# Lists of Italian Americans

This is a list of notable Italian Americans.

## Anarchists

* Luigi Galleani (1861–1931)
* Arturo Giovannitti (1884–1959) - union leader and poet
* Nicola Sacco (1891–1927) - defendant in Sacco and Vanzetti case
* Bartolomeo Vanzetti (1888–1927) - defendant in Sacco and Vanzetti case
* Carlo Tresca (1879–1943)

## Architects

* Vito Acconci
* Pietro Belluschi
* Giorgio Cavaglieri
* Mario J. Ciampi
* Neil Denari
* Romaldo Giurgola
* Michael Manfredi
* Rosaria Piomelli
* George Ranalli
* Mario Salvadori
* Lawrence Scarpa
* Ricardo Scofidio
* Paolo Soleri
* Robert Venturi
* Peter Marino

## Artists
### Comic artists, cartoonists, illustrators

* Brian Azzarello - comic book writer
* Joseph Barbera (1911–2006) - animator, cartoon artist, storyboard artist, director, producer, and co-founder, together with William Hanna, of Hanna-Barbera
* Timothy D. Bellavia (born 1971) - children's illustrator, author and founder of the We Are All The Same Inside - Sage doll-making workshop
* Ivan Brunetti (born 1967) - cartoonist and comics author
* Joe Pesci - Italian American actor and musician
* John Buscema (1927–2002) - comic-book artist and one of the mainstays of Marvel Comics during its 1960s and 1970s ascendancy into an industry leader and its subsequent expansion to a major pop culture conglomerate
* Greg Capullo (born 1962) - comic book artist
* Anthony Flamini (born 1978) - comic book writer
* Frank Frazetta (1928–2010) - one of the world's most influential fantasy and science fiction artists
* Dick Giordano (1932–2010) - comic book artist and editor
* Frank Giacoia (1925–1989) - comic book artist
* Carmine Infantino (1925–2013) - comic book artist and editor who was a major force in the Silver Age of Comic Books
* Walter Lantz (1900–1994) - cartoonist and animator, founded the Walter Lantz Studio, created Woody Woodpecker
* Bob Montana (1920–1975) - comic strip artist who created the characters that launched Archie comics
* Joe Orlando (1927–1998) - illustrator, writer, editor and cartoonist
* Jimmy Palmiotti - writer and artist of various comics, games and film
* Leo Politi (1908–1996) - artist and author who wrote and illustrated some 20 children's books
* Don Rico (1912–1985) - comic book writer-artist, paperback novelist, screenwriter and wood engraver; co-created the Marvel Comics character Black Widow with Stan Lee
* John Romita Jr. (born 1956) - comic artist best known for his extensive work for Marvel Comics from the 1970s to the 2010s
* John Romita, Sr. (born 1930) - comic book artist known for his work on Marvel Comics' The Amazing Spider-Man
* Don Rosa (born 1951) - comic book artist for Disney comics
* Eric Stefani (born 1967) - pop musician, former Simpsons animator, and Grammy-nominated composer and writer
* Jim Valentino (born 1952) - writer, penciler and editor of comic books
* Gerard Way (born 1977) - comic book writer; frontman of the American rock band My Chemical Romance

### Digital artists and illustrators

* Ashley Biden (born 1981) - founder of the fashion company Livelihood, daughter of Joe and Jill Biden
* Louise Fili (born 1951) - graphic designer, 2014 American Institute of Graphic Arts Medalist
* Fred Marcellino (1939–2001) - illustrator

### Painters

* John Balossi (1931–2007) - painter and sculptor
* Edward E. Boccia (1921-2012) - painter, teacher and poet
* Alfred D. Crimi (1900–1994) - muralist and painter
* Ettore (Ted) DeGrazia (1909–1982) - painter, best known for American Southwest subjects
* Robert De Niro, Sr. (1922–1993) - abstract expressionist, father of actor Robert De Niro, Jr.
* Sheila Giolitti (born 1957) - painter and art dealer
* Robert Longo
* Nicola Monachesi (1795–1851) painter believed to have painted the earliest frescos in America
* Carla Carli Mazzucato (born 1935) - modern expressionist painter
* Tony Sisti (1901–1983) - painter and boxer
* Frank Stella (born 1936) - painter and printmaker
* Joseph Stella (1877–1946) - futurist painter known for his depictions of industrial America

