20 Notable alumni of
University of Modena and Reggio Emilia
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The University of Modena and Reggio Emilia is 1881st in the world, 635th in Europe, and 35th in Italy by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 20 notable alumni from the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Piero Ferrari
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- engineerentrepreneurmanager
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Piero Ferrari is an Italian billionaire businessman and sport personality. He is the second and only living son of Enzo Ferrari, and a 10.48% owner of the Ferrari automotive company, of which he is the vice chairman. He owns 13.2% of the Ferretti Group. As of February 2025, his net worth was estimated at US$10.2 billion.
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Sandro Pertini
- Enrolled in the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia
- In 1923 graduated with laurea in jurisprudence
- Occupations
- partisanpoliticianjournalist
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Alessandro Giuseppe Antonio "Sandro" Pertini was an Italian socialist politician and statesman who served as the president of Italy from 1978 to 1985.
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Mattia Binotto
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- sports executiveengineer
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Mattia Binotto is an Italian motorsport engineer. Since 2025, Binotto has been the head of the Audi F1 Project. From 2019 to 2022, he served as the team principal of Italian Formula One team Scuderia Ferrari in Formula One.
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Carlo Goldoni
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- poet lawyerdirectorwriterprose writerlibrettist
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Carlo Osvaldo Goldoni was an Italian playwright and librettist from the Republic of Venice. His works include some of Italy's most famous and best-loved plays. Audiences have admired the plays of Goldoni for their ingenious mix of wit and honesty. His plays offered his contemporaries images of themselves, often dramatizing the lives, values, and conflicts of the emerging middle classes. Though he wrote in French and Italian, his plays make rich use of the Venetian language, regional vernacular, and colloquialisms. Goldoni also wrote under the pen name and title Polisseno Fegeio, Pastor Arcade, which he claimed in his memoirs the "Arcadians of Rome" bestowed on him.
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Graziano Delrio
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- politicianphysician
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Graziano Delrio is an Italian medical doctor and politician, who served in the government of Italy as Minister of Infrastructure and Transport from 2 April 2015 to 1 June 2018. He previously served as the state secretary to Prime Minister Matteo Renzi. He was minister for regional affairs and autonomy from 28 April 2013 to 22 February 2014 as part of the Letta Cabinet. He also served as the mayor of Reggio Emilia.
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Francesca Donato
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- politician
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Francesca Donato is an Italian politician who was elected as a member of the European Parliament in the 2019 European Parliament election in Italy, representing Lega Nord.
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Federica Guidi
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- businesspersonentrepreneurpolitician
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Federica Guidi is an Italian businesswoman and the former Minister of Economic Development.
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Ludovico Antonio Muratori
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- numismatistarchivistCatholic priesthistorianlibrarian
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Lodovico Antonio Muratori, commonly referred to in Latin as Muratorius, was an Italian Catholic priest, notable as historian and a leading scholar of his age, and for his discovery of the Muratorian fragment, the earliest known list of New Testament books.
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Maria Cecilia Guerra
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- politicianeconomist
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Maria Cecilia Guerra is an Italian economist and politician.
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Luca Vecchi
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- politician
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Luca Vecchi is an Italian politician. A member of the Democratic Party, he was elected Mayor of Reggio Emilia on 25 May 2014 and took office on 5 June. He was re-elected for a second term in 2019.
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Ylenja Lucaselli
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- politician
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Ylenja Lucaselli is an Italian politician and lawyer. She was elected to be a deputy to the Parliament of Italy in the 2018 Italian general election for the Legislature XVIII of Italy.
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Valentina Rodini
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- rower
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Valentina Rodini is an Italian rower. She competed in the women's lightweight double sculls event at the 2016 Summer Olympics, and won gold medal in the same event at 2020 Summer Olympics.
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Sabrina Pignedoli
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- journalistpolitician
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Sabrina Pignedoli is an Italian politician and Member of the European Parliament since 2019.
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Ermanno Gorrieri
- Enrolled in the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia
- In 1950 graduated with law degree
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- partisansociologistpolitician
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Ermanno Gorrieri was an Italian politician and economist.
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Stefania Ascari
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- lawyerpolitician
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Stefania Ascari is an Italian politician from the Five Star Movement (M5S). She has been a member of Italy's Chamber of Deputies from Emilia-Romagna since the 2018 Italian general election.
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Isabella Bertolini
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- politician
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Isabella Bertolini is an Italian politician.
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Giulia Galli
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- physicist
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Giulia Galli is a condensed-matter physicist. She is the Liew Family Professor of Electronic Structure and Simulations in the Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering and the department of chemistry at the University of Chicago and senior scientist at Argonne National Laboratory. She is also the director of the Midwest Integrated Center for Computational Materials. She is recognized for her contributions to the fields of computational condensed-matter, materials science, and nanoscience, most notably first principles simulations of materials and liquids, in particular materials for energy, properties of water, and excited state phenomena.
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Giorgio Pighi
- Enrolled in the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia
- In 1973 graduated with laurea magistrale in jurisprudence
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- politician
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Giorgio Pighi is an Italian politician, lawyer and professor.
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Giovanni Angelo Fontana
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- politician
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Giovanni Angelo Fontana is an Italian politician and lawyer.
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Peppino Vallone
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- politician
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Peppino Vallone is an Italian politician.
