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
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- Filtered to 1880s Clear ×
Gilberto Govi
1885 - 1966
Vittorio Valletta
1883 - 1967
Raffaele Rossetti
1881 - 1951
Piero Jahier
1884 - 1966
Alberto Capozzi
1884 - 1945
Norman W. Walker
1886 - 1985
Emilio Lunghi
1886 - 1925
Francis Yeats-Brown
1886 - 1944
Filippo Bottino
1888 - 1969
Edoardo Firpo
1889 - 1957
Pietro Gaudenzi
1880 - 1955
Ernesto Codignola
1885 - 1965
Giulio Gavotti
1882 - 1939
Giovanni Reggio
1888 - 1972
Renzo Picasso
1880 - 1975
Piero Bolzon
1883 - 1945
Pasquale Taraffo
1887 - 1937
Antonio Giuseppe Santagata
1888 - 1985
Gaetano Barbareschi
1889 - 1963
Mario Labò
1884 - 1961
Rinaldo Bianchetti
1882 - 1963
Mino Balbi Di Robecco
1883 - 1964
Orlando Grosso
1882 - 1968
Ugolino Vivaldi Pasqua
1885 - 1910
Paolo Cappa
1888 - 1956
Enrico Pasteur
1882 - 1958
Dante Conte
1885 - 1919
Cornelio Geranzani
1880 - 1955
Cuno Hofer
1886 - 1931
Julio Traversa
1886 - 1958
Mattia Traverso
1885 - 1956
Angelo Lualdi
1881 - 1979
Luigi Marchetti
Born 1888
Pietro Dodero
1882 - 1967
Emilio Mantelli
1884 - 1918
Andrea Gargano
1887 - 1970
Vieri Arnaldo Goetzlof
1883 - 1950
Giuseppe Cattaneo della Volta
1886 - 1974
Luigi Venzano
1885 - 1962
Mario Riccoboni
1889 - 1968
Giuseppe Castruccio
1887 - 1985
Augusto Agazzi
1886 - 1939
Mario Bruzzone
1887 - 1940
Hector Bayon
Born 1885
Cencio Massola
Born 1885
Francesco Augusto Masnata
1882 - 1974
Alessandro Brunoldi
1888 - 1974
Alberto Giacomasso
1887 - 1970
Carlo Maranghi
1888 - 1940
Giovanni Gavarone
Born 1882
Emilio Storace
Born 1887
Enrico Rossi (pallanuotista)
1881 - 1917
Giacomo Rolla
1888 - 1934
Oscar Schöller
Born 1882
Silvio Pellerani
1887 - 1945
Francesco Costa (calciatore)
1888 - 1928
Luigi Pollak
1887 - 1920
Aleyandro Cevasco
Born 1887
Giovanni Battista Vagge
Born 1886
Giovanni Foffani
Born 1880
Paolo De Barbieri
1889 - 1962
Pietro Zucchinetti
1887 - 1965
Achille Meneghini
1889 - 1941
Gino Gibelli
1882 - 1951
Attilio Chiarella
Born 1887