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

Giorgio Armani

Born in: Italy
Years: 1934-2025 (aged 91)
Occupations: fashion designerautobiographerentrepreneur
Biography: Giorgio Armani was an Italian fashion designer and founder of the Armani luxury fashion house. Widely regarded as among the most influential designers in contemporary fashion, Armani initially gained recognition for his work with fashion house Cerruti 1881, before founding his own label in 1975. He became known for minimalist, deconstructed silhouettes—especially his jackets and suits—which are said to have redefined masculine and feminine elegance in a contemporary form. Armani also played a pivotal role in shaping celebrity style, particularly red-carpet fashion. By the early 2000s, he was recognized as the most successful Italian designer, with his brand expanding into music, sport, and luxury hotels.

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 fourth-longest government in the Italian Republic and he is considered one of the most influential politicians of the First Italian Republic.

Carlo Ponti

Born in: Italy
Years: 1912-2007 (aged 95)
Occupations: film producerscreenwriterfilm director
Biography: Carlo Fortunato Pietro Ponti Sr. Cavaliere di Gran Croce 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 48)
Occupations: television presentershowgirlvelinafilm actormodel
Biography: Elisabetta Canalis is an Italian actress and showgirl.

Melissa Satta

Born in: United States
Years: 1986-.. (age 40)
Occupations: velinajournalisttelevision 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 77)
Enrolled in the University of Milan: Graduated with doctorate in political science
Occupations: entrepreneurfashion designer
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 71)
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 37)
Occupations: modelactor
Biography: Matilde Lojacono, known professionally as Matilde Gioli, is an Italian television and film actress.

Rudy Zerbi

Born in: Italy
Years: 1969-.. (age 57)
Occupations: television presenterrecord producerradio personality
Biography: Rudy Zerbi is an Italian radio television personality, personality, record producer, disc jockey and television presenter.

Dino Buzzati

Born in: Italy
Years: 1906-1972 (aged 66)
Occupations: journalistlibrettistscreenwriterwriterchildren's writer
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 63)
Occupations: journalisttelevision presenter
Biography: Antonella Clerici is an Italian television host and journalist, best known for her longtime activity as a cooking show presenter. She was the fourth woman to present Sanremo Music Festival (2010), after Loretta Goggi (1986), Raffaella Carrà (2001) and Simona Ventura (2004).

Marina Berlusconi

Born in: Italy
Years: 1966-.. (age 60)
Occupations: entrepreneurbusinessperson
Biography: Marina Elvira 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: film actorsurgeonfilm score composersongwriterpianist
Biography: Vincenzo "Enzo" Jannacci 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.

Gino Strada

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

Antonio Di Pietro

Born in: Italy
Years: 1950-.. (age 76)
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 77)
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 76)
Occupations: film score composercomposersongwriteractorsinger
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 63)
Occupations: university teacherjuristjudge
Biography: Marta Cartabia is an Italian jurist and academic who served as Minister of Justice in the national unity government of Prime Minister Mario Draghi. Cartabia previously was Judge of the Constitutional Court of Italy between 2011 and 2020, Vice President from 12 November 2014 to 11 December 2019 and President from 11 December 2019 to 13 September 2020. She is a professor of constitutional law. She was the first woman to hold the office of President of the Constitutional Court and became President of Council of Europe's Venice Commission in December 2025.

Maurizio Pollini

Born in: Italy
Years: 1942-2024 (aged 82)
Occupations: conductorpianistcomposerconcertmastermusician
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.

Gianluigi Paragone

Born in: Italy
Years: 1971-.. (age 55)
Occupations: television presenterpoliticianjournalist
Biography: Gianluigi Paragone is an Italian politician and journalist.

Dino Risi

Born in: Italy
Years: 1916-2008 (aged 92)
Occupations: psychiatristscreenwriterfilm director
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.

Giovanni Toti

Born in: Italy
Years: 1968-.. (age 58)
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.

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.

Antonio Scurati

Born in: Italy
Years: 1969-.. (age 57)
Occupations: writernovelistopinion journalistuniversity teacher
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), the first volume in a series of five books 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 has been adapted into a television series.

Rita Rusić

Born in: Croatia
Years: 1960-.. (age 66)
Occupations: singeractorfilm producer
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.

Umberto Veronesi

Born in: Italy
Years: 1925-2016 (aged 91)
Enrolled in the University of Milan: In 1952 studied medicine
Occupations: oncologistpoliticiansurgeon
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.

Fabiola Gianotti

Born in: Italy
Years: 1960-.. (age 66)
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 served as Director-General of the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) from 2016 to 2026.

Paolo Cognetti

Born in: Italy
Years: 1978-.. (age 48)
Occupations: film producerfilm screenwriterwriterfilm editorfilm actor
Biography: Paolo Cognetti is an Italian writer and filmmaker, winner of the 2017 Strega Prize.

