The Most Famous
JOURNALISTS from Italy
This page contains a list of the greatest Italian Journalists. The pantheon dataset contains 127 Journalists, 3 of which were born in Italy. This makes Italy the birth place of the 7th most number of Journalists behind Russia and Ukraine.
Top 3
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Italian Journalists of all time. This list of famous Italian Journalists is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Oriana Fallaci (1929 - 2006)
With an HPI of 68.08, Oriana Fallaci is the most famous Italian Journalist. Her biography has been translated into 59 different languages on wikipedia.
Oriana Fallaci (Italian: [oˈrjaːna falˈlaːtʃi]; 29 June 1929 – 15 September 2006) was an Italian journalist and author. A member of the Italian resistance movement during World War II, she had a long and successful journalistic career. Fallaci became famous worldwide for her coverage of war and revolution, and her "long, aggressive and revealing interviews" with many world leaders during the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s. Fallaci's book Interview with History contains interviews with Indira Gandhi, Golda Meir, Yasser Arafat, Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, Willy Brandt, Shah of Iran Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, and Henry Kissinger, South Vietnamese President Nguyễn Văn Thiệu, and North Vietnamese General Võ Nguyên Giáp during the Vietnam War. The interview with Kissinger was published in The New Republic, with Kissinger describing himself as "the cowboy who leads the wagon train by riding ahead alone on his horse". Kissinger later wrote that it was "the single most disastrous conversation I have ever had with any member of the press". Fallaci also interviewed Deng Xiaoping, Andreas Papandreou, Ayatollah Khomeini, Haile Selassie, Lech Wałęsa, Muammar Gaddafi, Mário Soares, George Habash, and Alfred Hitchcock, among others. After retirement, she returned to the spotlight after writing a series of controversial articles and books critical of Islam that aroused condemnation as well as support.
2. Gianni Rodari (1920 - 1980)
With an HPI of 67.73, Gianni Rodari is the 2nd most famous Italian Journalist. His biography has been translated into 51 different languages.
Giovanni Francesco "Gianni" Rodari (Italian pronunciation: [ˈdʒanni roˈdaːri]; 23 October 1920 – 14 April 1980) was an Italian writer and journalist, most famous for his works of children's literature, notably Il romanzo di Cipollino. For his lasting contribution as a children's author, he received the biennial Hans Christian Andersen Medal in 1970. He is considered as Italy's most important 20th-century children's author and his books have been translated into many languages, though few have been published in English.
3. Rosanna Marani (1946 - )
With an HPI of 37.07, Rosanna Marani is the 3rd most famous Italian Journalist. Her biography has been translated into 15 different languages.
Rosanna Marani (Imola, 12 October 1946) is an Italian journalist and television host.
Pantheon has 3 people classified as journalists born between 1920 and 1946. Of these 3, 1 (33.33%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living journalists include Rosanna Marani. The most famous deceased journalists include Oriana Fallaci and Gianni Rodari.
