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

Galileo Galilei

Born in: Italy
Years: 1564-1642 (aged 78)
Enrolled in the University of Pisa: 1581-1585 studied mathematics and medicine
Occupations: astrologerscientistphilosopherpolymathphysicist
Biography: Galileo di Vincenzo Bonaiuti de' Galilei, commonly referred to as Galileo Galilei or simply Galileo, was an Italian astronomer, physicist and engineer, sometimes described as a polymath. He was born in the city of Pisa, then part of the Duchy of Florence. Galileo has been called the father of observational astronomy, modern-era classical physics, the scientific method, and modern science.

Andrea Bocelli

Born in: Italy
Years: 1958-.. (age 66)
Occupations: songwritersaxophonistinternational forum participantlawyerrecord producer
Biography: Andrea Bocelli is an Italian tenor. After performing evenings in piano bars and competing in local singing contests, Bocelli signed his first recording contract with Sugar Music. He rose to fame in 1994, winning the newcomers' section of the 44th Sanremo Music Festival performing "Il mare calmo della sera".

Cesare Borgia

Born in: Italy
Years: 1475-1507 (aged 32)
Occupations: condottieroCatholic priestCatholic deacon
Biography: Cesare Borgia was an Italian cardinal and condottiero (mercenary leader), an illegitimate son of Pope Alexander VI and member of the Valencian (Spanish-Aragonese) House of Borgia. His fight for power was a major inspiration for The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli.

Enrico Fermi

Born in: Italy
Years: 1901-1954 (aged 53)
Occupations: physicistuniversity teacherinventornuclear physicisttheoretical physicist
Biography: Enrico Fermi was an Italian and later naturalized American physicist, renowned for being the creator of the world's first nuclear reactor, the Chicago Pile-1, and a member of the Manhattan Project. He has been called the "architect of the nuclear age" and the "architect of the atomic bomb". He was one of very few physicists to excel in both theoretical physics and experimental physics. Fermi was awarded the 1938 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on induced radioactivity by neutron bombardment and for the discovery of transuranium elements. With his colleagues, Fermi filed several patents related to the use of nuclear power, all of which were taken over by the US government. He made significant contributions to the development of statistical mechanics, quantum theory, and nuclear and particle physics.

Leo X

Born in: Italy
Years: 1475-1521 (aged 46)
Occupations: Latin Catholic priestCatholic priestpope
Biography: Pope Leo X was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 9 March 1513 to his death, in December 1521.

Paul III

Born in: Italy
Years: 1468-1549 (aged 81)
Occupations: popeCatholic priest
Biography: Pope Paul III, born Alessandro Farnese, was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 13 October 1534 to his death, in November 1549.

Carlo Azeglio Ciampi

Born in: Italy
Years: 1920-2016 (aged 96)
Occupations: bankerpoliticianeconomist
Biography: Carlo Azeglio Ciampi was an Italian politician and banker who was the prime minister of Italy from 1993 to 1994 and the president of Italy from 1999 to 2006.

Enrico Letta

Born in: Italy
Years: 1966-.. (age 58)
Enrolled in the University of Pisa: Studied in 1994
Occupations: academicinternational forum participantpoliticiannon-fiction writer
Biography: Enrico Letta is an Italian politician who served as Prime Minister of Italy from April 2013 to February 2014, leading a grand coalition of centre-left and centre-right parties. He was the leader of the Democratic Party (PD) from March 2021 to March 2023.

Lucia Azzolina

Born in: Italy
Years: 1982-.. (age 42)
Enrolled in the University of Pisa: Graduated with laurea
Occupations: politicianteacher
Biography: Lucia Azzolina is an Italian politician and teacher. She was the Minister of Education during the Conte II Cabinet.

Francesco Redi

Born in: Italy
Years: 1626-1697 (aged 71)
Occupations: parasitologistbiologistentomologistpoetpainter
Biography: Francesco Redi was an Italian physician, naturalist, biologist, and poet. He is referred to as the "founder of experimental biology", and as the "father of modern parasitology". He was the first person to challenge the theory of spontaneous generation by demonstrating that maggots come from eggs of flies.

Mario Monicelli

Born in: Italy
Years: 1915-2010 (aged 95)
Occupations: actorfilm directorscreenwriter
Biography: Mario Alberto Ettore Monicelli was an Italian film director and screenwriter, one of the masters of the commedia all'italiana ("Italian-style comedy"). He was nominated six times for an Oscar, and received the Golden Lion for his career.

