100 Notable Alumni of the University of Milan [Sorted List]

Silvio Berlusconi

Born in: Italy
Years: 1936-2023 (aged 87)
Enrolled in the University of Milan: In 1961 graduated with laurea in jurisprudence
Occupations: politicianmedia proprietorassociation football executiveentrepreneur
Biography: Silvio Berlusconi was an Italian media tycoon and politician who served as the prime minister of Italy in three governments from 1994 to 1995, 2001 to 2006 and 2008 to 2011. He was a member of the Chamber of Deputies from 1994 to 2013; a member of the Senate of the Republic from 2022 until his death in 2023, and previously from March to November 2013; and a member of the European Parliament (MEP) from 2019 to 2022, and previously from 1999 to 2001. With a net worth of US$6.8 billion in June 2023, Berlusconi was the third-wealthiest person in Italy at the time of his death.

Giorgio Armani

Born in: Italy
Years: 1934-.. (age 91)
Occupations: entrepreneurfashion designer
Biography: Giorgio Armani is an Italian fashion designer. He first gained renown working for Cerruti and then for many others, including Allegri, Bagutta, and Hilton. He formed his company, Armani, in 1975, which eventually expanded into music, sport, and luxury hotels. By 2001, Armani was acclaimed as the most successful designer of Italian origin, and is credited with pioneering red-carpet fashion.

Bettino Craxi

Born in: Italy
Years: 1934-2000 (aged 66)
Occupations: politician
Biography: Benedetto "Bettino" Craxi was an Italian politician and statesman, leader of the Italian Socialist Party (PSI) from 1976 to 1993, and the 45th prime minister of Italy from 1983 to 1987. He was the first PSI member to become prime minister and the second from a socialist party to hold the office. He led the third-longest government in the Italian Republic and he is considered one of the most powerful and prominent politicians of the First Italian Republic.

Carlo Ponti

Born in: Italy
Years: 1912-2007 (aged 95)
Occupations: screenwriterfilm directorfilm producerproducer
Biography: Carlo Fortunato Pietro Ponti Sr. OMRI was an Italian film producer with more than 140 productions to his credit. Along with Dino De Laurentiis, he is credited with reinvigorating and popularizing Italian cinema post-World War II, producing some of the country's most acclaimed and financially-successful films of the 1950s and 1960s.

Elisabetta Canalis

Born in: Italy
Years: 1978-.. (age 47)
Occupations: art modeltelevision presentershowgirlfilm actormodel
Biography: Elisabetta Canalis is an Italian actress and showgirl.

Melissa Satta

Born in: United States
Years: 1986-.. (age 39)
Occupations: art modeljournalisttelevision presenteractormodel
Biography: Melissa Satta is an Italian television presenter. She was a showgirl in the Italian satirical series Striscia la notizia. Satta has appeared in Maxim magazine and was featured in the 2010 Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue. Satta lives and works in Italy.

Miuccia Prada

Born in: Italy
Years: 1949-.. (age 76)
Enrolled in the University of Milan: Graduated with doctorate in political science
Occupations: entrepreneurfashion designermime artist
Biography: Miuccia Bianchi Prada is an Italian billionaire fashion designer and businesswoman. She is the head designer of Prada and the founder of its subsidiary Miu Miu. As of October 2021, Forbes estimated her net worth at US$4.8 billion. In August 2021, Bloomberg estimated her net worth to be $6.6 billion, ranking 430th in the world.

Enrico Mentana

Born in: Italy
Years: 1955-.. (age 70)
Occupations: journalisttelevision presenter
Biography: Enrico Mentana is an Italian journalist and television presenter. He founded the Italian news programme TG5 and directed it from 1992 to 2004. In 2005, as Canale 5's editorial director, he conceived and curated the talk show Matrix until his resignation in 2009 due to a disagreement with the network. Since June 2010 he has been the director of the news programme TG La7. He is also the director of the online newspaper Open, which he founded in December 2018.

Matilde Gioli

Born in: Italy
Years: 1989-.. (age 36)
Occupations: modelactor
Biography: Matilde Gioli is an Italian television and film actress.

Dino Buzzati

Born in: Italy
Years: 1906-1972 (aged 66)
Occupations: opinion journalistplaywrightpainterscience fiction writerpoet
Biography: Dino Buzzati-Traverso was an Italian novelist, short story writer, painter and poet, as well as a journalist for Corriere della Sera. His worldwide fame is mostly due to his novel The Tartar Steppe, although he is also known for his well-received collections of short stories.

