Who’s who in Lombardia
Three Nobel Prize: Dario Fo (literature), Camillo Golgi (medicine), Ernesto Teodoro Moneta (peace) were born in Lombardia.
And also:
– Alessandro Volta, inventor of the electric battery,
– composer Gaetano Donizetti, the violinist Uto Ughi,
– writers Alessandro Manzoni and Carlo Emilio Gadda,
– painter Caravaggio,
– film directors Dino Risi, Marco Ferreri, Ermanno Olmi, Luchino Visconti, Alberto Lattuada,
– conductors Claudio Abbado, Arturo e Umberto Benedetti Michelangeli
– journalists Gianni Brera and Enrico Mentana
– actors Diego Abatantuono, Massimo Boldi, Gino Bramieri, Lella Costa, Franca Rame, Ugo Tognazzi, Gian Maria Volontè, Franca Valeri, Renato Pozzetto, Enzo Iachetti, Sandra Mondaini, Eleonora Duse
– singers Mina Mazzini (Mina), Adriano Celentano, Giorgio Gaber
– fashion designers Gianfranco Ferré, Miuccia Prada, Mariuccia Mandelli (Krizia), Valentino Garavani (Valentino),
– pilot Tazio Nuvolari,
– lyricist Giulio Rapetti (Mogol),
– doctors Gino Strada, Umberto Veronesi,
– explorer Ambrogio Fogar and Guido Monzino
– architects Vico Magistretti, Bruno Munari, Gio Ponti, Luca Scacchetti, Marco Zanuso
– supermodel Bianca Balti
– chef Gualtiero Marchesi
– Pope Giovanni XXIII
– ballet dancers Carla Fracci and Alessandra Ferri
– NBA player Danilo Gallinari, football player Paolo Maldini
– businessmen Carlo Guzzi, Leonardo Del Vecchio, Giangiacomo Feltrinelli, Stefano Gabbana (Dolce&Gabbana)
Source Wikimedia Commons:
Paolo Maldini By Yelena Rybakova, CC BY-SA 1.0,
Wikipedia, unknown source: Giorgio Gaber, Alessandro Manzoni, Mina