# List of people from Milan

The following is a list of people from Milan.

## Entrepreneurs

* Ferdinando Bocconi (1836–1908), Italian entrapreneur and politician, founder of Bocconi University
* Ernesto Breda (1852–1918), Italian engineer and entrepreneur
* Davide Campari [it] (1867–1936), businessman; born in Milan
* Federico Confalonieri (1785–1846), businessman
* Enrico Cuccia (1907–2000), banker
* Ernesto De Angeli [it] (1849–1907), businessman and senator; he founded the Società Ernesto De Angeli e C, a textile company manufacturing cotton prints
* Carlo Erba (1811–1888) [it], businessman and pharmacist who founded Carlo Erba SpA
* Giangiacomo Feltrinelli (1926–1972), influential Italian publisher, businessman, and political activist
* Ferdinando Innocenti (1891–1966), Italian businessman who founded the machinery–works company Innocenti and manufacturer of the Lambretta motorscooter
* Enrico Mattei (1906–1962), Italian public administrator and chairman of Eni
* Arnoldo Mondadori (1889–1971), book publisher
* Angelo Moratti (1909–1981), Italian oil tycoon and the former owner of Inter Milan from 1955 to 1968
* Massimo Moratti (born 1945), Italian billionaire petroleum businessman, the former owner of Inter Milan and chairman of the Saras Group
* Angelo Motta (1890–1957), Italian entrepreneur, and founder of the food company Motta
* Angelo Rizzoli (1889–1970), Italian publisher and film producer
* Edoardo Sonzogno (1836–1920), Italian publisher

## Fashion designers

* Giorgio Armani (born 1934), Italian fashion designer
* Domenico Dolce (born 1958), Italian fashion designer and entrepreneur, founder (along with Stefano Gabbana) the luxury fashion house Dolce & Gabbana
* Mariuccia Mandelli (1925–2015), Italian fashion designer and entrepreneur
* Miuccia Prada (born 1949), fashion designer

## Fine arts
### Architects and designers

* Donato Felice d'Allio (1677–1761), Rococo style, worked in Austria
* Luca Beltrami (1854–1933), Italian architect and architectural historian
* Donato Bramante (1444–1514), Italian Renaissance architect and painter
* Bramantino (1456–c. 1530), Italian Renaissance architect and painter
* Filarete (c. 1400–c. 1469), Florentine Renaissance architect, sculptor, medallist, and architectural theorist
* Ignazio Gardella (1905–1999), Italian architect and designer
* Giovanni Muzio (1893–1982), Italian architect
* Giuseppe Piermarini (1734–1808), Italian architect who designed the Teatro alla Scala
* Gino Pollini (1903–1991), Italian architect
* Gio Ponti (1891–1979), Italian architect, industrial designer, furniture designer, artist, teacher, writer and publisher
* Aldo Rossi (1931–1997), Italian architect and designer, one of the leading proponents of the postmodern movement, laureate of the Pritzker Prize in 1990
* Ettore Sottsass (1917–2007), Italian architect and designer
* Giuseppe Terragni (1904–1943), Italian architect, pioneer of the Italian modern movement under the rubric of Rationalism
* Marco Zanuso (1916–2001), Italian Modernist architect and designer

