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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- Filtered to 1670s Clear ×
Angelo de Rossi
1671 - 1715
Giovanni Antonio Guido
1675 - 1729
Girolamo Grimaldi (1674–1733)
1674 - 1733
Giuseppe Lorenzo Maria Casaregi
1670 - 1737
Domenico Parodi
1672 - 1742
Giuseppe Palmieri
1674 - 1740
Francesco Costa
1672 - 1740
Nicolò Cattaneo
1679 - 1751
Francesco Maria Balbi
1671 - 1747
Costantino Balbi
1676 - 1741
Domenico Negrone
1672 - 1736
Giovanni Battista Grimaldi
1673 - 1757
Anton II Giulio Brignole Sale
1673 - 1710
Giovanni Battista Parodi
1674 - 1730
Luca Grimaldi (doge)
1675 - 1750
Nicolò Spinola
1677 - 1743
Antonio Pittaluga (peintre)
1676 - 1716
Agostino Saluzzo
1674 - 1747
Carlo Maria Giuseppe Fornari
Born 1674
Francesco Biggi
1676 - 1736