### Photographers

* Lynsey Addario (born 1973) - photojournalist known for her coverage of women in war-torn countries
* Severo Antonelli (1907–1995) - legendary figure in Philadelphia Italian American history and the subject of one of the largest ever one-man shows at the Smithsonian Institution
* Franco A. "Frank" Barsotti (1937–2012) - photographer and professor emeritus from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago
* Justin Guariglia (born 1974) - photographer and contributing editor to National Geographic Traveler, and a regular contributor to Smithsonian Magazine
* Isa Leshko (born 1971) - artist/photographer and author of Allowed to Grow Old: Portraits of Elderly Animals from Farm Sanctuaries published by the University of Chicago Press in 2019
* Luis Marden (1913–2003) - photographer, explorer, writer, filmmaker, diver, navigator, and linguist who worked for National Geographic magazine
* Nick Saglimbeni - 3D photographer
* Francesco Scavullo (1921–2004) - fashion photographer known for his work on the covers of Cosmopolitan magazine and his celebrity portraits
* Mario Sorrenti (born 1971) - fashion photographer

### Sculptors

* Vincent Cavallaro
* Mario Dal Fabbro
* Jasper D'Ambrosi
* John DeAndrea
* Joe De Santis
* Arturo Di Modica
* Mark Di Suvero
* Virginio Ferrari
* Thomas Gaetano LoMedico
* Costantino Nivola
* Corrado Parducci
* Piccirilli Brothers
* Italo Scanga - neo-Dadaist

## Business

* Paul Busti (1749–1824) - Holland Land Company Agent General (C.O.O.)
* Amadeo Giannini (1870–1949) - Bank of America president
* Orra E. Monnette (1873–1936) - Bank of America, Los Angeles founder
* Jack Dorsey - co-founder of Twitter, Inc. and Block, Inc.

## Criminals

* Salvatore Briguglio - former mobster, one of the prime suspects in the disappearance of Jimmy Hoffa
* Al Capone, "Scarface" - famous mobster
* Michael Franzese - former mobster
* Santino William Legan - perpetrator of the Gilroy Garlic festival shooting

## Food

* Mario Batali - chef
* Joe Bastianich - chef and television personality
* Lidia Bastianich - chef and television personality
* Hector Boyardee - famous for his Chef Boyardee brand of food products
* Caesar Cardini - creator of the Caesar salad
* Michael Chiarello - celebrity chef specializing in Italian-influenced California cuisine
* Tom Colicchio - chef, restaurateur, political activist, and head judge on Bravo's Emmy Award winning Top Chef
* Giada De Laurentiis - host of the Food Network program Everyday Italian
* Dom DeLuise - actor and celebrity chef who wrote several cookbooks and videos on his family's Italian-influenced cuisine
* Guy Fieri - chef and host of the Food Network program "Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives"
* Gina Keatley - chef and television personality; influenced charities in New York City
* Sirio Maccioni - restaurateur and author
* Rosanna Pansino - chef and youtuber personality
* Rachael Ray - Food Network chef and Emmy-winning television personality
* Nick Stellino - chef and television personality
* Carlo Vaccarezza - restaurateur
* Buddy Valastro - baker, reality television personality, and businessman

## Inventors

* Anthony Adducci (1937–2006) - pioneer of the medical device industry in Minnesota; best known for founding Guidant Corp. precursor Cardiac Pacemakers, inc., now part of Boston Scientific, the company that manufactured the world's first lithium battery-powered artificial pacemaker
* Giuseppe Mario Bellanca - designer of the first monoplane in the United States with an enclosed cabin
* Enea Bossi
* Lorenzo Del Riccio - inventor of fotofinish camera
* Daniel DiLorenzo - medical device entrepreneur and physician-scientist. He is the inventor of several technologies for the treatment of neurological disease
* Federico Faggin (born 1941) - physicist, engineer, inventor and entrepreneur; best known for designing the first commercial microprocessor, the Intel 4004
* Gerard J. Foschini
* The Jacuzzi family - developed the deep well water pump that led to the famous whirlpool bath
* Antonio Meucci (1808–1889) - credited by the Congress of the United States with the invention of the telephone
* Antonio Pasin (1897–1990) - inventor of the Radio Flyer stamped steel toy wagoni
* Sam Porcello (1935–2012) - food scientist who worked at Nabisco on the modern Oreo cookie in particular, was the inventor of the white Oreo cookie creme-filling. His work earned him the nickname, "Mr. Oreo."
* Lorenzo Ponza - inventor of the modern baseball pitching machine
* Francis Rogallo - engineer at NASA, designed the Rogallo wing, which found its greatest success in hang gliders and kites
* Andrea Rossi (born 1950) - entrepreneur who claims to have invented the cold fusion device E-Cat
* Andrew Toti
* Andrew Viterbi (born 1935) - engineer, billionaire, cofounder of Qualcomm, inventor of the Viterbi algorithm
* Frank Zamboni - inventor of the modern ice resurfacer

## Jurists
### Judges

* Samuel Alito - Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (2006–present)
* Antonin Scalia (1936–2016) - Former Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
* William Nardini - Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit (2019–present)
* Frank Caprio - Chief Judge of the Municipal Court of Providence (1985–2023)

### Lawyers

* Bill Bufalino - American attorney who represented the International Brotherhood of Teamsters from 1947 until 1971.

