The following is a list of people from Milan.
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Entrepreneurs
- Ferdinando Bocconi (1836–1908), Italian entrapreneur and politician, founder of Bocconi University
- Ernesto Breda (1852–1918), Italian engineer and entrepreneur
- Davide Campari (1867–1936), businessman; born in Milan[1]
- Federico Confalonieri (1785–1846), businessman
- Enrico Cuccia (1907–2000), banker
- Ernesto De Angeli (1849–1907), businessman and senator; he founded the Società Ernesto De Angeli e C, a textile company manufacturing cotton prints[2]
- Carlo Erba (1811–1888) , 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 (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
Architects and designers
- 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
- Filippo Abbiati (1640–1715)
- Mario Acerbi (painter) (1887–1982)
- Angelo Achini (1850–1930)
- Franz Adam (1815–1886)
- Luigi Ademollo (1764–1849)
- Giuseppe Arcimboldo (1526–1593), Italian painter best known for creating imaginative portrait heads made entirely of objects such as fruits, vegetables, flowers, fish and books
- Carlo Paolo Agazzi (1870–1922)
- Federico Agnelli (1626–1702), engraver
- Leonardo di Bisuccio (15th century), Italian painter of the Renaissance period
- Umberto Boccioni (1882–1916), Italian Futurist painter and sculptor
- Caravaggio (1571–1610), Italian painter
- Carlo Carrà (1881–1966), Italian Futurist painter
- Giorgio de Chirico (1888–1978), Italian painter and writer
- Dadamaino (1930–2004), painter
- Leonardo da Vinci (1452–1519), Italian polymath of the High Renaissance who was active as a painter, draughtsman, engineer, scientist, theorist, sculptor, and architect
- Filippo De Pisis (1896–1956), Italian painter and poet
- Claudio Detto (born 1950), Italian contemporary art painter
- Lucio Fontana (1899–1968), Argentine–Italian painter, sculptor and theorist
- Vincenzo Foppa (c. 1427–1430–c. 1515–1516), Italian Renaissance painter
- Francesco Hayez (1791–1882), Italian painter
- Bruno Munari (1907–1998), artist, designer
- Giorgio Salmoiraghi (1936–2022)
- Alberto Savinio (1891–1952), Greek–Italian writer, painter, musician, journalist, essayist, playwright, set designer and composer
- Giovanni Segantini (1858–1899), Italian painter
- Mario Sironi (1885–1961), Italian Modernist artist who active as a painter, sculptor, illustrator, and designer
- Saul Steinberg (1914–1999), American artist
- Guglielmo Stella (1828–1888), painter and writer
- Luigi Veronesi (1908–1998), Italian photographer, painter, scenographer and film director
- Bernardino Zenale (c. 1460–1526), Italian painter and architect
Photographers
- Gabriele Basilico (1944–2013)
- Fabio Ponzio (born 1959)
- Oliviero Toscani (born 1942)
Sculptors
- Antonio Canova (1757–1822), Italian Neoclassical sculptor
- Mario Merz (1925–2003), sculptor
- Arnaldo Pomodoro (born 1926), sculptor
- Gio Pomodoro (1930–2002), sculptor
- Medardo Rosso (1858–1928), Italian post–Impressionist sculptor
- Adolfo Wildt (1868–1931), Italian sculptor
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
- Enrica Collotti Pischel (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
Actors/Actresses of Film, Theatre and TV
- Diego Abatantuono (born 1955)
- Cele Abba (1906–1992)
- Marta Abba (1900–1988)
- Gino Bramieri (1928–1996), Italian comedian and actor
- Nino Castelnuovo (1936–2021), Italian actor
- Valentina Cortese (1923–2019), Italian film and theatre actress
- Mariangela Melato (1941–2013), award-winning Italian film and theater actress
- Marco Lui (born 1975), mime and comedian
- Tino Scotti (1905–1984), Italian film actor
- Franca Valeri (1920–2020), Italian actress, playwright, screenwriter, author, and theatre director
Directors and filmmakers
- Michelangelo Antonioni (1912–2007), Italian director and filmmaker
- Tinto Brass (born 1933), Italian film director and screenwriter
- 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), TV and radio presenter and actress
- Mike Bongiorno (1924–2009), Italian–American television presenter
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
- Marcello Abbado (1926–2020)
- Maria Teresa Agnesi Pinottini (1720–1795), harpsichordist
