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

Giorgio Chiellini

Born in: Italy
Years: 1984-.. (age 40)
Occupations: association football playerlawyer
Biography: Giorgio Chiellini is an Italian former professional footballer who played as a centre-back. Considered one of the best defenders of his generation, Chiellini was known for his strength, aggressiveness and man-marking, as well as his ability to play in either a three or four-man defense. He also played as a left-back earlier in his career.

Umberto Eco

Born in: Italy
Years: 1932-2016 (aged 84)
Enrolled in the University of Turin: In 1954 graduated with laurea in philosophy
Occupations: university teacheressayistmedievalistpedagoguehistorian
Biography: Umberto Eco was an Italian medievalist, philosopher, semiotician, novelist, cultural critic, and political and social commentator. In English, he is best known for his popular 1980 novel The Name of the Rose, a historical mystery combining semiotics in fiction with biblical analysis, medieval studies and literary theory, as well as Foucault's Pendulum, his 1988 novel which touches on similar themes.

Erasmus

Born in: Netherlands
Years: 1466-1536 (aged 70)
Occupations: essayistlatinisttranslatorphilosopherwriter
Biography: Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus was a Dutch Christian humanist, Catholic theologian, educationalist, satirist and philosopher. Through his vast number of translations, books, essays, prayers and letters, he is considered one of the most influential thinkers of the Northern Renaissance and one of the major figures of Dutch and Western culture.

Antonio Gramsci

Born in: Italy
Years: 1891-1937 (aged 46)
Enrolled in the University of Turin: Studied philology
Occupations: literary criticeconomistsociologistphilosopherhistorian
Biography: Antonio Francesco Gramsci was an Italian Marxist philosopher, linguist, journalist, writer, and politician. He wrote on philosophy, political theory, sociology, history, and linguistics. He was a founding member and one-time leader of the Italian Communist Party. A vocal critic of Benito Mussolini and fascism, he was imprisoned in 1926 where he remained until his death in 1937.

Primo Levi

Born in: Italy
Years: 1919-1987 (aged 68)
Occupations: science fiction writerwriterautobiographerphilosopherchemist
Biography: Primo Michele Levi was an Italian chemist, partisan, writer, and Jewish Holocaust survivor. He was the author of several books, collections of short stories, essays, poems and one novel. His best-known works include If This Is a Man (1947, published as Survival in Auschwitz in the United States), his account of the year he spent as a prisoner in the Auschwitz concentration camp in Nazi-occupied Poland; and The Periodic Table (1975), a collection of mostly autobiographical short stories each named after a chemical element as it played a role in each story, which the Royal Institution named the best science book ever written.

Italo Calvino

Born in: Cuba
Years: 1923-1985 (aged 62)
Occupations: writernovelistessayistscreenwriterjournalist
Biography: Italo Calvino was an Italian writer and journalist. His best-known works include the Our Ancestors trilogy (1952–1959), the Cosmicomics collection of short stories (1965), and the novels Invisible Cities (1972) and If on a winter's night a traveler (1979).

Gianni Agnelli

Born in: Italy
Years: 1921-2003 (aged 82)
Occupations: entrepreneurpoliticianbusinesspersonengineerbusiness magnate
Biography: Giovanni "Gianni" Agnelli Cavaliere di Gran Croce OMRI OML OMCA CGVM CMG, nicknamed L'Avvocato ("The Lawyer"), was an Italian industrialist and principal shareholder of Fiat. As the head of Fiat, he controlled 4.4% of Italy's GDP, 3.1% of its industrial workforce, and 16.5% of its industrial investment in research. He was the richest man in modern Italian history.

Rita Levi-Montalcini

Born in: Mongolia
Years: 1909-2012 (aged 103)
Occupations: scientistphysicianpoliticianneurologistneuroscientist
Biography: Rita Levi-Montalcini was an Italian neurobiologist. She was awarded the 1986 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine jointly with colleague Stanley Cohen for the discovery of nerve growth factor (NGF).

Vittorio Emanuele, Prince of Naples

Born in: Italy
Years: 1937-2024 (aged 87)
Occupations: entrepreneur
Biography: Prince Vittorio Emanuele of Savoy, Prince of Naples, was the only son of Umberto II, the last King of Italy, and Marie-José of Belgium. Vittorio Emanuele also used the title Duke of Savoy and claimed the headship of the House of Savoy. These claims were disputed by supporters of his third cousin, Prince Amedeo, Duke of Aosta, and later by Amedeo’s son, Aimone.

Luca Argentero

Born in: Italy
Years: 1978-.. (age 46)
Occupations: actortelevision presentermodel
Biography: Luca Argentero is an Italian actor, model and television personality. He has appeared in more than 18 films since 2006.

