List of Famous people born in Lombardy, Italy

Marco Parolo

First Name Marco
Last Name Parolo
Born on January 25, 1985 (age 41)
Born in Italy, Lombardy
Height 184 cm | 6'0

Marco Parolo is an Italian professional footballer who plays as a central midfielder for Serie A club Lazio and the Italian national team.

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Roberto Calvi

First Name Roberto
Last Name Calvi
Born on April 13, 1920
Died on June 18, 1982 (aged 62)
Born in Italy, Lombardy

Roberto Calvi was an Italian banker, dubbed "God's Banker" by the press because of his close association with the Holy See. He was a native of Milan and was Chairman of Banco Ambrosiano, which collapsed in one of Italy's biggest political scandals.

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Alessandro Volta

First Name Alessandro
Last Name Volta
Born on February 18, 1745
Died on March 5, 1827 (aged 82)
Born in Italy, Lombardy

Alessandro Giuseppe Antonio Anastasio Volta was an Italian physicist, chemist, and pioneer of electricity and power who is credited as the inventor of the electric battery and the discoverer of methane. He invented the Voltaic pile in 1799, and reported the results of his experiments in 1800 in a two-part letter to the President of the Royal Society. With this invention Volta proved that electricity could be generated chemically and debunked the prevalent theory that electricity was generated solely by living beings. Volta's invention sparked a great amount of scientific excitement and led others to conduct similar experiments which eventually led to the development of the field of electrochemistry.

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Valentino

Valentino Clemente Ludovico Garavani
Born on May 11, 1932 (age 93)
Born in Italy, Lombardy

Valentino Clemente Ludovico Garavani, best known mononymously as Valentino, is an Italian fashion designer, the founder of the Valentino brand and company. His main lines include Valentino, Valentino Garavani, Valentino Roma, and R.E.D. Valentino.

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Corrado Böhm

First Name Corrado
Last Name Böhm
Born on January 17, 1923
Died on October 23, 2017 (aged 94)
Born in Italy, Lombardy

Corrado Böhm was a Professor Emeritus at the University of Rome "La Sapienza" and a computer scientist known especially for his contributions to the theory of structured programming, constructive mathematics, combinatory logic, lambda calculus, and the semantics and implementation of functional programming languages.

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Philip of Swabia

First Name Philip
Last Name Swabia
Born on July 31, 1177
Died on June 21, 1208 (aged 30)
Born in Italy, Lombardy

Philip of Swabia was a member of the House of Hohenstaufen and king of Germany from 1198 until his assassination.

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Rothari

Born on January 1, 0606
Died on January 1, 0652 (aged 46)
Born in Italy, Lombardy

Rothari, , of the house of Arodus, was king of the Lombards from 636 to 652; previously he had been duke of Brescia. He succeeded Arioald, who was an Arian like himself, and was one of the most energetic of Lombard kings. Fredegar relates that at the beginning of his reign he put to death many insubordinate nobles, and that in his efforts for peace he maintained very strict discipline.

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Samantha Cristoforetti

First Name Samantha
Born on April 26, 1977 (age 49)
Born in Italy, Lombardy

Captain Samantha Cristoforetti, OMRI is an Italian European Space Agency astronaut, former Italian Air Force pilot and engineer. She holds the record for the longest uninterrupted spaceflight by a European astronaut, and until June 2017 held the record for the longest single space flight by a woman until this was broken by Peggy Whitson and later by Christina Koch. She is also the first Italian woman in space.

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Frances Xavier Cabrini

First Name Frances
Last Name Cabrini
Born on July 15, 1850
Died on December 22, 1917 (aged 67)
Born in Italy, Lombardy

Frances Xavier Cabrini, also called Mother Cabrini, was an Italian-American Roman Catholic nun. She founded the Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, a Catholic religious institute that was a major support to her fellow Italian immigrants to the United States. She was the first U.S. citizen to be canonized as a saint by the Roman Catholic Church, on July 7, 1946.

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Franco Baresi

Franchino Baresi
First Name Franco
Last Name Baresi
Born on May 8, 1960 (age 65)
Born in Italy, Lombardy
Height 176 cm | 5'9

Franchino Baresi is an Italian football youth team coach and a former player and manager. He mainly played as a sweeper or as a central defender, and spent his entire 20-year career with Serie A club Milan, captaining the club for 15 seasons. He is considered one of the greatest defenders of all-time and was ranked 19th in World Soccer magazine's list of the 100 greatest players of the 20th century. With Milan, he won three UEFA Champions League titles, six Serie A titles, four Supercoppa Italiana titles, two European Super Cups and two Intercontinental Cups.

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