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LUCCA

Most Famous People Born in Lucca, Italy

Notable people
410
Peak decade
1920s
Median birth year
1881
Most distinctive
Cardinal 41.4×
Through the Centuries

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

What Lucca Is Known For

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Football is Lucca's biggest profession — 11% of all notables (46).

Lucca over-indexes on cardinal41.4× the global rate.

Lucca under-produces actor — only 0.6× the global rate.

  1. Football46
  2. Painter44
  3. Politician37
  4. Composer28
  5. Writer19
  6. Priest17
  7. Actor12
  8. Sculptor10
  1. Cardinal641.4×
  2. Composer285.2×
  3. Painter444.1×
  4. Theologian64.0×
  5. Mathematician83.9×
  6. Sculptor103.7×
  7. Priest172.8×
  8. Poet102.4×
  1. Actor120.6×

Profession Mix Over Time

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

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410 notable people

0001 OPERA

Giacomo Puccini

1858 - 1924

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0002 COMPOSER

Luigi Boccherini

1743 - 1805

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0003 CLERIC

Pope Lucius III

1110 - 1185

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0004 PAINTER

Pompeo Batoni

1708 - 1787

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0005 COMPOSER

Francesco Geminiani

1687 - 1762

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0006 SPORT

Mario Cipollini

Born 1967

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0007 COMPOSER

Alfredo Catalani

1854 - 1893

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0008 FOOTBALL

Daniele Rugani

Born 1994

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0009 CHAMBERLAIN

Castruccio Castracani

1281 - 1328

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0010 PHILOSOPHER

Marcello Pera

Born 1943

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0011 PHYSICIST

Giovanni Giorgi

1871 - 1950

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0012 PAINTER

Bonaventura Berlinghieri

1210 - 1287

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0013 PAINTER

Alfredo Volpi

1896 - 1988

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0014 POLITICIAN

Francesco Carrara (jurist)

1805 - 1888

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0015 COMPOSER

Francesco Barsanti

1690 - 1770

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0016 POLITICIAN

Stefania Giannini

Born 1960

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0017 DIPLOMAT

Vincenzo Lunardi

1759 - 1806

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0018 SCULPTOR

Matteo Civitali

1436 - 1501

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0019 PAINTER

Pietro Testa

1611 - 1650

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0020 PAINTER

Michelangelo Anselmi

1492 - 1556

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0021 HISTORIAN

Giovanni Domenico Mansi

1692 - 1769

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0022 PAINTER

Pietro Paolini

1603 - 1681

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0023 ORIENTALIST

Santes Pagnino

1470 - 1541

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0024 FOOTBALL

Leo Nomellini

1924 - 2000

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0025 COMPOSER

Gioseffo Guami

1542 - 1611

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0026 MARGRAVE

Hugh, Margrave of Tuscany

950 - 1001

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0027 PRIEST

Arturo Paoli

1912 - 2015

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0028 INVENTOR

Felice Matteucci

1808 - 1887

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0029 COMPOSER

Cristofano Malvezzi

1547 - 1599

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0030 SINGER

Ivan Della Mea

1940 - 2009

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0031 PRIEST

Theodoric Borgognoni

1206 - 1298

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0032 THEOLOGIAN

Bartholomew of Lucca

1240 - 1327

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0033 LINGUIST

Mazzino Montinari

1928 - 1986

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0034 MERCHANT

Giovanni Arnolfini

1400 - 1472

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0035 ACTOR

Ermete Novelli

1851 - 1919

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0036 PAINTER

Antonio Franchi

1638 - 1709

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0037 ARCHITECT

Domenico Martinelli

1650 - 1718

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0038 RELIGIOUS

Elena Guerra

1835 - 1914

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0039 MATHEMATICIAN

Mario Pieri

1860 - 1913

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0040 ART HISTORIAN

Carlo Ludovico Ragghianti

1910 - 1987

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0041 PAINTER

Pietro Ricchi

1606 - 1675

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0042 WRITER

Arrigo Benedetti

1910 - 1976

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0043 THEOLOGIAN

Carlo Passaglia

1812 - 1887

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0044 POET

Teresa Bandettini

1763 - 1837

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0045 POET

Chiara Matraini

1515 - 1604

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0046 CHESS

Eros Riccio

Born 1977

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0047 ILLUSTRATOR

Simone Bianchi (artist)

