45.4386° N, 10.9927° E

VERONA

Most Famous People Born in Verona, Italy

Notable people
910
Peak decade
1960s
Median birth year
1902
Most distinctive
Chamberlain 29.9×

Veronese and the Veronese school bent Venetian colour inland, which is why the Painter, Sculptor and Architect lines built the city's Renaissance face together. The oddity is a Chamberlain count running some thirty times the norm — a della Scala-era court artifact — while the Poet bench quietly runs back to Catullus two millennia on.

Through the Centuries

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

What Verona Is Known For

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Painter is Verona's biggest profession — 14% of all notables (123).

Verona over-indexes on chamberlain29.9× the global rate.

  1. Painter123
  2. Football122
  3. Politician80
  4. Actor37
  5. Writer35
  6. Composer30
  7. Sculptor22
  8. Poet20
  1. Chamberlain1029.9×
  2. Painter1235.2×
  3. Sculptor223.7×
  4. Entrepreneur113.6×
  5. Composer302.5×
  6. Architect182.2×
  7. Poet202.1×
  8. Physician111.8×

Profession Mix Over Time

Each band shows a profession family's share of Verona's notable births by decade. Hover the chart for the breakdown at any decade.

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910 notable people

0001 PHYSICIAN

Cesare Lombroso

1835 - 1909

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0002 PAINTER

Paolo Veronese

1528 - 1588

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0003 POET

Catullus

-84 - -54

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0004 WRITER

Emilio Salgari

1863 - 1911

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0005 SINGER

Gigliola Cinquetti

Born 1947

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0006 THEOLOGIAN

Romano Guardini

1885 - 1968

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0007 PHYSICIAN

Girolamo Fracastoro

1478 - 1553

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0008 PRINCE

Alexander of Battenberg

1857 - 1893

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0009 PHYSICIST

Carlo Rovelli

Born 1956

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0010 PRESBYTER

Peter of Verona

1206 - 1252

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0011 COMPOSER

Giuseppe Torelli

1658 - 1709

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0012 WARRIOR

Cangrande I della Scala

1291 - 1329

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0013 STAGE

Walter Chiari

1924 - 1991

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0014 BIOLOGIST

Mario Capecchi

Born 1937

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0015 ARCHITECT

Michele Sanmicheli

1484 - 1559

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0016 COMPOSER

Franco Donatoni

1927 - 2000

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0017 ART HISTORIAN

Giovanni Morelli

1816 - 1891

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0018 ACTOR

Eva Grimaldi

Born 1961

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0019 ACTRESS

Valeria Fabrizi

Born 1936

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0020 PHILOSOPHE

Guarino da Verona

1374 - 1460

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0021 PHILOSOPHER

Giovanni Giocondo

1433 - 1515

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0022 COMPOSER

Evaristo Felice Dall'Abaco

1675 - 1742

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0023 POET

Aleardo Aleardi

1812 - 1878

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0024 PAINTER

Pietro Rotari

1707 - 1762

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0025 WRITER

Francesco Scipione, marchese di Maffei

1675 - 1755

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0026 PAINTER

Bonifazio Veronese

1487 - 1553

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0027 PAINTER

Giovanni Francesco Caroto

1480 - 1555

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0028 COMPOSER

Antonio Bertali

1605 - 1669

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0029 COMPOSER

Marc'Antonio Ingegneri

1535 - 1592

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0030 INTELLECTUAL

Isotta Nogarola

1418 - 1466

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0031 COMPOSER

Giuseppe Gazzaniga

1743 - 1818

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0032 WRITER

Giuseppe Adami

1878 - 1946

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0033 CONDUCTOR

Franco Faccio

1840 - 1891

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0034 POLITICIAN

Guido Gonella

1905 - 1982

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0035 CLERIC

Magdalene of Canossa

1774 - 1835

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0036 PAINTER

Alessandro Turchi

1578 - 1649

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0037 COMPOSER

Bartolomeo Tromboncino

1470 - 1535

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0038 ASTRONOMER

Francesco Bianchini

1662 - 1729

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0039 HISTORIAN

Onofrio Panvinio

1530 - 1568

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0040 CHAMBERLAIN

Mastino II della Scala

1308 - 1351

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0041 PAINTER

Jacopo Ligozzi

1547 - 1627

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0042 HISTORIAN

Alexander Guagnini

1538 - 1614

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0043 ACTOR

Francesca Rettondini

Born 1971

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0044 PAINTER

Antonio Balestra

1666 - 1740

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0045 ACTOR

Umberto Smaila

Born 1950

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0046 PRIEST

Antipope Honorius II

1010 - 1072

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0047 LIBRETTIST

Gaetano Rossi

1774 - 1855

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0048 PAINTER

Giovanni Battista Zelotti

1526 - 1578

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0049 PRESBYTER

Giovanni Calabria

1873 - 1954

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0050 FOOTBALL

Gianmarco Zigoni

Born 1991

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0051 PAINTER

Liberale da Verona

1441 - 1529

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0052 ENGRAVER

Jacopo Caraglio

1500 - 1565

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0053 POET

Ippolito Pindemonte

1753 - 1828

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0054 ENTREPRENEUR

Edoardo Agnelli (industrialist)

