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
Marta Boneschi
Born 1946
Irene Lamedica
Born 1968
Gaspare Torretta
1883 - 1910
Giovanni Livraghi
1819 - 1849
Antonio Pensa
1874 - 1970
Giovanni Dall'Orto
Born 1958
Angelo Ferrario
1908 - 1997
Luca Scacchetti
1952 - 2015
Emilio Villoresi
1914 - 1939
Giancarlo Garbelli
1931 - 2013
Filippo Ranieri
1944 - 2020
Carlo Perogalli
1921 - 2005
Luigi Frey
1934 - 2019
Luca Trugenberger
Born 1955
Angelo Del Bon
1898 - 1952
Giovanni Angelo Scinzenzeler
Died 1526
Giancarlo Sangregorio
1925 - 2013
Mathilde Bonetti
Born 1971
Federico Bellazzi
1825 - 1868
Rossella Galbiati
Born 1958
Michela Cobisi
Born 1982
Ernesto Teodoro Moneta Caglio
1907 - 1995
Christian Bisceglia
Born 1967
Alessandro Livi
Born 1982
Massimo Molea
Born 1963
Alberto Grilli
1920 - 2007
Timoleon Raimondi
1827 - 1894
Antonio Feltrinelli
1887 - 1942
Lucio Rama
1911 - 1988
Francesco Arese Lucini
1778 - 1835
Edoardo Fazzioli
Born 1934
Fiammetta Cicogna
Born 1988
Takagi (disc jockey)
Born 1973
Eugenio Treves
1888 - 1970
Emilia Lodigiani
Born 1950
Nicolò Cesa-Bianchi
Born 1963
Livio Magnini
Born 1973
Pieraldo Ferrante
Born 1950
Luisella Visconti
1928 - 1967
Luca Boneschi
1939 - 2016
Miriam Corsini
Born 1989
Stefano Preda
Born 1949
Aldo Marazza
1912 - 1938
Carlo Zendo Tetsugen Serra
Born 1953
Luigi Castiglioni
1936 - 2003
Piera Vidale
1947 - 2018
Paolo Noise
Born 1974
Fulvio Ferrari
Born 1955
Dino Galvani
1890 - 1940
Giacomo Giuseppe Costa
1833 - 1897
Guido Davide Neri
1935 - 2001
Marc Tainon
Born 1993
Roberto Menghi
1920 - 2006
Luciano Inga Pin
1927 - 2009
Silvia Chiesa
Born 1966
Zanon de Castiglione
Died 1459
Giuseppe Marocco
1773 - 1829
Primarosa Battistella
Born 1933
Andrea Cima
1580 - 1627
Renato Tagliani
1927 - 2000
Antonio Paiola
Born 1941
Paola Tovaglia
1965 - 1994
Fausta Squatriti
Born 1941
Alessandro Cortese
1940 - 2007
Barbara Agosti
Born 1965
Antonietta Pastori
Born 1929
Carlo Andrea Bixio
1941 - 2011
Giuliano Modarelli
Born 1977
Gualtiero Scola
Born 1970
Arnulf III (archbishop of Milan)
Died 1097
Renzo Merlin
Born 1923
Aldo Di Gennaro
Born 1938
Ernesto Pestalozza
1860 - 1934
Alessandro Quasimodo
Born 1939
Giorgio Upiglio
1932 - 2013
Vincenzo Costantino
Born 1964
Lara Parmiani
Born 1971
Pietro Maestri
1816 - 1871
Elisabetta Introini
Born 1961
Andrea Rizzoli
1914 - 1983
Roberto Bernardelli
Born 1949
Giorgio Ravegnani
Born 1948
Ugo Fedeli
1898 - 1964
Michele Dalai
Born 1973
Oliviero Mascheroni
1914 - 1987
Fabiano Alborghetti
Born 1970
Rocky Agusta
1950 - 2018
Paolo Cristallini
Born 1971
Memo Dittongo
Died 1993
Mario Alborghetti
1928 - 1955
Carlo Cagnola
1828 - 1895
Amilcare Beretta
Born 1892
Ugo Casiraghi
1921 - 2006
Francesca Cassola
Born 1980
Lina Arpesani
1888 - 1974
Gianfranco Astori
Born 1948
Aquilino Bonfanti
1943 - 2016
Alessandra Ierse
Born 1970
