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
Franco Cerri
Born 1926
Marcello Marchesi
1912 - 1978
Mario Mieli
1952 - 1983
Aldo Ceccato
Born 1934
Giulia Lazzarini
Born 1934
Sandro Salvadore
1939 - 2007
Giulio Ricciarelli
Born 1965
Gianni Bonagura
1925 - 2017
Giuliano Bonfante
1904 - 2005
Giacomo Manzoni
Born 1932
Luchino Visconti (died 1349)
1287 - 1349
Paolo Limiti
1940 - 2017
Berlinghiero Berlinghieri
1175 - 1235
Angelo Mangiarotti
1921 - 2012
Vittorio Grilli
Born 1957
Milo de Angelis
Born 1951
Roldano Lupi
1909 - 1989
Gabrio Casati
1798 - 1873
Cesare Negri
1535 - 1605
Bruno Bettinelli
1913 - 2004
Pietro Valpreda
1933 - 2002
Dario Baldan Bembo
Born 1948
Simona Vinci
Born 1970
Benedict Menni
1841 - 1914
Angelo Rotta
1872 - 1965
Mondo Marcio
Born 1986
Mara Selvini Palazzoli
1916 - 1999
Luciano Manara
1825 - 1849
Lucien Bianchi
1934 - 1969
Renato Vallanzasca
Born 1950
Valentina Carnelutti
Born 1973
Vanessa Gravina
Born 1974
Angelo Dell'Acqua
1903 - 1972
Giovannino de' Grassi
1350 - 1398
Piera Aulagnier
1923 - 1990
Ugo Frigerio
1901 - 1968
Franco Leoni
1864 - 1949
Filippo Abbiati
1640 - 1715
Eugénie de Beauharnais
1808 - 1847
Maria Corti
1915 - 2002
Giorgio Ambrosoli
1933 - 1979
Niccolò Castiglioni
1932 - 1996
Danilo Mainardi
1933 - 2017
Archduke Ferdinand Karl Joseph of Austria-Este
1781 - 1850
Mario Palanti
1885 - 1978
Viridis Visconti
1352 - 1414
Gisella Sofio
1931 - 2017
Filippo Tortu
Born 1998
Marcello Abbado
1926 - 2020
Paola Pigni
Born 1945
Franz Adam
1815 - 1886
Franco Bassanini
Born 1940
Corrado Balducci
1923 - 2008
Chiara Margarita Cozzolani
1602 - 1677
Alessandro Pistone
Born 1975
DJ Dado
Born 1967
Giuseppe Bertini
1825 - 1898
Francesco Zappa
1717 - 1803
Ezio Frigerio
Born 1930
Girolamo Benzoni
1519 - 1570
Pietro Antonio Solari
1445 - 1493
Ernesto Cavallini
1807 - 1874
Luigi Marchesi
1754 - 1829
Nino Besozzi
1901 - 1971
Paola Capriolo
Born 1962
Pier Giacomo Castiglioni
1913 - 1968
Ernesto Treccani
1920 - 2009
Marco Rota
Born 1942
Alberto Lionello
1930 - 1994
Andrea Palazzi
Born 1996
Marco Giovannetti
Born 1962
Max Bunker
Born 1939
Vince Tempera
Born 1946
Roberta Torre
Born 1962
Tommaso Ceva
1648 - 1737
Pietro Ichino
Born 1949
Eugenio Colorni
1909 - 1944
Alberto Mantovani
Born 1948
Francesco Maria Richini
1584 - 1658
Marco Tronchetti Provera
Born 1948
Cini Boeri
1924 - 2020
Gianni Musy
1931 - 2011
Henri Cernuschi
1821 - 1896
Hortense Allart
1801 - 1879
Ernesto Grassi
1902 - 1991
Sergio Gobbi
Born 1938
Matilda Lutz
Born 1992
Pierina Legnani
1863 - 1930
Luigi Cagnola
1762 - 1833
Silvio Crespi
1868 - 1944
Tino Scotti
1905 - 1984
Antonio Maspes
1932 - 2000
Tito Boeri
Born 1958
Ivano Brugnetti
Born 1976
Natalis Comes
1520 - 1582
Silvio Gazzaniga
1921 - 2016
Marco Cappato
Born 1971
Francesco Maria Guazzo
Died 1640
Agostino Bertani
1812 - 1886
Luigi Caccia Dominioni
