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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.
One face per century — the most globally famous figure born in Rome during each.
Notable Births by Decade
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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 film — 3.8× the global rate.
Rome under-produces politician — only 0.6× the global rate.
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.
- Film & TV
- Sports
- Writing
- Art & Design
- Music
- Politics & Law
- Other
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Artemisia Gentileschi
1593 - 1653
John William Waterhouse
1849 - 1917
Giulio Romano
1499 - 1546
François Gérard
1770 - 1837
Romaine Brooks
1874 - 1970
Pietro Cavallini
1240 - 1330
Giovanni Baglione
1566 - 1643
Marcello Bacciarelli
1731 - 1818
Federico de Madrazo y Kuntz
1815 - 1894
Domenico Fetti
1589 - 1623
Vincenzo Camuccini
1771 - 1844
Andrea Sacchi
1599 - 1661
Constantin Hansen
1804 - 1880
Ottavio Leoni
1578 - 1630
Gaspard Dughet
1613 - 1675
Raimundo de Madrazo y Garreta
1841 - 1920
Constantino Brumidi
1805 - 1880
Antoniazzo Romano
1430 - 1508
Ettore Roesler Franz
1845 - 1907
Fausto Pirandello
1899 - 1975
Piero Dorazio
1927 - 2005
Pier Leone Ghezzi
1674 - 1755
Giuseppe Capogrossi
1900 - 1972
Ciro Ferri
1633 - 1689
Mario Nuzzi
1603 - 1673
Michelangelo Cerquozzi
1602 - 1660
Domenico Gnoli (painter)
1933 - 1970
Benedetta Cappa
1897 - 1977
Prince Heinrich of Hesse-Kassel
1927 - 1999
Giulio Rosati
1858 - 1917
Pedro Subercaseaux
1880 - 1956
Giovanni Costa
1826 - 1903
Antonio Donghi
1897 - 1963
Antiveduto Grammatica
1571 - 1626
Orazio Borgianni
1574 - 1616
Mario Mafai
1902 - 1965
Marco Benefial
1684 - 1764
Agostino Masucci
1691 - 1758
Pedro de Madrazo y Kuntz
1816 - 1898
Andrea Locatelli
1695 - 1741
Manuel Orazi
1860 - 1934
Renzo Vespignani
1924 - 2001
Giovanni Battista Crescenzi
1577 - 1635
Placido Costanzi
1702 - 1759
Giovanni Battista Lusieri
1755 - 1821
Angelo Caroselli
1585 - 1652
Ludovico Seitz
1844 - 1908
Célestin Nanteuil
1813 - 1873
Giosetta Fioroni
Born 1932
Carlos Luis de Ribera y Fieve
1815 - 1891
Carlo Maria Mariani
Born 1931
Giacomo del Pó
1652 - 1726
Pablo Echaurren
Born 1951
Giovanni Antonio Galli (artist)
1585 - 1652
Giovanni Battista Passeri
1610 - 1679
Martino di Bartolomeo
1389 - 1434
Faustina Maratti
1679 - 1745
Tommaso Salini
1575 - 1625
Giuseppe Bartolomeo Chiari
1654 - 1727
Renato Mambor
1936 - 2014
Guido Buzzelli
1927 - 1992
Giuseppe Passeri
1654 - 1714
Francesca Lo Schiavo
Born 1948
Flavio Costantini
1926 - 2013
Filippo Lauri
1623 - 1694
Remo Brindisi
1918 - 1996
Giuseppe Cades
1750 - 1799
Paolo Salvati
1939 - 2014
Gianni Dova
1925 - 1991
Ludovico Mazzanti
1686 - 1775
Paolo Anesi
1697 - 1773
Giovanni Stanchi
1608 - 1675
Giovanni Odazzi
1663 - 1731
Achille Perilli
Born 1927
Frédéric Soulacroix
1858 - 1933
Waldemar Cordeiro
1925 - 1973
Cipriano Efisio Oppo
1890 - 1962
Gaspare Celio
1571 - 1640
Eduard Ender
1822 - 1883
Marianna Candidi Dionigi
1756 - 1826
Teresa del Po
1649 - 1716
Ferruccio Ferrazzi
1891 - 1978
Enrico Coleman
1846 - 1911
Mino Argento
Born 1927
Piergiorgio Colautti
Born 1934
Attilio Simonetti
1843 - 1925
