List of Milanese people
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This is a list of people born in or associated with the city of Milan
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Milan
Milan is the second-largest city in Italy and the capital city of the region of Lombardy and of the province of Milan. The city proper has a population of about 1.3 million, while its urban area, roughly coinciding with its administrative province and the bordering Province of Monza and Brianza ,...
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- Diego AbatantuonoDiego AbatantuonoDiego Abatantuono is an Italian cinema and theatre actor, as well screenwriter.-Biography and career:Abatantuono was born in a popular quarter of the city to a father of Pugliese origin and a mother from Como...
- Claudio AbbadoClaudio AbbadoClaudio Abbado, Cavaliere di Gran Croce OMRI , is an Italian conductor. He has served as music director of the La Scala opera house in Milan, principal conductor of the London Symphony Orchestra, principal guest conductor of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, music director of the Vienna State Opera,...
- Maria Gaetana AgnesiMaria Gaetana AgnesiMaria Gaetana Agnesi was an Italian linguist, mathematician, and philosopher. Agnesi is credited with writing the first book discussing both differential and integral calculus. She was an honorary member of the faculty at the University of Bologna...
- Joseph AllegranzaJoseph AllegranzaJoseph Allegranza was a Milanese Dominican who won distinction as a historian, archaeologist, and antiquary.From 1748 to 1754 Allegranza conducted research in northern and central Italy and in France...
- Enrico AnnoniEnrico AnnoniEnrico Annoni is a retired Italian footballer.He played 9 seasons in the Serie A for Como, Torino and Roma.He had a spell at Celtic winning the Scottish Premier Division during the late 1990s...
- Saint Augustine
- Luigi AlbertiniLuigi AlbertiniLuigi Albertini was an influential Italian journalist and politician.Albertini was an outspoken antifascist, even though at one time he did support the National Fascist Party in their opposition to the Left...
- Alberto da GiussanoAlberto da GiussanoAlberto da Giussano was an Italian legendary Guelph warrior during the wars of the Lombard League against Frederick Barbarossa in the 12th century...
- Alboinus
- Gino Alemagna
- Saint AmbroseAmbroseAurelius Ambrosius, better known in English as Saint Ambrose , was a bishop of Milan who became one of the most influential ecclesiastical figures of the 4th century. He was one of the four original doctors of the Church.-Political career:Ambrose was born into a Roman Christian family between about...
- Giorgio AmbrosoliGiorgio AmbrosoliGiorgio Ambrosoli was an Italian lawyer who was killed while investigating the malpractice of banker Michele Sindona.-Liquidating Sindona’s financial empire:...
- Anspertus
- Michelangelo AntonioniMichelangelo AntonioniMichelangelo Antonioni, Cavaliere di Gran Croce OMRI was an Italian modernist film director, screenwriter, editor and short story writer.- Personal life :...
- Ariberto d'Intimiano
- Giorgio ArmaniGiorgio ArmaniGiorgio Armani is an Italian fashion designer, particularly noted for his menswear. He is known today for his clean, tailored lines. He formed his company, Armani, in 1975, and by 2001 was acclaimed as the most successful designer to come out of Italy, with an annual turnover of $1.6 billion and a...
- Arnolfus
- Alberto AscariAlberto AscariAlberto Ascari was an Italian racing driver and twice Formula One World Champion. He is one of only two Italian Formula One World Champions in the history of the sport, and the only one winning his two championships in a Ferrari....
- Franco BaresiFranco BaresiFranco Baresi is an Italian football youth team coach and former player. He played as a sweeper and spent his entire career with Serie A club AC Milan, acknowledged as one of the greatest defenders ever to play the game. Baresi was nicknamed "Piscinin", Milanese for "Little one"...
- Beatrice d'EsteBeatrice d'EsteBeatrice d'Este , duchess of Milan, one of the most beautiful and accomplished princesses of the Italian Renaissance, was the daughter of Ercole I d'Este and younger sister of Isabella d'Este and Alfonso d'Este....
- Cesare Beccaria
- BellovesusBellovesusBellovesus was a legendary Gallic king. He lived around 600 BCE and is remembered for invading northern Italy with his people during the legendary reign of the 5th king of Rome, Tarquinius Priscus , although archeology would associate Gallic expansion into Italy to around 500 BCE.The historical...
- Luca BeltramiLuca BeltramiLuca Beltrami was an Italian architect and architectural historian, known particularly for restoration projects. He was a student of Camillo Boito at the Brera Academy...
