List of University of Bologna people

This is a list of some notable people affiliated with University of Bologna.

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Academics

 * Umberto Eco, Italian semiotician, philosopher and writer

Clergy and Biblical scholars

 * Archbishop Thomas Becket;
 * Cardinal Alberto Bolognetti
 * Cardinal Paolo Burali d'Arezzo;
 * Pope Alexander VI
 * Pope Gregory XIII (Ugo Boncompagni)
 * Pope Gregory XV
 * Pope Innocent IX
 * Gabriele Paleotti
 * Saint Charles Borromeo, archbishop of Milan
 * Henry of Susa (Hostiensis)

Presidents, prime ministers, and other heads of national government

 * Adone Zoli, former Prime Minister of Italy.
 * Álvaro de Figueroa, former Prime Minister of Spain.
 * Joaquín Chapaprieta, former Prime Minister of Spain.

Cabinet members

 * Patrizio Bianchi, Minister of Public Education in the Draghi Cabinet
 * Remo Gaspari, Minister of Relationships with the Parliament and Minister of Public Function in the Bettino Craxi and Giulio Andreotti Cabinet.
 * Piero Gnudi, Minister of Tourism and Sports in the Monti cabinet.
 * Juan Fernando López Aguilar, former Minister of Justice – Spain.
 * Fawziya Abikar Nur, Minister for Health and Social Care – Somalia.

Senators, Representatives, and other politicians

 * Brando Benifei, Italian politician
 * Anna Maria Bernini, Italian politician and lawyer
 * Pier Luigi Bersani, Italian politician
 * Ernesto Carbone, Italian politician and lawyer
 * Lanfranco De Franco, Italian politician and lawyer
 * Maurizio Fugatti, Italian politician
 * Edoardo Gaffeo, Italian politician
 * Gian Luca Galletti, Italian politician
 * Andrea Gnassi, Italian politician
 * Sandro Gozi, Italian politician
 * Matteo Lepore, Italian politician & mayor of Bologna
 * Giacomo Matteotti
 * Francesca Puglisi, Italian politician
 * Giulia Sarti, Italian politician
 * Elly Schlein, Italian politician
 * Sandra Zampa, Italian politician
 * Pablo Iglesias Turrión, Spain politician
 * Pier Ferdinando Casini, Italian politician
 * Gianni Cuperlo, Italian politician
 * Virginio Merola, Italian politician & former mayor of Bologna
 * Michelangelo Baracchi Bonvicini, President of Atomium - European Institute for Science, Media and Democracy.

Lawyers and judges

 * Daria de Pretis, Italian jurist, Constitutional Judge of the Constitutional Court of Italy.
 * Manuel Olivencia, lawyer and academic;
 * Bartolus de Saxoferrato, Italian law professor and one of the most prominent continental jurists of Medieval Roman Law.

Businessman & Economist

 * Corrado Gini, Italian statistician, demographer and sociologist who developed the Gini coefficient/ratio.
 * Diego Della Valle, chairman of the Italian leather goods company Tod's
 * Stefano Domenicali, CEO of Formula One Group and former CEO of Italian sports car manufacturer Automobili Lamborghini S.p.A.
 * Raul Gardini, Italian agri-business and chemicals tycoon.
 * Mauro Moretti, former CEO and general manager of Leonardo S.p.A.
 * Elena Panaritis, Economist.
 * Alberto Giovannini, Italian Macroeconomist and Financial Economist
 * Fabrizio Zilibotti, Italian economist and Professor of International and Development Economics at Yale University

Nobel Prize winners

 * Guglielmo Marconi, 1909 Nobel Prize in Physics and the inventor of radio.

Astronauts and Astronomer

 * Andrea Boattini, Italian astronomer and a prolific discoverer of minor planets and comets.
 * Isabella M. Gioia, Italian astrophysicist.

Engineers, inventors, and scientists

 * Mauro Forghieri, Formula One racing car designer.
 * Pier Luigi Nervi, Italian Structural engineer and architect.
 * Ulisse Aldrovandi;
 * Laura Bassi, the world's first woman to earn a university chair in a scientific field of studies
 * Chryssostomos Chatgilialoglu, Greek-Italian chemist
 * Nicolaus Copernicus, formulator of the heliocentric universal model;
 * Enzo Ferrari, Italian racing driver, engineer and entrepreneur
 * Luigi Galvani;
 * Guglielmo Marconi, Italian inventor and radio pioneer
 * Pietro Mengoli;
 * Paracelsus, founder of the discipline of toxicology;
 * Maria Matilde Principi, Entomology department chair for 30 years
 * Augusto Righi, pioneer in the study of electromagnetism
 * Carlo Rovelli, Italian theoretical physicist
 * Carlo Severini, Italian mathematician
 * Lazzaro Spallanzani, Italian priest, biologist and physiologist
 * Luca Benini, computer scientist and educator
 * Gregorio Ricci-Curbastro, Italian mathematician and the inventor of tensor calculus.
 * Cristina Roccati, Italian physicist.
 * Bruno Rossi, Italian experimental physicist.
 * Juan Carlos Izpisua Belmonte, Spanish biochemist and developmental biologist.
 * Enrico Marconi, Italian-Polish architect.
 * Adamo Boari, Italian Art Nouveau and Art Deco civil engineer and architect.
 * Cesare Emiliani, Italian-American scientist, geologist, micropaleontologist, and paleoceanography.

