ghe most famous Italians in the world? In a social era like today, it’s difficult not to immediately think about Clare Ferragni (which actually is on the list, but comes second). Then they come to mind the 142 million reached this summer by Khaby Lame, an Italian tik toker of Senegalese originand here’s who is above her, even in first place.
To draw up the ranking is The famous Italian teas in the worldsite of analysts that crosses all the data available on the net (local and global search volume, data on social Twitter, Instagram, TikTok and YouTube followers). The result is precisely an index, which assigns a score to a shortlist of characters (about a hundred have been examined). A sort of “fame stock exchange rate”. Here are the results of the top ten of this ranking.
The most famous Italians of 2022: the top 10
1 place: Khaby Lame
22 years old, born in Senegal but raised in Chivasso, deep north above Turin, Khaby became the king of Tik tok when everything went wrong. In March 2020 the pandemic broke out and he lost his job as a worker in a factory in the Turin area. locked up at home, started making comedy videos, of “life hacks” (simple methods to solve complicated everyday things).
Without ever speaking, in his videos usually his moving hands appear in the foreground and with a few moves they solve small domestic puzzles (like pulling scissors off the handle of a coffee cup, we don’t know how those scissors got there, but it doesn’t matter). Over time he passed on to something else, like throwing a mattress in the pool to relax while soaking. Simple things, indeed. Even trivial. But they made the web go crazy. He is the most famous Italian in the world with a score of 81,728,680.
In the meantime he has become a testimonial for Hugo Boss and an Italian citizen: «I’m happy but I don’t need a piece of paper to feel Italian». At the Qatar 2022 World Cup he was the official ambassador of FIFA. One of his videos always gets over 60 million views (sometimes even 200 million).
2nd place: Chiara Ferragni
Under Khaby with 36,419,500 points. (A nice break). Ferragnicreator of an empire that goes from fashion to food, knows the language of social media very well. The Blond Salad (his first blog from which it all started) has been studied at Harvard University as a case history of success. Today she enjoys fame and life as a mother of two children with her husband Fedez (also in the top ten).
Clare Ferragni. (Getty Images)
3rd place: Gianluca Vacchi
Vacchi, a 55-year-old entrepreneur from Bologna, by dint of flaunting his wealth, has become a trendy phenomenon. His comfortable life, his yachts, his very young girlfriends and beautiful and the ballets that improvises, all always readily witnessed on social medialed him to conquer the nickname of “king of Instagram”.
He has 22.8 million followers on this social network. He has been permanently linked to for a couple of years Sharon Fonseca (his companion of course also social). And in this ranking she is in third place with a score of 22,949,600.
Gianluca Vacchi. (Getty Images)
4th place: Valentino Rossi
In the ranking of the most famous Italians in the world there is also the Moto GP champion Valentino Rossi, which reaches a score of 21,350,000. Very good on two wheels, he succeeded to conquer the fans also with his sympathy and with his frank and direct way of speaking. permanently linked to Francesca Sofia Novello, he enjoys life as a new father of Juliet.
Valentino Rossi. (Getty Images)
5th place: Fedez
At first he seemed only “Chiara Ferragni’s husband”, but Fedez is much more. Hugely popular singer, TV personality (X Factor, LOL – Whoever laughs is out), philanthropist with a thousand initiatives in favor of hospitals (San Raffaele during the pandemic), rights of the Lgbtq+ community, precarious show business workers, with a tough guy with a soft heartconquered everyone by telling the odyssey lived to remove a tumor.
It is in fifth place with a score of 18,228,800.
6th place: Mario Balotelli
Football champion with a restless and difficult to manage character (Treccani has even coined “balotellate”, a neologism to define her “unorthodox” releases), Mario Balotelli he is very popular on social media (10.7 million followers on Instagram).
Time ago the push and pull between him and his ex Raffaella Fico made a lot of noise, with whom he had a daughter that he didn’t want to acknowledge at first. Italian of Ghanaian origin, now he seems to have chosen a lower profile, perhaps also due to his distance (he plays in a Turkish club). In the ranking of the most famous Italians in the world he is 6th with a score of 14,354,800.
Mario Balotelli. (Getty Images)
7th place: Gigi Buffon
In this ranking there is plenty of space for football talents. With a score of 13,641,400 he placed seventh Gigi Buffon, Juventus flag for a long time. Stubbornly determined not to give up camp, at 44, he agreed to play, again as a goalkeeper, in Serie B for Parma. Married to the journalist Ilaria D’Amico, has three children (two with ex Alena Seredova). And on Instagram she boasts about 10 million followers.
Gigi Buffon. (Getty Images)
8th place: Carlo Ancelotti
Score of 12,282,700, Carlo Ancelotti is today the coach of Real Madrid. Highly esteemed and professional, considered “the Lord of football”, it is also highly appreciated internationally. And on Instagram it reaches 9.4 million followers.
Charles Ancelotti. (Getty Images)
9th place: Donatella Versace
Could not miss a representative of fashion. Donatellaamong the richest people in Italy (has an estimated assets of over 400 million euros), also scores well on social media (9.5 million followers on Instagram).
Friend of the stars she dresses, is part of Italian pride. In the ranking of the most famous Italians in the world, she is in 9th place with 9,784,700.
Donatella Versace. (Getty Images)
10th place: Laura Pausini
The top ten closes with one of the most popular Italian singers abroad. Powerful voice, natural charm, linked to Paola Carta for over 15 years, she is the mother of Paola. And it reaches 4 million follewers on Instagram. 10th place with 8,367,300.
Laura Pausini. (Getty Images)
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