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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.

Through the Centuries

One face per century — the most globally famous figure born in Bologna during each.

What Bologna Is Known For

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Painter is Bologna's biggest profession — 14% of all notables (277).

Bologna over-indexes on painter5.5× the global rate.

Bologna under-produces football — only 0.5× the global rate.

  1. Painter277
  2. Politician133
  3. Actor120
  4. Football98
  5. Composer94
  6. Writer90
  7. Singer73
  8. Priest51
  1. Painter2775.5×
  2. Composer943.7×
  3. Sculptor292.3×
  4. Physician282.1×
  5. Basket461.9×
  6. Architect321.9×
  7. Singer731.8×
  8. Priest511.8×
  1. Football980.5×
  2. Politician1330.6×

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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Showing 67 of 1,915 notable people

0016 ACTOR

Gino Cervi

1901 - 1974

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0078 FOOTBALL

Angelo Schiavio

1905 - 1990

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0149 ACTOR

Isa Pola

1909 - 1984

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0154 WRITER

Renata Viganò

1900 - 1976

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0229 LINGUIST

Carlo Tagliavini

1903 - 1982

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0276 ACTOR

Cesare Fantoni

1905 - 1963

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0294 ENGINEER

Secondo Campini

1904 - 1980

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0298 ACTOR

Franca Dominici

1907 - 1999

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0374 FOOTBALL

Pietro Genovesi

1902 - 1980

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0384 FILM

Gian Paolo Callegari

1909 - 1982

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0397 MILITAR

Anna Maria Enriques Agnoletti

1907 - 1944

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0417 POLITICIAN

Giuseppe Dozza

1901 - 1974

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0442 SCULPTOR

Farpi Vignoli

1907 - 1997

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0506 FOOTBALL

Gastone Baldi

1901 - 1971

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0569 FOOTBALL

Felice Gasperi

1903 - 1982

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0705 PAINTER

Norma Mascellani

1909 - 2009

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0799 POLITICIAN

Nino Nanetti

1906 - 1937

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0810 HISTORIAN

Giorgio Candeloro

1909 - 1988

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0818 PAINTER

Bruno Saetti

1902 - 1984

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0831 PAINTER

Sergio Burzi

1901 - 1954

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0842 COMPOSER

Adone Zecchi

1904 - 1995

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0885 PUBLISHER

Giovanni Enriques

1905 - 1990

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0936 ACADEMIC

Tito Carnacini

1909 - 1983

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0969 WRITER

Ugo Dettore

1905 - 1992

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0975 ENGINEER

Medardo Fantuzzi

1906 - 1986

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0983 PAINTER

Paolo Manaresi

1908 - 1991

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0997 POLITICIAN

Enzo Enriques Agnoletti

1909 - 1986

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1026 DRIVER

Mario Tadini

1905 - 1983

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1033 LINGUIST

Alberto Menarini

1904 - 1984

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1062 JOURNALIST

Alberto Tedeschi

1908 - 1979

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1064 WRITER

Massimo Dursi

1902 - 1982

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1065 ACTOR

Renata Marini

1904 - 1972

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1067 DRIVER

Enrico Nardi

1907 - 1966

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1091 OFFICER

Pietro Verri (carabiniere)

1908 - 1988

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1123 FOOTBALL

Alberto Pozzi

1902 - 1966

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1142 POLITICIAN

Nino Pasti

1909 - 1992

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1195 TEACHER

Antonio Servadei

1908 - 1979

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1205 COMPOSER

Riccardo Nielsen

1908 - 1982

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1244 POLITICIAN

Angelo Salizzoni

1907 - 1992

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1288 FOOTBALL

Raffaele Scorzoni

1902 - 1975

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1299 FOOTBALL

Bruno Maini

1908 - 1992

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1328 ACTOR

Guido Morisi

1903 - 1951

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1368 POLITICIAN

Luigi Orlandi

1909 - 2002

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1417 POLITICIAN

Fausto Atti

1900 - 1945

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1471 MILITAR

Vittorio Moccagatta

1903 - 1941

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1513 RACER

Guglielmo Sandri

1906 - 1961

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1588 MILITAR

Giorgio Giobbe

1906 - 1941

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1599 SCULPTOR

Alcides Gubellini

1900 - 1957

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1607 FOOTBALL

Renzo Magli

1908 - 1981

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1636 ACTOR

Eraldo Giunchi

1906 - 1956

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1640 FOOTBALL

Giuseppe Muzzioli

1904 - 1941

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1645 SINGER

Quinto Ferrari

1907 - 1995

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1671 LINGUIST

Lorenza Maranini

1909 - 1998

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1681 JOURNALIST

Giorgio Vecchietti

1907 - 1975

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1683 SPORT

Luigi Adami

Born 1900

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1685 FASCISTA

Ferruccio Magnani

1909 - 1944

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1768 FOOTBALL

Angelo Pilati

1909 - 1930

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1769 MILITAR

Luigi Zamboni (militare)

1909 - 1943

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1781 SCULPTOR

Giuseppe Mazzoli

1907 - 1970

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1808 FOOTBALL

Ercole Minelli

Born 1906

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1823 FOOTBALL

Alessandro Calanchi

Born 1908

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1830 FOOTBALL

Vittorio Pasti

Born 1908

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1842 PHOTOGRAPHER

Aurelio Bonori

1908 - 1997

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1846 FOOTBALL

Luigi Modoni

Born 1900

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1858 SWORDSMAN

Umberto De Martino

Born 1906

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1877 FOOTBALL

Piero Pilati

Born 1903

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1908 POLITICIAN

Umberto Amaduzzi

1900 - 1944

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