Italian Roman Catholics

Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni (6March 147518February 1564), known mononymously as Michelangelo, was an Italian sculptor, painter, architect, and poet of the High Renaissance. He was born in the Republic of Florence but was mostly active in Rome from his 30s onwards. His work was inspired by models from classical antiquity and had a lasting influence on Western art. Michelangelo's creative abilities and mastery in a range of artistic arenas define him as an archetypal Renaissance man, along with his rival and elder contemporary, Leonardo da Vinci. Given the sheer volume of survivin

Christopher Columbus was an Italian explorer and navigator from the Republic of Genoa who completed four Spanish transatlantic voyages in the name of the Catholic Monarchs, opening the way for the widespread European exploration and colonization of the Americas. His expeditions were the first known European contact with the Caribbean and Central and South America.

Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino (; March 28 or April 6, 1483April 6, 1520), now generally known in English as Raphael ( , ), was an Italian painter and architect of the High Renaissance. His work is admired for its clarity of form, ease of composition, and visual achievement of the Neoplatonic ideal of human grandeur. Together with Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo, he forms the traditional trinity of great masters of that period.

Italian politician and media tycoon (1936–2023)

Italian filmmaker (1920–1993)

Italian actress (born 1934)

Italian inventor and radio pioneer (1874-1937)

Italian association football player

Leonardo Bonacci ( – ), commonly known as Fibonacci, was an Italian mathematician from the Republic of Pisa, considered to be "the most talented Western mathematician of the Middle Ages".

Giorgia Meloni is an Italian politician who has served as Prime Minister of Italy since October 2022. She is the first woman to hold the office and the head of the third-longest government in the history of the Italian Republic. A member of the Chamber of Deputies since 2006, she has been president of the right-wing to far-right party Brothers of Italy (FdI) since 2014, and was president of the European Conservatives and Reformists Party from 2020 to 2025.

Italian physicist, chemist, and pioneer of electricity and power (1745-1827)

president of Italy (2015-present)

Italian operatic tenor (1935–2007)

Italian Renaissance composer (c. 1525–1594)

Florentine explorer, financier, navigator and cartographer

Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (also Michele Angelo Merigi or Amerighi da Caravaggio; 29 September 1571 – 18 July 1610), known mononymously as Caravaggio, was an Italian painter active in Rome for most of his artistic life. During the final four years of his life, he moved between Naples, Malta, and Sicily. His paintings have been characterized by art critics as combining a realistic observation of the human state, both physical and emotional, with a dramatic use of lighting, which had a formative influence on Baroque painting.

former Italian footballer (born 1978)

Italian painter (1445–1510)

Tiziano Vecellio (; 27 August 1576), Latinized as Titianus, hence known in English as Titian ( ), was an Italian Renaissance painter. The most important artist of Renaissance Venetian painting, he was born in Pieve di Cadore, near Belluno.

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Venetian adventurer and writer (1725–1798)

Italian politician (born 1975)

Italian politician and economist (born 1939)

Prime Minister of Italy from 2018 to 2021

Italian actor (1924–1996)

Andrea Bocelli is an Italian tenor. He rose to fame in 1994 after winning the newcomers' section of the 44th Sanremo Music Festival performing "Il mare calmo della sera".

Giotto di Bondone (; – January 8, 1337), known mononymously as Giotto, was an Italian painter and architect from Florence during the Late Middle Ages. He worked during the Gothic and Proto-Renaissance period. Giotto's contemporary, the banker and chronicler Giovanni Villani, wrote that Giotto was "the most sovereign master of painting in his time, who drew all his figures and their postures according to nature" and of his publicly recognized "talent and excellence". Giorgio Vasari described Giotto as making a decisive break from the prevalent Byzantine style and as initiating "the great art of

first Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Italy from March to June in 1861

Italian poet (1544–1595)

Italian economist, academic, banker and politician; former prime minister of Italy

Italian physicist and mathematician (1608-1647)

Italian painter, architect, writer and historian (1511-1574)

Italian politician (1916-1978)

Italian football player and manager

8th President of Italy (1928-2010)

Italian politician and statesman (1919–2013)

Italian Dominican friar and preacher (1452-1498)

Italian politician, literary man and humanist

Jacopo Robusti (late September or early October 151831 May 1594), best known as Tintoretto ( ; ; ), was an Italian Renaissance painter of the Venetian school. His contemporaries both admired and criticised the speed with which he painted and the unprecedented boldness of his brushwork. For his phenomenal energy in painting he was termed . His work is characterised by muscular figures, dramatic gestures and bold use of perspective, in the Mannerist style.

Italian film director (1901-1974)

King of Sardinia (1849–1861) and King of Italy (1861–1878)

Italian association football player (born 1968)

Italian sculptor and architect (1598–1680)

President of Italy from 1999 to 2006

Italian physician, physicist, and philosopher

Italian painter of the Renaissance (1528–1588)

Italian politician

Italian architect (1508–1580)

Masaccio (, ; ; December 21, 1401 – summer 1428), born Tommaso di Ser Giovanni di Simone, was a Florentine artist who is regarded as the first great Italian painter of the Quattrocento period of the Italian Renaissance. According to Vasari, Masaccio was the best painter of his generation because of his skill at imitating nature, recreating lifelike figures and movements as well as a convincing sense of three-dimensionality. He employed nudes and foreshortenings in his figures. This had seldom been done before him.

Italian/French mathematician, astronomer, engineer, and astrologer (*1625 – †1712)

Empress consort of the French from 1804 to 1814 (1763-1814)

Italian architect and painter (1444–1514)

Italian politician and founder of the Christian Democratic Party (1881-1954)

Italian composer and teacher (1750–1825)

Italian singer-songwriter

15th- and 16th-century Italian Renaissance painter (1430–1516)

Italian Renaissance painter from Florence (1448–1494)

Giovanni Antonio Canal (18 October 1697 – 19 April 1768), commonly known as Canaletto (), was an Italian painter from the Republic of Venice, considered an important member of the 18th-century Venetian school.

Italian director (1906–1976)

Italian composer known for operas (1863–1945)