44.4048° N, 8.9343° E
GENOA
Most Famous People Born in Genoa, Italy
- Notable people
- 2,344
- Peak decade
- 1920s
- Median birth year
- 1907
- Most distinctive
- Pallanuotista 156.2×
A maritime republic that spent eight centuries moving money and cardinals around the western Mediterranean — the Painter and Sculptor benches are the Renaissance dividend, the Prelate and Priest depth is what a city with two medieval popes leaves on the ledger, and the Pallanuotista cohort, running at better than a hundred and fifty times the global baseline, is what happens when the harbor itself doubles as the practice pool.
One face per century — the most globally famous figure born in Genoa during each.
Notable Births by Decade
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What Genoa Is Known For
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Politician is Genoa's biggest profession — 15% of all notables (358).
Genoa over-indexes on pallanuotista — 156.2× the global rate.
Profession Mix Over Time
Each band shows a profession family's share of Genoa's notable births by decade. Hover the chart for the breakdown at any decade.
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Virginia Centurione Bracelli
1587 - 1651
Giovanni Battista Baliani
1582 - 1666
Giovanni Bernardo Carlone
1584 - 1631
Simone Barabino
1585 - 1660
Giuseppe Badaracco
1588 - 1657
Giovanni Vincenzo Imperiale
1582 - 1648
Virginia Ramponi-Andreini
1583 - 1630
Giovanni Domenico Cappellino
1580 - 1651
Castellino Castello
1580 - 1649
Giandomenico Spinola
1580 - 1646
Gian Francesco I Brignole Sale
1582 - 1637
Niccolò Riccardi
1585 - 1639
Luca Giustiniani
1586 - 1651
Agostino Centurione
1584 - 1657
Gerolamo De Franchi Toso (1585-1668)
1585 - 1668
Alessandro Spinola
1589 - 1665
Jacopo VII
1581 - 1603
Tommaso Orsolino
1587 - 1675
Antoniotto Invrea
1588 - 1669
Giovanni Agostino Marliani
1585 - 1674
Prospero Spínola
1587 - 1664