Cesare Pavese

Born in: Italy
Years: 1908-1950 (aged 42)
Enrolled in the University of Turin: 1926-1930 graduated with Licentiate in English studies
Occupations: writerliterary editorbiographerpoetjournalist
Biography: Cesare Pavese was an Italian novelist, poet, short story writer, translator, literary critic, and essayist. He is often referred to as one of the most influential Italian writers of his time.

Amedeo Avogadro

Born in: Italy
Years: 1776-1856 (aged 80)
Occupations: chemistuniversity teacherphysicist
Biography: Lorenzo Romano Amedeo Carlo Avogadro, Count of Quaregna and Cerreto was an Italian scientist, most noted for his contribution to molecular theory now known as Avogadro's law, which states that equal volumes of gases under the same conditions of temperature and pressure will contain equal numbers of molecules. In tribute to him, the ratio of the number of elementary entities (atoms, molecules, ions or other particles) in a substance to its amount of substance (the latter having the unit mole), 6.02214076×10 mol, is known as the Avogadro constant. This constant is denoted NA, and is one of the seven defining constants of the SI.

Joseph-Louis Lagrange

Born in: Italy
Years: 1736-1813 (aged 77)
Occupations: university teacherastronomerwriterphysicistpolitician
Biography: Joseph-Louis Lagrange, also reported as Giuseppe Luigi Lagrange or Lagrangia, was an Italian mathematician, physicist and astronomer, later naturalized French. He made significant contributions to the fields of analysis, number theory, and both classical and celestial mechanics.

Palmiro Togliatti

Born in: Italy
Years: 1893-1964 (aged 71)
Occupations: philosopherpolitician
Biography: Palmiro Michele Nicola Togliatti was an Italian politician and leader of Italy's Communist party for nearly forty years, from 1927 until his death. Born into a middle-class family, Togliatti received an education in law at the University of Turin, later served as an officer and was wounded in World War I, and became a tutor. Described as "severe in approach but extremely popular among the Communist base" and "a hero of his time, capable of courageous personal feats", his supporters gave him the nickname il Migliore ("The Best"). In 1930, Togliatti renounced Italian citizenship, and he became a citizen of the Soviet Union. Upon his death, Togliatti had a Soviet city named after him. Considered one of the founding fathers of the Italian Republic, he led Italy's Communist party from a few thousand members in 1943 to two million members in 1946.

Giovanni Giolitti

Born in: Italy
Years: 1842-1928 (aged 86)
Occupations: politicianstatesperson
Biography: Giovanni Giolitti was an Italian statesman. He was the prime minister of Italy five times between 1892 and 1921. He is the longest-serving democratically elected prime minister in Italian history, and the second-longest serving overall after Benito Mussolini. A prominent leader of the Historical Left and the Liberal Union, he is widely considered one of the most powerful and important politicians in Italian history; due to his dominant position in Italian politics, Giolitti was accused by critics of being an authoritarian leader and a parliamentary dictator.

Alessandro Baricco

Born in: Italy
Years: 1958-.. (age 66)
Occupations: television presenterliterary criticradio personalityscreenwritermusicologist
Biography: Alessandro Baricco is an Italian writer, director and performer. His novels have been translated into a number of languages.

Luciana Littizzetto

Born in: Italy
Years: 1964-.. (age 60)
Occupations: writerpresenteractortelevision presenterscreenwriter
Biography: Luciana Littizzetto is an Italian comedy actress, shock jock and humor writer.

Lidia Poët

Born in: Italy
Years: 1855-1949 (aged 94)
Occupations: lawyer
Biography: Lidia Poët was the first modern female Italian lawyer. Her disbarment led to a movement to allow women to practice law and hold public office in Italy.

Alessandro Barbero

Born in: Italy
Years: 1959-.. (age 65)
Enrolled in the University of Turin: Studied in 1981
Occupations: historianwriteruniversity teachertelevision presentermedievalist
Biography: Alessandro Barbero is an Italian historian, novelist and essayist.

Marco Travaglio

Born in: Italy
Years: 1964-.. (age 60)
Occupations: writerjournalist
Biography: Marco Travaglio is an Italian journalist, writer, and pundit. Since 2015, he has been the editor-in-chief of the independent daily newspaper Il Fatto Quotidiano. Travaglio began his journalistic career in the late 1980s under Indro Montanelli at Il Giornale and La Voce, then in the 2000s worked at La Repubblica and L'Unità, before becoming one of the founders of Il Fatto Quotidiano in 2009. Also the author of many books and a columnist for several other national newspapers and magazines, his main interests have been judicial reporting and current affairs and politics, dealing with issues ranging from the fight against the Italian Mafia to corruption.

