List of Famous people born in Genoa, Italy
Beppe Grillo
Giuseppe Piero "Beppe" Grillo is an Italian comedian, actor, blogger, and politician.
Benedict XV
Pope Benedict XV, born Giacomo Paolo Giovanni Battista della Chiesa, was head of the Catholic Church from 1914 until his death in 1922. His pontificate was largely overshadowed by World War I and its political, social, and humanitarian consequences in Europe.
Lauro Gazzolo
Lauro Gazzolo was an Italian actor and voice actor.
Aureliano Bolognesi
Aureliano Bolognesi was an Italian boxer.
Ugo Carrega
Ugo Carrega was an Italian artist and poet. Carrega was one of the main exponents of visual poetry, although he preferred the term "New Writing", an experimental form of writing that combines signs of different extraction. Carrega was active mainly in Milan, where he founded the cultural centers Centro Suolo (1969), Centro Tool (1971), Mercato del Sale (1974) and Euforia Costante (1993). He also founded and directed the art magazines Tool (1965), Bollettino Tool (1968), aaa (1969) and Bollettino da dentro (1972).
Martino Canessa
Angelo Raimondo Verardo
Stefano Gaggero
Alfredo Guarini
Alfredo Guarini (1901–1981) was an Italian screenwriter, film producer and director. Guarini is noted in particular for his management of the career of the Italian actress Isa Miranda, who he eventually married. In the mid-1930s he was responsible for persuading her to work in a variety of different countries to build up a greater international profile after her breakthrough success in Everybody's Woman (1934).
Stefano Durazzo
Stefano Durazzo was an Italian Catholic cardinal and archbishop of Genoa.