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.
One face per century — the most globally famous figure born in Milano during each.
Notable Births by Decade
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What Milano Is Known For
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Football is Milano's biggest profession — 11% of all notables (604).
Milano over-indexes on entrepreneur — 3.6× the global rate.
Milano under-produces politician — only 0.7× the global rate.
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.
- Sports
- Writing
- Film & TV
- Art & Design
- Music
- Politics & Law
- Other
Caravaggio
1571 - 1610
Silvio Berlusconi
Born 1936
Adriano Celentano
Born 1938
Alessandro Manzoni
1785 - 1873
Luchino Visconti
1906 - 1976
Giuseppe Arcimboldo
1527 - 1593
Claudio Abbado
1933 - 2014
Bettino Craxi
1934 - 2000
Cesare Beccaria
1738 - 1794
Nino Rota
1911 - 1979
Gian Maria Volontè
1933 - 1994
Pope Pius IV
1499 - 1565
Greta Scacchi
Born 1960
Tinto Brass
Born 1933
Maria Gaetana Agnesi
1719 - 1799
Aldo Rossi
1931 - 1997
Paolo Maldini
Born 1968
Caterina Sforza
1463 - 1509
Ettore Bugatti
1882 - 1947
Alda Merini
1931 - 2009
Dino Risi
1917 - 2008
Matteo Salvini
Born 1973
Marco Ferreri
1928 - 1997
Carlo Emilio Gadda
1893 - 1973
Lucia Bosè
1931 - 2020
Valentina Cortese
1923 - 2019
Gio Ponti
1891 - 1979
Ornella Vanoni
Born 1934
Maurizio Pollini
Born 1942
Giorgio Gaber
1939 - 2003
Josephine of Leuchtenberg
1807 - 1876
Mariangela Melato
1941 - 2013
Alberto Ascari
1918 - 1955
Bruno Munari
1907 - 1998
Enzo Jannacci
1935 - 2013
Didius Julianus
133 - 193
Mattia De Sciglio
Born 1992
Giuseppe Castiglione (Jesuit painter)
1688 - 1766
Alberto Lattuada
1914 - 2005
Francesca Schiavone
Born 1980
Giangiacomo Feltrinelli
1926 - 1972
Giuseppe Meazza
1910 - 1979
Riccardo Montolivo
Born 1985
Gala (singer)
Born 1975
Diego Abatantuono
Born 1955
Oliviero Toscani
Born 1942
Frédéric Ozanam
1813 - 1853
Bonaventura Cavalieri
1598 - 1647
Riccardo Chailly
Born 1953
Adriana Asti
Born 1933
Enrico Maria Salerno
1926 - 1994
Miuccia Prada
Born 1948
Enrico Ruggeri
Born 1957
Ernesto Teodoro Moneta
1833 - 1918
Federico Borromeo
1564 - 1631
Guido Crepax
1933 - 2003
Filippo Maria Visconti
1392 - 1447
Umberto Veronesi
1925 - 2016
Agostina Belli
Born 1947
Giovanni Battista Sammartini
1700 - 1775
Bianca Maria Sforza
1472 - 1510
Pope Celestine IV
1180 - 1241
Fausto Bertinotti
Born 1940
Enrico Bombieri
Born 1940
Bernabò Visconti
1323 - 1385
Francesco Melzi
1491 - 1568
Isa Miranda
1909 - 1982
Amélie of Leuchtenberg
1812 - 1873
Mario Merz
1925 - 2003
Prince Henry of Battenberg
1858 - 1896
Francis IV, Duke of Modena
1779 - 1846
Carlo Cattaneo
1801 - 1869
Marco Delvecchio
Born 1973
Biagio Antonacci
Born 1963
Cristina Scabbia
Born 1972
Marco Tullio Giordana
Born 1950
Bruno Bozzetto
Born 1938
Roberto Calvi
1920 - 1982
Fabrizio Bentivoglio
Born 1957
Maximilian Sforza
1493 - 1530
Giovanni Antonio Boltraffio
1467 - 1516
Sandra Mondaini
1931 - 2010
Andrea Solari
1460 - 1524
Silvia Colloca
Born 1977
