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ROME

Most Famous People Born in Rome, Italy

Notable people
9,455
Peak decade
1960s
Median birth year
1942
Most distinctive
Film 3.8×

Twenty-six centuries on a single hill. Rome is the only city in the dataset whose notable births stretch from the late Republic through every Western era to the present day, and the categories shift accordingly — from senators and emperors to popes and martyrs to film directors and footballers. The city has had an unusually steady supply of fame in every century since 1500, and an unusually long memory of who counted in every century before.

Through the Centuries

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

What Rome Is Known For

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Actor is Rome's biggest profession — 15% of all notables (1,437).

Rome over-indexes on film3.8× the global rate.

Rome under-produces politician — only 0.6× the global rate.

  1. Actor1,437
  2. Football714
  3. Politician686
  4. Film443
  5. Writer398
  6. Painter391
  7. Journalist352
  8. Priest349
  1. Film4433.8×
  2. Actor1,4372.9×
  3. Screenwriter1152.8×
  4. Priest3492.5×
  5. Journalist3522.4×
  6. Architect1722.0×
  7. Composer2351.9×
  8. Painter3911.6×
  1. Politician6860.6×
  2. Football7140.7×

Profession Mix Over Time

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

15001550160016501700175018001850190019502000
  • Film & TV
  • Sports
  • Writing
  • Art & Design
  • Music
  • Politics & Law
  • Other
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Showing 223 of 9,455 notable people

0028 POET

Julius Evola

1898 - 1974

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0075 DESIGNER

Elsa Schiaparelli

1890 - 1973

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0181 CARDINAL

Alfredo Ottaviani

1890 - 1979

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0224 POLITICIAN

Giuseppe Bottai

1895 - 1959

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0236 SINGER

Ezio Pinza

1892 - 1957

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0256 COLLECTOR

Mario Praz

1896 - 1982

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0282 POLITICIAN

Carlo Rosselli

1899 - 1937

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0336 FILM

Mario Camerini

1895 - 1981

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0456 WRITER

Achille Campanile

1899 - 1977

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0462 FILM

Augusto Genina

1892 - 1957

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0578 PAINTER

Fausto Pirandello

1899 - 1975

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0700 ACTOR

Nando Bruno

1895 - 1963

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0740 PAINTER

Benedetta Cappa

1897 - 1977

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0784 PAINTER

Antonio Donghi

1897 - 1963

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0894 ACTOR

Maria Jacobini

1892 - 1944

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0995 ANTHROPOLOGIST

Giuseppe Ricciotti

1890 - 1964

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0999 COMPOSER

Elsa Respighi

1894 - 1996

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1033 SCREENWRITER

Aldo De Benedetti

1892 - 1970

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1055 CARDINAL

Paolo Marella

1895 - 1984

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1097 POLITICIAN

Augusto De Marsanich

1893 - 1973

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1114 ACTOR

Mario Ferrari

1894 - 1974

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1212 FILM

Marcella Albani

1899 - 1959

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1273 LINGUIST

Vittore Pisani

1899 - 1990

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1283 PRIEST

Luigi Traglia

1895 - 1977

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1287 POET

Virgilio Guidi

1891 - 1984

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1336 ACTOR

Angelo Ferrari

1897 - 1945

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1387 CARDINAL

Giuseppe Ferretto

1899 - 1973

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1427 ACTOR

Giulio Calì

1895 - 1967

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1429 SINGER

Gabriella Besanzoni

1890 - 1962

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1482 SCREENWRITER

Luigi Cimara

1891 - 1962

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1603 ANTHROPOLOGIST

Giuseppe Lugli

1890 - 1967

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1616 POET

Checco Durante

1893 - 1976

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1634 ACTOR

Loris Gizzi

1899 - 1986

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1662 PAINTER

Cipriano Efisio Oppo

1890 - 1962

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1690 FILM

Aldo Vergano

1891 - 1957

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1759 ACTOR

Leda Gys

1892 - 1957

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1763 DEMOCRAT

Salvatore Rebecchini

1891 - 1977

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1766 HISTORIAN

Arturo Carlo Jemolo

1891 - 1981

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1768 PAINTER

Ferruccio Ferrazzi

1891 - 1978

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1897 ARCHITECT

Michele Busiri Vici

1894 - 1981

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1979 ACTOR

Anita Durante

1897 - 1994

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1982 POLITICIAN

Raffaele Paolucci

1892 - 1958

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2036 MEDICAL

Riccardo Galeazzi-Lisi

1891 - 1968

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2049 POLITICIAN

Alessandro Lessona

1891 - 1991

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2057 ACTOR

Marcello Giorda

1890 - 1960

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2103 DIPLOMAT

Pietro Quaroni

1898 - 1971

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2136 OFFICER

Umberto Utili

1895 - 1952

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2138 ACTOR

Olga Capri

1893 - 1961

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2173 GYMNAST

Fausto Acke

1897 - 1967

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2275 HISTORIAN

Raffaello Morghen (historien)