### Painters

* Filippo Abbiati (1640–1715)
* Mario Acerbi (painter) (1887–1982)
* Angelo Achini (1850–1930)
* Franz Adam (1815–1886)
* Luigi Ademollo (1764–1849)
* Giuseppe Arcimboldo (1526–1593), Italian painter best known for creating imaginative portrait heads made entirely of objects such as fruits, vegetables, flowers, fish and books
* Carlo Paolo Agazzi (1870–1922)
* Federico Agnelli (1626–1702), engraver
* Leonardo di Bisuccio (15th century), Italian painter of the Renaissance period
* Umberto Boccioni (1882–1916), Italian Futurist painter and sculptor
* Caravaggio (1571–1610), Italian painter
* Carlo Carrà (1881–1966), Italian Futurist painter
* Giorgio de Chirico (1888–1978), Italian painter and writer
* Dadamaino (1930–2004), painter
* Leonardo da Vinci (1452–1519), Italian polymath of the High Renaissance who was active as a painter, draughtsman, engineer, scientist, theorist, sculptor, and architect
* Filippo De Pisis (1896–1956), Italian painter and poet
* Claudio Detto (born 1950), Italian contemporary art painter
* Lucio Fontana (1899–1968), Argentine–Italian painter, sculptor and theorist
* Vincenzo Foppa (c. 1427–1430–c. 1515–1516), Italian Renaissance painter
* Francesco Hayez (1791–1882), Italian painter
* Bruno Munari (1907–1998), artist, designer
* Giorgio Salmoiraghi (1936–2022)
* Alberto Savinio (1891–1952), Greek–Italian writer, painter, musician, journalist, essayist, playwright, set designer and composer
* Giovanni Segantini (1858–1899), Italian painter
* Mario Sironi (1885–1961), Italian Modernist artist who active as a painter, sculptor, illustrator, and designer
* Saul Steinberg (1914–1999), American artist
* Guglielmo Stella (1828–1888), painter and writer
* Luigi Veronesi (1908–1998), Italian photographer, painter, scenographer and film director
* Bernardino Zenale (c. 1460–1526), Italian painter and architect

### Photographers

* Gabriele Basilico (1944–2013)
* Fabio Ponzio (born 1959)
* Oliviero Toscani (1942–2025)

### Sculptors

* Antonio Canova (1757–1822), Italian Neoclassical sculptor
* Mario Merz (1925–2003), sculptor
* Arnaldo Pomodoro (born 1926), sculptor
* Gio Pomodoro (1930–2002), sculptor
* Medardo Rosso (1858–1928), Italian post–Impressionist sculptor
* Adolfo Wildt (1868–1931), Italian sculptor

## Literature and historians

* Joseph Allegranza (1715–1785)
* Cesare Beccaria (1738–1794), Italian criminologist, jurist, philosopher, economist and politician
* Giovanni Berchet (1783–1851), Italian poet and patriot
* Enzo Biagi (1920–2007), Italian journalist, writer and former partisan
* Luciano Bianciardi (1922–1971), Italian journalist, translator and writer of short stories and novels
* Giorgio Bocca (1920–2011), Italian essayist and journalist
* Valentino Bompiani (1898–1992), Italian publisher, writer and playwright
* Alfredo Bracchi (1897–1976), versatile Italian writer
* Gianni Brera (1919–1992), Italian sports journalist and novelist
* Cesare Cantù (1804–1895), Italian historian, writer, archivist and politician
* Carlo Cattaneo (1801–1869), Italian philosopher, writer, and activist
* Enrica Collotti Pischel [it] (1930–2003), Marxist historian specializing in Asia
* Adelaide Coari (1881–1966), Italian journalist, activist, and teacher
* Una Chi (1942–2021), Italian translator and writer
* Ottavio Codogno (1570/74–1630), author of a guidebook to the postal services of early 17th–century Europe
* Bernardino Corio (1459–1519?), historian, author of the Storia di Milano
* Vincenzo Cuoco (1770–1823), Italian writer
* Ivan Della Mea (1940–2009), Italian novelist, journalist, singer, songwriter and political activist
* Carlo Dossi (1849–1910), Italian writer, politician and diplomat
* Francesco Filelfo (1398–1481), Italian Renaissance humanist
* Dario Fo (1926–2016), Italian playwright, actor, theatre director, stage designer, songwriter, political campaigner for the Italian left wing and the recipient of the 1997 Nobel Prize in Literature
* Carlo Emilio Gadda (1893–1973), Italian writer and poet
* Brunella Gasperini (1918–1979), Italian journalist and novelist
* Melchiorre Gioia (1767–1829), Italian writer on philosophy and political economy
* Julien Green (1900–1998), American writer
* Tommaso Grossi (1791–1853), Italian poet and novelist
* Umberto Eco (1932–2016), Italian medievalist, philosopher, semiotician, novelist, cultural critic, and political and social commentator
* Clara Maffei (1814–1886), Italian woman of letters and backer of the Risorgimento
* Carlo Maria Maggi (1630–1699), Italian scholar, writer and poet
* Alessandro Manzoni (1785–1873), Italian poet, novelist and philosopher
* Filippo Tommaso Marinetti (1876–1944), Italian poet, editor, art theorist, and founder of the Futurist movement
* Eugenio Montale (1896–1981), Italian poet, prose writer, editor and translator, and recipient of the 1975 Nobel Prize in Literature
* Indro Montanelli (1909–2001), Italian journalist, historian, and writer
* Vincenzo Monti (1754–1828), Italian poet, playwright, translator, and scholar
* Salvatore Quasimodo (1901–1968), Italian poet and translator, laureate of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1959
* Giuseppe Parini (1729–1799), Italian enlightenment satirist and poet of the neoclassic period
* Silvio Pellico (1789–1854), Italian writer, poet, dramatist and patriot active in the Italian unification
* Francesco Petrarca (1304–1374), scholar and poet of the early Italian Renaissance, and one of the earliest humanists
* Carlo Porta (1775–1821), Italian poet
* Bonvesin da la Riva (c. 1240–c. 1313), Italian Medieval writer and poet
* Giuseppe Rovani (1818–1874), Italian novelist and essayist
* Alberto Savinio (1891–1952), Greek–Italian writer, painter, musician, journalist, essayist, playwright, set designer and composer
* Beppe Severgnini (born 1956), Italian journalist, essayist and columnist
* Stendhal (1783–1842), 19th–century French writer
* Carlo Tenca (1816–1883), Italian man of letters, journalist, deputy and supporter of the Risorgimento
* Delio Tessa (1886–1939), Italian poet
* Leo Valiani (1909–1999), Italian historian, politician, and journalist
* Alessandro Verri (1741–1816), Italian author
* Pietro Verri (1728–1797), Italian economist, historian, philosopher and writer
* Elio Vittorini (1908–1966), Italian writer and novelist