1892 - 1935

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0055 SINGER

Cecilia Gasdia

Born 1960

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0056 ACTOR

Giulio Brogi

1935 - 2019

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0057 COMPOSER

Marchetto Cara

1470 - 1525

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0058 FILM

Giacomo Battiato

Born 1943

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0059 PAINTER

Francesco Bonsignori

1460 - 1519

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0060 PAINTER

Vincenzo Cabianca

1827 - 1902

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0061 PAINTER

Paolo Farinati

1524 - 1606

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0062 PAINTER

Francesco Morone

1471 - 1529

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0063 FOOTBALL

Mario Corso

1941 - 2020

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0064 PAINTER

Renato Birolli

1905 - 1959

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0065 OPERA

Nino Martini

1905 - 1976

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0066 PRIEST

Gaspare Bertoni

1777 - 1853

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0067 PAINTER

Giambettino Cignaroli

1706 - 1770

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0068 PHYSICIST

Giuseppe Zamboni

1776 - 1846

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0069 FOOTBALL

Aldo Olivieri

1910 - 2001

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0070 IMPRESARIO

Giovanni Zenatello

1876 - 1949

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0071 PAINTER

Giovanni Maria Falconetto

1468 - 1535

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0072 FILM

Renato Simoni

1875 - 1952

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0073 PAINTER

Domenico Morone

1442 - 1518

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0074 SINGER

Giorgio Zancanaro

Born 1939

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0075 FOOTBALL

Alberto Malesani

Born 1954

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0076 CHAMBERLAIN

Cangrande II della Scala

1332 - 1359

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0077 CHAMBERLAIN

Cansignorio della Scala

1340 - 1375

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0078 CONDUCTOR

Carlo Pedrotti

1817 - 1893

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0079 PAINTER

Girolamo dai Libri

1474 - 1555

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0080 COMPOSER

Marco Stroppa

Born 1959

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0081 PAINTER

Domenico Riccio

1516 - 1567

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0082 POET

Aemilius Macer

Died -16

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0083 LINGUIST

Antonio Cesari

1760 - 1828

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0084 POLITICIAN

Alberto De Stefani

1879 - 1969

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0085 POLITICIAN

Antonio I della Scala

1364 - 1388

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0086 ACTOR

Beatrice Macola

1965 - 2001

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0087 SCULPTOR

Matteo de' Pasti

1420 - 1468

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0088 PAINTER

Alessandro Marchesini

1663 - 1738

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0089 COMPOSER

Vincenzo Ruffo

1510 - 1587

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0090 ARISTOCRAT

Beatrice Regina della Scala

1333 - 1384

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0091 ENTOMOLOGIST

Giorgio Celli

1935 - 2011

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0092 PAINTER

Paolo Moranda Cavazzola

1486 - 1522

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0093 CIRCUS

David Larible

Born 1957

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0094 MATHEMATICIAN

Ugo Amaldi (mathematician)

