45.4669° N, 9.1900° E

MILANO

Most Famous People Born in Milano, Italy

Notable people
5,707
Peak decade
1960s
Median birth year
1931
Most distinctive
Entrepreneur 3.6×

Italy's working capital, in every sense. Milano's distinctive professions are entrepreneurs, architects, journalists, and the priests and archbishops of one of Christendom's oldest sees — the trades of the city that runs Italian publishing, design, and football all at once. The notable births stretch back to a Roman ancestor of the city, but the centre of mass is squarely in the postwar decades, and the actor and footballer benches are both among the deepest in Italy.

Through the Centuries

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

What Milano Is Known For

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Football is Milano's biggest profession — 11% of all notables (604).

Milano over-indexes on entrepreneur3.6× the global rate.

Milano under-produces politician — only 0.7× the global rate.

  1. Football604
  2. Actor446
  3. Politician438
  4. Painter309
  5. Writer293
  6. Singer184
  7. Journalist171
  8. Priest165
  1. Entrepreneur693.6×
  2. Architect1312.6×
  3. Painter3092.1×
  4. Artist1172.0×
  5. Priest1652.0×
  6. Composer1461.9×
  7. Journalist1711.9×
  8. Sculptor691.9×
  1. Politician4380.7×

Profession Mix Over Time

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

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5,707 notable people

0001 PAINTER

Caravaggio

1571 - 1610

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0002 POLITICIAN

Silvio Berlusconi

Born 1936

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0003 SINGER

Adriano Celentano

Born 1938

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0004 WRITER

Alessandro Manzoni

1785 - 1873

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0005 THEATRE

Luchino Visconti

1906 - 1976

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0006 PAINTER

Giuseppe Arcimboldo

1527 - 1593

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0007 CONDUCTOR

Claudio Abbado

1933 - 2014

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0008 POLITICIAN

Bettino Craxi

1934 - 2000

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0009 PHILOSOPHER

Cesare Beccaria

1738 - 1794

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0010 COMPOSER

Nino Rota

1911 - 1979

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0011 ACTOR

Gian Maria Volontè

1933 - 1994

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0012 CLERIC

Pope Pius IV

1499 - 1565

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0013 ACTOR

Greta Scacchi

Born 1960

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0014 FILM

Tinto Brass

Born 1933

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0015 PHILOSOPHER

Maria Gaetana Agnesi

1719 - 1799

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0016 ARCHITECT

Aldo Rossi

1931 - 1997

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0017 FOOTBALL

Paolo Maldini

Born 1968

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0018 NOBLE

Caterina Sforza

1463 - 1509

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0019 ENTREPRENEUR

Ettore Bugatti

1882 - 1947

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0020 POET

Alda Merini

1931 - 2009

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0021 FILM

Dino Risi

1917 - 2008

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0022 POLITICIAN

Matteo Salvini

Born 1973

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0023 FILM

Marco Ferreri

1928 - 1997

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0024 POET

Carlo Emilio Gadda

1893 - 1973

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0025 ACTOR

Lucia Bosè

1931 - 2020

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0026 ACTOR

Valentina Cortese

1923 - 2019

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0027 ARCHITECT

Gio Ponti

1891 - 1979

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0028 ACTOR

Ornella Vanoni

Born 1934

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0029 PIANIST

Maurizio Pollini

Born 1942

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0030 ACTOR

Giorgio Gaber

1939 - 2003

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0031 QUEEN

Josephine of Leuchtenberg

1807 - 1876

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0032 ACTOR

Mariangela Melato

1941 - 2013

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0033 RACER

Alberto Ascari

1918 - 1955

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0034 ARTIST

Bruno Munari

1907 - 1998

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0035 SINGER

Enzo Jannacci

1935 - 2013

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0036 EMPEROR

Didius Julianus

133 - 193

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0037 FOOTBALL

Mattia De Sciglio

Born 1992

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0038 JESUIT

Giuseppe Castiglione (Jesuit painter)

1688 - 1766

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0039 FILM

Alberto Lattuada

1914 - 2005

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0040 PLAYER

Francesca Schiavone

Born 1980

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0041 EDITOR

Giangiacomo Feltrinelli

1926 - 1972

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0042 FOOTBALL

Giuseppe Meazza

1910 - 1979

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0043 FOOTBALL

Riccardo Montolivo

Born 1985

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0044 SINGER

Gala (singer)

