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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  • Music
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Showing 90 of 5,707 notable people

0098 PHYSICIAN

Agostino Gemelli

1878 - 1959

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0325 PRIEST

Angelo Rotta

1872 - 1965

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0498 CARDINAL

Camillo Caccia Dominioni

1877 - 1946

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0593 ACTOR

Dina Galli

1877 - 1951

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0609 POET

Paolo Buzzi

1874 - 1956

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0671 BALLET

Carlotta Zambelli

1875 - 1968

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0697 ANARCHIST

Luigi Bertoni

1872 - 1947

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0725 WRITER

Laura Orvieto

1876 - 1955

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0848 OFFICER

Alberto Pariani

1876 - 1955

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0962 COMPOSER

Vittorio Gnecchi

1876 - 1954

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0977 INDUSTRIALIST

Ettore Conti

1871 - 1972

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1024 WRITER

Tommaso Gallarati Scotti

1878 - 1966

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1050 LAWYER

Ludovico Barassi

1873 - 1961

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1060 CINEMA

Luca Comerio

1878 - 1940

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1064 ECONOMIST

Gino Zappa

1879 - 1960

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1268 RACER

Alessandro Anzani

1877 - 1956

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1374 POLITICIAN

Giuseppe De Capitani D'Arzago

1870 - 1945

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1406 EDUCATION

Giuseppina Pizzigoni

1870 - 1947

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1417 TRADE UNION

Gino Piva

1873 - 1946

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1457 ENTREPRENEUR

Leopoldo Parodi Delfino

1875 - 1945

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1632 MILITAR

Melchiade Gabba

1874 - 1952

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1635 LAWYER

Federico Cammeo

1872 - 1939

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1638 ORIENTALIST

Eugenio Griffini

1878 - 1925

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1737 SCULPTOR

Michele Vedani

1874 - 1969

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1772 PAINTER

Carlo Paolo Agazzi

1870 - 1922

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1807 PAINTER

Giuseppe Solenghi

1879 - 1944

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1870 SCREENWRITER

Eugenio Perego

1876 - 1944

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1895 SPORT

Romulo Bruni

1871 - 1939

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1945 PHYSICIAN

Ludovico Necchi

1876 - 1930

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2002 ENTREPRENEUR

Giuseppe Visconti di Modrone

1879 - 1941

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2115 PAINTER

Paolo Mezzanotte

1878 - 1969

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2139 ACTOR

Mary Cleo Tarlarini

1878 - 1954

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2203 NATURALIST

Marco De Marchi (naturalista)

1872 - 1936

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2205 PAINTER

Marcel Jefferys

1872 - 1924

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2587 COMPOSER

Arnaldo Galliera

1871 - 1934

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2648 POLITICIAN

Angelo Mauri

1873 - 1936

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2655 PAINTER

Fausto Eliseo Coppini

1870 - 1945

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2690 COMPOSER

María Sabater Gerli

1871 - 1942

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2705 ANATOMIST

Antonio Pensa

1874 - 1970

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2799 ARCHITECT

Federico Frigerio (architetto)

1873 - 1959

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2856 PUBLISHER

Emilio Bestetti

1870 - 1954

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3005 SCULPTOR

Guido Righetti

1875 - 1958

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3015 ENTREPRENEUR

Uberto Visconti di Modrone

1871 - 1923

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3026 POLITICIAN

Adriano Alberti

1870 - 1955

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3035 ACTOR

Luigi Moneta

1870 - 1964

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3061 POLITICIAN

Ruggero Dollfus

1876 - 1948

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3093 ENGINEER

Arnaldo Gardella

1873 - 1928

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3181 ENTREPRENEUR

Emilio Bozzi

1873 - 1936

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3231 PAINTER

Innocente Cantinotti

1877 - 1940

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3307 MOUNTAINEER

Celestino Usuelli

1877 - 1926

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3357 PAINTER

Maria Vinca

1878 - 1939

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3381 FOOTBALL

Giannino Camperio

1876 - 1913

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3407 PAINTER

Richard Harlfinger

1873 - 1948

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3443 PAINTER

Attilio Andreoli

1877 - 1950

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3760 PAINTER

Enea Tallone

1876 - 1937

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3853 PHYSICIAN

Emilio Alfieri

1874 - 1949

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3874 SPORT

Luigi Airaldi

1870 - 1949

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3876 WRITER

Lorenzo Maria Balconi

1878 - 1969

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3884 POLITICIAN

Febo Borromeo d'Adda

1871 - 1945

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3928 ENTREPRENEUR

Guido Ravasi

1877 - 1946

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3934 DRIVER

Arturo Mercanti

1875 - 1936

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3997 GEOGRAPHER

Leonardo Ricci (geografo)

1877 - 1967

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4068 POLITICIAN

Ettore Bocconi

1871 - 1932

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4107 FOOTBALL

Giulio Cederna

1876 - 1939

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4272 PAINTER

Angelo Santagostino

1878 - 1947

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4290 FILANTROPA

Giuditta Sommaruga

1875 - 1964

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4295 NATURALIST

Pietro Rossi (1871-1950)

1871 - 1950

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4346 OPERA

Arturo Melocchi

1879 - 1960

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4352 PAINTER

Pompilio Seveso

1877 - 1949

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4429 ARCHIVIST

Giovanni Vittani

1875 - 1938

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4477 LAWYER

Luigi Ansbacher

1878 - 1956

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4479 PAINTER

Felice Abrami

1872 - 1919

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4507 POLITICIAN

Pier Gaetano Venino

1878 - 1955

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4812 FOOTBALL

Agostino Recalcati

1879 - 1935

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4873 PUBLISHER

Arnaldo de Mohr

1874 - 1921

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4882 POLITICIAN

Alessandro Poss

1876 - 1957

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4964 POLITICIAN

Girolamo Brandolini

1870 - 1935

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5018 FOOTBALL

Antonio Dubini

1877 - 1931

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5060 DIVER

Carlo Bonfanti

1875 - 1933

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5086 SPORT

Giuseppe Singrossi

Born 1879

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5096 FOOTBALL

Guido Valerio

1876 - 1943

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5100 POLITICIAN

Carlo Martinelli (politico)

1872 - 1926

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5107 SPORT

Giuseppe Laveni

Born 1877

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5122 SPORT

Narciso Pasta

1873 - 1944

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5145 SPORT

Carlo Panza

Born 1877

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5159 ENTREPRENEUR

Elena Lanzoni Prevost

1878 - 1965

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5216 TEACHER

Carlo Boselli

1876 - 1946

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5375 POLITICIAN

Joseph Cotter

1872 - 1937

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5412 PHILANTHROPIST

Alice Noerbel

1872 - 1941

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5515 MILITAR

Ernesto Paselli

1875 - 1918

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