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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 101 of 1,915 notable people

0022 FILM

Pupi Avati

Born 1938

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0061 PAINTER

Valerio Adami

Born 1935

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0090 ACADEMIC

Teresa de Lauretis

Born 1938

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0094 ACTOR

Piera Degli Esposti

Born 1939

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0107 ARTIST

Roberto Raviola

1939 - 1996

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0114 ACTOR

Claudio Cassinelli

1938 - 1985

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0184 CONDUCTOR

Mariele Ventre

1939 - 1995

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0245 PHILOSOPHER

Carlo Sini

Born 1933

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0257 DRIVER

Cesare Perdisa

1932 - 1998

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0287 ACTOR

Valentino Macchi

1937 - 2013

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0289 WRITER

Fausta Garavini

Born 1938

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0296 ACTOR

Anna Maria Gherardi

1939 - 2014

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0306 ACTOR

Maria Antonietta Beluzzi

1930 - 1997

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0311 ACTOR

Enzo Robutti

Born 1933

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0333 ARCHBISHOP

Alessandro Plotti

1932 - 2015

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0347 ENGINEER

Paolo Stanzani

1936 - 2017

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0421 PHYSICIST

Franco Selleri

1936 - 2013

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0439 PHYSICIST

Giorgio Bellettini

Born 1934

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0441 DIPLOMAT

Sergio Balanzino

1934 - 2018

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0445 ECONOMIST

Fernando Vianello

1939 - 2009

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0473 ACTOR

Liana Trouche

1938 - 1981

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0485 SINGER

Gloria Christian

Born 1934

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0486 LINGUIST

Gualtiero Calboli

Born 1932

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0487 FILM

Carlo Di Carlo

1938 - 2016

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0501 ACTOR

Giovanna Pala

Born 1932

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0514 POLO

Dante Rossi

1936 - 2013

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0579 SINGER

Rita Orlandi-Malaspina

1937 - 2017

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0608 SINGER

Germana Caroli

Born 1931

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0632 PRIEST

Elio Tinti

Born 1936

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0639 ART CRITIC

Renato Barilli

Born 1935

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0644 POLITICIAN

Piero Gnudi

Born 1938

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0675 SINGER

Gianni Marzocchi

1934 - 1990

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0676 PRESENTER

Aba Cercato

Born 1939

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0691 EDUCATION

Franco Frabboni

Born 1935

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0747 WRITER

Antonio Faeti

Born 1939

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0775 SINGER

Dino Sarti

1936 - 2007

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0780 ENTREPRENEUR

Claudio Cavazza

1934 - 2011

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0886 ACTOR

Vittorio Franceschi

Born 1936

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0919 ARCHITECT

Pier Luigi Cervellati

Born 1936

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0943 ONCOLOGIST

Franco Pannuti

1932 - 2018

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0961 OPERA

Franco Bordoni

1932 - 2020

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0966 CONDUCTOR

Giorgio Vacchi

1932 - 2008

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0974 PROFESSOR

Maria Gioia Tavoni

Born 1939

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0976 SOCIOLOGIST

Giuliano Piazzi

1934 - 2014

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0977 TEACHER

Umberto Romagnoli

Born 1935

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0987 POLITICIAN

Giancarla Codrignani

Born 1930

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0995 SINDACALISTA

Claudio Sabattini

1938 - 2003

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0999 WRITER

Paolo Valesio

Born 1939

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1000 WRITER

Gianni Flamini

Born 1934

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1012 MAGISTRAT

Francesco Mario Agnoli

Born 1934

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1041 POLITICIAN

Valerio Baldini

1939 - 2012

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1045 SCULPTOR

Paolo Conti (basket-ball, 1938)

Born 1938

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1075 LINGUIST

Luigi Rosiello

1930 - 1993

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1081 MATHEMATICIAN

Lamberto Cattabriga

1930 - 1989

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1100 PAINTER

Vittorio Mascalchi

1935 - 2010

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1108 PAINTER

Umberto Bignardi

Born 1935

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1150 PLAYWRIGHT

Luigi Gozzi

1935 - 2008

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1192 POLITICIAN

Giampaolo Bettamio

Born 1939

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1219 BOTANIST

Milena Rizzotto

Born 1936

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1307 POLITICIAN

Mauro Olivi

Born 1937

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1318 MUSIC

Oscar Mischiati

1936 - 2004

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1365 POLITICIAN

Romano Forleo

Born 1933

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1376 SPORT

Umberto Calzolari

1938 - 2018

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1385 BASKET

Germano Gambini

1931 - 2010

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1395 WRITER

Gianfranco Civolani

1935 - 2019

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1418 POLITICIAN

Emilio Rubbi

1930 - 2005

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1419 PAINTER

Paolo Pasotto

1930 - 2015

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1427 WRITER

Luciano Nanni (critico)

Born 1937

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1428 BASKET

Gianni Corsolini

Born 1933

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1463 POLITICIAN

Paolo Babbini

1935 - 2019

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1484 ATHLETIC

Vera Martelli

1930 - 2017

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1511 HISTORIAN

Eugenia Casini-Ropa

Born 1939

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1516 COMPUTER SCIENTIST

Ferrante Pierantoni

1933 - 2012

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1524 FOOTBALL

Giuseppe Malavasi

1938 - 2019

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1533 SINGER

Maria Doris

Born 1933

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1552 GEOLOGIST

Giulio Pisa

1936 - 1976

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1555 ENTREPRENEUR

Alberto Masotti

Born 1936

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1562 POLITICIAN

Mario Artali

Born 1938

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1565 JOURNALIST

Adalberto Bortolotti

Born 1936

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1572 ECONOMIST

Guido Maria Rey

Born 1936

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1578 SPRINT

Vittoria Cesarini

Born 1932

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1581 TEACHER

Guglielmo Forni Rosa

Born 1938

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1582 SCULPTOR

Roberto Tirelli

Born 1938

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1624 BASSIST

Maurizio Majorana

Born 1938

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1665 TRANSLATOR

Luigi Schenoni

1935 - 2008

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1686 ENTREPRENEUR

Erio Testi

1933 - 2008

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1695 FILM

Mauro Mingardi

1939 - 2009

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1709 FOOTBALL

Antonio Zani

1930 - 2017

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1716 ATHLETIC

Paolo Zamboni (athlete)

1939 - 1969

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1731 MISSING

Carlo Chimenti

1930 - 2017

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1752 POLITICIAN

Giancarlo Pasquini (politico)

Born 1937

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1763 SPRINT

Guido De Murtas

Born 1936

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1764 SPORT

Giorgio Pennacchietti

Born 1931

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1771 FILM

Giancarlo Romani Adami

Born 1933

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1775 ACTOR

Luca Ernesto Mellina

Born 1932

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1779 ARCHAEOLOGIST

Laura Laurencich Minelli

1932 - 2018

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1797 FOOTBALL

Alberto Astraceli

1930 - 2002

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1799 PAINTER

Angelo Tassi

Born 1937

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1815 FOOTBALL

Mario Grandi

Born 1930

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1833 JOURNALIST

Oriano Tassinari Clò

1936 - 1995

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1876 JOURNALIST

Gianni Zanasi (rugbista)

1931 - 2014

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