John Bosco (Italian: Giovanni Melchiorre Bosco; 16 August 1815 – 31 January 1888), known as Don Bosco, was an Italian Roman Catholic priest, educator and writer of the 19th century, who put into practice the convictions of his religion, dedicating his life to the betterment and education of street children, juvenile delinquents, and other disadvantaged youth and employing teaching methods based on love rather than punishment, a method known as the Salesian Preventive System. A follower of the spirituality and philosophy of Francis de Sales, Bosco dedicated his works to him when he founded the Salesians of Don Bosco. Together with Maria Domenica Mazzarello, he founded the Institute of the Daughters of Mary Help of Christians, a religious congregation of nuns dedicated to the care and education of poor girls. In 1876 Bosco founded a movement of laity, the Association of Salesian Cooperators, with the same educational mission to the poor. In 1875 he published the Salesian Bulletin. The Bulletin has remained in continuous publication, and is currently published in 50 different editions and 30 languages.

Flavio Insinna (born July 3, 1965) is an Italian actor and television presenter. From 2006 - 2008 he presented Affari Tuoi, the Italian version of Deal or No Deal.

Flavio was born in Rome. In 1986, after unsuccessfully applying to become a Carabiniere, he signed up to Alessandro Fersen's acting school, and in 1990 graduated from Gigi Proietti's prestigious Laboratorio di esercitazioni sceniche in Rome.

Among his most popular roles is that of Capitano Anceschi in Rai Uno television's Don Matteo, in which he starred alongside Terence Hill and Nino Frassica.

Flavio has a lively and unusual personality, expressive of kindness and intelligence but also modesty. He describes himself as a "craftsman" of his trade. Versatile and sensitive, he displays a strong ironic sense of humour, whilst being profoundly religious.

Most recently, he starred in "Ho Sposato Uno Sbirro." He had his first unsuccessful TV sitcom, Rai Uno's Cotti e mangiati ("Cooked and Eaten"), and presented Affari Tuoi (the Italian Deal or No Deal) from 2006 until June 6, 2008, where his unique humour and profound thoughts proved popular with viewers and contestants alike. Flavio suffered the loss of his father who died at the age of 85. He has written his autobiography.

Biagio Anthony Gazzarra (August 28, 1930 – February 3, 2012), known as Ben Gazzara, was an American film, stage, and Emmy Award winning television actor and director.

Gazzara was born in New York City, the son of Italian immigrants Angelina (née Cusumano) and Antonio Gazzarra, who was a laborer and carpenter. Gazzara grew up in New York's Kips Bay neighborhood; he lived on East 29th Street and participated in the drama program at Madison Square Boys and Girls Club located across the street. He attended New York City's Stuyvesant High School; but finally graduated from Saint Simon Stock in the Bronx. Years later, he said that the discovery of his love for acting saved him from a life of crime during his teen years. He went to City College of New York to study electrical engineering. After two years, he relented. He took classes in acting at the Dramatic Workshop of The New School in New York with the influential German director Erwin Piscator and afterward joined the Actors Studio.

In 1954, Gazzara (having tweaked his original surname from "Gazzarra") made several appearances on NBC's legal drama Justice, based on case studies from the Legal Aid Society of New York. Gazzara starred in various Broadway productions around this time, including creating the role of Brick in Tennessee Williams' Cat On A Hot Tin Roof (1955) opposite Barbara BelGeddes, directed by Elia Kazan, although he lost out to Paul Newman when the film version was cast. He joined other Actors Studio members in the 1957 film The Strange One. Then came a high-profile performance as a soldier on trial for avenging his wife's rape in Otto Preminger's courtroom drama Anatomy of a Murder (1959).