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Carlo Balabio (1759–1838) was an Italian general and cavalry commander who served the Kingdom of Italy during the Napoleonic Wars.

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Antonio Bertoletti, also known as Antoine Marc Augustin Bertoletti was a Milanese military officer who served the French Empire as a general of brigade, notably in the Peninsular War.

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Costantino Borsini was an Italian naval officer during World War II. He received the Gold Medal of Military Valor for his actions in command of the destroyer Francesco Nullo in the Attack on Convoy BN 7 in October 1940.

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Count Raffaele Cadorna was an Italian general who served as one of the major Piedmontese leaders responsible for the unification of Italy during the mid-19th century.

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Captain Samantha Cristoforetti is an Italian European Space Agency astronaut, former Italian Air Force pilot and engineer. She holds the record for the longest uninterrupted spaceflight by a European astronaut, and until June 2017 held the record for the longest single space flight by a woman until this was broken by Peggy Whitson and later by Christina Koch. She is also the first Italian woman in space.

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Marcus Didius Julianus was Roman emperor for nine weeks from March to June 193, during the Year of the Five Emperors.

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Archduke Ferdinand Karl Joseph of Austria-Este was the third son of Archduke Ferdinand of Austria-Este and of his wife Princess Maria Beatrice Ricciarda d'Este, last member and heiress of the House of Este. For much of the Napoleonic Wars he was in command of the Austrian army.

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Gianfranco Gazzana Priaroggia was an officer in the Italian Royal Navy, and was the highest-scoring Italian submarine captain of World War II.

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Guido Keller was an Italian aviator and political activist who was closely associated with Gabriele D’Annunzio and played an important role in the seizure of Fiume in 1919.

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Matilda Koen-Sarano, is an Israeli writer, born in Milan, Italy in 1939 to Turkish Jewish parents is one of the most widely known writers in the Ladino language.

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Count Pompeo Litta Biumi or Pompeo Litta was an Italian historian, genealogist, military officer, politician, and nobleman.

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Giovanni Livraghi was an Italian patriot, who took part in various enterprises of Giuseppe Garibaldi, being part of the Italian legion which he founded in Montevideo in 1843 and participating, as a result, in the defense of the Roman Republic.

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Luciano Manara was a Milanese soldier and politician of the Risorgimento era, who took part in the Roman Republic.

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Giacomo Medici, Marchese del Vascello was an Italian patriot and soldier.

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Gian Giacomo Medici was an Italian condottiero, Duke of Marignano and Marquess of Musso and Lecco in Lombardy.

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Giuseppe Missori was an Italian patriot, military leader during the Italian unification, and politician. He served under Garibaldi during the Second Italian War of Independence, the Expedition of the Thousand, and the Third Italian War of Independence. After the unification of Italy, he was twice a member of the City Council of Milan.

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Ernesto Teodoro Moneta was an Italian journalist, nationalist, revolutionary soldier and later a pacifist and Nobel Peace Prize Laureate. He adopted the motto In varietate unitas! which later inspired Motto of the European Union.

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Bruno Mussolini was the son of Italian dictator Benito Mussolini and Mussolini's wife Rachele, the nephew of Arnaldo Mussolini, and also the grandson of Alessandro Mussolini and Rosa Mussolini. He was an experienced pilot and died in a flying accident.

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General Alberto Pariani was an Italian general.

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Quintus Petilius Secundus was a Roman legionary. He was born around 40 AD, probably in Milan and died 25 years later in Bonn.

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Domenico ("Dominique") Pino was an Italian soldier. He served as General of Division in the Kingdom of Italy and in Napoleon's Grande Armée.

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Raffaele de Courten was an Italian admiral. He was the last Chief of Staff of the Regia Marina.

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Attilio Teruzzi was an Italian soldier, colonial administrator, and Fascist politician.

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Pietro Teulié was an Italian general who served in the Kingdom of Italy during the Napoleonic Wars. He was killed during the siege of the Prussian fortress of Kolberg.

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Gian Giacomo Trivulzio was an Italian aristocrat and condottiero who held several military commands during the Italian Wars.

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Teodoro Trivulzio (1458–1531) was an Italian condottiero and marshal of France.