Andrea Chénier
Opera librettist Luigi Illica, known for his long collaboration with composer Giacomo Puccini, but also with Alfredo Catalani and Umberto Giordano and author of the libretti of such operas as "Tosca", "La bohème", "Madama Butterfly", "La Wally" and "Andrea Chénier", was born in the borough in 1857 and is here buried.