1896 - 1983

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2316 POET

Dolores Prato

1892 - 1983

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2347 LUTHIER

Simone Fernando Sacconi

1895 - 1973

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2412 ACTOR

Diomira Jacobini

1899 - 1959

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2438 MUSIC

Ezio Carabella

1891 - 1964

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2452 ARCHITECT

Mario De Renzi

1897 - 1967

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2454 ACTOR

Gualtiero De Angelis

1899 - 1980

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2491 ACTOR

Giulio Battiferri

1893 - 1973

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2514 POLITICIAN

Argo Secondari

1895 - 1942

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2523 PAINTER

Guglielmo Janni

1892 - 1958

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2528 ACTOR

Mimì Aylmer

1896 - 1992

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2529 ARCHAEOLOGIST

Jole Bovio Marconi

1897 - 1986

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2548 ACTOR

Guido Trento

1892 - 1957

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2553 OFFICER

Amedeo Mecozzi

1892 - 1971

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2558 PHYSICIAN

Giovanni Borromeo

1898 - 1961

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2604 ACTOR

Jone Morino

1896 - 1978

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2605 POLITICIAN

Fernando Schiavetti

1892 - 1970

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2644 ACTOR

Maria Donati

1898 - 1966

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2657 SCULPTOR

Edmond Amateis

1897 - 1981

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2659 OPERA

Alessio De Paolis

1893 - 1964

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2708 ARCHITECT

Vittorio Ballio Morpurgo

1890 - 1966

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2773 ARCHITECT

Pietro Lombardi (architect)

1894 - 1984

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2794 CHESS

Antonio Sacconi

1895 - 1968

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2926 POLITICIAN

Piero Colonna

1891 - 1939

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2929 DIPLOMAT

Luca Pietromarchi

1895 - 1978

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2935 MINERALOGIST

Ferruccio Zambonini

1890 - 1932

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3084 ENGINEER

Felice Trojani

1897 - 1971

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3105 POLITICIAN

Angela Maria Guidi Cingolani

1896 - 1991

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3354 ARCHAEOLOGIST

Renato Bartoccini

1893 - 1963

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3381 ACTOR

Aristide Garbini

1890 - 1950

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3413 FILM

Nicola Fausto Neroni

1896 - 1974

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3533 DRAMA

Stefano Pirandello

1895 - 1972

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3538 ACTOR

Augusto Mastrantoni

1894 - 1975

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3540 WRITER

Giorgio Vigolo

1894 - 1983

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3565 PAINTER

Augusto Camerini

1894 - 1972

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3597 CELLIST

Arturo Bonucci (1894-1964)

1894 - 1964

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3615 SINGER

Romolo Balzani

1892 - 1962

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3697 FLYING ACE

Federico Martinengo

1897 - 1943

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3791 OFFICER

Fernando Soleti

1891 - 1978

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3795 POLICE

Giuseppe Dosi

1891 - 1981

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3814 ACTOR

Anna Demetrio

1892 - 1959

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3838 PAINTER

Astolfo de Maria

1891 - 1946

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3855 FILM

Luciano Doria

1891 - 1961

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4022 PHILOLOGIST

Vincenzo Errante (germanista)