Massimo D'Alema

Born in: Italy
Years: 1949-.. (age 75)
Occupations: diplomatjournalistpolitician
Biography: Massimo D'Alema is an Italian politician and journalist who was the 53rd prime minister of Italy from 1998 to 2000. He was Deputy Prime Minister of Italy and Italian Minister of Foreign Affairs from 2006 to 2008. D'Alema also served for a time as national secretary of the Democratic Party of the Left (PDS). Earlier in his career, D'Alema was a member of the Italian Communist Party (PCI) and was the first former Communist party member to become prime minister of a NATO country and the only former PCI prime minister of Italy. Due to his first name and for his dominant position in the left-wing coalitions during the Second Republic, he is referred to as Leader Maximo ("Maximum Leader"). He is also the author of several books.

Urban VIII

Born in: Italy
Years: 1568-1644 (aged 76)
Occupations: patron of the artsCatholic priestwriterCatholic bishop
Biography: Pope Urban VIII, born Maffeo Vincenzo Barberini, was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 6 August 1623 to his death, in July 1644. As pope, he expanded the papal territory by force of arms and advantageous politicking, and was also a prominent patron of the arts and a reformer of Church missions.

Giuliano Amato

Born in: Italy
Years: 1938-.. (age 86)
Occupations: juristpoliticianuniversity teacherjudge
Biography: Giuliano Amato is an Italian politician who twice served as Prime Minister of Italy, first from 1992 to 1993 and again from 2000 to 2001. Upon Arnaldo Forlani's death in July 2023, Amato became the country's earliest-serving Prime Minister.

Marsilio Ficino

Born in: Italy
Years: 1433-1499 (aged 66)
Occupations: clericwriterphysiciantranslatorphilosopher
Biography: Marsilio Ficino was an Italian scholar and Catholic priest who was one of the most influential humanist philosophers of the early Italian Renaissance. He was an astrologer, a reviver of Neoplatonism in touch with the major academics of his day, and the first translator of Plato's complete extant works into Latin. His Florentine Academy, an attempt to revive Plato's Academy, influenced the direction and tenor of the Italian Renaissance and the development of European philosophy.

Umberto Saba

Born in: Italy
Years: 1883-1957 (aged 74)
Occupations: journalistpoetwriteressayist
Biography: Umberto Saba was an Italian poet and novelist, born Umberto Poli in the cosmopolitan Mediterranean port of Trieste when it was the fourth largest city of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Poli assumed the pen name "Saba" in 1910, and his name was officially changed to Umberto Saba in 1928. From 1919 he was the proprietor of an antiquarian bookshop in Trieste. He suffered from depression for all of his adult life.

Antonio Pacinotti

Born in: Italy
Years: 1841-1912 (aged 71)
Occupations: physicistpoliticianastronomerinventorprofessor
Biography: Antonio Pacinotti was an Italian physicist, who was Professor of Physics at the University of Pisa.

Concita De Gregorio

Born in: Italy
Years: 1963-.. (age 61)
Occupations: journalistwriterradio personality
Biography: Concita De Gregorio is an Italian journalist, writer, radio and television presenter, and commentator. She is an editorial columnist at La Repubblica and was editor-in-chief of l'Unità from 2008 to 2011.

Alfonso Bonafede

Born in: Italy
Years: 1976-.. (age 48)
Occupations: politicianlawyer
Biography: Alfonso Bonafede is an Italian lawyer and politician who has served as the Italian Minister of Justice since 1 June 2018. A lawyer by profession, Bonafede has also served as a member of the Chamber of Deputies from 15 March 2013 until 12 October 2022.

Carlo Rubbia

Born in: Italy
Years: 1934-.. (age 90)
Occupations: engineerphysicist
Biography: Carlo Rubbia is an Italian particle physicist and inventor who shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1984 with Simon van der Meer for work leading to the discovery of the W and Z particles at CERN.

Clement XII

Born in: Italy
Years: 1652-1740 (aged 88)
Occupations: Catholic bishopCatholic priest
Biography: Pope Clement XII, born Lorenzo Corsini, was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 12 July 1730 to his death in February 1740.

Giovanni Gronchi

Born in: Italy
Years: 1887-1978 (aged 91)
Occupations: politician
Biography: Giovanni Gronchi, was an Italian politician from Christian Democracy who served as the president of Italy from 1955 to 1962 and was marked by a controversial and failed attempt to bring about an "opening to the left" in Italian politics. He was reputed the real holder of the executive power in Italy from 1955 to 1962, behind the various Prime Ministers of this time.

