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FERRARA
Most Famous People Born in Ferrara, Italy
- Notable people
- 555
- Peak decade
- 1950s
- Median birth year
- 1880
- Most distinctive
- Nobile 74.4×
One face per century — the most globally famous figure born in Ferrara during each.
Notable Births by Decade
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What Ferrara Is Known For
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Painter is Ferrara's biggest profession — 12% of all notables (69).
Ferrara over-indexes on nobile — 74.4× the global rate.
Ferrara under-produces football — only 0.5× the global rate.
Profession Mix Over Time
Each band shows a profession family's share of Ferrara's notable births by decade. Hover the chart for the breakdown at any decade.
- Sports
- Art & Design
- Writing
- Music
- Politics & Law
- Film & TV
- Other
Girolamo Savonarola
1452 - 1498
Michelangelo Antonioni
1912 - 2007
Isabella d'Este
1474 - 1539
Giovanni Boldini
1842 - 1931
Girolamo Frescobaldi
1583 - 1643
Alfonso I d'Este, Duke of Ferrara
1476 - 1534
Vittorio Sgarbi
Born 1952
Arnoldo Foà
1916 - 2014
Alfonso II d'Este, Duke of Ferrara
1533 - 1597
Ercole I d'Este, Duke of Ferrara
1431 - 1505
Cosimo Tura
1430 - 1495
Francesco del Cossa
1436 - 1477
Beatrice d'Este
1475 - 1497
Ercole II d'Este, Duke of Ferrara
1508 - 1559
Giovanni Battista Riccioli
1598 - 1671
Lorenzo Costa
1460 - 1535
Anna d'Este
1531 - 1607
Borso d'Este, Duke of Ferrara
1413 - 1471
Ippolito II d'Este
1509 - 1572
Benvenuto Tisi
1481 - 1559
Giovanni Battista Giraldi
1504 - 1574
Ercole de' Roberti
1450 - 1496
Alfonso III d'Este, Duke of Modena
1591 - 1644
Giovanni Battista Guarini
1538 - 1612
Filippo De Pisis
1896 - 1956
Dario Franceschini
Born 1958
Gaetano Previati
1852 - 1920
Temistocle Solera
1815 - 1878
Niccolò III d'Este, Marquis of Ferrara
1383 - 1441
Folco Quilici
1930 - 2018
Leonello d'Este, Marquis of Ferrara
1407 - 1450
Luzzasco Luzzaschi
1545 - 1607
Cesare d'Este, Duke of Modena
1562 - 1628
Florestano Vancini
1926 - 2008
Michele De Lucchi
Born 1951
Anna Caterina Antonacci
Born 1961
Boccaccio Boccaccino
1460 - 1525
Ippolito d'Este
1479 - 1520
Adriana Benetti
1919 - 2016
Alessandro Grandi
1586 - 1630
Luigi Legnani
1790 - 1877
Guido Bentivoglio
1577 - 1644
Robert Rietti
1923 - 2015
Ludovico Mazzolino
1480 - 1528
Girolamo da Carpi
1501 - 1556
José Greci
1941 - 2017
Biagio Rossetti
1447 - 1516
Alberto Marvelli
1918 - 1946
Carla Boni
1925 - 2009
Daniello Bartoli
1608 - 1685
Antonio Musa Brassavola
1500 - 1555
Adamo Boari
1863 - 1928
Thomas Manfredini
Born 1980
Vittoria Aleotti
1575 - 1620
Ercole Strozzi
1473 - 1508
Alfonso Lombardi
1497 - 1537
Diego Marani
Born 1959
Carlo Bononi
1569 - 1632
Domenico Maria Novara da Ferrara
1454 - 1504
Lucrezia Aguiari
1743 - 1783
Luciano Chailly
1920 - 2002
Giglio Gregorio Giraldi
1479 - 1552
Leopoldo Cicognara
1767 - 1834
Achille Funi
1890 - 1972
Lucio Magri
1932 - 2011
Bruno Buozzi
1881 - 1944
Giovanni Manardo
1462 - 1536
Azzo VI of Este
1170 - 1212
Niccolò Cabeo
1586 - 1650
Immanuel Tremellius
1510 - 1580
Cornelio Bentivoglio
1668 - 1732
Tito Vespasiano Strozzi
1424 - 1505
Bruno Tonioli
Born 1955
Francesco Dal Co
Born 1945
Laura Dianti
1480 - 1573
Scarsellino
1550 - 1620
Fulvio Testi
1593 - 1646
Lodovico Agostini
1534 - 1590
