List of people from Genoa

This is a list of notable people from Genoa.

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

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
Simone 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^[1]
Luchetto Gattilusio, Genoese troubadour
Jacme Grils, Genoese troubadour
Luca Grimaldi, Genoese troubadour
Angelo Francesco Lavagnino, composer
Simone Molinaro, composer
Natalino Otto, singer
Nicolo 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

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

Business

Luigi Accame, businessman, portrayed by Andy Warhol
Enrico Piaggio, industrialist

Entertainment

Vittorio Gassman

Actors

George Eastman, actor
Vittorio Gassman, actor
Gilberto Govi, actor
Beppe Grillo, actor, political activist
Liliana Ross, Italian-born Chilean actress (La Colorina, Machos)^[2]
Paolo Villaggio, actor

Film production

Pietro Germi, film director
Emanuele Luzzati, production designer, illustrator

Explorers

Christopher Columbus

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
Antonio de Noli, explorer and navigator
Antoniotto Usodimare, Genoese explorer
Vandino and Ugolino Vivaldi, Genoese explorers and merchants

Families and noble houses

Military

Andrea Doria

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 Habsburg
Nino Bixio, patriot
Goffredo Mameli, patriot, author of Italian national anthem, Il Canto degli Italiani
Giuseppe Mazzini, patriot, politician, journalist, writer, activist

Political

Palmiro Togliatti

Prince of Belmonte
Simone Boccanegra, Doge of Genoa
Caffaro di Rustico da Caschifellone, diplomat
Giuseppe Dossetti, jurist, politician, Catholic priest
Palmiro Togliatti, politician

Religious

Andrea Gallo, presbyter
Catherine of Genoa, saint and mystic
Giuseppe Siri, Archbishop of Genoa
Jacobus de Voragine, Archbishop of Genoa

Popes

Science and academia

Franco Malerba

Giovanni Battista Baliani, mathematician, physicist and astronomer
Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza, geneticist
Germano Celant, art historian
Ausonio Franchi, philosopher and editor
Riccardo Giacconi, astrophysics, Nobel Prize in Physics
Franco Malerba, astronaut
Lorenzo Pareto, geologist and statesman

Sport

Francesca Carbone, 400m athlete

References

↑ "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.

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

[mostrador-2] "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.