Antonella Clerici

Born in: Italy
Years: 1963-.. (age 62)
Occupations: journalisttelevision presenter
Biography: Antonella Clerici is an Italian television host and journalist. She was the fourth woman to present Sanremo Music Festival (2010), after Loretta Goggi (1986), Raffaella Carrà (2001) and Simona Ventura (2004).

Gino Strada

Born in: Italy
Years: 1948-2021 (aged 73)
Occupations: surgeonpeace activistphysician writernon-fiction writer
Biography: Gino Strada was an Italian war surgeon, human rights activist, peace activist, and founder of Emergency, a recognized international non-governmental organization.

Marina Berlusconi

Born in: Italy
Years: 1966-.. (age 59)
Occupations: entrepreneurbusinessperson
Biography: Maria Elvira "Marina" Berlusconi is an Italian businesswoman. She is the chairwoman of the holding company Fininvest and the publishing company Arnoldo Mondadori Editore, the latter being the biggest publishing company in Italy. She is the oldest daughter of businessman and former Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi.

Enzo Jannacci

Born in: Italy
Years: 1935-2013 (aged 78)
Occupations: cabaret performerscreenwritersinger-songwritercomposerfilm actor
Biography: Vincenzo "Enzo" Jannacci; 3 June 1935 – 29 March 2013) was an Italian singer-songwriter, pianist, actor and comedian. He is regarded as one of the most important artists in the post-war Italian music scene.

Antonio Di Pietro

Born in: Italy
Years: 1950-.. (age 75)
Occupations: prosecutorpoliticianlawyerjudgemagistrate
Biography: Antonio Di Pietro is an Italian politician, lawyer and magistrate. He was a minister in government of Romano Prodi, a Senator, and a Member of the European Parliament. He was a prosecutor in the Mani pulite corruption trials in the early 1990s.

Letizia Moratti

Born in: Italy
Years: 1949-.. (age 76)
Occupations: businesspersonpolitician
Biography: Letizia Maria Moratti is an Italian businesswoman and politician. She was president of RAI (1994–1996), Minister of Education, University and Research (2001–2006), mayor of Milan (2006–2011), and president of the board of directors of UBI Banca (2019–2020). In January 2021, she was appointed vice president and Assessor of Welfare of Lombardy.

Angelo Branduardi

Born in: Italy
Years: 1950-.. (age 75)
Occupations: recording artistsinger-songwriterfilm score composercomposersongwriter
Biography: Angelo Branduardi is an Italian folk/folk rock singer-songwriter and composer who scored relative success in Italy and European countries such as France, Germany, Belgium, Netherlands and Greece.

Marta Cartabia

Born in: Italy
Years: 1963-.. (age 62)
Occupations: judgeuniversity teacherjurist
Biography: Marta Cartabia is an Italian jurist and academic who served as Minister of Justice in the government of Prime Minister Mario Draghi.

Gianluigi Paragone

Born in: Italy
Years: 1971-.. (age 54)
Occupations: politicianjournalisttelevision presenter
Biography: Gianluigi Paragone is an Italian politician and journalist.

Maurizio Pollini

Born in: Italy
Years: 1942-2024 (aged 82)
Occupations: composerconcertmastermusicianconductorpianist
Biography: Maurizio Pollini was an Italian pianist and conductor. He was known for performances of Beethoven, Chopin, Debussy, and the Second Viennese School, among others. He championed works by contemporary composers, including Pierre Boulez, Karlheinz Stockhausen, George Benjamin, Roberto Carnevale, Gianluca Cascioli and Bruno Maderna. Several compositions were written for him, including Luigi Nono's... sofferte onde serene..., Giacomo Manzoni's Masse: omaggio a Edgard Varèse, and Salvatore Sciarrino's Fifth Sonata. As a conductor he was instrumental in the Rossini revival at the Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro, conducting La donna del lago from a new critical edition in 1981. He also conducted from the keyboard.

Giovanni Toti

Born in: Italy
Years: 1968-.. (age 57)
Occupations: journalistpolitician
Biography: Giovanni Toti is an Italian journalist and politician, who has been President of Liguria from 2015 to 2024. Toti was also elected to the European Parliament, following the 2014 European Parliament election.

Dino Risi

Born in: Italy
Years: 1916-2008 (aged 92)
Occupations: screenwriterfilm directorpsychiatrist
Biography: Dino Risi was an Italian film director. With Mario Monicelli, Luigi Comencini, Nanni Loy and Ettore Scola, he was one of the masters of commedia all'italiana.

