Tuscany is the birthplace of many famous people, who have excelled in particular in the arts and culture. These include some of the greatest minds of all time: Dante Alighieri, Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo Buonarroti. And then Decameron’s author Giovanni Boccaccio, politician and writer Nicolò Machiavelli, tutor of the Medici family Angelo Poliziano
– Poet Giosuè Carducci, Carlo Collodi, Pinocchio’s author
– Painters Giotto, Botticelli, Simone Martini, Donatello, Cimabue, Beato Angelico, Giorgio Vasari, Amedeo Modigliani
– The architect of the dome of the Florence Cathedral Filippo Brunelleschi
– The composer of Tosca and Turandot Giacomo Puccini and Pietro Mascagni, composer of the masterpiece Cavalleria Rusticana
– The father of modern science, Galileo Galilei
– Explorers Giovanni da Verrazzano and Amerigo Vespucci
– The statesman Lorenzo de’ Medici – known as “the Magnificent” – who was a writer, patron and Lord of Florence and embodied the Renaissance man,

Among contemporaries:
– astrophysics Margherita Hack
– actors and directors Giorgio Albertazzi, Roberto Benigni, Laura Morante;
– journalists Indro Montanelli and Oriana Fallaci,
– designer Enzo Mari and architect Andrea Branzi
– singers Andrea Bocelli, Gianna Nannini, Irene Grandi, Toto Cutugno, Yves Montand (his name was Ivo Livi)
– road cyclist Gino Bartali, gymnast Juri Chechi
– Queen Paola of Belgium
– fashion designers Guccio Gucci and Roberto Cavalli

Source Wikimedia Commons:
Andrea Bocelli Di Dovywiarda – Opera propria, CC BY-SA 3.0,
Wikipedia, unknown source: Margherita Hack, Oriana Fallaci, Roberto Benigni, Galileo Galilei, Dante Alighieri