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
Luigi Sessa (industriale)
1887 - 1959
Piero Gauli
1916 - 2012
Giancarlo Olivotto
Born 1955
Alarico Carrassi
1921 - 2006
Pietro Borgonovo
-
Cesarina Tibiletti
1920 - 2005
Giuseppe Laveni
Born 1877
Franco Manzoli
Born 1956
Rudolf Stockar (Paläontologe)
Born 1965
Edoardo Colombo (1899)
1899 - 1920
Aldo Lusardi
1905 - 1935
Daniela Palazzoli
-
Emilio Giovanoli
Born 1886
Giulia Arturi
Born 1987
Teodoro Pertusati
1836 - 1897
Enrico Calcaterra
1905 - 1994
Marco Poma
Born 1946
Gabriele Ferretti di Castelferretto
1920 - 1941
Giacomo De Cerce
Born 1960
Giuseppe Gama
Born 1887
Maurizio Gradin
Born 1967
Narciso Pasta
1873 - 1944
Giancarlo Cosio
Born 1963
Tiziano Cantatore
Born 1952
Federico Lorefice
Born 1977
John Nicolò Martin
Born 1963
Giuseppe Radaelli
-
Francesco Visconti
1601 - 1681
Piero Cazzaniga
Born 1932
Valentino Peyrano
Born 1962
Anna Maria Cigoli
Born 1952
Giovanni Galeazzo Frigerio
1841 - 1911
Daniele Callegari
Born 1960
Carlo Allegri
1862 - 1938
Giovanni Varasi
1903 - 1965
Felice Manfredi
1819 - 1895
Ferdinando Reggiori
1898 - 1976
Eduardo Provasoli
1847 - 1926
Luca Avallone
Born 1990
Ignazio Dionisi
Born 1913
Augusto Alvini
1903 - 1992
Giacomo Antonio Santagostino
1588 - 1648
Attilio Sessa
Born 1933
Gianna Forretti
Born 1948
Carlo Panza
Born 1877
Linda Chiggio
Born 1990
Mario Maiocchi
Born 1913
Lorenzo Gaslini
1890 - 1919
Giuseppe Galimberti
Born 1903
Eliodoro Specchi
1810 - 1866
Gian Guido Piazza
1887 - 1945
Mario Giumanini
1892 - 1967
Luca Ferrieri
Born 1953
Muzio III Sforza di Caravaggio
Died 1638
Giulio Piazza (calciatore)
Born 1918
Pietro Marocco
1888 - 1915
Lucia Simion
-
Angelo De Magistris
1886 - 1961
Elena Lanzoni Prevost
1878 - 1965
Liliana Dell'Acqua
1946 - 2010
Pompeo Belgiojoso
1800 - 1875
Gianmaria Vacirca
Born 1971
Augusto Gerosa
Born 1909
Massimo Marchesotti
1935 - 2019
Gabrio De Medici
1509 - 1532
Giuseppe Besozzi
1837 - 1907
Susanna Padovani
Born 1963
Umberto Boniardi
Born 1927
Roby Milione
Born 1940
Giorgio Roilo
Born 1947
Riccardo Pasini
Born 1976
Roberto Cozzi (calciatore)
1893 - 1964
Alessandro De Magistris
1890 - 1970
Carlo Polli
1928 - 2007
Andrés Llamas
Born 1998
Giannino Valli
1902 - 1995
Giovanni Sacchi (calciatore)
Born 1940
Giuseppe Negri (politico)
1779 - 1862
Gian Giacomo Trivulzio, VI marchese di Sesto Ulter
1774 - 1831
Bernardino Osio
Born 1934
Michele Pauli
Born 1965
Franco Ferrari (grecista)
Born 1946
Umberto Scarimboli
Born 1949
Emilio Manazza
1906 - 1980
Franco Bassi
1920 - 2006
Gian Maria Madella
Born 1950
Sergio Citterio
Born 1913
Francesca Trivulzio
1475 - 1560
Carlo Taverna
1817 - 1871
Laura Gorla
Born 1985
Lidia Pera
Born 1939
Lodovico Melzi (militare)
1558 - 1617
Giovanni Battista Del Sole
-
Renato Ravanelli
Born 1965
Attilio Panizza
1858 - 1919
Silvio Arrighini
1924 - 1966
Edgardo Baldi
1899 - 1951
Attilio Colombo
1887 - 1961
Raffaele Albertella
1911 - 1961
