List of Famous people born in Emilia-Romagna, Italy

Giulio Cesare Procaccini (1574–1625) was an Italian painter and sculptor of the early Baroque era in Milan.

Giovanni Soglia Ceroni was an Italian cardinal of the Catholic Church.

Ercole de' Roberti, also known as Ercole Ferrarese or Ercole da Ferrara, was an Italian artist of the Early Renaissance and the School of Ferrara. He was profiled in Vasari's Le Vite delle più eccellenti pittori, scultori, ed architettori. The son of the doorkeeper at the Este castle, Ercole later held the position of court artist for the Este family in Ferrara. According to Vasari:

Ercole had an extraordinary love of wine, and his frequent drunkenness did much to shorten his life, which he had enjoyed without any accident up to the age of forty, when he was smitten one day by apoplexy, which made an end of him in a short time.

Benvenuto Rambaldi da Imola, or simply and perhaps more accurately Benvenuto da Imola, was an Italian scholar and historian, a lecturer at Bologna. He is now best known for his commentary on Dante's Divine Comedy.

Julius Caesar Aranzi was a leading figure in the history of the science of human anatomy.

Francesco Primaticcio was an Italian Mannerist painter, architect and sculptor who spent most of his career in France.

Bernardino Zaccagni was an Italian architect, mainly active in a Renaissance style in Parma.

Antonino Votto was an Italian operatic conductor and vocal coach. Votto developed an extensive discography with the Teatro alla Scala in Milan during the 1950s, when EMI produced the bulk of its studio recordings featuring Maria Callas. Though Votto was a dependable conductor, critics frequently faulted his recordings for their lack of emotional immediacy. This may have been an occupational hazard of working in the studio, as his live sets with Callas, including a Norma and La sonnambula are considered to be great performances. Among his pupil was soprano Claudia Pinza Bozzolla.