## Law enforcement figures

* Joseph Arpaio (born 1932 in Springfield, Massachusetts) - law enforcement officer, most notably as the Sheriff of Maricopa County, Arizona; the child of immigrants from Lacedonia
* Michael D'Andrea - officer of the Central Intelligence Agency, appointed to head the Agency's Iran Mission Center
* Pete DeFazio
* Cate Edwards - daughter of former United States Senator John Edwards and Elizabeth Edwards
* Gil Garcetti (born 1941) - Los Angeles County's 40th district attorney
* Joseph D. Pistone - undercover FBI agent who went undercover as Donnie Brasco and infiltrated the Bonanno crime family
* Louis Freeh (born 1950 in Jersey City, New Jersey) - Director of the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) 1993–2001
* Rudolph Giuliani - early career was a US attorney in S.D.N.Y., prosecuting high-profile cases, including Cosa Nostra cases
* Dan Mitrione - Italian-born American police officer and U. S. government advisor in Latin America
* Frank Rizzo
* Frank Serpico
* Joe Petrosino - NYCPD lieutenant in charge of the Italian Squad, an elite corps of Italian-American detectives formed to fight the Mafia
* Charles Joseph Bonaparte - member of Theodore Roosevelt's Cabinet and founder of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)

## Journalism (print and multimedia)

* Melissa Anelli - resident of Staten Island, journalist at Staten Island Advance and webmaster of The Leaky Cauldron
* Charly Arnolt - sports journalist (ESPN, OutKick, WWE)
* Carlo Barsotti - emigrated from Italy to New York City in 1872. In 1879, he founded the Il Progresso Italo-Americano newspaper in New York City
* Maria Bartiromo - financial journalist and television host
* Joe Benigno - WFAN sports radio personality
* David Brancaccio - journalist
* Harry Caray (1914–1998) - born Harry Christopher Carabina, sports broadcaster, did play-by-play for the St. Louis Cardinals, Chicago White Sox, and most famously the Chicago Cubs; Cubs win! Cubs win!
* Tucker Carlson - television host and conservative political commentator
* Matt Casamassina - video game journalist working for IGN
* Danny Casolaro - freelance journalist
* Igor Cassini - journalist
* Chris Cimino - co-host of Today in New York on WNBC, the NBC affiliate in New York City
* Kellyanne Conway - president and CEO of The Polling Company Inc./Woman Trend, and has been a political commentator on CNN, Fox News, and Fox Business
* Anthony Cumia - "Anthony" of the Opie and Anthony show
* Rick Francona - NBC military analyst
* Michael Gargiulo - co-host of Today in New York on WNBC, the NBC affiliate in New York City
* John Iadarola - progressive political commentator for The Young Turks
* Megyn Kelly - Fox News Channel political commentator and former corporate defense attorney
* Charlotte Laws - author, columnist, political commentator, former politician, animal rights advocate, anti-revenge porn activist (known as the "Erin Brockovich of revenge porn")
* Anthony Fantano - music critic and founder of The Needle Drop, a music related video blog
* Al Giordano - political commentator, and former anti-nuclear and environmental activist
* Steve Lopez - journalist; a columnist for the Los Angeles Times since 2001; the son of Spanish and Italian immigrants
* Rob Marciano - journalist and meteorologist
* Ann Nocenti - journalist, writer and editor, known for her work on comic books and magazines
* Alexandra Pelosi - journalist, documentary filmmaker, and writer; daughter of Nancy Pelosi and Paul Pelosi
* Dana Perino - political commentator and author who served as the 26th White House Press Secretary, serving under President George W. Bush
* Generoso Pope Jr. (1927–1988) - founder of the National Enquirer
* Tony Rizzo - sports anchor with WJW-TV, the Fox affiliate in Cleveland
* Allison Rosati - WMAQ-TV nightly anchor, maternal Italian ancestry
* Rick Santelli (born 1956) - editor for the CNBC Business News network
* Peter Santenello (born 1977) - videomaker, traveler, and entrepreneur who produces videos about travel and human stories
* Lauren Scala - co-host of Today in New York on WNBC, the NBC affiliate in New York City
* Elaine Sciolino - Paris bureau chief of The New York Times
* Karley Sciortino - writer, television host, and producer
* Carla Sinclair - editor-in-chief at Craft magazine for O'Reilly Media