- Giovanni BerchetGiovanni BerchetGiovanni Berchet was an Italian poet and patriot. He wrote an influential manifesto on Italian Romanticism, Lettera semiseria di Grisostomo, which appeared in 1816, and contributed to Il Conciliatore, a reformist periodical....
- Teresa BerganzaTeresa BerganzaTeresa Berganza, born on March 16, 1935), is a Spanish mezzo-soprano. She is most closely associated with the roles of Rossini, Mozart, and Bizet. She is admired for her technical virtuosity, musical intelligence and beguiling stage presence.- Biography :...
- Silvio BerlusconiSilvio BerlusconiSilvio Berlusconi , also known as Il Cavaliere – from knighthood to the Order of Merit for Labour which he received in 1977 – is an Italian politician and businessman who served three terms as Prime Minister of Italy, from 1994 to 1995, 2001 to 2006, and 2008 to 2011. Berlusconi is also the...
- Giuseppe BergomiGiuseppe BergomiGiuseppe Bergomi is a retired Italian footballer who spent his entire career at Internazionale, being equally at ease as a central or right defender....
- Carlo Bertolazzi
- Enzo BiagiEnzo BiagiEnzo Biagi was an Italian journalist and writer.-Biography:Biagi was born in Lizzano in Belvedere, and began his career as a journalist in Bologna. Active in journalism for six decades and author of some eighty books, Biagi won numerous awards, among which the 1979 Saint Vincent prize and the...
- Luciano BianciardiLuciano BianciardiLuciano Bianciardi was an Italian journalist, translator and writer of short stories and novels.-Works:*I minatori della Maremma, with Carlo Cassola, 1956*Il lavoro culturale, 1957*L'integrazione, 1960...
- Giovanni Ambrogio Biffi
- Giorgio BoccaGiorgio BoccaGiorgio Valentino Bocca is an Italian essayist and journalist, also known for his participation in the World War II partisan movement.- Biography :...
- Umberto BoccioniUmberto BoccioniUmberto Boccioni was an Italian painter and sculptor. Like other Futurists, his work centered on the portrayal of movement , speed, and technology. He was born in Reggio Calabria, Italy.-Biography:...
- Ferdinando Bocconi
- Adolfo Bogoncelli
- Arrigo BoitoArrigo BoitoArrigo Boito , aka Enrico Giuseppe Giovanni Boito, pseudonym Tobia Gorrio, was an Italian poet, journalist, novelist and composer, best known today for his libretti, especially those for Giuseppe Verdi's operas Otello and Falstaff, and his own opera Mefistofele...
- Enrico BombieriEnrico BombieriEnrico Bombieri is a mathematician who has been working at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey. Bombieri's research in number theory, algebraic geometry, and mathematical analysis have earned him many international prizes --- a Fields Medal in 1974 and the Balzan Prize in 1980...
- Valentino BompianiValentino BompianiValentino Silvio Bompiani was an Italian publisher, writer and playwright.Born in Ascoli Piceno , in 1929 he founded the publishing house carrying his name, which became one of the most important in Italy. It is currently part of RCS Libri.He debuted as a playwright in 1931 with L’amante virtuosa...
- Mike BongiornoMike BongiornoMichael Nicholas Salvatore Bongiorno , known as Mike Bongiorno, was an American-born Italian television host. He started his career on Italian TV in the 1950s and was considered to be the most popular host in Italy...
- Bonvesin de la RivaBonvesin de la RivaBonvesin da la Riva was a well-to-do Milanese lay member of the Ordine degli Umiliati , a teacher of grammar and a notable Lombard poet and writer of the 13th century.His De magnalibus urbis Mediolani , written in the late spring of...
- Senatore Borletti
- Francesco Saverio Borrelli
- Pietro Borsieri
- Ruggero Giuseppe Boscovich
- Piero Bottoni
- Alfredo BracchiAlfredo BracchiAlfredo Bracchi was a versatile Italian author, whose production ranged from song lyrics to movie scripts....
- Bramante (Donato di Pascuccio di Antonio)
- BramantinoBramantinoBartolomeo Suardi, best known as Bramantino , was an Italian painter and architect, mainly active in his native Milan.-Biography:...
(Bartolomeo Suardi) - Massimo BrambatiMassimo BrambatiMassimo Brambati is an Italian ex-footballer; he played as a defender.-Career:Brambati began his career at Torino, but he first established himself as a first-team footballer during a two-season loan spell at Empoli. He moved to Bari, whom he went on to captain, in 1989...
