List of Italian religious minority politicians

This is a list of Italian politicians belonging to a religious minority, different from the dominant Roman Catholicism.

To ensure notability, only leading politicians (ministers, deputies, senators, MEPs, regional councillors, mayors of big cities, etc.) are included in the list. Active politicians and their current parties are in bold. The parties of which these people have been members are listed in chronological order.

Christians

Protestants

Waldensians and Methodists

Dante Argentieri^[1]^[2] (PSI)
Marco Bellion^[3]^[4] (PSI, FL, DS, PD)
Giuseppe Bogoni^[1]^[2] (PSI)
Lino De Benetti^[5] (Green, DS, PD)
Gianni De Michelis^[6] (PSI, PS, NPSI, PS)
Paolo Ferrero^[5]^[7] (DP, PRC)
Giorgio Gardiol^[5] (Green)
Matteo Gay^[1]^[2] (PSI)
Riccardo Illy^[5] (Indep)
Luigi Lacquaniti^[8] (DC, PPI, DL, DS, SD, SEL, LeD, PD)
Frida Malan^[9] (PSI)
Giuseppe Malan^[1] (Right)
Lucio Malan^[2]^[5]^[7]^[10] (LN, FI, PdL, FI)
Domenico Maselli^[2]^[5]^[11] (PSI, CS, DS, PD)
Bonaventura Mazzarella^[1]^[2] (Left)
Giovanni Morelli^[1]^[2] (Left)
Rosario Olivo^[5] (PSI, FL, DS, PD)
Giorgio Peyrot^[12] (PSI)
Giulio Peyrot^[1]^[2] (PSI)
Enrico Soulier^[1]^[2] (Lib)
Giorgio Spini^[13] (Pd'A, PSI)
Valdo Spini^[5]^[13] (PSI, FL, DS, SD, PS)
Tullio Vinay^[1]^[2]^[10] (PCI)

Pentecostals and Evangelicals

Mercedes Lourdes Frias^[7] (PRC, SEL)
Antonino Moscato^[14] (PACE)
Sandro Oliveri^[15] (PACE, MpA)
Gilberto Perri^[14]^[16] (PACE)

Anglicans

Giorgio Sonnino^[1] (Right)
Sidney Sonnino^[1] (Lib-Con)

Eastern Catholics

Italo-Albanian Catholics

Nicola Barbato^[17] (FS, PSI)
Giuseppe Salvatore Bellusci (PRI)
Mario Brunetti^[18] (PSI, PSIUP, PdUP, DP, PCI, PRC)
Francesco Crispi^[19]^[20] (Left)
Francesco Di Martino^[21]^[22] (PSI, SI, SDI)
Cesare Marini (PSI, SI, SDI, PD)
Giovanni Mosciaro^[23] (Left)
Rosolino Petrotta^[17]^[24] (DC)
Stefano Rodotà^[25] (PCI, PDS, DS, PD)
Donato Scutari^[26] (PCI)

Eastern Orthdox

Romanian Orthodox

Nona Evghenie^[27] (DS, PD)

Oriental Orthdox

Coptic Orthodox

Girgis Sorial^[28] (M5S)

Non-denominational

Magdi Allam^[29] (IAI, FdI)

Jews

Ernesto Artom^[30] (Right)
Isacco Artom^[2]^[31] (Right)
Angelica Balabanoff (PSI, PSDI)
Luca Barbareschi^[32] (PSI, AN, PdL, FLI, Indep)
Salvatore Barzilai^[31] (PRI)
Furio Colombo^[33] (PDS, DS, PD)
Franco Debenedetti^[34] (DS)
Susy De Martini^[35] (LD, PdL, LD, FI)
Federico Enriques (DS, PD)
Emanuele Fiano^[36] (PDS, DS, PD)
Aldo Finzi^[37] (PNF)
Giuseppe Finzi^[2] (Left)
Pio Foà^[38] (Right)
Vittorio Foa^[39] (Pd'A, PSI, PSIUP, PdUP, DP, PCI, PDS, DS, PD)
Yoram Gutgeld^[40] (PD)
Anna Kuliscioff (PSI, PSU)
Giancarlo Lehner (PSI, PdL)
Isaia Levi^[41] (PNF)
Giacomo Levi-Civita^[42] (Right)
Ricardo Franco Levi^[43] (PD)
Rita Levi-Montalcini^[44] (Indep)
Alessandro Litta Modigliani^[45] (Rad)
Luigi Luzzatti^[2] (Lib)
Miriam Mafai^[46] (PCI, PDS)
Tullo Massarani^[31] (Left)
Isacco Pesaro Maurogonato^[2] (Right)
Giorgio Myallonnier^[45] (PR, Rad)
Ernesto Nathan^[37] (Rad)
Enrico Modigliani^[47] (PRI)
Claudio Morpurgo^[48] (PdL)
Fiamma Nirenstein^[49] (PCI, PRI, PSI, PdL)
Giuseppe Ottolenghi^[31]^[50] (Right)
Salvatore Ottolenghi^[51] (Right)
Yasha Reibman^[52] (Rad)
Alfredo Reichlin (PCI, PDS, DS, PD)
Alessandro Ruben^[53] (PdL, FLI)
Lorenzo Strik Lievers^[45] (PR, Rad)
Riccardo Sarfatti (PD)
Marco Taradash^[54] (PR, FI, Patto, Rad, RL-FI, PdL)
Umberto Terracini^[55] (PSI, PCI)
Claudio Treves (PSI, PSU, PSI)
Bruno Zevi^[56] (Pd'A, PR)

Muslims

Khaled Fouad Allam^[57] (Green, DL, PD)
Khalid Chaouki^[58] (DS, PD)
Alì Rashid^[57] (PRC)
Souad Sbai^[49] (PdL, FLI, PdL, LN)
Mahmoud Srour^[59] (PPI, UDEUR, PD)
Dacia Valent^[60] (PCI, PRC, AN, IdV)

Buddhists

Renato Accorinti^[61]^[62] (PR, Indep)
Carla Gravina^[63] (PCI)

Notes

Some of the politicians included in the list are lapsed, nominal or former believers, but all have retained their religio-ethnic background.

"Right" refers to a politician from the Historical Right (referred also as Liberal Conservatives) of Camillo Benso di Cavour and Bettino Ricasoli, "Left" to one from the Historical Left (a.k.a. Democrats) of Agostino Depretis and Francesco Crispi, "Lib" to the Liberals led by Giovanni Giolitti and Giuseppe Zanardelli, and "Lib-Con" to the Liberal Conservatives whose leader was Sidney Sonnino. "Indep" indicates a politician unaffiliated to any party and acting as an Independent.

Waldensians and Methodists are listed together because in Italy they are united in the Union of Methodist and Waldensian Churches.