## Media
### Actors/Actresses of Film, Theatre and TV

* Diego Abatantuono (born 1955)
* Cele Abba (1906–1992)
* Marta Abba (1900–1988)
* Gino Bramieri (1928–1996), Italian comedian and actor
* Nino Castelnuovo (1936–2021), Italian actor
* Valentina Cortese (1923–2019), Italian film and theatre actress
* Fabio Lanzoni (born 1959), Italian actor and model
* Mariangela Melato (1941–2013), award-winning Italian film and theater actress
* Marco Lui (born 1975), mime and comedian
* Tino Scotti (1905–1984), Italian film actor
* Franca Valeri (1920–2020), Italian actress, playwright, screenwriter, author, and theatre director
* María de Navas (1678–1721), actress

### Directors and filmmakers

* Michelangelo Antonioni (1912–2007), Italian director and filmmaker
* Tinto Brass (born 1933), Italian film director and screenwriter
* Axel Braun (born 1966), adult film producer and director
* Attilio Colonello (1930–2021), scenic designer and stage director for opera
* Paolo Grassi (1919–1981), Italian theatrical impresario
* Gabriele Salvatores (born 1950), Italian Academy Award–winning film director and screenwriter
* Giorgio Strehler (1921–1997), Italian stage director, theatre practitioner, actor and politician

### TV and radio presenter

* Lucilla Agosti (born 1978), TV and radio presenter and actress
* Mike Bongiorno (1924–2009), Italian–American television presenter

## Musicians
### Composers

* Arrigo Boito (1842–1918), Italian librettist, composer, poet and critic
* Pietro Mascagni (1863–1945), Italian composer primarily known for his operas
* Pino Presti (born 1943) Italian bassist, arranger, composer, conductor and record producer
* Giuseppe Verdi (1813–1901), Italian composer best known for his operas

### Pianists

* Marcello Abbado (1926–2020)
* Maria Teresa Agnesi Pinottini (1720–1795), harpsichordist
* Maurizio Pollini (born 1942), pianist