Maria Felice Tibaldi
1707 - 1770
Bona (peintre)
1926 - 2000
Cesare Biseo
1843 - 1909
Achille Pinelli
1809 - 1841
Cesare Mariani
1826 - 1901
Roberto Bompiani
1821 - 1908
Giovan Battista Cavagna
1545 - 1613
Filippo Gagliardi
1606 - 1659
Agostino Brunias
1730 - 1796
Filippo Agricola
1795 - 1857
Gregorio Guglielmi
1714 - 1773
Sergio Ceccotti
Born 1935
Carlo Labruzzo
1748 - 1817
Stefano Pozzi
1699 - 1768
Giovanni Angelo Canini
1617 - 1666
Camillo Innocenti
1871 - 1961
Crescenzio Onofri
1634 - 1698
Cesare Maggi
1881 - 1961
Cesare Fracassini
1838 - 1868
Andrea Procaccini
1671 - 1734
Pio Joris
1843 - 1921
Giovanni Mataloni
1869 - 1944
Carlo Bonavia
Died 1788
Ludovico Gimignani
1643 - 1697
Giovanni Omiccioli
1901 - 1975
Alberto Grifi
1938 - 2007
Anna Vittoria Dolara
1754 - 1827
Onorato Carlandi
1848 - 1939
Giovanni Tommasi Ferroni
Born 1967
Giuseppe Aureli
1858 - 1929
Arturo Noci
1874 - 1953
Gioacchino Giuseppe Serangeli
1768 - 1852
Laura Bernasconi
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Francesco Fidanza
1749 - 1819
Lucrina Fetti
1600 - 1651
Paris Nogari
1536 - 1601
Biagio Puccini
1673 - 1721
Alberto Ziveri
1908 - 1990
Ludovico Stern
1709 - 1777
Adriana Pincherle
1905 - 1996
Francesco Ruschi
1610 - 1661
Guglielmo Janni
1892 - 1958
Luigi Rubio
1808 - 1882
Marek Żuławski
1908 - 1985
Luigi Agricola
1750 - 1821
Plautilla Bricci
1616 - 1705
Emma Gaggiotti Richards
1825 - 1912
Alfredo Gauro Ambrosi
1901 - 1945
Aldo Raimondi
1902 - 1997
Antonia Bañuelos
1856 - 1921
Paolo Carosone
Born 1941
Giuseppe Ferrari (painter)
1840 - 1905
Alberto Carlieri
1672 - 1720
Claudio Olivieri
1934 - 2019
Guglielmo de Sanctis
1829 - 1911
Erulo Eroli
1854 - 1916
Giovanni Francesco Venturini
1650 - 1710
Pietro Bianchi (painter)
1694 - 1740
Ana Sacerdote
Born 1925
Augusto Bompiani
1852 - 1930
José Pinazo Martínez
1879 - 1933
Paolo Monaldi
1710 - 1779
Prospero Orsi
1560 - 1633
Ida Botti Scifoni
1812 - 1844
Ann Mary Newton
1832 - 1866
Giovanni Paolo Castelli
1659 - 1730
Umberto Coromaldi
1870 - 1948
Andrea Pozzi
1778 - 1833
Angelino Medoro
1567 - 1631
Raymond Balze
1818 - 1909
Oreste Cortazzo
1836 - 1910
Vespasiano Strada
1582 - 1622
Enrico Bianco
1918 - 2013
Giacomo Farelli
1629 - 1706
Michelangelo Cerruti
1663 - 1749
Giovanni Battista Busiri
1698 - 1757
Pietro da Pietri
1663 - 1716
Paul Balze
1815 - 1884
Caterina Ginnasi
1590 - 1660
Ermenegildo Costantini
1731 - 1791
Jean-Damascène Sallusti
Died 1781
Odoardo Vicinelli
1684 - 1755
Pietro Labruzzi
1739 - 1805
Francesco Jacovacci
1840 - 1908
Francesco Rosa
1638 - 1687
Federico de Madrazo y Ochoa
1875 - 1935
Giovanni Battista Lenardi
1656 - 1704
Angelo Campanella
1748 - 1815
Enrico Tarenghi
1848 - 1938
Peppino Benlliure
1884 - 1916
Pietro Angeletti
1758 - 1786
Aurelio Tiratelli
1842 - 1900
Giovanni Antonio Lelli
1591 - 1640
Vincenzo Capobianchi
1836 - 1928
Giuseppe Puglia
1600 - 1636
Pietro Lucatelli
1637 - 1710
Niccola Ricciolini
1687 - 1772
Augusto Camerini
1894 - 1972
Girolamo Nanni
Died 1642
Francesco Lo Savio
1935 - 1963
Arcangelo Resani
1670 - 1740
Roberto Loyola
1937 - 2000
Alfredo Ricci
1864 - 1889
Alberto Abate
1946 - 2012
Pasquale Verrusio
1935 - 2012
Simona Weller
Born 1940
Augusto Alberici
