatic Art by singing at night clubs.

Born at Chieti, he was carefully educated by his uncle, Monsignor Celestino Galiani, at Naples and Rome with a view to entering the church.

Born in Dijon, he worked at his father's trade as a stovemaker till the age of sixteen, but received training in drawing from François Devosges, where he learned that a strong, simple contour was an invaluable ingredient in the plastic arts In 1809 he went to Paris from the Dijon school of art, and became a pupil of Pierre Cartellier, obtaining the Grand Prix de Rome in 1812.

Born Attius Clausus, a Sabine ; brought his family and retainers to Rome in 504 BC, and was admitted to the patriciate.

Born in Rome, she was the daughter and heiress of Jean de Vivonne, marquis of Pisani, and Giulia Savelli, who belonged to a noble Roman family.

Born in Castel Gandolfo, near Rome, Pietro Savorgnan di Brazzà was the seventh son of Count Ascanio Savorgnan di Brazzà, a nobleman of Udine with many French connections, and his wife Giacinta Simonetti.

Born in Venice, he worked in Treviso ( 1503 – 1506 ), in the Marche ( 1506 – 1508 ), in Rome ( 1508 – 1510 ), Bergamo ( 1513 – 1525 ), in Venice ( 1525 – 1549 ), Ancona ( 1549 ) and finally as a Franciscan lay brother in Loreto ( 1549 – 1556 ).

Born in Benediktbeuern, he moved to Rome in 1711 to study at the Accademia di San Luca with Carlo Maratta.

Born in the borough of Brooklyn in New York City to Italian immigrants, Capone became involved with gang activity at a young age after being expelled from school at age 14.

Born December 12, 1915, in Hoboken, New Jersey, Sinatra was the only child of Italian immigrants Natalie Della ( Garaventa ) and Antonino Martino Sinatra, and was raised Roman Catholic.

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 Padua, the son of Silvestro Boito, an Italian painter of miniatures and his wife, a Polish countess, Józefina Radolińska, Boito studied music at the Milan Conservatory with Alberto Mazzucato until 1861.

* Matt Monro – Singer ( Born Terence Parsons on December 1, 1930 ) Dubbed " The singers singer " and " The British Sinatra ") Famous for singing the James Bond theme " From Russia with Love " and " On Days Like These " from the film " The Italian job ".

Born in London, son of John Abraham ( Jack ) Finzi ( of Italian Jewish descent ) and Eliza Emma ( Lizzie ) Leverson ( daughter of Montague Leverson, of German Jewish descent ), Finzi nevertheless became one of the most characteristically " English " composers of his generation.

Born in London of Italian and French parentage, Barbirolli grew up in a family of professional musicians.

Born in Trieste ( then in Austria-Hungary ) as Aron Ettore Schmitz to a Jewish family that originated in Germany, Italo Svevo ( literally Italian swabian ) wrote the classic novel La Coscienza di Zeno ( rendered as Confessions of Zeno, or Zeno's Conscience ) and self-published it in 1923.

Born in New Zealand, he worked in his native country before migrating to Sydney, Australia in 1911, and ultimately to London ( 1919 ), where he made his career and earned fame for his Colonel Blimp depictions and his merciless satirising the personalities and policies of German dictator Adolf Hitler, Italian dictator Benito Mussolini, Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin, and other leaders of his times.

Born to an Italian father ( who died when Dario was a small child ) and an English mother, Gradi moved to London when his mother returned after the Second World War.

Born a princess of the Italian Duchy of Modena, Mary is primarily remembered for the controversial birth of James Francis Edward, her only surviving son.

Born in Locarno, Switzerland to a German father with Belgian roots from Aachen and an Italian mother from the Calabria region, Neuville started his professional career with Servette FC.

This was Miller's last great commercial success ; a series of collections, live albums and attempts to find a new style appeared in 1984 ( Italian X-Rays ), 1986 ( Living in the 20th Century ) and 1988 ( Born 2B Blue ), but after 1993's effort, Wide River, Miller gave up recording records altogether for some considerable time.

Born in the Lorraine region, Platini is the son of Aldo, also born in Lorraine, of Italian immigrants arrived in France shortly after the end of the first World War.

He also appeared in Damian Pettigrew's award-winning documentary, Fellini: I'm a Born Liar ( 2002 ), offering insights into the mind and working methods of Italian director Federico Fellini whom Stamp had worked with in the 1960s.

Born in Brooklyn, New York City to Italian immigrants Sophia and Salvadore Petrillo, Dorothy became pregnant while still in high school, resulting in a marriage to Stanley Zbornak in order to legitimize the baby.

Born of an Italian theatrical family, he studied dance with Louis Dupré at the Royal Academy in Paris, later joining the Paris Opéra where he served as dancing master to Louis XVI.

Born in Brixen ( Bressanone ), Italy, Messner is a native speaker of German and also fluent in English and Italian.

Born in Turin, Italy to a father of an Iranian origin ( Aga Khan III ), who was born in Karachi ( then under British colonial rule ), and Italian mother.

Born in Rhinebeck, New York to working class Italian parents, Guido Carosella gained a fortune in a settlement when his parents were killed by falling space debris.

Born in Philadelphia of Italian descent, Dundee went to New York and later to Miami where he learned many of the strategies of a boxer's cornerman while acting as a " bucket man " to the great trainers of Stillman's Gym.

Born in Cardiff to a family with Italian ancestry, Pino Palladino began playing the electric guitar at age 14.

Born to Isabel Ercoli and Giulio Frondizi, Italian Argentine immigrants from the Umbria Region, Arturo had ten brothers, including Silvio, who became a lawyer and was assassinated in 1974 by the Triple A, and Risieri, who became a philosopher and rector of the University of Buenos Aires ( UBA ).

Born in Padua at night, he received classical Jewish and Italian educations, showing a predilection for literature at a very early age.