Valentina Visconti, Duchess of Orléans
1366 - 1408
Andrea Appiani
1754 - 1817
Francesco II Sforza
1495 - 1535
Cristina Trivulzio Belgiojoso
1808 - 1871
Giuseppe Pinelli
1928 - 1969
Daniele Gatti
Born 1961
Stefano Bollani
Born 1972
Andrea Alciato
1492 - 1550
Antonio Raimondi
1826 - 1890
Ricky Tognazzi
Born 1955
Pietro Verri
1728 - 1797
Cristian Brocchi
Born 1976
Tony Renis
Born 1938
Agostino Gemelli
1878 - 1959
Gianfrancesco Guarnieri
1934 - 2006
Rembrandt Bugatti
1884 - 1916
Franca Valeri
1920 - 2020
Walter Zenga
Born 1960
Malika Ayane
Born 1984
Massimo Vignelli
1931 - 2014
Sonia Bergamasco
Born 1966
Amelita Galli-Curci
1882 - 1963
Achille Castiglioni
1918 - 2002
Cesare Siepi
1923 - 2010
Bramantino
1465 - 1530
Andrea De Carlo
Born 1952
Max Pezzali
Born 1967
Alessandro Mendini
1931 - 2019
Giorgio Manganelli
1922 - 1990
Giovanni Berchet
1783 - 1851
Angela Finocchiaro
Born 1955
Maurizio Nichetti
Born 1948
Gianluca Grignani
Born 1972
Letizia Moratti
Born 1949
Carla Fracci
Born 1936
Caecilius Statius
-230 - -168
Carlo Cudicini
Born 1973
Lorenzo Campeggio
1474 - 1539
Giovanni Arrighi
1937 - 2009
Carlo Porta
1775 - 1821
Giacomo Biffi
1928 - 2015
Vittorio Mussolini
1916 - 1997
Fede Galizia
1578 - 1630
Luca Antonini
Born 1982
Giuseppe Mercalli
1850 - 1914
Mario Bellini
Born 1935
Mogol (lyricist)
Born 1936
Maria Grazia Buccella
Born 1940
Elena Cattaneo
Born 1962
Vittorio Hösle
Born 1960
Michele Soavi
Born 1957
J-Ax
Born 1972
Carlo Bugatti
1856 - 1940
Gian Paolo Lomazzo
1538 - 1592
Giuliano Pisapia
Born 1949
Silvio Soldini
Born 1958
Povia
Born 1972
Federico Dimarco
Born 1997
Gianandrea Noseda
Born 1964
Gino Bramieri
1928 - 1996
Filippo Taglioni
1777 - 1871
Samantha Cristoforetti
Born 1977
Enrico Baj
1924 - 2003
Marta Abba
1900 - 1988
Marco Zanuso
1916 - 2001
Giovanni Ambrogio de Predis
1455 - 1509
Vico Magistretti
1920 - 2006
Galeazzo II Visconti
1320 - 1378
Armando Cossutta
1926 - 2015
Giuseppe Sammartini
1695 - 1750
Massimo Gobbi
Born 1980
Antonia Pozzi
1913 - 1938
Luciano Emmer
1918 - 2009
The Nun of Monza
1575 - 1650
Alberto Zedda
1928 - 2017
Giulia Grisi
1811 - 1869
Giacomo Ceruti
1698 - 1767
Auguste, Duke of Leuchtenberg
1810 - 1835
Alessandra Ferri
Born 1963
Giovanni Ceva
1647 - 1734
Betty Curtis
1936 - 2006
Andrea Consigli
Born 1987
Guido Calabresi
Born 1932
Archduke Rainer Ferdinand of Austria
1827 - 1913
Cesare Merzagora
1898 - 1991
Giuseppe Bergomi
Born 1963
Gianluigi Nuzzi
Born 1969
Adelaide of Austria
1822 - 1855
Pietro Annigoni
1910 - 1988
Roberto Abbado
Born 1954
Corrado Böhm
1923 - 2017
Sergio Toppi
1932 - 2012
Giorgio Gaslini
1929 - 2014
Lucien Murat
1803 - 1878
Giovanni Morone
1509 - 1580
Luisa Casati
1881 - 1957
Anna Piaggi
1931 - 2012
Sandra Ceccarelli
Born 1967
Joe Cesare Colombo
1930 - 1971
Luca Paolini
Born 1977
Tommaso Salvini
1829 - 1915
Luca Beltrami
1854 - 1933
Felice Cavallotti
1842 - 1898
Gabriele Basilico
1944 - 2013
Nelo Risi
1920 - 2015
Ghali (rapper)
Born 1993
Gabriele Lavia
Born 1942
Fabio Rovazzi
Born 1994
Eugenio Calabi
Born 1923
Madusa
Born 1964