Carlo Ginzburg

Born in: Italy
Years: 1939-.. (age 85)
Occupations: historianwriteruniversity teacherart historian
Biography: Carlo Ginzburg is an Italian historian and a proponent of the field of microhistory. He is best known for Il formaggio e i vermi (1976, English title: The Cheese and the Worms), which examined the beliefs of an Italian heretic, Menocchio, from Montereale Valcellina.

Piero Calamandrei

Born in: Italy
Years: 1889-1956 (aged 67)
Occupations: lawyeruniversity teacherpoliticianjuristjournalist
Biography: Piero Calamandrei was an Italian author, jurist, soldier, university professor, and politician. Born in Florence, he was one of Italy's leading authorities on the law of civil procedure.

Antonio Tabucchi

Born in: Italy
Years: 1943-2012 (aged 69)
Occupations: writeruniversity teachertranslatorliteraturejournalist
Biography: Antonio Tabucchi was an Italian writer and academic who taught Portuguese language and literature at the University of Siena, Italy.

Nicola Fratoianni

Born in: Italy
Years: 1972-.. (age 52)
Occupations: politicianblogger
Biography: Nicola Fratoianni is an Italian politician, member of the Chamber of Deputies and Secretary of Italian Left from 2017 to 2019 and again since 2021.

Clement IX

Born in: Italy
Years: 1600-1669 (aged 69)
Occupations: Catholic bishopCatholic priestlibrettistdiplomat
Biography: Pope Clement IX, born Giulio Rospigliosi, was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 20 June 1667 to his death in December 1669.

Sabino Cassese

Born in: Italy
Years: 1935-.. (age 89)
Occupations: politicianjudgejurist
Biography: Sabino Cassese is an Italian jurist, former minister for the public function in the Ciampi government (1993–1994), and judge of the Constitutional Court of Italy (2005–2014).

Marco Malvaldi

Born in: Italy
Years: 1974-.. (age 50)
Occupations: chemistwriter
Biography: Marco Malvaldi is an Italian crime writer.

Tomaso Montanari

Born in: Italy
Years: 1971-.. (age 53)
Occupations: art historianuniversity teacheropinion journalistbloggerjournalist
Biography: Tomaso Montanari is an Italian art historian, academic and essayist.

Sidney Sonnino

Born in: Italy
Years: 1847-1922 (aged 75)
Occupations: politiciandiplomat
Biography: Sidney Costantino, Baron Sonnino was an Italian statesman, 19th prime minister of Italy and twice served briefly as one, in 1906 and again from 1909 to 1910. He also was the Italian minister of Foreign Affairs during the First World War, representing Italy at the 1919 Paris Peace Conference.

Alessio Figalli

Born in: Italy
Years: 1984-.. (age 40)
Occupations: university teachermathematician
Biography: Alessio Figalli is an Italian mathematician working primarily on calculus of variations and partial differential equations.

Franco Gabrielli

Born in: Italy
Years: 1960-.. (age 64)
Occupations: politician
Biography: Franco Gabrielli is an Italian police officer, prefect and civil servant. He has been director of SISDE (the civil intelligence service) and prefect of L'Aquila. In November 2010, he was named chief of the Italian Protezione Civile, an office he held until 2015. In 2016, Gabrielli was named chief of the State Police, holding the office until 2021.

Bruno Pontecorvo

Born in: Italy
Years: 1913-1993 (aged 80)
Occupations: nuclear physicistphysicistscientist
Biography: Bruno Pontecorvo was an Italian and Soviet nuclear physicist, an early assistant of Enrico Fermi and the author of numerous studies in high energy physics, especially on neutrinos. A convinced communist, he defected to the Soviet Union in 1950, where he continued his research on the decay of the muon and on neutrinos. The prestigious Pontecorvo Prize was instituted in his memory in 1995.

Andrea Romano

Born in: Italy
Years: 1967-.. (age 57)
Occupations: historianjournalistpolitician
Biography: Andrea Romano is an Italian politician.

Marcello Pera

Born in: Italy
Years: 1943-.. (age 81)
Occupations: journalistpoliticianuniversity teacherphilosopher
Biography: Marcello Pera is an Italian philosopher and politician. He was the President of the Italian Senate from 2001 to 2006.

