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: association football executivemedia proprietorpoliticianentrepreneur
Biography: Silvio Berlusconi was an Italian media tycoon and politician who served as the prime minister of Italy in four 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 as of June 2023, Berlusconi was the third-wealthiest person in Italy at the time of his death.

Giorgio Armani

Born in: Italy
Years: 1934-.. (age 90)
Occupations: fashion designerentrepreneur
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. In 2010, he opened the Armani Hotel in Burj Khalifa, the world's tallest building. According to Bloomberg Billionaires Index, as of 2021, Armani had an estimated net worth of US$9.53 billion.

Bettino Craxi

Born in: Italy
Years: 1934-2000 (aged 66)
Occupations: politician
Biography: Benedetto "Bettino" Craxi was an Italian politician, 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: film directorscreenwriterproducerfilm producer
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 46)
Occupations: modelfilm actorshowgirltelevision presenterart model
Biography: Elisabetta Canalis is an Italian actress and showgirl.

Melissa Satta

Born in: United States
Years: 1986-.. (age 38)
Occupations: showgirlmodelactortelevision presenterjournalist
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 75)
Enrolled in the University of Milan: Graduated with doctorate in political science
Occupations: fashion designerentrepreneurmime 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 69)
Occupations: television presenterjournalist
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 35)
Occupations: actormodel
Biography: Matilde Gioli is an Italian television and film actress.

Dino Buzzati

Born in: Italy
Years: 1906-1972 (aged 66)
Occupations: screenwriterwriterlibrettistjournalistcomics artist
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.

Gino Strada

Born in: Italy
Years: 1948-2021 (aged 73)
Occupations: physician writerpeace activistsurgeonnon-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.

Antonella Clerici

Born in: Italy
Years: 1963-.. (age 61)
Occupations: television presenterjournalist
Biography: Antonella Clerici is an Italian television host and journalist. She's the fourth woman to have presented Sanremo Music Festival, after Loretta Goggi, Raffaella Carrà and Simona Ventura

Marina Berlusconi

Born in: Italy
Years: 1966-.. (age 58)
Occupations: businesspersonentrepreneur
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: songwriterfilm score composersurgeonfilm actorcomposer
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.

Antonio Di Pietro

Born in: Italy
Years: 1950-.. (age 74)
Occupations: judgelawyerpoliticianprosecutormagistrate
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 75)
Occupations: politicianbusinessperson
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.

Marta Cartabia

Born in: Italy
Years: 1963-.. (age 61)
Occupations: university teacherjudgejurist
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 53)
Occupations: television presenterjournalistpolitician
Biography: Gianluigi Paragone is an Italian politician and journalist.

Angelo Branduardi

Born in: Italy
Years: 1950-.. (age 74)
Occupations: composerfilm score composersinger-songwriterrecording artistsinger
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.

Dino Risi

Born in: Italy
Years: 1916-2008 (aged 92)
Occupations: film directorscreenwriterpsychiatrist
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: politicianinternational forum participantlawyer
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 72)
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.

Maurizio Pollini

Born in: Italy
Years: 1942-.. (age 82)
Occupations: pianistconductormusicianconcertmastercomposer
Biography: Maurizio Pollini is an Italian pianist. He is known for performances of compositions by Beethoven, Chopin and Debussy, among others. He has also championed and performed works by contemporary composers such as Pierre Boulez, Karlheinz Stockhausen, George Benjamin, Roberto Carnevale, Gianluca Cascioli and Bruno Maderna. Works composed for him include Luigi Nono's... sofferte onde serene..., Giacomo Manzoni's Masse: omaggio a Edgard Varèse and Salvatore Sciarrino's Fifth Sonata.

Umberto Veronesi

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

Giovanni Toti

Born in: Italy
Years: 1968-.. (age 56)
Occupations: politicianjournalist
Biography: Giovanni Toti is an Italian journalist and politician, who has been President of Liguria since June 2015. Toti was also elected to the European Parliament, following the 2014 European Parliament election.

