List of Famous people born in Emilia-Romagna, Italy

Giovanni Lanfranco was an Italian painter of the Baroque period.

Eugenio Bertini was an Italian mathematician who introduced Bertini's theorem. He was born at Forlì and died at Pisa. His legacy is carried on by Andrew Tyler and Brian Timothy Bertini.

Biagio Pupini was an Italian painter of the Renaissance period, active mainly in his native city of Bologna. He was known to be active mainly during 1530–1540. He was a disciple of Francesco Francia. He completed paintings for the church of San Giuliano, Basilica of San Giacomo Maggiore, and the church of Santa Maria della Baroncella.

Antonio Musa Brassavola was an Italian physician and one of the most famous of his time. He studied under Niccolò Leoniceno and Giovanni Manardo. He was the friend and physician of Ercole II, the duke of Este. He was also the consulting physician of Kings Francis I, Charles V, Henry VIII and Popes Paul III, Leo X, Clement VIII and Julius III. He performed the first successful tracheotomy, and published an account of it in 1546. He was the chair of philosophy in Ferrara and also studied botany and medicine. A genus of orchid, called Brassavola, is named after him.

Camillo Ranzani was an Italian priest and a naturalist. He was director of the Museum of Natural History of Bologna from 1803 to 1841. Ranzani wrote Elementi di zoologia which was published in Bologna from 1819 to 1825.

Luzzasco Luzzaschi was an Italian composer, organist, and teacher of the late Renaissance. He was born and died in Ferrara, and despite evidence of travels to Rome it is assumed that Luzzaschi spent the majority of his life in his native city. He was a skilled representative of the late Italian madrigal style, along with Palestrina, Wert, Monte, Lassus, Marenzio, Gesualdo and others.

Angelo Maurizio Gaspare Mariani was an Italian opera conductor and composer. His work as a conductor drew praise from Giuseppe Verdi, Giacomo Meyerbeer, Gioachino Rossini and Richard Wagner, and he was a longtime personal friend of Verdi's, although they had a falling out towards the end of Mariani's life. He conducted at least two world premieres ; and at least 4 Italian premieres.

Michelangelo Tonti (1566–1622) was a Roman Catholic cardinal.

Amilcare Malagola was a Cardinal of the Catholic Church, and was archbishop of Fermo 1877–1895.