Born 1975

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0045 SCREENWRITER

Diego Abatantuono

Born 1955

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0046 PHOTOGRAPHER

Oliviero Toscani

Born 1942

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0047 HISTORIAN

Frédéric Ozanam

1813 - 1853

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0048 MATHEMATICIAN

Bonaventura Cavalieri

1598 - 1647

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0049 CONDUCTOR

Riccardo Chailly

Born 1953

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0050 ACTOR

Adriana Asti

Born 1933

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0051 ACTOR

Enrico Maria Salerno

1926 - 1994

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0052 DESIGNER

Miuccia Prada

Born 1948

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0053 SINGER

Enrico Ruggeri

Born 1957

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0054 JOURNALIST

Ernesto Teodoro Moneta

1833 - 1918

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0055 PRIEST

Federico Borromeo

1564 - 1631

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0056 ARTIST

Guido Crepax

1933 - 2003

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0057 DUKE

Filippo Maria Visconti

1392 - 1447

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0058 SURGEON

Umberto Veronesi

1925 - 2016

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0059 ACTOR

Agostina Belli

Born 1947

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0060 COMPOSER

Giovanni Battista Sammartini

1700 - 1775

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0061 CONSORT

Bianca Maria Sforza

1472 - 1510

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0062 POPE

Pope Celestine IV

1180 - 1241

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0063 POLITICIAN

Fausto Bertinotti

Born 1940

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0064 MATHEMATICIAN

Enrico Bombieri

Born 1940

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0065 STATESMAN

Bernabò Visconti

1323 - 1385

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0066 PAINTER

Francesco Melzi

1491 - 1568

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0067 ACTOR

Isa Miranda

1909 - 1982

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0068 ARISTOCRAT

Amélie of Leuchtenberg

1812 - 1873

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0069 ARTIST

Mario Merz

1925 - 2003

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0070 ROYAL FAMILY

Prince Henry of Battenberg

1858 - 1896

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0071 ARISTOCRAT

Francis IV, Duke of Modena

1779 - 1846

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0072 PHILOSOPHER

Carlo Cattaneo

1801 - 1869

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0073 FOOTBALL

Marco Delvecchio

Born 1973

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0074 SINGER

Biagio Antonacci

Born 1963

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0075 SINGER

Cristina Scabbia

Born 1972

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0076 FILM

Marco Tullio Giordana

Born 1950

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0077 FILM

Bruno Bozzetto

Born 1938

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0078 BANK

Roberto Calvi

1920 - 1982

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0079 ACTOR

Fabrizio Bentivoglio

Born 1957

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0080 ARISTOCRAT

Maximilian Sforza

1493 - 1530

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0081 PAINTER

Giovanni Antonio Boltraffio

1467 - 1516

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0082 FILM

Sandra Mondaini

1931 - 2010

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0083 PAINTER

Andrea Solari

1460 - 1524

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0084 ACTOR

Silvia Colloca

Born 1977

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0085 ARISTOCRAT

Valentina Visconti, Duchess of Orléans

1366 - 1408

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0086 PAINTER

Andrea Appiani

1754 - 1817

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0087 MONARCH

Francesco II Sforza

1495 - 1535

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0088 JOURNALIST

Cristina Trivulzio Belgiojoso

1808 - 1871

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0089 WORKER

Giuseppe Pinelli

1928 - 1969

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0090 CONDUCTOR

Daniele Gatti

Born 1961

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0091 PIANIST

Stefano Bollani

Born 1972

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0092 LAWYER

Andrea Alciato

1492 - 1550

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0093 GEOGRAPHER

Antonio Raimondi

1826 - 1890

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0094 FILM

Ricky Tognazzi

Born 1955

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0095 ECONOMIST

Pietro Verri

1728 - 1797

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0096 FOOTBALL

Cristian Brocchi

Born 1976

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0097 SINGER

Tony Renis

Born 1938

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0098 PHYSICIAN

Agostino Gemelli

1878 - 1959

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0099 POET

Gianfrancesco Guarnieri

1934 - 2006

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0100 SCULPTOR

Rembrandt Bugatti

1884 - 1916

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0101 WRITER

Franca Valeri

1920 - 2020

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0102 FOOTBALL

Walter Zenga

Born 1960

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0103 LIEDERMACHER

Malika Ayane

Born 1984

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0104 DESIGNER

Massimo Vignelli

1931 - 2014

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0105 ACTOR

Sonia Bergamasco

Born 1966

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0106 SINGER

Amelita Galli-Curci

1882 - 1963

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0107 ARCHITECT

Achille Castiglioni

1918 - 2002

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0108 SINGER

Cesare Siepi

1923 - 2010

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0109 PAINTER

Bramantino

1465 - 1530

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0110 WRITER

Andrea De Carlo

Born 1952

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0111 SINGER

Max Pezzali

Born 1967

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0112 ARCHITECT

Alessandro Mendini

1931 - 2019

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0113 WRITER

Giorgio Manganelli

1922 - 1990

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0114 POET

Giovanni Berchet

1783 - 1851

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0115 COMEDIAN

Angela Finocchiaro

Born 1955

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0116 FILM

Maurizio Nichetti

Born 1948

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0117 SINGER

Gianluca Grignani

Born 1972

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0118 POLITICIAN

Letizia Moratti

Born 1949

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0119 BALLET

Carla Fracci

Born 1936

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0120 DRAMA

Caecilius Statius

-230 - -168

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0121 FOOTBALL

Carlo Cudicini

Born 1973

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0122 CARDINAL

Lorenzo Campeggio

1474 - 1539

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0123 ECONOMIST

Giovanni Arrighi

1937 - 2009

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0124 POET

Carlo Porta

1775 - 1821

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0125 CARDINAL

Giacomo Biffi

1928 - 2015

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0126 SCREENWRITER

Vittorio Mussolini

1916 - 1997

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0127 PAINTER

Fede Galizia

1578 - 1630

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0128 FOOTBALL

Luca Antonini

Born 1982

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0129 SEISMOLOGIST

Giuseppe Mercalli

1850 - 1914

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0130 ARCHITECT

Mario Bellini

Born 1935

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0131 LYRICIST

Mogol (lyricist)

