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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
Orazio Ariosto
1555 - 1593
Domenico Tumiati
1874 - 1943
Giovanni Battista Crema
1883 - 1964
Alberto Balboni
Born 1959
Isabella Bendidio
1546 - 1610
Agostino Beccari
1508 - 1590
Lorenzo Barotti
1724 - 1801
Hercule Louis Catenacci
1816 - 1884
Gianni Corelli
1936 - 2008
Michael Brini Ferri
Born 1989
Marco Caselli Nirmal
Born 1957
Ugo Ancona
1867 - 1936
Nemesio Orsatti
1912 - 1988
Antonio Francesco Campana
1751 - 1832
Giovanni Savonuzzi
1911 - 1987
Stefano Pillastrini
Born 1961
Ghilino Ghilini
1477 - 1559
Valerio Mazzola
Born 1988
Nicolò d'Aristotele
-
Sigismondo d'Este (1433–1507)
1433 - 1507
Alessandro Duran
Born 1965
Mario De Sisti
1941 - 2017
Emanuele Taglietti
Born 1943
Pietro Borsetti
1882 - 1955
Pier Marco Bertinetto
Born 1947
Maria Luisa Belleli
1909 - 1992
Michele Allasia
1893 - 1918
Antonio Frizzi
1736 - 1800
Cornelio Bentivoglio (condottiere)
1519 - 1585
Giacomo Parolini
1663 - 1733
Émile Portus
1550 - 1614
Giovanni Battista Costabili Containi
1756 - 1841
Meliaduse d'Este
1406 - 1452
Paolo Ferrarese
-
Domenico Tarugi
1638 - 1696
Fidèle Sutter
1796 - 1883
Annibale Zucchini
1891 - 1970
Roberto Soffritti
Born 1941
Guglielmo II Adelardi
1120 - 1185
Roberto Zaghi
Born 1969
Wu Ming 1
Born 1970
Francesco Guitti
1605 - 1645
Silvana Bosi
1934 - 2020
Giulio Alvise Caselli
Born 1979
Nicola Lombardi
Born 1965
Mario Romani
1907 - 1977
Riccardo Casini
Born 1992
Aldo Ferraresi
1902 - 1978
Gaetano Recchi (1798-1856)
1798 - 1856
Rina Cavallari
1914 - 2014
Ciro Ravenna
1878 - 1944
Cesare Ferraresi
1918 - 1981
Enzo Bentivoglio
1575 - 1639
Edoardo Braiati
Born 1980
Carlo Farini (politico)
1895 - 1974
Michele Savrie
Born 1984
Gian Maria Riminaldi
1434 - 1497
Alisa d'Este
Died 1329
Ludovico Bonaccioli
1475 - 1536
Antonio Beccari
1315 - 1373
Guelfo Cavanna
1850 - 1920
Aloysius Bevilacqua
1618 - 1680
Niccolò d'Este
1438 - 1476
Lodovico Lombardo
1507 - 1575
Francesco Maria Nigrisoli
1648 - 1727
Adele Bianchi
Born 1842
Franco Fabbri (calciatore)
Born 1958
Titino Carrara
Born 1949
Agostino Argenti
Died 1576
Carlo Celada
Born 1884
Marchesella Adelardi
1177 - 1186
Carlo Gandini (schermidore)
-
Giovanni Francesco Braccioli
1697 - 1762
Cesare Filippi
1536 - 1602
Andrea Poltronieri
Born 1965
Pietro Niccolini (senatore)
1866 - 1939
Roberto Mieville
1919 - 1955
Antonio Marescotti
Born 1444
Pietro Turchi
1711 - 1781
Antonio Boldini
1799 - 1872
Flavio Bertelli (scrittore)
1916 - 1983
Oscar Carboni
1914 - 1993
Pietro Bragaglia
1890 - 1956
Lucia d'Este
1419 - 1437
Roberto Angelini
Born 1948
Carlo Mayr
1810 - 1882
Girolamo Mengozzi
1686 - 1774
Matteo Lunati
Born 1987
Gisella Giovenco
Born 1946
Bianca d'Este
1440 - 1506
Dino Marsan
Born 1955
Tiziano Tagliani
Born 1959
Giuseppe Tortora
1921 - 1977
Arturo Pompeati
1880 - 1961
Michele Vallieri
Born 1985
Malatesta Ariosto
1410 - 1476
Gaetano Azzolini
1876 - 1928
Emilio Arlotti
1883 - 1943
Aldobrandino d'Este (vescovo)
1325 - 1381
Gilberto Vendemiati
Born 1940
Eleonora Petralia
Born 1989
Paolo Ravenna
1926 - 2012
Tancredi Mosti Trotti Estense
1826 - 1903
Carlo Brisighella
1632 - 1710
Lucia Sivilotti
Born 1957
Giuseppe Valentinelli
1805 - 1874
Athos Bartolucci
1902 - 1992
Ugo Pisa
1835 - 1910
Germano Bonazzi
Born 1959
Giorgio Cattani
Born 1949
Maria Stilde Ambruzzi
-
Guido Melli
1900 - 1985
Paolo Nani
Born 1956
Stefano Muroni
Born 1989
Everardo Dalla Noce
1928 - 2017
Giorgio Gandini (ingegnere)
1893 - 1963
Meister der zwölf Apostel
-
Vicenzo Sigonio
-
Rita Ghedini
Born 1960
Diomede Catalucci
1859 - 1943
Claudio Nastruzzi
Born 1958
Atanasio Zannoni
1720 - 1792
Massimo Callegari
Born 1977
Giuseppe Pasquale
1907 - 1978