### Singers

* Manuel Agnelli (born 1966), alternative rock, member of the band Afterhours
* Ghigo Agosti (1936–2024), also comedy rock
* Teresa Berganza (1933–2022), Spanish mezzo–soprano
* Maria Callas (1923–1977), opera singer
* Adriano Celentano (born 1938), Italian singer, songwriter, actor, and filmmaker
* Ir, dami Corradetti (1904–1998)
* Giovanni D'Anzi (1906–1974), musician
* Emilio De Marchi (1861–1917), Italian operatic tenor
* Eugenio Finardi (born 1952), Italian rock singer, songwriter, guitarist and keyboardist
* Renato Fumagalli (born 1945), Italian singer/songwriter, guitarist, and actor
* Giorgio Gaber (1939–2003), musician, actor
* Enzo Jannacci (1935–2013), Italian singer–songwriter, pianist, actor and comedian
* Carmelo La Bionda (1949–2022), one of the pioneers of italo disco
* Michelangelo La Bionda (born 1952), one of the pioneers of italo disco
* Alessandro Mahmoud (born 1992), singer–songwriter, Italian representative at the Eurovision Song Contest in 2019 and 2022
* Mina (born 1940), singer
* Laura Pausini (born 1974), musician
* Alberto Rabagliati (1906–1974), Italian jazz singer
* Cristina Scabbia (born 1972), singer of Lacuna Coil
* Renata Tebaldi (1922–2004), Italian lirico–spinto soprano

### Orchestral conductors

* Claudio Abbado (1933–2014)
* Roberto Abbado (born 1954)
* Riccardo Chailly (born 1953)
* Victor de Sabata (1892–1967), Italian conductor and composer
* Riccardo Muti (born 1941), Italian conductor
* Pino Presti (born 1943)
* Arturo Toscanini (1867–1957)

## Politicians

* Vittorio Agnoletto (born 1958), (Communist Refoundation Party), member of the European Parliament
* Luigi Albertini (1871–1941)
* Alboinus (530s–572), king of the Lombards from about 560 until 572
* Eugène de Beauharnais (1781–1824), Viceroy of Italy during the Napoleonic Kingdom of Italy, whose capital was Milan
* Bellovesus (lived ca. 600 BC), legendary Gallic chief of the Bituriges
* Silvio Berlusconi (1936–2023), Italian politician who served as Prime Minister of Italy in four governments
* Felice Cavallotti (1842–1898), Italian politician, poet and dramatic author
* Bettino Craxi (1934–2000), Italian politician, leader of the Italian Socialist Party from 1976 to 1993 and Prime Minister of Italy from 1983 to 1987
* Cesare Correnti (1815–1888), Italian revolutionary and politician
* Emilio Dandolo (1830–1859), important figure in the Italian Risorgimento
* Diocletianus (242/245–311/312), Roman emperor from 284 until his abdication in 305
* Beatrice d'Este (1475–1497) was Duchess of Bari and Milan by marriage to Ludovico Sforza
* Alberto da Giussano (12th century), legendary character who would have participated, as a protagonist, in the battle of Legnano on 29 May 1176
* Anna Kuliscioff (1857–1925), Russian–born Italian revolutionary, a prominent feminist, an anarchist
* Ugo La Malfa (1903–1979), Italian politician and an important leader of the Italian Republican Party
* Licinius (c. 265–325) was Roman emperor from 308 to 324, who co–authored the Edict of Milan
* Giovanni Malagodi (1904–1991), Italian liberal politician, secretary of the Italian Liberal Party (Partito Liberale Italiano; PLI), and president of the Italian Senate
* Francesco Melzi d'Eril (1753–1816), Italian politician and patriot, serving as vice–president of the Napoleonic Italian Republic (1802–1805)
* Teresa Meroni (1885–1951), trade unionist, and socialist
* Cesare Merzagora (1898–1991), Italian politician
* Mario Monti (born 1943), Italian economist who served as the Prime Minister of Italy from 2011 to 2013
* Letizia Moratti (born 1949), Italian businesswoman and politician, president of RAI (1994–1996), minister of Education, University and Research (2001–2006), mayor of Milan (2006–2011)
* Ferruccio Parri (1890–1981), Italian partisan, anti–fascist politician and the first Prime Minister of Italy to be appointed after the end of World War II
* Giuseppe Prina (1766–1814), Italian statesman killed in the Milan riots of 1814
* Gianni Rivera (born 1943), Italian politician and former footballer
* Francesco I Sforza (1401–1466), and Duke of Milan from 1450 until his death, the first member of the Sforza family to rule Milan
* Francesco II Sforza (1495–1535) was Duke of Milan from 1521 until his death, the last member of the Sforza family to rule Milan
* Ludovico Sforza (1452–1508), Italian nobleman who ruled as the Duke of Milan from 1494 to 1499
* Massimiliano Sforza (1493–1530), Duke of Milan from 1512 to 1515
* Gian Giacomo Trivulzio (1440 or 1441–1518), Italian aristocrat and condottiero
* Filippo Turati (1857–1932), Italian sociologist, criminologist, poet and socialist politician
* Umberto Veronesi (1925–2016), Italian oncologist, physician, scientist and politician
* Agnese Visconti (1363–1391), consort of Francesco I Gonzaga Lord of Mantua
* Bernabò Visconti (1323–1385), Italian soldier and statesman who was Lord of Milan
* Filippo Maria Visconti (1392–1447), duke of Milan from 1412 to 1447
* Gian Galeazzo Visconti (1351–1402), first duke of Milan from 1395 to 1402
* Luchino Visconti (1906–1976), Italian filmmaker, theatre and opera director, and screenwriter
* Matteo Visconti (1250–1322), second of the Milanese Visconti family to govern Milan
* Ottone Visconti (1207–1295) was Archbishop of Milan and Lord of Milan, the first of the Visconti line

