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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.

Through the Centuries

One face per century — the most globally famous figure born in Genoa during each.

What Genoa Is Known For

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Politician is Genoa's biggest profession — 15% of all notables (358).

Genoa over-indexes on pallanuotista156.2× the global rate.

  1. Politician358
  2. Football284
  3. Painter161
  4. Actor117
  5. Priest89
  6. Writer76
  7. Singer58
  8. Composer49
  1. Pallanuotista27156.2×
  2. Prelate246.0×
  3. Entrepreneur253.1×
  4. Sculptor473.1×
  5. Painter1612.6×
  6. Priest892.6×
  7. Poet461.9×
  8. Composer491.6×

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.

15001550160016501700175018001850190019502000
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Showing 65 of 2,344 notable people

0077 ACTOR

Gilberto Govi

1885 - 1966

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0083 INDUSTRIALIST

Vittorio Valletta

1883 - 1967

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0145 OFFICER

Raffaele Rossetti

1881 - 1951

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0179 POET

Piero Jahier

1884 - 1966

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0197 ACTOR

Alberto Capozzi

1884 - 1945

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0198 BUSINESS

Norman W. Walker

1886 - 1985

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0252 ATHLETIC

Emilio Lunghi

1886 - 1925

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0334 WRITER

Francis Yeats-Brown

1886 - 1944

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0388 WEIGHTLIFTER

Filippo Bottino

1888 - 1969

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0422 POET

Edoardo Firpo

1889 - 1957

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0540 PAINTER

Pietro Gaudenzi

1880 - 1955

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0555 EDUCATION

Ernesto Codignola

1885 - 1965

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0563 LIEUTENANT

Giulio Gavotti

1882 - 1939

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0593 SAILOR

Giovanni Reggio

1888 - 1972

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0669 ARCHITECT

Renzo Picasso

1880 - 1975

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0780 POLITICIAN

Piero Bolzon

1883 - 1945

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0823 GUITAR

Pasquale Taraffo

1887 - 1937

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0826 PAINTER

Antonio Giuseppe Santagata

1888 - 1985

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0843 POLITICIAN

Gaetano Barbareschi

1889 - 1963

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0891 ARCHITECT

Mario Labò

1884 - 1961

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0897 CHESS

Rinaldo Bianchetti

1882 - 1963

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0943 FOOTBALL

Mino Balbi Di Robecco

1883 - 1964

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1004 PAINTER

Orlando Grosso

1882 - 1968

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1160 AVIATORE

Ugolino Vivaldi Pasqua

1885 - 1910

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1197 POLITICIAN

Paolo Cappa

1888 - 1956

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1235 FOOTBALL

Enrico Pasteur

1882 - 1958

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1307 PAINTER

Dante Conte

1885 - 1919

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1340 PAINTER

Cornelio Geranzani

1880 - 1955

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1547 POET

Cuno Hofer

1886 - 1931

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1554 ACTOR

Julio Traversa

1886 - 1958

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1570 PAINTER

Mattia Traverso

1885 - 1956

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1606 SCULPTOR

Angelo Lualdi

1881 - 1979

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1658 FOOTBALL

Luigi Marchetti

Born 1888

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1668 PAINTER

Pietro Dodero

1882 - 1967

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1700 PAINTER

Emilio Mantelli

1884 - 1918

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1708 WRESTLER

Andrea Gargano

1887 - 1970

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1778 FOOTBALL

Vieri Arnaldo Goetzlof

1883 - 1950

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1779 POLITICIAN

Giuseppe Cattaneo della Volta

1886 - 1974

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1781 SCULPTOR

Luigi Venzano

1885 - 1962

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1802 SPRINT

Mario Riccoboni

1889 - 1968

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1816 FOOTBALL

Giuseppe Castruccio

1887 - 1985

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1867 POLITICIAN

Augusto Agazzi

1886 - 1939

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1942 SKIPPER

Mario Bruzzone

1887 - 1940

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1950 FOOTBALL

Hector Bayon

Born 1885

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1967 SAILOR

Cencio Massola

Born 1885

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1976 POET

Francesco Augusto Masnata

1882 - 1974

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1995 FOOTBALL

Alessandro Brunoldi

1888 - 1974

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2054 SCULPTOR

Alberto Giacomasso

1887 - 1970

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2065 FOOTBALL

Carlo Maranghi

1888 - 1940

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2081 ARMATORE

Giovanni Gavarone

Born 1882

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2082 FOOTBALL

Emilio Storace

Born 1887

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2101 SWIMMER

Enrico Rossi (pallanuotista)

1881 - 1917

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2109 FOOTBALL

Giacomo Rolla

1888 - 1934

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2128 FOOTBALL

Oscar Schöller

Born 1882

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2138 FOOTBALL

Silvio Pellerani

1887 - 1945

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2140 FOOTBALL

Francesco Costa (calciatore)

1888 - 1928

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2148 FOOTBALL

Luigi Pollak

1887 - 1920

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2152 FOOTBALL

Aleyandro Cevasco

Born 1887

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2157 FOOTBALL

Giovanni Battista Vagge

Born 1886

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2165 FOOTBALL

Giovanni Foffani

Born 1880

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2183 LIUTAIO

Paolo De Barbieri

1889 - 1962

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2197 FOOTBALL

Pietro Zucchinetti

1887 - 1965

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2215 MILITAR

Achille Meneghini

1889 - 1941

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2255 FOOTBALL

Gino Gibelli

1882 - 1951

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2286 FOOTBALL

Attilio Chiarella

Born 1887

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