Born 1972

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0048 POET

Bonagiunta Orbicciani

1220 - 1290

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0049 COMPOSER

Domenico Puccini

1772 - 1815

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0050 JOURNALIST

Gabriele del Grande

Born 1982

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0051 PAINTER

Paolo Guidotti

1560 - 1629

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0052 PHYSICIAN

Giorgio Antonucci

1933 - 2017

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0053 DIPLOMAT

Girolamo Lucchesini

1751 - 1825

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0054 SCULPTOR

Arturo Carmassi

1925 - 2015

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0055 WRITER

Giovanni Sercambi

1348 - 1424

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0056 POLITICIAN

Mario Pannunzio

1910 - 1968

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0057 PAINTER

Filippo Gherardi

1643 - 1704

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0058 EGYPTOLOGIST

Edda Bresciani

1930 - 2020

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0059 BASSIST

Giovanni Tommaso

Born 1941

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0060 COMPOSER

Giovanni Lorenzo Gregori

1663 - 1745

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0061 PRIEST

Mansueto Bianchi

1949 - 2016

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0062 COMPOSER

Filippo Manfredi

1731 - 1777

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0063 PAINTER

Stefano Tofanelli

1752 - 1812

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0064 PHILOSOPHER

Simone Simoni

1532 - 1602

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0065 MUSIC

Bad Sector

Born 1966

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0066 MISSIONARY

Giovanni Antonio Andreoni

1649 - 1716

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0067 PAINTER

Bernardino Nocchi

1741 - 1812

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0068 CARDINAL

Sebastiano Martinelli

1848 - 1918

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0069 SPORT

Michela Fanini

1973 - 1994

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0070 PRIEST

Galeotto Franciotti della Rovere

1471 - 1507

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0071 WRITER

Guglielmo Petroni

1911 - 1993

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0072 PAINTER

Giovanni Coli

1636 - 1681

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0073 FOOTBALL

Fabio Viviani (footballer)

Born 1966

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0074 AVIATOR

Carlo Del Prete

1897 - 1928

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0075 POET

Giovanni Guidiccioni

1500 - 1541

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0076 POLITICIAN

Paolo Guinigi

1376 - 1432

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0077 FOOTBALL

Marco Landucci

Born 1964

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0078 PHILOSOPHER

Marcel Danesi

Born 1946

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0079 PHYSICIAN

Johann Baptist Malfatti von Monteregio

1775 - 1859

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0080 PAINTER

Luigi de Servi

1863 - 1945

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0081 PAINTER

Giovanni Domenico Campiglia

1692 - 1768

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0082 SPORT

Stefano Della Santa

Born 1967

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0083 WRITER

Pia Pera

1956 - 2016

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0084 PLAYER

Gabriele Nelli

Born 1993

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0085 CLERIC

Andrea Ammonio

1478 - 1517

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0086 PAINTER

Angelo Puccinelli

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0087 PRIEST

Bartolomeo Guidiccioni

1470 - 1549

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0088 PRIEST

Pietro Casani

1572 - 1647

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0089 PAINTER

Giovanni Marracci

1637 - 1704

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0090 PRIEST

Marco Antonio Franciotti

1592 - 1666

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0091 ARCHITECT

Maria Cristina Finucci

Born 1956

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0092 SPORT

Roberto Ballini

Born 1944

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0093 PAINTER

Barone Berlinghieri

1228 - 1282

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0094 NUN

Maria Domenica Brun Barbantini

1789 - 1868

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0095 DRIVER

Renato Balestrero

1898 - 1948

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0096 FOOTBALL

Silvano Benedetti

Born 1965

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0097 FILM

Caterina Klusemann

Born 1973

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0098 PAINTER

Michele Ridolfi

1793 - 1854

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0099 PRIEST

Pandolfo da Lucca

1101 - 1201

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0100 COMPOSER

Renato Serio

Born 1946

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0101 NUN

Eufrasia Burlamacchi

1482 - 1548

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0102 PLAYER

Luna Carocci

Born 1988

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0103 ACTOR

Carlo Lombardi (actor)

