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List of people from Milan

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The following is a list of people from Milan.

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Ambrose
Michelangelo Antonioni
Giuseppe Arcimboldo
Giorgio Armani
Silvio Berlusconi
Umberto Boccioni
Charles Borromeo
Donato Bramante
Caravaggio
Giorgio de Chirico
Bettino Craxi
Leonardo da Vinci
Diocletian
Umberto Eco
Dario Fo
Lucio Fontana
Licinius
Alessandro Manzoni
Filippo Tommaso Marinetti
Maurizio Pollini
Gio Ponti
Medardo Rosso
Ludovico Sforza
Giuseppe Verdi
Gian Galeazzo Visconti
Alessandro Volta

Entrepreneurs

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Fashion designers

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  • Giorgio Armani (born 1934), Italian fashion designer
  • Domenico Dolce (born 1958), Italian fashion designer and entrepreneur, founder (along with Stefano Gabbana) the luxury fashion house Dolce & Gabbana
  • Mariuccia Mandelli (1925–2015), Italian fashion designer and entrepreneur
  • Miuccia Prada (born 1949), fashion designer

Fine arts

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Architects and designers

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  • Donato Felice d'Allio (1677–1761), Rococo style, worked in Austria
  • Luca Beltrami (1854–1933), Italian architect and architectural historian
  • Donato Bramante (1444–1514), Italian Renaissance architect and painter
  • Bramantino (1456–c. 1530), Italian Renaissance architect and painter
  • Filarete (c. 1400–c. 1469), Florentine Renaissance architect, sculptor, medallist, and architectural theorist
  • Ignazio Gardella (1905–1999), Italian architect and designer
  • Giovanni Muzio (1893–1982), Italian architect
  • Giuseppe Piermarini (1734–1808),  Italian architect who designed the Teatro alla Scala
  • Gino Pollini (1903–1991), Italian architect
  • Gio Ponti (1891–1979), Italian architect, industrial designer, furniture designer, artist, teacher, writer and publisher
  • Aldo Rossi (1931–1997), Italian architect and designer, one of the leading proponents of the postmodern movement, laureate of the Pritzker Prize in 1990
  • Ettore Sottsass (1917–2007), Italian architect and designer
  • Giuseppe Terragni (1904–1943), Italian architect, pioneer of the Italian modern movement under the rubric of Rationalism
  • Marco Zanuso (1916–2001), Italian Modernist architect and designer

