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PARMA

Most Famous People Born in Parma, Italy

Notable people: 742
Peak decade: 1960s
Median birth year: 1901
Most distinctive: Aristocrat 8.1×

Ducal residue everywhere: the Aristocrat bench is a Farnese and Bourbon-Parma court artefact, the Conductor cluster is anchored by Toscanini, and the Painter tradition runs from Parmigianino's Mannerism through Lanfranco's Baroque ceilings. The Composer line is the opera-house town doing what opera-house towns do.

Through the Centuries

One face per century — the most globally famous figure born in Parma during each.

Notable Births by Decade

Click a decade to filter the list below. Peak: 1960s with 52 notable births.

What Parma Is Known For

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Biggest Most distinctive Under-indexed

Football is Parma's biggest profession — 12% of all notables (89).

Parma over-indexes on aristocrat — 8.1× the global rate.

Parma under-produces actor — only 0.5× the global rate.

Profession Mix Over Time

Each band shows a profession family's share of Parma's notable births by decade. Hover the chart for the breakdown at any decade.

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Parmigianino

1503 - 1540

Notable Births by Decade

What Parma Is Known For

Profession Mix Over Time

Parmigianino

Giovanni Lanfranco

Sisto Badalocchio

Camillo Procaccini

Girolamo Mazzola Bedoli

Antonio Galli da Bibiena

Filippo Mazzola

Amedeo Bocchi

Jacopo Bertoia

Alessandro Araldi

Giovanni Maria Francesco Rondani

Pietro Giovanni Abbati

Claudio Linati

Francesco Simonini

Clemente Ruta

Alessandro Galli da Bibiena

Cecrope Barilli

Michele Rocca

Giovanni Francesco Maineri

Atanasio Soldati

Cristoforo Caselli

Giovanni Battista Borghesi

Bernardino Loschi

Giorgio Gandini del Grano

Pier Antonio Bernabei

Pietro Melchiorre Ferrari

Daniele de Strobel

Francesco Marmitta

Andries Benedetti

Giovanni Canti

Pomponio Amidano

Latino Barilli

Ilario Spolverini

Renato Vernizzi

Alessandro Mazzola (painter)

Gaetano Callani

Giuseppe Peroni

Guido Carmignani

Biagio Martini

Alessandro Baratta

Domenico Muzzi

Jacopo Loschi

Giuseppe Alinovi

Giuseppe Drugman

Giorgio Scherer

Luca Antonio Busati

Ivan Mosca

Giovanni Battista Tinti

Enrico Sartori

Giulio Carmignani

Camillo Scaramuzza

Giovanni Gaibazzi

Luigi Gainotti

Roberto Guastalla

Giovanni Maria Conti

Giacomo Giacopelli

Paolo Donati (pittore)

Giovanni Bolla

Giovanni Tebaldi

Mauro Oddi

Giola Gandini

Guglielmo Lusignoli

Salvatore Marchesi

Ignazio Affanni

Innocenzo Martini

Ferdinando Boudard

Enrico Bandini

Giuseppe Gambarini (1902-1990)

Giuseppe Naudin

Domenico Passerini

Antonio Savazzini

Edoardo Raimondi

Alessandro Bernabei

Filippo Gabbi

Aurelio Barili

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