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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Mondino de Luzzi
1275 - 1326
Alessandro Achillini
1463 - 1512
Julius Caesar Aranzi
1530 - 1589
Leonardo Fioravanti (doctor)
1517 - 1588
Cesare Mattei
1809 - 1896
Bartolomeo Ambrosini
1588 - 1657
Giovanni Garzoni
1419 - 1505
Amico Bignami
1862 - 1929
Antonio Alessandrini
1786 - 1861
Alessandro Codivilla
1861 - 1912
Dorotea Bucca
1360 - 1436
Melchiorre Zoppio
1544 - 1634
Vittorio Putti
1880 - 1940
Bartolomeo da Varignana
Died 1321
Giovanni Battista Ercolani
1817 - 1883
Carlo Mondini
1729 - 1803
Angelo Bona
Born 1955
Andrea Lenzi
Born 1953
Giovan Battista Fabbri (medico)
1806 - 1874
Giovanni Battista Cortesi
1553 - 1634
Michał Bergonzoni
1748 - 1819
Francesco Mondini
1786 - 1844
Bartolomeo Maggi
1477 - 1552
Giovanni Girolamo Sbaraglia
1641 - 1710
Arturo Beretta
1876 - 1941
Alessandro Corticelli
1802 - 1873
Carlo Fracassati
1630 - 1672
Enrico Greppi
1896 - 1960