Painters

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Photographers

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Sculptors

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Literature and historians

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  • Joseph Allegranza (1715–1785)
  • Cesare Beccaria (1738–1794), Italian criminologist, jurist, philosopher, economist and politician
  • Giovanni Berchet (1783–1851), Italian poet and patriot
  • Enzo Biagi (1920–2007), Italian journalist, writer and former partisan
  • Luciano Bianciardi (1922–1971), Italian journalist, translator and writer of short stories and novels
  • Giorgio Bocca (1920–2011), Italian essayist and journalist
  • Valentino Bompiani (1898–1992), Italian publisher, writer and playwright
  • Alfredo Bracchi (1897–1976), versatile Italian writer
  • Gianni Brera (1919–1992), Italian sports journalist and novelist
  • Cesare Cantù (1804–1895),  Italian historian, writer, archivist and politician
  • Carlo Cattaneo (1801–1869), Italian philosopher, writer, and activist
  • Enrica Collotti Pischel [it] (1930–2003), Marxist historian specializing in Asia[3]
  • Una Chi (1942–2021), Italian translator and writer
  • Ottavio Codogno (1570/74–1630), author of a guidebook to the postal services of early 17th–century Europe
  • Bernardino Corio (1459–1519?), historian, author of the Storia di Milano
  • Vincenzo Cuoco (1770–1823), Italian writer
  • Ivan Della Mea (1940–2009), Italian novelist, journalist, singer, songwriter and political activist
  • Carlo Dossi (1849–1910), Italian writer, politician and diplomat
  • Francesco Filelfo (1398–1481), Italian Renaissance humanist
  • Dario Fo (1926–2016), Italian playwright, actor, theatre director, stage designer, songwriter, political campaigner for the Italian left wing and the recipient of the 1997 Nobel Prize in Literature
  • Carlo Emilio Gadda (1893–1973), Italian writer and poet
  • Brunella Gasperini (1918–1979), Italian journalist and novelist
  • Melchiorre Gioia (1767–1829),  Italian writer on philosophy and political economy
  • Julien Green (1900–1998), American writer
  • Tommaso Grossi (1791–1853), Italian poet and novelist
  • Umberto Eco (1932–2016), Italian medievalist, philosopher, semiotician, novelist, cultural critic, and political and social commentator
  • Clara Maffei (1814–1886), Italian woman of letters and backer of the Risorgimento
  • Carlo Maria Maggi (1630–1699), Italian scholar, writer and poet
  • Alessandro Manzoni (1785–1873), Italian poet, novelist and philosopher
  • Filippo Tommaso Marinetti (1876–1944), Italian poet, editor, art theorist, and founder of the Futurist movement
  • Eugenio Montale (1896–1981), Italian poet, prose writer, editor and translator, and recipient of the 1975 Nobel Prize in Literature
  • Indro Montanelli (1909–2001), Italian journalist, historian, and writer
  • Vincenzo Monti (1754–1828), Italian poet, playwright, translator, and scholar
  • Salvatore Quasimodo (1901–1968), Italian poet and translator, laureate of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1959
  • Giuseppe Parini (1729–1799), Italian enlightenment satirist and poet of the neoclassic period
  • Silvio Pellico (1789–1854), Italian writer, poet, dramatist and patriot active in the Italian unification
  • Francesco Petrarca (1304–1374), scholar and poet of the early Italian Renaissance, and one of the earliest humanists
  • Carlo Porta (1775–1821), Italian poet
  • Bonvesin da la Riva (c. 1240–c. 1313), Italian Medieval writer and poet
  • Giuseppe Rovani (1818–1874), Italian novelist and essayist
  • Alberto Savinio (1891–1952), Greek–Italian writer, painter, musician, journalist, essayist, playwright, set designer and composer
  • Beppe Severgnini (born 1956), Italian journalist, essayist and columnist
  • Stendhal (1783–1842), 19th–century French writer
  • Carlo Tenca (1816–1883), Italian man of letters, journalist, deputy and supporter of the Risorgimento
  • Delio Tessa (1886–1939),  Italian poet
  • Leo Valiani (1909–1999), Italian historian, politician, and journalist
  • Alessandro Verri (1741–1816),  Italian author
  • Pietro Verri (1728–1797), Italian economist, historian, philosopher and writer
  • Elio Vittorini (1908–1966), Italian writer and novelist

Media

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Actors/Actresses of Film, Theatre and TV

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Directors and filmmakers

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TV and radio presenter

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Musicians

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Composers

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  • Arrigo Boito (1842–1918), Italian librettist, composer, poet and critic
  • Pietro Mascagni (1863–1945), Italian composer primarily known for his operas
  • Pino Presti (born 1943) Italian bassist, arranger, composer, conductor and record producer
  • Giuseppe Verdi (1813–1901), Italian composer best known for his operas

