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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Bartolomeo Pagano
1878 - 1947
Giovanni Vacca (mathematician)
1872 - 1953
Domenico Cavagnari
1876 - 1966
Ceccardo Roccatagliata Ceccardi
1871 - 1919
Dominique Parodi
1870 - 1955
Hugh Crichton-Miller
1877 - 1959
Domenico Monleone
1875 - 1942
Giovanni Prini
1877 - 1958
Cesare Zoppetti
1876 - 1940
Eugenio Canfari
1877 - 1962
Giuseppe Migone
1875 - 1951
Alfredo Ravasco
1873 - 1958
Enrico Canfari
1877 - 1915
Mario Morasso
1871 - 1938
Arturo Bocciardo
1876 - 1959
Mario Abbiate
1872 - 1954
Edoardo De Albertis
1874 - 1950
Edoardo Pasteur
1877 - 1969
Henri Dapples
1871 - 1920
Giuseppe Sirianni
1874 - 1955
Amedeo Simonetti
1874 - 1922
Mattia Moresco
1877 - 1946
Paolo Straneo
1874 - 1968
Antonio Zolezzi
1874 - 1953
Pietro Bixio
1875 - 1905
Giovanni Tofani
1875 - 1947
Raffaele Issel
1878 - 1936
Enrico Bayon
1876 - 1952
Mario Agrifoglio
1877 - 1972
Evasio Montanella
1878 - 1940
Silvio Parodi
1878 - 1944
Giovanni Anfossi (geografo)
1876 - 1918
Eugenio Mollino
1873 - 1953
Federico Ricci (politico)
1876 - 1963
Ernesto De Galleani
1879 - 1931
Fausto Ghigliotti
1876 - 1942
Dario Maragliano (ortopedico)
1877 - 1970
Antonio Campostano
1877 - 1965
Giovanni Bocciardo
1877 - 1953
Hermann Bauer
1876 - 1901
Felice Bensa
1878 - 1963
Silvio Piero Bertollo
1878 - 1966
Wallys Ghiglione
1875 - 1924
Carlo Raggio
1876 - 1926
Carlo Canepa
1877 - 1948
Giovanni Attilio Pozzo
1876 - 1965
Angelo Massardo
1872 - 1947
Domenico Razeti
1870 - 1926
Nicolas E. Esposto
Born 1877