Born 1936

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0132 SINGER

Maria Grazia Buccella

Born 1940

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0133 ACADEMIC

Elena Cattaneo

Born 1962

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0134 PHILOSOPHER

Vittorio Hösle

Born 1960

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0135 FILM

Michele Soavi

Born 1957

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0136 RAPPER

J-Ax

Born 1972

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0137 ARTIST

Carlo Bugatti

1856 - 1940

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0138 PAINTER

Gian Paolo Lomazzo

1538 - 1592

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0139 POLITICIAN

Giuliano Pisapia

Born 1949

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0140 FILM

Silvio Soldini

Born 1958

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0141 SINGER

Povia

Born 1972

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0142 FOOTBALL

Federico Dimarco

Born 1997

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0143 CONDUCTOR

Gianandrea Noseda

Born 1964

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0144 COMEDIAN

Gino Bramieri

1928 - 1996

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0145 BALLET

Filippo Taglioni

1777 - 1871

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0146 AIR FORCE

Samantha Cristoforetti

Born 1977

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0147 PAINTER

Enrico Baj

1924 - 2003

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0148 ACTOR

Marta Abba

1900 - 1988

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0149 ARCHITECT

Marco Zanuso

1916 - 2001

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0150 PAINTER

Giovanni Ambrogio de Predis

1455 - 1509

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0151 ARCHITECT

Vico Magistretti

1920 - 2006

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0152 POLITICIAN

Galeazzo II Visconti

1320 - 1378

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0153 POLITICIAN

Armando Cossutta

1926 - 2015

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0154 COMPOSER

Giuseppe Sammartini

1695 - 1750

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0155 FOOTBALL

Massimo Gobbi

Born 1980

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0156 POET

Antonia Pozzi

1913 - 1938

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0157 FILM

Luciano Emmer

1918 - 2009

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0158 RELIGIOUS

The Nun of Monza

1575 - 1650

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0159 CONDUCTOR

Alberto Zedda

1928 - 2017

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0160 OPERA

Giulia Grisi

1811 - 1869

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0161 PAINTER

Giacomo Ceruti

1698 - 1767

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0162 ARISTOCRAT

Auguste, Duke of Leuchtenberg

1810 - 1835

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0163 BALLET

Alessandra Ferri

Born 1963

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0164 MATHEMATICIAN

Giovanni Ceva

1647 - 1734

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0165 SINGER

Betty Curtis

1936 - 2006

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0166 FOOTBALL

Andrea Consigli

Born 1987

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0167 SCHOLAR

Guido Calabresi

Born 1932

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0168 POLITICIAN

Archduke Rainer Ferdinand of Austria

1827 - 1913

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0169 POLITICIAN

Cesare Merzagora

1898 - 1991

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0170 FOOTBALL

Giuseppe Bergomi

Born 1963

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0171 JOURNALIST

Gianluigi Nuzzi

Born 1969

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0172 QUEEN

Adelaide of Austria

1822 - 1855

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0173 PAINTER

Pietro Annigoni

1910 - 1988

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0174 CONDUCTOR

Roberto Abbado

Born 1954

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0175 MATHEMATICIAN

Corrado Böhm

1923 - 2017

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0176 ARTIST

Sergio Toppi

1932 - 2012

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0177 PIANIST

Giorgio Gaslini

1929 - 2014

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0178 SOVEREIGN

Lucien Murat

1803 - 1878

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0179 CARDINAL

Giovanni Morone

1509 - 1580

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0180 ARTS

Luisa Casati

1881 - 1957

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0181 JOURNALIST

Anna Piaggi

1931 - 2012

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0182 ACTOR

Sandra Ceccarelli

Born 1967

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0183 DESIGNER

Joe Cesare Colombo

1930 - 1971

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0184 SPORT