Pianists

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Singers

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Orchestral conductors

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Politicians

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  • Vittorio Agnoletto (born 1958), (Communist Refoundation Party), member of the European Parliament
  • Luigi Albertini (1871–1941)
  • Alboinus (530s–572), king of the Lombards from about 560 until 572
  • Eugène de Beauharnais (1781–1824), Viceroy of Italy during the Napoleonic Kingdom of Italy, whose capital was Milan
  • Bellovesus (lived ca. 600 BC), legendary Gallic chief of the Bituriges
  • Silvio Berlusconi (1936–2023), Italian politician who served as Prime Minister of Italy in four governments
  • Felice Cavallotti (1842–1898), Italian politician, poet and dramatic author
  • Bettino Craxi (1934–2000), Italian politician, leader of the Italian Socialist Party from 1976 to 1993 and Prime Minister of Italy from 1983 to 1987
  • Cesare Correnti (1815–1888),  Italian revolutionary and politician
  • Emilio Dandolo (1830–1859), important figure in the Italian Risorgimento
  • Diocletianus (242/245–311/312), Roman emperor from 284 until his abdication in 305
  • Beatrice d'Este (1475–1497) was Duchess of Bari and Milan by marriage to Ludovico Sforza
  • Alberto da Giussano (12th century), legendary character who would have participated, as a protagonist, in the battle of Legnano on 29 May 1176
  • Anna Kuliscioff (1857–1925), Russian–born Italian revolutionary, a prominent feminist, an anarchist
  • Ugo La Malfa (1903–1979),  Italian politician and an important leader of the Italian Republican Party
  • Licinius (c. 265–325) was Roman emperor from 308 to 324, who co–authored the Edict of Milan
  • Giovanni Malagodi (1904–1991), Italian liberal politician, secretary of the Italian Liberal Party (Partito Liberale Italiano; PLI), and president of the Italian Senate
  • Francesco Melzi d'Eril (1753–1816), Italian politician and patriot, serving as vice–president of the Napoleonic Italian Republic (1802–1805)
  • Teresa Meroni (1885–1951), trade unionist, and socialist
  • Cesare Merzagora (1898–1991), Italian politician
  • Mario Monti (born 1943), Italian economist who served as the Prime Minister of Italy from 2011 to 2013
  • Letizia Moratti (born 1949),  Italian businesswoman and politician, president of RAI (1994–1996), minister of Education, University and Research (2001–2006), mayor of Milan (2006–2011)
  • Ferruccio Parri (1890–1981), Italian partisan, anti–fascist politician and the first Prime Minister of Italy to be appointed after the end of World War II
  • Giuseppe Prina (1766–1814), Italian statesman killed in the Milan riots of 1814
  • Gianni Rivera (born 1943), Italian politician and former footballer
  • Francesco I Sforza (1401–1466), and Duke of Milan from 1450 until his death, the first member of the Sforza family to rule Milan
  • Francesco II Sforza (1495–1535) was Duke of Milan from 1521 until his death, the last member of the Sforza family to rule Milan
  • Ludovico Sforza (1452–1508), Italian nobleman who ruled as the Duke of Milan from 1494 to 1499
  • Massimiliano Sforza (1493–1530), Duke of Milan from  1512 to 1515
  • Gian Giacomo Trivulzio (1440 or 1441–1518),  Italian aristocrat and condottiero
  • Filippo Turati (1857–1932), Italian sociologist, criminologist, poet and socialist politician
  • Umberto Veronesi (1925–2016), Italian oncologist, physician, scientist and politician
  • Agnese Visconti (1363–1391), consort of Francesco I Gonzaga Lord of Mantua
  • Bernabò Visconti (1323–1385),  Italian soldier and statesman who was Lord of Milan
  • Filippo Maria Visconti (1392–1447), duke of Milan from 1412 to 1447
  • Gian Galeazzo Visconti (1351–1402), first duke of Milan from 1395 to 1402
  • Luchino Visconti (1906–1976), Italian filmmaker, theatre and opera director, and screenwriter
  • Matteo Visconti (1250–1322), second of the Milanese Visconti family to govern Milan
  • Ottone Visconti (1207–1295) was Archbishop of Milan and Lord of Milan, the first of the Visconti line

Religious figures

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  • Alberto Ablondi (1924–2010)
  • Ferdinando d'Adda (1650–1719), cardinal of San Clemente, San Pietro in Vincoli, Santa Balbina and Albano, archbishop of Amasya and apostolic nuncio to Great Britain
  • Aicone (died 918), archbishop of Milan
  • Saint Ambrose (c. 339–397), Bishop of Milan from 374 to 397
  • Anspert (died 881), archbishop of Milan from 861 to 881
  • Aribert (between 970 and 980–1045), archbishop of Milan from 1018
  • Arnulf I, Archbishop of Milan [it] (died 974)[4]
  • Arnulf II, Archbishop of Milan (died 1018)
  • Arnulf III, Archbishop of Milan (died 1097)
  • Carlo Acutis (1991-2006), lay Catholic teenager, set to be the first canonized millennial in the Catholic church
  • Saint Augustine (354–430), theologian and philosopher of Berber origin and the bishop of Hippo Regius in Numidia, Roman North Africa
  • Saint Charles Borromeo (1538–1584),  Archbishop of Milan from 1564 to 1584 and a cardinal of the Catholic Church
  • Federico Borromeo (1564–1631), Italian cardinal and Archbishop of Milan
  • Landolfo da Carcano (died 998),  archbishop of Milan, as Landulf II, from 979 until his death
  • Saint Galdinus (c. 1096–1176), cardinal elevated in 1165 and Archbishop of Milan from 1166 to his death in 1176
  • Saint Gervasius (2nd century AD), Christian martyr
  • Luigi Giussani (1922–2005), Italian Catholic priest, theologian, educator
  • Carlo Maria Martini (1927–2012), Italian Jesuit, cardinal of the Catholic Church and Archbishop of Milan from 1980 to 2004
  • Samuel Charles Mazzuchelli (1806–1864), pioneer Italian Dominican friar and Catholic missionary priest who helped bring the church to the Iowa–Illinois–Wisconsin tri–state area
  • Giovan Battista Montini (1897–1978), Pope Paul VI from 21 June 1963 to his death in August 1978)
  • Saint Protasius (2nd century AD), Christian martyr
  • Ildefonso Schuster (1880–1954), Archbishop of Milan from 1929 until his death

