Other Notables
- Giovanni Agnelli (1866–1945), entrepreneur. Founder of the Fiat (Fabbrica Italiana Automobili Torino) automobile company
- Francesco Antonio Broccu (1797–1882), artisan. Generally regarded as the inventor of Revolver (1833)
- Alessandro Cagliostro (1743–1795), charlatan, magician, and adventurer who enjoyed enormous success in Parisian high society in the years preceding the French Revolution
- Ambrogio Calepino (c. 1440–1510), one of the earliest Italian lexicographers, from whose name came the once-common Italian word calepino and English word calepin, for "dictionary"
- Antonio Benedetto Carpano (1764–1815), distiller. Inventor of vermouth and aperitif (1786)
- Giacomo Casanova (1725–1798), adventurer and author, chiefly remembered as the prince of Italian adventurers and as the man who made the name Casanova synonymous with "libertine"
- Bartolomeo Cristofori (1655–1731), harpsichord maker generally credited with the invention of the piano (c. 1700)
- Francesco Datini (1335–1410), merchant whose business and private papers, preserved in Prato, constitute one of the most important archives of the economic history of the Middle Ages
- Lorenzo de Tonti (c. 1602 – c. 1684), banker. The inventor of the system of annuities, now known as the tontine (1653)
- Giuseppe Donati (1835–1925), musician. Inventor of the classical ocarina
- Giovanni Falcone (1939–1992), magistrate who was specialised in prosecuting Cosa Nostra criminals. His life story is quite similar to that of his closest friend Paolo Borsellino
- Johann Maria Farina (1685–1766), perfume designer and maker. Inventor of Eau de Cologne (1709)
- Sonia Gandhi (born 1946), Italian-born Indian politician and the president of the Indian National Congress, widow of former Prime minister Rajiv Gandhi
- Ugolino della Gherardesca (c. 1220–1289), nobleman, whose death by starvation with his sons and grandsons is described by Dante in the Inferno (Canto XXXIII)
- Flavio Gioja (... – ...), mariner. Inventor of the compass (1302)
- John of Montecorvino (1246–1328), Franciscan and founder of the Catholic mission in China
- Lisa del Giocondo (1479–1542 or c. 1551), her name was given to Mona Lisa, her portrait commissioned by her husband and painted by Leonardo da Vinci during the Italian Renaissance
- Philip Mazzei (1730–1816), physician, merchant and author, ardent supporter of the American Revolution, and correspondent of Thomas Jefferson
- Francesco Morosini (1619–1694), doge of Venice (1688–94), of a family distinguished in Venice for five centuries
- Edgardo Mortara (1851–1940), priest, central figure in a controversy that arose when at the age of 6 he was forcibly taken from his Jewish parents because a domestic servant had baptized him
- Pasquale Paoli (1725–1807), patriot and leader, the president of the Executive Council of the General Diet of the People of Corsica
- Giovanni Rappazzo (1893–1995), inventor of the first sound-on-film (1921)
- Cola di Rienzo (c. 1313–1354), popular leader who tried to restore the greatness of ancient Rome
- Sacco and Vanzetti case, controversial murder trial in Massachusetts, United States, extending over seven years, 1920–27, and resulting in the execution of the defendants
- Girolamo Savonarola (1452–1498), Christian preacher, reformer, and martyr, renowned for his clash with tyrannical rulers and a corrupt clergy
- Father Simpliciano of the Nativity (1827–1898), founder of the Congregation of the Franciscan Sisters of the Sacred Hearts in Santa Balbina
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