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Benito Mussolini
Benito Amilcare Andrea Mussolini was an Italian politician, journalist, and dictator who led Italy as Il Duce from 1922 until his overthrow in 1943. He founded the fascist movement in 1919, with the creation of the Fasci Italiani di Combattimento, which became the National Fascist Party (PNF) in 1921. Mussolini was appointed Prime Minister of Italy after the March on Rome in 1922, establishing a totalitarian dictatorship. He oversaw Italy's participation in World War II as a prominent member of the Axis Powers, and was summarily executed near the end of the war in 1945.
Antonio Gramsci
Italian Marxist philosopher, writer, and politician (1891–1937)
Giacomo Leopardi
Italian noble, poet, philosopher, and writer (1798-1837)
Dario Fo
Italian actor, playwright, comedian, singer-songwriter, theater director, painter, and political activist (1926-2016)
Rita Levi-Montalcini
Italian neurologist (1909–2012)
Pier Paolo Pasolini
Italian writer, filmmaker, poet, and intellectual (1922–1975)
Primo Levi
Italian chemist, partisan, Holocaust survivor, and writer (1919–1987)
Alberto Moravia
Italian writer and journalist (1907-1990)
Italo Calvino
Italian journalist and writer (1923-1985)
Bernardo Bertolucci
Italian film director and screenwriter (1941–2018)
Oriana Fallaci
Italian journalist (1929–2006)
Cesare Pavese
Italian writer, literary critic, and translator (1908–1950)
Giuseppe Tornatore
Italian film director and screenwriter
Cesare Lombroso
Italian psychiatrist, physician, and criminologist (1835-1909)
Dino Buzzati
Italian writer (1906-1972)
Riccardo Montolivo
Italian association football player
Natalia Ginzburg
Italian writer (1916–1991)
Errico Malatesta
anarchist (1853-1932)
Roberto Saviano
Italian journalist and writer (born 1979)
Mario Monicelli
Italian film director and screenwriter (1915–2010)
Guido Cavalcanti
Italian poet (1258-1300)
Maurizio Micheli
Italian actor, voice actor, comedian, author and playwright
Antonio Negri
Italian political philosopher (1933–2023)
Margherita Hack
Italian astrophysicist and popular science writer (1922-2013)
Enrico Berlinguer
Italian politician (1922–1984)
Zucchero
Italian singer-songwriter and musician (1955-)
Giacomo Matteotti
Italian politician (1885-1924)
Liliana Cavani
Italian film director and screenwriter
Nino Manfredi
Italian actor, screenwriter, and film director (1921–2004)
Emilio De Bono
Italian General (1866-1944)
Sacco and Vanzetti
Italian American anarchist duo executed by Massachusetts
Paolo Villaggio
Italian actor, writer and comedian (1932–2017)
Marco Bellocchio
Italian film director, screenwriter and actor (born 1939)
Oliviero Toscani
Italian photographer (1942–2025)
Cesare Zavattini
Italian screenwriter (1902–1989)
Carlo Rovelli
Italian physicist
Valentina Nappi
Italian pornographic actress
Pietro Nenni
Italian politician (1891–1980)
Claudio Villa
Italian singer and actor (1926–1987)
Giulio Cesare Vanini
Italian philosopher
Adriano Panatta
Italian tennis player (born 1950)
Tonino Guerra
Italian concentration camp survivor, poet, writer and screenwriter (1920-2012)
Carlo Ginzburg
Italian historian (1939-)
Vasco Rossi
Italian singer-songwriter (born 1952)
Amadeo Bordiga
Italian politician (1889-1970)
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Italian artist (1908–1991)
Nilde Iotti
Italian politician (1920–1999)
Luigi Galleani
Italian anarchist (1861–1931)
Tommaso Landolfi
Italian author and translator (1908-1979)
Edoardo Sanguineti
Italian writer (1930-2010)
Carmelo Bene
Italian actor (1937–2002)
Arnoldo Foà
Italian actor (1916-2014)
Jury Chechi
Italian artistic gymnast
Goffredo Parise
Italian writer and journalist (1929–1986)
Guido Gozzano
Italian writer (1883-1916)
Patrizio Oliva
boxer
Giorgio Albertazzi
Italian actor and film director (1923–2016)
Pietro Ingrao
Italian politician (1915-2015)
Eugenio Scalfari
Italian writer, journalist and politician (1924–2022)
Matilda De Angelis
Italian actress (born 1995)