- Gino BramieriGino BramieriGino Bramieri was an Italian comedian and actor. He was especially known as a television comedian, but also performed in theatres, on radio, and in about thirty movies. He was nicknamed "Il Re della barzelletta" for his burlesque comic style, which was largely based on his skill at telling funny...
- Ernesto Breda
- Gianni BreraGianni BreraGiovanni Luigi "Gianni" Brera was an Italian sports journalist and novelist.-Biography:Brera was born in San Zenone al Po, near Pavia, the son of Carlo, a tailor, and Marietta Ghisoni...
- Francesco BrioschiFrancesco BrioschiFrancesco Brioschi was an Italian mathematician.Brioschi was born in Milan in 1824. From 1850 he taught analytical mechanics in the University of Pavia. After the Italian unification in 1861, he was elected depute in the Parliament of Italy and then appointed twice secretary of the Education...
- Vittore Buzzi
- Maria CallasMaria CallasMaria Callas was an American-born Greek soprano and one of the most renowned opera singers of the 20th century. She combined an impressive bel canto technique, a wide-ranging voice and great dramatic gifts...
- Carlo Camerana
- Giovanni Campagnoli
- Davide Campari
- Antonio CanovaAntonio CanovaAntonio Canova was an Italian sculptor from the Republic of Venice who became famous for his marble sculptures that delicately rendered nude flesh...
- Cesare CantùCesare CantùCesare Cantù was an Italian historian.Cantù was born at Brivio, in Lombardy, and began his career as a teacher....
- Ivan CapelliIvan CapelliIvan Franco Capelli is an Italian former Formula One driver. He participated in 98 Grands Prix, debuting on October 6, 1985. He achieved 3 podiums, and scored a total of 31 championship points...
- Gianni Caproni
- Andrea Cardile
- CaravaggioCaravaggioMichelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio was an Italian artist active in Rome, Naples, Malta, and Sicily between 1593 and 1610. His paintings, which combine a realistic observation of the human state, both physical and emotional, with a dramatic use of lighting, had a formative influence on the Baroque...
(Michelangelo Merisi) - Girolamo Cardano
- Saint Charles BorromeoCharles BorromeoCharles Borromeo was the cardinal archbishop of the Catholic Archdiocese of Milan from 1564 to 1584. He was a leading figure during the Counter-Reformation and was responsible for significant reforms in the Catholic Church, including the founding of seminaries for the education of priests...
- Carlo CarràCarlo CarràCarlo Carrà was an Italian painter, a leading figure of the Futurist movement that flourished in Italy during the beginning of the 20th century. In addition to his many paintings, he wrote a number of books concerning art. He taught for many years in the city of Milan.-Biography:Carrà was born in...
- Panfilo CastaldiPanfilo CastaldiPanfilo Castaldi was an Italian physician and "master of the art of printing," to whom local tradition attributes the invention of moveable type...
- Carlo Cattaneo
- Felice CavallottiFelice CavallottiFelice Cavallotti was an Italian politician, poet and dramatic author.- Early career :Born in Milan, Cavallotti fought with the Garibaldian Corps in their 1860 and 1866 campaigns during the Italian Wars of Independence....
- Eugenio Cefis
- Adriano CelentanoAdriano CelentanoAdriano Celentano is an Italian singer, songwriter, comedian, actor, film director and TV host.-Biography:Celentano was born in Milan at 14 Via Gluck, about which he later wrote the famous song "Il ragazzo della via Gluck"...
- Giuseppe ColomboGiuseppe ColomboGiuseppe Colombo , better known by his nickname Bepi Colombo, was an Italian scientist, mathematician and engineer at the University of Padua, Italy Giuseppe Colombo (Padua, October 2, 1920 – Padua, February 20, 1984), better known by his nickname Bepi Colombo, was an Italian scientist,...
- Enrica Collotti Pischel
- Federico ConfalonieriFederico ConfalonieriCount Federico Confalonieri de Candia was an Italian revolutionist.-Biography:Confalonieri was born at Milan, descended from a noble Lombard family....
- Bernardino Corio
- Cesare CorrentiCesare CorrentiCesare Correnti was an Italian revolutionary and politician.He was born in Milan of a poor but noble family...
- Bettino CraxiBettino CraxiBenedetto Craxi was an Italian politician, head of the Italian Socialist Party from 1976 to 1993, the first socialist President of the Council of Ministers of Italy from 1983 to 1987.-Political career:...
- Enrico Cuccia
- Vincenzo CuocoVincenzo CuocoVincenzo Cuoco was an Italian writer. He is mainly remembered for his Saggio Storico sulla Rivoluzione Napoletana del 1799 .-Early life:...
