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
Giovanni Beltrami (1860-1926)
1860 - 1926
Roberto Brusati
1850 - 1935
Sergio Asti
Born 1926
Carlo Caccia Dominioni
1802 - 1866
Carlo Fumagalli
Born 1996
Matteo Guarnaccia
Born 1954
Paolo Mandelli
Born 1967
Alfonso Cossa
1833 - 1902
Pinuccio Pirazzoli
Born 1949
Riccardo Levi-Setti
1927 - 2018
Bartolomeo Arese
1590 - 1674
Giuseppe Guerreschi
1929 - 1985
Giorgio Tavecchio
Born 1990
Stefano Paleari
Born 1965
Giovanni Maderna
Born 1973
Antonio Ballista
Born 1936
Arnaldo Mauri
1932 - 2016
Teodoro Trivulzio
1456 - 1532
Liliana Moro
Born 1961
Giannino Antona Traversi
1860 - 1939
Antoine Marc Augustin Bertoletti
1775 - 1846
Alfred Pina
1887 - 1966
Maria Caserini
1884 - 1969
Eridano Bazzarelli
1921 - 2013
Bruna Colombetti-Peroncini
1936 - 2008
Angelo Lo Forese
1920 - 2020
Giberto Borromeo (1615-1672)
1615 - 1672
Cesare Cases
1920 - 2005
Vittorio Salerno
1937 - 2016
Giorgio Dellagiovanna
1941 - 2013
Carlo Belloli
1922 - 2003
Stefano Moreo
Born 1993
Antonello Allemandi
Born 1957
Lorenzo Binago
1554 - 1629
Salvatore Mazza
1819 - 1886
Giorgio Vismara
Born 1965
Davide Bombana
Born 1958
Giorgio Silfer
Born 1949
Rosetta Tofano
1902 - 1960
Claudio Barigozzi
1909 - 1996
Rosa Giacinta Badalla
1660 - 1710
Francesco Croce
1696 - 1773
Alvise Zichichi
1938 - 2003
Valentina Truppa
Born 1986
Ignazio Colnaghi
1924 - 2017
Paolo Panceri
1833 - 1877
Maria Pastori
1895 - 1975
Thomas Beretta
Born 1990
Matteo Moschetti
Born 1996
Antonio Tantardini
1829 - 1879
Dario Palermo
Born 1970
Matteo Piccinni
Born 1986
Giuseppe Arconati Visconti
1797 - 1873
Mario Zippermayr
1899 - 1979
Linda Kohen
Born 1924
Claudio Descalzi
Born 1955
Girolamo Morone
1470 - 1529
Francesco Mazza
Born 1982
Irene Aloisi
1925 - 1980
Chantal Ughi
Born 1981
Tito Ricordi (Musikverleger, 1811)
1811 - 1888
Liliana Grassi
1923 - 1985
Alessandro Sampaoli
Born 1977
Enrico Annibale Butti
1868 - 1912
Roberto Bertolini
Born 1985
Roberto Etchepareborda
1923 - 1985
Duilio Forte
Born 1967
Massimo Majowiecki
Born 1945
Claudio Bellini
Born 1963
Akab
1976 - 2019
Vanessa Giunchi
Born 1980
Arianna Bergamaschi
Born 1975
Fabio Eguelfi
Born 1995
Manuel Agnelli
Born 1966
Eros Macchi
1920 - 2007
Ferruccio de Bortoli
Born 1953
Mauro Macchi
1818 - 1880
Ermenegildo Pini
1739 - 1825
Paul Zuccarelli
1886 - 1913
Francesco Biondo
1735 - 1805
Paolo Jedlowski
Born 1952
Roberto Ciulli
Born 1934
Alberto Pagani
1938 - 2017
Urbano Cairo
Born 1957
Ambrogio Levati
1894 - 1963
Alfredo Sivocci
1891 - 1980
Alfa Castaldi
1926 - 1995
Carlo La Vecchia
Born 1955
Giordano Abbondati
1948 - 2005
Alfredo Bracchi
1897 - 1976
Achille Bertarelli
1863 - 1938
Angelo Franzosi
1921 - 2010
Maria Bianca Cita
Born 1924
Felice Quinto
1929 - 2010
Guido Podestà
Born 1947
Gianni Mascolo
Born 1940
Jo Squillo
Born 1962
Alberto Poltronieri
1892 - 1983
Luca Bottazzi
Born 1963
Luigi Zuccoli
1815 - 1876
