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MANTOVA
Most Famous People Born in Mantova, Italy
- Notable people
- 566
- Peak decade
- 1930s
- Median birth year
- 1832
- Most distinctive
- Nobile 145.9×
One face per century — the most globally famous figure born in Mantova during each.
Notable Births by Decade
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What Mantova Is Known For
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Football is Mantova's biggest profession — 10% of all notables (54).
Mantova over-indexes on nobile — 145.9× the global rate.
Mantova under-produces actor — only 0.3× the global rate.
Profession Mix Over Time
Each band shows a profession family's share of Mantova's notable births by decade. Hover the chart for the breakdown at any decade.
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Matilda of Tuscany
1046 - 1115
Ivanoe Bonomi
1873 - 1951
Pietro Pomponazzi
1462 - 1525
Vincenzo Gonzaga, Duke of Mantua
1562 - 1612
Francesco II Gonzaga, Marquess of Mantua
1466 - 1519
Federico II Gonzaga, Duke of Mantua
1500 - 1540
Ludovico III Gonzaga, Marquis of Mantua
1412 - 1478
Vannozza dei Cattanei
1442 - 1518
Guglielmo Gonzaga, Duke of Mantua
1538 - 1587
Teofilo Folengo
1491 - 1544
Eleonora Gonzaga (1598–1655)
1598 - 1655
Ferrante Gonzaga
1507 - 1557
Bartolomeo Manfredi
1582 - 1622
Charles II, Duke of Mantua and Montferrat
1629 - 1665
Louis Gonzaga, Duke of Nevers
1539 - 1595
Antonio Possevino
1533 - 1611
Salamone Rossi
1570 - 1630
Elisabetta Gonzaga
1471 - 1526
Eleonora Gonzaga (1630–1686)
1630 - 1686
Franca Sozzani
1950 - 2016
Ferdinando Gonzaga, Duke of Mantua
1587 - 1626
Federico I Gonzaga, Marquess of Mantua
1441 - 1484
Francesco IV Gonzaga, Duke of Mantua
1586 - 1612
Roberto Boninsegna
Born 1943
Gino Fano
1871 - 1952
Gianfrancesco I Gonzaga, Marquess of Mantua
1395 - 1444
Ercole Gonzaga
1505 - 1563
Alessandro Striggio
1540 - 1592
Maria Gonzaga, Duchess of Montferrat
1609 - 1660
Margherita Gonzaga, Duchess of Lorraine
1591 - 1632
Francesco Gonzaga (1444–1483)
1444 - 1483
Carlo Farina
1600 - 1639
Anna Juliana Gonzaga
1566 - 1621
Vincenzo II Gonzaga, Duke of Mantua
1594 - 1627
Francesco III Gonzaga, Duke of Mantua
1533 - 1550
Baptista Mantuanus
1447 - 1516
Enzo Dara
1938 - 2017
Franco Migliacci
Born 1930
Alfredo Guzzoni
1877 - 1965
Francesco I Gonzaga
1366 - 1407
Alessandro Striggio the Younger
1573 - 1630
Matteo Soragna
Born 1975
Azariah dei Rossi
1513 - 1578
Ludovico I Gonzaga
1268 - 1360
Théodolinde de Beauharnais
1814 - 1857
Jacopo Strada
1507 - 1588
Pier Jacopo Alari Bonacolsi
1460 - 1528
Giorgio Ghisi
1520 - 1582
Lucido Parocchi
1833 - 1903
Alberto Jori
Born 1965
Andrea Andreani
1541 - 1623
Saverio Bettinelli
1718 - 1808
Cesare I Gonzaga
1536 - 1575
Eleonora Gonzaga, Duchess of Urbino
1493 - 1570
Achille Loria
1857 - 1943
Antonio Moresco
Born 1947
Giulio Turcato
1912 - 1995
Giovanni Battista Buonamente
1595 - 1642
Scipione Gonzaga
1542 - 1593
Vincenzo Grimani
1655 - 1710
Sigismondo Gonzaga
1469 - 1525
Osanna of Mantua
1449 - 1505
Silvio Valenti Gonzaga
1690 - 1756
Margherita Gonzaga, Duchess of Ferrara
1564 - 1618
Clara Gonzaga
1464 - 1503
Giuseppe Bazzani
1690 - 1769
Francesco Stancaro
1501 - 1574
Dave Rodgers
Born 1963
Giulia Sissa
Born 1954
Lorenzo Leonbruno
1480 - 1537
Gino Loria
1862 - 1954
Barbara Gonzaga
1455 - 1503
Diana Scultori
1547 - 1612
Giuliana Berlinguer
1933 - 2014
Marcello Morandini
