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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.