Joseph de Maistre

Born in: France
Years: 1753-1821 (aged 68)
Occupations: writerlawyerdiplomathistorianpolitician
Biography: Joseph Marie, comte de Maistre was a Savoyard philosopher, writer, lawyer, and diplomat who advocated social hierarchy and monarchy in the period immediately following the French Revolution. Despite his close personal and intellectual ties with France, Maistre was throughout his life a subject of the Kingdom of Sardinia, which he served as a member of the Savoy Senate (1787–1792), ambassador to Russia (1803–1817), and minister of state to the court in Turin (1817–1821).

Daniela Santanchè

Born in: Italy
Years: 1961-.. (age 63)
Occupations: politician
Biography: Daniela Garnero, commonly known by her former married name as Daniela Santanchè ( Italian pronunciation: [daˈnjɛːla santaŋˈkɛ]), is an Italian politician. Between 2010 and 2011 she served as Undersecretary to the Ministry for the Implementation of the Government Program in the Berlusconi IV Cabinet. She is currently the regional coordinator of Brothers of Italy in Lombardy and the Minister of Tourism in the Meloni Cabinet.

Luigi Einaudi

Born in: Italy
Years: 1874-1961 (aged 87)
Occupations: professorlawyereconomistbankerjournalist
Biography: Luigi Numa Lorenzo Einaudi was an Italian politician and economist. He served as the president of Italy from 1948 to 1955.

Umberto Agnelli

Born in: Switzerland
Years: 1934-2004 (aged 70)
Occupations: businesspersonengineerpoliticianentrepreneur
Biography: Umberto Agnelli was an Italian industrialist and politician. He was the third son of Virginia (born Donna Virginia Bourbon del Monte) and Edoardo Agnelli, and the youngest brother of Gianni Agnelli.

Francesco Molinari

Born in: Italy
Years: 1982-.. (age 42)
Occupations: golfer
Biography: Francesco Molinari is an Italian professional golfer. He won the 2018 Open Championship, his first and only major victory, and the first major won by an Italian professional golfer. The Open Championship win capped a successful season in which he won the 2018 BMW PGA Championship, his fifth win on the European Tour, and the Quicken Loans National, his first PGA Tour win. At the end of the season, Molinari won 5 out of 5 points as Europe won the 2018 Ryder Cup.

Giuseppe Saragat

Born in: Italy
Years: 1898-1988 (aged 90)
Occupations: politiciandiplomat
Biography: Giuseppe Saragat was an Italian politician who served as the president of Italy from 1964 to 1971.

Norberto Bobbio

Born in: Italy
Years: 1909-2004 (aged 95)
Occupations: writerhistorianuniversity teacherhistorian of ideasjournalist
Biography: Norberto Bobbio was an Italian philosopher of law and political sciences and a historian of political thought. He also wrote regularly for the Turin-based daily La Stampa. Bobbio was a social liberal in the tradition of Piero Gobetti, Carlo Rosselli, Guido Calogero, and Aldo Capitini. He was also strongly influenced by Hans Kelsen and Vilfredo Pareto.

Raf Vallone

Born in: Italy
Years: 1916-2002 (aged 86)
Occupations: partisanstage actorassociation football playerfilm actorjournalist
Biography: Raffaele Vallone was an Italian actor and footballer. One of the top male Italian stars of the 1950s and '60s, he first became known for his association with the neorealist movement, and found success in several international productions. On stage, he was closely associated with the works of Arthur Miller. He played the role of Eddie Carbone in A View from the Bridge several times, notably in Sidney Lumet's 1962 film adaptation, for which he won the David di Donatello for Best Actor.

Valeria Solarino

Born in: Venezuela
Years: 1979-.. (age 45)
Occupations: film actoractor
Biography: Valeria Solarino is an Italian actress, born in Venezuela.

Carlo Levi

Born in: Italy
Years: 1902-1975 (aged 73)
Occupations: painterphysician writerwriterpoliticianphysician
Biography: Carlo Levi was an Italian painter, writer, activist, independent leftist politician, and doctor.

Massimo Gramellini

Born in: Italy
Years: 1960-.. (age 64)
Occupations: writerjournalist
Biography: Massimo Gramellini is an Italian writer and journalist working at Corriere della Sera.

Héctor Abad Faciolince

Born in: Colombia
Years: 1958-.. (age 66)
Occupations: journalistliterary critictranslatorwriter
Biography: Héctor Abad Faciolince is a Colombian novelist, essayist, journalist, and editor. Abad is considered one of the most talented post-Latin American Boom writers in Latin American literature. Abad is best known for his bestselling novel Angosta, and more recently, El Olvido que Seremos (t. Oblivion: A Memoir).