Born 1940
Ferrante III Gonzaga, Duke of Guastalla
1618 - 1678
Leonora Baroni
1611 - 1670
Fabrizio Paterlini
Born 1973
Attilio Ruffini
1925 - 2011
Roberto Colaninno
Born 1943
Giovanni Arrivabene
1787 - 1881
Paolo Benedetto Bellinzani
1690 - 1757
Giovanni Gonzaga
1474 - 1525
Passerino Bonacossi
1278 - 1328
Nella Maria Bonora
1904 - 1990
Ercole Bentivoglio
1507 - 1573
Pietro Facchetti
1539 - 1613
Antonella Del Lago
Born 1964
Gianfrancesco Gonzaga (1446–1496)
1446 - 1496
Dorotea Gonzaga
1449 - 1467
Antoine-François Riccoboni
1707 - 1772
Ramboldo, Count of Collalto
1579 - 1630
Giovanni Battista Bertani
1516 - 1576
Guido Gonzaga
1290 - 1369
Lorenzo Costa the Younger
1537 - 1583
Ippolito Baccusi
1540 - 1609
Mauro Carbone
Born 1956
Yohanan Alemanno
1435 - 1504
Laura Peverara
1563 - 1600
Giulio Vivanti
1859 - 1949
Aldo Andreani
1887 - 1971
Francesco Verri
1885 - 1945
Carla Sozzani
Born 1947
Leone de' Sommi
1525 - 1590
Emma Marcegaglia
Born 1965
Anna Girò
1710 - 1748
Teodoro Ghisi
1536 - 1601
Ippolito Andreasi
1548 - 1608
Riccardo Campa
Born 1967
Eleonora Buratto
Born 1982
Rodolfo Gonzaga
1452 - 1495
Federico Gonzaga (cardinal)
1540 - 1565
Isa Bellini
Born 1922
Gustav von Escherich
1849 - 1935
Giovanni Battista Scultori
1503 - 1575
Bruno Bertotti
1930 - 2018
Louis Gonzaga (Rodomonte)
1500 - 1532
Ezio Levi
1884 - 1941
Edoardo Affini
Born 1996
Benedetto Fontanini
1495 - 1556
Ludovico Ottavio Burnacini
1636 - 1707
Cesare II Gonzaga, Duke of Guastalla
1592 - 1632
Gino Rocca
1891 - 1941
Giorgio Mortara
1885 - 1967
Albert de Rippe
1500 - 1551
Giovanni Bono
1168 - 1249
Carlo Gonzaga of Milan
1415 - 1456
Gianni Bedori
1930 - 2005
Anna Maestri
1924 - 1988
Matthew Carrieri
1420 - 1470
Paola Gonzaga
1463 - 1497
Rinaldo Mantovano
Died 1539
Lucilla Boari
Born 1997
Gilberto Govi (fisico)
1826 - 1889
Christian Altinier
Born 1983
Ludovico Gonzaga
1458 - 1511
Gloria Piedimonte
Born 1955
Giovanni Cadioli
1710 - 1767
Nicola Guidi di Bagno
1583 - 1663
Giulio Alary
1814 - 1890
Abraham Portaleone
1542 - 1612
Carlo d’Arco
1800 - 1873
Tullo Massarani
1826 - 1905
Ludovico II Gonzaga
1334 - 1382
Emma Trentini
1878 - 1959
Ettore Bonora
1915 - 1998
Dante Micheli
1939 - 2012
Alessandro Gonzaga
1427 - 1466
Franco dei Russi
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Andrea Moretti
Born 1972
Adamo Scultori
1530 - 1585
Francesco Rovigo
1541 - 1597
Abraham Vita de Cologna
1755 - 1832
Salom Italia
1619 - 1655
Daniele Bagnoli
Born 1953
Cristoforo di Geremia
1410 - 1476
Alessandra Mirka Gatti
Born 1969
Marco Negri (volleyball)
Born 1955
Cesare Guerrieri Gonzaga
1749 - 1832
Bartolomeo Fanti
1423 - 1495
Riccardo Brugnara
Born 1993
Ferdinando Arrivabene
1770 - 1834
Cecilia Gonzaga
1426 - 1451
Lelio Capilupi
1497 - 1560
Gasparo Berti
1600 - 1643
Anselmo Guerrieri Gonzaga
1817 - 1879
Ippolito Capilupi
1511 - 1580
Pinamonte Bonacossi
1206 - 1293
Leopoldo d'Assia-Darmstadt
1708 - 1764
Maddalena Gonzaga
1472 - 1490
Claudio Gallico
1929 - 2006
Sergio Paganella
1911 - 1992
Paolo Mario Virgilio Atzei
Born 1942
Patrizio Roversi
Born 1954
Federigo Giambelli
1584 - 1585
Pirro Gonzaga (cardinal)
1505 - 1529
Giuseppe Scalarini
1873 - 1948
Gabriele Bertazzolo
1570 - 1626
Carlo Poma
1823 - 1852
Egidiola Gonzaga
1325 - 1377
Silvio Arrivabene Valenti Gonzaga
1844 - 1913
Giuseppe Maria Boschi
1675 - 1744
Joseph Nikolaus de Vins
1732 - 1798
Samuel Romanelli
1757 - 1814
Lodovico Mortara
1855 - 1937
