List of people from Genoa

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This is a list of 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[edit]

Architects[edit]

Musicians[edit]

  • 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[edit]

  • Enrico Accatino, painter, sculptor, designer
  • Luca Cambiaso, 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[edit]

Writers[edit]

  • 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[edit]

Business[edit]

Entertainment[edit]

Actors[edit]

Film production[edit]

Explorers[edit]

  • 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[edit]

Military[edit]

  • 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
  • Stefanina Moro, resistance member during World War II
  • Luigi Durand de la Penne, naval diver during World War II
  • Raffaele Rossetti, engineer and military naval officer
  • Athanase-Charles-Marie Charette de la Contrie, French royalist, noble, military commander of the Papal Zouaves

Patriotic figures[edit]

  • 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[edit]

Religious[edit]

Popes[edit]

Science and academia[edit]

  • Franco Malerba, astronaut, first citizen of Italy to travel to space.
  • 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
  • Lorenzo Pareto, geologist and statesman
  • David Veronese, economist
  • Valter Longo, biogerontologist and cell biologist
  • Federico Chiesa, football player
  • Ezio Borgo, football player
  • Luigi Cappanera, retired football player
  • Francesca Carbone, 400m athlete
  • Emilio Gattoronchieri, footballer
  • Oliviero Mascheroni, footballer
  • Mattia Monticone, footballer
  • Matteo Rossi, footballer
  • Fabio Valente, footballer
  • Mario Ventimiglia, footballer

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