45.5389° N, 10.2203° E
BRESCIA
Most Famous People Born in Brescia, Italy
- Notable people
- 810
- Peak decade
- 1960s
- Median birth year
- 1921
- Most distinctive
- Driver 3.6×
Lombard workshop energy: the Painter and Sculptor benches carry the Romanino-Moretto Cinquecento tradition, the Composer cluster hums along in Benedetto Marcello country, and the Driver tally is pure Mille Miglia — the race started and finished here for half the twentieth century.
One face per century — the most globally famous figure born in Brescia during each.
Notable Births by Decade
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What Brescia Is Known For
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Football is Brescia's biggest profession — 17% of all notables (141).
Brescia over-indexes on driver — 3.6× the global rate.
Brescia under-produces actor — only 0.3× the global rate.
Profession Mix Over Time
Each band shows a profession family's share of Brescia's notable births by decade. Hover the chart for the breakdown at any decade.
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- Art & Design
- Music
- Writing
- Religion
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Andrea Pirlo
Born 1979
Niccolò Fontana Tartaglia
1499 - 1557
Giacomo Agostini
Born 1942
Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli
1920 - 1995
Daniele Bonera
Born 1981
Sigismondo Pandolfo Malatesta
1417 - 1468
Arnold of Brescia
1100 - 1155
Giuseppe Zanardelli
1826 - 1903
Erika Blanc
Born 1942
Benedetto Castelli
1578 - 1643
Antonio Bazzini
1818 - 1897
Romanino
1485 - 1566
Lorenzo Mattotti
Born 1954
Michele Canini
Born 1985
Giovanni Battista Re
Born 1934
Emanuele Severino
1929 - 2020
Mario Cecchi Gori
1920 - 1993
Rothari
606 - 652
Girolamo Savoldo
1480 - 1548
Desiderius
Died 786
Francesco Filippini
1853 - 1895
Guido Carli
1914 - 1993
Francesco Lana de Terzi
1631 - 1687
Laura Cereta
1469 - 1499
Biagio Marini
1594 - 1663
Davide Calabria
Born 1996
Aimo Diana
Born 1978
Silvano Agosti
Born 1938
Alberto Grassi
Born 1995
Sergio Scariolo
Born 1961
Bonifacio Bembo
1420 - 1480
Arturo Lupoli
Born 1987
Marco Cassetti
Born 1977
Helvius Cinna
-85 - -44
Andrea Cassarà
Born 1984
L'Aura
Born 1984
Girolamo Muziano
1528 - 1592
Giulio Alenio
1582 - 1649
Federico Agliardi
Born 1983
Pietro Aradori
Born 1988
Francesco Vezzoli
Born 1971
Giovanni Paolo Maggini
1580 - 1632
Agenore Incrocci
1919 - 2005
Dario Marcolin
Born 1971
Paolo Castellini
Born 1979
Vincenzo Capirola
1474 - 1548
Giovanni Battista Fontana (composer)
1589 - 1630
Scipio Sighele
1868 - 1913
Gaudentius of Brescia
327 - 410
Roberto De Zerbi
Born 1979
Ottavio Bianchi
Born 1943
Carlo Francesco Pollarolo
1653 - 1723
Nicola Pavarini
Born 1974
Zoe Incrocci
1917 - 2003
Pietro Chiari
1712 - 1785
Gerolamo Rovetta
1851 - 1910
Antonio Filippini
Born 1973
Albertanus of Brescia
1190 - 1270
Giovanni Battista Piamarta
1841 - 1913
Nicola Ruffoni
Born 1990
Emanuele Filippini
Born 1973
Ezio Gamba
Born 1958
Camilla Filippi
Born 1979
Ivano Bonetti
Born 1964
Marco Solfrini
1958 - 2018
Davide Martinelli
Born 1993
Malatesta Novello
1418 - 1465
Dario Bonetti
Born 1961
Giovanni Tebaldini
1864 - 1952
Roberto Guana
Born 1981
Faustino Bocchi
1659 - 1742
Angelo Inganni
1807 - 1880
Fausto Bertoglio
Born 1949