Rita Rusić

Born in: Croatia
Years: 1960-.. (age 64)
Occupations: actorsingerfilm 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.

Fabiola Gianotti

Born in: Italy
Years: 1960-.. (age 64)
Enrolled in the University of Milan: In 1989 graduated with Doctor of Philosophy
Occupations: international forum participantphysicist
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.

Davide Mengacci

Born in: Italy
Years: 1948-.. (age 76)
Occupations: television presenterphotographer
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).

Francesco Carrozzini

Born in: Italy
Years: 1982-.. (age 42)
Occupations: film directorphotographer
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.

Paolo Cognetti

Born in: Italy
Years: 1978-.. (age 46)
Occupations: film producerwriter
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.

Luigi Manconi

Born in: Italy
Years: 1948-.. (age 76)
Occupations: sociologistpolitician
Biography: Luigi Manconi is an Italian academic and politician, former senator of the Democratic Party.

Claudio Martelli

Born in: Italy
Years: 1943-.. (age 81)
Occupations: television presenterjournalistpolitician
Biography: Claudio Martelli is an Italian politician. He was the right-hand man of Bettino Craxi, the socialist Prime Minister from 1983 to 1987.

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.

Moni Ovadia

Born in: Bulgaria
Years: 1946-.. (age 78)
Occupations: theatrical directormusiciandirectorstage actoractor
Biography: Salomone "Moni" Ovadia is a Bulgarian-born Italian actor, musician, singer, and theatrical author. His theatrical performances recall the lost world of eastern Jewish culture, its Yiddishkeyt 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.

Elena Cattaneo

Born in: Italy
Years: 1962-.. (age 62)
Occupations: biologistpoliticianuniversity teacherneurologist
Biography: Elena Cattaneo is an Italian pharmacologist and co-founding director of the University of Milan's Center for Stem Cell Research.

Giuseppe Civati

Born in: Italy
Years: 1975-.. (age 49)
Occupations: politicianwriter
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.

Karolos Papoulias

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

Umberto Pelizzari

Born in: Italy
Years: 1965-.. (age 59)
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.

Alberto Camerini

Born in: Brazil
Years: 1951-.. (age 73)
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.

Roberto Calderoli

Born in: Italy
Years: 1956-.. (age 68)
Occupations: politiciandentist
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.

Michele Cucuzza

Born in: Italy
Years: 1952-.. (age 72)
Occupations: television presenterjournalistradio personality
Biography: Michele Cucuzza is an Italian journalist, news speaker and television presenter.

Federico Buffa

Born in: Italy
Years: 1959-.. (age 65)
Occupations: journalistsports journalistlawyer
Biography: Federico Buffa is an Italian journalist, writer and television sportscaster.

Giuliano Pisapia

Born in: Italy
Years: 1949-.. (age 75)
Occupations: politicianwriterlawyer
Biography: Giuliano Pisapia is an Italian lawyer, politician, former mayor of Milan, former member of the Italian Parliament and 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.

Antonio Scurati

Born in: Italy
Years: 1969-.. (age 55)
Occupations: opinion journalistwriter
Biography: Antonio Scurati is an Italian writer and academic. In 2019, he was awarded the prestigious Strega Prize for his novel M: Son of the Century (2018).

Elena Bonetti

Born in: Italy
Years: 1974-.. (age 50)
Occupations: politicianuniversity teacher
Biography: Elena Bonetti is an Italian politician and mathematician who served as Minister for Family and Equal Opportunities between 2019 and 2022.

Michele Serra

Born in: Italy
Years: 1954-.. (age 70)
Occupations: journalistwriterscreenwriter
Biography: Michele Serra is an Italian writer, journalist, and satirist.

Ombretta Colli

Born in: Italy
Years: 1943-.. (age 81)
Occupations: actorsingerpolitician
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 87)
Occupations: manager
Biography: Fedele Confalonieri is an Italian manager, current president of Mediaset and, since 2017, president of the Venerable Factory of the Duomo of Milan.

