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FLORENCE

Most Famous People Born in Florence, Italy

Notable people
3,189
Peak decade
1920s
Median birth year
1869
Most distinctive
Sculptor 5.7×

The Quattrocento, in one city. Florence is the only city in the dataset where the 1400s and 1500s together account for a fifth of all notable births, and the distinctive shelves still carry the Medici imprint — sculptors and painters at more than five times the global rate, architects, poets, and an unusually heavy mathematician column from the same workshops that produced Brunelleschi and Galileo. The modern half adds footballers and actors, but the city's centre of gravity is the two centuries when it more or less invented the Renaissance.

Through the Centuries

One face per century — the most globally famous figure born in Florence during each.

What Florence Is Known For

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Painter is Florence's biggest profession — 13% of all notables (425).

Florence over-indexes on sculptor5.7× the global rate.

Florence under-produces football — only 0.4× the global rate.

  1. Painter425
  2. Politician267
  3. Writer175
  4. Actor156
  5. Football138
  6. Sculptor119
  7. Priest116
  8. Architect90
  1. Sculptor1195.7×
  2. Painter4255.1×
  3. Architect903.2×
  4. Poet882.7×
  5. Priest1162.5×
  6. Mathematician362.3×
  7. Composer872.1×
  8. Writer1751.7×
  1. Football1380.4×

Profession Mix Over Time

Each band shows a profession family's share of Florence's notable births by decade. Hover the chart for the breakdown at any decade.

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Showing 113 of 3,189 notable people

0059 OPERA

Mario Del Monaco

1915 - 1982

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0081 WRITER

Vasco Pratolini

1913 - 1991

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0159 PHOTOGRAPHER

Fosco Maraini

1912 - 2004

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0160 FILM

Folco Lulli

1912 - 1970

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0165 ACTOR

Andrea Checchi

1916 - 1974

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0196 POET

Franco Fortini

1917 - 1994

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0197 FILM

Franco Rossi (director)