Roberto Maroni

Born in: Italy
Years: 1955-2022 (aged 67)
Occupations: lawyerpolitician
Biography: Roberto Ernesto Maroni was an Italian politician from Varese and a past President of Lombardy. He was the leader of the Northern League, a party seeking autonomy or independence for Northern Italy or Padania. From 1992 to 2013 he was a Member of the Chamber of Deputies of the Italian Republic, always elected in Lombard constituencies. He served as Deputy Prime Minister of the Italian Republic in the Berlusconi I executive, from 1994 to 1995. He was Interior Minister of the Italian Republic from 1994 to 1995, and from 2008 to 2011. He was Labour Minister of the Italian Republic from 2001 to 2006.

Attilio Fontana

Born in: Italy
Years: 1952-.. (age 73)
Occupations: politician
Biography: Attilio Fontana is an Italian politician from Varese, Lombardy. He has served as President of Lombardy since 2018 leading a centre-right coalition.

Umberto Veronesi

Born in: Italy
Years: 1925-2016 (aged 91)
Enrolled in the University of Milan: In 1952 studied medicine
Occupations: politiciansurgeononcologist
Biography: Umberto Veronesi M.D. Knight Grand Cross OMRI was an Italian oncologist, physician, scientist, and politician, internationally known for his contributions on prevention and treatment of breast cancer throughout a career spanning over fifty years. He was the founder and president of the Umberto Veronesi Foundation. He also founded and held the role of scientific director and scientific director emeritus of the European Institute of Oncology. During his life and career, Veronesi was awarded a number of prizes for his contributions.

Rita Rusić

Born in: Croatia
Years: 1960-.. (age 65)
Occupations: film producersingeractor
Biography: Rita Rusić, also known as Rita Cecchi Gori, is a Croatian-born Italian producer, actress and singer. Rusić's career began as an actress with a major role in the 1982 film Attila flagello di Dio. She was eventually moved into the film industry, with Il pentito in 1982. Later that year she also began filming Joan Lui - Ma un giorno nel paese arrivo io di lunedì.

Fabiola Gianotti

Born in: Italy
Years: 1960-.. (age 65)
Enrolled in the University of Milan: In 1989 graduated with Doctor of Philosophy
Occupations: physicist
Biography: Fabiola Gianotti is an Italian experimental particle physicist who is the current and first woman Director-General at CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research) in Switzerland. Her first mandate began on 1 January 2016 and ran for a period of five years. At its 195th Session in 2019, the CERN Council selected Gianotti for a second term as Director-General. Her second five-year term began on 1 January 2021 and goes on until 2025. This is the first time in CERN's history that a Director-General has been appointed for a full second term.

Antonio Scurati

Born in: Italy
Years: 1969-.. (age 56)
Occupations: university teacherwriternovelistopinion journalist
Biography: Antonio Scurati is an Italian writer and academic. A professor of comparative literature and creative writing at the IULM University of Milan, mass media scholar, and editorialist for the Corriere della Sera, Scurati has won the main Italian literary prizes. In 2019, he was awarded the prestigious Strega Prize for his novel M: Son of the Century (2018), which is part of a planned tetralogy dedicated to Benito Mussolini and Italian fascism. It was at the top of the charts for two consecutive years, was translated into over forty languages, and is set for a television series produced by Sky Original in 2024.

Francesco Carrozzini

Born in: Italy
Years: 1982-.. (age 43)
Occupations: photographerfilm director
Biography: Francesco Carrozzini is an Italian-born director and photographer based in the United States. In 2016, he made his feature directorial debut at the 73rd Venice International Film Festival with the documentary Franca: Chaos and Creation. In 2022, his first narrative feature, The Hanging Sun, closed the 79th Venice International Film Festival. He is known for his portrait photography and has directed music videos for artists including Jay-Z, Lana Del Rey, Beyoncé and Lenny Kravitz. He has also directed commercials for brands such as Apple and Fiat.

Davide Mengacci

Born in: Italy
Years: 1948-.. (age 77)
Occupations: photographertelevision presenter
Biography: Davide Mengacci is an Italian television host who has been working in television since 1986. From 2000 to 2005 he worked on the show La domenica del villaggio with Mara Carfagna, who in May 2008 was appointed Minister for Equal Opportunity in the fourth cabinet of Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi. Mengacci is also a photographer, and has written the book Viva gli Sposi ("Long Live the Newlyweds", 1992).

Luigi Manconi

Born in: Italy
Years: 1948-.. (age 77)
Occupations: politiciansociologist
Biography: Luigi Manconi is an Italian academic and politician. A member of the Democratic Party, he was a senator from 1994 to 2001 and again from 2013 to 2018.