Giotto Bizzarrini

Born in: Italy
Years: 1926-2023 (aged 97)
Occupations: entrepreneurracing automobile driveruniversity teacherengineerdesigner
Biography: Giotto Bizzarrini was an Italian automobile engineer who was active from the 1950s through the 1970s.

Michela Marzano

Born in: Italy
Years: 1970-.. (age 54)
Occupations: university teachersociologistwriterpoliticianphilosopher
Biography: Maria Michela Marzano is an Italian researcher, philosopher and writer. Politically connected to the Italian left, she was elected a Member of the Italian Parliament for the Democratic Party in February 2013.

Stefania Giannini

Born in: Italy
Years: 1960-.. (age 64)
Occupations: linguistuniversity teacherpolitician
Biography: Stefania Giannini is an Italian politician and linguist. She served as Minister of Education, Universities and Research from 2014 until 2016. She is currently Assistant-Director General for Education at UNESCO in Paris.

Bonaventura Cavalieri

Born in: Italy
Years: 1598-1647 (aged 49)
Occupations: astronomermathematiciantheologianreligious
Biography: Bonaventura Francesco Cavalieri was an Italian mathematician and a Jesuate. He is known for his work on the problems of optics and motion, work on indivisibles, the precursors of infinitesimal calculus, and the introduction of logarithms to Italy. Cavalieri's principle in geometry partially anticipated integral calculus.

Vito Volterra

Born in: Italy
Years: 1860-1940 (aged 80)
Occupations: physicistmathematicianpoliticianuniversity teacher
Biography: Vito Volterra was an Italian mathematician and physicist, known for his contributions to mathematical biology and integral equations, being one of the founders of functional analysis.

Ioannis Kolettis

Born in: Greece
Years: 1773-1847 (aged 74)
Occupations: military personneldiplomatpolitician
Biography: Ioannis Kolettis was a Greek politician who played a significant role in Greek affairs from the Greek War of Independence through the early years of the Greek Kingdom, including as Minister to France and serving twice as Prime Minister. Kolettis is credited with conceiving the Byzantine restorationist and irredentist Megali Idea or "Great Idea" which became the core of Greek foreign policy until the early 20th century.

Enrico Rossi

Born in: Italy
Years: 1958-.. (age 66)
Occupations: politician
Biography: Enrico Rossi is an Italian politician and former President of Tuscany.

Franca Pilla

Born in: Italy
Years: 1920-.. (age 104)
Occupations: teacher
Biography: Franca Pilla was the first lady of Italy, when Carlo Azeglio Ciampi was president of Italy from 1999 to 2006.

Carlo Sforza

Born in: Italy
Years: 1872-1952 (aged 80)
Occupations: politiciandiplomat
Biography: Count Carlo Sforza was an Italian diplomat and anti-fascist politician.

Sandro Bondi

Born in: Italy
Years: 1959-.. (age 65)
Occupations: politicianjournalist
Biography: Sandro Bondi is an Italian politician. He served as minister of culture from 2008 to 2011 in the fourth Berlusconi government.

Philippe Buonarroti

Born in: Italy
Years: 1761-1837 (aged 76)
Occupations: politicianjournalist
Biography: Filippo Giuseppe Maria Ludovico Buonarroti, more usually referred to under the French version Philippe Buonarroti, was an Italian utopian socialist, writer, agitator, freemason, and conspirator; he was active in Corsica, France, and Geneva. His History of Babeuf’s Conspiracy of Equals (1828) became a quintessential text for revolutionaries, inspiring such socialists as Blanqui and Marx. He proposed a mutualist strategy that would revolutionize society by stages, starting from monarchy to liberalism, then to radicalism, and finally to communism.

Alessandro Natta

Born in: Italy
Years: 1918-2001 (aged 83)
Occupations: politicianjournalist
Biography: Alessandro Natta was an Italian politician and secretary of the Italian Communist Party (PCI) from 1984 to 1988. An illuminist, Jacobin, and communist, as he used to describe himself, Natta represented the political and cultural prototype of a PCI militant and party member for over fifty years of the Italian democratic-republican history. After joining the PCI in 1945, he was deputy from 1948 to 1992, a member of the PCI's central committee starting in 1956, was part of the direction from 1963 and of the secretariat, first from 1962 to 1970 and then from 1979 to 1983, and leader of the PCI parliamentary group from 1972 to 1979; he was also the director of Rinascita from 1970 to 1972. After 1991, he did not join the PCI's successor parties.