1875 - 1957

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0095 CONDOTTIERO

Mastino I della Scala

Died 1277

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0096 PAINTER

Stefano da Verona

1374 - 1451

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0097 PAINTER

Felice Torelli

1667 - 1748

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0098 PAINTER

Antonio Badile

1518 - 1560

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0099 WRITER

Cesare Bendinelli

1542 - 1617

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0100 PAINTER

Marco Antonio Bassetti

1586 - 1630

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0101 POLITICIAN

Flavio Tosi

Born 1969

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0102 FOOTBALL

Guido Masetti

1907 - 1993

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0103 PAINTER

Giuseppe Canella

1788 - 1847

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0104 PAINTER

Felice Riccio

1542 - 1605

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0105 HISTORIAN

Henry Noris

1631 - 1704

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0106 HUMANIST

Johannes Baptista Montanus

1498 - 1551

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0107 POET

Berto Barbarani

1872 - 1945

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0108 SCULPTOR

Antonio Rizzo

1430 - 1499

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0109 PHYSICIAN

Hillel ben Samuel

1220 - 1295

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0110 FOOTBALL

Beniamino Vignola

Born 1959

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0111 SKIER

Fulvio Valbusa

Born 1969

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0112 WRITER

Cristina Ali Farah

Born 1973

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0113 ACADEMIC

Giuseppe Belluzzo

1876 - 1952

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0114 PAINTER

Francesco Montemezzano

1555 - 1602

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0115 COMPOSER

Stefano Bernardi

1577 - 1637

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0116 SCULPTOR

Girolamo Campagna

1549 - 1625

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0117 ACTOR

Roberto Nobile

Born 1947

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0118 FOOTBALL

Riccardo Cazzola

Born 1985

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0119 THEATRE

Gianfranco De Bosio

Born 1924

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0120 CHAMBERLAIN

Alboino I della Scala

1284 - 1311

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0121 PAINTER

Pasquale Ottini

1570 - 1630

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0122 SOLDIER

Alessandro, Marquis de Maffei

1662 - 1730

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0123 DRAUGHTSWOMAN

Felice Feliciano

1433 - 1479

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0124 CHAMBERLAIN

Alberto II della Scala

1306 - 1352

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0125 PAINTER

Niccolò di Pietro

Died 1440

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0126 PAINTER

Jacopo Guarana

1720 - 1808

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0127 ENGRAVER

Domenico Cunego

1727 - 1803

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0128 CHAMBERLAIN

Alberto I della Scala

Died 1301

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0129 ACTOR

Luigi Tosi

1915 - 1989

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0130 COMPOSER

Leone Leoni (composer)