Maria Theresa of Austria-Este, Queen of Sardinia
1773 - 1832
Stefano Boeri
Born 1956
Gian Giacomo Trivulzio
1440 - 1518
Andrea Caracciolo
Born 1981
Stefano Gabbana
Born 1962
Gabriele Albertini
Born 1950
Giuseppe Dossena
Born 1958
Giorgio Grassi
Born 1935
Sergio Bonelli
1932 - 2011
Antonio Janigro
1918 - 1989
Elisabetta Dami
Born 1958
Paolo Cognetti
Born 1978
Bruno Mussolini
1918 - 1941
Raffaele Cadorna
1815 - 1897
Fornasetti
1913 - 1988
Ignazio Gardella
1905 - 1999
Cecilia Gallerani
1473 - 1536
Francesco Brioschi
1824 - 1897
Aligi Sassu
1912 - 2000
Gualtiero Marchesi
1930 - 2017
Luca Francesconi
Born 1956
Benedicta Boccoli
Born 1966
Archduchess Maria Leopoldine of Austria-Este
1776 - 1848
Giacobbe Fragomeni
Born 1969
Marco Risi
Born 1951
Luciano Tajoli
1920 - 1996
Camillo Rusconi
1658 - 1728
Fyodor Bruni
1799 - 1875
Gianroberto Casaleggio
1954 - 2016
Renato Scarpa
Born 1939
Mario Nascimbene
1913 - 2002
Adolfo Wildt
1868 - 1931
Giulio Ricordi
1840 - 1912
Fabio Lanzoni
Born 1961
Renzo Palmer
1929 - 1988
Liliana Segre
Born 1930
Piero Portaluppi
1888 - 1967
Guido Brignone
1886 - 1959
Marco Brambilla
Born 1960
Angelo Rizzoli
1889 - 1970
Luca Bigazzi
Born 1958
Giovanni Visconti (archbishop of Milan)
1290 - 1354
Federica Brignone
Born 1990
Irene Pivetti
Born 1963
Giannino Castiglioni
1884 - 1971
Renata Adler
Born 1938
José Patiño
1666 - 1736
Valerie Dore
Born 1963
Bonvesin da la Riva
1240 - 1315
Franz Joseph I, Prince of Liechtenstein
1726 - 1781
Nicola Pecorini
Born 1957
Anselm of Lucca
1035 - 1086
Paolo Nespoli
Born 1957
Cesare Cesariano
1475 - 1543
Annabella Incontrera
Born 1943
Pino Presti
Born 1943
Camillo Agrippa
1535 - 1595
Maria Monti
Born 1935
Sergio Porrini
Born 1968
Anna Maria Mozzoni
1837 - 1920
Fedez
Born 1989
Eugenio Finardi
Born 1952
Nanni Balestrini
1935 - 2019
Maria Teresa Agnesi Pinottini
1720 - 1795
Eriprando Visconti
1932 - 1995
Lea Pericoli
Born 1935
Paolo Mieli
Born 1949
Azzone Visconti
1302 - 1339
Alberto Rabagliati
1906 - 1974
Gué Pequeno
Born 1980
Davide Di Gennaro
Born 1988
Michele Mari
Born 1955
Giacomo Nizzolo
Born 1989
Luigi Padovese
1947 - 2010
Pompeo Leoni
1530 - 1608
Gerolamo Induno
1825 - 1890
Francesco Melzi d'Eril
1753 - 1816
Emilio Visconti Venosta
1829 - 1914
Caterina Vertova
Born 1960
Franco Brusati
1922 - 1993
Giuseppe Ferrari (philosopher)
1811 - 1876
Barbara Frittoli
Born 1967
Gian Giacomo Medici
1498 - 1555
Cristina Gaioni
Born 1940
Giorgio La Malfa
Born 1939
Gian Luigi Bonelli
1908 - 2001
Pippa Bacca
1974 - 2008
Massimo Dapporto
Born 1945
Enrico Mainardi
1897 - 1976
Michele Alboreto
1956 - 2001
Alexander Sauli
1534 - 1592
Frankie Dettori
Born 1970
Massimo Dallamano
1917 - 1976
Maria De Filippi
Born 1961
Alessandro Verri
1741 - 1816
Tino Carraro
1910 - 1995
Enrico Forlanini
1848 - 1930
Federico Confalonieri
1785 - 1846
Luciano Castellini
Born 1945
Giovanni Raboni
1932 - 2004
Benedetta Tagliabue
Born 1963
Giuseppe Francesco Borri
1627 - 1695
Roberto Cacciapaglia
Born 1953
Pier Luigi Pizzi
Born 1930
Marina Berlusconi
Born 1966
Luigi Veronesi
1908 - 1998