Andrea De Carlo

Born in: Italy
Years: 1952-.. (age 72)
Occupations: writerscreenwriterpaintermusicianphotographer
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: film directornovelistscreenwriterfilm producer
Biography: Lasse Braun was an Italian pornographer, film director, producer, screenwriter, novelist and researcher.

Filippo Grandi

Born in: Italy
Years: 1957-.. (age 67)
Occupations: historianinternational forum participantphilosopherdiplomat
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.

Vittorio Zucconi

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

Giuseppe Valditara

Born in: Italy
Years: 1961-.. (age 63)
Occupations: politicianinternational forum participantjurist
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.

Chicco Testa

Born in: Italy
Years: 1952-.. (age 72)
Occupations: bankerpolitician
Biography: Chicco Testa is an Italian politician. He graduated in philosophy at the Università Statale in Milan (1976). He lives in Rome and has two sons.

Paolo Rocca

Born in: Italy
Years: 1952-.. (age 72)
Occupations: managerbusinessperson
Biography: Paolo Rocca is an Argentine-Italian businessman, CEO of the Techint Group, which holds Tenaris, Ternium and other companies that operate in the engineering, construction and energy sectors. He is also chairman and CEO of Tenaris, and chairman of Ternium.

Riccardo Giacconi

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

Antonia Pozzi

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

Igor Sibaldi

Born in: Italy
Years: 1957-.. (age 67)
Occupations: theologiantranslatorwriter
Biography: Igor Sibaldi, born from Russian mother and Italian father, is an Italian writer, scholar of theology and history of religion.

Gregorio de Falco

Born in: Italy
Years: 1965-.. (age 59)
Occupations: naval officerpolitician
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.

Mario Capanna

Born in: Italy
Years: 1945-.. (age 79)
Occupations: politicianwriter
Biography: Mario Capanna is an Italian politician and writer.

Rossana Rossanda

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

Andrea Vitali

Born in: Italy
Years: 1956-.. (age 68)
Occupations: physicianwriter
Biography: Andrea Vitali is an Italian writer.

Fausto Cercignani

Born in: Italy
Years: 1941-.. (age 83)
Occupations: writeruniversity teacherliterary criticpoetessayist
Biography: Fausto Cercignani is an Italian scholar, essayist and poet.

Alberto Arbasino

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

Tomasz Piątek

Born in: Poland
Years: 1974-.. (age 50)
Occupations: journalistwriterlinguistcopywriter
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.

Gianfelice Rocca

Born in: Italy
Years: 1948-.. (age 76)
Occupations: entrepreneur
Biography: Gianfelice Mario Rocca is an Italian billionaire businessman. He is chairman of the Techint Group and Istituto Clinico Humanitas.

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.

Corrado Alvaro

Born in: Italy
Years: 1895-1956 (aged 61)
Occupations: writermilitary personnelpoetscience fiction writernovelist
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 69)
Occupations: business executiveinternational forum participant
Biography: Claudio Descalzi is an Italian businessman, and the CEO of Italian oil company Eni since May 2014.

Enrico Bombieri

Born in: Italy
Years: 1940-.. (age 84)
Occupations: university teachermathematician
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 contributions to large sieve mathematics, conceptualized by Linnick 1941, and its application to the distribution of prime numbers.

Giulio Terzi di Sant'Agata

Born in: Italy
Years: 1946-.. (age 78)
Occupations: politiciandiplomat
Biography: Giulio 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.

Gianni Mura

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

Gabriele Albertini

Born in: Italy
Years: 1950-.. (age 74)
Enrolled in the University of Milan: Studied jurisprudence
Occupations: politicianentrepreneur
Biography: Gabriele Albertini is an Italian politician.

Paolo Zangrillo

Born in: Italy
Years: 1961-.. (age 63)
Occupations: politicianmanager
Biography: Paolo Zangrillo is an Italian politician and business executive, and the Minister for Public Administration in the Meloni government since 22 October 2022.