Stephana de Quinzanis
1457 - 1530
Gianfrancesco Gambara
1533 - 1587
Giovan Battista Bellaso
Born 1505
Lodovico Pavoni
1784 - 1849
Arcangelo Tadini
1846 - 1912
Marco Velo
Born 1974
Vittorio Colao
Born 1961
Daniela Merighetti
Born 1981
Giovanni Andrea Archetti
1731 - 1805
Maria Crocifissa di Rosa
1813 - 1855
Carlo Lottieri
Born 1960
Giovanni Antonio da Brescia
1460 - 1523
Paganino Paganini
1450 - 1538
Enrico Zaina
Born 1967
Giorgio Lamberti
Born 1969
Teodoro Lechi
1778 - 1866
Guglielmo Achille Cavellini
1914 - 1990
Mario Rigamonti
1922 - 1949
Giovanni Battista Cimaroli
1687 - 1771
Rodolfo Vantini
1792 - 1856
Floriano Ferramola
1480 - 1528
Pietro Tamburini
1737 - 1827
Giammaria Mazzucchelli
1707 - 1765
Maria Maddalena Martinengo
1687 - 1737
Ezio Marano
1927 - 1991
Tito Speri
1825 - 1853
Mario Chiesa (cyclist)
Born 1966
Anna Danesi
Born 1996
Stefano Cassetti
Born 1974
Francesco Beschi
Born 1951
Iuri Filosi
Born 1992
Ansa, Queen of the Lombards
Died 774
Giovanni Antonio Galignani
1757 - 1821
Matteo Serafini
Born 1978
Pietro Chiarini
1717 - 1765
Pietro Anderloni
1784 - 1849
Asvero Gravelli
1904 - 1956
Sofia Lodi
Born 1998
Sabino Brunello
Born 1989
Renato Chiantoni
1906 - 1979
Paris Francesco Alghisi
1666 - 1733
Franco Battaini
Born 1972
Simone Dallamano
Born 1983
Silvio Scaroni
1893 - 1977
Giovanni De Gennaro (canoeist)
Born 1992
Uberto Gambara
1489 - 1549
Oscar Damiani
Born 1950
Riccardo Frizza
Born 1971
Lorenzo Zanetti
Born 1987
Luigi Cagni
Born 1950
Nicola Loda
Born 1971
Paolo Salvi
1891 - 1945
Benedetto Bembo
1423 - 1489
Costanzo Antegnati
1549 - 1624
Evaristo Beccalossi
Born 1956
Vincenzo Mario Palmieri
1899 - 1994
Marco Belotti
Born 1988
Giuseppe Zola
1675 - 1744
Francesco Paglia
1636 - 1714
Francesco Monti (il Brescianino)
1646 - 1712
Luigi Basiletti
1780 - 1859
Vittoria Ceretti
Born 1998
Claudio Sartori
1913 - 1994
Ernesta Bittanti Battisti
1871 - 1957
Omar Pedrini
Born 1967
Cesare Arici
1782 - 1836
Cesare Monti (painter)
1891 - 1959
Gianluigi Scalvini
Born 1971
Carlo Caglieris
Born 1951
Eugenio Miozzi
1889 - 1979
Paolo Bossini
Born 1985
Umberto Zanolini
1887 - 1973
Bartholomew of Brescia
1200 - 1258
Ugo Orlandi
Born 1958
Fiorenzo Maschera
1540 - 1584
Antonio Pollarolo
1676 - 1746
Aymo Maggi
1903 - 1961
Adriana Maliponte
Born 1938
Luca Margaroli
Born 1992
Ottavio Amigoni
1606 - 1661
Fabrizio Bontempi
Born 1966
Stefano Faustini
Born 1968
Stefano Minelli
Born 1994
Pietro Scalvini
1718 - 1792
Cesare Mazzolari
1937 - 2011
Roberto Cortellini
Born 1982
Giovanni Mangiante
1893 - 1967
Lorenzo Mangiante
1891 - 1936
Antonio Paglia
1680 - 1747
Alessandro Tonelli
Born 1992
Marco Ambrosio
Born 1973
Ramiro Rampinelli
1697 - 1759
Umberto Napolitano
Born 1947
Fabrizio Paghera
Born 1991
Benedetto Vinaccesi
1666 - 1719
Marcus Nonius Macrinus
Died 1
Giovanni Fausti
1899 - 1946
Davide Caparini
Born 1967
Filippo Zaniberti
1585 - 1636
Laurent Ottoz
Born 1970
Giovanni Bazoli
Born 1932
Penelope Riboldi
Born 1986
Angelo Everardi
1647 - 1680
Giovanni Bracesco
1481 - 1555
Attilio Calatroni
Born 1950
Luigi Contessi
1894 - 1967
Michelangelo Luchi
1744 - 1802
Paolo Caylina the Younger
1485 - 1545
Giovanni Ghizzolo
1580 - 1625
Francesco Aglietti
1757 - 1836
Pietro Frugoni
1851 - 1940
Giovanni da Asola
1512 - 1531
Roberto Messa
Born 1957
Giulio Taglietti