Gianni Zagatti
Born 1936
Luigi I d'Este
1594 - 1664
Giovanni Antonio Fenice
-
Graziadio Nepi
1759 - 1836
Uguccione dei Contrari
1379 - 1448
Giuseppe Migliari
Born 1937
Giuseppe Turbiani
1893 - 1960
Silvano Voltolina
Born 1972
Alberto Mari (scacchista)
1882 - 1953
Girolamo Savonuzzi
1885 - 1943
Francesco Ariosto
1415 - 1484
Francesco d'Este (XIV secolo)
Died 1312
Giuseppe Lanzoni
1663 - 1730
Renzo Cavallina
1921 - 2002
Antonio Bonfadini
1400 - 1482
Roberto Cavallari
Born 1963
Filippo Vendemmiati
Born 1958
Giovanni Cervi
1886 - 1977
Massimo Sani
1929 - 2018
Gaetano Sarazin
Born 1936
Silvano Cassano
Born 1956
Arnaldo Tagliatti
1914 - 1992
Francesca Fava
Born 1974
Bertrando d’Arvazzano
Died 1402
Cesare Ugolini
1628 - 1699
Leonardo Brescia
1520 - 1582
Filippo I d'Este
1537 - 1592
Bartolomeo Andrea Camerani
1735 - 1816
Ulderico Fabbri
1897 - 1970
Maestro dei dodici apostoli
-
Rina Melli
1882 - 1958
Marco Tartari
Born 1943
Gianna Vancini
1941 - 2016
Alberto Rizzati
Born 1945
Tonino Agodi
1896 - 1939
Aldo Barbieri
1906 - 1996
Camillo Rizzi
1580 - 1618
Teresa Lodi
1889 - 1971
Maria Mizar
1899 - 1997
Giuseppe Bortolotti
1930 - 2011
Giorgio Armari
1895 - 1956
Marco Palumbo
Born 1956
Pietro Sitta
1866 - 1947
Antonio Baruffaldi
1793 - 1819
Nemo Agodi
1888 - 1940
Francesco d'Este (1325-1384)
1325 - 1384
Galeazzo Massari
1841 - 1902
Alfredo Melli
1870 - 1952
Raffaele Schiavina
1894 - 1987
Alfredo Zagatti
Born 1955
Davide Romani
Born 1959
Alessandro Carlo Gaetano Varano
1667 - 1735
Girolamo Maccabei de Toscanella
Died 1574
Costantino Testi
1584 - 1637
Petrocino Casaleschi
Died 1369
Silvia Chersoni
Born 1951
Vico Mantovani
1869 - 1938
Rodolfo Varano
1810 - 1882
Mario Orazio Perelli
1899 - 1981
Cleonte Chinarelli
1862 - 1940
Renzo Santini
1929 - 2001
Ettore Foschini
1899 - 1968
Italo Rizzi
Born 1931
Severino Cavazzini
1903 - 1983
Raffaella Aleotti
1575 - 1640
Augusto Fiorentini
Born 1929
Isotta Albaresani
-
Bruno Rizzieri
1918 - 1944
Nicola Guidetti
Born 1963
Antonia Bolognesi
1896 - 1976
Vittorio Zaccaria
1916 - 2015
Salinguerra Torelli
Died 1193
Giampaolo Lenzi
1935 - 2015
Olao Cerini
1906 - 1964
Andrea Fantini
Born 1982
Flaminio Malaguti
-
Alberto Sitta
1919 - 1989
Gabriele Cappellini
-
Gaspare Ruina
-
Alfredo Accorsi
1881 - 1951
Giocolo Giocoli
Died 1199
Ruggero Lupi
1882 - 1933
Battista Verato
Died 1589
Franco Tedeschi (politico)
1922 - 2006
Mario Giovanni Barbieri
Born 1900
Giovanni Villotti
Born 1912
Walter Negroni
1908 - 1996
Bruno Makain
1915 - 2008
Ghiron Francesco Villa
Died 1670
Antonio Panizzolo
1930 - 2019
Ramberto Ramberti
1247 - 1312
Luigi Venerandi
Born 1892
Enzo Caselli
Born 1909
Verde d'Este
1354 - 1400
Lorella Pescerelli
Born 1960
Athos Dianti
Born 1916
Alfredo Ravenna
1899 - 1981
Laurdes Cavallari
1916 - 1994
Luigi Olasi
Born 1910
Giorgio Poletti
Born 1942
Federico Sani
1893 - 1974
Cinzia Gangarella
-
Umberta Pareschi
Born 1948
Bartolomeo Frigerio
1585 - 1636
Valeriano Pelizzari
Born 1933
Adolfo Baruffi
1926 - 2013
Giovanni Martinelli (senatore)
1841 - 1919
Giancarlo Genesini
1913 - 1977
Giordano Caselli
Born 1928
Gian Pietro Testa
Born 1936
Charles Montecatini
1615 - 1699
Michelangelo Biondelli
Born 1998
Ettore Soffritti
1877 - 1927
Obizzo IV d'Este
1356 - 1388
Filippo Belardini
1919 - 2008
Agustín Beccari
1510 - 1590
Ottavio II Thiene
1582 - 1622
Gianni Deserri
Born 1948
Luigi della Fabbra
1655 - 1723
Costanzo Cattani
1602 - 1665
Alfonso Ariosto
1475 - 1525
Mami Ferrarese
-
Tommaso Foschi
Died 1514
Ambrogio Zuffi
1833 - 1922
Mario Conte (calciatore)
Born 1910
Archangelo Piccolomini
1525 - 1586
Tommaso Calcagnini
-
Giovanni Revedin Di San Martino
Born 1904
Geremia Lodi
-
Modesto Gavazzi
Died 1657
Vespasiano Anfiareo
1490 - 1564