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.
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Nino Rota
1911 - 1979
Giovanni Battista Sammartini
1700 - 1775
Giuseppe Sammartini
1695 - 1750
Luca Francesconi
Born 1956
Mario Nascimbene
1913 - 2002
Giulio Ricordi
1840 - 1912
Enrico Mainardi
1897 - 1976
Roberto Cacciapaglia
Born 1953
Giacomo Manzoni
Born 1932
Bruno Bettinelli
1913 - 2004
Niccolò Castiglioni
1932 - 1996
Chiara Margarita Cozzolani
1602 - 1677
Francesco Zappa
1717 - 1803
Ernesto Cavallini
1807 - 1874
Joan Ambrosio Dalza
Died 1508
Maurizio Fabrizio
Born 1952
Fiorenzo Carpi
1918 - 1997
Celso Valli
Born 1950
Riccardo Malipiero
1914 - 2003
Carlo Ambrogio Lonati
1645 - 1710
Alfredo Antonini
1901 - 1983
Giovanni Battista Lampugnani
1708 - 1788
Ignazio Albertini
1644 - 1685
Mario Lavezzi
Born 1948
Carlo Monza
1735 - 1801
Edoardo Mascheroni
1852 - 1941
Carlo Donida
1920 - 1998
Davide Anzaghi
Born 1936
Francesco Rognoni Taeggio
1570 - 1625
Rocco Tanica
Born 1964
Franco Mussida
Born 1947
Marco Tutino
Born 1954
Elisabetta Brusa
Born 1954
Vittorio Gelmetti
1926 - 1992
Vittorio Gnecchi
1876 - 1954
Arturo Buzzi-Peccia
1854 - 1943
Vittorio Ghielmi
Born 1968
Aldo Finzi (composer)
1897 - 1945
Bruno De Filippi
1930 - 2010
Walter Maioli
Born 1950
Cecilia Chailly
Born 1960
Carlo Grua
1700 - 1773
Michelangelo Grancini
1605 - 1669
Carlo Yvon
1798 - 1854
Pietro Paolo Borrono
1490 - 1570
Giorgio Antoniotto
1681 - 1776
Alberto Soresina
1911 - 2007
Massimiliano Pani
Born 1963
Francesco Antonio Urio
1631 - 1719
Ezio Leoni
1927 - 2015
Luca Mosca
Born 1957
Giulia Recli
1884 - 1970
Giuseppe Ferdinando Brivio
1699 - 1758
Tony De Vita
1932 - 1998
Gioseppe Caimo
1545 - 1584
Piero Milesi
1953 - 2011
Paolo Giorza
1832 - 1914
Pietro Borradori
Born 1965
Dario Palermo
Born 1970
Maurizio Pisati
Born 1959
Gianfranco Monaldi
1930 - 2007
Giorgio Colombo Taccani
Born 1961
Antonio Nava
1775 - 1826
Vittorio Mascheroni
1895 - 1972
Bernardo Aliprandi
1710 - 1792
Vittorio Fellegara
1927 - 2011
Nello Segurini
1910 - 1988
Agostino Guerrieri
1630 - 1685
Alba Rosa Viëtor
1889 - 1979
Alberto Baldan Bembo
1948 - 2017
Massimo Colombo
Born 1961
Oscar Bianchi
Born 1975
Mirko Fait
Born 1965
Carlo Ignazio Monza
1685 - 1739
Tiziano Tononi
Born 1956
Jean Ven Robert Hal
Born 1970
Andrea Stefano Fiorè
1686 - 1732
Walter Malgoni
1924 - 2008
Ignazio Balbi
1696 - 1773
Enea Gardana
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Giampaolo Testoni
Born 1957
Julio César Brero
1908 - 1973
Roberto Negri
1940 - 2006
Paolo Castaldi (compositore)
Born 1930
Nando De Luca
Born 1940
Niccolò Mestrino
1748 - 1789
Luciano Migliavacca
1919 - 2013
Gilberto Ziglioli
Born 1948
Umberto Rotondi
1937 - 2007
Rafael Trabucchelli
Died 2006
Arnaldo Galliera
1871 - 1934
Damiano Dattoli
Born 1945
María Sabater Gerli
1871 - 1942
Livio Magnini
Born 1973
Andrea Cima
1580 - 1627
Nino Rastelli
1913 - 1962
Federico Vaona
Born 1973
Giulio Litta
1822 - 1891
Bruno Zanolini
Born 1945
Giuseppe Besozzi
1686 - 1760
Filibello
1900 - 1995
Ambrose Lupo
Died 1591
Jacopo Baboni-Schilingi
Born 1971
Guido Carlo Visconti di Modrone
1881 - 1967
Gigi Cichellero
1923 - 1979
Giacomo Conti (Komponist)
1754 - 1805
Sebastiano Cognolato
Born 1969
Vittorio Paltrinieri
1924 - 2018
Giorgio Cocilovo
Born 1956
Max Meazza
Born 1952
Giovanni Luigi Bazzoni
1816 - 1871
Romolo Corona
1893 - 1965
Guido Mazzon
Born 1946
Alessandro Bosetti
Born 1973
Riccardo Bianchini
1946 - 2003
Diego Maggi
Born 1977
Chicco Santulli
Born 1958
Melchiorre Chiesa
1716 - 1783
Giovanni Francesco Maria Marchi
Died 1740
Silvio Capeccia
Born 1957
Gino De Stefani
Born 1956
Giacomo Monzino
1772 - 1854
Giancarlo Colombini
1906 - 1991
Emilio Ghezzi
Born 1955
Antonio Eros Negri
Born 1964
Angelo Musco (compositore)
1925 - 1969
Ray Tarantino
Born 1976
Ermanno Parazzini
Died 2018
Antonio Maria Turati
1603 - 1650
Bruno Tavernese
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Pietro Antonio de Mojana
1800 - 1870
Salvatore Fabrizio
Born 1948
Alessandro Boriani
Born 1971
Luca Spagnoletti
Born 1954
Michele Fedrigotti
Born 1957
Mike Painter
Born 1964
Gianluca Battaglion
Born 1965
Giorgio Logiri
Born 1946
Giuseppe Enzo Palanti
1922 - 1981
Clay Remini
Born 1958
Tommaso Leddi
Born 1955
Ettore Salati
Born 1974
Renato Fumagalli
Born 1945
Giovanna Colombi
Born 1916
Johannes Bickler
Born 1972
Andrea Priora
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