- Emilio DandoloEmilio DandoloEmilio Dandolo was an important figure in the Italian Risorgimento, participating in several of its most important battles.-Life:...
- Enrico DandoloEnrico DandoloEnrico Dandolo — anglicised as Henry Dandolo and Latinized as Henricus Dandulus — was the 41st Doge of Venice from 1195 until his death...
- Giovanni D'AnziGiovanni D'AnziGiovanni D'Anzi was an Italian songwriter.D'Anzi was born in Milan. In 1935 he wrote music and lyrics of "O mia bela Madonina" , a song dedicated to his hometown which soon became very popular and a sort of unofficial city anthem.Between 1930s and 1950s Giovanni D'Anzi and Alfredo Bracchi formed a...
- Ernesto De Angeli
- Giorgio De ChiricoGiorgio de ChiricoGiorgio de Chirico was a pre-Surrealist and then Surrealist Italian painter born in Volos, Greece, to a Genovese mother and a Sicilian father. He founded the scuola metafisica art movement...
- Ivan Della MeaIvan Della MeaIvan Della Mea was an Italian novelist, journalist, singer-songwriter and political activist.-Biography:...
- Emilio de MarchiEmilio de MarchiEmilio De Marchi was an Italian operatic tenor. He had a significant career during the late 19th century and early 20th century, appearing at major theatres on both sides of the Atlantic. In 1900, he entered the annals of musical history as the creator of the role of Cavaradossi in Giacomo...
- Filippo De PisisFilippo De PisisFilippo De Pisis was an Italian painter.-Biography:Filippo de Pisis was an Italian painter-poet who was born Luigi Filippo Tibertelli in Ferrara....
- Victor de SabataVictor de SabataVictor de Sabata was an Italian conductor and composer. He is widely recognized as one of the most distinguished operatic conductors of the twentieth century, especially for his Verdi, Puccini and Wagner. He is also acclaimed for his interpretations of orchestral music...
- Ardito DesioArdito DesioCount Ardito Desio was an Italian explorer, mountain climber, geologist, and cartographer.-Early life:Desio was born in Palmanova, Friuli, Italy...
- Renzo De VecchiRenzo De VecchiRenzo De Vecchi was an Italian football player and coach who competed in the 1912 Summer Olympics. As a member of the Italian Olympic squad in 1912, he played one match in the main tournament as well as two matches in the consolation tournament.He is the youngest player to play in a Serie A game...
- Diocletianus
- Carlo DossiCarlo DossiCarlo Alberto Pisani Dossi was an Italian writer and diplomat. He belonged to the Scapigliati.In 1892 he became a diplomat in Colombia, where he married Carlotta Borsani, with whom he had three children...
- Raffaele Durante
- Carlo Erba
- Eugenio di Beauharnais
- Giacinto FacchettiGiacinto FacchettiGiacinto Facchetti was an Italian football player. From January 2004 until his death, he was President of Internazionale, the club for which he played for his whole career during the 1960s and 1970s, playing 634 official games and scoring 75 goals. He played for the Internazionale team remembered...
- Giorgio Enrico Falk
- Federigo Card. Borromeo
- Giangiacomo FeltrinelliGiangiacomo FeltrinelliGiangiacomo Feltrinelli was an Italian publisher and left-wing political activist. He founded the publishing house Giangiacomo Feltrinelli Editore in 1954. He was also a communist and founded the GAP militant grouping in 1970...
- Inge Feltrinelli
- FilareteFilareteAntonio di Pietro Averlino , also "Averulino", known as Filarete was an Italian Renaissance architect, sculptor and architectural theorist from Florence. He is perhaps best remembered for his design of the ideal city of Sforzinda, the first ideal city plan of the Renaissance.-Biography:Antonio di...
(Antonio Averulino) - Francesco FilelfoFrancesco FilelfoFrancesco Filelfo was an Italian Renaissance humanist.-Biography:Filelfo was born at Tolentino, in the March of Ancona. He is believed to be a third cousin of Leonardo Da Vinci. At the time of his birth, Petrarch and the students of Florence had already brought the first act in the recovery of...
- Andrea Card. Ferrari
- Virgilio Ferrari
- Edoardo Ferravilla
- Dario FoDario FoDario Fo is an Italian satirist, playwright, theater director, actor and composer. His dramatic work employs comedic methods of the ancient Italian commedia dell'arte, a theatrical style popular with the working classes. He currently owns and operates a theatre company with his wife, actress...
