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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.
One face per century — the most globally famous figure born in Florence during each.
Notable Births by Decade
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What Florence Is Known For
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Painter is Florence's biggest profession — 13% of all notables (425).
Florence over-indexes on sculptor — 5.7× the global rate.
Florence under-produces football — only 0.4× the global rate.
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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- Sports
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- Field: Sculptor Clear ×
Donatello
1386 - 1466
Benvenuto Cellini
1500 - 1571
Lorenzo Ghiberti
1378 - 1455
Luca della Robbia
1399 - 1482
Jacopo Sansovino
1486 - 1570
Michelozzo
1396 - 1472
Bartolommeo Bandinelli
1493 - 1560
Andrea della Robbia
1435 - 1525
Pietro Torrigiano
1472 - 1528
Silpa Bhirasri
1892 - 1962
Nanni di Banco
1380 - 1421
Agostino di Duccio
1418 - 1481
Benedetto da Maiano
1442 - 1497
Bertoldo di Giovanni
1435 - 1491
Giovanni Angelo Montorsoli
1507 - 1563
Giovanni Francesco Rustici
1474 - 1554
Giovanni Battista Foggini
1652 - 1725
Raffaello da Montelupo
1505 - 1566
Giovanni della Robbia
1469 - 1529
Filippo della Valle
1698 - 1768
Francesco da Sangallo
1494 - 1576
Raffaello Romanelli
1856 - 1928
Carlo Bartolomeo Rastrelli
1675 - 1744
Jacopo Torni
1476 - 1526
Romano Romanelli
1882 - 1969
Francesco Talenti
1305 - 1369
Michelangelo Naccherino
1550 - 1622
Benedetto Buglioni
1460 - 1521
Valerio Cioli
1529 - 1599
Niccolò di Piero Lamberti
1370 - 1451
Simone Mosca
1492 - 1554
Santi Buglioni
1494 - 1576
Domenico del Barbieri
1501 - 1570
Francesco Camilliani
1530 - 1576
Taddeo Landini
1550 - 1596
Aristodemo Costoli
1803 - 1871
Ferdinando Tacca
1619 - 1686
Arnoldo Zocchi
1862 - 1940
Francesco Fanelli
1590 - 1653
Francesco d'Angelo
1446 - 1488
Giovanni Battista del Tasso
1500 - 1555
Tiberio Calcagni
1532 - 1565
Giuseppe Gricci
1700 - 1771
Girolamo Ticciati
1676 - 1744
Pasquale Romanelli
1812 - 1887
Pedro Friedeberg
Born 1936
Luigi Pampaloni
1791 - 1847
Giovanni Francesco Susini
1585 - 1653
Girolamo Masini
1840 - 1885
Giovanni Bandini
1540 - 1599
Master of the Marble Madonnas
1436 - 1504
Matteo di Cione
1330 - 1380
Emilio Santarelli
1801 - 1886
Cesare Zocchi
1851 - 1922
Ulisse Cambi
1807 - 1895
Francesco Bordoni
1580 - 1654
Emilio Zocchi
1835 - 1913
Andrea Ciccione
1388 - 1455
Nanni di Bartolo
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Agnolo di Polo
1470 - 1528
Simone Ghini
1406 - 1491
Domenico Poggini
1520 - 1590
Giovanni Vincenzo Casali
1539 - 1593
Bernardo Ciuffagni
1381 - 1458
Mattia della Robbia
1468 - 1534
Domenico Pieratti
1600 - 1656
Francesco Mosca (Il Moschino)
1531 - 1578
Adriano Fiorentino
1440 - 1499
Gaspero Bruschi
1710 - 1780
Antonio Montauti
1685 - 1740
Luca della Robbia le Jeune
1482 - 1547
Leopoldo Costoli
1850 - 1908
Baldassare degli Embriachi
-
Cesare Lapini
1848 - 1888
Bruno Innocenti
1906 - 1986
Niccolò Baroncelli
Died 1453
Emilio Gallori
1846 - 1924
Sirio Tofanari
1886 - 1969
Ugo Cipriani
1887 - 1960
Gaetano Trentanove
1858 - 1937
Pierluca
1926 - 1968
Domenico del Tasso
1440 - 1508
Stefano Ricci (sculptor)
1765 - 1837
Filippo Dobrilla
1968 - 2019
Carlo Marcellini
1643 - 1713
Agostino Bugiardini
Died 1623
Amalia Dupré
1842 - 1928
Mariano Coppedè
1839 - 1920
Michele da Firenze
1385 - 1455
Hans Albrecht von Harrach
1873 - 1963
Leonardo del Tasso
1465 - 1500
Emilio Franceschi
1839 - 1890
Giuseppe Piamontini
1664 - 1742
Carlo di Cesare del Palagio
1538 - 1598
Giuseppe Guastalla
1867 - 1952
Amedeo di Francesco da Settignano
1430 - 1501
Dante Sodini
1858 - 1934
Ridolfo Sirigatti
1553 - 1608
Angelo Maria Brunelli
1740 - 1806
Orsino Benintendi
1440 - 1498
Clemente Bandinelli
1534 - 1555
Carlo Rivalta
1887 - 1941
Lorenzo Nencini
1806 - 1854
Orazio Mochi
1571 - 1625
Vincenzo Foggini
1701 - 1755
Lelio Gelli
1902 - 1975
Pacio Bertini
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Lot Torelli
1835 - 1896
Irene Georgii-Hildebrand
1880 - 1961
Raphaël Nannini
1852 - 1925
Luigi Fabbrucci
1829 - 1893
Innocenzo Mangani
1608 - 1678
Amalia Ciardi Dupré
Born 1934
Marco della Robbia
1385 - 1448
Pierluigi Sopelsa
1918 - 2012
Giovanni Bertini (scultore)
-
Bartolomeo Cennini
Died 1674
Piloto
1460 - 1536
Luigi Cartei
1822 - 1891