Paolo Cognetti

Born in: Italy
Years: 1978-.. (age 47)
Occupations: writerfilm producer
Biography: Paolo Cognetti is an Italian writer. He started studying mathematics at university, but quit to enroll at Milan's film-making school Civica Scuola di Cinema «Luchino Visconti», where he graduated in 1999. He taught himself American literature and started directing documentaries in 2004, especially about social, political and literary topics. His first work as a writer was the short story Fare ordine, which won the Premio Subway−Letteratura. He loves New York City, which has become the main subject of some of his documentaries. His other passion is the mountains, where he likes to spend a few months alone every year. In 2016, he published his first novel Le otto montagne (The Eight Mountains, English translation by Simon Carnell and Erica Segre for Atria Books, 2018), which granted him the Premio Strega 2017, Italy′s most prestigious literary award, as well as various international awards, such as the Prix Médicis étranger, the Prix François Sommer, and the English Pen Translates Award.

Moni Ovadia

Born in: Bulgaria
Years: 1946-.. (age 79)
Occupations: writerscreenwritercomposeractorstage actor
Biography: Salomone "Moni" Ovadia is a Bulgarian-born Italian Jewish actor, musician, singer, and theatrical author. His theatrical performances recall the lost world of Eastern European Jewish culture, its Yiddishkeit core, with its profound "burden of pain, wisdom and folly", as it was before the devastations of the Holocaust cancelled it, and murdered almost half of the world's speakers of Yiddish.

Giorgio Ambrosoli

Born in: Italy
Years: 1933-1979 (aged 46)
Occupations: lawyer
Biography: Giorgio Ambrosoli was an Italian lawyer who was gunned down while investigating the malpractice of banker Michele Sindona.

Claudio Martelli

Born in: Italy
Years: 1943-.. (age 82)
Occupations: politicianjournalisttelevision presenter
Biography: Claudio Martelli is an Italian former politician and journalist. He is the editor-in-chief of the former Italian Socialist Party (PSI) newspaper Avanti! The right-hand man of Bettino Craxi, the PSI leader and Prime Minister of Italy from 1983 to 1987, Martelli was Deputy Prime Minister of Italy from 1989 to 1992 and Minister of Justice from 1991 to 1993, when he was implicated in the Tangentopoli scandal and left politics.

Elena Cattaneo

Born in: Italy
Years: 1962-.. (age 63)
Occupations: university teacherpoliticianbiologistneurologist
Biography: Elena Cattaneo OMRI is an Italian pharmacologist and co-founding director of the University of Milan's Center for Stem Cell Research.

Karolos Papoulias

Born in: Greece
Years: 1929-2021 (aged 92)
Enrolled in the University of Milan: Graduated with master's degree in jurisprudence
Occupations: politicianlegal counselorjuristdiplomat
Biography: Karolos Papoulias was a Greek politician who served as the president of Greece from 2005 to 2015.

Giuseppe Civati

Born in: Italy
Years: 1975-.. (age 50)
Occupations: writerpolitician
Biography: Giuseppe "Pippo" Civati is an Italian politician and publisher, former leader of Possible and a member of the Chamber of Deputies from 2013 to 2018.

Alberto Camerini

Born in: Brazil
Years: 1951-.. (age 74)
Occupations: singer-songwriter
Biography: Alberto Camerini is an Italian singer-songwriter and musician, who was commercially most active during the late-1970s and early-1980s.

Umberto Pelizzari

Born in: Italy
Years: 1965-.. (age 60)
Occupations: freediver
Biography: Umberto Pelizzari is an Italian freediver, widely considered among the best of all time. Of his era, he is the sole person to have established world records in all the then existing disciplines of freediving.

Roberto Calderoli

Born in: Italy
Years: 1956-.. (age 69)
Occupations: dentistpolitician
Biography: Roberto Calderoli is an Italian politician and a member of the Senate of the Republic. He was a Minister without portfolio for Legislative Simplification in the Berlusconi IV Cabinet. He previously served as Minister without portfolio for Reforms and Devolution in the Berlusconi II Cabinet (since 20 June 2004) and in the Berlusconi III Cabinet (until 18 February 2006, when he resigned following a controversy). A leading member of Lega Nord, he is regarded as representing the right wing of the political spectrum. He is serving as minister of Regional Affairs and Autonomies in the Meloni Cabinet since 2022.