- Lucio FontanaLucio FontanaLucio Fontana was an Italian painter, sculptor and theorist of Argentine birth. He was mostly known as the founder of Spatialism and his ties to Arte Povera.-Early life:...
- Vincenzo FoppaVincenzo FoppaVincenzo Foppa was a Northern-Italian Renaissance painter.He was an elderly contemporary of Leonardo da Vinci. Born at Bagnolo Mella, near Brescia in the Republic of Venice, he settled in Pavia around 1456, serving the dukes of Milan and emerging as one of the most prominent Lombard painters....
- Enrico ForlaniniEnrico ForlaniniEnrico Forlanini was an Italian engineer, inventor and aeronautical pioneer, well known for his works on helicopters, aircraft, hydrofoils and dirigibles. He was born in Milan...
- Paolo FrisiPaolo FrisiPaolo Frisi was an Italian mathematician and astronomer.-Biography:Born in Melegnano, Frisi was educated at the local Barnabite monastery and afterwards in that of Padua...
- Giorgio GaberGiorgio GaberGiorgio Gaber, byname of Giorgio Gaberscik , was an Italian singer-songwriter, actor and playwright. He was also an accomplished guitar player and author of one of the first rock songs in Italian...
- Galdino
- Carlo Emilio GaddaCarlo Emilio GaddaCarlo Emilio Gadda was an Italian writer and poet. He belongs to the tradition of the language innovators, writers that played with the somewhat stiff standard pre-war Italian language, and added elements of dialects, technical jargon and wordplay.-Biography:Gadda was a practising engineer from...
- Dina Galli
- Ignazio GardellaIgnazio GardellaIgnazio Gardella was an Italian architect and designer.-Biography:Born into a family of architects, the first of which was his namesake Ignazio Gardella , he graduated in engineering from the Politecnico di Milano university in 1928 .In his university...
- Aldo Garzanti
- Agostino GemelliAgostino GemelliAgostino Gemelli was an Italian physician, Franciscan friar and psychologist who was also the founder and chancellor of Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore of Milan in 1921....
- Saint Gervasius
- Ludovico GeymonatLudovico GeymonatLudovico Geymonat was an Italian Marxist philosopher, who gave an original turn to dialectical materialism....
- Antonio Ghiringhelli
- Riccardo GiacconiRiccardo GiacconiRiccardo Giacconi is an Italian/American Nobel Prize-winning astrophysicist who laid the foundations of X-ray astronomy. He is currently a professor at the Johns Hopkins University.- Biography :...
- Melchiorre Gioia
- Rev. Mons. Luigi GiussaniLuigi GiussaniMonsignor Luigi Giovanni Giussani , Italian Catholic priest, educator, public intellectual and founder of the international Catholic movement Communion and Liberation .-Biography:...
- Rev. Angelo Gnocchi
- Paolo Grassi
- Julien GreenJulien GreenJulien Green , was an American writer, who authored several novels, including Léviathan and Each in His Own Darkness...
- Antonio Greppi
- Tommaso GrossiTommaso GrossiTommaso Grossi , Lombard poet and novelist, was born in Bellano, beside the Lake of Como.He took his degree in law at Pavia in 1810, and proceeded thence to Milan to exercise his profession; but the Austrian government, suspecting his loyalty, interfered with his prospects, and in consequence...
- Francesco HayezFrancesco HayezFrancesco Hayez was an Italian painter, the leading artist of Romanticism in mid-19th-century Milan, renowned for his grand historical paintings, political allegories and exceptionally fine portraits.-Biography:...
- Ulrico Hoepli
- Ferdinando InnocentiFerdinando InnocentiFerdinando Innocenti , born in Pescia, Italy, was the founder of the Innocenti company and was the creator of the Lambretta motorscooter.Innocenti started working as an assistant to a blacksmith in 1907...
- Enzo JannacciEnzo JannacciVincenzo Jannacci , more commonly known as Enzo Jannacci , is an Italian singer-songwriter, actor and stand-up comedian...
- Riccardo Jucker
- Anna KuliscioffAnna KuliscioffAnna Kuliscioff was a Jewish Russian revolutionary, a prominent feminist, an anarchist influenced by Mikhail Bakunin, and eventually a Marxist socialist militant; she was mainly active in Italy, where she was one of the first women graduated in Medicine.Persecuted by the Imperial...
- Ugo La MalfaUgo La MalfaUgo La Malfa was an Italian politician, and an important leader in the Italian Republican Party, of which his son, Giorgio La Malfa, is now president.- Early years and anti-Fascist resistance :...