Luca Paolini

Born 1977

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0185 ACTOR

Tommaso Salvini

1829 - 1915

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0186 ART HISTORIAN

Luca Beltrami

1854 - 1933

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0187 POET

Felice Cavallotti

1842 - 1898

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0188 PHOTOGRAPHER

Gabriele Basilico

1944 - 2013

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0189 FILM

Nelo Risi

1920 - 2015

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0190 RAPPER

Ghali (rapper)

Born 1993

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0191 FILM

Gabriele Lavia

Born 1942

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0192 RAPPER

Fabio Rovazzi

Born 1994

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0193 MATHEMATICIAN

Eugenio Calabi

Born 1923

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0194 WRESTLER

Madusa

Born 1964

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0195 ARISTOCRAT

Maria Theresa of Austria-Este, Queen of Sardinia

1773 - 1832

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0196 ARCHITECT

Stefano Boeri

Born 1956

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0197 CONDOTTIERO

Gian Giacomo Trivulzio

1440 - 1518

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0198 FOOTBALL

Andrea Caracciolo

Born 1981

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0199 FASHION DESIGNER

Stefano Gabbana

Born 1962

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0200 POLITICIAN

Gabriele Albertini

Born 1950

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0201 FOOTBALL

Giuseppe Dossena

Born 1958

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0202 ARCHITECT

Giorgio Grassi

Born 1935

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0203 COMIC

Sergio Bonelli

1932 - 2011

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0204 CONDUCTOR

Antonio Janigro

1918 - 1989

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0205 WRITER

Elisabetta Dami

Born 1958

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0206 WRITER

Paolo Cognetti

Born 1978

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0207 SON

Bruno Mussolini

1918 - 1941

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0208 COMMANDER

Raffaele Cadorna

1815 - 1897

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0209 PAINTER

Fornasetti

1913 - 1988

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0210 ARCHITECT

Ignazio Gardella

1905 - 1999

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0211 DUKE

Cecilia Gallerani

1473 - 1536

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0212 MATHEMATICIAN

Francesco Brioschi

1824 - 1897

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0213 PAINTER

Aligi Sassu

1912 - 2000

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0214 COOK

Gualtiero Marchesi

1930 - 2017

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0215 COMPOSER

Luca Francesconi

Born 1956

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0216 ACTOR

Benedicta Boccoli

Born 1966

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0217 ELECTRESS

Archduchess Maria Leopoldine of Austria-Este

1776 - 1848

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0218 BOXER

Giacobbe Fragomeni

Born 1969

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0219 SCREENWRITER

Marco Risi

Born 1951

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0220 SINGER

Luciano Tajoli

1920 - 1996

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0221 SCULPTOR

Camillo Rusconi

1658 - 1728

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0222 PAINTER

Fyodor Bruni

1799 - 1875

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0223 POLITICIAN

Gianroberto Casaleggio

1954 - 2016

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0224 ACTOR

Renato Scarpa

Born 1939

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0225 COMPOSER

Mario Nascimbene

1913 - 2002

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0226 SCULPTOR

Adolfo Wildt

1868 - 1931

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0227 COMPOSER

Giulio Ricordi

1840 - 1912

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0228 MODEL

Fabio Lanzoni

Born 1961

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0229 ACTOR

Renzo Palmer

1929 - 1988

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0230 SENATOR

Liliana Segre

Born 1930

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0231 ARCHITECT

Piero Portaluppi

1888 - 1967

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0232 FILM

Guido Brignone

1886 - 1959

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0233 FILM

Marco Brambilla

Born 1960

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0234 FILM

Angelo Rizzoli

1889 - 1970

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0235 CINEMA

Luca Bigazzi

Born 1958

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0236 PRIEST

Giovanni Visconti (archbishop of Milan)

