# List of University of Bologna people

This is a list of some notable people affiliated with University of Bologna.
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## Notable alumni
### Academics

* Umberto Eco, Italian semiotician, philosopher and writer

### Clergy and Biblical scholars

* Archbishop Thomas Becket;
* Cardinal Alberto Bolognetti
* Cardinal Paolo Burali d'Arezzo;
* Pope Alexander VI
* Pope Gregory XIII (Ugo Boncompagni)
* Pope Gregory XV
* Pope Innocent IX
* Gabriele Paleotti
* Saint Charles Borromeo, archbishop of Milan
* Henry of Susa (Hostiensis)

### Presidents, prime ministers, and other heads of national government

* Adone Zoli, former Prime Minister of Italy.
* Álvaro de Figueroa, former Prime Minister of Spain.
* Joaquín Chapaprieta, former Prime Minister of Spain.

### Cabinet members

* Patrizio Bianchi, Minister of Public Education in the Draghi Cabinet
* Remo Gaspari, Minister of Relationships with the Parliament and Minister of Public Function in the Bettino Craxi and Giulio Andreotti Cabinet.
* Piero Gnudi, Minister of Tourism and Sports in the Monti cabinet.
* Juan Fernando López Aguilar, former Minister of Justice – Spain.
* Fawziya Abikar Nur, Minister for Health and Social Care – Somalia.

### Senators, Representatives, and other politicians

* Brando Benifei, Italian politician
* Anna Maria Bernini, Italian politician and lawyer
* Pier Luigi Bersani, Italian politician
* Ernesto Carbone [it], Italian politician and lawyer
* Lanfranco De Franco, Italian politician and lawyer
* Maurizio Fugatti, Italian politician
* Edoardo Gaffeo, Italian politician
* Gian Luca Galletti, Italian politician
* Andrea Gnassi, Italian politician
* Sandro Gozi, Italian politician
* Matteo Lepore, Italian politician & mayor of Bologna
* Giacomo Matteotti
* Francesca Puglisi [it], Italian politician
* Giulia Sarti [it], Italian politician
* Elly Schlein, Italian politician
* Sandra Zampa, Italian politician
* Pablo Iglesias Turrión, Spain politician
* Pier Ferdinando Casini, Italian politician
* Gianni Cuperlo, Italian politician
* Virginio Merola, Italian politician & former mayor of Bologna
* Michelangelo Baracchi Bonvicini, President of Atomium - European Institute for Science, Media and Democracy.

### Lawyers and judges

* Daria de Pretis, Italian jurist, Constitutional Judge of the Constitutional Court of Italy.
* Manuel Olivencia, lawyer and academic;
* Bartolus de Saxoferrato, Italian law professor and one of the most prominent continental jurists of Medieval Roman Law.

### Businessman & Economist

* Corrado Gini, Italian statistician, demographer and sociologist who developed the Gini coefficient/ratio.
* Diego Della Valle, chairman of the Italian leather goods company Tod's
* Stefano Domenicali, CEO of Formula One Group and former CEO of Italian sports car manufacturer Automobili Lamborghini S.p.A.
* Raul Gardini, Italian agri-business and chemicals tycoon.
* Mauro Moretti, former CEO and general manager of Leonardo S.p.A.
* Elena Panaritis, Economist.
* Alberto Giovannini, Italian Macroeconomist and Financial Economist
* Fabrizio Zilibotti, Italian economist and Professor of International and Development Economics at Yale University

### Nobel Prize winners

* Guglielmo Marconi, 1909 Nobel Prize in Physics and the inventor of radio.

### Astronauts and Astronomer

* Andrea Boattini, Italian astronomer and a prolific discoverer of minor planets and comets.
* Isabella M. Gioia, Italian astrophysicist.

### Engineers, inventors, and scientists

* Mauro Forghieri, Formula One racing car designer.
* Pier Luigi Nervi, Italian Structural engineer and architect.
* Ulisse Aldrovandi;
* Laura Bassi, the world's first woman to earn a university chair in a scientific field of studies
* Chryssostomos Chatgilialoglu, Greek-Italian chemist
* Nicolaus Copernicus, formulator of the heliocentric universal model;
* Enzo Ferrari, Italian racing driver, engineer and entrepreneur
* Luigi Galvani;
* Guglielmo Marconi, Italian inventor and radio pioneer
* Pietro Mengoli;
* Paracelsus, founder of the discipline of toxicology;
* Maria Matilde Principi, Entomology department chair for 30 years
* Augusto Righi, pioneer in the study of electromagnetism
* Carlo Rovelli, Italian theoretical physicist
* Carlo Severini, Italian mathematician
* Lazzaro Spallanzani, Italian priest, biologist and physiologist
* Luca Benini, computer scientist and educator
* Gregorio Ricci-Curbastro, Italian mathematician and the inventor of tensor calculus.
* Cristina Roccati, Italian physicist.
* Bruno Rossi, Italian experimental physicist.
* Juan Carlos Izpisua Belmonte, Spanish biochemist and developmental biologist.
* Enrico Marconi, Italian-Polish architect.
* Adamo Boari, Italian Art Nouveau and Art Deco civil engineer and architect.
* Cesare Emiliani, Italian-American scientist, geologist, micropaleontologist, and paleoceanography.