## Military

* Sgt. John Basilone - USMC, Medal of Honor recipient of World War II
* Major John Belli - Quartermaster General of the U.S. Army 1792–1794
* Corporal Anthony Casamento - USMC, Medal of Honor recipient of World War II
* Christopher G. Cavoli - commander of United States European Command and Supreme Allied Commander Europe
* Lieutenant General Peter W. Chiarelli
* Lieutenant General Joseph P. DiSalvo - Military Deputy Commander of United States Southern Command
* General Curtis Scaparrotti, Commander of United States European Command
* Col. Luigi Palma di Cesnola - Civil War Union Cavalry officer, and Medal of Honor recipient
* Lt Col Rick Francona - U S Air Force officer
* Major Don Gentile (Dominic Salvatore Gentile) (1920–1951) - US Air Force officer
* Bancroft Gherardi - rear admiral of the US Navy, who served during the Mexican–American War and the American Civil War. The first Italian-American admiral in the US Navy.
* Edmund P. Giambastiani - Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
* Giovanni Martini - trumpeter; only member of Custer's army to leave the site of the Battle of the Little Big Horn alive
* General Raymond T. Odierno - incumbent Chief of Staff of the United States Army
* Peter Pace - USMC, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
* Antonio Pierro - lived to be one of the oldest surviving veterans of World War I
* Joseph L. Romano
* William B. Taliaferro - Confederate general, of Anglo-Italian descent. Though his ancestors came from England to the colonies, his Taliaferro ancestors were originally from Italy.
* Vito Trause - World War II prisoner of war
* Walter Schirra - naval officer and aviator, aeronautical engineer, test pilot, and one of the original seven astronauts chosen for Project Mercury
* Maj. Gen. Francis D. Vavala - Adjutant General, Delaware Army National Guard
* Humbert Roque Versace - United States Army officer and POW in Vietnam
* Gen. Anthony Zinni - USMC, former Commander in Chief of U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM)

## Politicians
### Founding Fathers of the United States

* Caesar Rodney - signer of the Declaration of Independence, and President of Delaware was 1/64th Italian
* William Paca - often listed as an Italian American, but based on erroneous speculation about the Paca surname

### Members of Congress

* Mark Amodei - American lawyer and politician serving as the U.S. representative for Nevada's 2nd congressional district (2011–present)
* John Baldacci - American politician. As Democrat, he served as a member of the United States House of Representatives from 1995 to 2003. Also served as the 73rd Governor of Maine from 2003 to 2011.
* John Barrasso - American physician and politician serving as the senior United States senator from Wyoming (2007–present)
* Mario Biaggi - American politician a Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives from New York from 1969 to 1988.
* David Cicilline - American lawyer and politician serving as the U.S. representative for Rhode Island's 1st congressional district (2011–present)
* Catherine Cortez Masto - American lawyer and politician serving as the senior United States senator from Nevada (2017–present)
* Ted Cruz - United States senator for Texas is of mixed Cuban, Irish and Italian ancestry (2013–present)
* Emilio Q. Daddario - American Democratic politician from Connecticut. He served as a member of the 86th through 91st United States Congress. (1959–1971)
* John Ensign - Congressman and United States Senator from Nevada (1995–2011)
* James Joseph Lanzetta - American engineer and lawyer member of the United States House of Representatives from New York (1933–1935) and 1937–1939)
* Kevin McCarthy - American businessman and former Speaker of the United States House of Representatives in the United States House of Representatives (2007–present)
* Joe Manchin - American politician serving as the senior United States senator from West Virginia (2010–present)
* Nancy Pelosi - Speaker of the United States House of Representatives (2007–2011, 2019–2023)
* Steve Scalise - United States House of Representatives minority whip and representative for Louisiana's 1st congressional district (2008–present)
* Tom Suozzi - Member of the United States House of Representatives from New York's 3rd congressional district (2017–present)

### Minister

* Leon Panetta - U.S. Secretary of Defense 2011–2013
* Mike Pompeo - U.S. Secretary of State 2018–2021

### Diplomats

* Peter F. Secchia - U.S. Ambassador to Italy, 1989–1993
* John J. Maresca - U.S. Ambassador, United States Delegation to the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, 1992–1994
* Richard F. Celeste - U.S. Ambassador to India, 1997–2001
* Thomas M. Foglietta - U.S. Ambassador to Italy, 1997–2001
* Paul Cellucci - U.S. Ambassador to Canada, 2001–2005
* Paul A. Trivelli - U.S. Ambassador to Nicaragua, 2005–2008
* Joseph A. Mussomeli - U.S. Ambassador to the Philippines; Ambassador to Cambodia, 2005–2008;
* Ronald P. Spogli - U.S. Ambassador to Italy and first U.S. Ambassador to San Marino, 2005–2009
* Peter Cianchette - U.S. Ambassador to Costa Rica, 2008–2009
* Luigi R. Einaudi - acting Secretary General of the Organization of American States (OAS)
* Francis J. Ricciardone, Jr. - U.S. Ambassador to the Philippines and Republic of Palau, 2002–2005; Ambassador to Egypt, 2005–2008; and Deputy Ambassador to Afghanistan, 2009–2010
* Linda S. Taglialatela - U.S. Ambassador to Barbados, the Eastern Caribbean and the OECS since 2016
* Claire A. Pierangelo - U.S. Ambassador to Madagascar and Comoros since 2022