Physicians

 * Julius Caesar Aranzi, the pioneer human anatomists and surgeons.
 * Ruggero Oddi, Italian physiologist and anatomist.
 * Marcello Malpighi;
 * Gasparo Tagliacozzi, pioneer of plastic and reconstructive surgery
 * Giovanni Aldini, Italian physician.
 * Turisanus, physician.
 * Taddeo Alderotti, Italian doctor and professor of medicine.
 * Ismail Boçari, Albanian professor of medicine.
 * Maria Dalle Donne, Italian physician and a former director at the University of Bologna.
 * Giovanni Gasbarrini, physician, gastroenterology researcher and medical academic
 * Hugo Spadafora, Italian and Panamanian physician.
 * Justus Velsius, Dutch physician, and mathematician.

Entertainers

 * Michelangelo Antonioni;
 * Carlo Goldoni, Italian playwright
 * Emilio Solfrizzi, Italian actor and comedian.

Authors and artists

 * Dante Alighieri, Italian poet, writer and philosopher
 * Leon Battista Alberti;
 * Silvia Balducci, Italian journalist at RAI
 * Pico della Mirandola;
 * Maria Cristina Didero, Italian curator, historian, and author
 * Albrecht Dürer, German painter, printmaker and theorist
 * Erasmus of Rotterdam
 * Milena Gabanelli, Italian journalist and television host
 * Riccardo Iacona, Italian journalist
 * Carlo Lucarelli
 * Giovanni Pascoli
 * Pier Paolo Pasolini;
 * Petrarch;
 * Pupi Avati, Italian film director, producer, and screenwriter.
 * Carlo Mazzacurati, Italian film director and screenwriter
 * Luca Rosini, Italian journalist
 * Torquato Tasso;
 * Silvia Avallone, Italian novelist and poet.
 * Chiara Gamberale, Italian writer, television and radio presenter.
 * Vittorio Sgarbi, Italian art critic, art historian and writer.
 * Andrea Pazienza, Italian comics artist and painter.

Other notables

 * Anna M. Borghi, Italian cognitive psychologist
 * Irnerius, founder of the School of Glossators
 * Valerio Massimo Manfredi, Italian historian, writer, archaeologist and journalist.
 * Veronica Yoko Plebani, Italian Paralympic athlete.
 * Pierluigi Collina, Chairman of the FIFA referees committee

Philosopher

 * Francesco Algarotti, Italian Philosopher, poet, art critic and art collector.
 * Francesco Maria Zanotti, Italian philosopher and writer.

Notable faculty

 * Maria Gaetana Agnesi
 * Leon Battista Alberti
 * Ulisse Aldrovandi
 * Camillo Baldi
 * Augusto Barbera
 * Hamida Barmaki
 * Laura Bassi
 * Pier Cesare Bori
 * Bulgarus
 * Gualtiero Calboli
 * Gabriella Campadelli-Fiume
 * Girolamo Cardano
 * Giosuè Carducci
 * Giovanni Cassini
 * Manuel Chrysoloras
 * Giacomo Ciamician
 * Nicolaus Copernicus
 * Ignazio Danti
 * Lippo Bartolomeo Dardi
 * Giovanni Della Casa
 * Giovanni de' Marignolli
 * Ivano Dionigi
 * Yuriy Drohobych (also known as Georgius de Drohobycz)
 * Albrecht Dürer
 * Umberto Eco
 * Luigi Galvani
 * Carlo Goldoni
 * Bettisia Gozzadini
 * Sylvester Gozzolini
 * Gratian
 * Guido Guinizelli
 * Henry of Susa (Hostiensis)
 * Irnerius
 * Beppo Levi
 * Girolamo Maggi
 * Giovanni Antonio Magini
 * Marcello Malpighi
 * Virgilio Malvezzi
 * Martinus Gosia
 * Pietro Mengoli
 * Niall Ó Glacáin
 * Patriarch Heraclius of Jerusalem
 * Paracelsus
 * Giovanni Pascoli
 * Pier Paolo Pasolini
 * Paul, Dominican martyr
 * Francesco Petrarca (also known as Petrarch)
 * Giovanni Pico della Mirandola
 * Romano Prodi
 * Augusto Righi
 * Pellegrino Rossi
 * William of Saliceto
 * Coluccio Salutati
 * Benvenutus Scotivoli
 * Francesco Selmi
 * William of Tyre
 * Özalp Babaoğlu