| 100% | PAISIELLO | 9 | Giovanni —, Italian composer whose operas include The Barber of Seville and Proserpine |
| 53% | BOTTESINI | 9 | Giovanni —, Italian composer whose operas include Ero e Leandro and Marion Delorme |
| 50% | ROSSINI | 7 | Italian opera composer of the Barber of Seville |
| 47% | TIEPOLO | 7 | Giovanni Battista —, Italian painter whose works include The Chariot of Aurora and The Banquet of Cleopatra |
| 46% | ZEMLINSKY | 9 | Alexander —, Austrian composer whose operas included The Dwarf and A Florentine Tragedy |
| 45% | ROSSINI | 7 | Gioachino —, composer of operas Otello and The Barber of Seville |
| 43% | GIUSEPPEVERDI | 13 | Italian composer of the operas "Aida" and "Rigoletto": 2 wds. |
| 43% | ROSSINI | 7 | Composer of the opera The Barber of Seville |
| 42% | SALIERI | 7 | Antonio —, Italian composer of the operas Falstaff and Tarare |
| 42% | BELLINI | 7 | Vincenzo —, Italian composer of operas Zaira, The Pirate and Norma |
| 42% | DONIZETTI | 9 | Gaetano —, Italian composer of the operas Belisario and Don Pasquale |
| 41% | GIACOMO | 7 | With 38-Across, Italian composer of the operas "Tosca" and "La Bohème" |
| 41% | PORPORA | 7 | Nicola —, Italian composer of the operas Germanico in Germania and Semiramide riconosciuta |
| 40% | BOTTICELLI | 10 | Sandro —, Italian painter whose works include The Birth of Venus and Venus and Mars |
| 39% | SACCHI | 6 | Andrea —, Italian painter whose works include The Three Marys and Vision of St Romuald |
| 38% | PERGOLESI | 9 | Giovanni Battista —, Italian composer of 1733 opera The Proud Prisoner |
| 37% | ERIKSATIE | 9 | Composer whose Parade includes the use of a typewriter as a percussion instrument |
| 36% | ROSSINI | 7 | "The Barber of Seville" composer |
| 36% | ROSSINI | 7 | “The Barber of Seville” composer |
| 36% | PISANELLO | 9 | Italian Renaissance painter whose works include The Vision of St Eustace and The Virgin and Child with Saints George and Anthony Abbot |
| 36% | LOTTO | 5 | Lorenzo —, Italian artist whose works include Portrait of Giovanni della Volta with his Wife and Children |
| 36% | SALIERI | 7 | Antonio —, Italian composer of operas Falstaff and Tarare |
| 35% | SPONTINI | 8 | Gaspare —, Italian composer of operas Olimpie and La Vestale |
| 35% | RESPIGHI | 8 | Ottorino —, Italian composer of operas Maria Egiziaca and Semirama |
| 35% | GIORDANO | 8 | Umberto —, Italian composer of operas Andrea Chenier and Fedora |
| 35% | BUSONI | 6 | Ferruccio —, Italian composer of operas Die Brautwahl and Arlecchino |
| 35% | CIMAROSA | 8 | Domenico —, Italian composer of 1792 opera The Secret Marriage |
| 35% | VERDI | 5 | Composer of the operas "Aida" and "Otello" |
| 35% | WAGNER | 6 | Composer of the opera Tristan and Isolde |
| 35% | RIGATTI | 7 | Giovanni Antonio —, 17th-century Italian composer whose works include a mass dedicated to the Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand III |