Blessed Beatrice d'Este
1192 - 1226
Francesco Bianchi (painter)
1447 - 1510
Celio Calcagnini
1479 - 1541
Adriana Ferrarese del Bene
1755 - 1804
Vittorio Cini
1885 - 1977
Lucrezia d'Este (1535–1598)
1535 - 1598
Beatrice d'Este, Queen of Hungary
1215 - 1245
Eleonora d'Este (1515-1575)
1515 - 1575
Giorgio Ariani
1941 - 2016
Luigi Preti
1914 - 2009
Antonio Tebaldeo
1463 - 1537
Daria Bignardi
Born 1961
Pier Angelo Manzolli
1500 - 1543
Gianni Meccia
Born 1931
Taddeo Crivelli
1425 - 1479
Domenico Panetti
1460 - 1530
Alfonso d'Este, Lord of Montecchio
1527 - 1587
Sebastiano Filippi
1532 - 1602
Carlo Rossetti
1614 - 1681
Girolamo Baruffaldi
1675 - 1755
Gualtiero Tumiati
1876 - 1971
Massimo Felisatti
1932 - 2016
Paolo Zamboni
Born 1957
Obizzo III d'Este, Marquis of Ferrara
1294 - 1352
Arrigo Minerbi
1881 - 1960
Carlo Emanuele Pio di Savoia
1585 - 1641
Giuseppe Mentessi
1857 - 1931
Enrica Calabresi
1891 - 1944
Rosy Mazzacurati
Born 1936
Ortolano
1480 - 1525
Fabio Pittorru
1928 - 1995
Luca Zanforlin
Born 1965
Francesco d'Este (1516–1578)
1516 - 1578
Petrus Bonus
1417 - 1497
Niccolò II d'Este, Marquis of Ferrara
1338 - 1388
Isaac Lampronti
1679 - 1756
Gaetano Tumiati
1918 - 2012
Camillo Filippi
1500 - 1574
Giulia Casoni
Born 1978
Marfisa d'Este
1554 - 1608
Ercole Pasquini
1560 - 1608
Alberto Pisa
1864 - 1936
Francesco Silvestri
1474 - 1528
Mirco Di Tora
Born 1986
Giuseppe Mazzuoli (c. 1536 – 1589)
1536 - 1589
Giulio d'Este
1478 - 1561
Guido Calcagnini
1725 - 1807
Carlo Pio di Savoia
1622 - 1689
Grazio Braccioli
1682 - 1752
Battista Guarino
1434 - 1513
Nino Cristofori
1930 - 2015
Galasso Galassi
1423 - 1473
Cesare Luporini
1909 - 1993
Alessandro d'Este (cardinal)
1568 - 1624
Maiolino Bisaccioni
1582 - 1663
Bonifazio Bevilacqua Aldobrandini
1571 - 1627
Vasco Brondi
Born 1984
Max Ascoli
1898 - 1978
Ares Tavolazzi
Born 1948
Federico Varese
Born 1965
Adriana Bisi Fabbri
1881 - 1918
Gianni Fantoni
Born 1967
Vittorio Baldini
Died 1618
Giovanni Maria Riminaldi
1718 - 1789
Alessandro Mantovani
1814 - 1892
Giovanna Bemporad
1928 - 2013
Riccobaldo of Ferrara
1246 - 1320
Ludovico Limentani
1884 - 1940
Franco de Gemini
1928 - 2013
Giovan Battista Pigna
1529 - 1575
Massimiliano Duran
Born 1963
Roberto Melli
1885 - 1958
Giuseppe Avanzi
1645 - 1718
Giovanni Battista Deti
1580 - 1630
Giambattista Canano
1515 - 1579
Giovanni Alberti (mathematician)
Born 1965
Luigi Vanzi
1925 - 1992
Antonio Alberti
1390 - 1449
Michele Coltellini
1480 - 1542
Alfonso Varano
1705 - 1788
Bono da Ferrara
Born 1441
Guglielmo Giraldi
-
Antonio Guidi (Schauspieler)
1927 - 2013
Michele Ferrari
Born 1953
Anacleto Angelini
1914 - 2007
Antonio Pallotta
1770 - 1834
Ellade Bandini
Born 1946
Francesco Alunno
1485 - 1556
Girolamo Lombardo
1506 - 1590
Giulio Canani
1524 - 1592
Arnaldo Ferraguti
1862 - 1925
Gerolamo Mengozzi Colonna
1688 - 1774
Elena Balletti
1686 - 1771
Massimo Magnani
Born 1951
Stefano da Ferrara
1349 - 1376
Corrado Tumiati
1885 - 1967
Antonio Ravalli
1811 - 1884
Alfonso Rivarola
1590 - 1640
Aldobrandino I d'Este
1190 - 1215
Domenico Mona
1550 - 1602
Antonio Battistella (Schauspieler)
1912 - 1980
Gianfranco Chiarini
Born 1966
Giorgio Pisanò
1924 - 1997
Giorgio Merighi
1939 - 2020
Pellegrino Prisciani
1435 - 1518
Elvira Casazza
1887 - 1965
Alfonso dalla Viola
1508 - 1573