1660 - 1718
Christian Pescatori
Born 1971
Alessio Lorandi
Born 1998
Andrea Mutti
Born 1973
Claudio Langes
Born 1961
Calocerus
Died 121
Giovanni Antonio Capello
1669 - 1741
Eugenio De Rossi
1863 - 1929
Oscar Andriani
1905 - 1987
Massimo Mucchetti
Born 1953
Camillo Ballini
1540 - 1592
Camillo Ugoni
1784 - 1855
Sergio Viotti (footballer)
Born 1990
Faustino Anderloni
1766 - 1847
Nadia Toffa
1979 - 2019
Giovanni Battista Carboni
1725 - 1790
Giuseppe Orefici
Born 1946
Mario Rossi (dessinateur)
Born 1963
Lorenzo Gambara
1495 - 1585
Domenico Crivelli
1793 - 1856
Massimo Bonomi
Born 1967
Franco Comotti
1906 - 1963
Lodovico Gallina
1752 - 1787
Virginia Guerrini
1871 - 1948
Andrea Dallavilla
Born 1969
Lodovico Montini
1896 - 1990
Vincenzo Maggi
1498 - 1564
Giancarlo Olivares
Born 1967
Alessandro Zampedri
Born 1969
Petronax of Monte Cassino
670 - 747
Fausto Dotti
Born 1968
Renato Gei
1921 - 1999
Elena Grimaldi
Born 1983
Antonio Calegari
1698 - 1777
Gaetano Crivelli
1768 - 1836
Paola Carinelli
Born 1980
Giovanni Antonio Emanueli
1816 - 1894
Berardo Maggi
1240 - 1308
Ferdinando Alberti
Born 1982
Cesare Frugoni
1881 - 1978
Fortunato of Brescia
1701 - 1754
Giuseppe Romano
1918 - 1965
Giuseppe Fenaroli Avogadro
1760 - 1825
Elisa Mele
Born 1996
Lorenzo Tenchini
1852 - 1906
Cristiano Migliorati
Born 1968
Giovanni Labus
1775 - 1853
Giovanni Battista Vivaldi
1655 - 1736
Damiano Cima
Born 1993
Marco Micheli
Born 1983
Gasparo Antonio Turbini
1728 - 1802
Antonet
1872 - 1935
Silvia Vegetti Finzi
Born 1938
Alberto Quadri
Born 1983
Giuseppe Nicolini (writer)
1788 - 1855
Maurizio Arrivabene
Born 1957
Maurizio Bortolotti
Born 1961
Luigi De Marchi (psicologo)
1927 - 2010
Alberto Tognoli
Born 1937
Patrick Ottoz
Born 1971
Luigi Mancia
1658 - 1708
Luigi Morgano
Born 1951
Emanuele Maniscalco
Born 1983
Dionigi Coppo
1921 - 2003
Pietro Pompeo Sales
1729 - 1797
Andrea Toresani
1727 - 1760
Girolamo Francesco Cristiani
1731 - 1811
Imerio Cima
Born 1997
Luigi Scevola
1770 - 1819
Altobello de Averoldi
1468 - 1531
Vincenzo Pallavicini
Died 1766
Angelo Canossi
1862 - 1943
Alessandro Bettoni Cazaggo
1892 - 1951
Davide Bianchetti
Born 1977
Tommaso Sandrino
1575 - 1630
Camilla Baresani
Born 1961
Stefano Scarampella
1843 - 1925
Riccardo Conti
Born 1947
Francesco Savani
1723 - 1772
Gregorio Turini
1560 - 1600
Alberto Cerqui
Born 1992
Camillo Rama
1586 - 1627
Luigi Bonelli (orientalista)
1865 - 1947
Giuseppe Zonca
1715 - 1772
Antonio Gandino
1560 - 1631
Pietro Marone
1548 - 1625
Giampiero Borghini
Born 1943
Domenico Bruni
1591 - 1666
Michele Gaia
Born 1985
Paolo Virchi
1551 - 1610
Giulio Arrighini
Born 1962
Gigi Simeoni
Born 1967
Ottavio Viviani
1579 - 1641
Carlo Manziana
1902 - 1997
Alessandro Monti (patriota)
1818 - 1854
Guidone (cantante)
Born 1938
Raffaello del Brescianino
Died 1545
Giulio Sirenio
1553 - 1593
Adriano Paroli
Born 1962
Ottorino Marcolini
1897 - 1978
Muzio Calini
1525 - 1570
Maurizio Venturi
Born 1957
Gianfranco Bortolotti
Born 1959
Prospero Antichi
1555 - 1599
Ugo Da Como
1869 - 1941
Maria Cressari
Born 1943
Angelo Maria Benincori
1779 - 1821
Bartolomeo Dotti
1651 - 1713
Marco Molteni
Born 1976
Gregorio Gitti
Born 1964
Calogero Marino
Born 1955
Giuseppe Frigo
1935 - 2019
Domenico Cocoli
1747 - 1812
Giambattista Suardi
1711 - 1767