1846 - 1922
Michele Pace del Campidoglio
1610 - 1670
Franz Borghese
1941 - 2005
Maestro della natura morta Acquavella
Born 92
Angeluccio
1620 - 1680
Astolfo de Maria
1891 - 1946
Pompeo Fabri
1874 - 1959
Michelangelo Ricciolini
1654 - 1715
Silvestro Valeri
1814 - 1902
Giulio Aquili
Died 1556
Francesco Lauri
1610 - 1635
Rosina Mantovani Gutti
1851 - 1943
Gaspare Fumagalli
1735 - 1785
Johann Georg Gmelin (peintre)
1810 - 1854
Giuseppe Signorini
1857 - 1932
Ludovico Caracciolo
1761 - 1842
Alberto Calza Bini
1881 - 1957
Luigi Durantini
1791 - 1857
Paolo Mei
1831 - 1900
Marco Del Re
1950 - 2019
Enrico Benaglia
Born 1938
Filippo Costaggini
1839 - 1904
Sveva Caetani
1917 - 1994
Antonio Vighi
1764 - 1844
Luigi Cochetti
1802 - 1884
Alessandro Capalti
1807 - 1868
Pietro Duranti
1710 - 1786
Bernardino Fergioni
1674 - 1738
Cristoforo Casolani
1582 - 1629
Gianni Dessì
Born 1955
Franco Nonnis
1925 - 1991
Vittorio Grassi
1878 - 1958
Emanuel Glicen Romano
1897 - 1984
Giuseppe Cellini
1855 - 1940
Rabarama
Born 1969
Franco Mulas
Born 1938
Franco Sarnari
Born 1933
Gaetano Castelli
Born 1938
Franco Berdini
1941 - 2011
Pietro Lazzari
1895 - 1979
Alessandro Battaglia
1870 - 1940
Giovanni Angelo d'Antonio
1415 - 1478
Franco Costa (painter)
1934 - 2015
Maddalena Corvina
1607 - 1664
Antonio Bianchini
1803 - 1884
Francesco Gai
1835 - 1917
Marcantonio Canini
1622 - 1669
Clelia Bompiani
1848 - 1927
Cajetan Roos
1690 - 1770
Gustavo Simoni
1846 - 1926
Anselmo Ballester
1897 - 1974
Edoardo Gioja
1862 - 1937
Elisabeth Sohn-Rethel
1853 - 1933
Mario Barberis
1893 - 1960
Filippo Anivitti
1876 - 1955
Carlo Quattrucci
1932 - 1980
Augusto Corelli
1853 - 1918
Matteo Montani
Born 1972
Carlo Alberto Petrucci
1881 - 1963
Franco Fortunato
Born 1946
Ottorino Mancioli
1908 - 1990
Piero Fantastichini
Born 1949
Tommaso Luini
1601 - 1636
Giuseppe Filippo Liberati Marchi
1735 - 1808
Ugo Giannattasio
1888 - 1958
Rocco Pozzi
1700 - 1780
Giovanni Costantini (pittore)
1872 - 1947
Alessandro Morani
1859 - 1941
Francesco Coleman
1851 - 1918
Gustavo Mancinelli
1842 - 1906
Silverio Capparoni
1831 - 1907
Antonio Bicchierai
1688 - 1766
Bernardino Toppi
Born 1936
Augusto Stoppoloni
1855 - 1936
Marcello Avenali
1912 - 1981
Giovanni Lerario
1913 - 1973
Paolo Ferretti (pittore)
1864 - 1937
Gaspare Gabrielli
1770 - 1828
Pietro Nocchi
1783 - 1854
Cesare Torelli
Died 1615
Horst Sauerbruch
Born 1941
Giovanni Antonio Grecolini
1675 - 1736
Nazzareno Cipriani
1843 - 1923
Paul-Émile Barberi
1775 - 1847
Gian Domenico Valentini
1639 - 1715
Rinaldo Caressa
1929 - 2009
Francesco Stella
1862 - 1940
Rinaldo Geleng
1920 - 2003
Marzio di Colantonio
1560 - 1623
Fabrizio Chiari
1621 - 1695
Stanislao Lepri
1905 - 1980
Andrea Alovisii
1620 - 1687
Silvio Galimberti
1869 - 1956
Mario Gambetta
1886 - 1968
Nino Bertoletti
1869 - 1971
Pietro Gabrini
1856 - 1926
Jan Brazda
1917 - 2011
Giacomo Conca
1787 - 1852
Filiberto Mateldi
1885 - 1942
Raniero Aureli
1885 - 1975
Filippo Severati
1819 - 1892
Vincenzo Franceschini (né en 1680)
1680 - 1750
Carlo Romagnoli
1888 - 1965
Giovanni Battista Primi
Died 1657
Alberto Carosi
1891 - 1967
Antonio Vangelli
1917 - 2003
Bianca Commichau-Lippisch
1890 - 1968
Umberto Bottazzi
1865 - 1932