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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Goffredo Mameli
1827 - 1849
Nino Bixio
1821 - 1873
Placido Maria Schiaffino
1829 - 1889
Gerolamo Boccardo
1829 - 1904
Luigia Abbadia
1821 - 1896
Emilio Pallavicini
1823 - 1901
Ettore Bertolè Viale
1829 - 1892
Gabriele Castagnola
1828 - 1883
Serafino Amedeo De Ferrari
1824 - 1885
Domenico Chiodo
1823 - 1870
Louis Dodero
1824 - 1902
Luigi Centurini
1820 - 1900
Tammar Luxoro
1825 - 1899
Domingo Parodi
1823 - 1889
Teresa Parodi (soprano)
1827 - 1878
Lazzaro Negrotto Cambiaso
1823 - 1902
Marcello Staglieno (storico)
1829 - 1909
Stanislao Solari
1829 - 1906
David Chiossone
1820 - 1873
Giuseppe Benetti
1825 - 1914
Carlo Randaccio
1827 - 1919
Giovanni Bruzzo
1824 - 1900
Giovanni Antonio Migliorati
1825 - 1898
Michele Casaretto
1820 - 1901
Cesare Cerruti
1820 - 1905
Alessandro Repetti
1822 - 1890
David de Léon Cohen
1820 - 1891
Pietro Tortarolo
1828 - 1908
Pedro Podestá
1825 - 1902
María Teresa Torterolo
1829 - 1917
Antonio Burlando
1823 - 1895
Aloysius Masnata
1823 - 1886
Giuseppe Gnecco
1824 - 1871
Ambrogio Doria (senatore)
1826 - 1912
Francesco Lagomarsino
1823 - 1909
Daniele Morchio
1824 - 1905