Italy
- Dalida, singer
- Roberto Alagna, French tenor
- Jean Alesi, racing driver
- Claude Bartolone, President of the National Assembly
- Jean-Paul Belmondo, actor
- Georges Brassens, singer
- Calogero, singer
- Laetitia Casta, actress and model
- François Cavanna, writer
- Francis Cabrel, singer
- Philippe Candeloro, patineur
- Eric Cantona, actor and footballer
- Benjamin Castaldi, television personality
- Coluche, humorist
- Laurence Ferrari, journalist
- Léo Ferré, singer
- Aurélie Filippetti, minister of Culture and Communication
- Geneviève Fioraso, minister of Higher Education and Research
- Marina Foïs, actress
- Florence Foresti, comedienne and actress
- Raymond Forni, politician
- Claude François, singer
- Joseph Gallieni, Marshal of France
- Max Gallo, writer and historian
- Léon Gambetta, statesman
- Jean Giono, writer
- Fabrice Luchini, actor
- Jean-Baptiste Lully, composer
- Elsa Lunghini, singer
- Léon Gambetta, politician
- Gilles Marini, actor
- Chiara Mastroianni, actress
- Yves Montand (Ivo Livi), actor
- Roger Piantoni, soccer player
- Michel Platini, soccer player
- Serge Reggiani, actor
- Hélène Ségara, actress
- Sylvie Testud, actress
- Albert Uderzo, writer, humorist and cartoonist, father of Asterix
- Émile Zola, writer
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Famous quotes containing the word italy:
“I think sometimes that it is almost a pity to enjoy Italy as much as I do, because the acuteness of my sensations makes them rather exhausting; but when I see the stupid Italians I have met here, completely insensitive to their surroundings, and ignorant of the treasures of art and history among which they have grown up, I begin to think it is better to be an American, and bring to it all a mind and eye unblunted by custom.”
—Edith Wharton (1862–1937)
“Lump the whole thing! Say that the Creator made Italy from designs by Michael Angelo!”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)
“the San Marco Library,
Whence turbulent Italy should draw
Delight in Art whose end is peace,
In logic and in natural law
By sucking at the dugs of Greece.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)