### Governors and former governors

* John Baldacci - former governor of Maine (2003–2011)
* Donald Carcieri - former governor of Rhode Island (2003–2011)
* Dick Celeste - former governor of Ohio (1983–1991)
* Argeo Paul Cellucci - former governor of Massachusetts (1997–2001)
* Chris Christie - former governor of New Jersey (2010–2018)
* Andrew Cuomo - former governor of New York (2011–2021)
* Mario Cuomo - former governor of New York (1983–1994)
* Ron DeSantis - governor of Florida
* Edward D. DiPrete - former governor of Rhode Island (1985–1991)
* Michael DiSalle - former governor of Ohio (1959–1963)
* James Florio - former governor of New Jersey (1990–1994)
* Foster Furcolo - former governor of Massachusetts (1957–1961)
* Ella T. Grasso - former governor of Connecticut (1975–1980); first woman to be elected governor without following a husband
* Andrew H. Longino - former governor of Mississippi (1900–1904)
* Janet Napolitano - former governor of Arizona (2003–2009)
* William Paca - signer of the American Declaration of Independence, member of the Continental Congress, governor of Maryland, Federal District Judge
* John Orlando Pastore - former governor of Rhode Island (1945–1950)
* George Pataki - former governor of New York (1995–2006)
* Gina Raimondo - former governor of Rhode Island (2015–2021)
* Albert Rosellini - former governor of Washington State (1957–1965)
* Al Smith - former governor of New York (1919–1921; 1923–1929)
* John A. Volpe - former governor of Massachusetts (1961–1963; 1965–1969)

### Mayors and former mayors

* Hugh Addonizio (1914–1981) - Mayor of Newark, New Jersey, 1962–1970
* Joseph Alioto (1916–1998) - Mayor of San Francisco, 1968–1976
* Thomas L. J. D'Alesandro, Jr. (1903–1987) - Mayor of Baltimore, Maryland, 1947–1959; prior to being mayor, he was a representative from Maryland's 3rd congressional district (1939–47); father of U.S. Representative Nancy Pelosi
* Luigi Boria (born 1958) - Mayor of Doral, Florida, 2012–2016
* Richard Caliguiri (1931–1988) - Mayor of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 1978–1988
* Anthony Celebrezze (1910–1998) - Mayor of Cleveland, Ohio, 1953–1962
* Vincent Cianci, Jr (1941–2016) - Mayor of Providence, Rhode Island, 1975–1984 and 1991–2002
* David Cicilline (born 1961) - Mayor of Providence, Rhode Island, 2003–2011; Jewish mother
* Bill de Blasio (born 1961) - Mayor of New York City, 2014–2022
* John DeStefano, Jr. (born 1955) - Mayor of New Haven, Connecticut, 1994–2014
* Frank Fasi (1920–2010) - Mayor of Honolulu, Hawaii, 1969–1981 and 1984–1994
* Eric Garcetti (born 1971) - Mayor of Los Angeles, California, 2013–2022
* Philip Giordano (born 1963) - Mayor of Waterbury, Connecticut, 1995–2001 when was arrested for municipal corruption and convicted of sex offender.
* Rudolph Giuliani (born 1944) - Mayor of New York City, 1994–2001
* Dick A. Greco (born 1933) - Mayor of Tampa, Florida, 1967–1974 and 1995–2003
* Pam Iorio (born 1959) - Mayor of Tampa, Florida, 2003–2011
* Vincent R. Impellitteri (1900–1987) - Mayor of New York City, 1950–1953
* Fiorello La Guardia (1882–1947) - Mayor of New York City, 1934–1945; both parents Italian-born; father lapsed Catholic; mother Jewish
* Mitch Landrieu (born 1960) - Mayor of New Orleans, 2010–2018
* Anthony M. Masiello (born 1947) - Mayor of Buffalo, New York, 1994–2005
* Thomas Menino (1942–2014) - Mayor of Boston, Massachusetts, 1993–2014
* Robert Maestri (1899–1974) - Mayor of New Orleans, Louisiana, 1936–1946
* George Moscone (1929–1978) - Mayor of San Francisco, 1976–1978
* Joseph R. Paolino Jr. (born 1955) - 33rd Mayor of Providence, Rhode Island
* Frank Rizzo (1920–1991) - Mayor of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1972–1980
* Angelo Rossi (1878–1948) - Mayor of San Francisco, 1931–1944
* Victor Schiro (1904–1992) - Mayor of New Orleans, Louisiana, 1961–1970
* Frank A. Sedita (1907–1975) - Mayor of Buffalo, New York, 1958–1961, 1966–1973
* Reed Gusciora (born 1960) - Mayor of Trenton, New Jersey, since 2018