Scientists

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  • Marco Abate (born 1962)
  • Maria Gaetana Agnesi (1718–1799), the world's first woman to write a mathematics handbook and the first woman appointed as a mathematics professor at a university, wrote the first book discussing both differential and integral calculus
  • Camillo Agrippa (1535–1595), is considered to be one of the greatest fencing theorists of all time
  • Enrico Bombieri (born 1940), Italian mathematician
  • Ruggero Giuseppe Boscovich (1711–1787),  physicist, astronomer, mathematician, philosopher, diplomat, poet, theologian, Jesuit priest, and a polymath from the Republic of Ragusa
  • Piero Bottoni [it][5]
  • Francesco Brioschi (1824–1897),  Italian mathematician
  • Eugenio Calabi (1923–2023)
  • Gianni Caproni (1886–1957), Italian aeronautical engineer, civil engineer, electrical engineer, and aircraft designer
  • Girolamo Cardano (1501–1576), Italian polymath
  • Panfilo Castaldi (c. 1398–c. 1490), Italian physician and printer
  • Bonaventura Cavalieri (1598–1647)
  • Giuseppe Ciribini (1913–1990), engineer
  • Giuseppe Colombo (1920–1984),  Italian scientist, mathematician and engineer
  • Ardito Desio (1897–2001), Italian explorer, mountain climber, geologist, and cartographer
  • Enrico Forlanini (1848–1930), Italian engineer, inventor and aeronautical pioneer
  • Paolo Frisi (1728–1784), Italian mathematician and astronomer
  • Agostino Gemelli (1878–1959),  Italian Franciscan friar, physician and psychologist
  • Ludovico Geymonat (1908–1991),  Italian mathematician, philosopher and historian of science
  • Riccardo Giacconi (1931–2018), Italian–American Nobel Prize–winning astrophysicist
  • Pier Luigi Ighina (1908–2004), Italian researcher
  • Giulio Natta (1903–1979), Italian chemical engineer and laureate of a Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1963
  • Giovanni Schiaparelli (1835–1910), Italian astronomer and science historian
  • Cicco Simonetta (1410–1480), Italian Renaissance statesman who composed an early treatise on cryptography
  • Antonio Stoppani (1824–1891), Italian Catholic priest, patriot, geologist and palaeontologist
  • Enzo Tonti (1935–2021), Italian physicist and mathematician
  • Alessandro Volta (1745–1827), Italian physicist and chemist, pioneer of electricity and power

Sport

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Footballers

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Ice hockey

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  • Giancarlo Agazzi (1932–1995), ice hockey player, coach and president, six–time Italian Serie A champion and two–time Spengler Cup champion

Olympic sports

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Racing drivers

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  • Michele Alboreto (1956–2001), Italian racing driver
  • Alberto Ascari (1918–1955), Italian racing driver and a two time Formula One World Champion
  • Ivan Capelli (born 1963), Formula One driver
  • Madusa (born 1963), monster truck driver, professional wrestler

See also

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References

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  1. ^ Mauro Gobbini, "Campari, Davide", Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani, Volume 17 (1974). Retrieved 15 August 2013.
  2. ^ Giorgio Fiocca, "De Angeli, Ernesto", in Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani, volume 33 (Treccani, 1987). Retrieved 15 August 2013.
  3. ^ Two obituaries Archived 4 March 2013 at the Wayback Machine from Tuttocina.it.
  4. ^ Margherita Giuliana Bertolini, "Arnolfo", in Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani, Volume 2 (Treccani, 1962). Retrieved 15 August 2013.
  5. ^ "Bottoni, Piero", Enciclopedie online, Treccani.
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