Body-builder. His career promoted a particular ideal of the male body, with hard, bulging muscles, especially in the chest and biceps, that was novel. (This was not the body one saw in classical or modern sculpture.) This struck some observers as an unsightly caricature of the ideal of male strength or hardihood, but it captured the popular imagination, and still holds it.
| Born 1923 | Franco Zeffirelli |
| 1813–1901 | Giuseppe Verdi |
| 1895–1926 | Rudolph Valentino |
| 1858–1924 | Giacomo Puccini |
| 1876–1958 | Pius XII |
| 1835–1914 | St. Pius X |
| 1922–1975 | Pier Pasolini |
| 1848–1923 | Vilfredo Pareto |
| 1883–1945 | Benito Mussolini |
| 1852–1940 | Edgar Mortara |
| 1870–1952 | Maria Montessori |
| 1876–1944 | Filippo Marinetti |
| 1853–1932 | Enrico Malatesta |
| 1908–1973 | Anna Magnani |
| 1836–1909 | Cesare Lombroso |
| 1881–1963 | John XXIII |
| 1920–1993 | Federico Fellini |
| 1925–1997 | Danilo Dolci |
| 1881–1947 | Ettore Bugatti |
| 1892–1953 | Ugo Betti |
| 1922–1984 | Enrico Berlinguer |
| Born 1935 | Giorgio Armani |
| 1880–1918 | Guillaume Apollinaire |
| Born 1940 | Mario Andretti |
