44.4939° N, 11.3428° E
BOLOGNA
Most Famous People Born in Bologna, Italy
- Notable people
- 1,915
- Peak decade
- 1960s
- Median birth year
- 1902
- Most distinctive
- Painter 5.5×
Home to the oldest continuously operating university in Europe, and the bench still reads like a Studium. Bologna's distinctive professions are painters, composers, sculptors, physicians, and architects — the trades of a medieval university town that trained Europe's doctors and later built one of the great schools of baroque painting around the Carracci. Pasolini was born here, Marconi grew up in a villa nearby, and Luigi Galvani dissected frogs at the anatomy theatre that is still standing.
One face per century — the most globally famous figure born in Bologna during each.
Notable Births by Decade
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What Bologna Is Known For
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Painter is Bologna's biggest profession — 14% of all notables (277).
Bologna over-indexes on painter — 5.5× the global rate.
Bologna under-produces football — only 0.5× the global rate.
Profession Mix Over Time
Each band shows a profession family's share of Bologna's notable births by decade. Hover the chart for the breakdown at any decade.
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- Filtered to 1660s Clear ×
Giuseppe Crespi
1665 - 1747
Tomaso Antonio Vitali
1663 - 1745
Giacomo Antonio Perti
1661 - 1756
Attilio Ariosti
1666 - 1729
Pirro Albergati
1663 - 1735
Pompeo Aldrovandi
1668 - 1752
Vincenzo Ludovico Gotti
1664 - 1742
Giuseppe Maria Jacchini
1667 - 1727
Pier Jacopo Martello
1665 - 1727
Domenico Maria Muratori
1662 - 1744
Pellegrino Antonio Orlandi
1660 - 1727
Floriano Maria Arresti
1667 - 1717
Domenico Maria Viani
1668 - 1711
Margarita Salicola
1660 - 1717
Bartolomeo Bernardi
1660 - 1732
Gianantonio Davia
1660 - 1740
Felice Cignani
1660 - 1724
Giacomo Bolognini
1664 - 1734
Giacinto Garofalini
1661 - 1723
Pietro Ercole Fava
1669 - 1744
Giorgio Maria Rapparini
1660 - 1726
Giacomo Maria Giovannini
1667 - 1717
Angiola Teresa Moratori Scanabecchi
1662 - 1708
Carlo Antonio Buffagnotti
1660 - 1717
Filippo Hercolani, I principe Hercolani
1663 - 1722
Angela Teresa Muratori
1661 - 1709
Filippo Aldrovandi
1660 - 1748