Andrea Marcucci

Born in: Italy
Years: 1965-.. (age 59)
Occupations: politicianentrepreneur
Biography: Andrea Marcucci is an Italian politician.

Luciano Bianciardi

Born in: Italy
Years: 1922-1971 (aged 49)
Occupations: film actorlinguistteacherwritertranslator
Biography: Luciano Bianciardi was an Italian journalist, translator and writer of short stories and novels.

Raffaele Riario

Born in: Italy
Years: 1461-1521 (aged 60)
Occupations: Catholic priest
Biography: Raffaele Sansoni Galeoti Riario was an Italian Cardinal of the Renaissance, mainly known as the constructor of the Palazzo della Cancelleria and the person who invited Michelangelo to Rome. He was a patron of the arts. He was also the first adolescent to be elevated in the College of Cardinals in the history of the Holy See.

Vincenzo Viviani

Born in: Italy
Years: 1622-1703 (aged 81)
Occupations: physicistastronomermathematician
Biography: Vincenzo Viviani was an Italian mathematician and scientist. He was a pupil of Torricelli and a disciple of Galileo.

Salvatore Settis

Born in: Italy
Years: 1941-.. (age 83)
Occupations: art historianarchaeologist
Biography: Salvatore Settis is an Italian archaeologist and art historian. From 1994 to 1999 he was director of the Getty Center for the History of Art and the Humanities in Los Angeles and from 1999 to 2010 of the Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa.

Paolo Emilio Taviani

Born in: Italy
Years: 1912-2001 (aged 89)
Occupations: economistpartisanhistorianpolitician
Biography: Paolo Emilio Taviani was an Italian political leader, economist, and historian of the career of Christopher Columbus. He was a partisan leader in Liguria, a Gold Medal of the Italian resistance movement, then a member of the Consulta (National Assembly gathered to direct the transformation of the monarchy into a Republic) and the Constituent Council, later of the Italian Parliament from 1948 until his death. Several times minister in the Republic’s governments. He was author of studies on economics and important works on Christopher Columbus, University professor and journalist.

Guido Buffarini Guidi

Born in: Italy
Years: 1895-1945 (aged 50)
Occupations: politicianlawyer
Biography: Guido Buffarini Guidi was an Italian army officer and politician, executed for war crimes in 1945.

Antonio Maccanico

Born in: Italy
Years: 1924-2013 (aged 89)
Occupations: politiciancivil servant
Biography: Antonio Maccanico was an Italian constitutional specialist and social liberal politician, who served in various capacities in the parliament and federal administrations of Italy.

Maria Chiara Carrozza

Born in: Italy
Years: 1965-.. (age 59)
Occupations: physicistengineerpoliticianuniversity teacher
Biography: Maria Chiara Carrozza is an Italian physicist, engineer and politician who served as Minister of Education, University and Research in the government of Prime Minister Enrico Letta between April 2013 and February 2014. She has been president of the National Research Council of Italy since April 2021.

Roan Johnson

Born in: United Kingdom
Years: 1974-.. (age 50)
Occupations: film directorwriterscreenwriter
Biography: Roan Occam Anthony Johnson is an Italian director and screenwriter.

Pietro Gori

Born in: Italy
Years: 1865-1911 (aged 46)
Occupations: criminologistjuristcomposerwriterlawyer
Biography: Pietro Gori was an Italian lawyer, journalist, intellectual and anarchist poet. He is known for his political activities, and as author of some of the most famous anarchist songs of the late 19th century, including Addio a Lugano ("Farewell to Lugano"), Stornelli d'esilio ("Exile Songs"), Ballata per Sante Caserio ("Ballad for Sante Caserio"), Inno del Primo Maggio ("May, 1 Anthem"). In 1898 he immigrated to Argentina where he contributed to the development of the anarchists' influence in the labor movement, specifically in the Argentine Regional Workers' Federation.

Benedetto Castelli

Born in: Italy
Years: Died in 1643
Occupations: physicistuniversity teacherastronomermathematicianmonk
Biography: Benedetto Castelli, born Antonio Castelli, was an Italian mathematician. Benedetto was his name in religion on entering the Benedictine Order in 1595.

Pellegrino Rossi

Born in: Italy
Years: 1787-1848 (aged 61)
Occupations: juristeconomistpoliticiandiplomat
Biography: Pellegrino Luigi Odoardo Rossi was an Italian economist, politician and jurist. He was an important figure of the July Monarchy in France, and the minister of justice in the government of the Papal States, under Pope Pius IX.

