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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- Film & TV
- Art & Design
- Music
- Politics & Law
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Pierfrancesco Gamba
Born 1962
Mario Marina
1897 - 1964
Walter Armanini
1937 - 1999
Carlo Visconti (congiurato)
Died 1476
Teodoro Bossi
Died 1449
Claudio D'Amico
Born 1965
Giovanni Barbavara di Gravellona
1813 - 1896
Emanuele D'Adda
1847 - 1911
Lorenzo Cusani
1864 - 1925
Maurizio Murelli
Born 1954
Alessandro Annoni
1770 - 1825
Girolamo d'Adda
1815 - 1881
Gerolamo Pellicanò
Born 1949
Pier Gaetano Venino
1878 - 1955
Rubaconte da Mandello
1170 - 1238
Giuseppe Robecchi (politico 1825-1898)
1825 - 1898
Simone Arrigoni
1463 - 1507
Walter Fontana (politico)
1919 - 1992
Luigi Gatti (politico)
1913 - 1945
Giulio Padulli
1869 - 1932
Pompeo Bariola
1824 - 1894
Augusto Rocchi
Born 1952
Patrizia Arnaboldi
Born 1946
Emanuele Borromeo
1821 - 1906
Alessandro Porro (politico)
1814 - 1879
Giuseppe Asperti
Born 1807
Andrea Orsini
Born 1959
Vittorio Parisi (politico)
Born 1936
Ferdinando Resta Pallavicino
1860 - 1933
Giorgio Milani
1927 - 2005
Luigi De Andreis
1857 - 1929
Enrico da Monza
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Giorgio Marzola
1899 - 1963
Riccardo Versari
1865 - 1945
Marisa Bedoni
Born 1944
Franco Anselmi (partigiano)
1915 - 1945
Ornella Piloni
Born 1947
Carlo Cornaggia Medici Castiglioni
1851 - 1935
Luchino Dal Verme (1838-1911)
1838 - 1911
Antonio Civelli
1850 - 1930
Alessandro Besana
1814 - 1897
Urbano Aletti
1923 - 2019
Roberto Baldassari
Born 1938
Maurilio Frigerio
Born 1944
Alberto Torazzi
Born 1963
Alessandro Colucci
Born 1974
Alessandro Poss
1876 - 1957
Raffaele Morese
Born 1942
Giovanni Brambilla
1910 - 1994
Vittorio Olcese
1925 - 1999
Lodovico Gavazzi
1857 - 1944
Carlo Prinetti
1820 - 1911
Graziano Tubi
1825 - 1904
Girolamo Brandolini
1870 - 1935
Maria Teresa Coppo Gavazzi
Born 1937
Umberto Alberici
1905 - 1997
Antonio Busca Serbelloni
1799 - 1870
Luigi Melzi
1554 - 1629
Antonio Baslini (senatore)
1869 - 1943
Rinaldo Casati
1844 - 1898
Luca Bagliani
Born 1959
Camillo Casati
1805 - 1869
Tommaso Spinola
1803 - 1879
Giulio Bianchi
1840 - 1898
Conte Borella
Died 1498
Matteo Luigi Bianchi
Born 1979
Filippo Milone
Born 1952
Carlo Martinelli (politico)
1872 - 1926
Alarico Carrassi
1921 - 2006
Teodoro Pertusati
1836 - 1897
Giovanni Galeazzo Frigerio
1841 - 1911
Felice Manfredi
1819 - 1895
Giuseppe Besozzi
1837 - 1907
Giorgio Roilo
Born 1947
Carlo Polli
1928 - 2007
Giuseppe Negri (politico)
1779 - 1862
Gian Giacomo Trivulzio, VI marchese di Sesto Ulter
1774 - 1831
Carlo Taverna
1817 - 1871
Elisa Siragusa
Born 1986
Emilio Sailer
1865 - 1945
Giovanni Battista Nappi
1800 - 1871
Gabrio Serbelloni, III duca di San Gabrio
1693 - 1774
Fabio Semenza
1924 - 2016
Elio Quercioli
1926 - 2001
Aurelio Ferrari
Born 1948
Ignazio Prinetti
1814 - 1867
Eugenio Venini
1807 - 1884
Luca Toccalini
Born 1990
Gian Giacomo Cavazzi della Somaglia
1869 - 1918
Graziano Musella
Born 1952
Cristoforo Riva
1771 - 1833
Cesare Paravicini
1810 - 1867
Luigi Baroffio
Born 1892
Michelangelo Notarianni
1932 - 1998
Joseph Cotter
1872 - 1937
Gian Luca Cavazzi della Somaglia
1841 - 1896
Gabrio Giuseppe Serbelloni, I duca di San Gabrio -
1635 - 1712
Valentina Barzotti
Born 1986
Innocente Dugnani
1902 - 1971
Giovanni Serbelloni, II duca di San Gabrio
1665 - 1732
Alfonso Turconi
1738 - 1805
Ugo Finetti
Born 1944
Luigi Rossi (senatore)
1852 - 1911
Ludovico Trotti
1829 - 1914
Roberto Traversi
Born 1969
Vincenzo du Jardin
1820 - 1891
Gaetano Battaglia
Died 1812
Emanuele Pellegrini
Born 1975
Carlo Usiglio
Born 1926
Angelo Cucchi
1920 - 1990
Giuseppe Resti Ferrari
1832 - 1908
Gianni Pagliarini
Born 1961
Roberto Cipriani (politico)
Born 1951
Gianmarco Corbetta
Born 1972
Pietro Sormani
1849 - 1934
Sergio Fumagalli
Born 1954
Simone Gnaga
Born 1961
Vincenzo Lapiccirella
1907 - 1966
Giancarlo Lanciani Rocca
1895 - 1967
Alberto Giomo
1917 - 1980
Pietro Boschi
1811 - 1887
Vanda Milano
1938 - 2014
Bernardo Tolomei (senatore)
1823 - 1910
Gina Martini Fanoli
1919 - 1965
Giorgio Panattoni
Born 1937
Guido Martino
1929 - 2001
Rolando Rigamonti
1909 - 2008
Franco Clerici
1897 - 1934
Mario Martelli (senatore)
1838 - 1915
Francesco Taverna, I conte di Landriano
1488 - 1560
Alessandra Riccardi
Born 1974
Alessandro Rubino
Born 1956
Simona Nocerino
Born 1968
Maria Luisa Sangiorgio
Born 1947
Egidio Carenini
1927 - 2008
Arturo Rognoni
1897 - 1984
Neide Umidi Sala
Born 1948
Carlo Visconti di Modrone
1770 - 1836