Ivan Sala
Born 1969
Gianmario Baroni
1910 - 1950
Franco Corona
Born 1936
Osvaldo Aliatis
Born 1894
Giuseppe Fiammenghi
Born 1912
Elisa Siragusa
Born 1986
Bruno Longhi (musicista)
1936 - 2020
Attilio Sudati
Born 1909
Carlo Alberto Felice
1886 - 1949
Emilio Sailer
1865 - 1945
Marco Lucchesi (regista)
Born 1955
Lucinio Sconfietti
1926 - 2016
Luciano Rezzolla
Born 1967
Giovanni Battista Nappi
1800 - 1871
Guglielmo Grandjacquet
1897 - 1940
Camillo Mussi
1911 - 1940
Carlo Boselli
1876 - 1946
Gabrio Serbelloni, III duca di San Gabrio
1693 - 1774
Wilma Roy
Born 1943
Cesare Questa
1934 - 2016
Gigi Ghò
1915 - 1998
Carlo Maffeis
1883 - 1921
Fabio Semenza
1924 - 2016
Alessandro Trerè
1884 - 1924
Niki Davis
Born 1936
Renato Riverso
Born 1934
Madalene Mitongu Ntumba
Born 1981
Maria Strumolo
Born 1949
Carlos Ambrosio Gaetano Spínola de la Cerda
1696 - 1757
Elio Ferrazzi
1932 - 1978
Giampiero Biscaldi
Born 1937
Emiliana Perina
Born 1954
Salvatore Musmeci
1911 - 1969
Roberto De Filippis
Born 1988
Matteo Fedeli
Born 1972
Paolo Bregni
Born 1937
Clay Remini
Born 1958
Ottaviano Arcimboldi
1465 - 1497
Alighiero De Micheli
1904 - 1995
Daniele Fontana
1900 - 1984
Piero Colombi
1899 - 1960
Mario Zampedroni
Born 1945
Ermanno Alloni
Born 1931
Elio Quercioli
1926 - 2001
Glauco di Salle
1920 - 2000
Giampiero Medri
Born 1909
Lancino Corti
Died 1512
Tommaso Leddi
Born 1955
Filippo Erba
1834 - 1905
Ferdinando Amman
Born 1929
Aurelio Ferrari
Born 1948
Lily Inglis
1926 - 2010
Paola Folzini
Born 1953
Antonio Di Rocco
Born 1977
Vittorio Mancini
Born 1948
Guglielmo Bosca
Born 1993
Cesare Bonacossa
1914 - 1987
Lidia Barbieri Sacconaghi
Born 1945
Eduardo Clerici
1826 - 1876
Giovanni Scotti (Eishockeyspieler)
1911 - 1992
Luciano Sada
1929 - 1999
Bassano Daccò
1898 - 1977
Luigi Ciminaghi
Born 1910
Amerigo Canegrati
1900 - 1938
Michele De Vita Conti
Born 1965
Roberto Maggi
Born 1960
Enrico Malerba
1893 - 1959
Angelo Pedrazzini
Born 1905
Ettore Luzzatto
1914 - 2011
Tati Casoni
1921 - 2008
Cesare Catania
Born 1979
Giovanni Moro (ciclista)
-
Luigi Andreoli
1893 - 1955
Ferdinando Camuncoli
1927 - 1944
Auro Palomba
Born 1964
Nicola Palladino
1932 - 2008
Nello Niccoli
1890 - 1977
Antonius Pozzo
-
Alessandro Milesi (calciatore)
Born 1897
Andrés García-Peña
Born 1961
Giovanni Legnani
Born 1988
Barbara Nardi
1917 - 2011
Giacomo Delaude
Born 1923
Guglielmo Gajani
1901 - 1980
Carlo Canevini
1902 - 1968
Ugo Chiesa
Born 1895
Piero Stroppa
Born 1956
Achille Brioschi (calciatore)
Born 1892
Napoleone Bertoglio Pisani
1845 - 1912
Alberto Valera
1901 - 1991
Venerino Papa
1898 - 1958
Ignazio Prinetti
1814 - 1867
Giovanni De Carli
1903 - 1980
Ettore Salati
Born 1974
Pier Fausto Barelli
1887 - 1963
Giuseppe Maretto
1908 - 1984
Eugenio Venini
1807 - 1884
Pietro Barbieri
Born 1901
Rigoletto Trezzi
1890 - 1974
Luca Toccalini
Born 1990
Giovanni Colombo (calciatore 1905)
Born 1905
Filippo Migliavacca
1829 - 1860
