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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  • Film & TV
  • Art & Design
  • Music
  • Politics & Law
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Showing 77 of 5,707 notable people

0031 QUEEN

Josephine of Leuchtenberg

1807 - 1876

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0072 PHILOSOPHER

Carlo Cattaneo

1801 - 1869

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0088 JOURNALIST

Cristina Trivulzio Belgiojoso

1808 - 1871

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0178 SOVEREIGN

Lucien Murat

1803 - 1878

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0339 ARISTOCRAT

Eugénie de Beauharnais

1808 - 1847

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0362 COMPOSER

Ernesto Cavallini

1807 - 1874

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0384 ESSAYIST

Hortense Allart

1801 - 1879

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0497 SINGER

Giuditta Grisi

1805 - 1840

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0553 BOTANIST

Giuseppe Gabriel Balsamo-Crivelli

1800 - 1874

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0613 BOTANIST

Vincenzo de Cesati

1806 - 1883

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0665 PRIEST

Angelo Ramazzotti

1800 - 1861

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0727 ARCHITECT

Enrico Alvino

1809 - 1872

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0796 BOTANIST

Giuseppe De Notaris

1805 - 1877

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0808 ECONOMIST

Cristoforo Negri

1809 - 1896

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0813 SURGEON

Francesco Rizzoli

1809 - 1880

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0840 POLITICIAN

Giuditta Bellerio Sidoli

1804 - 1871

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0886 PHYSICIAN

Henri Conneau

1803 - 1877

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0902 SINGER

Giuseppina Ronzi de Begnis

1800 - 1853

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1023 MISSIONARY

Samuel Mazzuchelli

1806 - 1864

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1091 WRITER

Giovanni Rajberti

1805 - 1861

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1121 CONDUCTOR

Eugenio Cavallini

1806 - 1881

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1146 SINGER

Adelaide Tosi

1800 - 1859

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1191 CHOREOGRAPHER

Amalia Brugnoli

1802 - 1892

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1201 OPERA

Maria Caterina Rosalbina Caradori-Allan

1800 - 1865

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1296 INTELLECTUEL

Adelaide Cairoli

1806 - 1871

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1436 ENTOMOLOGIST

Ferdinando Arborio Gattinara di Breme

1807 - 1869

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1447 NATURALIST

Giuseppe De Cristoforis

1803 - 1837

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1464 PAINTER

Carlo Bellosio

1801 - 1849

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1465 PAINTER

Federico Moja

1802 - 1885

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1504 PRIEST

Carlo Caccia Dominioni

1802 - 1866

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1838 ENTOMOLOGIST

Antonio Villa

1806 - 1885

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2045 POLITICIAN

Giacomo Balbi Piovera

1800 - 1878

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2075 POLITICIAN

Francesco Arese Lucini (senatore)

1805 - 1881

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2107 PLAYWRIGHT

Giacinto Battaglia

1803 - 1861

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2128 POLITICIAN

Luigi Barbiano di Belgioioso

1803 - 1885

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2137 PAINTER

Pompeo Calvi

1806 - 1884

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2212 PAINTER

Cesare Poggi

1803 - 1859

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2213 PAINTER

Giuseppe Brioschi

1802 - 1856

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2269 POLITICIAN

Achille Mauri

1806 - 1883

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2391 PHOTOGRAPHER

Luigi Sacchi

1805 - 1861

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2525 FILLE

Lætitia Bonaparte

1804 - 1871

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2684 POET

Giovanni Ventura (poeta)

1800 - 1869

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2941 WRITER

Gaspare Ordoño de Rosales

1802 - 1887

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3046 SINGER

Isabella Fabbrica

1802 - 1860

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3134 POLITICIAN

Carlo Possenti

1806 - 1872

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3246 SCULPTOR

Giovanni Bellezza

1807 - 1876

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3368 POLITICIAN

Eugène Auguste de Caffarelli

1806 - 1878

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3372 EDUCATOR

Giuseppe Sacchi (pedagogista)

1804 - 1891

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3422 LITERARY

Francesco Cusani

1802 - 1879

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3499 POLITICIAN

Francesco Annoni di Cerro

1804 - 1872

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3507 POLITICIAN

Giuseppe Durini

1800 - 1850

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3526 PHYSICIAN

Giuseppe Ferrario (medico)

1802 - 1870

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3550 ARCHIVIST

Luigi Osio

1803 - 1873

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3635 SINGER

Fanny Eckerlin

1802 - 1842

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3636 SINGER

Edmond Lhuillier

1803 - 1890

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3669 SINGER

Julius Pellegrini

1806 - 1858

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3671 PATRIOTA

Carlo Bellerio

1800 - 1886

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3672 WRITER

Francesco Regli

1802 - 1866

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3715 ACTOR

Amalia Bettini

1809 - 1894

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3950 POLITICIAN

Giovanni Lauzi

1800 - 1885

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3995 MUSIC

Gaetano Nava

1802 - 1875

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4099 SCULPTOR

Giovanni Antonio Labus

1806 - 1857

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4226 CHEMIST

Antonio Kramer

1806 - 1853

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4249 POLITICIAN

Ignazio Alessandro Pallavicini

1800 - 1871

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4260 PATRIOTA

Teresa Berra

1804 - 1879

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4342 PRIEST

Carlo Macchi

1802 - 1873

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4366 PRESBYTER

Giuseppe Riva (presbitero)

1803 - 1876

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4408 COMPOSER

Pietro Antonio de Mojana

1800 - 1870

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4639 POLITICIAN

Giuseppe Asperti

Born 1807

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4977 ENGINEER

Giuseppe Cadolini

1805 - 1858

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4998 PLAYWRIGHT

Napoleone Giotti

1803 - 1897

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5031 POLITICIAN

Camillo Casati

1805 - 1869

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5043 POLITICIAN

Tommaso Spinola

1803 - 1879

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5161 SINGER

Pompeo Belgiojoso

1800 - 1875

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5213 POLITICIAN

Giovanni Battista Nappi

1800 - 1871

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5296 POLITICIAN

Eugenio Venini

1807 - 1884

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5319 TEACHER

Giuseppe Cossa

1803 - 1885

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