1560 - 1627

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0131 COMPOSER

Giammateo Asola

1524 - 1609

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0132 POLITICIAN

Count Richard von Bienerth-Schmerling

1863 - 1918

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0133 PRESENTER

Licia Colò

Born 1962

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0134 PAINTER

Benedetto Caliari

1538 - 1598

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0135 PRIEST

Nicola Mazza

1790 - 1865

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0136 CHOREOGRAPHER

Renato Zanella

Born 1961

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0137 PLAYER

Giorgio de Stefani

1904 - 1992

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0138 HOCKEY

Jordan Schmaltz

Born 1993

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0139 PRIEST

Luigi di Canossa

1809 - 1900

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0140 PAINTER

Niccolò Giolfino

1476 - 1555

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0141 SINGER

Rosanna Carteri

1930 - 2020

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0142 PAINTER

Francesco Benaglio

1430 - 1492

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0143 WRITER

Paolo Bacilieri

Born 1965

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0144 SCULPTOR

Innocenzo Fraccaroli

1805 - 1882

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0145 PHYSICIST

Radó von Kövesligethy

1862 - 1934

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0146 SKIER

Sabina Valbusa

Born 1972

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0147 PAINTER

Saverio Dalla Rosa

1741 - 1821

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0148 PAINTER

Bernardino India

1528 - 1590

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0149 ENTREPRENEUR

Giovanni Battista Meneghini

1896 - 1981

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0150 ÉPOUSE

Piccarda Bueri

1368 - 1433

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0151 FINANCIER

Jacob Bassevi

1580 - 1634

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0152 POLITICIAN

Guglielmo della Scala

1350 - 1404

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0153 PAINTER

Claudio Ridolfi

1560 - 1644

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0154 COMPOSER

Giovanni Maria Ruggieri

1665 - 1725

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0155 PAINTER

Angelo Dall'Oca Bianca

1858 - 1942

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0156 PLAYER

Massimo Bertolini

Born 1974

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0157 PAINTER

Battista del Moro

1512 - 1573

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0158 HISTORIAN

Giuseppe Bianchini

1704 - 1764

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0159 ACTOR

Nini Salerno

Born 1948

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0160 PAINTER

Dario Varotari the Elder

1539 - 1596

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0161 CHAMBERLAIN

Bartolomeo I della Scala

1277 - 1304

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0162 HISTORIAN

Francesco Pona

1595 - 1655

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0163 POLITICIAN

Lorenzo Fontana

Born 1980

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0164 SINGER

Gilda dalla Rizza

1892 - 1975

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0165 ECONOMIST

Costantino Bresciani Turroni

1882 - 1963

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0166 BROTHER

Bartolomeo II della Scala

1358 - 1381

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0167 ACTOR

Valentina Bellè

Born 1992

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0168 PHOTOGRAPHER

Alberto Siliotti

Born 1950

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0169 PHILOLOGIST

Leonardo Olschki

1885 - 1961

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0170 POLITICIAN

Sextus Claudius Petronius Probus

328 - 388

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0171 HISTORIAN

Paolo Emilio

1460 - 1529

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0172 COMPOSER

Giulio Cesare Martinengo

1564 - 1613

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0173 INVENTOR

Mario Calderara

1879 - 1944

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0174 PHYSICIAN

Gabriele Zerbi

1445 - 1505

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0175 ARCHITECT

Adriano Cristofali

1717 - 1788

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0176 ACTOR

Renato Malavasi

1904 - 1998

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0177 ENGINEER

Enrico Bernardi

1841 - 1919

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0178 FILM

Guido Leoni

1920 - 1998

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0179 SINGER

Giacomo Rimini

1887 - 1952

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0180 MATHEMATICIAN

Pietro Cossali

1748 - 1815

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0181 PAINTER

Santi Prunati

1652 - 1728

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0182 PAINTER

Rudolf Otto von Ottenfeld

1856 - 1913

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0183 PAINTER

Carlo Canella

1800 - 1879

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0184 ACTOR

Edda Ferronao

Born 1934

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0185 POLITICIAN

Lodovico Benvenuti

1899 - 1966

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0186 PAINTER

Giorgio Anselmi

1720 - 1797

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0187 LINGUIST

Giuliano Pisani

Born 1950

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0188 PAINTER

Vittorio Avanzi

1850 - 1913

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0189 PAINTER

Carlo Ferrari

1813 - 1871

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0190 SINGER

Adelaide Malanotte

1785 - 1832

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0191 PAINTER

Marco Marcola

1740 - 1793

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0192 POET

Vittorio Betteloni

1840 - 1910

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0193 SCULPTOR

Matteo dal Nasaro Veronese

1485 - 1548

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0194 SCREENWRITER

Carla Cipriani

1930 - 2006

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0195 ANTHROPOLOGIST

Alberto Castaldini

Born 1970

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0196 LAWYER

Alberto Trabucchi

1907 - 1998

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0197 LIBRETTIST

Ortensio Mauro

1634 - 1725

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0198 GOLDSMITH

Galeazzo Mondella

1467 - 1528

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0199 JESUIT

Luigi Fortis

1748 - 1829

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0200 ACTOR

Amina Pirani Maggi

1892 - 1979

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0201 PAINTER

Luigi Benfatto

1551 - 1611

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0202 SPORT

Ardito Bresciani

1899 - 1948

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0203 WRITER

Carlo Terron

1910 - 1991

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0204 SWIMMER

Alberto Castagnetti

1943 - 2009

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0205 PHYSICIST

Ettore Fiorini

Born 1933

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0206 PAINTER

Michele da Verona

1470 - 1540

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0207 HEAD OF STATE

Paolo Alboino della Scala

1344 - 1375

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0208 ASTRONOMER

Pietro Pitati

1490 - 1567

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0209 SCULPTOR

Fra Giovanni da Verona

1457 - 1525

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0210 FOOTBALL

Giorgia Motta

Born 1984

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0211 ARCHER

Paola Fantato

Born 1959

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0212 NUN

Luigia Poloni

1802 - 1855

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0213 POLITICIAN

Massimiliano Fedriga

Born 1980

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0214 PRESBYTER

Zefirino Agostini

1813 - 1896

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0215 PAINTER

Pietro Guarienti

1700 - 1765

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0216 ESSAYIST

PierLuigi Zoccatelli

Born 1965

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0217 COMPOSER

Gabriele Bianchi

1901 - 1974

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0218 ANATOMIST

Marcantonio della Torre

1481 - 1511

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0219 PAINTER

Girolamo Bonsignori

1472 - 1529

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0220 POET

Giovanni Pindemonte

1751 - 1812

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0221 ACTOR

Gigetta Morano

1887 - 1986

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0222 SCULPTOR

Giulio Angolo del Moro

1555 - 1618

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0223 PRIEST

Claudio Gugerotti

Born 1955

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0224 CONDUCTOR

Andrea Battistoni

Born 1987

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0225 PRIEST

Antonio Provolo

1801 - 1842

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0226 POLITICIAN

Gianni Fontana

Born 1944

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0227 SWIMMER

Luca Pizzini

Born 1989

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0228 COMPOSER

Pino Donati

1907 - 1975

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0229 BOTANIST

Achille Italo Forti

1878 - 1937

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0230 PAINTER

Giovanni Caroto

1488 - 1566

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0231 FOOTBALL

Enzo Menegotti

1925 - 1999

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0232 PRELATE

Rinaldo Corso

1525 - 1582

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0233 POLITICIAN

Alberto Giorgetti

Born 1967

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0234 POLITICIAN

Antonio Pesenti (economista)

