Carlo Ginzburg, historian, writer, essayist and pioneer of microhistory Leone Ginzburg, writer (born in Ukraine) Natalia Ginzburg (born Levi), author (Jewish father), wife of Leone and mother of Carlo Arrigo Levi, writer, journalist and TV anchorman Carlo Levi, writer, painter and physician Primo Levi, chemist and author Carlo Michelstaedter, philosopher Lisa Morpurgo Dordoni, writer, astrologer Paolo Mieli, journalist, historian and director of Corriere della Sera Liana Millu, writer Alberto Moravia (born Pincherle), author (Jewish father) Laura Orvieto, writer Alessandro Piperno, writer Umberto Saba, poet (Jewish mother) Donato Sacerdote, poet Rubino Romeo Salmonì, writer Roberto Saviano, writer, journalist (Jewish mother) Clara Sereni, writer Italo Svevo (born Schmitz), author Humbert Wolfe, poet and civil servant Aldo Zargani, writer Artists Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, actress Vito D'Ancona, painter Cristiana Capotondi, actress (half Jewish) Gioele Dix (b. Davide Ottolenghi), actor and comedian Ginevra Elkann, film director, sister of John and Lapo Arnoldo Foà, actor Massimiliano Fuksas, architect (Jewish father) Vittorio Gassman, actor (Jewish mother) Alessandro Haber, actor Carlo Levi, writer, painter and physician Leo Lionni Emanuele Luzzati, painter Anna Magnani, actress (Jewish mother) Amedeo Modigliani, painter and sculptor Ernesto Nathan Rogers, architect, critic and editor Moni Ovadia, theatre figure Gillo Pontecorvo, director Xenia Rappoport, actress Bruno Zevi, architect Business Carlo De Benedetti (born 1934), industrialist, ex-CEO of FIAT, Olivetti, CIR Group, ex-deputy chairman of Banco Ambrosiano and ex-president of Gruppo Editoriale L'Espresso John (born 1976) and Lapo Elkann (born 1977), Vice Chairman of Fiat (Jewish father) Adriano Goldschmied (born 1944), fashion designer known as the "godfather of denim" who created Diesel, Replay, and AG Adriano Goldschmied; currently directing Goldsign and men's Citizens of Humanity Moses Haim Montefiore (1784–1885), financier and philanthropist Adriano Olivetti (1901–1960), son of Camillo, industrialist and social activist Camillo Olivetti (1868–1943), founder of Olivetti typewriters Guy Spier (born 1966), author and investor Other Eugenio Calò (1906–1944), Jewish partisan awarded the gold medal for military valour, murdered by the Nazis Angelo Donati (1885–1960), banker who protected Jews in Southern France during Italian occupation in 1942–43 Mario Finzi (1913–1945), partisan (murdered in Auschwitz in 1945) Camila Giorgi (born 1991), tennis player Riccardo Ehrman (1929–2021), journalist Gad Lerner (born 1954), TV anchorman and journalist Gillo Pontecorvo (1919–2006), filmmaker Giorgio Liuzzi (1895–1983), Chief of the Staff of the Italian Army from 1954 to 1959 Renato Mannheimer (born 1947), pollster, president of IPSO Maurizio Molinari (born 1964), journalist and essayist Edgardo Mortara (1851–1940), boy kidnapped by Catholic