Federico Frigerio (architetto)
1873 - 1959
Marco Zaffaroni
Born 1969
Umberto Milani
1912 - 1969
Massimo Riva (giornalista)
Born 1940
Giulio Campanati
1923 - 2011
Federico Bonola
1839 - 1912
Pierluigi Brivio
Born 1969
Massimo Lonardi
Born 1953
Ferdinando Cito Filomarino
Born 1986
Gilberto Serembe
Born 1955
Cesare Montalbetti
1946 - 2015
Giovanni Bolzoni (footballer, born 1905)
1905 - 1980
Ezio Savino
1949 - 2014
Peter Wolff
Born 1946
Ambrogio Bazzero
1851 - 1882
Matteo Zanni
Born 1987
Alberto Caneva
Born 1957
Cesareo
Born 1962
Nino Rastelli
1913 - 1962
Walter Foini
Born 1948
Mary Tibaldi Chiesa
1896 - 1968
Gianfranco Pacchioni
Born 1954
Piero Trapanelli
Born 1924
Ambrogio Colombo (doppiatore)
Born 1952
Rina Gaioni
1893 - 1984
Paolo Landriani
1755 - 1839
Carlo Vallini
1885 - 1920
Ezio Cartotto
Born 1943
Romolo Archinto
Died 1576
Giulio Cesare Carcano
1910 - 2005
Alessandra Fossati
Born 1963
Mario Mancini
Born 1941
Alex Marte
Born 1979
Pino Nicolosi
Born 1959
Morgan Bertacca
Born 1973
Giorgio Tinazzi
1934 - 2016
Roberto Ceriotti
Born 1967
Andrea Carlo Cappi
Born 1964
Stefano Spremberg
Born 1965
Osvaldo Peruzzi
1907 - 2004
Gianfranco Porcelli
Born 1941
Elda Mazzocchi Scarzella
1904 - 2005
Contardo Calligaris
Born 1948
Giorgio Lotti
Born 1937
Luciano Gariboldi
Born 1927
Gino Gregori
1906 - 1973
Claudio Costamagna
Born 1956
Alfredo Rossi
1906 - 1986
Antonio Colonnello
1938 - 2005
Lorenzo Pellizzari
1938 - 2016
Carl'Antonio Tanzi
1710 - 1762
Tito Celani
Born 1921
Walter Pontel
1937 - 2003
Shady Hamadi
Born 1988
Franco Rossi (ice hockey)
1916 - 2006
Diego Sabre
Born 1968
Giancarlo Agazzi
1932 - 1995
Emilio Bestetti
1870 - 1954
Fulvia Colombo
1926 - 2005
Oreste Bonomi
1902 - 1983
Stefano Stampa
1819 - 1907
Maurizio Rinaldi
1937 - 1995
Guido Vergani
1935 - 2005
Costantino Baroni
1905 - 1956
Federico Vaona
Born 1973
Raffaele Jerusalmi
Born 1961
Spartaco Albertarelli
Born 1963
Francesco Maria De Regi
1720 - 1794
Daniele Sandri
Born 1990
Jules de Mérindol
1814 - 1888
Andrée Ruth Shammah
Born 1948
Renzo Magosso
Born 1947
Walter Martino
Born 1953
Pietro Condorelli
Born 1962
Raffaele Franceschi
Born 1960
Giuseppe Antonini (medico)
1864 - 1938
Melina Martello
Born 1941
Ruggero Pazzi
1927 - 2010
Eduardo Rescigno
Born 1931
Paolo Origo
1840 - 1928
Anselmo della Pusterla
Died 1136
Gianni Resta
Born 1974
Augusta Gori
Born 1960
Arialdo Banfi
1913 - 1997
Pietro Belfiore
Born 1986
Lucio Mario Luzzatto
1913 - 1986
Ettore Andenna
Born 1946
Claudio Radaelli
Born 1960
Danilo Barozzi
Born 1969
Renzo Manzoni
1852 - 1918
Agostino "Tino" Casali
1920 - 2015
Enrico Gonzales
1882 - 1965
Donato II Silva
1690 - 1779
Carlo Bartoli
1931 - 2020
Carlo Fava
Born 1965
Martina Amati
Born 1969
Andrea Loberto
Born 1974
Francesco Fedeli
1911 - 1998
Silvia Dell'Orso
1956 - 2009
Giulio Litta
1822 - 1891
Giuseppe Cusi