1913 - 2016
Emilio De Marchi (scrittore)
1851 - 1901
Sergio Gori
Born 1946
Claudio Terzi
Born 1984
Gino Pernice
1927 - 1997
Gianrico Tedeschi
1920 - 2020
Tullia Zevi
1919 - 2011
Giuseppe Lazzati
1909 - 1986
Carlo Forlanini
1847 - 1918
Giovanni Muzio
1893 - 1982
Gregorio Leti
1630 - 1701
Carlo Fassi
1929 - 1997
Sandro Gamba
Born 1932
Gabrio Piola
1794 - 1850
Luigi Lunari
1934 - 2019
Nanni Svampa
1938 - 2017
Francesco Facchinetti
Born 1980
Matteo Ardemagni
Born 1987
Alfredo Capelli
1855 - 1910
Raffaelle Monti
1818 - 1881
Archduke Ernest of Austria (1824–1899)
1824 - 1899
Anna Castelli Ferrieri
1918 - 2006
Davide Brivio
Born 1988
Giovanni Strazza
1818 - 1875
Alfredo Castelli
Born 1947
Carlo Francesco Nuvolone
1609 - 1662
Anna Sforza
1476 - 1497
Lorraine De Selle
Born 1951
Edoardo Goldaniga
Born 1993
Renato Mori
1935 - 2014
Lucilla Morlacchi
1936 - 2014
Giancarlo Cobelli
1929 - 2012
Domenico Induno
1815 - 1878
Guido Monzino
1928 - 1988
Filippo de Filippi
1814 - 1867
Leonardo Del Vecchio
Born 1935
Silvia Farina Elia
Born 1972
Valentina Marchei
Born 1986
Giovanni Ambrogio Figino
1553 - 1608
Bobo Craxi
Born 1964
Daniele D'Anza
1922 - 1984
Luigi Villoresi
1909 - 1997
Giuseppe Colombo (homme politique)
1836 - 1921
Carlo Rizzi (conductor)
Born 1960
Giuseppe Sommaruga
1867 - 1917
Gigio Alberti
Born 1956
Lia Zoppelli
1920 - 1988
Fabrizio Clerici
1913 - 1993
Enrico Mentana
Born 1955
Maurizio Lupi
Born 1959
Giovanni Antonini
Born 1965
Carlo Tenca
1816 - 1883
Stanislao Nievo
1928 - 2006
Dana Ghia
Born 1932
Giovanni Battista Angioletti
1896 - 1961
Giovanni Levi
Born 1939
Clemente Rebora
1885 - 1957
Matilde Gioli
Born 1989
Vittorio Agnoletto
Born 1958
Joan Ambrosio Dalza
Died 1508
Anna Radius Zuccari
1846 - 1918
Carlo Bonomi
Born 1937
Maurizio Fabrizio
Born 1952
Gino Santercole
1940 - 2018
Maurizio Zaccaro
Born 1952
Domenico Barbaia
1777 - 1841
Giuseppe Pozzobonelli
1696 - 1783
Matteo II Visconti
1319 - 1355
Taddea Visconti
1351 - 1381
Liù Bosisio
Born 1936
Giovanni Paolo Cima
1570 - 1622
Caterina Visconti
1360 - 1404
Lucilla Agosti
Born 1978
Archduke Karl of Austria-Este
1785 - 1809
Giacomo Medici (general)
1817 - 1882
Roberta Invernizzi
Born 1966
Marco Negri
Born 1970
Francesco Cairo
1607 - 1665
Ferdinando Fontana
1850 - 1919
Mario Panzeri
1911 - 1991
Aldo Maldera
1953 - 2012
Paolo Emilio Sfondrati
1560 - 1618
Tricarico (singer)
Born 1971
Fiorenzo Carpi
1918 - 1997
Contardo Ferrini
1859 - 1902
Alceo Galliera
1910 - 1996
Nicola Badalucco
1929 - 2015
Massimo Camisasca
Born 1946
Didi Perego
1937 - 1993
Giuseppe Sala
Born 1958
Carlo Recalcati
Born 1945
Bruno Canfora
1924 - 2017
Luigi Freddi
1895 - 1977
Cristoforo Solari
1468 - 1524
Bernardino Corio
1459 - 1519
Ted Dexter
Born 1935
Valerio Onida
Born 1936
Giuditta Grisi
1805 - 1840
Camillo Caccia Dominioni
1877 - 1946
Giulia Beccaria