- Emilio Lancia
- Landolfo Cotta
- Landolfo da Carcano
- Lanzone della Corte
- Licinio
- Pompeo Litta
- Ludovico il MoroLudovico SforzaLudovico Sforza , was Duke of Milan from 1489 until his death. A member of the Sforza family, he was the fourth son of Francesco Sforza. He was famed as a patron of Leonardo da Vinci and other artists, and presided over the final and most productive stage of the Milanese Renaissance...
- Clara MaffeiClara MaffeiElena Clara Antonia Carrara Spinelli was an Italian woman of letters and backer of the Risorgimento, usually known by her married name of countess Clara Maffei or Chiarina Maffei....
- Ercole Marelli
- Carlo Maria MaggiCarlo Maria MaggiCarlo Maria Maggi was an Italian scholar, writer and poet. Despite being an Accademia della Crusca affiliate, he gained his fame as an author of "dialectal" works in Milanese language, for which he is considered the father of Milanese literature...
- Angelo Majo
- Giovanni Malagodi
- Paolo MaldiniPaolo MaldiniPaolo Cesare Maldini is an Italian former footballer who played as a left or central defender. He spent all 25 seasons of his career at Serie A club Milan, before retiring at the age of 41 in 2009, becoming a symbol and a legend of the club...
- Alessandro ManzoniAlessandro ManzoniAlessandro Francesco Tommaso Manzoni was an Italian poet and novelist.He is famous for the novel The Betrothed , generally ranked among the masterpieces of world literature...
- Filippo Tommaso MarinettiFilippo Tommaso MarinettiFilippo Tommaso Emilio Marinetti was an Italian poet and editor, the founder of the Futurist movement, and a fascist ideologue.-Childhood and adolescence:...
- Carlo Maria MartiniCarlo Maria MartiniCarlo Maria Martini, SJ is an Italian Cardinal of the Catholic Church. He was Archbishop of Milan from 1980 to 2002, and was elevated to the cardinalate in 1983.-Early life and education:...
- Pietro MascagniPietro MascagniPietro Antonio Stefano Mascagni was an Italian composer most noted for his operas. His 1890 masterpiece Cavalleria rusticana caused one of the greatest sensations in opera history and single-handedly ushered in the Verismo movement in Italian dramatic music...
- Massimianus
- Enrico MatteiEnrico MatteiEnrico Mattei was an Italian public administrator. After World War II he was given the task of dismantling the Italian Petroleum Agency Agip, a state enterprise established by the Fascist regime. Instead Mattei enlarged and reorganized it into the National Fuel Trust Ente Nazionale Idrocarburi...
- Raffaele Mattioli
- Achille Mauri
- Piero Mazzarella
- Valentino MazzolaValentino MazzolaValentino Mazzola was an Italian footballer and captain of the legendary Grande Torino side, killed in the Superga air disaster. He is considered one of the best football players of all time and perhaps the first modern all-around footballer, as he was an attacking midfielder who could score,...
- Samuel Charles MazzuchelliSamuel Charles MazzuchelliFather Samuel Charles Mazzuchelli, O.P. was a pioneer Italian Catholic missionary who helped bring the church to the Iowa-Illinois-Wisconsin tri-state area. He founded a number of parishes in the area, and was the architect for a number of parish buildings.-Background:Father Mazzuchelli was born...
- Giuseppe MeazzaGiuseppe MeazzaGiuseppe "Peppino" Meazza , also known as il Balilla, was an Italian footballer playing mainly for Internazionale in the 1930s, scoring 242 goals in 365 games for the club. He led Italy to win two World Cups: in 1934 and in 1938, winning the Golden Ball Award in 1934. He is widely considered the...
- Mariangela MelatoMariangela MelatoMariangela Melato is an Italian actress.Melato was born in Milan and studied at the Milan Theatre Academy. A striking, blonde actress, she began her stage career in the early 1960s and rose to fame after delivering powerful performances for a number of notable Italian stage directors such as Dario...
- Francesco Melzi d'ErilFrancesco Melzi d'ErilFrancesco Melzi d'Eril was an Italian politician and patriot, serving as vicepresident of the Napoleonic Italian Republic...
- Cesare MerzagoraCesare MerzagoraCesare Merzagora was an Italian politician from Milan. He was President of the Italian Senate from 1953 to 1967, and was also temporarily acting as President of Italy in 1964, in the period between the resignation of Antonio Segni and the election of Giuseppe Saragat...