### Other

* Alessandra Biaggi (born 1986) - New York State Senator
* Jill Biden (born 1951) - American educator and the current first lady of the United States, wife of President Joe Biden. She was previously the second lady of the United States from 2009 to 2017.
* Paul D'Ortona (1903–1992) - Democratic politician from Philadelphia who served as President of Philadelphia's City Council.
* Andrew Giuliani (born 1986) - Special Assistant to the President and associate director of the Office of Public Liaison for President Donald Trump
* Jim Messina (born 1969) - political adviser, White House Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations under President Barack Obama 2009–2011
* Mike Pellicciotti (born 1978) - Washington State Treasurer
* Joe Tacopina (born 1966) - lawyer who has represented Alex Rodriguez, Michael Jackson, Kimberly Guilfoyle, Meek Mill, and most notably Donald Trump.

## Prelates

* Msgr. Geno Baroni (1930–1984) - Catholic Coordinator for the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom
* Raggio dell'Raggio (born 1963) - New York Italian parish president of Our Lady of Knee Clubbing Most Holy Divine Red Sauce Catholic Church
* Francis X. DiLorenzo (1942–2017) - twelfth bishop of the Diocese of Richmond in Virginia
* John Clement Favalora - Archbishop of the Catholic Archdiocese of Miami
* Fr. Stan Fortuna - Roman Catholic priest
* James Groppi - Roman Catholic priest and noted civil rights activist
* Francis Mugavero - first Italian-American Bishop of Brooklyn, 1968–1990
* Anthony M. Pilla - bishop of the Cleveland Catholic Diocese, 1979–2006
* Joseph Rosati - first Bishop of the Diocese of Saint Louis
* Robert Sirico

### Cardinals

* Joseph Louis Bernardin (1928–1996) - Archbishop of Cincinnati, Archbishop of Chicago
* Anthony Joseph Bevilacqua (1923–2012) - served as Bishop of Pittsburgh and Archbishop of Philadelphia
* Daniel Nicholas DiNardo (born 1949) - Archbishop of Galveston-Houston
* Justin Francis Rigali (born 1935) - Archbishop of Philadelphia

## Scientists

* Aristides Agramonte - bacteriologist
* Janis Amatuzio (born 1950) - forensic pathologist
* John T. Cacioppo - neuroscientist
* Eugenio Calabi (1923–2023) - Italian-born American mathematician specializing in differential geometry, partial differential equations and their applications
* Mario Capecchi (born 1941) - Nobel Prize 2007 winner for medicine
* Nicholas R. Cozzarelli
* Charles DeLisi
* Renato Dulbecco - Nobel Prize 1975 winner for medicine
* Federico Faggin - widely known for designing the first commercial microprocessor
* Robert Fano (1917–2016) - computer scientist
* Ugo Fano (1912–2001) - physicist
* Anthony Fauci - immunologist contributing to research in the areas of AIDS and other immunodeficiencies
* Enrico Fermi (1901–1954) - physicist; Nobel Prize 1938
* Robert Gallo - virologist
* Albert Ghiorso - nuclear scientist who helped discover several chemical elements on the periodic table
* Riccardo Giacconi (1931–2018) - astrophysicist; Nobel Prize 2002
* Edward J. Giorgianni - imaging scientist
* Louis Ignarro - Nobel Prize 1998 winner for medicine
* Robert Lanza
* Paul J. Lioy - exposure science
* Mariangela Lisanti - theoretical physicist
* Salvador Luria - microbiologist; Nobel Prize 1969 for medicine
* Mike Massimino - astronaut
* Fulvio Melia - physicist, astrophysicist, and author
* Antonio Meucci - telephone inventor
* Franco Modigliani - economist; Nobel Prize 1985
* Rita Levi-Montalcini - neurobiologist; Nobel Prize 2009
* Lisa Marie Nowak - born Lisa Marie Caputo; astronaut
* William Daniel Phillips - physicist; shared the Nobel Prize in Physics, in 1997, with Steven Chu and Claude Cohen-Tannoudji
* Sam Potolicchio - psychologist specializing in government
* Bruno Rossi (1905–1993) - major contributions to particle physics and the study of cosmic rays
* Gian-Carlo Rota
* Jack Sarfatti
* Piero Scaruffi (born 1955) - cognitive scientist
* Walter Schirra - astronaut
* Emilio Segrè - Nobel Prize 1959-winning physicist and academic
* Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza (1922–2018) - geneticist
* Giuliana Tesoro (1921–2002) - organic chemist
* Michael Viscardi - mathematician
* Andrew Viterbi
* Philip Zimbardo