1900 - 1984

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0104 COMPOSER

Michele Puccini

1813 - 1864

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0105 FOOTBALL

Paolo Bartolomei

Born 1989

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0106 MUSIC

Gaetano Luporini

1865 - 1948

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0107 WRITER

Umberto Fracchia

1889 - 1930

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0108 THEOLOGIAN

Michelangelo Florio

1515 - 1572

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0109 EDUCATOR

Mario Mazza

1882 - 1959

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0110 COMPOSER

Nicolao Dorati

1513 - 1593

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0111 BIBLICAL

Alberto Soggin

1926 - 2010

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0112 CARDINAL

Orazio Filippo Spada

1659 - 1724

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0113 PRIEST

Francesco Buonvisi

1626 - 1700

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0114 PAINTER

Paolo Zacchia the Elder

1490 - 1561

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0115 POLITICIAN

Francesco Burlamacchi

1498 - 1548

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0116 PHYSICIST

Cesare Marchetti

Born 1927

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0117 BANK

Sébastien Zamet

1549 - 1614

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0118 FOOTBALL

Cristian Cesaretti

Born 1987

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0119 SCULPTOR

Augusto Passaglia

1838 - 1918

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0120 COMPOSER

Giuseppe Puppo

1749 - 1827

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0121 MILITAR

Luigi Ghilardi

1805 - 1864

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0122 LIBRETTIST

Giovanni Gastone Boccherini

1742 - 1798

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0123 SCULPTOR

Leone Tommasi

1903 - 1965

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0124 CARDINAL

Lorenzo Prospero Bottini

1737 - 1818

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0125 PAINTER

Simone del Tintore

1630 - 1708

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0126 PAINTER

Giovanni Domenico Lombardi

1682 - 1751

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0127 ACTOR

Nicola Savino

Born 1967

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0128 ACTOR

Walter Grant

1875 - 1963

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0129 JOURNALIST

Paolo Del Debbio

Born 1958

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0130 BASKET

Nicola Mei

Born 1985

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0131 CARDINAL

Girolamo Buonvisi

1607 - 1677

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0132 PLAYWRIGHT

Francesco Sbarra

1611 - 1668

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0133 PAINTER

Domenico Del Frate

1765 - 1821

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0134 COLLECTOR

Stefano Conti

1654 - 1739

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0135 PHYSICIAN

Ugo Borgognoni

1180 - 1258

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0136 JOURNALIST

Enrico Ameri

1926 - 2004

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0137 BISHOP

Fausto Tardelli

Born 1951

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0138 FOOTBALL

Giorgio Bresciani

Born 1969

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0139 COMPOSER

Marianna Bottini

1802 - 1858

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0140 SCULPTOR

Vincenzo Consani

1818 - 1888

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0141 WRITER

Romano Luperini

Born 1940

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0142 PHYSICIST

Domenico Chelini

1802 - 1878

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0143 FOOTBALL

Ernesto Filippi

Born 1950

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0144 ARCHAEOLOGIST

Graziella Berti

1929 - 2013

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0145 RUNNER

Roberto Barbi

Born 1965

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0146 PLAYER

Jessica Pieri

Born 1997

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0147 COMPOSER

Michelangelo Gasparini

1670 - 1732

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0148 PRIEST

Giovanni Volpi (évêque)

1860 - 1931

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0149 COMPOSER

Lamberto Landi

1882 - 1950

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0150 ARCHER

Sergio Pagni

Born 1979

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0151 MATHEMATICIAN

Antonio Santini

1577 - 1662

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0152 SCULPTOR

Urbano Lucchesi

1844 - 1906

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0153 ENGINEER

Giambattista Giusti

1758 - 1829

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0154 COMPOSER

Carlo Angeloni

1834 - 1901

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0155 WRITER

Castruccio Buonamici

1710 - 1761

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0156 SINGER

Giovanni Battista Andreoni

1720 - 1797

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0157 ACADEMIC

Giuseppe Pera

1928 - 2007

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0158 POET

Alba Donati

Born 1961

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0159 PAINTER

Zacchia Lorenzo il Giovane

1524 - 1587

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0160 ARCHITECT

Nicolao Civitali

1482 - 1560

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0161 ROMANIST

Raffaello Fornaciari

1837 - 1917

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0162 CARDINAL

Gerardo Allucingoli

Died 1208

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0163 ACTOR

Alessandro Bertolucci (attore)