Eva Cantarella

Born in: Italy
Years: 1936-.. (age 88)
Occupations: historianlegal historiandeanuniversity teacherclassical 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 60)
Occupations: children's writerwriterscreenwriterscience fiction writercook
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.

Camilla Cederna

Born in: Italy
Years: 1911-1997 (aged 86)
Occupations: writerjournalist
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.

Alberto Mantovani

Born in: Italy
Years: 1948-.. (age 76)
Occupations: physicianimmunologistoncologist
Biography: Alberto Mantovani 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 95)
Occupations: journalisthistorianuniversity teacherdiplomat
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.

Enrico Baj

Born in: Italy
Years: 1924-2003 (aged 79)
Occupations: painterdraweretchersculptorillustrator
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.

Eugenio Coșeriu

Born in: Moldova
Years: 1921-2002 (aged 81)
Occupations: philologistuniversity teacherlinguistphilosopher of languageromanist
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: journalistwriterpolitician
Biography: Curzio Maltese was an Italian journalist and politician.

Maria Cristina Messa

Born in: Italy
Years: 1961-.. (age 63)
Occupations: university teacherpoliticianphysician
Biography: Maria Cristina Messa is an Italian doctor and academic, Minister of University and Research in the government of Mario Draghi.

Andrea Rossi

Born in: Italy
Years: 1950-.. (age 74)
Occupations: inventorentrepreneur
Biography: Andrea Rossi is an Italian entrepreneur who claimed to have invented a cold fusion device.

Vittorio Sereni

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

Guido Morselli

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

Roberto Cota

Born in: Italy
Years: 1968-.. (age 56)
Occupations: politicianlawyer
Biography: Roberto Cota is an Italian politician, President of Piedmont from 2010 to 2014.

Vittorio Agnoletto

Born in: Italy
Years: 1958-.. (age 66)
Occupations: peace activistpoliticianphysician
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 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.

Giulio Giorello

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

Guido Piovene

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

Eugenio Colorni

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

Emilio Del Bono

Born in: Italy
Years: 1965-.. (age 59)
Occupations: politicianfunctionary
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: juristpoliticianuniversity teacherjudge
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.

Marco Balzano

Born in: Italy
Years: 1978-.. (age 46)
Occupations: poetitalianistwriterhigh school teacher
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.

Margherita Missoni

Born in: United States
Years: 1983-.. (age 41)
Enrolled in the University of Milan: Studied philosophy
Occupations: actormodel
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.

Pietro Rotari

Born in: Italy
Years: 1707-1762 (aged 55)
Enrolled in the University of Milan: In 2003 graduated with Master of Arts
Occupations: painterprintmaker
Biography: Pietro Antonio Rotari was a Venetian painter of the Baroque period. Born in Verona, he led a peripatetic career, and died in Saint Petersburg, where he had traveled to paint for the Russian court. His portraits, mostly of women, are renowned for being beautiful and realistic. Rotari's works were generally limited to royal portraits held by notables such as emperors and court ladies.

Alessio Vinci

Born in: Luxembourg
Years: 1968-.. (age 56)
Occupations: television presenterjournalist
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.

Gianfranco Manfredi

Born in: Italy
Years: 1948-.. (age 76)
Occupations: comics writercomposersinger-songwriterwriterscreenwriter
Biography: Gianfranco Manfredi is an Italian singer-songwriter, composer, author, screenwriter, actor and cartoonist.

Luigi Veronelli

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

Giovanni Bignami

Born in: Italy
Years: 1944-2017 (aged 73)
Occupations: physicistastrophysicist
Biography: Giovanni Fabrizio Bignami was an Italian physicist. From March 2007 until August 2008, he was Chairman of the Italian Space Agency. Between 2010 and 2014, he was the first Italian to chair the Committee on Space Research (COSPAR), and from 2011 until 2015, he was President of INAF. He was also the chairman of the SKA project. He was married to fellow Italian astrophysicist Patrizia A. Caraveo.