List of British Italians

This is a list of notable British people of Italian ancestry and of Italians established in the UK.

The citizenship and connection to the United Kingdom and Italy is shown in parentheses.

Musician Nicola Benedetti , MBE playing at Albert Hall
Dante Gabriel Rossetti , painter in the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood
19th-century actress Lucia Elizabeth Vestris
Italian-Scottish director Peter Capaldi
Paul Gambaccini , American-British radio presenter of Italian origin
Portrait of Philip Gell by Sir Joshua Reynolds
Anselm of Canterbury , important Christian thinker of 11th-century Europe
Moses Montefiore , one of the 19th century's most famous Jews
Engineer Sebastian Pietro Innocenzo Adhemar Ziani de Ferranti
Engineer Guglielmo Marconi
Racehorse jockey Frankie Dettori
Rugby union player Lawrence Dallaglio