Italy Business People

Giulio Tremonti (Italian pronunciation: [ˈdʒuːljo treˈmonti]) (born August 18, 1947) is an Italian politician. He served in the government of Italy as Minister of Economy and Finance under Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi from 1994 to 1995, from 2001 to 2004, from...

Giuseppe Piero Grillo, better known as Beppe Grillo (born 21 July 1948), is an Italian activist, blogger, comedian and actor. He has been involved in politics since 2009 as leader of the Five Star Movement.

Altero Matteoli (born 8 September 1940) is an Italian politician, former member of Alleanza Nazionale right-wing party and then member of People of Freedom.

Alberto Francesco Alesina (born April 29, 1957) is an Italian political economist. He has published much-cited books and articles in major economics journals.

David Ernest William Laidler (born 12 August, 1938) has been one of the foremost scholars of monetarism. He published major economics journal articles on the topic in the late 1960s and early 1970s. His book, The Demand for Money, was...

Leonardo Del Vecchio (born 22 May 1935 in Milan, Italy) is the founder and chairman of Luxottica, a $3 billion (sales) designer and manufacturer of high-quality eyeglass frames. The firm owns the Sunglass Hut and Lenscrafters chains with a total of...

Giovanni Botero (c.1544–1617) was an Italian thinker, priest, poet, and diplomat, best known for his 1589 work Della ragione di Stato (The Reason of State). In this work, he argued against the amoral political philosophy associated with Niccolò Machiavelli's The...

Sir William Ramsay, KCB FRSE (2 October 1852 – 23 July 1916) was a Scottish chemist who discovered the noble gases and received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1904 "in recognition of his services in the discovery of the...

Franco Modigliani (June 18, 1918 – September 25, 2003) was an Italian economist at the MIT Sloan School of Management and MIT Department of Economics, and winner of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics in 1985.