Giuseppe Crivelli
1900 - 1950
Antonella Baldini
Born 1966
Alberto Nagel
Born 1965
Andrea Icardi
Born 1963
Onofrio Bramante
1926 - 2000
Giacomo Prampolini
1898 - 1975
Guido Rossi
1931 - 2017
Simone Fautario
Born 1987
Angelo Maria Crivelli
1703 - 1730
Giovanni Gandini
1929 - 2006
William Girometti
1924 - 1998
Virginio Colombo
1885 - 1927
Emanuele Greppi
1853 - 1931
Giuseppe Romagnoni
1930 - 1964
Franco Bordoni
1913 - 1975
Gaetano Melzi
1786 - 1851
Valentina Borrelli
Born 1978
Peter Gullin
1959 - 2003
Enea Balmas
1924 - 1994
Luciano Alfieri
Born 1936
Simon de Brassano
1310 - 1381
Virgilio Mantegazza
1889 - 1928
Ugo Rossi
Born 1963
Manuel De Peppe
Born 1970
Carlo Giuseppe Imbonati
Died 1697
Ambrogio Besozzi
1648 - 1706
Billy More
1965 - 2005
Vera Vergani
1894 - 1989
Vitaliano VI. Borromeo
1620 - 1690
Sire Raul
1100 - 1200
Fernando Scarpa
Born 1968
Melchiade Gabba
1874 - 1952
Laura Saccomani
Born 1991
Mario Pirovano
Born 1950
Federico Cammeo
1872 - 1939
Oriella Dorella
Born 1952
Riccardo Sarfatti
1940 - 2010
Eugenio Griffini
1878 - 1925
Felice Salimbeni
1712 - 1755
Letizia Bertoni
Born 1937
Vittorio Stagni
Born 1938
Marsilio Landriani
1751 - 1815
Ivan Matteo Lombardo
1902 - 1980
Emilio Polli
1901 - 1983
Carlo Broggi
1881 - 1968
Niccolò Agliardi
Born 1974
Carlo Francesco Durini
1693 - 1769
Luigi Gualdo
1844 - 1898
Carlo Crivelli (cardinal)
1736 - 1818
Andrea Ghetti
1912 - 1980
Ugo Monneret de Villard
1881 - 1954
Patrizia A. Caraveo
Born 1954
Federico Agnelli
1626 - 1702
Luigi Salvini
1911 - 1957
Giorgio Galli
Born 1928
Chiara Saraceno
Born 1941
Carlo Giuseppe Merlo
1690 - 1760
Domenico Balestrieri
1714 - 1780
Giacomo Moraglia
1791 - 1860
Beatrice Trussardi
Born 1971
David Fumanelli
Born 1992
Enea Riboldi
Born 1954
Gianfelice Rocca
Born 1948
Beatrice Parrocchiale
Born 1995
Edoardo Severgnini
1904 - 1969
Mauro Suttora
Born 1959
Fabio Grossi (athlete)
Born 1967
Marina Dolfin
1930 - 2007
Maria Abbracchio
Born 1956
Ferdinando Sordelli
1837 - 1916
Uliano Lucas
Born 1942
Gioacchino Besozzi
1679 - 1755
Enrico Sala
1891 - 1979
Luigi Piotti
1913 - 1971
Daniele Abbado
Born 1958
Ettore Caffaratti
1886 - 1969
Emilio Tadini
1927 - 2002
Francesco Sarcina
Born 1976
Guido Caroli
Born 1927
Luigi Arialdo Radicati di Brozolo
1919 - 2019
Cesare Ligario
1716 - 1770
Laura Solera Mantegazza
1813 - 1873
Pasquale Frisenda
Born 1970
Luciano Foà
1915 - 2005
Giuseppe Santagostino
1901 - 1955
Mario Prada
Died 1958
Giampiero Moretti
1940 - 2012
Anna Casagrande
Born 1958
Carlo Archinto
1670 - 1732
Andrea Bandini
Born 1994
Guido Rocca
1928 - 1961
Giovanni Battista Sassi
1679 - 1762
Cesare Bernazano
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Uberto Dell’Orto
1848 - 1895
Marino Livolsi
Born 1937
Felice Calvi (storico)
1822 - 1901
Giuseppe Barbaglia
1841 - 1910
Pino Tovaglia
1923 - 1977
Alan D. Altieri
1952 - 2017
Marco Coti Zelati
Born 1975