Ugolino Gonzaga
1320 - 1362
Francesco Mantegna
1470 - 1517
Domenico Conti Bazzani
1740 - 1817
Cristian Marchi
Born 1976
Gianni Dall'Aglio
Born 1945
Edgarda Ferri
Born 1934
Jean-Louis Preti
1798 - 1881
Paolo Barbieri
Born 1971
Giovanni Chiassi
1832 - 1866
Pilade Bronzetti
1832 - 1860
Antonio Marcegaglia
Born 1963
Giorgio Andreasi
1467 - 1549
Bruno Sacchi
1931 - 2011
Marco Sgarbi
Born 1982
Giorgio Pellizzaro
Born 1947
Renzo Massarani
1898 - 1975
Giovanni Battista Gordigiani
1795 - 1871
Feltrino Gonzaga
1330 - 1374
Sebastiano Girelli
Born 1984
Luca Bonaffini
Born 1962
Riccardo Dalla Volta
1862 - 1944
Aldo Bergonzoni
1899 - 1976
Francesco Gonzaga (bishop of Nola)
1588 - 1673
Irene Bignardi
Born 1943
Arnaldo Berni
1894 - 1918
Matteo Zanotti
Born 1966
Prospero Moisè Loria
1814 - 1892
Marcus Antonius Antimachus
1473 - 1552
Elisabetta Picenardi
1428 - 1468
Ugo Sissa
1913 - 1980
Marcella Lotti della Santa
1831 - 1901
Cesare Rimini
Born 1932
Sara Menghi
Born 1983
Matteo Colaninno
Born 1970
Giacomo Benefatti
1250 - 1332
Alessandro Gennari
1949 - 2000
Paolino Dalla Porta
Born 1956
Eligio Vecchi
1910 - 1968
Bartolomeo Melioli
1448 - 1514
Corrado Vivanti
1928 - 2012
Giovanni Grioli
1821 - 1851
Mauro Ferraresi
Born 1958
Umberto Artioli
1939 - 2004
Solomon Aviad Sar Shalom Basilea
1680 - 1749
Ludovico Gonzaga (bishop)
1587 - 1632
Auro Bulbarelli
Born 1970
Curzio Gonzaga
1530 - 1599
Orsola Ferrari
1831 - 1915
Ulisse Barbieri
1842 - 1899
Fortunata Tedesco
Born 1826
Adriana Lazzarini
Born 1933
Ippolita Gonzaga
1503 - 1571
Uber Gradella
1921 - 2015
Fausto Coen
1914 - 2006
Opprandino Arrivabene
1807 - 1887
Cesare De Agostini
Born 1941
Vittore Colorni
1912 - 2005
Eleonora d'Este (1643-1722)
1643 - 1722
Daria Bonfietti
Born 1945
Susanna Gonzaga
1447 - 1481
Vincenzo Agnello Suardi
1582 - 1644
Amalia Moretti
1872 - 1947
Lodovico Mantegna
1460 - 1510
Guido Torelli
1379 - 1449
Giuseppe Oriolo
1681 - 1750
Glauco Vanz
1920 - 1986
Giovanni Gonzague (1671-1743)
1671 - 1743
Gaetano Bertolani
1758 - 1856
Francesco Bartoli
1933 - 1997
Paola Gonzaga
1508 - 1569
Antonio Carbonati
1893 - 1956
Benedetta Mambelli
Born 1995
Enzo Amadori
Born 1925
Attilio Mori
1810 - 1864
Ludwig, Baron of Terzi
1740 - 1800
Umberto Norsa
1866 - 1943
Lucio Campiani
1822 - 1914
Sandro Vaia
1943 - 2016
Gregorio Comanini
1550 - 1608
Giberto Arrivabene Valenti Gonzaga
1872 - 1933
Gino Guerra
1924 - 1978
Stefano Cavallari
Born 1978
Zoan Andrea
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Giulio Fano
1856 - 1930
Ruggero Scandiuzzi
Born 1951
Franco Cesana
1930 - 1944
Gian Marco Cavalli
1454 - 1508
Settimio Borsari
Died 1594
Daniele Protti
Born 1945
Emilio Norsa
1873 - 1919
Renzo Vescovi
1941 - 2005
Gianluigi Porelli
1930 - 2009
Margherita Gonzaga
1418 - 1439
Cesare Gonzaga (1476-1512)
1476 - 1512
Roberto Borroni
Born 1949
Luigi Gaspare Peyri
1758 - 1822
Clelia Gatti Aldrovandi
1901 - 1989
Matteo Borsa
1751 - 1798
Augusto Galli
1903 - 1981
Elena Bassi
1911 - 1999
Andrea Sardini
Born 1967
Fulvio Pellegrino Morato
1483 - 1548
Ettore Zapparoli
1899 - 1951
Stelio Belletti
Born 1932
Filippo dei Bonacolsi
1250 - 1303
Carlo Guerrieri Gonzaga
1827 - 1913
Albano Seguri
1913 - 2001
Pietro Torelli
1880 - 1948
Carlo Arrivabene Valenti Gonzaga
1820 - 1874
Fermo Guisoni
1510 - 1580
Arturo Miolati
1869 - 1956
Alberto Gonzaga
1260 - 1321
Ferruccio Bolognesi
1924 - 2002
Rino Bulbarelli
1931 - 2014
Albino Longhi
1929 - 2018