1290 - 1354

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0237 SKIER

Federica Brignone

Born 1990

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0238 POLITICIAN

Irene Pivetti

Born 1963

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0239 SCULPTOR

Giannino Castiglioni

1884 - 1971

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0240 NOVELIST

Renata Adler

Born 1938

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0241 POLITICIAN

José Patiño

1666 - 1736

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0242 SINGER

Valerie Dore

Born 1963

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0243 WRITER

Bonvesin da la Riva

1240 - 1315

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0244 PRINCE

Franz Joseph I, Prince of Liechtenstein

1726 - 1781

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0245 CINEMA

Nicola Pecorini

Born 1957

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0246 PRIEST

Anselm of Lucca

1035 - 1086

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0247 ASTRONAUT

Paolo Nespoli

Born 1957

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0248 PAINTER

Cesare Cesariano

1475 - 1543

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0249 ACTOR

Annabella Incontrera

Born 1943

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0250 CONDUCTOR

Pino Presti

Born 1943

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0251 ARCHITECT

Camillo Agrippa

1535 - 1595

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0252 ACTOR

Maria Monti

Born 1935

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0253 FOOTBALL

Sergio Porrini

Born 1968

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0254 FEMINIST

Anna Maria Mozzoni

1837 - 1920

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0255 RAPPER

Fedez

Born 1989

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0256 SINGER

Eugenio Finardi

Born 1952

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0257 POET

Nanni Balestrini

1935 - 2019

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0258 HARPSICHORDIST

Maria Teresa Agnesi Pinottini

1720 - 1795

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0259 FILM

Eriprando Visconti

1932 - 1995

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0260 PLAYER

Lea Pericoli

Born 1935

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0261 JOURNALIST

Paolo Mieli

Born 1949

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0262 LORD

Azzone Visconti

1302 - 1339

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0263 ACTOR

Alberto Rabagliati

1906 - 1974

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0264 PRODUCER

Gué Pequeno

Born 1980

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0265 FOOTBALL

Davide Di Gennaro

Born 1988

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0266 WRITER

Michele Mari

Born 1955

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0267 CYCLIST

Giacomo Nizzolo

Born 1989

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0268 BISHOP

Luigi Padovese

1947 - 2010

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0269 SCULPTOR

Pompeo Leoni

1530 - 1608

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0270 PAINTER

Gerolamo Induno

1825 - 1890

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0271 POLITICIAN

Francesco Melzi d'Eril

1753 - 1816

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0272 STATESMAN

Emilio Visconti Venosta

1829 - 1914

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0273 ACTOR

Caterina Vertova

Born 1960

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0274 FILM

Franco Brusati

1922 - 1993

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0275 PHILOSOPHER

Giuseppe Ferrari (philosopher)

1811 - 1876

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0276 SINGER

Barbara Frittoli

Born 1967

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0277 CHAMBERLAIN

Gian Giacomo Medici

1498 - 1555

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0278 ACTOR

Cristina Gaioni

Born 1940

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0279 POLITICIAN

Giorgio La Malfa

Born 1939

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0280 COMICS

Gian Luigi Bonelli

1908 - 2001

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0281 ARTIST

Pippa Bacca

1974 - 2008

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0282 ACTOR

Massimo Dapporto

Born 1945

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0283 COMPOSER

Enrico Mainardi

1897 - 1976

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0284 DRIVER

Michele Alboreto

1956 - 2001

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0285 PRIEST

Alexander Sauli

1534 - 1592

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0286 JOCKEY

Frankie Dettori

Born 1970

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0287 FILM

Massimo Dallamano

1917 - 1976

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0288 PRESENTER

Maria De Filippi

Born 1961

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0289 WRITER

Alessandro Verri

1741 - 1816

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0290 ACTOR

Tino Carraro

1910 - 1995

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0291 ENGINEER

Enrico Forlanini

1848 - 1930

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0292 POLITICIAN

Federico Confalonieri

1785 - 1846

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0293 FOOTBALL

Luciano Castellini

Born 1945

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0294 POET

Giovanni Raboni

1932 - 2004

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0295 ARCHITECT

Benedetta Tagliabue

Born 1963

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0296 PHYSICIAN

Giuseppe Francesco Borri

1627 - 1695

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0297 COMPOSER

Roberto Cacciapaglia

Born 1953

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0298 THEATRE

Pier Luigi Pizzi

Born 1930

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0299 ENTREPRENEUR

Marina Berlusconi

Born 1966

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0300 FILM

Luigi Veronesi

1908 - 1998

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