1780 - 1864
Vittorio Bestoso
Born 1952
Antonio Di Bella
Born 1956
Gianpiero Carlo Cantoni
1939 - 2012
Dario Villa
1953 - 1996
Davide Silvestri
Born 1981
Giorgio Pacifici
Born 1939
Vittorio Gussoni
1893 - 1968
Karl von Simbschen
1794 - 1870
Achille Tominetti
1848 - 1917
Emilio Quadrelli
1863 - 1925
Francesco Speranza (matematico)
1932 - 1998
Folco Orselli
Born 1971
Edoardo Barbieri
Born 1961
Napoleone Pini
1835 - 1907
Giovanni Barbareschi
1922 - 2018
Aldo Salvadori
1905 - 2002
Carlo Turati
Born 1958
Bruno Zanolini
Born 1945
Gea Riva
Born 1985
Francesco Verga
1929 - 1975
Attilio Pusterla
1862 - 1941
Spirito Maria Chiappetta
1868 - 1948
Ottaviano Vimercati
1815 - 1879
Mia Lecomte
Born 1966
Mimì Zorzi
1928 - 2019
Paolo Castaldi (fumettista)
Born 1982
Marco Cattaneo (cyclisme, 1982)
Born 1982
Attilio Colonello
Born 1930
Stefano Quaranta
Born 1971
Bruno Oddera
1917 - 1988
Dario Venegoni
Born 1951
Lucia Stara
Born 1964
Giampiero Vitali
1940 - 2001
Antonio Cripezzi
Born 1946
Omar Hassan (artist)
Born 1987
Angelo Carrara
1945 - 2012
Michele Rho
Born 1976
Pier Ambrogio Curti
1819 - 1899
Paola Mattioli
Born 1948
Luisa Amalia Paladini
1810 - 1872
Massimiliano Farris
Born 1971
Gaspare Ordoño de Rosales
1802 - 1887
Federico Danti
Born 1952
Carlo Salerio
1827 - 1870
Diego Lanza
1937 - 2018
Pietro Marzorati
1829 - 1895
Mauro Ivaldi
Born 1942
Daniele Farina
Born 1964
Carlo Taranto (personaggio televisivo)
Born 1961
Giordano Gambogi
Born 1969
Esperia Sperani
1903 - 1973
Gilberto Milani
Born 1932
Dino Carlesi
1919 - 2010
Vittorio Missoni
1954 - 2013
Giorgio Amato
Born 1969
Angelo Vescovali
1826 - 1895
Dermide Leclerc
1798 - 1804
Emilio Gattoronchieri
Born 1912
Filippo Sugar
Born 1971
Clara Mochi
Born 1956
Sandro Schipani
Born 1940
Decio Canzio
1930 - 2013
Andrea Pucci
Born 1965
Umberto Ceriani
Born 1939
Stefano Bersola
Born 1976
Enrico Fasana
1940 - 2008
Marco Lui
Born 1975
Ruggero De Daninos
1931 - 2000
Daniele Tedeschi
Born 1930
Cesare Airaghi
1840 - 1896
Marco Piva
Born 1952
Bedy Moratti
Born 1942
Federico Sartori
1865 - 1938
Uberto Limentani
1913 - 1989
Giovanni Mira
1891 - 1966
Grazia Barcellona
1929 - 2019
Aldo Arroni
Born 1945
Carlo Oliva
1943 - 2012
Giuseppe Besozzi
1686 - 1760
Massimo Nava
Born 1950
Lorena Zaffalon
Born 1981
Antonio Buccellati
1831 - 1890
Ignazio Fumagalli
1778 - 1842
Bettina Jungklaus
Born 1965
Luchino d'Arezzo
1424 - 1501
Claudio Cesare Secchi
1897 - 1981
Lorenzo Arruga
1937 - 2020
Pietro Andolfati
1750 - 1830
Enrico Mosconi
1843 - 1910
Joey Shaw
Born 1969
Arnaldo Badodi
1913 - 1943
Marco Bianchi
Born 1978
Saturnino (Carlo Franzini)
1923 - 2003
Felice Cameroni
1844 - 1913
Massimiliano Bertolini
Born 1967
Nicola Genzianella
Born 1967
Patricia Lips
Born 1963
Giulio de Visconti
1664 - 1751
Marco Berrini
Born 1964
Mara Cantoni
Born 1951
Fiorello Cortiana
Born 1955