Francesco Carrozzini

Born in: Italy
Years: 1982-.. (age 44)
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.

Luigi Manconi

Born in: Italy
Years: 1948-.. (age 78)
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.

Davide Mengacci

Born in: Italy
Years: 1948-.. (age 78)
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).

Claudio Martelli

Born in: Italy
Years: 1943-.. (age 83)
Occupations: television presenterpoliticianjournalist
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.

Moni Ovadia

Born in: Bulgaria
Years: 1946-.. (age 80)
Occupations: directormusiciantheatrical directorplaywrightpolitician
Biography: Salomone Moni Ovadia is a Bulgarian-born Italian Jewish actor, musician, singer, theatrical author, and activist. His theatrical performances reference Eastern European Jewish culture and historical Yiddish culture.

Ilaria Salis

Born in: Italy
Years: 1984-.. (age 42)
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: activistteacherpolitician
Biography: Ilaria Salis is an Italian politician, activist, writer and teacher. She was elected as a Member of the European Parliament in 2024 for the Green and Left Alliance.

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.

Elena Cattaneo

Born in: Italy
Years: 1962-.. (age 64)
Occupations: biologistneurologistuniversity teacherpolitician
Biography: Elena Cattaneo OMRI is an Italian pharmacologist and co-founding director of the University of Milan's Center for Stem Cell Research.

Giuseppe Valditara

Born in: Italy
Years: 1961-.. (age 65)
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.

Alberto Camerini

Born in: Brazil
Years: 1951-.. (age 75)
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.

Karolos Papoulias

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

Michele Serra

Born in: Italy
Years: 1954-.. (age 72)
Occupations: screenwriterwriterjournalist
Biography: Michele Serra is an Italian journalist, writer, and satirist.

Roberto Calderoli

Born in: Italy
Years: 1956-.. (age 70)
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.

Giuseppe Civati

Born in: Italy
Years: 1975-.. (age 51)
Occupations: writerpolitician
Biography: Giuseppe "Pippo" Civati is an Italian politician and publisher who was a member of the Chamber of Deputies from 2013 to 2018. Civati began his political career in the local politics of the 1990s with the Democratic Party of the Left (PDS). Civati went through the successors of the PDS, including the Democrats of the Left (DS) and the Democratic Party (PD), which he left in 2015 due to his increasing criticism of Matteo Renzi, which he had initially supported, and the Renziani to establish Possible.

Umberto Pelizzari

Born in: Italy
Years: 1965-.. (age 61)
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.

Andrea De Carlo

Born in: Italy
Years: 1952-.. (age 74)
Occupations: painterscreenwriterwriterfilm directorphotographer
Biography: Andrea De Carlo is an Italian novelist. He has published almost two dozen novels, many of which have been translated.

Ombretta Colli

Born in: Italy
Years: 1943-.. (age 83)
Occupations: singeractorpolitician
Biography: Ombretta Colli is an Italian singer, actress and politician. She was president of the Province of Milan from June 1999 to June 2004.

Fedele Confalonieri

Born in: Italy
Years: 1937-.. (age 89)
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.

Michele Cucuzza

Born in: Italy
Years: 1952-.. (age 74)
Occupations: television presenterradio personalityjournalist
Biography: Michele Cucuzza is an Italian journalist, news speaker and television presenter.

Filippo Grandi

Born in: Italy
Years: 1957-.. (age 69)
Occupations: diplomatphilosopherhistorian
Biography: Filippo Grandi is an Italian diplomat and United Nations official, who has served as United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees from 2016 to 2025. 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.

Elena Bonetti

Born in: Italy
Years: 1974-.. (age 52)
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.

Federico Buffa

Born in: Italy
Years: 1959-.. (age 67)
Occupations: lawyersports journalistjournalist
Biography: Federico Buffa is an Italian journalist, writer and television sportscaster.

Giuliano Pisapia

Born in: Italy
Years: 1949-.. (age 77)
Occupations: lawyerwriterpolitician
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.

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.

Gregorio de Falco

Born in: Italy
Years: 1965-.. (age 61)
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.

Chicco Testa

Born in: Italy
Years: 1952-.. (age 74)
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.

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.

Mario Capanna

Born in: Italy
Years: 1945-.. (age 81)
Occupations: writerpolitician
Biography: Mario Capanna is an Italian politician and writer.

Riccardo Giacconi

Born in: Italy
Years: 1931-2018 (aged 87)
Enrolled in the University of Milan: In 1954 graduated with Doctor
Occupations: astrologerastronomeruniversity teachervisual artistphysicist
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.

Rossana Rossanda

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

Andrea Vitali

Born in: Italy
Years: 1956-.. (age 70)
Occupations: writerphysician
Biography: Andrea Vitali is an Italian writer.

