List of people from Milan

The following is a list of people from Milan.





Entrepreneurs

 * Ferdinando Bocconi (1836–1908), Italian entrapreneur and politician, founder of Bocconi University
 * Ernesto Breda (1852–1918), Italian engineer and entrepreneur
 * (1867–1936), businessman; born in Milan
 * Federico Confalonieri (1785–1846), businessman
 * Enrico Cuccia (1907–2000), banker
 * (1849–1907), businessman and senator; he founded the Società Ernesto De Angeli e C, a textile company manufacturing cotton prints
 * , 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

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
 * (1930–2003), Marxist historian specializing in Asia
 * 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

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

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 and
 * 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
 * (died 974)
 * Arnulf II, Archbishop of Milan (died 1018)
 * Arnulf III, Archbishop of Milan (died 1097)
 * 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
 * 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
 * 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
 * Alessandro Volta (1745–1827), Italian physicist and chemist, pioneer of electricity and power

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