Remo Bodei

Born in: Italy
Years: 1938-2019 (aged 81)
Occupations: university teacherphilosophy historianphilosopher
Biography: Remo Bodei was an Italian philosopher. He was a professor of the history of philosophy at the UCLA University, Los Angeles California, and also had taught at the University of Pisa and Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa.

Alessandro Tassoni

Born in: Italy
Years: 1565-1635 (aged 70)
Occupations: writerliterary criticpoet
Biography: Alessandro Tassoni was an Italian poet and writer, from Modena, best known as the author of the mock-heroic poem La secchia rapita (The Rape of the Pail, or The stolen bucket).

Andrea Cesalpino

Born in: Italy
Years: 1524-1603 (aged 79)
Occupations: physicianuniversity teacherbotanistphilosopher
Biography: Andrea Cesalpino was a Florentine physician, philosopher and botanist.

Carlo Andrea Pozzo di Borgo

Born in: France
Years: 1764-1842 (aged 78)
Occupations: politiciandiplomat
Biography: Count Carlo Andrea Pozzo di Borgo was a Corsican politician, who later became a Russian diplomat.

Guido Tonelli

Born in: Italy
Years: 1950-.. (age 74)
Occupations: physicistnuclear physicistuniversity teacherscientist
Biography: Guido Tonelli is an Italian particle physicist who was involved with the discovery of the Higgs boson at the Large Hadron Collider. He is a professor of General Physics at the University of Pisa (Italy) and a CERN visiting scientist.

Alfredo Biondi

Born in: Italy
Years: 1928-2020 (aged 92)
Occupations: politicianlawyer
Biography: Alfredo Biondi was an Italian politician and lawyer. In 1994 he served as Minister of Justice of the Italian Republic during the first cabinet chaired by Silvio Berlusconi.

Francesca Albanese

Born in: Italy
Years: 1977-.. (age 47)
Occupations: international law scholar
Biography: Francesca P. Albanese is an Italian international lawyer and academic. On 1 May 2022, she was appointed United Nations Special Rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territories for a three-year term. She is the first woman to hold the position. Albanese recommended in her first report that UN member states develop "a plan to end the Israeli settler-colonial occupation and apartheid regime".

Franco Rasetti

Born in: Italy
Years: 1901-2001 (aged 100)
Occupations: physicistuniversity teacherbotanistnuclear physicistpaleontologist
Biography: Franco Dino Rasetti was an Italian (later naturalized American) physicist, paleontologist and botanist. Together with Enrico Fermi, he discovered key processes leading to nuclear fission. Rasetti refused to work on the Manhattan Project on moral grounds.

Elio Toaff

Born in: Italy
Years: 1915-2015 (aged 100)
Occupations: rabbi
Biography: Elio Toaff was the Chief Rabbi of Rome from 1951 to 2002. He served as a rabbi in Venice from 1947, and in 1951 became the Chief Rabbi of Rome.

Ulisse Dini

Born in: Italy
Years: 1845-1918 (aged 73)
Occupations: university teacherpoliticianmathematician
Biography: Ulisse Dini was an Italian mathematician and politician, born in Pisa. He is known for his contribution to real analysis, partly collected in his book "Fondamenti per la teorica delle funzioni di variabili reali".

Fabio Mussi

Born in: Italy
Years: 1948-.. (age 76)
Occupations: politician
Biography: Fabio Mussi is an Italian politician, formerly Minister of University and Research in the Prodi II Cabinet. A former member of the Italian Communist Party and then Democrats of the Left, he became a lead founding member of the Democratic Left. Mussi was then a member of Left Ecology Freedom (SEL), which the Democratic Left merged into in 2010, before becoming a member of the Italian Left (SI) after SEL was dissolved in 2017.

Filippo Nogarin

Born in: Italy
Years: 1970-.. (age 54)
Occupations: politicianengineer
Biography: Filippo Nogarin is an Italian politician.

Francesco Barberini

Born in: Italy
Years: 1597-1679 (aged 82)
Occupations: commissionerCatholic priestEastern Orthodox priest
Biography: Francesco Barberini was an Italian Catholic Cardinal. The nephew of Pope Urban VIII (reigned 1623–1644), he benefited immensely from the nepotism practiced by his uncle. He was given various roles within the Vatican administration but his personal cultural interests, particularly in literature and the arts, meant that he became a highly significant patron. His secretary was the antiquarian Cassiano dal Pozzo who was also a discerning patron of the arts. Francesco was the elder brother of Cardinal Antonio Barberini and Taddeo Barberini who became Prince of Palestrina.