1910 - 1973

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0235 PAINTER

Ernestine von Kirchsberg

1857 - 1924

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0236 DRIVER

Giulio Cabianca

1923 - 1961

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0237 JOURNALIST

Renzo Allegri

Born 1934

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0238 FOOTBALL

Claudio Ferrarese

Born 1978

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0239 ILLUMINATOR

Francesco dai Libri

1452 - 1503

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0240 FOOTBALL

Luca Nizzetto

Born 1986

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0241 POLITICIAN

Donata Gottardi

Born 1950

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0242 SPORT

Giovanna Bonazzi

Born 1966

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0243 PAINTER

Orazio Farinati

1559 - 1616

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0244 CHEMIST

Giovanni Francisco Vigani

1650 - 1712

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0245 PAINTER

Orlando Flacco

1527 - 1593

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0246 PAINTER

Giovanni Badile

1379 - 1451

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0247 CHEMIST

Mario Amadori

1886 - 1941

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0248 FOOTBALL

Nicola Corrent

Born 1979

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0249 PAINTER

Agostino Ugolini

1758 - 1826

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0250 WRITER

Vittorino Andreoli

Born 1940

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0251 FOOTBALL

Leandro Remondini

1917 - 1979

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0252 ART HISTORIAN

Pirro Marconi

1897 - 1938

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0253 WRITER

Antonio Mazzi

Born 1929

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0254 PHILOLOGIST

Giuseppe Fraccaroli

1849 - 1918

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0255 POET

Lorenzo Montano

1893 - 1958

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0256 PAINTER

Bartolommeo Ligozzi

1620 - 1695

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0257 ARTIST

Adrienne Roy

1953 - 2010

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0258 POET

Cesare Betteloni

1808 - 1858

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0259 WRITER

Renzo Zorzi (scrittore)

1921 - 2010

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0260 PAINTER

Fra Semplice

1589 - 1654

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0261 SCIENTIST

Mario Silvestri

1919 - 1994

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0262 ASTRONOMER

Gustav Niessl von Mayendorf

1839 - 1919

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0263 FOOTBALL

Stefano Garzon

Born 1981

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0264 COMPOSER

Michele Pesenti

1470 - 1528

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0265 ACTOR

Francesco Testi

Born 1978

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0266 MILITAR

Ludwig Goiginger

1863 - 1931

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0267 PRELATE

Louis de Canossa

1475 - 1532

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0268 PAINTING

Alessandro Pompei

1705 - 1772

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0269 LAWYER

Caepolla

1420 - 1475

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0270 POET

Girolamo Pompei

1731 - 1788

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0271 PAINTER

Antonio Calza

1658 - 1725

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0272 FOOTBALL

Mario Bortolazzi

Born 1965

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0273 PAINTER

Ercole Calvi

1824 - 1900

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0274 HISTORIAN

Enrico Fenzi

Born 1939

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0275 SINGER

Maria Labia

1880 - 1953

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0276 COMPOSER

Antonio Veretti

1900 - 1978

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0277 POLITICIAN

Tullia Carettoni Romagnoli

1918 - 2015

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0278 SKIPPER

Luca Devoti

Born 1963

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0279 ARCHAEOLOGIST

Antonio Frova

1914 - 2007

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0280 PAINTER

Maffeo Verona

1576 - 1618

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0281 PAINTER

Buonaventura Ligli

1688 - 1732

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0282 ARCHITECT

Armando Ronca

1901 - 1970

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0283 MATHEMATICIAN

Giuseppe Torelli (Mathematiker)

1721 - 1781

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0284 SCULPTOR

Livio Benedetti

1946 - 2013

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0285 FOOTBALL

Luigi Mascalaito

Born 1940

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0286 LAWYER

Giuseppe Trabucchi

1904 - 1975

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0287 ORGANIST

Paolo Bellasio

1554 - 1594

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0288 ECONOMIST

Francesco Cantuti Castelvetri

1904 - 1979

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0289 SWIMMER

Cecilia Vianini

Born 1976

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0290 PAINTER

Zenone Veronese

1484 - 1552

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0291 ARCHITECT

Plinio Marconi

1893 - 1974

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0292 POLITICIAN

Ruggero Orlando

1907 - 1994

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0293 FOOTBALL

Federico Cossato

Born 1972

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0294 FOOTBALL

Domenico Doardo

Born 1974

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0295 POET

Alida Airaghi

Born 1953

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0296 PAINTER

Giovanni Battista Lanceni

1659 - 1737

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0297 POLITICIAN

Federico Sboarina

Born 1971

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0298 FOOTBALL

Michele Troiani

Born 1996

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0299 SURGEON

Giovanni Arcolani

1390 - 1458

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0300 COMPOSER

Alexandro Marie Antoin Fridzeri

1741 - 1819

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