Oscar Farinetti

Born in: Italy
Years: 1954-.. (age 70)
Occupations: entrepreneur
Biography: Natale Farinetti, known as Oscar, is an Italian businessman and investor. Farinetti was the owner of the high-end Italian food mall chain Eataly and founder of the consumer electronics chain UniEuro.

Gianni Vattimo

Born in: Italy
Years: 1936-2023 (aged 87)
Occupations: writerpoliticianuniversity teacherphilosopher
Biography: Gianteresio Vattimo was an Italian philosopher and politician.

Gustavo Adolfo Rol

Born in: Italy
Years: 1903-1994 (aged 91)
Occupations: psychic
Biography: Gustavo Adolfo Rol was an Italian parapsychologist and painter. His devotees consider him to have been a great spiritual master and have testified to miraculous feats he supposedly accomplished.

Silvana De Mari

Born in: Italy
Years: 1953-.. (age 71)
Occupations: writerphysician writersurgeonchildren's writerblogger
Biography: Silvana De Mari is an Italian writer of children's fiction and former medic and psychotherapist. She's also known as the author of L'ultimo Elfo (2004), an award-winning fantasy novel published in English and 18 other languages (UK The Last Elf, US The Last Dragon). The book won the Italian prizes Premio Bancarellino and Premio Andersen. In France, it won the Prix Imaginales in 2005.

Piergiorgio Odifreddi

Born in: Italy
Years: 1950-.. (age 74)
Occupations: logicianuniversity teacherhistorian of sciencescience communicatormathematician
Biography: Piergiorgio Odifreddi is an Italian mathematician, logician, student of the history of science, and popular science writer and essayist, especially on philosophical atheism as a member of the Italian Union of Rationalist Atheists and Agnostics. He is philosophically and politically near to Bertrand Russell and Noam Chomsky.

Alice Rohrwacher

Born in: Italy
Years: 1981-.. (age 43)
Occupations: screenwriterfilm director
Biography: Alice Rohrwacher is an Italian film director, editor and screenwriter. She made her directorial debut with Heavenly Body (2011). She has since directed notable films such as The Wonders (2014), Happy as Lazzaro (2018), which received the Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Screenplay, and La chimera (2023). Her short Le pupille (2022) was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film.

Giuseppe Peano

Born in: Italy
Years: 1858-1932 (aged 74)
Enrolled in the University of Turin: Studied in 1876-1880
Occupations: mathematicianuniversity teacherlinguistphilosopher
Biography: Giuseppe Peano was an Italian mathematician and glottologist. The author of over 200 books and papers, he was a founder of mathematical logic and set theory, to which he contributed much notation. The standard axiomatization of the natural numbers is named the Peano axioms in his honor. As part of this effort, he made key contributions to the modern rigorous and systematic treatment of the method of mathematical induction. He spent most of his career teaching mathematics at the University of Turin. He also wrote an international auxiliary language, Latino sine flexione ("Latin without inflections"), which is a simplified version of Classical Latin. Most of his books and papers are in Latino sine flexione, while others are in Italian.

Paolo Giordano

Born in: Italy
Years: 1982-.. (age 42)
Occupations: physicistnovelistwriterscreenwriter
Biography: Paolo Giordano is an Italian writer who won the Premio Strega literary award with his first novel The Solitude of Prime Numbers.

Susanna Agnelli

Born in: Italy
Years: 1922-2009 (aged 87)
Occupations: memoiristentrepreneurwriterdiplomatpolitician
Biography: Susanna Agnelli, Contessa Rattazzi,, was an Italian politician, businesswoman, and writer. Involved in Italian politics for over twenty years, she was the first woman to be appointed Italian Minister of Foreign Affairs. She was also the first Italian minister to be Minister of Foreign Affairs and undersecretary of the same ministry.

Edoardo Agnelli

Born in: Italy
Years: 1892-1935 (aged 43)
Occupations: entrepreneur
Biography: Edoardo Agnelli was an Italian entrepreneur and industrialist. He was the principal family shareholder of the Italian car company Fiat, as well as chairman of Juventus from 1923 until his death in 1935.

Beppe Fenoglio

Born in: Italy
Years: 1922-1963 (aged 41)
Occupations: partisantranslatorwriter
Biography: Giuseppe "Beppe" Fenoglio was an Italian writer, partisan and translator from English.

Marco Rizzo

Born in: Italy
Years: 1959-.. (age 65)
Occupations: politician
Biography: Marco Rizzo is an Italian politician, who served as leader of the Communist Party (PC) from 2009 to 2023, and as leader of Sovereign and Popular Italy in 2022.

Luisella Costamagna

Born in: Italy
Years: 1968-.. (age 56)
Occupations: television presenterjournalist
Biography: Luisella Costamagna is an Italian journalist and television presenter.