Alberto Arbasino

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

Tomasz Piątek

Born in: Poland
Years: 1974-.. (age 52)
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.

Fausto Cercignani

Born in: Italy
Years: 1941-.. (age 85)
Occupations: literary criticuniversity teacherwriteressayistpoet
Biography: Fausto Cercignani is an Italian scholar, essayist and poet.

Gianfelice Rocca

Born in: Italy
Years: 1948-.. (age 78)
Occupations: entrepreneur
Biography: Gianfelice Mario Rocca is an Italian billionaire businessman. He is chairman of the Techint Group and Istituto Clinico Humanitas.

Paolo Zangrillo

Born in: Italy
Years: 1961-.. (age 65)
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.

Claudio Descalzi

Born in: Italy
Years: 1955-.. (age 71)
Occupations: chief executive officerbusiness executive
Biography: Claudio Descalzi is an Italian businessman, and the CEO of Italian oil company Eni since May 2014.

Corrado Alvaro

Born in: Italy
Years: 1895-1956 (aged 61)
Occupations: military personnelwritertheatre criticscreenwritertranslator
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.

Giulio Terzi di Sant'Agata

Born in: Italy
Years: 1946-.. (age 80)
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.

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.

Gabriele Albertini

Born in: Italy
Years: 1950-.. (age 76)
Enrolled in the University of Milan: Studied jurisprudence
Occupations: entrepreneurpolitician
Biography: Gabriele Albertini is an Italian politician.

Enrico Bombieri

Born in: Italy
Years: 1940-.. (age 86)
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.

Gianni Mura

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

Sandrone Dazieri

Born in: Italy
Years: 1964-.. (age 62)
Occupations: science fiction writerscreenwriterwriterchildren's writerjournalist
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.

Eva Cantarella

Born in: Italy
Years: 1936-.. (age 90)
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.

Enrico Baj

Born in: Italy
Years: 1924-2003 (aged 79)
Occupations: painterillustratorsculptoretcherdraftsperson
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 78)
Occupations: physicianoncologistimmunologist
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.

Eugenio Colorni

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

Sergio Romano

Born in: Italy
Years: 1929-.. (age 97)
Occupations: historianjournalistdiplomatuniversity teacher
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.

Guido Morselli

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

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.

Maria Cristina Messa

Born in: Italy
Years: 1961-.. (age 65)
Occupations: university teacherphysicianpolitician
Biography: Maria Cristina Messa is an Italian doctor and academic, Minister of University and Research in the government of Mario Draghi.

Curzio Maltese

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

Vittorio Sereni

Born in: Italy
Years: 1913-1983 (aged 70)
Occupations: translatorpoetlinguistwriter
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.

Roberto Cota

Born in: Italy
Years: 1968-.. (age 58)
Occupations: lawyerpolitician
Biography: Roberto Cota is an Italian politician, President of Piedmont from 2010 to 2014.

Gianfranco Manfredi

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

Marco Balzano

Born in: Italy
Years: 1978-.. (age 48)
Occupations: italianistpoetsecondary school teacherwriter
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.

Vittorio Agnoletto

Born in: Italy
Years: 1958-.. (age 68)
Occupations: peace activistphysicianpolitician
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.

Andrea Rossi

Born in: Italy
Years: 1950-.. (age 76)
Occupations: entrepreneurinventor
Biography: Andrea Rossi is an Italian entrepreneur who claimed to have invented a cold fusion device.

Guido Piovene

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

Attilio Fontana

Born in: Italy
Years: 1952-.. (age 74)
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.

Margherita Missoni

Born in: United States
Years: 1983-.. (age 43)
Enrolled in the University of Milan: Studied philosophy
Occupations: actorfashion modelmodel
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 93)
Occupations: university teacherphilosopherwriter
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.

Valerio Onida

Born in: Italy
Years: 1936-2022 (aged 86)
Occupations: juristjudgeuniversity teacherpolitician
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.

Emilio Del Bono

Born in: Italy
Years: 1965-.. (age 61)
Occupations: functionarypolitician
Biography: Emilio Del Bono is an Italian politician from the Democratic Party and former mayor of Brescia.

Giovanni Raboni

Born in: Italy
Years: 1932-2004 (aged 72)
Occupations: poetwriterjournalist
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, anarchist and intellectual.

Alessio Vinci

Born in: Luxembourg
Years: 1968-.. (age 58)
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.

Gianni Canova

Born in: Italy
Years: 1954-.. (age 72)
Occupations: journalistfilm critic
Biography: Gian Battista "Gianni" Canova is an Italian film critic, essayist, television writer and academic.

Lelio Basso

Born in: Italy
Years: 1903-1978 (aged 75)
Occupations: lawyerjournalistpoliticiananti-fascist
Biography: Lelio Basso was an Italian democratic socialist politician.