Joseph Allegranza
1715 - 1785
John Foster (Italian singer)
Born 1939
Giuseppe De Carli
1952 - 2010
Piero Parini
1894 - 1993
Gian Galeazzo Serbelloni
1744 - 1802
Vermondo Brugnatelli
Born 1953
Francesco Manca
Born 1966
João Batista Primoli
1673 - 1747
Anna Maria Bottini
1916 - 2020
Paolo Rocca
Born 1952
Lamberto Caimi
Born 1930
Ernesto Maria Piovella
1867 - 1949
Francesco Spinelli
1853 - 1913
Federica Testa
Born 1993
Roberto Gavioli
1926 - 2007
Giulio da Milano
1504 - 1581
Guido Barilla
Born 1958
Sergio Zaninelli
Born 1929
Giulio Renato Litta
1763 - 1839
Ermanno Cressoni
1939 - 2005
Patrizia de Bernardo Stempel
Born 1953
Maurizio Pisati
Born 1959
Emilio De Martino
1895 - 1958
Mariuccia Medici
1910 - 2012
Elio Zagato
1921 - 2009
Salvatore Giunta (footballer)
Born 1967
Roberto Brivio
Born 1938
Ermanno Roveri
1903 - 1968
Ercole Marelli
1867 - 1922
Angelo Salmoiraghi
1848 - 1939
Giovanni Brusatori
Born 1946
Cristiano Pavone
Born 1972
Gianfranco Monaldi
1930 - 2007
Leonardo Mondadori
1946 - 2002
Stefano Sposetti
Born 1958
Maner Lualdi
1912 - 1968
Michele Vedani
1874 - 1969
Carlo Emanuele Basile
1885 - 1972
Piero San Giorgio
Born 1971
Serafino Morazzone
1747 - 1822
Giuseppe Mazza (painter)
1817 - 1884
Adelio Dell’Oro
Born 1948
Marco Visconti
1353 - 1382
Giorgio Colombo Taccani
Born 1961
Giorgio Salmoiraghi
Born 1936
Pietro Ubaldi
Born 1955
Milena Cantù
Born 1943
Pietro Antoniani
1740 - 1805
Giorgio Bassi
Born 1934
Gerardo Landriani Capitani
Died 1445
Luigi Roth
Born 1940
Gianfranco Gazzana-Priaroggia
1912 - 1943
Camillo Achilli
1921 - 1998
Alberto Pirelli (1882-1971)
1882 - 1971
Giuseppe Laganà
1944 - 2016
Hans Tuzzi
Born 1952
Antonio Dell'Oglio
Born 1963
Gianni Martucci
Born 1946
Mario Scapini
Born 1989
Emilio Bisi
1850 - 1920
Giovanni Anceschi
Born 1939
Augusto Colombo
1902 - 1969
Sharon Gusberti
Born 1964
Gaetano Castelfranchi
1892 - 1965
Arturo Ferrario
1891 - 1961
Francesco Crasso
1500 - 1566
Adriano Gajoni
1913 - 1965
Edoardo Bianchi
1865 - 1946
Giuliano Palma
Born 1965
Natalia Aspesi
Born 1929
Antonio Durini
1770 - 1850
Carlo Paolo Agazzi
1870 - 1922
Lorenzo Vergani
Born 1993
Giovanni Paolo I Sforza
1497 - 1535
Bartolomeo Visconti
1402 - 1457
Giuseppe Mussi
1836 - 1904
Enrico Castelli
1909 - 1983
Guido Zamperoni
1912 - 2003
Luigi Emanueli
1883 - 1959
Giovanni Battista della Rovere
1560 - 1627
Carlo Semenza
1893 - 1961
Albe Steiner
1913 - 1974
Elisabetta Viviani
Born 1955
Roberto Casati
Born 1961
Lucia Valerio
1905 - 1996
Barbara Contini
Born 1961
Martina Emanuel
Born 1985
Vittoriano Viganò
1919 - 1996
Roberto Biffi
Born 1965
Eleonora Bianchi (Schauspielerin)
Born 1942
Giancarlo Raimondi
Born 1972
Lella Costa
Born 1952
Fazio Cardano
1444 - 1524
Luigi Vassalli
1812 - 1887
Achille Cutrera
1929 - 2018
Giuseppe Abbiati
1658 - 1720
Gino Starace
1859 - 1950
Mario Dondero
1928 - 2015
Claudio Malaponti
Born 1968
Giorgio Fuentes
1756 - 1821