### Academics

* Mario Capecchi - University of Utah
* John D. Caputo
* James Carafano
* Frank A. Cipriani
* Thomas A. DeFanti
* John J. DeGioia - President of Georgetown University
* Frank J. Fabozzi
* Eugene Fama - University of Chicago professor of finance and winner of the 2013 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics
* A. Bartlett Giamatti (1938–1989) - President of Yale University, later Major League Baseball commissioner; Italian father
* Robert Gallucci - Dean of the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University
* Lino Graglia - University of Texas in Austin
* Paul J. Lioy - University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
* Robert Magliola - academic specialist in hermeneutics, philosophy, and religious studies
* Mariana Mazzucato
* Silvio Micali - professor of computer science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, distinguished for his work on cryptography
* Fulvio Melia - professor of physics and astronomy at the University of Arizona in Tucson
* Franco Modigliani - MIT economics professor and winner of the 1985 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics
* L. Jay Oliva - former President of New York University (NYU) and author of many books on European and Russian history
* Camille Paglia - professor of humanities at the University of the Arts
* Michael Parenti - political scientist, Marxist activist
* P. M. Pasinetti - professor of comparative literature and Italian at UCLA
* Walter Piston - professor of music at Harvard University 1926–1960; Pulitzer Prize winner 1948 and 1961

## Writers

* Kim Addonizio - poet and novelist
* Vince Aletti (born 1945)- writer, curator, and photography critic
* Maria Arena Bell - novelist, television and freelance writer
* Paul Attanasio - screenwriter
* Ken Auletta - writer/journalist and media critic for The New Yorker
* David Baldacci (born 1960) - best-selling novelist; a distant cousin of John Baldacci, former governor of Maine
* Andrew Berardini - art critic and fiction writer
* Greg Berlanti - television writer and producer
* Giannina Braschi - poet and novelist
* Leo Buscaglia (1924–1998) - author and motivational speaker
* Christopher Castellani - novelist
* Nick Cafardo (1956–2019) - sportswriter
* Duane Capizzi - screenwriter
* Lorenzo Carcaterra - novelist and screenwriter
* Christopher Carosa (born 1960) - author, journalist, and investment adviser
* John Ciardi - poet and etymologist
* Diablo Cody - screenwriter, producer, author, journalist, memoirist, stripper and exotic dancer
* Bob Colacello - writer
* Angelo F. Coniglio - civil engineer, genealogist and author
* Gregory Corso - poet
* Wendy Corsi Staub - novelist
* John Corvino - philosopher
* Lorenzo Da Ponte - poet, writer, librettist
* William L. DeAndrea - mystery writer
* Keith R. A. DeCandido
* Frank De Felitta - author
* Don DeLillo (born 1936) - author
* Guy Anthony De Marco - author
* Tomie dePaola - author
* Louise DeSalvo - writer, editor, professor, and lecturer
* Pietro Di Donato - writer
* Janine di Giovanni - author, journalist and war correspondent
* John Fante - novelist and screenwriter
* Lawrence Ferlinghetti - poet, essayist and painter
* David Franzoni - screenwriter of Gladiator and King Arthur
* John Fusco - novelist (Paradise Salvage) and screenwriter of Young Guns, Hidalgo, Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron
* Paul Gallico - Italian father
* Daniela Gioseffi (born 1941) - poet, novelist, literary critic, essayist, performer, social justice activist
* Arturo Giovannitti - poet, political activist
* Barbara Grizzuti Harrison (1934–2002) - writer
* Evan Hunter - aka Ed MacBain, born Salvatore Lombino
* Philip Lamantia
* Teresa de Lauretis
* Luis Marden - born Annibale Luis Paragallo, writer for National Geographic
* Fulvio Melia - author of several popular science books, including The Black Hole at the Center of Our Galaxy
* Charles Messina - writer/director of the play Mercury: The Afterlife and Times of a Rock God, the film Merging, and co-author the book My Father, My Don
* Henry Samuel Morais - writer, rabbi
* Diana Ossana - Academy Award-winning screenwriter
* Camille Paglia - post-feminist literary and cultural critic
* Christopher Paolini - writer. he is best known for The Inheritance Cycle
* Michael Parenti
* P.M. Pasinetti - novelist, playwright, journalist, professor
* Mario Pei
* Tom Perrotta - novelist and screenwriter best known for the novels Election (1998) and Little Children (2004)
* Nicholas Pileggi (born 1933) - writer, producer and screenwriter. He wrote the non-fiction book Wiseguy and co-wrote the screenplay for Goodfellas
* Joseph D. Pistone
* Diane di Prima - poet of the Beat generation
* Mario Puzo (1920–1999) - writer/screenwriter and best-selling author of The Godfather
* Marco Rafalà - first-generation descendant of immigrants from Melilli, Sicily. He is the author of the novel, How Fires End, a work of historical fiction set in World War II Sicily and 1980s America.
* Terry Rossio - screenwriter
* Shane Salerno - screenwriter
* R.A. Salvatore (born 1959) - born Robert Anthony Salvatore, science fiction and fantasy author, best known for his Forgotten Realms and Star Wars novels
* Leslie Scalapino - poet
* Piero Scaruffi - poet, historian, scientist
* Dom (Domenico) Serafini - TV trade magazine editor
* Michelangelo Signorile - journalist, columnist, talk radio host and gay activist
* Michael Smerconish - radio host and television presenter, newspaper columnist, author, and lawyer
* Gay Talese
* Adriana Trigiani
* Jessica Valenti - blogger and feminist writer
* Mark Valenti - screenwriter
* Tom Verducci - sportswriter
* Luisa Weiss - food writer
* Rebecca Zanetti - bestselling author of paranormal romance, contemporary romance, and romantic suspense