1919 - 2000

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0237 SINGER

Gino Bechi

1913 - 1993

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0277 ACTOR

Gigi Ballista

1918 - 1980

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0326 FILM

Gianni Franciolini

1910 - 1960

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0472 COMPOSER

Cesar Bresgen

1913 - 1988

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0521 COMPOSER

Valentino Bucchi

1916 - 1976

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0572 ACTOR

Maurizio D'Ancora

1912 - 1983

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0583 WRITER

Joyce Lussu

1912 - 1998

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0659 FASCIST

Maria Pasquinelli

1913 - 2013

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0733 BOTANIST

Rodolfo Emilio Giuseppe Pichi-Sermolli

1912 - 2005

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0741 ARCHITECT

Pietro Porcinai

1910 - 1986

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0753 SCREENWRITER

Piero Tellini

1917 - 1985

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0758 PHYSICIST

Giuliano Toraldo di Francia

1916 - 2011

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0789 POET

Alessandro Parronchi

1914 - 2007

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0801 LINGUIST

Giovanni Nencioni

1911 - 2008

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0807 FENCER

Giorgio Bocchino

1913 - 1995

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0860 ACTOR

Vanna Vanni

1915 - 1998

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0907 SWIMMER

Paolo Costoli

1910 - 1966

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0911 COMPOSER

Bruno Bartolozzi

1911 - 1980

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0933 SINGER

Enzo Mascherini

1910 - 1981

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1055 ACTOR

Paolo Cavallina

1916 - 1986

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1068 DESIGNER

Franco Scaglione

1916 - 1993

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1087 COSTUME DESIGNER

Dario Cecchi

1918 - 1992

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1154 SWIMMER

Tullio Pandolfini

1914 - 1999

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1213 HISTORIAN

Federigo Melis

1914 - 1973

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1259 POLITICIAN

Franco Calamandrei

1917 - 1982

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1269 SCREENWRITER

Giulio Scarnicci

1913 - 1973

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1274 ARCHITECT

Edoardo Detti

1913 - 1984

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1310 WRITER

Aldo Borlenghi

1913 - 1976

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1348 POLITICIAN

Luigi Mariotti

1912 - 2004

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1354 ACTOR

Ottavio Fanfani

1915 - 1981

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1409 PAINTER

Leonardo Savioli

1917 - 1982

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1429 HISTORIAN

Giorgio Spini

1916 - 2006

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1460 PRIEST

Giovanni Bianchi

1918 - 2003

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1471 HISTORIAN

Giovanni Tabacco

1914 - 2002

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1523 DRIVER

Lotario Rangoni

1913 - 1942

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1541 ARCHAEOLOGIST

Guglielmo Maetzke

1915 - 2008

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1549 HISTORIAN

Giampiero Carocci

1919 - 2017

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1558 JOURNALIST

Sergio Lepri

Born 1919

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1636 POLITICIAN

Carlo Alberto Galluzzi

1919 - 2000

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1698 COMMUNIST

Giliana Berneri

1919 - 1998

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1699 ACADEMIC

Mirella Levi D'Ancona

1919 - 2014

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1742 POET

Giuseppe Masi

1915 - 2007

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1745 PAINTER

Giovanni Acci

1910 - 1979

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1753 WRITER

Roberto De Monticelli

1919 - 1987

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1768 BIOGRAPHER

Lanfranco Rasponi

1914 - 1983

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1769 ART HISTORIAN

Roberto Salvini

1912 - 1985

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1782 SCENOGRAPHER

Giancarlo Bartolini Salimbeni

1916 - 2000

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1846 ACTOR

Laura Pestellini

1919 - 2010

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1865 PAINTER

Gino Paolo Gori

1911 - 1991

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1878 MILITAR

Gino De Giorgi

1914 - 1979

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1912 ACTOR

Giotto Tempestini

1917 - 2009

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1958 ACTOR

Luciano Mondolfo

1910 - 1978

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1983 ARTIST

Erio Nicolò

1919 - 1983

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2027 MILITAR

Aligi Barducci

1913 - 1944

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2075 LITERARY

Pier Giorgio Ricci

1912 - 1976

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2078 POLITICIAN

Antonio Marzotto Caotorta

1917 - 2011

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2128 ACTOR

Wanda Pasquini

1914 - 2001

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2147 PHOTOGRAPHER

Giulio Torrini

1914 - 2005

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2206 PHYSICIAN

Mazzingo Donati

1912 - 1999

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2219 ARCHITECT

Giovanni Salghetti Drioli (architetto)

1911 - 1988

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2262 PAINTER

Ennio Cocchi

1915 - 1987

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2280 FOOTBALL

Carlo Piccardi

1919 - 1971

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2327 PHYSICIST

Adriano Gozzini

1917 - 1994

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2409 OFFICER

Mario Bellagambi

1915 - 2001

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2423 MAGISTRAT

Gian Paolo Meucci

1919 - 1986

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2435 ARCHITECT

Mario Terzaghi

1915 - 1998

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2470 REGISTA

Alessandro Brissoni

1913 - 1980

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2564 GUERRILLA

Elio Chianesi

1910 - 1944

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2566 MILITAR

Amos Pampaloni

1910 - 2006

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2605 POET

Lucifero Martini

1916 - 2001

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2608 ACTOR

Carla Ragionieri

1917 - 2007

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2619 GUERRILLA

Irma Marchiani

1911 - 1944

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2635 OFFICER

Guglielmo Chiarini

1917 - 1941

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2695 GUERRILLA

Vittoria Giunti

1917 - 2006

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2718 AVIATORE

Manlio Biccolini

1916 - 1991

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2747 FOOTBALL

Mario Mannelli

Born 1915

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2776 MILITAR

Ippolito Niccolini (militare)

1916 - 1941

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2779 FOOTBALL

Bruno Ricci

Born 1910

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2820 POLITICIAN

Paolo Cavezzali

1918 - 2006

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2836 PAINTER

Costanzo W. Figlinesi

1912 - 1991

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2905 FOOTBALL

Nello Bechelli

Born 1913

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2920 FOOTBALL

Arduino Romoli

Born 1916

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2937 ASTRONOMER

Piero Tempesti

1917 - 2011

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2946 FOOTBALL

Ugo Innocenti

Born 1916

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2949 FOOTBALL

Giordano Sinibaldi

Born 1910

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2966 ACTIVIST

Fosco Focardi

1910 - 1991

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2976 PALAEONTOLOGIST

Piero Messeri

1916 - 1991

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2977 JOURNALIST

Jacopo Rizza

Born 1916

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2978 POLITICIAN

Giancarlo Zoli

1917 - 2007

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2987 FOOTBALL

Galliano Parigi

Born 1919

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3003 MILITAR

Marcello Garosi

1919 - 1944

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3004 POLITICIAN

Otello Marilli

1915 - 1979

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3006 PHOTOGRAPHER

Corrado Banchi

1912 - 1999

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3007 FOOTBALL

Manlio Pacini

Born 1913

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3012 DIRIGENTE

Rodolfo Melloni

1914 - 1979

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3014 MILITAR

Leonardo Magnani

1911 - 1936

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3017 SCULPTOR

Pierluigi Sopelsa

1918 - 2012

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3034 PAINTER

Edmondo Savelli

1916 - 2008

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3046 FOOTBALL

Ugo Terzani

Born 1912

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3052 FOOTBALL

Giuliano Gobetto

Born 1917

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3079 FOOTBALL

Renzo Giovannoni

Born 1918

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3091 POLITICIAN

Alberto Guidi

1916 - 1973

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3106 ARCHITECT

Enzo Vannucci

1912 - 1982

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3131 FOOTBALL

Fernando Bonamartini

Born 1914

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3137 CERAMIST

Lisa Engqvist

1914 - 1989

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3152 MUSIC

Baldo Rossi (musicista)

1914 - 1978

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