### Physicians

* Julius Caesar Aranzi, the pioneer human anatomists and surgeons.
* Ruggero Oddi, Italian physiologist and anatomist.
* Marcello Malpighi;
* Gasparo Tagliacozzi, pioneer of plastic and reconstructive surgery
* Giovanni Aldini, Italian physician.
* Turisanus, physician.
* Taddeo Alderotti, Italian doctor and professor of medicine.
* Ismail Boçari, Albanian professor of medicine.
* Maria Dalle Donne, Italian physician and a former director at the University of Bologna.
* Giovanni Gasbarrini, physician, gastroenterology researcher and medical academic
* Hugo Spadafora, Italian and Panamanian physician.
* Justus Velsius, Dutch physician, and mathematician.

### Entertainers

* Michelangelo Antonioni;
* Carlo Goldoni, Italian playwright
* Emilio Solfrizzi, Italian actor and comedian.

### Authors and artists

* Dante Alighieri, Italian poet, writer and philosopher
* Leon Battista Alberti;
* Silvia Balducci, Italian journalist at RAI
* Pico della Mirandola;
* Maria Cristina Didero, Italian curator, historian, and author
* Albrecht Dürer, German painter, printmaker and theorist
* Erasmus of Rotterdam
* Milena Gabanelli, Italian journalist and television host
* Riccardo Iacona [it], Italian journalist
* Carlo Lucarelli
* Giovanni Pascoli
* Pier Paolo Pasolini;
* Petrarch;
* Pupi Avati, Italian film director, producer, and screenwriter.
* Carlo Mazzacurati, Italian film director and screenwriter
* Luca Rosini [it], Italian journalist
* Torquato Tasso;
* Silvia Avallone, Italian novelist and poet.
* Chiara Gamberale, Italian writer, television and radio presenter.
* Vittorio Sgarbi, Italian art critic, art historian and writer.
* Andrea Pazienza, Italian comics artist and painter.

### Other notables

* Anna M. Borghi, Italian cognitive psychologist
* Irnerius, founder of the School of Glossators
* Valerio Massimo Manfredi, Italian historian, writer, archaeologist and journalist.
* Veronica Yoko Plebani, Italian Paralympic athlete.
* Pierluigi Collina, Chairman of the FIFA referees committee

### Philosopher

* Francesco Algarotti, Italian Philosopher, poet, art critic and art collector.
* Francesco Maria Zanotti, Italian philosopher and writer.

## Notable faculty

* Maria Gaetana Agnesi
* Leon Battista Alberti
* Ulisse Aldrovandi
* Camillo Baldi
* Augusto Barbera
* Hamida Barmaki
* Laura Bassi
* Pier Cesare Bori
* Bulgarus
* Gualtiero Calboli
* Gabriella Campadelli-Fiume
* Girolamo Cardano
* Giosuè Carducci
* Giovanni Cassini
* Manuel Chrysoloras
* Giacomo Ciamician
* Nicolaus Copernicus
* Ignazio Danti
* Lippo Bartolomeo Dardi
* Giovanni Della Casa
* Giovanni de' Marignolli
* Ivano Dionigi
* Yuriy Drohobych (also known as Georgius de Drohobycz)
* Albrecht Dürer
* Umberto Eco
* Luigi Galvani
* Carlo Goldoni
* Bettisia Gozzadini
* Sylvester Gozzolini
* Gratian
* Guido Guinizelli
* Henry of Susa (Hostiensis)
* Irnerius
* Beppo Levi
* Girolamo Maggi
* Giovanni Antonio Magini
* Marcello Malpighi
* Virgilio Malvezzi
* Martinus Gosia
* Pietro Mengoli
* Niall Ó Glacáin
* Patriarch Heraclius of Jerusalem
* Paracelsus
* Giovanni Pascoli
* Pier Paolo Pasolini
* Paul, Dominican martyr
* Francesco Petrarca (also known as Petrarch)
* Giovanni Pico della Mirandola
* Romano Prodi
* Augusto Righi
* Pellegrino Rossi
* William of Saliceto
* Coluccio Salutati
* Benvenutus Scotivoli
* Francesco Selmi
* William of Tyre
* Özalp Babaoğlu