Ombretta Colli

Born in: Italy
Years: 1943-.. (age 82)
Occupations: politiciansingeractor
Biography: Ombretta Colli is an Italian singer, actress and politician. She was president of the Province of Milan from June 1999 to June 2004.

Michele Cucuzza

Born in: Italy
Years: 1952-.. (age 73)
Occupations: journalisttelevision presenterradio personality
Biography: Michele Cucuzza is an Italian journalist, news speaker and television presenter.

Federico Buffa

Born in: Italy
Years: 1959-.. (age 66)
Occupations: sports journalistjournalistlawyer
Biography: Federico Buffa is an Italian journalist, writer and television sportscaster.

Michele Serra

Born in: Italy
Years: 1954-.. (age 71)
Occupations: writerjournalistscreenwriter
Biography: Michele Serra is an Italian journalist, writer, and satirist.

Giuseppe Valditara

Born in: Italy
Years: 1961-.. (age 64)
Occupations: juristpolitician
Biography: Giuseppe Valditara is an Italian academic and politician. He has been the Italian Minister of Education and Merit in the Meloni Cabinet from 22 october 2022.

Filippo Grandi

Born in: Italy
Years: 1957-.. (age 68)
Occupations: philosopherhistoriandiplomat
Biography: Filippo Grandi is an Italian diplomat and United Nations official, currently serving as United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. He previously served as Commissioner-General of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) and United Nations Deputy Special Representative for Afghanistan. He received the Olympic Laureate award during the Paris 2024 Olympics Opening Ceremony.

Giuliano Pisapia

Born in: Italy
Years: 1949-.. (age 76)
Occupations: writerpoliticianlawyer
Biography: Giuliano Pisapia is an Italian lawyer, politician, former mayor of Milan, former member of the Italian Parliament and former member of the European Parliament. As a politician, he has been a member of two left-wing parties, first Proletarian Democracy and then the Communist Refoundation Party; in Milan's mayoral election, he was endorsed by a large left-wing coalition, after winning the primary election of the centre-left coalition with the strong support of Nichi Vendola's Left Ecology Freedom.

Elena Bonetti

Born in: Italy
Years: 1974-.. (age 51)
Occupations: university teacherpolitician
Biography: Elena Bonetti is an Italian politician and mathematician who served as Minister for Family and Equal Opportunities between 2019 and 2022.

Fedele Confalonieri

Born in: Italy
Years: 1937-.. (age 88)
Occupations: manager
Biography: Fedele Confalonieri is an Italian manager and president of Mediaset and since 2017, he has served as president of the Venerable Factory of the Duomo of Milan.

Andrea De Carlo

Born in: Italy
Years: 1952-.. (age 73)
Occupations: photographermusicianpainterscreenwriterwriter
Biography: Andrea De Carlo is an Italian novelist. He has published almost two dozen novels, many of which have been translated.

Lasse Braun

Born in: Algeria
Years: 1936-2015 (aged 79)
Occupations: screenwriternovelistfilm directorfilm producer
Biography: Lasse Braun was an Italian pornographer, film director, producer, screenwriter, novelist and researcher.

Chicco Testa

Born in: Italy
Years: 1952-.. (age 73)
Occupations: politicianbanker
Biography: Chicco Testa is an Italian politician. Born in Bergamo, he graduated in philosophy at the Università Statale in Milan (1976). He lives in Rome and has two sons.

Vittorio Zucconi

Born in: Italy
Years: 1944-2019 (aged 75)
Occupations: journalistwriter
Biography: Vittorio Guido Zucconi was an Italian journalist and author. He also had U.S. citizenship.

Gregorio de Falco

Born in: Italy
Years: 1965-.. (age 60)
Occupations: politiciannaval officer
Biography: Gregorio Maria de Falco is an Italian naval officer and politician who was formerly a member of the Italian Senate. He is best known for his career in the Italian Navy, which saw his intervention in the attempt to solve the Costa Concordia disaster in January 2012.

Antonia Pozzi

Born in: Italy
Years: 1912-1938 (aged 26)
Enrolled in the University of Milan: Studied in 1930-1935
Occupations: poetwriter
Biography: Antonia Pozzi was an Italian poet.

Riccardo Giacconi

Born in: Italy
Years: 1931-2018 (aged 87)
Enrolled in the University of Milan: In 1954 graduated with Doctor
Occupations: physicistastrophysicistastrologerastronomeruniversity teacher
Biography: Riccardo Giacconi was an Italian-American Nobel Prize-winning astrophysicist who laid down the foundations of X-ray astronomy. He was a professor at the Johns Hopkins University.