Carlo Maria Martini

Born in: Italy
Years: 1927-2012 (aged 85)
Occupations: university teacherbiblical scholartheologianCatholic priestwriter
Biography: Carlo Maria Martini was an Italian Jesuit, cardinal of the Catholic Church and a Biblical scholar. He was Archbishop of Milan from 1980 to 2004 and was elevated to the cardinalate in 1983. A towering intellectual figure of the Roman Catholic Church, Martini was the liberal contender for the Papacy in the 2005 conclave, following the death of Pope John Paul II. According to highly placed Vatican sources, Martini received more votes in the first round than Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, the conservative candidate: 40 to 38. Ratzinger ended up with more votes in subsequent rounds and was elected Pope Benedict XVI.

Claudio Magris

Born in: Italy
Years: 1939-.. (age 85)
Occupations: germanistwriterpoliticiantranslatoressayist
Biography: Claudio Magris is an Italian scholar, translator and writer. He was a senator for Friuli-Venezia Giulia from 1994 to 1996.

Elsa Fornero

Born in: Italy
Years: 1948-.. (age 76)
Occupations: economistministeruniversity teacherpolitician
Biography: Elsa Fornero is an Italian economist, university lecturer, and politician who served as Minister of Labour and Social Policies in the Monti Cabinet from November 2011 to April 2013.

Giovanni Schiaparelli

Born in: Italy
Years: 1835-1910 (aged 75)
Occupations: astronomerpolitician
Biography: Giovanni Virginio Schiaparelli was an Italian astronomer and science historian.

Massimo d'Azeglio

Born in: Italy
Years: 1798-1866 (aged 68)
Occupations: writerpainterdiplomathistorianshort story writer
Biography: Massimo Taparelli, Marquess of Azeglio, commonly called Massimo d'Azeglio ( Italian: [ˈmassimo tapaˈrɛlli dadˈdzeʎʎo]), was a Piedmontese-Italian statesman, novelist, and painter. He was Prime Minister of Sardinia for almost three years until his rival Camillo Benso, Count of Cavour succeeded him. D'Azeglio was a moderate liberal who hoped for a federal union between Italian states.

Luigi Facta

Born in: Italy
Years: 1861-1930 (aged 69)
Occupations: politicianjournalist
Biography: Luigi Facta was an Italian politician, lawyer and journalist and the last prime minister of Italy before the dictatorship of Benito Mussolini.

Ferruccio Parri

Born in: Italy
Years: 1890-1981 (aged 91)
Occupations: partisanjournalistpolitician
Biography: Ferruccio Parri was an Italian partisan and anti-fascist politician who served as the 29th Prime Minister of Italy, and the first to be appointed after the end of World War II. During the war, he was also known by his nom de guerre Maurizio.

Franco Cristaldi

Born in: Italy
Years: 1924-1992 (aged 68)
Occupations: producerfilm producerscreenwriter
Biography: Franco Cristaldi was an Italian film producer, credited with producing (or co-producing) feature films from the 1950s to the 1990s.

Gustavo Zagrebelsky

Born in: Italy
Years: 1943-.. (age 81)
Occupations: lawyerjuristpoliticianjudge
Biography: Gustavo Zagrebelsky is an Italian judge and constitutionalist.

Guido Gozzano

Born in: Italy
Years: 1883-1916 (aged 33)
Occupations: writerscreenwriterpoetchildren's writerscience fiction writer
Biography: Guido Gustavo Gozzano was an Italian poet and writer.

Fernanda Pivano

Born in: Italy
Years: 1917-2009 (aged 92)
Occupations: scholar of Englishbloggerwritertranslatorliterary critic
Biography: Fernanda Pivano was an Italian writer, journalist, translator and critic.

Giovanni Goria

Born in: Italy
Years: 1943-1994 (aged 51)
Occupations: economistpolitician
Biography: Giovanni Giuseppe Goria ( Italian pronunciation: [dʒoˈvanni dʒuˈzɛppe ɡoˈriːa]; (30 July 1943 – 21 May 1994) was an Italian politician. He served as the 46th prime minister of Italy from 1987 until 1988.

Giampaolo Pansa

Born in: Italy
Years: 1935-2020 (aged 85)
Occupations: journalistwartime collaboratorwriter
Biography: Giampaolo Pansa was an Italian journalist-commentator and novelist, especially during his late years. Most of his writings were rooted in recent or contemporary history, notably with regard to the antifascist resistance of the Mussolini years.

Laura Castelli

Born in: Italy
Years: 1986-.. (age 38)
Occupations: politician
Biography: Laura Castelli is an Italian politician.