Theophilos Kairis

Born in: Greece
Years: 1784-1853 (aged 69)
Occupations: Christian ministerastronomerwriterpoliticianphilosopher
Biography: Theophilos Kairis was a Greek priest, philosopher and revolutionary. He was born in Andros, Cyclades, Ottoman Greece, as a son of a distinguished family.

Guglielmo Ferrero

Born in: Italy
Years: 1871-1942 (aged 71)
Occupations: university teacherwriterclassical scholarhistorianjournalist
Biography: Guglielmo Ferrero was an Italian historian, journalist and novelist, author of the Greatness and Decline of Rome (5 volumes, published after English translation 1907–1909). Ferrero devoted his writings to classical liberalism and he opposed any kind of dictatorship and unlimited government.

Cosimo Ferri

Born in: Italy
Years: 1971-.. (age 53)
Occupations: politicianmagistrate
Biography: Cosimo Maria Ferri is an Italian politician and former magistrate. He served as the Undersecretary of State for Justice in the Letta government, the Renzi government, and the Gentiloni government. Since 2018, he has been a member of the Italian Parliament as a deputy for the Democratic Party, and from September 2019, he has represented Italia Viva. He also previously served as a member of the High Council of the Judiciary.

Giovanni Battista Guarini

Born in: Italy
Years: 1538-1612 (aged 74)
Occupations: poetplaywrightwriterdiplomat
Biography: Giovanni Battista Guarini was an Italian poet, dramatist, and diplomat.

Daniele Meucci

Born in: Italy
Years: 1985-.. (age 39)
Occupations: athletics competitorlong-distance runner
Biography: Daniele Meucci is an Italian athlete who specialises in long-distance running, including track running, cross country and road running who won twenty medals at international level (seventeen at senior level and three at youth level).

Federigo Enriques

Born in: Italy
Years: 1871-1946 (aged 75)
Enrolled in the University of Pisa: Studied in 1887-1891
Occupations: university teacherhistorian of sciencephilosopher of sciencehistorianphilosopher
Biography: Abramo Giulio Umberto Federigo Enriques was an Italian mathematician, now known principally as the first to give a classification of algebraic surfaces in birational geometry, and other contributions in algebraic geometry.

Roberto Battiston

Born in: Italy
Years: 1956-.. (age 68)
Occupations: university teacherphysicistexperimental physicist
Biography: Roberto Battiston is an Italian physicist, specialized in the field of fundamental physics and elementary particles, and leading experts in the physics of cosmic rays. He was the president of the Italian Space Agency from 2014 to 2018 and president of the Italian National Institute for Nuclear Physics (INFN) Committee on Astroparticle Physics from 2009 to 2014.

Antoine Christophe Saliceti

Born in: France
Years: 1757-1809 (aged 52)
Occupations: diplomatpoliticianlawyer
Biography: Antoine Christophe Saliceti was a French politician and diplomat of the Revolution and First Empire.

Luciano Tovoli

Born in: Italy
Years: 1936-.. (age 88)
Occupations: film directorscreenwritercinematographer
Biography: Luciano Tovoli, ASC, AIC is an Italian cinematographer and filmmaker. With a career spanning over five decades, he is considered one of Italy's premier cinematographers, collaborating with numerous acclaimed filmmakers such as Michelangelo Antonioni, Francis Veber, Dario Argento, Ettore Scola, Andrei Tarkovsky, and Julie Taymor.

François Antommarchi

Born in: France
Years: 1789-1838 (aged 49)
Occupations: physiciansurgeonuniversity teacherbotanist
Biography: François Carlo Antommarchi was Napoleon's physician from 1819 to his death in 1821.

Enrico Betti

Born in: Italy
Years: 1823-1892 (aged 69)
Occupations: physicisttopologistpoliticianprofessormathematician
Biography: Enrico Betti Glaoui was an Italian mathematician, now remembered mostly for his 1871 paper on topology that led to the later naming after him of the Betti numbers. He worked also on the theory of equations, giving early expositions of Galois theory. He also discovered Betti's theorem, a result in the theory of elasticity.

Francesco Domenico Guerrazzi

Born in: Italy
Years: 1804-1873 (aged 69)
Occupations: politicianwriter
Biography: Francesco Domenico Guerrazzi was an Italian writer and politician involved in the Italian Risorgimento.