Mario Capanna

Born in: Italy
Years: 1945-.. (age 80)
Occupations: writerpolitician
Biography: Mario Capanna is an Italian politician and writer.

Rossana Rossanda

Born in: Croatia
Years: 1924-2020 (aged 96)
Occupations: politicianjournalistwritertranslatorpartisan
Biography: Rossana Rossanda was an Italian communist politician, journalist, and feminist.

Andrea Vitali

Born in: Italy
Years: 1956-.. (age 69)
Occupations: writerphysician
Biography: Andrea Vitali is an Italian writer.

Tomasz Piątek

Born in: Poland
Years: 1974-.. (age 51)
Occupations: writerjournalistcopywriterlinguist
Biography: Tomasz Piątek is a Polish journalist and writer. He is the author of several books, both fiction and non-fiction. For his reporting on the Polish Ministry of Defense he received the 2017 Press Freedom Award in 2017 from Reporters Without Borders. In 2018 he received a similar award from Medienstiftung der Sparkasse Leipzig.

Alberto Arbasino

Born in: Italy
Years: 1930-2020 (aged 90)
Occupations: writerjournalistpolitician
Biography: Nino Alberto Arbasino was an Italian writer, essayist, and politician.

Fausto Cercignani

Born in: Italy
Years: 1941-.. (age 84)
Occupations: essayistpoetliterary criticuniversity teacherwriter
Biography: Fausto Cercignani is an Italian scholar, essayist and poet.

Gianfelice Rocca

Born in: Italy
Years: 1948-.. (age 77)
Occupations: entrepreneur
Biography: Gianfelice Mario Rocca is an Italian billionaire businessman. He is chairman of the Techint Group and Istituto Clinico Humanitas.

Corrado Alvaro

Born in: Italy
Years: 1895-1956 (aged 61)
Occupations: translatorjournalistnovelistscience fiction writerpoet
Biography: Corrado Alvaro was an Italian journalist and writer of novels, short stories, screenplays and plays. He often used the verismo style to describe the hopeless poverty in his native Calabria. His first success was Gente in Aspromonte (Revolt in Aspromonte), which examined the exploitation of rural peasants by greedy landowners in Calabria, and is considered by many critics to be his masterpiece.

Claudio Descalzi

Born in: Italy
Years: 1955-.. (age 70)
Occupations: chief executive officerbusiness executive
Biography: Claudio Descalzi is an Italian businessman, and the CEO of Italian oil company Eni since May 2014.

Teresa Sarti Strada

Born in: Italy
Years: 1946-2009 (aged 63)
Occupations: philanthropist
Biography: Teresa Sarti Strada, née Teresa Sarti was an Italian teacher, pacifist and philanthropist who, together with her husband Gino Strada, founded Emergency, an NGO dedicated to providing free medical treatment to the victims of war, poverty and land mines. She was the organization's first president.

Paolo Zangrillo

Born in: Italy
Years: 1961-.. (age 64)
Occupations: managerpolitician
Biography: Paolo Zangrillo is an Italian politician and business executive, and the Minister for Public Administration in the Meloni government since 22 October 2022.

Enrico Bombieri

Born in: Italy
Years: 1940-.. (age 85)
Occupations: mathematicianuniversity teacher
Biography: Enrico Bombieri is an Italian mathematician, known for his work in analytic number theory, Diophantine geometry, complex analysis, and group theory. Bombieri is currently professor emeritus in the School of Mathematics at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey. Bombieri won the Fields Medal in 1974 for his work on the large sieve and its application to the distribution of prime numbers.

Giulio Terzi di Sant'Agata

Born in: Italy
Years: 1946-.. (age 79)
Occupations: diplomatpolitician
Biography: Giuliomaria Terzi di Sant'Agata is an Italian diplomat and politician. He was Italy's Minister of Foreign Affairs in Mario Monti's government from November 2011 until March 2013, Permanent Representative of Italy to the United Nations in New York between 2008 and 2009 and Ambassador of Italy to the United States between 2009 and 2011. He is currently a Senator of the Republic of Italy and the President of the 4th Permanent Senate Commission of EU Affairs elected from the Lombardy constituency as a part of Brothers of Italy. He is also the President of the India-Italy Parliamentary Friendship group.

Ilaria Salis

Born in: Italy
Years: 1984-.. (age 41)
Enrolled in the University of Milan: In 2005 graduated with bachelor's degree in historical sciences; In 2021 graduated with master's degree in ancient history
Occupations: politicianactivistteacher
Biography: Ilaria Salis is an Italian politician, activist, and teacher. She was elected as a Member of the European Parliament in 2024 for the Green and Left Alliance.