Fabiana Dadone

Born in: Italy
Years: 1984-.. (age 40)
Occupations: politician
Biography: Fabiana Dadone is an Italian politician, who served as Minister for Youth Policies in the Draghi Cabinet between 2021 and 2022, as well as Minister of Public Administration in the Conte II Cabinet between 2019 and 2021.

Piero Gobetti

Born in: Italy
Years: 1901-1926 (aged 25)
Occupations: translatorwriterjournalistanti-fascistpolitician
Biography: Piero Gobetti was an Italian journalist, radical liberal intellectual and anti-fascist. He was an exceptionally active campaigner and critic in the crisis years in Italy after the First World War and into the early years of Fascist rule.

Piero Fassino

Born in: Italy
Years: 1949-.. (age 75)
Occupations: politician
Biography: Piero Franco Rodolfo Fassino is an Italian politician with the Democratic Party. He was Mayor of Turin from 2011 until 2016 and is a former national secretary of the Democrats of the Left party.

Alberto Cirio

Born in: Italy
Years: 1972-.. (age 52)
Occupations: politician
Biography: Alberto Cirio is an Italian politician and Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from Italy from 2014 to 2019. He is a member of the centre-right Forza Italia.

Renato Dulbecco

Born in: Italy
Years: 1914-2012 (aged 98)
Enrolled in the University of Turin: In 1936 graduated with Doctor of Medicine in pathology and anatomy
Occupations: virologistphysician
Biography: Renato Dulbecco was an Italian–American virologist who won the 1975 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work on oncoviruses, which are viruses that can cause cancer when they infect animal cells. He studied at the University of Turin under Giuseppe Levi, along with fellow students Salvador Luria and Rita Levi-Montalcini, who also moved to the U.S. with him and won Nobel prizes. He was drafted into the Italian army in World War II, but later joined the resistance.

Carlo Angela

Born in: Italy
Years: 1875-1949 (aged 74)
Occupations: neuropsychiatristpoliticianpsychiatrist
Biography: Carlo Angela was an Italian doctor, who has been recognized as a "Righteous Among the Nations" for his efforts during World War II in saving Jewish lives. He is the father of TV journalist and science writer Piero Angela and grandfather of Alberto Angela.

Roberto Herlitzka

Born in: Italy
Years: 1937-.. (age 87)
Occupations: actor
Biography: Roberto Herlitzka is an Italian theatre and film actor of Czechoslovak descent. He has appeared in 38 films since 1973. He was born in Turin, Piedmont, Italy. In 2004 he won the David di Donatello for Best Supporting Actor and Nastro d'Argento for Best Actor for his role in Good Morning, Night.

Mario Soldati

Born in: Italy
Years: 1906-1999 (aged 93)
Occupations: writerfilm directorpoliticianscreenwriterjournalist
Biography: Mario Soldati was an Italian writer and film director. In 1954, he won the Strega Prize for Lettere da Capri. He directed several works adapted from novels, and worked with leading Italian actresses, such as Sophia Loren and Gina Lollobrigida.

Roberto Gervaso

Born in: Italy
Years: 1937-2020 (aged 83)
Occupations: writertelevision presenterbiographeraphoristjournalist
Biography: Roberto Gervaso was an Italian writer and journalist. He won the Premio Bancarella twice: for L'Italia dei Comuni in 1967, and for Cagliostro in 1973.

Galileo Ferraris

Born in: Italy
Years: 1847-1897 (aged 50)
Occupations: physicistelectrotechnicianinventorpolitician
Biography: Galileo Ferraris was an Italian university professor, physicist and electrical engineer, one of the pioneers of AC power system and inventor of the induction motor although he never patented his work. Many newspapers touted that his work on the induction motor and power transmission systems were some of the greatest inventions of all ages. He published an extensive and complete monograph on the experimental results obtained with open-circuit transformers of the type designed by the power engineers Lucien Gaulard and John Dixon Gibbs.

Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza

Born in: Italy
Years: 1922-2018 (aged 96)
Occupations: biologistuniversity teacherpopulation geneticistgeneticistanthropologist
Biography: Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza was an Italian geneticist. He was a population geneticist who taught at the University of Parma, the University of Pavia and then at Stanford University.

Leone Ginzburg

Born in: Ukraine
Years: 1909-1944 (aged 35)
Occupations: writerpoliticianpartisantranslatorjournalist
Biography: Leone Ginzburg was an Italian editor, writer, journalist and teacher, as well as an important anti-fascist political activist and a hero of the resistance movement. He was the husband of the renowned author Natalia Ginzburg and the father of the historian Carlo Ginzburg.