Gianni Lancia

Born in: Italy
Years: 1924-2014 (aged 90)
Occupations: racing automobile driverentrepreneurengineer
Biography: Gianni Lancia was an Italian automobile engineer, industrialist and racing enthusiast, known for running the Lancia carmaker in Turin (1949–55). Born in Fobello (near Biella), he was the older son of Vincenzo Lancia and Adele Miglietti, and brother of Anna Maria and Eleonora.

Pasquale Villari

Born in: Italy
Years: 1827-1917 (aged 90)
Occupations: university teachereducation ministerhistorianmedievalistwriter
Biography: Pasquale Villari was an Italian historian and politician.

Michele Conti

Born in: Italy
Years: 1970-.. (age 54)
Occupations: politicianagronomist
Biography: Michele Conti is an Italian politician.

Michelangelo Buonarroti

Born in: Italy
Years: 1568-1646 (aged 78)
Occupations: writerpoet
Biography: Michelangelo Buonarroti il Giovane was a Florentine poet, librettist and man of letters, known as "the Younger" to distinguish him from his granduncle.

Luigi Ambrosio

Born in: Italy
Years: 1963-.. (age 61)
Occupations: university teachermathematician
Biography: Luigi Ambrosio is a professor at Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa, Italy. His main fields of research are the calculus of variations and geometric measure theory.

Ferruccio Fazio

Born in: Italy
Years: 1944-.. (age 80)
Occupations: radiologistpolitician
Biography: Ferruccio Fazio is an Italian politician and was the minister of health from 2009 to 2011 in the fourth cabinet of Silvio Berlusconi.

Ali Mohammed Ghedi

Born in: Somalia
Years: 1952-.. (age 72)
Occupations: politician
Biography: Ali Mohammed Gedi, popularly known as Ali Gedi, was the Prime Minister of the Transitional Federal Government (TFG) of Somalia from 2004 to 2007. He was relatively unknown in political circles upon his appointment as prime minister in November 2004. He is affiliated with the Abgaal subclan of Mogadishu's Hawiye clan, one of Somalia's four most powerful clan 'families'. He narrowly survived a suicide attack on his home that left at least seven people dead on June 3, 2007.

Leopoldo Franchetti

Born in: Italy
Years: 1847-1917 (aged 70)
Occupations: politicianwritereconomist
Biography: Leopoldo Franchetti was an Italian publicist, politician, and patron. He was a deputy in the Italian Chamber of Deputies and later became a Senator. He was very active in promoting education and concrete solutions for economic, social and political problems in Italy both through his own political initiatives and through his support of his wife Alice Hallgarten.

Camillo De Lellis

Born in: Italy
Years: 1976-.. (age 48)
Occupations: university teachermathematician
Biography: Camillo De Lellis is an Italian mathematician who is active in the fields of calculus of variations, hyperbolic systems of conservation laws, geometric measure theory and fluid dynamics. He is a permanent faculty member in the School of Mathematics at the Institute for Advanced Study. He is also one of the two managing editors of Inventiones Mathematicae.

Luigi Bianchi

Born in: Italy
Years: 1856-1928 (aged 72)
Occupations: university teacherpoliticianmathematician
Biography: Luigi Bianchi was an Italian mathematician. He was born in Parma, Emilia-Romagna, and died in Pisa. He was a leading member of the vigorous geometric school which flourished in Italy during the later years of the 19th century and the early years of the twentieth century.

Lucio Barani

Born in: Italy
Years: 1953-.. (age 71)
Occupations: politician
Biography: Lucio Barani is an Italian politician and surgeon.

Gioacchino Volpe

Born in: Italy
Years: 1876-1971 (aged 95)
Occupations: politicianhistorian
Biography: Gioacchino Volpe was an Italian historian and, during the years between the two world wars, a politician.

Anna Grassellino

Born in: Italy
Years: 1981-.. (age 43)
Occupations: electronic engineernuclear physicist
Biography: Anna Grassellino is an Italian and American physicist, Senior Scientist and, since 2020, Director of the SQMS (Superconducting Quantum Materials and Systems) Center at Fermilab. In 2017 she was awarded the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers by Barack Obama.

Tilemachos Chytiris

Born in: Greece
Years: 1945-.. (age 79)
Occupations: politicianpoet
Biography: Tilemachos Chytiris is a Greek politician from the Panhellenic Socialist Movement (PASOK) who has served as member of Parliament and minister. He has also published poetry collections.