Born 1972

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0164 PAINTER

Girolamo Scaglia

1620 - 1686

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0165 POLITICIAN

Maria Eletta Martini

1922 - 2011

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0166 PAINTER

Antonio Possenti

1933 - 2016

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0167 POLITICAL

Bonturo Dati

Died 1324

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0168 PRINTER

Horace Cardon

1566 - 1641

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0169 PAINTER

Cesare Bertolla

1845 - 1920

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0170 BALLET

Maria Casentini

1778 - 1805

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0171 POLITICIAN

Alessandro Tambellini

Born 1955

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0172 OPERA

Massimo Cavalletti

Born 1978

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0173 PRIEST

Giovanni Battista Castrucci

1541 - 1595

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0174 PRIEST

Leo I of Cava

Died 1079

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0175 PRIEST

Bonviso Bonvisi

1551 - 1603

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0176 SPORT

Francesco Tomei

Born 1985

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0177 POET

Pietro dei Faitinelli

1280 - 1349

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0178 ATHLETIC

Moreno Martini

1935 - 2009

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0179 BANK

Scipion Sardini

1526 - 1609

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0180 WRITER

Ettore Borzacchini

1943 - 2014

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0181 PAINTER

Alfredo Lazzari

1871 - 1949

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0182 ARCHITECT

Vincenzo Civitali

1523 - 1597

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0183 RESTAURATEUR

Damiano Carrara

Born 1985

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0184 FILM

Hobbes Dino Cecchini

1906 - 1986

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0185 ÉDITEUR

Ottaviano Diodati

1716 - 1786

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0186 PAINTER

Girolamo Massei

1540 - 1620

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0187 PRIEST

Bandello Bandelli

1350 - 1415

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0188 PAINTER

Paolo Biancucci

1583 - 1653

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0189 HISTORIAN

Salvatore Bongi

1825 - 1899

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0190 POLITICIAN

Chris Giunchigliani

Born 1954

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0191 POLITICIAN

Giovanni Battista Giorgini (1818-1908)