## Religious figures

* Alberto Ablondi (1924–2010)
* Ferdinando d'Adda (1650–1719), cardinal of San Clemente, San Pietro in Vincoli, Santa Balbina and Albano, archbishop of Amasya and apostolic nuncio to Great Britain
* Aicone (died 918), archbishop of Milan
* Saint Ambrose (c. 339–397), Bishop of Milan from 374 to 397
* Anspert (died 881), archbishop of Milan from 861 to 881
* Aribert (between 970 and 980–1045), archbishop of Milan from 1018
* Arnulf I, Archbishop of Milan [it] (died 974)
* Arnulf II, Archbishop of Milan (died 1018)
* Arnulf III, Archbishop of Milan (died 1097)
* Carlo Acutis (1991–2006), lay Catholic teenager, set to be the first canonized millennial in the Catholic church
* Saint Augustine (354–430), theologian and philosopher of Berber origin and the bishop of Hippo Regius in Numidia, Roman North Africa
* Saint Charles Borromeo (1538–1584), Archbishop of Milan from 1564 to 1584 and a cardinal of the Catholic Church
* Federico Borromeo (1564–1631), Italian cardinal and Archbishop of Milan
* Landolfo da Carcano (died 998), archbishop of Milan, as Landulf II, from 979 until his death
* Saint Galdinus (c. 1096–1176), cardinal elevated in 1165 and Archbishop of Milan from 1166 to his death in 1176
* Saint Gervasius (2nd century AD), Christian martyr
* Luigi Giussani (1922–2005), Italian Catholic priest, theologian, educator
* Carlo Maria Martini (1927–2012), Italian Jesuit, cardinal of the Catholic Church and Archbishop of Milan from 1980 to 2004
* Samuel Charles Mazzuchelli (1806–1864), pioneer Italian Dominican friar and Catholic missionary priest who helped bring the church to the Iowa–Illinois–Wisconsin tri–state area
* Giovan Battista Montini (1897–1978), Pope Paul VI from 21 June 1963 to his death in August 1978)
* Saint Protasius (2nd century AD), Christian martyr
* Ildefonso Schuster (1880–1954), Archbishop of Milan from 1929 until his death