Luigi Galleani

Born in: Italy
Years: 1861-1931 (aged 70)
Occupations: writerlawyer
Biography: Luigi Galleani was an Italian insurrectionary anarchist best known for his advocacy of "propaganda of the deed", a strategy of political assassinations and violent attacks.

Enzo Bianchi

Born in: Italy
Years: 1943-.. (age 81)
Occupations: journalistChristian monkwritertheologian
Biography: Enzo Bianchi is an Italian Catholic layman who founded the Bose Monastic Community and served as its first prior from 1965 to 2017.

Antonio Fogazzaro

Born in: Italy
Years: 1842-1911 (aged 69)
Occupations: novelistpoetwriterpolitician
Biography: Antonio Fogazzaro was an Italian novelist and proponent of Liberal Catholicism. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature seven times.

Rocco Buttiglione

Born in: Italy
Years: 1948-.. (age 76)
Occupations: ministerpolitician
Biography: Rocco Buttiglione is an Italian Union of Christian and Centre Democrats politician and an academic. Buttiglione's nomination for a post as European Commissioner with a portfolio that was to include civil liberties, resulted in controversy as some political groups opposed him for his conservative Catholic views on homosexuality, despite his assurances that these were only his personal convictions and would not dictate his administration.

Claude Louis Berthollet

Born in: France
Years: 1748-1822 (aged 74)
Enrolled in the University of Turin: In 1768 graduated with doctorate in medicine
Occupations: chemistphysicianpolitician
Biography: Claude Louis Berthollet was a Savoyard-French chemist who became vice president of the French Senate in 1804. He is known for his scientific contributions to theory of chemical equilibria via the mechanism of reverse chemical reactions, and for his contribution to modern chemical nomenclature. On a practical basis, Berthollet was the first to demonstrate the bleaching action of chlorine gas, and was first to develop a solution of sodium hypochlorite as a modern bleaching agent.

Salvador Luria

Born in: Italy
Years: 1912-1991 (aged 79)
Occupations: virologistuniversity teachermicrobiologistchemist
Biography: Salvador Edward Luria was an Italian microbiologist, later a naturalized U.S. citizen. He won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1969, with Max Delbrück and Alfred Hershey, for their discoveries on the replication mechanism and the genetic structure of viruses. Salvador Luria also showed that bacterial resistance to viruses (phages) is genetically inherited.

Furio Colombo

Born in: Italy
Years: 1931-.. (age 93)
Occupations: journalistwriterpoliticianscreenwriter
Biography: Furio Colombo is an Italian journalist and politician. He is the former editor-in-chief of L'Unità.

Giorgio Bocca

Born in: Italy
Years: 1920-2011 (aged 91)
Occupations: journalistpartisanwriterpolitician
Biography: Giorgio Valentino Bocca was an Italian essayist and journalist, also known for his participation in the World War II partisan movement.

Franco Bernabè

Born in: Italy
Years: 1948-.. (age 76)
Occupations: economistbanker
Biography: Franco Bernabè is an Italian banker and manager, formerly the Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of Telecom Italia, appointed on 3 December 2007.

Quintino Sella

Born in: Italy
Years: 1827-1884 (aged 57)
Occupations: mathematicianuniversity teachereconomistmineralogistmountaineer
Biography: Quintino Sella was an Italian politician, economist and mountaineer.

Urbano Rattazzi

Born in: Italy
Years: 1808-1873 (aged 65)
Occupations: diplomatpoliticianlawyer
Biography: Urbano Pio Francesco Rattazzi was an Italian politician and statesman.

Giulio Carlo Argan

Born in: Italy
Years: 1909-1992 (aged 83)
Occupations: historianpoliticianuniversity teacherscreenwriterart historian
Biography: Giulio Carlo Argan was an Italian art historian, critic and politician.

Vincenzo Gioberti

Born in: Italy
Years: 1801-1852 (aged 51)
Occupations: writerpresbyterpoliticianprofessorphilosopher
Biography: Vincenzo Gioberti was an Italian Catholic priest, philosopher, publicist and politician who served as the Prime Minister of Sardinia from 1848 to 1849. He was a prominent spokesman for liberal Catholicism.

Ugo Mattei

Born in: Italy
Years: 1961-.. (age 63)
Occupations: jurist
Biography: Ugo Mattei is the Alfred and Hanna Fromm Professor of International and Comparative Law at the University of California, Hastings College of the Law, in San Francisco, California, and a full professor of civil law in the University of Turin, Italy. He is the academic coordinator of the International University College of Turin, Italy, a school where issues of law and finance in global capitalism are critically approached. He is also a columnist for the Italian newspapers Il Manifesto and Il Fatto Quotidiano. For his ground-breaking studies on the commons, in 2017 Mattei won the Elinor Ostrom Award for the Collective Governance of the Commons.