1762 - 1841
Maurizio Margaglio
Born 1974
Giovanni D'Anzi
1906 - 1974
Aldo Carpi
1886 - 1973
Mario Vegetti
1937 - 2018
Branda da Castiglione
1350 - 1443
Joseph-Marie Lo Duca
1910 - 2004
Andrea G. Pinketts
1961 - 2018
Celso Valli
Born 1950
Gundi Busch
1935 - 2014
Dino Attanasio
Born 1925
Ambrogio Fogar
1941 - 2005
Marco Dorigo
Born 1961
Carlo Hintermann
1923 - 1988
Benito Albino Dalser
1915 - 1942
Ugo Bologna
1917 - 1998
Laura Giuliani
Born 1993
Giuseppe Catozzella
Born 1976
Archduke Leopold Ludwig of Austria
1823 - 1898
Curzio Maltese
Born 1959
Riccardo Malipiero
1914 - 2003
Mads Laudrup
Born 1989
Paola Barbato
Born 1971
Rubi Dalma
1906 - 1994
Giorgio Ronconi
1810 - 1890
Aurelio Luini
1530 - 1593
Eleonora Giorgi (racewalker)
Born 1989
Tamara Ecclestone
Born 1984
Elena Cotta
Born 1931
Ines Pellegrini
Born 1954
Massimo Brambati
Born 1966
Cesare Correnti
1815 - 1888
Giancarlo Ghirardi
1935 - 2018
Brunella Gasperini
1918 - 1979
René de Birague
1506 - 1583
Camilla Cederna
1911 - 1997
Pietro Magni (sculptor)
1817 - 1877
Dina Lévi-Strauss
1911 - 1999
Gianni Colombo
1937 - 1993
Filippo Grandi
Born 1957
Angelo Maria Durini
1725 - 1796
Lorenzo Litta
1756 - 1820
Luigi Beccali
1907 - 1990
Pacifico (singer)
Born 1964
Carlo Ambrogio Lonati
1645 - 1710
Armando Castellazzi
1904 - 1968
Luigi Ademollo
1764 - 1849
Paola Pivi
Born 1971
Paolo Angelo Ballerini
1814 - 1897
Mariella Valentini
Born 1959
Maurizio Milani
Born 1961
Luca Lucini
Born 1967
Luigi Barzini Jr.
1908 - 1984
Dadamaino
1930 - 2004
Giuseppe Gabriel Balsamo-Crivelli
1800 - 1874
Paolo Grassi
1919 - 1981
Mario Feliciani
1918 - 2008
Cesare Monti
1594 - 1650
Augusto Gansser-Biaggi
1910 - 2012
Fabio Concato
Born 1953
Roberto Cammarelle
Born 1980
Fausto Gardini
1930 - 2008
Franco Volpi
1921 - 1997
Wanda Toscanini Horowitz
1907 - 1998
Enrico Beruschi
Born 1941
Luigi Negri (Bischof)
Born 1941
Luigi Santucci
1918 - 1999
Agostino Rocca
1895 - 1978
Alfredo Antonini
1901 - 1983
Fabio Carpi
1925 - 2018
Jacopo Sarno
Born 1989
Giovanni Ricordi
1785 - 1853
Elio Fiorucci
1935 - 2015
Karim Laribi
Born 1991
Jake La Furia
Born 1979
Andrea Crosariol
Born 1984
Stefano Secco
Born 1970
Luisa Rossi
1925 - 1984
Luigi Veronelli
1926 - 2004
Osvaldo Bagnoli
Born 1935
Rik de Voest
Born 1980
Laura Golarsa
Born 1967
Fausto Pocar
Born 1939
Franca Helg
1920 - 1989
Toni Pagot
1921 - 2001
Giorgio Stegani
1928 - 2020
Alex Baroni
1966 - 2002
Stefano Maria Legnani
1660 - 1715
Eleonora Brigliadori
Born 1960
Valerianus Magnus
1586 - 1661
Diana Bianchedi
Born 1969
Giovanni Battista Lampugnani
1708 - 1788
Stefano Battaglia
Born 1965
Carlo D'Angelo
1919 - 1973
Dina Galli
1877 - 1951
Barbara Serra
Born 1974
Francesco Carlini
1783 - 1862
Marta Morazzoni
Born 1950
Lanfranc of Milan
1250 - 1310
Angelo Longoni
Born 1956
Paolo Barilla
Born 1961
Carlo Monti
1920 - 2016