## Scientists

* Marco Abate (born 1962)
* Maria Gaetana Agnesi (1718–1799), the world's first woman to write a mathematics handbook and the first woman appointed as a mathematics professor at a university, wrote the first book discussing both differential and integral calculus
* Camillo Agrippa (1535–1595), is considered to be one of the greatest fencing theorists of all time
* Enrico Bombieri (born 1940), Italian mathematician
* Ruggero Giuseppe Boscovich (1711–1787), physicist, astronomer, mathematician, philosopher, diplomat, poet, theologian, Jesuit priest, and a polymath from the Republic of Ragusa
* Piero Bottoni [it]
* Francesco Brioschi (1824–1897), Italian mathematician
* Eugenio Calabi (1923–2023)
* Gianni Caproni (1886–1957), Italian aeronautical engineer, civil engineer, electrical engineer, and aircraft designer
* Girolamo Cardano (1501–1576), Italian polymath
* Panfilo Castaldi (c. 1398–c. 1490), Italian physician and printer
* Bonaventura Cavalieri (1598–1647)
* Giuseppe Ciribini (1913–1990), engineer
* Giuseppe Colombo (1920–1984), Italian scientist, mathematician and engineer
* Ardito Desio (1897–2001), Italian explorer, mountain climber, geologist, and cartographer
* Enrico Forlanini (1848–1930), Italian engineer, inventor and aeronautical pioneer
* Paolo Frisi (1728–1784), Italian mathematician and astronomer
* Agostino Gemelli (1878–1959), Italian Franciscan friar, physician and psychologist
* Ludovico Geymonat (1908–1991), Italian mathematician, philosopher and historian of science
* Riccardo Giacconi (1931–2018), Italian–American Nobel Prize–winning astrophysicist
* Pier Luigi Ighina (1908–2004), Italian researcher
* Giulio Natta (1903–1979), Italian chemical engineer and laureate of a Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1963
* Giovanni Schiaparelli (1835–1910), Italian astronomer and science historian
* Cicco Simonetta (1410–1480), Italian Renaissance statesman who composed an early treatise on cryptography
* Antonio Stoppani (1824–1891), Italian Catholic priest, patriot, geologist and palaeontologist
* Enzo Tonti (1935–2021), Italian physicist and mathematician
* Alessandro Volta (1745–1827), Italian physicist and chemist, pioneer of electricity and power

## Sport
### Footballers

* Camillo Achilli (1921–1998), football player and coach
* Marco Achilli (1948–2009), football player, one–time Italian Serie A champion
* Ermanno Aebi (1892–1976), football player and referee, two–time Italian Serie A champion
* Enrico Annoni (born 1966), footballer
* Franco Baresi (born 1960), Italian football youth team coach and a former player and manager
* Giuseppe Baresi (born 1958), Italian football manager and former player
* Giuseppe Bergomi (born 1963), Italian former professional footballer who spent his entire career at Inter Milan
* Aurelio Biassoni (1912–?)
* Massimo Brambati (born 1966), Italian former footballer
* Tito Celani (1921–1990), football player
* Mario Ciminaghi (1910–?), football player
* Renzo De Vecchi (1894–1967), Italian football player and coach
* Giacinto Facchetti (1942–2006), Italian footballer, football player
* Luciano Gariboldi (1927–1988), football player
* Alessio Locatelli (born 1978), football player
* Leonida Lucchetta (1911–?), football player
* Paolo Maldini (born 1968), footballer
* Roberto Manini (born 1942), football player
* Valentino Mazzola (1919–1949), footballer
* Giuseppe Meazza (1910–1979), Italian football manager and player
* Giuseppe Mettica (1919–2003), football player
* Rodolfo Negri (1913–?), football player
* Egidio Notaristefano (born 1966), Italian football manager
* Roberto Poluzzi (born 1936), retired professional football player
* Michele Rocca (born 1996), footballer
* Aldo Riva (1923–?), football player
* Walter Zenga (born 1960), Italian football manager

### Ice hockey

* Giancarlo Agazzi (1932–1995), ice hockey player, coach and president, six–time Italian Serie A champion and two–time Spengler Cup champion

### Olympic sports

* Carlo Agostoni (1909–1972), épée, one–time Olympic champion and one–time world champion
* Alessandro Aimar (born 1967), sprint

### Racing drivers

* Michele Alboreto (1956–2001), Italian racing driver
* Alberto Ascari (1918–1955), Italian racing driver and a two time Formula One World Champion
* Ivan Capelli (born 1963), Formula One driver
* Madusa (born 1963), monster truck driver, professional wrestler