Marco Gentile (regista)
Born 1980
Luigi Galetti
1909 - 1977
Achille Sacchi (calciatore)
1904 - 1990
Roberto Fronte
Born 1893
Carlo Cocchi
Born 1889
Mario Lovati
Born 1917
Stefano De Bartolomeo
Born 1978
Ugo Zoppi
Born 1911
Serafino Dell'Uomo
1817 - 1849
Bruno Poletti
Born 1913
Gian Giacomo Cavazzi della Somaglia
1869 - 1918
Umberto Tosi
Born 1915
Cesare Alberti (calciatore 1900)
Born 1900
Cesare Casirago
Born 1909
Angelo Minoia
1912 - 1969
Carlo Perindani
1899 - 1986
Pietro Campedelli
Born 1932
Giuseppe Cossa
1803 - 1885
Adalberto Tedeschi
1937 - 2007
Silvia Kramar
-
Gianni Clerici (giocatore di baseball)
Born 1947
Graziano Musella
Born 1952
Cristoforo Riva
1771 - 1833
Lelo Cremonesi
Born 1919
Gustavo Francesconi
Born 1900
Giuseppe Zuccotti
Born 1916
Roberto Manini
Born 1942
Cesare Paravicini
1810 - 1867
Carlo Bazzi (militare)
1883 - 1916
Luigi Capè
1886 - 1945
Andrea Maietti
Born 1941
Loredana Mapelli
Born 1957
Luca Guidetti
Born 1986
Luigi Baroffio
Born 1892
Gastone Cazzaniga
Born 1908
Vittorio Panucci
Born 1944
Renzo Azaghi
1896 - 1965
Clemente Caccianiga
Born 1903
Amerigo Bedetti
Born 1907
Stefano Scotto
Born 1450
Manuela Zoni
Born 1960
Paolo Canedi
Born 1965
Franco Morganti
1931 - 2020
Kevin Marron Lopez
Born 1989
Mara Mauri
Born 1928
Violante Visconti di Modrone
1934 - 2000
Umberto Melloni
Born 1939
Carla Castellani (cantante)
1906 - 2005
Giulio Malgara
Born 1938
Paolo Radaelli
Born 1961
Luca Patanè
Born 1961
Carlo Ghirlanda Silva
1825 - 1903
Paolo Rotta
1832 - 1911
Luigi Giunta
Born 1908
Arrigo Fibbi
1913 - 1994
Roberto Bellavita
Born 1964
Enrico Forneris
1902 - 1982
Francesco Pio de Savoya
1672 - 1732
Renato Bianchi
1919 - 1946
Prudence Castori
Died 1492
Sabina Fedeli
Born 1956
Ciro Ardito
Born 1970
Bruno Colombo
Born 1909
Carlo Bozzi (critico d'arte)
1860 - 1943
Eugenio Allievi
Born 1899
Massimiliano II Stampa
1545 - 1601
Fernando Lomi
Born 1916
Giovanni Montarone
Born 1986
Ignazio Luè
1891 - 1970
Ernesto Crespi
Born 1891
Vitalianus Visconti Borromeo
1591 - 1617
Michelangelo Notarianni
1932 - 1998
Giuseppe Pagni
Born 1914
Joseph Cotter
1872 - 1937
Giuseppe Pecis
1716 - 1799
Fulvio Binetti
Born 1966
Giovanni Ardizzi
Born 1899
Enrico Molaschi
1823 - 1911
Giovanni Farina (calciatore 1902)
Born 1902
Massimiliano IX Giovanni Stampa
1825 - 1876
Michele Solbiati
Born 1947
Massimo Arduini
Born 1960
Dante Silvestri
Born 1900
Andrea Meschia
1885 - 1922
Francesco Trabucco
Born 1944
Kj Noone
Born 1974
Carlo Formenti (imprenditore)
Born 1926
Gian Luca Cavazzi della Somaglia
1841 - 1896
Mario Villa (calciatore 1925)
Born 1925
Carlo Rossetti
1736 - 1820
Egidio Fontana
Born 1895
Angelo Ruffinoni
Born 1931
Gabrio Giuseppe Serbelloni, I duca di San Gabrio -
1635 - 1712
Antonia Barbiano di Belgiojoso
1730 - 1773
Scipione Delfinone
Died 1590
Alfonso Volpi
1909 - 1943
Mario Lazzaroni
1907 - 1992
GianCarlo Montebello
Died 2020
Filippo Visconti (bishop)
1596 - 1664