- Maurizio Pollini (born 1942), pianist
Singers
- Manuel Agnelli (born 1966), alternative rock, member of the band Afterhours
- Ghigo Agosti (born 1936), also comedy rock
- Teresa Berganza (1933–2022), Spanish mezzo–soprano
- Maria Callas (1923–1977), opera singer
- Adriano Celentano (born 1938), Italian singer, songwriter, actor, and filmmaker
- Ir, dami Corradetti (1904–1998)
- Giovanni D'Anzi (1906–1974), musician
- Emilio De Marchi (1861–1917), Italian operatic tenor
- Eugenio Finardi (born 1952), Italian rock singer, songwriter, guitarist and keyboardist
- Renato Fumagalli (born 1945), Italian singer/songwriter, guitarist, and actor
- Giorgio Gaber (1939–2003), musician, actor
- Enzo Jannacci (1935–2013), Italian singer–songwriter, pianist, actor and comedian
- Carmelo La Bionda (1949–2022), one of the pioneers of italo disco
- Michelangelo La Bionda (born 1952), one of the pioneers of italo disco
- Alessandro Mahmoud (born 1992), singer–songwriter, Italian representative at the Eurovision Song Contest in 2019 and 2022
- Mina (born 1940), singer
- Laura Pausini (born 1974), musician
- Alberto Rabagliati (1906–1974), Italian jazz singer
- Cristina Scabbia (born 1972), singer of Lacuna Coil
- Renata Tebaldi (1922–2004), Italian lirico–spinto soprano
Orchestral conductors
- Claudio Abbado (1933–2014)
- Roberto Abbado (born 1954)
- Riccardo Chailly (born 1953)
- Victor de Sabata (1892–1967), Italian conductor and composer
- Riccardo Muti (born 1941), Italian conductor
- Pino Presti (born 1943)
- Arturo Toscanini (1867–1957)
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 (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
- 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 (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
- 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[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
Footballers
- Camillo Achilli (1921–1998), football player and coach
- Marco Achilli (1948–2009), football player, one–time Italian Serie A champion
- Ermanno Aebi (1892–1976), football player and referee, two–time Italian Serie A champion
- Enrico Annoni (born 1966), footballer
- Franco Baresi (born 1960), Italian football youth team coach and a former player and manager
- Giuseppe Baresi (born 1958), Italian football manager and former player
- Giuseppe Bergomi (born 1963), Italian former professional footballer who spent his entire career at Inter Milan
- Aurelio Biassoni (1912–?)
- Massimo Brambati (born 1966), Italian former footballer
- Mario Ciminaghi (1910–?), football player
- Renzo De Vecchi (1894–1967), Italian football player and coach
- Giacinto Facchetti (1942–2006), Italian footballer, football player
- Luciano Gariboldi (1927–1988), football player
- Alessio Locatelli (born 1978), football player
- Leonida Lucchetta (1911–?), football player
- Paolo Maldini (born 1968), footballer
- Roberto Manini (born 1942), football player
- Valentino Mazzola (1919–1949), footballer
- Giuseppe Meazza (1910–1979), Italian football manager and player
- Giuseppe Mettica (1919–2003), football player
- Rodolfo Negri (1913–?), football player
- Egidio Notaristefano (born 1966), Italian football manager
- Roberto Poluzzi (born 1936), retired professional football player
- Michele Rocca (footballer) (born 1996), footballer
- Aldo Riva (1923–?), football player
- Walter Zenga (born 1960), Italian football manager
Ice hockey
- Giancarlo Agazzi (1932–1995), ice hockey player, coach and president, six–time Italian Serie A champion and two–time Spengler Cup champion
Olympic sports
- Carlo Agostoni (1909–1972), 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
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- ^ Giorgio Fiocca, "De Angeli, Ernesto", in Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani, volume 33 (Treccani, 1987). Retrieved 15 August 2013.
- ^ Two obituaries Archived 4 March 2013 at the Wayback Machine from Tuttocina.it.
- ^ Margherita Giuliana Bertolini, "Arnolfo", in Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani, Volume 2 (Treccani, 1962). Retrieved 15 August 2013.
- ^ "Bottoni, Piero", Enciclopedie online, Treccani.