1818 - 1908

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0192 LITERARY

Roberto Giusti

1887 - 1978

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0193 MATHEMATICIAN

Girolamo Saladini

1731 - 1813

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0194 FOOTBALL

Leonardo Terigi

Born 1991

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0195 ORGANIST

Agostino Bonaventura Coletti

1680 - 1752

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0196 ARCHITECT

Giuseppe Pardini

1799 - 1884

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0197 SCULPTOR

Bruno Lucchesi

Born 1926

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0198 WRITER

Luigi Fornaciari

1798 - 1858

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0199 PAINTER

Benedetto Brandimarte

Died 1614

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0200 COMPOSER

Antonio Puccini

1747 - 1832

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0201 COMPOSER

Giulio Carmassi

Born 1981

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0202 FOOTBALL

Rolando Ugolini

1924 - 2014

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0203 RELIGIOUS

Eufemia Giannini

1884 - 1971

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0204 POLITICIAN

Giovanni Rosadi

1862 - 1925

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0205 WRITER

Vittorio Baccelli

1941 - 2011

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0206 FOOTBALL

Francesco D'Arrigo

Born 1958

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0207 KATHOLISCHER

Oriano Quilici

1929 - 1998

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0208 THEOLOGIAN

Niccolò Balbani

1522 - 1587

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0209 OFFICER

Ubaldo Diciotti

1878 - 1963

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0210 COMPOSER

Carlo Carignani

1857 - 1919

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0211 BANK

Dino Rapondi

1350 - 1416

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0212 PAINTER

Irene Bianucci

1903 - 1988

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0213 PAPE

Carlo Diodati

1541 - 1625

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0214 ART HISTORIAN

Isa Belli Barsali

1920 - 1986

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0215 OPERA

Dano Raffanti

Born 1948

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0216 PHILOLOGIST

Idelfonso Nieri

1853 - 1920

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0217 ANTHROPOLOGIST

Alberto Pollera

1873 - 1939

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0218 SPORT

Maura Genovesi

Born 1973

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0219 FILMMAKER

Lionetto Fabbri

1924 - 2011

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0220 COMPOSER

Vito Tommaso

Born 1937

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0221 NOBLE

Lucida Mansi

1606 - 1649

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0222 ATHLETIC

Andrea Lanfri

Born 1986

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0223 MUSIC

Piero Nissim

Born 1946

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0224 FOOTBALL

Claudio Bandoni

Born 1939

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0225 POET

Bartolomeo Beverini

1629 - 1686

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0226 MATHEMATICIAN

Gino Arrighi

1906 - 2001

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0227 PAINTER

Arturo Chelini

1877 - 1942

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0228 COMPOSER

Vincenzo Calestani

1589 - 1617

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0229 ART HISTORIAN

Enrico Ridolfi

1828 - 1909

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0230 POLITICIAN

Cesare Angelini

1901 - 1974

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0231 ARCHAEOLOGIST

Silvio Ferri

1890 - 1978

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0232 COURTESAN

Eleanore Sullivan

1750 - 1833

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0233 POLITICIAN

Antonio Mazzarosa

1780 - 1861

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0234 BASEBALL

Marino Pieretti

1920 - 1981

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0235 FOOTBALL

Elena Bruno

Born 1985

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0236 MISSING

Alfredo Caselli

1865 - 1921

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0237 WRITER

Felice Del Beccaro

1909 - 1989

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0238 PAINTER

Giorgio Lucchesi

1855 - 1941

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0239 PHILOLOGIST

Rolando Ferri

Born 1967

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0240 RETRATISTA

Carlo De Servi

1871 - 1947

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0241 FOOTBALL

Danilo Michelini

1917 - 1983

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0242 POLITICIAN

Mauro Favilla

Born 1934

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0243 THEOLOGIAN

Alfonso Niccolai

1706 - 1784

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0244 NUN

Anita Cantieri

1910 - 1942

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0245 FOOTBALL

Stefano Dianda

Born 1966

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0246 SOLDIER

Giovanni Andrea Pieri

1808 - 1858

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0247 HELLENIST

Flaminio de' Nobili

1530 - 1590

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0248 ACTOR

Giulia Lippi

Born 1986

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0249 ENGRAVER

Carlo Gregori

1702 - 1759

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0250 LINGUIST

Silvio Pieri

1856 - 1936

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0251 POLITICIAN

Antonio Bernieri

1917 - 1990

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0252 THEOLOGIAN

Ippolito Marracci (théologien)

1604 - 1675

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0253 PRIEST

Uberto Allucingoli

Died 1185

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0254 FOOTBALL

Lamberto Petri

1910 - 1964

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0255 BUSINESS

Giuseppe Martinelli

1870 - 1946

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0256 FRIAR

Giovanni Antonio Bianchi

1686 - 1768

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0257 OPERA

Anna Maria Canali

1918 - 2016

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0258 SCIENTIST

Enrico Pucci

1848 - 1891

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0259 FOOTBALL

Tommaso Fantacci

Born 1997

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0260 WRITER

Gino Cesaretti

1917 - 2015

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0261 FILM

Basil Wrangell

1906 - 1977

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0262 GUITAR

Italo Meschi

1887 - 1957

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0263 FOOTBALL

Matteo Ricci (footballer, born February 1994)

Born 1994

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0264 POLITICIAN

Pietro Fazzi

Born 1958

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0265 ARCHITECT

Francesco Buonamici (architecte)

1596 - 1677

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0266 CHEMIST

Martino Poli

1662 - 1714

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0267 WRITER

Vittorio Saltini

Born 1934

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0268 SCULPTOR

Francesco Petroni

1877 - 1960

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0269 WRITER

Lorenzo Cardella

1734 - 1822

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0270 MATHEMATICIAN

Domenico Chelucci

1681 - 1754

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0271 WRITER

Filippo Buonamici

1705 - 1780

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0272 MISSING

Vito Giannotti

1943 - 2015

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0273 SPORT

Devid Tintori

Born 1989

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0274 POET

Cosimo Giorgieri Contri

1870 - 1943

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0275 POLITICIAN

Giovanni Carignani

1893 - 1961

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0276 MISSIONARY

Baldassare Cittadella

1603 - 1651

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0277 SPORT

Matteo Mammini

Born 1989

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0278 FOOTBALL

Andrea Gemignani

Born 1996

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0279 MILITAR

Mario Romagnoli

1897 - 1960

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0280 POLITICIAN

Piero Angelini

Born 1936

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0281 PAINTER

Stefano Cassiani

1636 - 1714

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0282 COMPOSER

Arnold Franchetti

1911 - 1993

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0283 ACTOR

Adelaide Aste

1927 - 2013

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0284 WRITER

Giovanni Attilio Arnolfini

1733 - 1791

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0285 DESIGNER

Elio Martinelli

1921 - 2004

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0286 FOOTBALL

Luigi Toschi

Born 1937

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0287 POLITICIAN

Luca Menesini

Born 1973

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0288 POLITICIAN

Gino Baldassari

1897 - 1989

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0289 MUSIC

Pietro Mechetti

1777 - 1850

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0290 ENGINEER

Luigi Velani

1877 - 1958

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0291 WIFE OF

Anna Chiappe

1898 - 1990

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0292 MATHEMATICIAN

Alberto Tonelli

1849 - 1920

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0293 PAINTER

Alfredo Meschi

1905 - 1981

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0294 SCULPTOR

Renato Avanzinelli

1908 - 1970

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0295 PAINTER

Francesco del Tintore

1645 - 1718

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0296 COMPOSER

Gustavo Giovannetti

1880 - 1968

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0297 FOOTBALL

Jacopo Fanucchi

Born 1981

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0298 JOURNALIST

Renato Genovese

Born 1950

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0299 JOURNALIST

Leda Sanford

Born 1933

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0300 PAINTER

Agostino Marti

1485 - 1537

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