List of Famous people born in Emilia-Romagna, Italy

Luca Ghini was an Italian physician and botanist, notable as the creator of the first recorded herbarium, as well as the first botanical garden in Europe.

Livio Cesare Pavanelli was an Italian film actor.

Clelia Merloni was an Italian Roman Catholic nun and the founder of the Apostles of the Sacred Heart of Jesus. Merloni was destined to follow her father into the business world but renounced his anti-religious sentiment and instead went down the religious path. Internal complications led to Merloni's fall from grace and she went into self-imposed exile where she received a dispensation to break from her religious vows. She later rejoined the congregation as a nun not long before her death.

Guido Bentivoglio d'Aragona was an Italian cardinal, statesman and historian.

Corrado Racca was an Italian actor and voice actor.

Francesco Albizzi was an Italian cardinal. As a member of the Roman Inquisition, he worked to increase the standards of jurisprudence in Rome, and establish "rigorous standards of evidence and proof", particularly in regards to alleged cases of witchcraft.

Christopher Numar of Forlì was an Italian Franciscan, who became Minister general of the Friars Minor and cardinal.