List of Famous people born in Emilia-Romagna, Italy

Saint Leo of Catania, nicknamed the Thaumaturgus, also known as St Leo the Wonderworker in Sicily, was the fifteenth bishop of Catania, famed also for his love and care toward the poor. His feast day occurs on 20 February, the day of his death in which he is venerated as a saint both by Roman Catholics and by the Orthodox Church. He lived in the lapse of time between the reigns of the Emperors Justinian II and Constantine IV. He struggled especially against the paganism and sorcery still prevalent in the Byzantine Sicily.

Cornelio Bentivoglio was an Italian nobleman and cardinal.

Count Aeneas Sylvius de Caprara, also known as Enea Silvio or Äneas Sylvius von Caprara, was an Austrian Field Marshal during the Nine Years' War.

Vincenzo Ludovico Gotti was a Cardinal and theologian of the Roman Catholic Church.

Giuseppe Biancani (1566–1624) was an Italian Jesuit astronomer, mathematician, and selenographer, after whom the crater Blancanus on the Moon is named. He was a native of Bologna.

Pompeo Aldrovandi was an Italian Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church.

Giovanni Battista Guarini was an Italian poet, dramatist, and diplomat.

Alfredo Oriani was an Italian author, writer and social critic. He is often considered a precursor of Fascism, and in 1940 his books were placed on the Index Librorum Prohibitorum of the Catholic Church.