1890 - 1951

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4034 POLITICIAN

Bernardo Barbiellini Amidei

1896 - 1940

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4145 PHYSICIAN

Luigi Condorelli

1899 - 1985

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4159 ACTOR

Kally Sambucini

1892 - 1969

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4177 MATHEMATICIAN

Enea Bortolotti

1896 - 1942

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4332 FILM

Tullo Gramantieri

Born 1898

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4457 ART CRITIC

Emilio Lavagnino

1898 - 1963

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4561 POLITICIAN

Orazio Condorelli

1897 - 1969

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4610 PAINTER

Emanuel Glicen Romano

1897 - 1984

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4619 LINGUIST

Enrico Damiani

1892 - 1953

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4665 ACADEMIC

Valerio Mariani

1899 - 1982

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4700 SPORT

Ottorino Celli

Born 1890

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4765 FÍSIC

Linda Gazzera

Born 1890

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4776 SCHOLAR

Virginia Vacca

1891 - 1988

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4814 MILITAR

Mario del Drago

1899 - 1981

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4904 COMEDIAN

Gustavo Cacini

1890 - 1969

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4923 CONDUCTOR

Nino Marcelli

1890 - 1967

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4931 PAINTER

Pietro Lazzari

1895 - 1979

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4937 WIFE OF

Virginia Bourbon del Monte

1899 - 1945

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5038 RUNNER

Ettore Blasi

Born 1895

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5164 MILITAR

Carlo Margottini

1899 - 1940

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5198 JOURNALIST

Renato Mucci

1893 - 1976

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5216 GEOGRAPHER

Riccardo Riccardi

1897 - 1981

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5219 ENGINEER

Cesare Pallavicino

1893 - 1976

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5220 PRINCIPE

Francesco Ruspoli, 8th Prince of Cerveteri

1899 - 1989

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5252 POLITICIAN

Clara von Simson

1897 - 1983

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5254 MILITAR

Federico Zapelloni

1891 - 1979

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5289 PAINTER

Anselmo Ballester

1897 - 1974

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5347 PAINTER

Mario Barberis

1893 - 1960

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5474 SCENOGRAPHER

Alfredo Montori

1893 - 1969

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5476 JOURNALIST

Luciano De Feo (journaliste)

1894 - 1974

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5605 POLITICIAN

Alberto Folchi

1897 - 1977

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5726 POLITICIAN

Mario Carloni

1895 - 1967

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5779 INVENTOR

Umberto Nistri

1895 - 1962

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5818 LIBRARIAN

Lamberto Donati

1890 - 1982

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5860 DRAUGHTSWOMAN

Gioacchino Colizzi

1894 - 1986

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5937 STATISTICIAN

Livio Livi

1891 - 1969

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5944 ACTOR

Carlo Gualandri

1895 - 1972

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5974 PHILOSOPHER

Mario Casotti

1896 - 1975

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5983 COMPOSER

Dino Rulli

1891 - 1929

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5993 ARCHITECT

Guido Harbers

1897 - 1977

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5995 EXPLORER

Renato Alessandrini

1890 - 1928

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6009 WRITER

Felix Gasbarra

1895 - 1985

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6024 ENGINEER

Pietro Alibrandi

1895 - 1921

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6099 CINEMA

Fernando Risi

Born 1890

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6142 OPERA

Umberto di Lelio

1890 - 1946

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6147 COMPOSER

Ennio Neri

1891 - 1985

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6158 INVENTOR

Domenico Mastini

1897 - 1973

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6201 JOURNALIST

Alberto Cecchi

1895 - 1933

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6262 FOOTBALL

Attilio Buratti

1894 - 1936

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6270 MATHEMATICIAN

Elena Freda

1890 - 1978

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6347 JOURNALIST

Ernesto Daquanno

1897 - 1945

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6352 POLITICIAN

Ivo Coccia

1891 - 1979

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6359 COMPOSER

Francesco Ticciati

1893 - 1949

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6405 PAINTER

Alberto Carosi

1891 - 1967

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6410 FILM

Mario Parpagnoli

Born 1894

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6430 AVIATION

Eugenio Casagrande

1892 - 1957

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6476 PAINTER

Bianca Commichau-Lippisch

1890 - 1968

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6491 HISTORIAN

Pietro Gerbore

1899 - 1984

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6501 BOTANIST

Giulia Rivera Campanile

1896 - 1972

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6535 LUFTWAFFE

Gian Mario Beltrami

1893 - 1936

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6585 FOOTBALL

Fernando Saraceni

1891 - 1956

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6607 JOURNALIST

Giulio Benedetti

1893 - 1969

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6667 COMPOSER

Leone Massimo

1896 - 1979

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6671 PHILOSOPHER

Arnaldo Volpicelli

1892 - 1968

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6725 PAINTER

Virgilio Simonetti

1897 - 1982

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6769 POET

Francesco Possenti (poeta)