Gianni Mura

Born in: Italy
Years: 1945-2020 (aged 75)
Occupations: journalistwriter
Biography: Gianni Mura was an Italian sports journalist and writer.

Gabriele Albertini

Born in: Italy
Years: 1950-.. (age 75)
Enrolled in the University of Milan: Studied jurisprudence
Occupations: entrepreneurpolitician
Biography: Gabriele Albertini is an Italian politician.

Eva Cantarella

Born in: Italy
Years: 1936-.. (age 89)
Occupations: university teacherdeanlegal historianhistorianclassical philologist
Biography: Eva Cantarella is an Italian classicist. She is professor of Roman law and ancient Greek law at the University of Milan, and has served as Dean of the Law School at the University of Camerino.

Sandrone Dazieri

Born in: Italy
Years: 1964-.. (age 61)
Occupations: journalistcookscience fiction writerscreenwriterwriter
Biography: Sandrone Dazieri is a popular Italian crime writer. His most famous work is the Gorilla series, an episode of which was also dramatized as a television film.

Enrico Baj

Born in: Italy
Years: 1924-2003 (aged 79)
Occupations: etcherdraftspersonpainterillustratorsculptor
Biography: Enrico Baj was an Italian artist and writer on art. Many of his works show an obsession with nuclear war. He created prints, and sculptures but especially collage. He was close to the surrealist and dada movements, and was later associated with CoBrA. As an author, he has been described as a leading promoter of the avant-garde. He worked with Umberto Eco among other collaborators. He had a long interest in the pseudo-philosophy 'pataphysics.

Camilla Cederna

Born in: Italy
Years: 1911-1997 (aged 86)
Occupations: journalistwriter
Biography: Camilla Cederna was an Italian writer and editor. She is said to have introduced investigative journalism to the Italian news media. Some sources give her year of birth as 1921. Cederna was born and grew up in Milan. She was daughter of Giulio Cederna, a business manager and footballer, and brother to Antonio Cederna, a co-founder of Italia Nostra.

Alberto Mantovani

Born in: Italy
Years: 1948-.. (age 77)
Occupations: immunologistphysicianoncologist
Biography: Alberto Mantovani Commendatore OMRI is an Italian physician and immunologist. He is Scientific Director of Istituto Clinico Humanitas (Humanitas Clinical and Research Center), President and Founder of the Fondazione Humanitas per la Ricerca, and Professor of Pathology at the State University of Milan. He is known for his works in the roles of the immune system in the development of cancer. His research on tumor-associated macrophages (TAM, an acronym he coined) established inflammation as one of the causes of cancer. He was the first to identify monocyte chemotactic protein - 1 / CCL2 in 1983, and PTX3 in 1997. His works revealed the existence of decoy receptors in cell-signalling. He has been the most cited scientist in Italy, and one of the ten most cited immunologists worldwide.

Sergio Romano

Born in: Italy
Years: 1929-.. (age 96)
Occupations: university teacherhistorianjournalistdiplomat
Biography: Sergio Romano is an Italian diplomat, writer, journalist, and historian. He is a columnist for the newspaper Corriere della Sera. Romano is also a former Italian ambassador to Moscow.

Eugenio Coșeriu

Born in: Moldova
Years: 1921-2002 (aged 81)
Occupations: university teacherphilologistromanistphilosopher of languagelinguist
Biography: Eugenio Coșeriu was a linguist who specialized in Romance languages at the University of Tübingen, author of over 50 books, honorary member of the Romanian Academy.

Curzio Maltese

Born in: Italy
Years: 1959-2023 (aged 64)
Occupations: writerjournalistpolitician
Biography: Curzio Maltese was an Italian journalist and politician.

Guido Morselli

Born in: Italy
Years: 1912-1973 (aged 61)
Occupations: science fiction writeraphorist
Biography: Guido Morselli was an Italian novelist and essayist.

Maria Cristina Messa

Born in: Italy
Years: 1961-.. (age 64)
Occupations: physicianpoliticianuniversity teacher
Biography: Maria Cristina Messa is an Italian doctor and academic, Minister of University and Research in the government of Mario Draghi.

Vittorio Sereni

Born in: Italy
Years: 1913-1983 (aged 70)
Occupations: writertranslatorpoetlinguist
Biography: Vittorio Sereni was an Italian poet, author, editor and translator. His poetry frequently addressed the themes of 20th-century Italian history, such as Fascism, Italy's military defeat in World War II, and its postwar resurgence.

