List of people from Genoa

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

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]
Beppe Gambetta, guitarist, singer-songwriter
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
Gian Franco Reverberi, composer and musician
Gian Piero Reverberi, pianist, composer, arranger, conductor and entrepreneur
Tedua, rapper
Luigi Tenco, singer-songwriter, moved to Genoa at a young age

Painters

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

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
Felice delle Piane, art historian
Alberto Terrile, photographer
Antoinette Van Leer Polk, Baroness
Girolamo Vassallo, engraver and coin-maker

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

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
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

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

Popes

Science and academia

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

Sport

Federico Chiesa, football player
Ezio Borgo, football player
Abramo Canka, basketballer
Luigi Cappanera, retired football player
Francesca Carbone, 400m athlete
Maura Fabbri, footballer
Emilio Gattoronchieri, footballer
Oliviero Mascheroni, footballer
Mattia Monticone, footballer
Matteo Rossi, footballer
Fabio Valente, footballer
Mario Ventimiglia, footballer
Alice D'Amato, artistic gymnast
Asia D'Amato, artistic gymnast

References

^ "UNdata". United Nations. United Nations Statistic Division. 3 February 2017. Retrieved 24 March 2017.
^ "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.

[1] "UNdata". United Nations. United Nations Statistic Division. 3 February 2017. Retrieved 24 March 2017.

[2] "Addio alle vecchie Province". Il Sole 24 ORE. Il Sole 24 Ore. Retrieved 24 March 2017.

[3] "Resident population and present population". Istat Statistics. ISTAT. Retrieved 24 March 2017.

[UrbanismiInItalia3-4] "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.

[5] "About Me – Dany Franchi". Danyfranchi.com. Retrieved 13 August 2018.

[mostrador-6] "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.

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