1899 - 1993

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6844 BASKET

Guido Graziani

1896 - 1986

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6846 PLAYWRIGHT

Anna Bonacci

1892 - 1981

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6856 ACTOR

Lola Visconti

1891 - 1924

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6956 LUFTWAFFE

Ferdinando Raffaelli

1899 - 1981

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7043 PAINTER

Matilde Festa

1890 - 1957

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7061 PHYSICIAN

Adalberto Pazzini

1898 - 1975

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7104 FOOTBALL

Renato Sacerdoti

1891 - 1971

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7175 MILITAR

Piero Brandimarte

1893 - 1971

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7193 PAINTER

Romolo Pergola

1890 - 1960

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7215 PHYSICIAN

Clelia Lollini

1890 - 1963

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7363 NURSE

Margherita Kaiser Parodi

1897 - 1918

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7399 COMPOSER

Gino Simi

1890 - 1953

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7438 ARCHITECT

Enrico Pietro Galeazzi

1896 - 1986

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7467 BUSINESS

Elena Domenica Rubeo

1896 - 1979

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7468 LYRICIST

Alberto Simeoni

1891 - 1943

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7483 POLITICIAN

Luigi Filippo Benedettini

1898 - 1978

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7541 WRESTLER

Mariano Ciai

1893 - 1958

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7552 FILM

Tony Frenguelli

Born 1894

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7783 ARCHITECT

Camillo Palmerini

1893 - 1967

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7826 ENTREPRENEUR

Publio Cortini

1895 - 1969

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7845 MILITAR

Alfredo Serranti

1896 - 1941

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7872 POLITICIAN

Ugo Angelilli

1897 - 1975

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8109 PRINCIPE

Sigismondo Chigi Albani della Rovere, IX principe

1894 - 1982

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8122 MILITAR

Giorgio Morpurgo

1892 - 1938

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8129 ENGINEER

Massimo Piacentini

1898 - 1974

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8138 ENTREPRENEUR

Angelo Molinari

1893 - 1975

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8139 OFFICER

Fernando Silvestri

1896 - 1959

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8205 NUN

Macrina Raparelli

1893 - 1970

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8330 MILITAR

Umberto Cerboni

1891 - 1916

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8373 MILITAR

Alberto Cadlolo

1899 - 1918

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8386 NOBLE

Francesco Alvaro Maria Giorgio Ruspoli, 1st Duke of Morignano

1891 - 1970

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8402 FOOTBALL

Angelo Benincasa

Born 1895

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8440 PHYSICIAN

Mario Acqua

1899 - 1955

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8454 BUSINESS

Giorgio Bulgari

1890 - 1966

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8504 FILM

Duilio Lucarelli

1897 - 1976

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8509 MILITAR

Ugo Bartolomei

1899 - 1918

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8605 FOOTBALL

Mario Busso

1897 - 1985

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8688 FOOTBALL

Augusto Faccani

1891 - 1944

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8701 MILITAR

Guido Alessi

1890 - 1918

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8754 SINGER

Zara Prima

1896 - 1966

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8820 ARCHITECT

Jorge Gallegos Trelanzi

1893 - 1975

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8862 FOOTBALL

Pierino Rovida

1898 - 1968

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8882 FILM

Giulio Manenti

1899 - 1955

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8946 ENTREPRENEUR

Antonio Lamaro

1893 - 1963

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8968 FOOTBALL

Amedeo Guarnieri

1890 - 1949

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8974 FOOTBALL

Fernando Canestrelli

Born 1898

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8988 FOOTBALL

Corrado Scocco

Born 1899

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9029 POLITICIAN

Mario De Cesare

Born 1895

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9076 GUITAR

Benedetto di Ponio

1898 - 1962

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9096 FOOTBALL

Giulio Scardola

Born 1898

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9117 PAINTER

Ezio Ercoli

1892 - 1969

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9141 FASCISTA

Settimio Sorani

1899 - 1982

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9154 FOOTBALL

Marcello Consiglio

Born 1894

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9190 FOOTBALL

Renato De Censi

1893 - 1919

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9212 PRINTMAKER

Gustavo Rodella

1891 - 1937

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9217 MILITAR

Ferdinando Raucci

1891 - 1943

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9226 PHILOLOGIST

Manlio Faggella

1894 - 1978

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9245 PIANIST

Luis Ricci

1890 - 1957

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9271 PHOTOGRAPHER

Stanislao Pecci

1891 - 1965

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9287 PAINTER

Federico Morgante

1898 - 1975

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9306 FOOTBALL

Armando Gambuti

Born 1896

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9327 PIANIST

Mario Bartoccini

1898 - 1964

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9333 PAINTER

Giorgio Hinna

1892 - 1946

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9339 POLITICIAN

Francesco Angelini (1898)

Born 1898

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