Andrea Rossi

Born in: Italy
Years: 1950-.. (age 75)
Occupations: entrepreneurinventor
Biography: Andrea Rossi is an Italian entrepreneur who claimed to have invented a cold fusion device.

Roberto Cota

Born in: Italy
Years: 1968-.. (age 57)
Occupations: lawyerpolitician
Biography: Roberto Cota is an Italian politician, President of Piedmont from 2010 to 2014.

Vittorio Agnoletto

Born in: Italy
Years: 1958-.. (age 67)
Occupations: physicianpoliticianpeace activist
Biography: Vittorio Emanuele Agnoletto is an Italian doctor, politician and a former Member of the European Parliament for the Southern Italy constituency. He was first elected in the 2004 European Parliament elections as independent on the Communist Refoundation Party (Italian: Partito della Rifondazione Comunista, PRC) list, part of the European Left. He was not re-elected in the 2009 European Parliament elections.

Eugenio Colorni

Born in: Italy
Years: 1909-1944 (aged 35)
Occupations: philosopherpoliticianpartisan
Biography: Eugenio Colorni was an Italian philosopher and anti-fascist activist.

Guido Piovene

Born in: Italy
Years: 1907-1974 (aged 67)
Occupations: writerjournalistscreenwriter
Biography: Guido Piovene was an Italian writer and journalist.

Marco Balzano

Born in: Italy
Years: 1978-.. (age 47)
Occupations: high-school teacherwriteritalianistpoet
Biography: Marco Balzano is an Italian writer. He was born in Milan, where he now works as a teacher of literature in a high school.

Giulio Giorello

Born in: Italy
Years: 1945-2020 (aged 75)
Occupations: philosopheruniversity teachermathematician
Biography: Giulio Giorello was an Italian philosopher, mathematician, and epistemologist.

Emilio Del Bono

Born in: Italy
Years: 1965-.. (age 60)
Occupations: functionarypolitician
Biography: Emilio Del Bono is an Italian politician from the Democratic Party and former mayor of Brescia.

Valerio Onida

Born in: Italy
Years: 1936-2022 (aged 86)
Occupations: university teacherpoliticianjuristjudge
Biography: Valerio Onida was an Italian jurist, and constitutional law professor, Judge of the Constitutional Court of Italy and President of the Court from September 2004 to January 2005.

Margherita Missoni

Born in: United States
Years: 1983-.. (age 42)
Enrolled in the University of Milan: Studied philosophy
Occupations: modelactorfashion model
Biography: Margherita Maccapani Missoni Amos is an Italian fashion designer, model, socialite and heiress to her family's Missoni fashion house, which was founded by her grandparents Ottavio Missoni and Rosita Missoni Jelmini. Missoni currently lives in Montonate, a suburb of Mornago (Italy) close to the Missoni headquarters, where she is following her design career.

Carlo Sini

Born in: Italy
Years: 1933-.. (age 92)
Occupations: writeruniversity teacherphilosopher
Biography: Carlo Sini is an Italian philosopher and one of the leading figures in contemporary Italian philosophy, mainly known for his studies about language and hermeneutics, following the work of Charles Sanders Peirce.

Giovanni Raboni

Born in: Italy
Years: 1932-2004 (aged 72)
Occupations: writerjournalistpoet
Biography: Giovanni Raboni was an Italian poet, translator and literary critic.

Luigi Veronelli

Born in: Italy
Years: 1926-2004 (aged 78)
Occupations: cooktelevision presenter
Biography: Luigi Veronelli was an Italian gastronome, wine critic and intellectual.

Gianfranco Manfredi

Born in: Italy
Years: 1948-2025 (aged 77)
Occupations: screenwriterwritersinger-songwritercomposercomics writer
Biography: Gianfranco Manfredi was an Italian singer-songwriter, composer, author, screenwriter, actor and cartoonist.

Alessio Vinci

Born in: Luxembourg
Years: 1968-.. (age 57)
Occupations: journalisttelevision presenter
Biography: Alessio Vinci is an Italian journalist, working for CNN since 1989. He has served as CNN's bureau chief in Belgrade from 1999 to 2000 and in Rome from 2001 up to the present. He was the host of Matrix, a news and debate television program on Mediaset's Canale 5, from 2009 and 2012.

Fabio Novembre

Born in: Italy
Years: 1966-.. (age 59)
Occupations: designergraphic designerarchitect
Biography: Fabio Novembre is an Italian architect and designer.