## Italian Americans who were first in their field of achievement

* Giuseppe Mario Bellanca - designer of the first monoplane in the United States with an enclosed cabin
* Frank Borzage - first person to win the Academy Award for Directing, for Seventh Heaven (1927)
* Enea Bossi - designer of the first stainless steel aircraft and designer of the disputed first fully human-powered plane
* Anthony Celebrezze (1910–1998) - first non-native to be appointed to the U.S. Cabinet
* Geraldine Ferraro (1935–2011) - first woman in U.S. history to be nominated for the vice presidency of the United States from a major political party
* Ella T. Grasso (1919–1981) - born Ella Rose Tambussi Grasso, first woman to be elected governor of a U.S. state without succeeding her husband
* Giuseppina Morlacchi (1846–1886) - ballerina and dancer, introduced the can-can to the American stage
* Nancy Pelosi - first woman in U.S. history to hold the office of Speaker of the United States House of Representatives
* Frank Posillico - Dry January inventor
* Dennis Tito - world's first space tourist
* Joe Valachi (1904–1971) - first member of the Mafia to testify to the Senate about organized crime

## Italian Americans not otherwise categorized

* Emile Ardolino - dancer and choreographer
* Donald P. Bellisario - director, former civil uniform service
* Elizabeth Anne Bisceglia - American murderer; father was of Italian ancestry
* Marella Agnelli - furniture designer
* Luigi Antonini - labor leader
* Chris Avellone - video game designer
* Frances Xavier Cabrini - Catholic religious sister, first U.S. citizen to be canonized a saint by the Catholic Church
* Alyssa Campanella - fashion blogger, model, and beauty pageant titleholder
* Oleg Cassini - Russian-Italian-American fashion designer
* Andrew Cunanan - mass murderer; mother is of Italian background
* Charli D'Amelio - TikTok personality
* Dixie D'Amelio - TikTok personality
* Emily DiDonato - model of Italian, Irish, and Native American ancestry
* Ralph DiGia - pacifist and social justice activist
* Tabitha D'umo - choreographer and creative director
* Angelo Dundee - trainer of several boxing champions
* Elizabeth Edwards - born Anania, wife of John Edwards, former U.S. Senator from North Carolina
* Anthony Fantano - music critic and internet personality of Sicilian descent
* Vincenzo Ferdinandi - fashion stylist
* Vanessa Hessler - model and actress
* Ernest Ingenito - mass shooter
* Olivia Jade - social media celebrity and YouTuber
* Stacy London - stylist and fashion consultant
* Luigi Mangione - a suspect in the killing of Brian Thompson, the CEO of United Healthcare
* Jay Manuel - make-up artist
* Sabato Morais - rabbi leader of Mikveh Israel Synagogue, pioneer of Italian Jewish Studies in America, and founder of the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York City
* Bruno Pauletto - physiologist, shot putter, businessman, coach, author
* Bucky Pizzarelli - jazz guitarist. He was the father of guitarist John Pizzarelli and double bassist Martin Pizzarelli.
* Mike Pompeo - politician, former Central Intelligence Agency director and 70th United States Secretary of State
* Charles Ponzi (1882–1949) - one of the greatest swindlers in American history; inventor of the Ponzi scheme
* Carrie Prejean - model, author, former Miss California USA 2009 and Miss USA 2009 first runner-up
* Angela Carlozzi Rossi - executive secretary of the Italian Welfare League
* John Scarne - born Orlando Carmelo Scarnecchia, gambling expert and sleight-of-hand card performer
* Mary Schiavo - former Inspector General of the United States Department of Transportation
* Michael Schiavo - ex-husband of Terri Schiavo, the woman whose comatose state and subsequent court case garnered much media attention
* Christian Siriano - fashion designer from New York
* Milton Sirotta - at age nine coined the term googol
* Michael Smerconish - CNN journalist
* Carmela Teoli - 14-year-old mill worker whose Congressional testimony helped end the 1912 Lawrence textile strike
* Jack Valenti - of Sicilian heritage, president of the Motion Picture Association of America from 1966 to 2007
* Elettra Rossellini Wiedemann - fashion model, and socialite