List of people from Genoa
This is a list of notable people from Genoa, Italy. Genoa is the capital of the Italian region of Liguria and the sixth-largest city in Italy. In 2015, 594,733 people lived within the city's administrative limits.[1] As of the 2011 Italian census, the Province of Genoa, which in 2015 became the Metropolitan City of Genoa,[2] counted 855,834 resident persons.[3] Over 1.5 million people live in the wider metropolitan area stretching along the Italian Riviera.[4]
Artists
Architects
- Leon Battista Alberti, architect, humanist author, and polymath
- Carlo Barabino, architect
- Lorenzo Mongiardino, architect, interior designer
- Renzo Piano, architect
- Renzo Picasso, architect and urban planner
Musicians
- Carlo Abbate, music theorist and composer
- Fabrizio De André, singer-songwriter
- Pippo Barzizza, composer, arranger, conductor and music director
- Umberto Bindi, singer-songwriter
- Angelo Branduardi, folk singer, moved to Genoa at a young age
- Perceval Doria, Genoese troubadour
- Simon Doria, Genoese troubadour
- Bonifaci Calvo, Genoese troubadour
- Lanfranc Cigala, Genoese troubadour, man of letters
- Ivano Fossati, singer-songwriter
- Dany Franchi, blues guitarist, singer and songwriter[5]
- Luchetto Gattilusio, Genoese troubadour
- Jacme Grils, Genoese troubadour
- Luca Grimaldi, Genoese troubadour
- Angelo Francesco Lavagnino, composer
- Simone Molinaro, composer
- Natalino Otto, singer
- Niccolò Paganini, violinist and musical genius
- Calega Panzan, Genoese troubadour
- Gino Paoli, singer-songwriter, moved to Genoa at a young age
- Tedua, rapper
- Luigi Tenco, singer-songwriter, moved to Genoa at a young age
Painters
- Enrico Accatino, painter, sculptor, designer
- Luca Cambiasi, painter
- Fra Simone da Carnuli, painter
- Valerio Castello, painter
- Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione, painter
- Edoardo Chiossone, engraver and painter
- Giuseppe Fraschieri, painter
- Giovanni Battista Gaulli, painter
- James Charles Harris, painter
- Alessandro Magnasco, painter
- Giovanni Stefano Maia, painter
- Domenico Piola, painter
- Ernesto Rayper, painter and engraver
- Emilio Scanavino, painter
- Bernardo Strozzi, painter
Sculptors
- Anton Maria Maragliano, sculptor
- Filippo Parodi, sculptor
Writers
- Dino Campana, poet, Genoa is a recurring theme of the Dino Campana's poetry
- Giorgio Caproni, poet, moved to Genoa at a young age
- Piero Jahier, poet, translator, journalist
- Eugenio Montale, poet, Nobel Prize winner
- Fernanda Pivano, writer, translator and critic
- Felice Romani, poet, wrote many librettos for the Opera
- Edoardo Sanguineti, poet
Other
- Giovan Battista Carpi, comics artist
- Alberto Terrile, photographer
Business
- Enrico Piaggio, industrialist
Entertainment
Actors
- George Eastman, actor
- Vittorio Gassman, actor
- Gilberto Govi, actor
- Beppe Grillo, actor, political activist
- Liliana Ross, Italian-born Chilean actress (La Colorina, Machos)[6]
- Paolo Villaggio, actor
Film production
- Pietro Germi, film director
- Emanuele Luzzati, production designer, illustrator
- Enrico Casarosa,storyboard artist, film director
Explorers
- Enrico Alberto d'Albertis, explorer and naturalist
- Luigi D'Albertis, explorer and naturalist
- John Cabot, Genoese explorer and navigator
- Christopher Columbus, explorer and navigator
- Giacomo Doria, explorer, naturalist, botanist
- Henry, Count of Malta, Genoese adventurer
- Lancelotto Malocello, explorer and navigator
- António de Noli, explorer and navigator
- Antoniotto Usodimare, Genoese explorer
- Vandino and Ugolino Vivaldi, Genoese explorers and merchants
Families and noble houses
- Adorno family
- Cavanna family
- Cybo family
- Delle Piane family
- Doria family
- Durazzo family
- Fieschi family
- Gattilusi family
- Ghisolfi family
- House of Grimaldi
- Imperiali family
- House of Spinola
Military
- Alamanno da Costa, admiral
- Andrea Doria, condottiero and admiral
- Lamba Doria, Genoese admiral who defeated the Venetians in the Battle of Curzola
- Guglielmo Embriaco, merchant and military leader
- Luigi Durand de la Penne, naval diver during World War II
- Raffaele Rossetti, engineer and military naval officer
Patriotic figures
- Balilla, Genoese boy who started the revolt against the Habsburgs
- Nino Bixio, patriot
- Goffredo Mameli, patriot, author of Italian national anthem, Il Canto degli Italiani
- Giuseppe Mazzini, patriot, politician, journalist, writer, activist
Political
- Prince of Belmonte
- Simone Boccanegra, Doge of Genoa
- Giovanni Battista Borea d'Olmo, politician
- Giuseppe Dossetti, jurist, politician, Catholic priest
- Bartolomeo di Passano, senator of the Republic of Genoa
- Gaetano Perillo, politician
- Caffaro di Rustico da Caschifellone, diplomat
- Palmiro Togliatti, politician
Religious
- Andrea Gallo, presbyter
- Catherine of Genoa, saint and mystic
- Baldassare Ravaschieri, Roman Catholic priest, beatified in 1930
- Giuseppe Siri, Archbishop of Genoa
- Jacobus da Voragine, Archbishop of Genoa
Popes
Science and academia
- Giovanni Battista Baliani, mathematician, physicist and astronomer
- Massimo Boninsegni, physicist
- Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza, geneticist
- Germano Celant, art historian
- Laura Crispini, geologist and Antarctic researcher
- Alberto Diaspro, physicist and engineer
- Ausonio Franchi, philosopher and editor
- Riccardo Giacconi, astrophysics, Nobel Prize in Physics
- Franco Malerba, astronaut
- Lorenzo Pareto, geologist and statesman
- David Veronese, economist
Sport
- Ezio Borgo, football player
- Francesca Carbone, 400m athlete
- Emilio Gattoronchieri, footballer
- Oliviero Mascheroni, footballer
- Mattia Monticone, footballer
- Matteo Rossi, footballer
- Mario Ventimiglia, footballer
References
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- ^ "Addio alle vecchie Province". Il Sole 24 ORE. Il Sole 24 Ore. Retrieved 24 March 2017.
- ^ "Resident population and present population". Istat Statistics. ISTAT. Retrieved 24 March 2017.
- ^ "Urbanismi, Cluster urbani e aree metropolitane – volume primo, Italia" (PDF) (in Italian). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2014-10-06. Retrieved 2013-02-23.
- ^ "About Me – Dany Franchi". Danyfranchi.com. Retrieved 13 August 2018.
- ^ "Actriz, directora y dramaturga: Liliana Ross fallece entre muestras de afecto de la industria y el amor de sus hijas". El Mostrador. 2018-06-11. Archived from the original on 2018-06-14. Retrieved 2018-07-07.