- MinaMina (singer)Anna Maria Quaini, Grand Officer , known as Mina, is an Italian pop singer. She was a staple of Italian television variety shows and a dominant figure in Italian pop music from the mid-1960s to mid-1970s known for her three-octave vocal range, the agility of her soprano voice, and her image as an...
- Arnoldo MondadoriArnoldo MondadoriArnoldo Mondadori was a noted Italian publisher.Mondadori was born at Poggio Rusco, Mantua and died in Milan.His publishing house is today the largest in Italy.-External links:*...
- Eugenio MontaleEugenio MontaleEugenio Montale was an Italian poet, prose writer, editor and translator, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1975.- Early years :...
- Indro MontanelliIndro MontanelliIndro Montanelli was an Italian journalist and historian, known for his new approach to writing history in books such as History of the Greeks and History of Rome....
- Mario MontiMario MontiMario Monti is an Italian economist and academic who is Prime Minister of Italy, as well as Minister of Economy and Finance, since November 2011. Monti served as a European Commissioner from 1995 to 2004, with responsibility for the Internal Market, Services, Customs and Taxation from 1995 to 1999...
- Vincenzo MontiVincenzo MontiVincenzo Monti was an Italian poet, playwright, translator, and scholar.-Biography:Monti was born in Alfonsine, Province of Ravenna, Emilia-Romagna the son of Fedele and Domenica Maria Mazzari, landowners...
- Giovan Battista MontiniPope Paul VIPaul VI , born Giovanni Battista Enrico Antonio Maria Montini , reigned as Pope of the Catholic Church from 21 June 1963 until his death on 6 August 1978. Succeeding Pope John XXIII, who had convened the Second Vatican Council, he decided to continue it...
(Pope Paul VI) - Gian Giacomo Mora
- Angelo MorattiAngelo MorattiAngelo Moratti was an Italian oil tycoon. He was the owner and president of the Serie A football club Internazionale. He is the father of the current Internazionale's owner and president, Massimo Moratti....
- Letizia MorattiLetizia MorattiLetizia Brichetto-Arnaboldi Moratti is an Italian businesswoman and politician. She is the former mayor of Milan.-Biography:...
- Massimo MorattiMassimo MorattiMassimo Moratti is an Italian oil tycoon. He is the owner and President of Italian football team Football Club Internazionale Milano, and Chief Executive Officer of Saras S.p.A.-Life and career:...
- Angelo MottaAngelo MottaAngelo Motta was an Italian entrepreneur, founder of the food company Motta. He is associated with the commercial production of the sweet yeast bread panettone.Motta later served as a finance minister in the cabinets of Alcide De Gasperi during the 1950s....
- Bruno MunariBruno MunariBruno Munari was an Italian artist and designer, who contributed fundamentals to many fields of visual arts and non visual arts with his research on games, didactic method and creativity.-Biography:Bruno Munari was born in Milan but spent his...
- Riccardo MutiRiccardo MutiRiccardo Muti, Cavaliere di Gran Croce OMRI is an Italian conductor and music director of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra.-Childhood and education:...
- Giovanni MuzioGiovanni MuzioGiovanni Muzio was an Italian architect. Muzio was born and died in Milan and is most closely associated with the Novecento Italiano group....
- Giulio NattaGiulio NattaGiulio Natta was an Italian chemist and Nobel laureate. He won a Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1963 with Karl Ziegler for work on high polymers.-Early years:...
- Gaetano Negri
- Egidio NotaristefanoEgidio NotaristefanoEgidio Notaristefano is an Italian football manager; he is currently managing Carpi. He ia a former Italy under-21 international midfielder.-Career:...
- Giovanni Pallavicino
- Giuseppe PariniGiuseppe PariniGiuseppe Parini was an Italian Enlightenment satirist and poet of the neoclassic period.-Biography:Parini was born in Bosisio in Brianza, Lombardy...
- Ferruccio ParriFerruccio ParriFerruccio Parri was an Italian partisan and politician who served as the 43rd Prime Minister of Italy for several months in 1945. During the resistance he was known as Maurizio.-Biography:...
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- Francesco Petrarca
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- Guido Piovene
- Alberto Pirelli
- Gian Giacomo Poldi Pezzoli
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- Giovanni Polvani
- Gio PomodoroGiò Pomodoro-Awards and honors:* Lifetime Achievement in Contemporary Sculpture from the International Sculpture Center 2002 -References:...