Marco Bucci
1960 - 2013
Gustavo Bianchi
1845 - 1884
Sergio Zanni
Born 1942
Giorgio De Vincenzi
1884 - 1965
Evelina Borea
Born 1931
Francesco Costanzo Cattaneo
1602 - 1665
Tito Livio Frulovisi
-
Renzo Ravenna
1893 - 1961
Lanfranco Caretti
1915 - 1995
Bartolomeo Picchiatti
1571 - 1643
Francesco dalla Viola
1508 - 1568
Orlando Polmonari
1924 - 2014
Niccolò II da Correggio
1450 - 1508
Carlo Emanuele Muzzarelli
1797 - 1856
Luigi Pasetti
Born 1945
Vittore Veneziani
1878 - 1958
Carlo I Cybo-Malaspina
1581 - 1662
Eleonora d'Este (1561-1637)
1561 - 1637
Alda d'Este
1333 - 1381
Ugo d'Este
1405 - 1425
Niccolò Manfredini
Born 1988
Gianfranco Goberti
Born 1939
Giovanni Francesco Surchi
Died 1590
Elisabetta Sgarbi
Born 1965
Gaetano Piattoli
1703 - 1774
Prospero Piatti
1842 - 1902
Piero Stefani
Born 1949
Giulio Fiesco
1519 - 1586
Saint Contardo of Este
1216 - 1249
Ivan Bacchi
Born 1975
Marcello Benvenuti
Born 1964
Guerrina Fabbri
1866 - 1946
Michele Maccanti
Born 1979
Ercole Paganini
1770 - 1825
Torquato Bassi
1880 - 1967
Francesco Sacrati (cardinal)
1567 - 1623
Carlo Zannetti
Born 1960
Carlo Bassi
1923 - 2017
Camillo Berlinghieri
1590 - 1635
Gianluca Coletta
Born 1981
Nella Gambini
1953 - 2016
Camillo Gargano
Born 1942
Giorgio Lunghini
1938 - 2018
Attilio Lambertini
1920 - 2002
Giulio Cromer
1572 - 1632
Giorgio De Togni
Born 1985
Federico Pasquini
Born 1973
Pier Maria Cecchini
1563 - 1645
Adriano Franceschini
1920 - 2005
Giuseppe Gandini (attore)
Born 1972
Lucrezia Bendidio
1547 - 1584
Gaspare Venturini
1576 - 1593
Ginevra d'Este
1419 - 1440
Giacomo Corradi
1602 - 1666
Sigismondo Scarsella
1530 - 1614
Stefano Tassinari
1955 - 2012
Ather Capelli
1902 - 1944
Mario Calderoni
1879 - 1914
Samuele Schiavina
1971 - 2016
Eleonora d'Este (1537–1581)
1537 - 1581
Beppe Finessi
Born 1966
Giorgio Ascanelli
Born 1959
Giorgio Franceschini
1921 - 2012
Dario Oppido
Born 1965
Luigi Bigi Pittorio
1455 - 1520
Luigi Cecchini
Born 1944
Vieri Quilici
Born 1935
Laura d'Este
1594 - 1630
Francesco Tumiati
1921 - 1944
Andrea Bolzoni
1689 - 1760
Marco Antonio Guarini
-
Alessandro Bratti
Born 1958
Victor Rietti
1888 - 1963
Camillo Torreggiani
1820 - 1896
Carlo Savonuzzi
1897 - 1973
Nicola Mari
Born 1967
Fresco d'Este
1280 - 1312
Isabella Maria d'Este
1519 - 1521
Alda Costa
1876 - 1944
Ilio Bosi
1903 - 1995
Mariangela Piancastelli
Born 1953
Franco Rest
Born 1942
Gaetano Sateriale
Born 1951
Ricci DJ
1963 - 2000
Ciro Contini
1873 - 1952
Alessio Zaccaria
Born 1955
Luca Rambaldi
Born 1994
Niccolò Ariosto
1433 - 1500
Anna Guarini
1563 - 1598
Nino Barbantini
1884 - 1952
Nicolò Maria d'Este
1450 - 1507
Alessio Prati
1750 - 1788
Renzo Ragazzi
1929 - 2010
Sandro Sproccati
Born 1954
Ercole Grandi
1491 - 1531
Giorgio Renato Franci
1933 - 2012
Cesare Fiaschi
1523 - 1558
Béatrice d'Este (1268-1334)
1268 - 1334
Franco Spisani
1934 - 2007
Vincenzo Gallucci
1935 - 1991
Francesco Naselli
Died 1630
Antonio Garella
1863 - 1919
Mario Resca
Born 1945
Anna Marchetti
1944 - 2015
Paolo Farneti
1936 - 1980
Tina Poli-Randaccio
1879 - 1956
Luciano Gottardi
1899 - 1944
Angelo Mercuriali
1909 - 1999
Giuseppe Bonati
1635 - 1681
Virginio Ariosto
1509 - 1560
Jacopo Bambini
1582 - 1629
Pietro Benvenuto degli Ordini
1448 - 1483
Primo Levi (1853-1917)
1853 - 1917
Monica Farnetti
Born 1960
Ugo Sani
1865 - 1945