Pitigrilli

Born in: Italy
Years: 1893-1975 (aged 82)
Occupations: journalistwriteraphoristpoet lawyer
Biography: Pitigrilli was the pseudonym of Dino Segre,, an Italian writer who made his living as a journalist and novelist. His most noted novel was Cocaina (Cocaine, 1921), published under his pseudonym and placed on the list of prohibited books by the Catholic Church because of his treatment of drug use and sex. It has been translated into several languages and re-issued in several editions. Pitigrilli published novels up until 1974, the year before his death.

Mario Borghezio

Born in: Italy
Years: 1947-.. (age 77)
Occupations: politician
Biography: Mario Borghezio is an Italian politician from the Northern League.

Augusta Montaruli

Born in: Italy
Years: 1983-.. (age 41)
Occupations: politicianlawyer
Biography: Augusta Anita Laura Montaruli is an Italian politician and lawyer. She is a member of the right-wing Brothers of Italy party, led by current italian PM Giorgia Meloni.

Ascanio Sobrero

Born in: Italy
Years: 1812-1888 (aged 76)
Occupations: chemistphysicianinventor
Biography: Ascanio Sobrero was an Italian chemist, born in Casale Monferrato. He studied under Théophile-Jules Pelouze at the University of Turin, who had worked with the explosive material guncotton.

Neja

Born in: Italy
Years: 1972-.. (age 52)
Occupations: jazz musiciansinger-songwriter
Biography: Agnese Cacciola, best known as Neja, is an Italian dance and pop-jazz singer.

Costanzo Preve

Born in: Italy
Years: 1943-2013 (aged 70)
Occupations: high school teacherwriterphilosopher
Biography: Costanzo Preve was an Italian philosopher and a political theoretician.

Gilberto Pichetto Fratin

Born in: Italy
Years: 1954-.. (age 70)
Occupations: politician
Biography: Gilberto Pichetto Fratin is an Italian politician who is the Minister of the Environment and Energy Security of the Meloni government since 22 October 2022.

Sergio Chiamparino

Born in: Italy
Years: 1948-.. (age 76)
Occupations: politiciantrade unionist
Biography: Sergio Chiamparino is an Italian politician. He was the mayor of Turin from 2001 to 2011, and the president of Piedmont from 2014 to 2019. He is also the author of several books, including Semplicemente sindaco (2006, with Maurizio Crosetti ), La sfida. Oltre il Pd per tornare a vincere. Anche al Nord (2010), Cordata con sindaco (2011, with Valter Giuliano), and TAV. Perché sì (2018, with Piero Fassino).

Mario Merz

Born in: Italy
Years: 1925-2003 (aged 78)
Occupations: sculptorinstallation artistpainterdrawer
Biography: Mario Merz was an Italian artist, and husband of Marisa Merz.

Aurelio Peccei

Born in: Italy
Years: 1908-1984 (aged 76)
Enrolled in the University of Turin: Studied in 1930
Occupations: entrepreneurwriterpartisaneconomistbusinessperson
Biography: Aurelio Peccei, was an Italian industrialist and philanthropist, who co-founded with Alexander King and first president of the Club of Rome, an organisation which, in 1972, produced the The Limits to Growth report.

Piero Scaruffi

Born in: Italy
Years: 1955-.. (age 69)
Occupations: journalistpoetwritermusic critic
Biography: Piero Scaruffi is an Italian-American writer who maintains a website on which his reviews of music, film, and art are published. He has created his own publishing entity called Omnipublishing, which exclusively releases his books about music and science.

Scipione Riva-Rocci

Born in: Italy
Years: 1863-1937 (aged 74)
Occupations: university teacherphysicianinventor
Biography: Scipione Riva Rocci was an Italian internist, pathologist and pediatrician. He is best known for the invention of an easy-to-use cuff-based version of the mercury sphygmomanometer for the measurement of blood pressure.

Edoardo Sanguineti

Born in: Italy
Years: 1930-2010 (aged 80)
Occupations: translatorwriterliterary criticplaywrightscreenwriter
Biography: Edoardo Sanguineti was a Genoese poet, writer and academic, universally considered one of the major Italian authors of the second half of the twentieth century.

Silvio Garattini

Born in: Italy
Years: 1928-.. (age 96)
Occupations: scientist
Biography: Silvio Garattini is an Italian scientist, pharmacology research scientist, physician and professor in chemotherapy and pharmacology and director of the Mario Negri Institute for Pharmacological Research.

Giuseppe Giacosa

Born in: Italy
Years: 1847-1906 (aged 59)
Occupations: writerstage actorlibrettistpoetplaywright
Biography: Giuseppe Giacosa was an Italian poet, playwright and librettist.