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.
John Florio (1553–1625), known in Italian as Giovanni Florio; linguist and lexicographer of Anglo-Italian origin; referred to himself as 'an Englishman in Italiano'; royal language tutor at the Court of James I; a friend with huge influence on William Shakespeare[citation needed]