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List of people from Milan

The following is a list of people from Milan.

Entrepreneurs

  • Ferdinando Bocconi (1836–1908), Italian entrepreneur and politician, founder of Bocconi University
  • Ernesto Breda (1852–1918), Italian engineer and entrepreneur
  • (1867–1936), businessman; born in Milan
  • Federico Confalonieri (1785–1846), businessman
  • Enrico Cuccia (1907–2000), banker
  • (18491907), businessman and senator; he founded the Società Ernesto De Angeli e C, a textile company manufacturing cotton prints
  • , businessman and pharmacist who founded Carlo Erba SpA
  • Giangiacomo Feltrinelli (1926–1972), influential Italian publisher, businessman, and political activist
  • Ferdinando Innocenti (1891–1966), Italian businessman who founded the machinery–works company Innocenti and manufacturer of the Lambretta motorscooter
  • Enrico Mattei (1906–1962), Italian public administrator and chairman of Eni
  • Arnoldo Mondadori (1889–1971), book publisher
  • Angelo Moratti (1909–1981), Italian oil tycoon and the former owner of Inter Milan from 1955 to 1968
  • Massimo Moratti (born 1945), Italian billionaire petroleum businessman, the former owner of Inter Milan and chairman of the Saras Group
  • Angelo Motta (1890–1957), Italian entrepreneur, and founder of the food company Motta
  • Angelo Rizzoli (1889–1970), Italian publisher and film producer
  • Edoardo Sonzogno (1836–1920), Italian publisher

Fashion designers

  • Giorgio Armani (1934–2025), 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
  • Stefano Gabbana, (born 1962), Italian fashion designer and perfume entrepreneurship

Fine arts

Architects and designers

  • Donato Felice d'Allio (16771761), 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

Photographers

Sculptors

Literature and historians

  • 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
  • (19302003), Marxist historian specializing in Asia
  • Adelaide Coari (1881–1966), Italian journalist, activist, and teacher
  • 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 (14591519?), 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

Actors/Actresses of Film, Theatre and TV

Directors and filmmakers

  • Michelangelo Antonioni (1912–2007), Italian director and filmmaker
  • Tinto Brass (born 1933), Italian film director and screenwriter
  • Axel Braun (born 1966), adult film producer and director
  • Attilio Colonello (1930–2021), scenic designer and stage director for opera
  • Paolo Grassi (1919–1981),  Italian theatrical impresario
  • Gabriele Salvatores (born 1950), Italian Academy Award–winning film director and screenwriter
  • Giorgio Strehler (1921–1997), Italian stage director, theatre practitioner, actor and politician

TV and radio presenter

  • Lucilla Agosti (born 1978), television and radio presenter and actress
  • Mike Bongiorno (1924–2009), Italian–American television presenter
  • Rebecca Staffelli (born 1998), television presenter, radio personality and model
  • Valerio Staffelli (born 1963), journalist and television personality

Internet Celebrity

Musicians

Composers

  • 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

Singers

Orchestral conductors

Politicians

  • 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 (17811824), 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
  • Adelaide Coari (1881–1966), feminist, editor, trade unionist, teacher and social activist
  • Felice Cavallotti (1842–1898), Italian politician, poet and dramatic author
  • Bettino Craxi (19342000), 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
  • Claudia Ruggerini (1922–2016), Italian Communist activist and neuropsychiatrist
  • Matteo Salvini (born 1973), politician
  • 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 (13631391), 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

  • Alberto Ablondi (19242010)
  • Ferdinando d'Adda (16501719), 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 (died 974)
  • 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

  • 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
  • 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 (19131990), 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

Footballers

Ice hockey

  • Giancarlo Agazzi (19321995), ice hockey player, coach and president, six–time Italian Serie A champion and two–time Spengler Cup champion

Olympic sports

  • Carlo Agostoni (19091972), épée, one–time Olympic champion and one–time world champion
  • Alessandro Aimar (born 1967), sprint

Racing drivers

  • 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

References