- Gio PontiGiò PontiGio Ponti was one of the most important Italian architects, industrial designers, furniture designers, artists, and publishers of the twentieth century.-Early life:...
- Carlo PortaCarlo PortaCarlo Porta was an Italian poet, the most famous writer in Milanese .-Biography:...
- Luigi Porro Lambertenghi
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- Giuseppe PrinaGiuseppe PrinaCount Giuseppe Prina was an Italian statesman killed in the Milan riots of 1814.- Biography :Prina gave early evidence of his rare talent. After studying at the University of Pavia, he became a doctor of law in 1789...
- Saint Protasius
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- Alberto RabagliatiAlberto RabagliatiAlberto Rabagliati was an Italian singer.- Early career:Rabagliati was born in Milan.In 1927 he moved to Hollywood as the winner of a Rudolph Valentino look-alike contest...
- Johann Joseph Franz Karl Radetzki
- Arrigo Recordati
- Giuseppe Ricordi
- Angelo RizzoliAngelo RizzoliAngelo Rizzoli was an Italian publisher and film producer.- Early life :Orphaned at a young age and raised in poverty, Rizzoli rose to prosperity...
- Cesare Romagnosi
- Aldo RossiAldo RossiAldo Rossi was an Italian architect and designer who accomplished the unusual feat of achieving international recognition in four distinct areas: theory, drawing, architecture and product design.-Early life:...
- Medardo RossoMedardo RossoMedardo Rosso was an Italian sculptor. He is thought to have developed the Post Impressionism style in sculpture along with Auguste Rodin....
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- Edilio Rusconi
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- Alberto SavinioAlberto SavinioAlberto Savinio, real name Andrea Francesco Alberto de Chirico was an Italian writer, painter, musician, journalist, essayist, playwright, set designer and composer. He was the younger brother of 'metaphysical' painter Giorgio De Chirico...
- Cristina ScabbiaCristina ScabbiaCristina Adriana Chiara Scabbia is an Italian singer, best known as one of the two vocalists in the Italian gothic metal band Lacuna Coil. She also writes an advice column in the popular rock magazine Revolver, alongside musician Vinnie Paul. Scabbia is featured in a Megadeth song, "À Tout le...
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- Giovanni SegantiniGiovanni SegantiniGiovanni Segantini was an Italian painter known for his large pastoral landscapes of the Alps. He was one of the most famous artists in Europe in the late 19th century, and his paintings were collected by major museums. In later life he combined a Divisionist painting style with Symbolist images...
- Ludovico Settala
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- Cicco SimonettaCicco SimonettaFrancesco Simonetta was an Italian Renaissance statesman. He also is remembered for composing an early treatise on cryptography.- Biography :...
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- Ettore SottsassEttore SottsassEttore Sottsass was an Italian architect and designer of the late 20th century. His body of designs included furniture, jewellery, glass, lighting and office machine design.-Early career:...
- Saul SteinbergSaul SteinbergSaul Steinberg was a Romanian-born American cartoonist and illustrator, best known for his work for The New Yorker.-Biography:...
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- Antonio StoppaniAntonio StoppaniAntonio Stoppani was an Italian geologist and palaeontologist. He died in 1891 aged 67Born in Lecco, he became professor of geology in the Royal Technical Institute of Milan, and was distinguished for his researches on the Triassic and Liassic formations of northern Italy.Among his works...
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- Ildefonso Schuster
- Emilio Tadini
- Renata TebaldiRenata TebaldiRenata Tebaldi was an Italian lirico-spinto soprano popular in the post-war period...
- Carlo TencaCarlo TencaCarlo Tenca was an Italian man of letters, journalist, deputy and supporter of Risorgimento. He was the prime-mover in the Salon of countess Clara Maffei, to whom he was romantically linked....
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- Delio TessaDelio TessaDelio Tessa was an Italian poet from Milan. He is the most renowned writer in Milanese dialect after Carlo Porta. The originality of his poetry stands mostly in his obsessional expressionism and his allucinated and satirical way to depict Death...
- Vincenzo Torriani
- Arturo ToscaniniArturo ToscaniniArturo Toscanini was an Italian conductor. One of the most acclaimed musicians of the late 19th and 20th century, he was renowned for his intensity, his perfectionism, his ear for orchestral detail and sonority, and his photographic memory...
- Emilio Treves
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- Leo ValianiLeo ValianiLeo Valiani was an Italian politician and journalist.He was born in Rijeka , on the Adriatic, which is today in independent Croatia but was then a leading seaport for the largely landlocked Austro-Hungarian Empire...
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