The following is a list of notable people of African birth who later immigrated to Italy and resided there, either wholly or at least part time.
Sports •
Kelvin Yeboah - Footballer born in
Ghana Politicians Music •
Saba Anglana - singer and actress born in
Somalia •
Bello FiGo - singer born in Ghana •
Franco Califano - singer born in Libya •
Nour Eddine - singer and filmmaker born in Morocco •
Laïoung, rapper and music producer, born 1992, in
Brussels to Italian father and British mother of
Sierra Leonean origin •
Bruno Lauzi - singer born in
Eritrea • or
Maruego - rapper, (born 1992 in
Morocco), grew up in Milan, naturalized Italian
Communications and other media •
Khaby Lame - prominent
TikTokker of
Senegalese background
Acting, television and filmmaking •
Elisa Kadigia Bove - actress of
Italian-Somali descent •
Remo Girone - actor born in
Eritrea •
Sandra Milo - actress born in
Tunisia •
Claudia Cardinale - actress born in Tunisia •
Zeudi Araya -
Eritrean-Italian actress •
Edwige Fenech - actress born in
Algeria of
Maltese father and Italian mother •
Youma Diakite - model born in
Mali Community activists •
Josephine Bakhita (c. 1869–1947), Catholic
religious sister, born in
Sudan; declared a saint by the Catholic Church in 2000 •
Michele Amatore (1826 - 1883), born in Sudan, enslaved in childhood, later freed and established in Italy; soldier and sharpshooter in
Piedmontese army, attaining rank of captain. Decorated for distinguished service in Sicily during a
cholera epidemic. •
Adel Smith (1960–2014), controversial Italian anti-Christian activist. Born Emilio Smith in
Alexandria, Egypt to an Italian father and an Egyptian mother; raised in Italy as a
Catholic, he later converted to
Islam ==See also==