Pietro " Pete " Rugolo ( December 25, 1915 – October 16, 2011 ) was an Italian-born jazz composer and arranger.

Fra Angelico ( born Guido di Pietro ; c. 1395 – February 18, 1455 ) was an Early Italian Renaissance painter described by Vasari in his Lives of the Artists as having " a rare and perfect talent ".

Fra Angelico was born Guido di Pietro at Rupecanina

Francis of Assisi was one of seven children born to Pietro di Bernardone, a rich cloth merchant, and his wife Pica, about whom little is known except that she was originally from France.

Pietro was in France on business when Francis was born, and Pica had him baptised as Giovanni di Bernardone.

Bernini was born in Naples to a Mannerist sculptor, Pietro Bernini, originally from Florence, and Angelica Galante, a Neapolitan, the sixth of their thirteen children.

Pope Alexander VIII ( 22 April 1610 – 1 February 1691 ), born Pietro Vito Ottoboni, was Pope from 1689 to 1691.

Pietro Ottoboni was born of a noble Venetian family, and was the son of Marco Ottoboni, chancellor of the Republic of Venice.

Pope Benedict XIII ( 2 February 1650 – 21 February 1730 ), born Pietro Francesco Orsini, later Friar Vincenzo Maria Orsini, O. P., was pope from 1724 until his death.

Pope Saint Celestine V ( 1215 – 19 May 1296 ), born Pietro Angelerio ( according to some sources Angelario, Angelieri, Angelliero, or Angeleri ), also known as Pietro da Morrone, was elected Pope in the year 1294 in the last non-conclave papal election in the history of the Roman Catholic Church.

According to tradition, Pietro Angelerio was born to parents Angelo Angelerio and Maria Leone in a town called Sant ' Angelo Limosano, in the Kingdom of Sicilia ( Sicily ).

Pope Sergius IV ( died 12 May 1012 ), born in Rome as Pietro Martino Buccaporci, was Pope from 31 July 1009 until his death.

Pietro Antonio Stefano Mascagni was born in Livorno, Tuscany, the second son of Domenico and Emilia Mascagni.

Berra was born in a primarily Italian neighborhood of St. Louis called " The Hill ", to Italian immigrants Pietro and Paolina ( née Longoni ) Berra.

Nicholas V, born Pietro Rainalducci ( c. 1260 – 16 October 1333 ) was an antipope in Italy from 12 May 1328 to 25 July 1330 during the pontificate of Pope John XXII ( 1316 – 34 ) at Avignon.

He was born Carlo Pietro Giovanni Guglielmo Tebaldo Ponzi in Lugo in 1882.

Pope Paul II ( 23 February 1417 – 26 July 1471 ), born Pietro Barbo, was Pope from 1464 until his death in 1471.

Giovanni Pietro Carafa was born in Capriglia Irpina, near Avellino, into a prominent noble family of Naples.

Nicolas Poussin's early biographer was his friend Giovanni Pietro Bellori, who relates that Poussin was born near Les Andelys in Normandy and that he received an education that included some Latin, which would stand him in good stead.

Prominent musicians born in Bergamo include Gaetano Donizetti, Pietro Locatelli, Antonio Lolli, Gianluigi Trovesi, Roby Facchinetti, Fabrizio Frigeni and Gianandrea Gavazzeni.

** Pietro Pezzati, mural painter ( born 1828 )

** Pietro Paolo Cristofari, Italian artist responsible for a number of the mosaics in St. Peter's Basilica ( born 1685 )

** Pietro Lombardo, Italian Renaissance sculptor and architect ( born 1435 )

He was born Pietro Sarpi in Venice, the son of a tradesman, but was orphaned at an early age.

* May 7 – Pietro Nardini, Italian composer ( b. 1722 )

* May 16 – Pietro da Cortona, Italian artist ( b. 1596 )

* May 6 – Pietro Bernini, Italian sculptor ( d. 1629 )

* May 20 – Pietro Bembo, Italian cardinal ( d. 1547 )

( 28 June 1476 – 18 August 1559 ), né Giovanni Pietro Carafa, was Pope from 23 May 1555 until his death.

* Pietro Campillli ( Italy ), February 1958 – May 1959

The city's third historical marker was dedicated on May 22, 2010 to novelist and screenwriter Pietro di Donato, and placed at Bergenline Avenue and 31st Street, where di Donato once lived, and which was named Pietro di Donato Plaza in his honor.

Pietro Bembo, O. S. I. H., ( 20 May 1470-either 11 January or 18 January, 1547 ) was an Italian scholar, poet, literary theorist, member of the Knights Hospitaller and a cardinal.

He named Pietro Gasparri to be his Cardinal Secretary of State and personally consecrated Nuncio Eugenio Pacelli on 13 May 1917 as Archbishop on the very day of the Marian apparitions in Fatima.

On 25 May 1914, Della Chiesa was created a cardinal, becoming Cardinal-Priest of the titulus Santi Quattro Coronati, which before him was occupied by Pietro Respighi.

Louis had himself solemnly crowned Emperor of Rome by Sciarra Colonna ( 17 January 1328 ), and on 12 May he nominated and had consecrated as antipope Pietro Rainalducci of Corvara, a Franciscan, under the name of Nicholas V.

He received his episcopal consecration on the following 7 May from Cardinal Pietro Boetto, SJ, at the St. Lawrence Cathedral.

Stritch was ordained to the priesthood by Cardinal Pietro Respighi on May 21, 1910, at the Lateran Basilica.

* May 29 – Pietro Romani

* May 7 – Pietro Nardini, composer ( b. 1722 )

Pietro da Cortona, also called Pietro Berrettini, born Pietro Berrettini da Cortona, ( 1 November 1596 / 716 May 1669 ) was the leading Italian Baroque painter of his time and, along with his contemporaries and rivals Gianlorenzo Bernini and Francesco Borromini, was one of the key figures in the emergence of Roman Baroque architecture.

Pietro Frua ( 2 May 1913, Turin, Piedmont-28 June 1983 ) was one of the leading Italian coachbuilders and car designers during the 1950s and 1960s.