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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Raffaele Rubattino
1810 - 1881
Riccardo Garrone (entrepreneur)
1936 - 2013
Angelo Costa
1901 - 1976
Giovanni Bombrini
1838 - 1924
Carlo Bombrini
1804 - 1882
Erasmo Piaggio
1845 - 1932
Attilio Odero
1854 - 1945
Davide Serra
Born 1971
Giovanni Silvestri
1858 - 1940
Ernesto Cauvin
1903 - 1981
Carlo Alessandro Puri Negri
Born 1952
Edoardo Garrone (1961)
Born 1961
Gian Marco Moratti
1936 - 2018
Ernesto Fassio
1893 - 1968
Enrico Mantovani
Born 1962
Alessandro Garrone
Born 1963
Renzo Fossati
1931 - 2016
Gianni Scerni
Born 1944
Emanuele Vittorio Parodi
Died 1945
Arnaldo Salatti
1923 - 2005
Raffaele Pienovi
1779 - 1870
Pietro Ferrea
1848 - 1915
Andreolo Cattaneo
Died 1331
Ugo Valperga
1910 - 1970
Giovanni Rivara
1848 - 1901