Famous Italian people

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Sistine Chapel ceiling painter	Michelangelo Buonarroti
Astrophysicist, first Italian woman to administrate the Trieste Astronomical Observatory	Margherita Hack
Media tycoon and politician known for "bunga bunga" scandal	Silvio Berlusconi
Polymath of the Renaissance, exemplar of the "Universal Genius"	Leonardo da Vinci
One of the Three Tenors with Plácido Domingo and José Carreras	Luciano Pavarotti
1993 Ballon d'Or football player	Roberto Baggio
Nobel prize for Literature in 1926	Grazia Deledda
XVII century Italian astronomer	Galileo Galilei
"Discovered" America in 1492	Christopher Columbus

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Prime Minister from 1922 to 1943	Benito Mussolini
Venitian merchant, explorer, and writer, born in 1254	Marco Polo
Actress known for "Two Women" or "Marriage Italian Style" films	Sophia Loren
Physicist pioneer of electricity and power	Alessandro Volta
Major poet known for the Divine Comedy	Dante Alighieri
Female singer, dominant figure in Italian pop music from the 1960s to the mid-1970s	Mina Mazzini
This great mathematician of antiquity was Sicilian	Archimedes of Syracuse
Motor racing entrepreneur, founder of an iconic automotive marque	Enzo Ferrari
Educator known for the philosophy of education that bears her name	Maria Montessori

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